Annoying Movie Plot Holes

[Grendel]

How bout in X Men: The Last Stand when ... actually, there are too many to count in that one. Magneto picking up the bridge and dropping it in mid day, and the next thing you see is that it's night. How the hell did that happen? And how did Charles Xavier go from the caring, benevolent one in the first two movies to an invasive douchebag in the third?

I love movie screw ups. The one that always cracked me up was in the movie Bad Boys, where one of them goes and does a jumping cop roll (like in the John Woo films) and you can see the blue mat that he lands on to break his fall, but it's not there in the next scene. Or like in Driven where the last race is for the championship and the kid wins it. It wouldn't have mattered, because the other driver led more laps and would have gotten at least 5 bonus points and still would have won the championship. And I don't care how stupid of a car owner you are, if you have a rookie driver who is second in points, you're not going to try and get rid of him. You'd be committing career suicide.

[Paul Servo]

CLERKS: The funeral was at 3. When Dante is charged with selling cigs to a minor, he is told it happened at 3

[Just Jay]

Dec 13, 2008 17:37:49 GMT -5 Dave at the Movies said:

Dec 13, 2008 17:28:15 GMT -5 Just Jay said:

Great! I finally get a chance to say this.

So, in the first Terminator, Reese goes back in time to save Sarah Conor because she will be the mother of John Conor. The man responsible for leading against the robot resistance.

And whom is the father of that child? Reese! During that scene in the car.

BYAGGHHHHH!!! My head hurts!

It isn't a plot hole. It is a message saying it was meant to be.

It couldn't have been meant to be. John Conor had sent Kyle Reese back in time to protect his mother, who happens to be his father. If he never sent his Dad to go back in time, and if the T-800 had never gone back in time, John Conor would continue living the way he was. Hence, the plot hole.

[Paul Servo]

Dec 13, 2008 19:54:03 GMT -5 Just Jay said:

Dec 13, 2008 17:37:49 GMT -5 Dave at the Movies said:

It isn't a plot hole. It is a message saying it was meant to be.

It couldn't have been meant to be. John Conor had sent Kyle Reese back in time to protect his mother, who happens to be his father. If he never sent his Dad to go back in time, and if the T-800 had never gone back in time, John Conor would continue living the way he was. Hence, the plot hole.

As seen in T:TSCC, John knows Kyle is his dad. So he sends him back so he can snork his mother and he can be born

[Paul Servo]

Do TV plot holes count?
MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN: The IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE episode: Al sees that Peg would have married a guy played by Ted Muginley (sp?). When he meets Jefferson, he doesn't recognizer him

[Just Jay]

But that in it of itself is a plot hole. You can't knowingly send back your father, who is younger than you to screw your mom. It just can't work.

[Paul Servo]

Dec 13, 2008 20:11:39 GMT -5 Just Jay said:

But that in it of itself is a plot hole. You can't knowingly send back your father, who is younger than you to screw your mom. It just can't work.

John knows, Kyle doesn't.
He just knows that he has to send the guy so he will be conceived

[Just Jay]

I see that, but it just seems silly that he already "knows" who is father is and thus sends him back in time. I can't wrap my head around knowing who your father is and conceiving yourself through that thought.

[tmc1982]

The Spider-Man movies have done some things that really bugged me:
*Spider-Man 1 - Wouldn't the shady wrestling promoter eventually put to and to together that Peter Parker and Spider-Man are the same person, since he saw Peter (while paying him for beating Bone Shaw McGraw) without his mask on?

*Spider-Man 2 - Spidey takes his mask off while trying to safe the runaway subway after clashing with Doctor Octopus. In the process, everybody on the subway sees is face. One little kid tells Spidey that they promise not to tell anybody that they saw him without his mask on. In real life, wouldn't they have cameras (like with their cell phones) to get a picture of Spider-Man without his mask on? Or better yet, they could try to blackmail Peter Parker into not showing anybody the photos.

*Spider-Man 3:
1. Why is the city of New York holding a parade in Spidey's honor (after he rescued Gwen Stacy from the crane accident)? Half of the city hates or fears Spider-Man in part because of what J. Jonah Jameson publishes in the Daily Bugle.

2. How come Harry Osborn's butler didn't bother telling him about the truth of Norman Osborn's death in the first movie (when it was relevant)? The butler allowed his master to take a pumpkin bomb to the face, and yet only then, he bothers to tell him the truth.

3. What happens to Sandman after he "floats away" at the end of the movie? Does he go back to robbing banks and stealing in order to help his sick daughter?

4. Why is Mary Jane such a selfish, whiny bitch in this movie?

5. How come the meteorite carrying the symbiote conveniently lands her Peter's moped?

6. How the hell does Venom find Sandman in the first place, and how exactly does Venom know about Sandman's daughter?

7. How come Spidey doesn't do anything about the crane outside of rescuing Gwen?

8. If Peter Parker is willing to "forgive" the man who really killed Uncle Ben (Sandman, who killed him by "accident" :, then shouldn't that mean that Peter no longer has much of an incentive to dress up as Spider-Man?

9. What's Gwen Stacy and her dad doing at Harry Osborn's funeral? Did they ever know each other?

[The Tank]

Dec 13, 2008 20:27:51 GMT -5 tmc1982 said:

The Spider-Man movies have done some things that really bugged me:
*Spider-Man 1 - Wouldn't the shady wrestling promoter eventually put to and to together that Peter Parker and Spider-Man are the same person, since he saw Peter (while paying him for beating Bone Shaw McGraw) without his mask on?

*Spider-Man 2 - Spidey takes his mask off while trying to safe the runaway subway after clashing with Doctor Octopus. In the process, everybody on the subway sees is face. One little kid tells Spidey that they promise not to tell anybody that they saw him without his mask on. In real life, wouldn't they have cameras (like with their cell phones) to get a picture of Spider-Man without his mask on? Or better yet, they could try to blackmail Peter Parker into not showing anybody the photos.

*Spider-Man 3:
1. Why is the city of New York holding a parade in Spidey's honor (after he rescued Gwen Stacy from the crane accident)? Half of the city hates or fears Spider-Man in part because of what J. Jonah Jameson publishes in the Daily Bugle.

2. How come Harry Osborn's butler didn't bother telling him about the truth of Norman Osborn's death in the first movie (when it was relevant)? The butler allowed his master to take a pumpkin bomb to the face, and yet only then, he bothers to tell him the truth.

3. What happens to Sandman after he "floats away" at the end of the movie? Does he go back to robbing banks and stealing in order to help his sick daughter?

4. Why is Mary Jane such a selfish, whiny bitch in this movie?

5. How come the meteorite carrying the symbiote conveniently lands her Peter's moped?

6. How the hell does Venom find Sandman in the first place, and how exactly does Venom know about Sandman's daughter?

7. How come Spidey doesn't do anything about the crane outside of rescuing Gwen?

8. If Peter Parker is willing to "forgive" the man who really killed Uncle Ben (Sandman, who killed him by "accident" :, then shouldn't that mean that Peter no longer has much of an incentive to dress up as Spider-Man?

First Movie: He probably got arrested or something. Or he was an idiot.

Second Movie: He did save their lives. Plus, it's not like Peter Parker is famous. He's just a small-time photographer for a newspaper. They probably wouldn't have known who to blackmail.

Third Movie: Movie sucks, therefore I'm not gonna bother addressing the plotholes.

[Just Jay]

Yeah, Spider-Man 3 was a miserable pile of ass, so I wouldn't count to errors in that one either.

[Mike Strike]

In the 2nd BttF movie, the present gets changed & yet the future doesn't.

[Lupin the Third]

Emperor's New Groove: Yzma and Kronk get back to the castle before Kuzco and Pacha when they fell down a cliff. They even go over it.

Kuzco: Impossible! How did you get here before us?
Yzma: A........How did we get back here so quickly?
Kronk: Well, you got me. *pulls down a map* By all counts, it doesn't add up.

[chairshotshurthead]

Dec 13, 2008 22:26:06 GMT -5 Lupin the Third said:

Emperor's New Groove: Yzma and Kronk get back to the castle before Kuzco and Pacha when they fell down a cliff. They even go over it.

Kuzco: Impossible! How did you get here before us?
Yzma: A........How did we get back here so quickly?
Kronk: Well, you got me. *pulls down a map* By all counts, it doesn't add up.

Well, if you're going to be like that. ;D



Lisa: Quick! Let's get the --
Burns: Going somewhere?
Bart: That's impossible. How did you get here first?
Burns: Oh, there'll be plenty of time for explanations later.

[Lupin the Third]

Dec 13, 2008 22:32:30 GMT -5 chairshotshurthead said:

Dec 13, 2008 22:26:06 GMT -5 Lupin the Third said:

Emperor's New Groove: Yzma and Kronk get back to the castle before Kuzco and Pacha when they fell down a cliff. They even go over it.

Kuzco: Impossible! How did you get here before us?
Yzma: A........How did we get back here so quickly?
Kronk: Well, you got me. *pulls down a map* By all counts, it doesn't add up.

Well, if you're going to be like that. ;D



Lisa: Quick! Let's get the --
Burns: Going somewhere?
Bart: That's impossible. How did you get here first?
Burns: Oh, there'll be plenty of time for explanations later.

Two of my most favorite scenes ever. ;D

[Tehboobz wants Ewa Sonnett]

I point this out to my friend Rorschach and it pisses him off, but in Jaws, the part where the boys hoax the shark patrol by swimming up with a cardboard fin on their backs....either

A) Amity has some dirty ass, murky water.....or

B) The shark patrol is blind as bats not to be able to differentiate between a ten year old boy and a 25 foot f***ing shark. This is one of the most unintentionally funny bits in the entire movie. This, and then when you can see the shark's rubber teeth bend as it bites Quint.

[Ben Wyatt]

Dec 13, 2008 20:27:51 GMT -5 tmc1982 said:

*Spider-Man 3:
2. How come Harry Osborn's butler didn't bother telling him about the truth of Norman Osborn's death in the first movie (when it was relevant)? The butler allowed his master to take a pumpkin bomb to the face, and yet only then, he bothers to tell him the truth.

This drove me insaine.

In addition to the face explosion, he also caused Harry to damn near kill his best friend, which led to Harry's near fatal accident where he suffered amnesia.

I wish they'd show a scene where Harry beats him to a bloody pulp right before he flies off to help Spider man

[a1TheEnigma1a]

Dec 13, 2008 15:36:16 GMT -5 Bub (BLM) said:

Dec 13, 2008 15:27:20 GMT -5 a1TheEnigma1a said:

Isn't that the whole point. The fact that they can't ID him, there is no record of who he is etc?

That is the whole point, but what he meant is that if they took off his make-up, they could dig through mugshots and try to find a match. In order to fully say that they can't find a positive ID, they should have taken a good look at his face.

Speaking of Batman, I've never liked how in Batman Begins, after Alfred saves Bruce when Wayne Manor is burning down, Alfred looks at a stab wound in Bruce's ribs and gets a concerned look on his face. The reason I don't like this is because the injury never becomes relevant later. It's just there and then forgotten. It's the Johnny Parisi of movie injuries.

Aha, yes. That makes more sense now. Agreed. They kinda danced round that one.

[Ultimo Chocula]

Heavy Metal: The scene with the coke sniffing aliens flying the space ship. They land before they land.

Ghostbusters: When Zuul tells the Ghostbusters to think of a destroyer Venkman explains that if they think of J Edgar Hoover then he'll be the one to destroy the city. So, why didn't J Edgar Hoover show up instead of the Stay Puft Marshmellow Man?

I don't know if this is a plot hole but it's something that drives me crazy. Why is it that kids never get hurt or die in action movies. A physically fit grown man will miss a jump and fall to his doom while some obnoxious twerp will make the jump just fine on sheer willpower. What?

[Dean-o]

In The Shankshawk Redemption how did Tim Robbins manage to pin the poster back on the wall on ALL 4 CORNERS after he entered the hole?

I can see leaving the bottom 2 open, but nope, the poster was pinned down on all 4 corners.