Worst obvious movie plot holes
Discussion
bit of a fun topic. Name some terrible / unforgiveable plot holes in movies, regardless of whether its "feasible" or realistic in the movie.
We all probable know the following examples:
A quiet place - The creatures detect noise to hunt, so make loads of noisy instruments to distract them? how come the military never thought of emitting loud noises to kill the creatures? where are the military???
The dark knight rises - Bruce Wayne somehow gets punched in his spine to fix a broken back then escapes from an almost unescapable prison before somehow sneaking back into Gotham within 24 hours. Police are trapped below ground for 6 month yet come out perfectly healthy before fighting men armed with automatic weapons using their fists?!
Fire away !
We all probable know the following examples:
A quiet place - The creatures detect noise to hunt, so make loads of noisy instruments to distract them? how come the military never thought of emitting loud noises to kill the creatures? where are the military???
The dark knight rises - Bruce Wayne somehow gets punched in his spine to fix a broken back then escapes from an almost unescapable prison before somehow sneaking back into Gotham within 24 hours. Police are trapped below ground for 6 month yet come out perfectly healthy before fighting men armed with automatic weapons using their fists?!
Fire away !
Elderly Biff Tannen goes back to the 1950s from 2015 to give his younger self the almanac. When he gets back to 2015, it's the same 2015 he had left earlier. However, it should have been an entirely different 2015 he comes back to, given the new timeline of 'successful Biff' he created.
RizzoTheRat said:
My favorite plothole was from a video of a NASA astronaut reviewing space films. He reckoned there's a huge plot hole in Gravity, he knows several female astronauts and he's confident that none of them would ever let go of George Clooney if they thier hands on him 
Couldn't Bullock have just pulled him back as the rope had cancelled out his momentum and he was still at the end of the rope.A tug on the rope should have brought him back towards her?
Skodillac said:
Elderly Biff Tannen goes back to the 1950s from 2015 to give his younger self the almanac. When he gets back to 2015, it's the same 2015 he had left earlier. However, it should have been an entirely different 2015 he comes back to, given the new timeline of 'successful Biff' he created.
]I'm going to give BTTF a pass because its a childhood favourite and also time travel movies always fail with the timeline logic
SlimJim16v said:
As seen on the Big Bang Theory, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The nazis would've suffered the same fate at the end without any of Indi's heroics.
Not seen any BBT, but that's in no sense a plot hole, without his heroics the Ark would've just sat there after killing the Nazis and no one would know where it was. American Beauty - the whole film relies on every character having their curtains / blinds open throughout the night for others to see what's going on inside the houses.
TGCOTF-dewey said:
Every plot development in the film The Core. It's plot holes are so deep that they suck in light.
A spectacular piece of film making.
You mean its not plausible to manufacture a drilling platform made from a magical material that's strength increases under pressure and travel to the earths core via chasms in the mantle whilst simultaneously lasering through diamonds? A spectacular piece of film making.
I agree its a terrible film but I must have seen it over a dozen times
Peterpetrole said:
SlimJim16v said:
As seen on the Big Bang Theory, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The nazis would've suffered the same fate at the end without any of Indi's heroics.
Not seen any BBT, but that's in no sense a plot hole, without his heroics the Ark would've just sat there after killing the Nazis and no one would know where it was. .
Wouldn't the Nazis never have found the Ark without Indy?
He was the one that discovered the staff they were using was too short /long so were digging in the wrong area?
WPA said:
Italian job (1969) considering the Dormobile has no difficulty driving through the traffic and catching up with the bus towards the end, the entire Mini chase is completely unnecessary
Brilliant.Won't be able to unsee that now.
I did hear the Jurassic Park one that the dangerous dinosaurs are kept in by a cliff & an electric fence, but when the power fails T-Rex gets out.
So presumably just jumped 100ft?
STe_rsv4 said:
Not familiar with the BBT?
Wouldn't the Nazis never have found the Ark without Indy?
He was the one that discovered the staff they were using was too short /long so were digging in the wrong area?
Belloc probably would have got there in the end, he was pretty smart, and it was located in a pretty prominent looking hill. Wouldn't the Nazis never have found the Ark without Indy?
He was the one that discovered the staff they were using was too short /long so were digging in the wrong area?
Regardless, the American Government wanted the Ark for themselves, so it had to be found.
STe_rsv4 said:
Peterpetrole said:
SlimJim16v said:
As seen on the Big Bang Theory, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The nazis would've suffered the same fate at the end without any of Indi's heroics.
Not seen any BBT, but that's in no sense a plot hole, without his heroics the Ark would've just sat there after killing the Nazis and no one would know where it was. .
Wouldn't the Nazis never have found the Ark without Indy?
He was the one that discovered the staff they were using was too short /long so were digging in the wrong area?
STe_rsv4 said:
bit of a fun topic. Name some terrible / unforgiveable plot holes in movies, regardless of whether its "feasible" or realistic in the movie.
We all probable know the following examples:
A quiet place - The creatures detect noise to hunt, so make loads of noisy instruments to distract them? how come the military never thought of emitting loud noises to kill the creatures? where are the military???
The dark knight rises - Bruce Wayne somehow gets punched in his spine to fix a broken back then escapes from an almost unescapable prison before somehow sneaking back into Gotham within 24 hours. Police are trapped below ground for 6 month yet come out perfectly healthy before fighting men armed with automatic weapons using their fists?!
Fire away !
Surely the biggest plot hole is that Batman who has no powers can defeat almost every super heroWe all probable know the following examples:
A quiet place - The creatures detect noise to hunt, so make loads of noisy instruments to distract them? how come the military never thought of emitting loud noises to kill the creatures? where are the military???
The dark knight rises - Bruce Wayne somehow gets punched in his spine to fix a broken back then escapes from an almost unescapable prison before somehow sneaking back into Gotham within 24 hours. Police are trapped below ground for 6 month yet come out perfectly healthy before fighting men armed with automatic weapons using their fists?!
Fire away !
RizzoTheRat said:
My favorite plothole was from a video of a NASA astronaut reviewing space films. He reckoned there's a huge plot hole in Gravity, he knows several female astronauts and he's confident that none of them would ever let go of George Clooney if they thier hands on him
Oh there are so many problems with Gravity. It's a great spectacle watching it for the first time but I couldn't make it through a second viewing.- Why would Clooney be allowed to pointlessly arse about with his jet pack, burning fuel for no reason?
- Why would Bullock have been sent in the first place, when she was so terrified that she couldn't do her job?
- Similarly, why would they send up somebody who is so lacking independence that she needed to be hand-held by Clooney when things went bad?
- Why does she get fired into space when she unclips from the boom thing? She would just continue her momentum.
- Why would Bullock be dreaming about Clooney's character in her last moments? She doesn't know him and he means nothing to her. If you believe you are in your final moments; you'd be thinking of your friends and family.
- The ISS is moving at more than 17,000 mph yet they can work out its trajectory to within a few metres?
simon_harris said:
The quiet place is one that really wound me up - they could sit under the waterfall talking etc so all they needed to do was create an area with sufficient background noise to live in.
+1And the child with the noisy toy at the start that got bumped off. They just were happy to let it potter along making a noise behind them.
Skodillac said:
Elderly Biff Tannen goes back to the 1950s from 2015 to give his younger self the almanac. When he gets back to 2015, it's the same 2015 he had left earlier. However, it should have been an entirely different 2015 he comes back to, given the new timeline of 'successful Biff' he created.
The big one for me and one that I could not understand when I first watched it....Marty goes to 1885 and reverses his DeLorean into a cave. Doc goes to 1885 and parks his in a train tunnel siding. They have 2 DeLoreans!
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