Biggest plot holes
Discussion
P-Jay said:
The Star Wars series,
Faster than light travel, but no e-mail? Tearing around the galaxy to deliver a 20 second .mp4 and some CAD files.
Thinking too deeply about this. But when Edward Snowden wanted to release his leaks, he had the journalists physically travel to Hong Kong to meet him and discuss it in person (even to the point where they communicated really sensitive stuff by writing it down and showing it to each other).Faster than light travel, but no e-mail? Tearing around the galaxy to deliver a 20 second .mp4 and some CAD files.
PLot hole...one of the most overused and misused terms on here. 
Indiana JOnes, he led the NAZIs to Marion, but TBBT was wrong, about his negligible effects.
The only two plot holes I can see are Indy getting to the island, covered in the extra scene, and the height of the staff, it clearly dwarfs Indy.
Star Wars, no plot holes there, if one accepts there are only three films...well four now...
Indiana JOnes, he led the NAZIs to Marion, but TBBT was wrong, about his negligible effects.
The only two plot holes I can see are Indy getting to the island, covered in the extra scene, and the height of the staff, it clearly dwarfs Indy.
Star Wars, no plot holes there, if one accepts there are only three films...well four now...
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.
They go into the Smithsonian at night fall - spend a few minutes mooching round finding Jetfire - who subsequently transforms and breaks out of the hangar bay doors straight into the blazing sun of the Arizona Desert.
Unexplained and massive discontinuity in both time and location.
The silly thing is - the aircraft graveyard scene served little purpose - he could have just warped them straight to Egypt from inside the Smithsonian.
They go into the Smithsonian at night fall - spend a few minutes mooching round finding Jetfire - who subsequently transforms and breaks out of the hangar bay doors straight into the blazing sun of the Arizona Desert.
Unexplained and massive discontinuity in both time and location.
The silly thing is - the aircraft graveyard scene served little purpose - he could have just warped them straight to Egypt from inside the Smithsonian.
Edited by Moonhawk on Wednesday 14th December 15:25
Moonhawk said:
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.
They go into the Smithsonian at night fall - spend a few minutes mooching round finding Jetfire - who subsequently transforms and breaks out of the hangar bay doors straight into the blazing sun of the Arizona Desert.
Unexplained and massive discontinuity in both time and location.
Really? That's crazy! And I thought it was sThey go into the Smithsonian at night fall - spend a few minutes mooching round finding Jetfire - who subsequently transforms and breaks out of the hangar bay doors straight into the blazing sun of the Arizona Desert.
Unexplained and massive discontinuity in both time and location.
t to begin with. Continuity between Bond films doesn't really work, so trying to bridge the plot canyons is a futile exercise. But the internationally famous secret agent is always a good one.
In Casino Royal they create a false identity for Bond, but then he checks in under his own name. He explains that well connected villains will know who and what he is, so the pretence is pointless.
My interpretation over the entire series is that James Bond (an individual, not a code name) is a jet-set playboy, who does a bit of ambassadorial work for Universal Exports. This gets him through the door wherever he goes. Once he gets deeper into the big criminal organisations or rogue governments, the chances are they will know he's Mi6, regardless of his public profile.
Halb said:
Moonhawk said:
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.
They go into the Smithsonian at night fall - spend a few minutes mooching round finding Jetfire - who subsequently transforms and breaks out of the hangar bay doors straight into the blazing sun of the Arizona Desert.
Unexplained and massive discontinuity in both time and location.
Really? That's crazy! And I thought it was sThey go into the Smithsonian at night fall - spend a few minutes mooching round finding Jetfire - who subsequently transforms and breaks out of the hangar bay doors straight into the blazing sun of the Arizona Desert.
Unexplained and massive discontinuity in both time and location.
t to begin with. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Steven+F.+Udva...
The aircraft graveyard they walk out into when breaking out of the Smithsonian hangar is here.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Davis-Monthan+...
Its about 2,200 miles away.
Continuity you say - Michael Bay says
Halb said:
Moonhawk said:
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.
They go into the Smithsonian at night fall - spend a few minutes mooching round finding Jetfire - who subsequently transforms and breaks out of the hangar bay doors straight into the blazing sun of the Arizona Desert.
Unexplained and massive discontinuity in both time and location.
Really? That's crazy! And I thought it was sThey go into the Smithsonian at night fall - spend a few minutes mooching round finding Jetfire - who subsequently transforms and breaks out of the hangar bay doors straight into the blazing sun of the Arizona Desert.
Unexplained and massive discontinuity in both time and location.
t to begin with. The Mummy Returns - the Sun hit the bottom of the pyramid before the top. I was watching it with a mate and his kids while our wives went shopping. He stopped the film and the four of us discussed it. His 11-year-old got it straight away but the 8-or-so-year-old required a diagram.
Ruined the film for the kids but it gave them something to tell their mum when she got back.
Ruined the film for the kids but it gave them something to tell their mum when she got back.
hedgefinder said:
ok... I give you pretty much all of the star wars movies...
Would Stormtroopers wear white armour on anything but a frozen ice world/planet ??
I mean seriously White armour on a Forest planet (Endor) its just ridiculous.... even more ridiculous than cuddle teddy bears with spears.
Those cuddly teddy bears eat people, they were going to spit roast the Han and Luke before C3PO went flying and what happened to the occupants of the Stormtrooper helmet drums at the end. Not so cuddly now are they.Would Stormtroopers wear white armour on anything but a frozen ice world/planet ??
I mean seriously White armour on a Forest planet (Endor) its just ridiculous.... even more ridiculous than cuddle teddy bears with spears.
steviegunn said:
hedgefinder said:
ok... I give you pretty much all of the star wars movies...
Would Stormtroopers wear white armour on anything but a frozen ice world/planet ??
I mean seriously White armour on a Forest planet (Endor) its just ridiculous.... even more ridiculous than cuddle teddy bears with spears.
Those cuddly teddy bears eat people, they were going to spit roast the Han and Luke before C3PO went flying and what happened to the occupants of the Stormtrooper helmet drums at the end. Not so cuddly now are they.Would Stormtroopers wear white armour on anything but a frozen ice world/planet ??
I mean seriously White armour on a Forest planet (Endor) its just ridiculous.... even more ridiculous than cuddle teddy bears with spears.
Sure you're not confusing RotJ with Deliverance?
"the death star plans are not in the main computer"...
Because presumably copy/paste didn't exist. Except it must, because they're still building the death star, despite the rebels having the plans. I'm guessing the foreman didn't just eye it in.
All of Fast and Furious. It's just rediculous. As if a fully gown man has sarnies without a crust.
Because presumably copy/paste didn't exist. Except it must, because they're still building the death star, despite the rebels having the plans. I'm guessing the foreman didn't just eye it in.
All of Fast and Furious. It's just rediculous. As if a fully gown man has sarnies without a crust.
Toy Story - If Buzz Lightyear firmly believes he is a real space ranger why does he freeze along with the rest of the toys when a person enters a room.
Just googled it and seems like I'm not the only person to have picked up on it!!
Fast & Furious - How many gears do these cars have?
Oceans 11 - I always get confused about the SWAT part. How did they get the fake money into the vault in the first place?
Just googled it and seems like I'm not the only person to have picked up on it!!
Fast & Furious - How many gears do these cars have?
Oceans 11 - I always get confused about the SWAT part. How did they get the fake money into the vault in the first place?
Edited by ashleyman on Sunday 18th December 02:19
If we're talking Bond films, how does Blofeld fail to recognise that's 007 that he's invited to his mountain lair in OHMSS (the same 007 who blew up his big fk off secret base in You Only Live Twice). Yes, I know it's different actors and Bond is wearing a disguise (well glasses, a hat and a smoking a pipe) but still!
Also Aliens. Throughout the film the Xenomorphs are able to bash through reinforced doors, melt multiple layers of thick metal flooring with acid and generally fk up st.Yet in the climax they take ages crawling through the ventilation shafts getting shot at, when they could've just taken a short cut using the above methods.
k off secret base in You Only Live Twice). Yes, I know it's different actors and Bond is wearing a disguise (well glasses, a hat and a smoking a pipe) but still!Also Aliens. Throughout the film the Xenomorphs are able to bash through reinforced doors, melt multiple layers of thick metal flooring with acid and generally f
k up st.Yet in the climax they take ages crawling through the ventilation shafts getting shot at, when they could've just taken a short cut using the above methods.jogger1976 said:
If we're talking Bond films, how does Blofeld fail to recognise that's 007 that he's invited to his mountain lair in OHMSS (the same 007 who blew up his big fk off secret base in You Only Live Twice). Yes, I know it's different actors and Bond is wearing a disguise (well glasses, a hat and a smoking a pipe) but still!
Ah, but, in YOLT Bond was disguised as a Japanese fisherman.k off secret base in You Only Live Twice). Yes, I know it's different actors and Bond is wearing a disguise (well glasses, a hat and a smoking a pipe) but still!ashleyman said:
Fast & Furious - How many gears do these cars have?
I have seen all 7 F&F movies and not once do any of them stop at a petrol station, so what do their cars run on?Edited by ashleyman on Sunday 18th December 02:19
Need For Speed movie, the scene where they refuel while on the go..the filler cap is on the wrong side and opens the wrong way!
Inception - After the end of the Edith Piaf music towards the end of the film, they all end up back in the first level, having been driven around for perhaps fifteen minutes in the back of the van. Earlier, it is said that the flight time represents one week in that level, which they say they will be unable to live through because of the militarised 'projections' - hence they will all end up in Limbo for decades of dream time. Yet they don't all end up in Limbo - they just wake up on the aircraft.
Good film though.
Good film though.
jogger1976 said:
Also Aliens. Throughout the film the Xenomorphs are able to bash through reinforced doors, melt multiple layers of thick metal flooring with acid and generally fk up st.Yet in the climax they take ages crawling through the ventilation shafts getting shot at, when they could've just taken a short cut using the above methods.
because they're chasing the survivors and the air ducts are the most direct route. they couldn't cut through the pipe to head them off because they were behind them.k up st.Yet in the climax they take ages crawling through the ventilation shafts getting shot at, when they could've just taken a short cut using the above methods.Gassing Station | TV, Film, Video Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff