Plot Holes That Fridge Logic Unearths

[cojo965]

This seems like an odd thread, but for nostalgia's sake I began watching the Danish kaiju film Reptilicus. Now the titular kaiju is a reptile whose primary ability is being able to rebuild itself from any severed piece of its body, like a starfish. Now doing that from just blood is a tall order, but the monster pulled this shit from just a tail and a foot. The movie opens with miners drilling for copper (that how copper mining works?) and on the drill there is flesh and bone. Fridge logic dictates, then, that unless the laws that the movie establishes later just don't work for some reason, shouldn't there be two more Reptilici? On that note, what the hell is the plural of Reptilicus?

Anyone else have thoughts like that?

Edit: You know what? Why don't I show you Reptilicus.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

This seems like an odd thread, but for nostalgia's sake I began watching the Danish kaiju film Reptilicus. Now the titular kaiju is a reptile whose primary ability is being able to rebuild itself from any severed piece of its body, like a starfish. Now doing that from just blood is a tall order, but the monster pulled this shit from just a tail and a foot. The movie opens with miners drilling for copper (that how copper mining works?) and on the drill there is flesh and bone. Fridge logic dictates, then, that unless the laws that the movie establishes later just don't work for some reason, shouldn't there be two more Reptilici? On that note, what the hell is the plural of Reptilicus?

Anyone else have thoughts like that?

Maybe there ARE two more reptilicus' (and maybe reptilicus is its own plural, like moose), and they're saving the other two for a sequel!

 

[Queen Michael]

I watched Disney's Sleeping Beauty movie a while ago with my best friend. As you know, it's about how baby princess Aurora gets cursed to prick her finger on a spindle and die when she's sixteen. Except a good fairy changes the curse to make sure that Aurora will only go to sleep, and wake up as soon as she's kissed by somebody that truly loves her.

The obvious solution here is simply to let Aurora hang out with as many boys and lesbians as possible as she grows up, and once she pricks her finger somebody in love with her will just go and kiss her and that will be that.

Instead, they burn all the spindles in the country, even though it's easy to make new ones. They hide her away in the forest, even though the lore of the movie makes it quite clear that curses will find their target, like it or not. They make sure she speaks to pretty much nobody, ensuring that there won't be a true love to save her. They're really playing right into the hands of Maleficent.

It's an awesome movie, but the people in it really would have benefitted from -- to put it metaphorically -- abandoning their ideas of making the rain go away, and buying a good umbrella instead.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

A rather famous one in The Big Sleep, both movie and book: one of the murders is never accounted for. The story goes the screewriters called Raymond Chandler asking about the murder and Chandler had a d'oh moment where he realized he had never accounted for the murder in his novel. So rather than mending the plot hole, they just incorporated it into the movie. In the film it isn't as obvious since it's easy to get lost in the plot, but the book is quite obvious about it. Whenever Marlowe does a body count he always omits that one murder, like he forgot about it.

 

[TheIceQueen]

I watched Disney's Sleeping Beauty movie a while ago with my best friend. As you know, it's about how baby princess Aurora gets cursed to prick her finger on a spindle and die when she's sixteen. Except a good fairy changes the curse to make sure that Aurora will only go to sleep, and wake up as soon as she's kissed by somebody that truly loves her.

The obvious solution here is simply to let Aurora hang out with as many boys and lesbians as possible as she grows up, and once she pricks her finger somebody in love with her will just go and kiss her and that will be that.

Instead, they burn all the spindles in the country, even though it's easy to make new ones. They hide her away in the forest, even though the lore of the movie makes it quite clear that curses will find their target, like it or not. They make sure she speaks to pretty much nobody, ensuring that there won't be a true love to save her. They're really playing right into the hands of Maleficent.

It's an awesome movie, but the people in it really would have benefitted from -- to put it metaphorically -- abandoning their ideas of making the rain go away, and buying a good umbrella instead.

I like to call that Kronos Syndrome. Instead of doing the logical thing in those circumstances, like Kronos deciding not to be a shithead of a father and actually try and raise his kids with some kindness and decency, they go the paranoid route and decide to lose their mind, like Kronos deciding to just straight up eat his children in front of his wife. As it turns out, sometimes when you fight fate you only invite it in!

OT: I remember for most of the time reading through the Harry Potter series, I wasn't bothered by many of the plot holes. Sure, a lot of them were explained with some deus ex machina like "THE GOBLET OF FIRE IS A BINDING MAGICAL CONTRACT." "What does that mean?" "IT'S, UH, BINDING. AND MAGICAL. DON'T BREAK THE CONTRACT."

But it didn't occur to me until after I'd read the entire series and was well on the way to reading another different series that one of the biggest plot holes in the entire series is the owl mailing service. And it becomes that much more evident when you're reading the fourth book. Up until then, it's easy to dismiss the fact that owls just seem to know where to go to deliver the mail. But then you have Sirius Black, Mr. #1 Wanted, still writing letters back and forth to Harry Potter and the owls know how to reach each other. And Sirius Black is supposed to be hiding away in a lot of different places (it's mentioned that he's hiding in a tropical place during one part of the book).

THEN, oh my then, Harry uses a school owl to send a letter to Sirius Black because Hedwig would have stood out too much. But how the hell did the school owl know where to find Sirius Black? Harry Potter didn't tell it. Harry Potter didn't give it jack for directions. Nor did the letter contain any address, because that would kind of defeat the purpose of hiding if your owl can get intercepted (something they mention a lot in the series) by someone else. The damn owl just knew where to go.

So why, then, didn't the Ministry of Magic just write up a phony letter to Sirius Black, give it to an owl, and then follow after it on brooms?

That didn't hit me until much later after reading the book.