Favourite plot holes in movies

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  1. special1ne's Avatar
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    Favourite plot holes in movies
    Some films have one or two plot holes but go on to be great successes, financially and critically (e.g. Raiders of the Lost Ark). Whereas other films which may already be terrible in acting, editing and pacing terms, are infamous for just not making sense, leaving too many things out (e.g. The Room).

    What plot holes do you like/dislike the most?
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    When I went to see GI Joe. Obviously you suspend disbelief a lot with that sort of film, but when the baddie base was being destroyed with sinking ice, that really pissed me off. Ice doesn't ****ing sink, you're turning kids into idiots!
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    The Matrix sequels. They're both giant plot holes.
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    (Original post by Hopple)
    When I went to see GI Joe. Obviously you suspend disbelief a lot with that sort of film, but when the baddie base was being destroyed with sinking ice, that really pissed me off. Ice doesn't ****ing sink, you're turning kids into idiots!
    On top of that, the doctor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) controlled the already-dead McCullen's body, calling him Destro. Almost 5 minutes later, they're captured. It's way too quick for a baddie to burn out like that. The plot hole added just makes the whole film a waste, including Sienna miller's £4800 wig
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    Alien: tiny little alien pops out of john hurt's guts and scuttles away. Next time you see it it's huuuge but hasn't eaten anyone yet.
    Anything needs to eat BEFORE it can grow, it can't just work up an appetite growing and then eating the crew afterwards to make up the deficit.

    This was a pretty annoying hole... Then virtually the same thing happens in promethius.
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    Pretty much every scene in Iron Sky :rolleyes: that film was wrong on so many levels.

    Also, it was a pretty good film, but how did Bruce Wayne get back into Gotham in the Dark Knight Rises when he was halfway around the world in some desert country without a friend or money, and the city was on complete lockdown? Just sayin'
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    (Original post by PurpleEyes)
    Pretty much every scene in Iron Sky :rolleyes: that film was wrong on so many levels.

    Also, it was a pretty good film, but how did Bruce Wayne get back into Gotham in the Dark Knight Rises when he was halfway around the world in some desert country without a friend or money, and the city was on complete lockdown? Just sayin'
    Seriously, there are more plot holes in The Dark Knight Rises (many of them are just inconsistences indicative of a rushed screenplay rather than plot holes, to be fair) than anyone expects.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/.../202245927?p=1 found 70 of them, and most seem to be on the money. Just how DID Alfred obtain information on Bane? He doesn't have an identity in any society, yet a computer tracks him down, to the name. Did the comics/cartoons slip up this bad?
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    (Original post by special1ne)
    Seriously, there are more plot holes in The Dark Knight Rises (many of them are just inconsistences indicative of a rushed screenplay rather than plot holes, to be fair) than anyone expects.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/.../202245927?p=1 found 70 of them, and most seem to be on the money. Just how DID Alfred obtain information on Bane? He doesn't have an identity in any society, yet a computer tracks him down, to the name. Did the comics/cartoons slip up this bad?
    To be honest, I think the most hilarious one is the fact that Gordon was SURPRISED to learn that Batman was Bruce Wayne - there is literally no-one else he could possibly be. That's always peed me off a little :lolwut:
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    All of the Science presented in most movies but predominantly the Science presented in The Core (2003)
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    Re: Favourite plot holes in movies
    (Original post by special1ne)
    Seriously, there are more plot holes in The Dark Knight Rises (many of them are just inconsistences indicative of a rushed screenplay rather than plot holes, to be fair) than anyone expects.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/.../202245927?p=1 found 70 of them, and most seem to be on the money. Just how DID Alfred obtain information on Bane? He doesn't have an identity in any society, yet a computer tracks him down, to the name. Did the comics/cartoons slip up this bad?
    Petyr Baelish did seem to be tracking Bane (and ended up catching him), and it's possible that you could hack into their (CIA? FBI? I can't remember) database.
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    die hard 2, controllers could have gone into any parked airplane and communicated with the other planes. ATC are not the only people who can transmit on the airport frequency ://///
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    Xavier standing up in X-Men: Wolverine... sorry but that always sticks in my mind whenever I watch that movie
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    Terminator. You know what I mean. Still love the film though. :yep:
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    Not a giant plot hole, but it bugs me! In Harry Potter at the end of film 2 Dumbledore gives Harry the diary and then Dobby ends up with it, but then in film 6 Dumbledore has the diary again. I assume Harry just gives it back to him, but haha I dunno this has always annoyed me for some reason :P

    Never Let Me Go. To me this whole things is just a giant plot hole. I'm sure Ishiguro has his reasons, but personally for me it makes no sense why the characters don't just run away :dontknow:
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    That one where Spiderman, a total pussy, somehow manages to own a bunch of way cooler bad guys.
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    Pretty much every James Bond movie, in which the villain(s) tries to kill 007 in an extravagant, overly complicated and inefficient manner (Goldfinger being the famous example). Why the hell don't they just shoot him?
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    (Original post by concubine)
    That one where Spiderman, a total pussy, somehow manages to own a bunch of way cooler bad guys.
    Also, one where he gets girls. Spiders ain't sexy. They're weird.
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    Inception. Really how do you get into someone's dream using an IV?
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    The Hangover - how the **** do you not realise that you've been sitting on a roof for 24 hours and get off or ring someone?
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    Oh and Back to the Future - how do you forget the guy that sets you up, invents rock and roll and looks EXACTLY like your son?
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