Movie Plot Holes

thehouses

What is the most glaring plot hole you have seen in a movie? I don't mean slight mistakes like they show on Robert Webb's Greatest Movie Mistakes, but rather major mistakes which should not have been overlooked.

I was watching World War Z recently, and the whole film was one continuous plot hole - have a look at http://movie-plot-holes.43160.x6.nabble.com/World-War-Z-plot-holes-and-spoilers-td52.html for most of the mistakes.

EDDIE WATERS

The Neutrinos have Mutated

rawn

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, why didn't the Basilisk fang destroy the bit of Voldemort's soul that resides inside Harry, when it clearly killed the bit of soul in the diary?

syklops

Krudler will be along in a minute to complain about Independence Day and Jeff Goldblum interfacing with an alien space ship with a Mac.

HansHolzel

There are plot holes and then there are just holes, like the bits missing out of No Country for Old Men, like they were short of film or just couldn't be bothered with making some of it.

Michael D Not Higgins

rawn wrote: »

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, why didn't the Basilisk fang destroy the bit of Voldemort's soul that resides inside Harry, when it clearly killed the bit of soul in the diary?

Because magic.

brevity

People seem to be so quick to shout plot hole these days when it might not actually be a plot hole at all.

A plot hole, in my opinion, is an inconsistency or contradiction to what we have been previously told in the movie.

Mickeroo

HansHolzel wrote: »

There are plot holes and then there are just holes, like the bits missing out of No Country for Old Men, like they were short of film or just couldn't be bothered with making some of it.

*insert popcorn eating gif*

thehouses

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

Because magic.

Damnit, "because magic" is not an explanation - that's like batman explaining how he made it back from that prison on the other side of the world and took time out to put his logo on a bridge in the dark knight rises all before the bomb went off by saying "it's because I'm batman," damnit it's just not good enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUYW0JyzydA

Jonny Blaze

Have you watched a Michael Bay movie?

Can't see the plot for the holes!

knird evol

The Titanic. The Ship was unsinkable. Hello...

frag420

That scene in Superman 2(I think) where he is in the bar and all angry and starts flicking peanuts at the bottles behind the bar smashing all of them up!!

Now I am no rocket surgeon but surely the peanuts should have disintegrated upon contact with supermans flicking finger eh??

Ruined the movie for me when I was three and still to this day wrecks my stones!!

Michael D Not Higgins

thehouses wrote: »

Damnit, "because magic" is not an explanation - that's like batman explaining how he made it back from that prison on the other side of the world and took time out to put his logo on a bridge in the dark knight rises all before the bomb went off by saying "it's because I'm batman," damnit it's just not good enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUYW0JyzydA

I was being flippant. I'd say it's because the phoenix tears heal him.

Mickeroo

thehouses wrote: »

Damnit, "because magic" is not an explanation - that's like batman explaining how he made it back from that prison on the other side of the world and took time out to put his logo on a bridge in the dark knight rises all before the bomb went off by saying "it's because I'm batman," damnit it's just not good enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUYW0JyzydA

I think if the fang had actually killed harry then it would have destroyed the soul too.

MvsC3

In Rocky IV Rocky heads off to Russia to fight Ivan Drago leaving his 5/6 year old at home, when he returns in Rocky V his son is about 13 years old!

syklops

frag420 wrote: »

That scene in Superman 2(I think) where he is in the bar and all angry and starts flicking peanuts at the bottles behind the bar smashing all of them up!!

Now I am no rocket surgeon but surely the peanuts should have disintegrated upon contact with supermans flicking finger eh??

Ruined the movie for me when I was three and still to this day wrecks my stones!!

Depends how he did it. If you hit an egg with a golf club it will break the egg. But if you chip the egg you will send it into the air. Same with the peanuts.

rawn

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

I was being flippant. I'd say it's because the phoenix tears heal him.

When he stabbed the diary, the Horcrux was destroyed immediately. When Harry was bitten, the Horcrux in him should have also died immediately. The only explanation I heard is that the Horcrux "knew" that Fawkes was gonna come and heal Harry but how could it have known when even Harry didn't?

SHANAbert

The gun silencer noise effect in EVERY MOVIE EVER

http://youtu.be/qZU5TGljAmw

There is still a lot of noise!!!

As pointed out in tbbt, the entire plotline of Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark is a plothole. If Indy never got involved, the outcome would have been the same.

loveBBhate

In The Sixth Sense, nobody acknowledges Bruce Willis but the little boy. I didn't believe this when I was told, but then I watched it again and it's true. Not a major plot joke but it just seems unrealistic they nobody made contact with this man who was spending most of his time with a little boy.

rawn

Deleted User wrote: »

As pointed out in tbbt, the entire plotline of Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark is a plothole. If Indy never got involved, the outcome would have been the same.

Linked, cos everyone knows that Boardies are too cool to watch TBBT

maximoose

^Try harder :pac:

brevity

loveBBhate wrote: »

In The Sixth Sense, nobody acknowledges Bruce Willis but the little boy. I didn't believe this when I was told, but then I watched it again and it's true. Not a major plot joke but it just seems unrealistic they nobody made contact with this man who was spending most of his time with a little boy.

You do know why they didn't make contact with him don't you?

Michael D Not Higgins

rawn wrote: »

When he stabbed the diary, the Horcrux was destroyed immediately. When Harry was bitten, the Horcrux in him should have also died immediately. The only explanation I heard is that the Horcrux "knew" that Fawkes was gonna come and heal Harry but how could it have known when even Harry didn't?

It could be argued that it was in the process of being destroyed and was healed when Harry was.

Michael D Not Higgins

SHANAbert wrote: »

The gun silencer noise effect in EVERY MOVIE EVER

http://youtu.be/qZU5TGljAmw

There is still a lot of noise!!!

That's unrealistic but not a plot hole.

syklops

Deleted User wrote: »

As pointed out in tbbt, the entire plotline of Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark is a plothole. If Indy never got involved, the outcome would have been the same.

Linky?

frag420

syklops wrote: »

Depends how he did it. If you hit an egg with a golf club it will break the egg. But if you chip the egg you will send it into the air. Same with the peanuts.

I call shenanigans on this. A peanut is dense where an egg is mainly hollow. There is not a chance I could swing a sand wedge at an egg and chip it without breaking it!! As for how he did it in the movie.............the same way anyone would flick a peanut that was resting on the bar!!

ozmo

Planet of the Apes (2001-ish the remake from a few years back with the time travel element to it).
Cannot remember the details - but at the ending everyone in the Cinema just looked around totally puzzled at a really poor attempt of a cliff hanger that just didn't make any sense at all - even by ScFi standards. Quick search on-line and no-one at the time had any satisfactory explanation to the plot twist.

rawn

syklops wrote: »

Linky?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87341025&postcount=21

syklops

rawn wrote: »

Linked, cos everyone knows that Boardies are too cool to watch TBBT

I enjoyed that, but its not a plot hole.

thehouses

SHANAbert wrote: »

The gun silencer noise effect in EVERY MOVIE EVER

http://youtu.be/qZU5TGljAmw

There is still a lot of noise!!!

Good one - didn't realise that at all. I think Jeremy Clarkson should be put on the set of a lot of films to help keep them real. http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/the-sweeney-film-part-1-series-18-episode-3

Penn

Superman Returns.

In Superman 2, Superman and Lois have sex. However, by the end of the film, Superman has to wipe Lois' memory of it so she forgets he's Superman.

In Superman Returns (which is supposed to be a sequel to Superman 2), Lois discovers her son is actually Superman's son. Yet she never seems to question this even though she doesn't remember that a) Clark is Superman and b) that she slept with either of them.

Never noticed it myself until Kevin Smith talked about it on one of his Q&A dvds, but in fairness it is a pretty big plot hole. Hell that whole movie was like a showcase for plot holes.

- Lex Luther trying to create a Kryptonite Island which would destroy most of America so he'd own all the land even though it was completely uninhabitable.

- Superman being weakened by Kryptonite, yet is then able to lift the f*cking island out of the ocean (while his face is about 3 inches from a big lump of Kryptonite and there are Kryptonite shards in his body) and throw it into f*cking space.

- Lex and his girlfriend escape Kryptonite Island on a helicopter and end up stranded on a desert island because the helicopter ran out of fuel. What the f*ck direction did they fly in? You could see the Metropolis shore from Kryptonite Island. Even if they didn't want to risk going to Metropolis, they could have followed the shoreline North or South to somewhere they could escape. How the f*ck did they end up on a desert f*cking island?


(I f*cking hate Superman Returns)

Mickeroo

SHANAbert wrote: »

The gun silencer noise effect in EVERY MOVIE EVER

http://youtu.be/qZU5TGljAmw

There is still a lot of noise!!!

No more a plot hole than cars exploding when they crash, go off cliffs, get shot etc.

syklops

frag420 wrote: »

I call shenanigans on this. A peanut is dense where an egg is mainly hollow. There is not a chance I could swing a sand wedge at an egg and chip it without breaking it!! As for how he did it in the movie.............the same way anyone would flick a peanut that was resting on the bar!!

No, you couldnt swing a sand wedge at an egg and chip it, but if the sand wedge was next to the egg, and you chipped it you would. Now, describe how you flick a peanut.

thehouses

rawn wrote: »

Linked, cos everyone knows that Boardies are too cool to watch TBBT

Well it's still better than the Crystal Skull...

Mickeroo

syklops wrote: »

No, you couldnt swing a sand wedge at an egg and chip it, but if the sand wedge was next to the egg, and you chipped it you would. Now, describe how you flick a peanut.

To flick a peanut you need momentum before hitting the peanut, what you're describing is putting the wedge under the egg and then lifting if more or less. Swinging the club is closer to the physics involved in flicking the peanut imo.

Bah, it's not a plot hole anyway :pac:

BailMeOut

HansHolzel wrote: »

There are plot holes and then there are just holes, like the bits missing out of No Country for Old Men, like they were short of film or just couldn't be bothered with making some of it.

have you read the book as this movie is a very good adaptation of the book so if you spotted plot holes then those same holes are most likely in the book. Do you have any examples?

syklops

Mickeroo wrote: »

To flick a peanut you need momentum before hitting the peanut, what you're describing is putting the wedge under the egg and then lifting if more or less. Swinging the club is closer to the physics involved in flicking the peanut imo.

We'll have to agree to disagree, but you flick a peanut, in my mind at least by placing your finger behind the peanut and the launching the peanut. A similar flick could be done with an egg and a gold club.

loveBBhate

brevity wrote: »

You do know why they didn't make contact with him don't you?

No? Turned it off with ten minutes to go because it really started to bother me. I miss something?

loveBBhate

MvsC3 wrote: »

In Rocky IV Rocky heads off to Russia to fight Ivan Drago leaving his 5/6 year old at home, when he returns in Rocky V his son is about 13 years old!

Read about that in the trivia section for that flick on IMDB. Apparently whilst Rocky was away, his son found his steroids in his bedroom and was juicing like Lance!

brevity

loveBBhate wrote: »

No? Turned it off with ten minutes to go because it really started to bother me. I miss something?

thehouses

EDDIE WATERS wrote: »

The Neutrinos have Mutated

I actually got bored and stopped watching that film - that might explain why. One that bugs me is in Prometheus - how was she able to run after undergoing a caesarian section?

DoesNotCompute

Dark Knight Rises:

Bruce learns important plot point from a hallucination.

Also Blake knows exactly where to look for Gordon when he gets washed out of the sewer

And he knows that Bruce is batman because of a look on his face

In fact...

http://youtu.be/j2tE-BCwZtw

frag420

syklops wrote: »

No, you couldnt swing a sand wedge at an egg and chip it, but if the sand wedge was next to the egg, and you chipped it you would. Now, describe how you flick a peanut.

have you ever flicked anyones ear? Did you rest your finger behind their ear and move your finger forward (ouch, feel the pain) or did you use another finger on the same hand to aid the flick by providing momentum and force to flick the ear?? Thats how a flick a peanut.

How I flick a bean is for another thread!!

panevthe3rd

Final Destination 3 I think (the one with the rollercoaster)

In the vision of the accident the guy with the camera causes the rollercoaster to de-rail when he drops his camera onto the tracks.

After the girl freaks out and gets off so does the guy with the camera but somehow the rollercoaster accident happens anyway.

syklops

thehouses wrote: »

I actually got bored and stopped watching that film - that might explain why. One that bugs me is in Prometheus - how was she able to run after undergoing a caesarian section?

I knew someone would bring up Prometheus.

Yer man has a theory about Aliens on another planet who created humans on earht. He gets to the other planet and discovers his theory is right, but instead of celebrating gets drunk and mourns the fact other race no longer exist.

Prometheus was meant to be the story of why there was this real big alien in a turret in that Alien ship. But at the end of the movie that big Alien climbs out of the turret to chase after the humans. So was that a different alien in a different turret that they found in Alien?

thehouses

DoesNotCompute wrote: »

Dark Knight Rises:

Bruce learns important plot point from a hallucination.

Also Blake knows exactly where to look for Gordon when he gets washed out of the sewer

And he knows that Bruce is batman because of a look on his face

In fact...

http://youtu.be/j2tE-BCwZtw

The Grey bugged me as well, wolves would not behave like that all and it stopped me from getting into the movie. http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/02/03/would-real-wolves-act-like-the-wolves-of-the-grey/

Jonny Blaze

syklops wrote: »

I knew someone would bring up Prometheus.

Yer man has a theory about Aliens on another planet who created humans on earht. He gets to the other planet and discovers his theory is right, but instead of celebrating gets drunk and mourns the fact other race no longer exist.

Prometheus was meant to be the story of why there was this real big alien in a turret in that Alien ship. But at the end of the movie that big Alien climbs out of the turret to chase after the humans. So was that a different alien in a different turret that they found in Alien?

Yeah it's meant to show that they were a wide spread/ well travelled alien race (hence the detailed star maps).

The planet in Aliens is designated planet lv-426 in the canon.

The one in prometheus is planet lv-422...

So yeah im a huge nerd!

Stone Deaf 4evr

DoesNotCompute wrote: »

Dark Knight Rises:

Bruce learns important plot point from a hallucination.

Also Blake knows exactly where to look for Gordon when he gets washed out of the sewer

And he knows that Bruce is batman because of a look on his face

In fact...

http://youtu.be/j2tE-BCwZtw

Blake knew where to look because he had already been talking to one of the orphans whos brother had gone working in the sewer after he became too old to stay in the orphanage. His body was found by a sewer outlet so it was a reasonable guess to assume that gordon would come out in the same place.


The bigger plot hole in that movie imo is right at the end where bruce shows up in italy, just chillin with selina. hes a multi billionaire. imagine if bill gates "died" and then started popping up at restaurants all around the world, he'd be recognised within seconds.

Mickeroo

Jonny Blaze wrote: »

Yeah it's meant to show that they were a wide spread/ well travelled alien race (hence the detailed star maps).

The planet in Aliens is designated planet lv-426 in the canon.

The one in prometheus is planet lv-422...

So yeah im a huge nerd!

The script originally had it as LV-426 afaik, then they thought of the money even more sequels would bring in and decided to draw it out even more.

Goldstein

Roland Emmerich & Damon Lindelof's entire film careers.