Biggest plot holes

[FourWheelDrift]

alock said:

P-Jay said:

The Star Wars series,

Text to speech is a much easier problem than speech to text. How can R2-D2 understand speech but not speak? He already has a speaker that can produce beeps.

R2D2 forgetting how to fly in the original trilogy.

[longshot]

Shawshank Redemption when the governor is in Andy's cell after he has escaped.
I must have fking honked of raw sewage in there but no-one noticed?

For that matter the whole cell house must have stunk all night of it.

[vxr8mate]

Warp 10 in Star Trek.

In the Trek universe it's meant to be the unattainable speed, but they often went beyond it and even claimed other races were able to travel faster using 'warp conduits!'

[Halmyre]

Morningside said:

Bond. Just shoot him.

Bond films don't have plot holes, they've got giant plot crevasses with huge fecking bells on them. A lot of them are down to sloppy editing or script rewrites and omitted scenes (Diamonds Are Forever being one of the worst offenders in all categories).

[FredAstaire]

longshot said:

Shawshank Redemption when the governor is in Andy's cell after he has escaped.
I must have fking honked of raw sewage in there but no-one noticed?

For that matter the whole cell house must have stunk all night of it.

He didn't tunnel directly into the pipe though did he, he escaped out the wall, climbed down to ground level and then broke into the pipe down there.

[AndrewEH1]

FredAstaire said:

longshot said:

Shawshank Redemption when the governor is in Andy's cell after he has escaped.
I must have fking honked of raw sewage in there but no-one noticed?

For that matter the whole cell house must have stunk all night of it.

He didn't tunnel directly into the pipe though did he, he escaped out the wall, climbed down to ground level and then broke into the pipe down there.

Plus I'd imagine Prisons in those days to stink anyways!

[r11co]

Halmyre said:

Bond films don't have plot holes, they've got giant plot crevasses with huge fecking bells on them. A lot of them are down to sloppy editing or script rewrites and omitted scenes (Diamonds Are Forever being one of the worst offenders in all categories).

Indeed! Why was Plenty O'Toole drowned Tifanny Case's swimming pool, for example? And we won't mention the continuity error with the Mustang 'corrected' in the editing suite.

[southendpier]

Mansells Tash said:

Matrix - The whole premise is that they use the electricity generated by humans to power themselves. The problem is you have to feed humans, and in doing so you will lose energy in that process in the generation of the food and feeding them, if they just put their energy into converting the fuel for humans into fuel for them they'd have a more efficient way of generating power by removing a step in the process.

Don't they feed the humans babies, the dead etc? Slimed down into a black goo. I presume they can add a bacterial or fungal produced mix food to this to protein it up a bit.

[southendpier]

Halmyre said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Fantastic beasts - What happened to any witness who were inside and didn't get rained on?

Terminator - Michael Bein is John Connor's dad, but he went back in time to save Sarah Connor for the time travelling terminator. So if the Terminator hadn't gone back in time, Kyle would never have gone back to protect her, and John would never have been born. Did skynet really not know who Johns dad was?

Independence day - Alien computer systems are perfectly compatible with Mac OS

And from where do you think Jobs got the OS in the first place?

Isn't that the whole point of Terminator series is that you can't change the future? They humans finally get to realise this as the Nukes are fired in the 3rd one? Every intervention leaves something behind that carries on the future, in the main it is leaving behind of bits of Arnold's arm that allow Skynet to always produce the technology. So if Skynet hadn't sent Arnold Terminator back to kill Sarah Connor then they would not have created Skynet because the arm would not have been left behind.

...I think I'm going to have to sit down for a bit.

[fullbeem]

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.

This

Why have i not thought this before now

[southendpier]

fullbeem said:

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.

This

Why have i not thought this before now

Because it was a long time ago...

And nobody had thought of email

+ they have the video technology for sending between planet systems etc but that is notoriously unreliable and affected by storms so email over those distances might get corrupted....like wot the video do.

[longshot]

FredAstaire said:

longshot said:

Shawshank Redemption when the governor is in Andy's cell after he has escaped.
I must have fking honked of raw sewage in there but no-one noticed?

For that matter the whole cell house must have stunk all night of it.

He didn't tunnel directly into the pipe though did he, he escaped out the wall, climbed down to ground level and then broke into the pipe down there.

I get what you're saying but the pipe was just below the exit of his tunnel and so wouldn't have taken long to permeate into the cell block. I

[MonkeyHanger]

Jurassic Park. Apparently, one of the greatest predators ever to roam the earth can't see you if you stand still. Presumably, T-Rex spent a lot of time running into trees when looking for a spot of lunch.


Should've gone to Specsavers.

[tankplanker]

Mansells Tash said:

Matrix - The whole premise is that they use the electricity generated by humans to power themselves. The problem is you have to feed humans, and in doing so you will lose energy in that process in the generation of the food and feeding them, if they just put their energy into converting the fuel for humans into fuel for them they'd have a more efficient way of generating power by removing a step in the process.

Blame the studio for that one, in the original script the computers use the human brains as additional processing power/storage, but the studio thought that would be too hard to follow so they insisted it was changed.

The first Terminator film works as an enclosed loop, as Kyle always went back and Skynet always won it was a functional and fixed loop of time. They mucked it up with the second film as that changed the loop of the first film and Kyle would never have needed to go back. However there are different ways of time travel working depending on which theory you subscribe so it could work I guess...

[Shakermaker]

MonkeyHanger said:

Jurassic Park. Apparently, one of the greatest predators ever to roam the earth can't see you if you stand still. Presumably, T-Rex spent a lot of time running into trees when looking for a spot of lunch.


Should've gone to Specsavers.

Scientists have theorised at length at how primitive the eyesight of many dinosaurs really was, and as such, they did indeed do most of their hunting based on movement.

We've had 100 million years of evolution since then to get better eyesight passed down to what it is now.

[Morningside]

r11co said:

Halmyre said:

Bond films don't have plot holes, they've got giant plot crevasses with huge fecking bells on them. A lot of them are down to sloppy editing or script rewrites and omitted scenes (Diamonds Are Forever being one of the worst offenders in all categories).

Indeed! Why was Plenty O'Toole drowned Tifanny Case's swimming pool, for example? And we won't mention the continuity error with the Mustang 'corrected' in the editing suite.

Why does no one seem to recognise him? Here is this world wide assassin that has to announce his name every bloody time.
I would have thought "know the enemy" would be in order here.
Although it is said that James Bond is infact a code name for all the agents and not actually his real name

Another one that has always bugged me - Those secret caverns that hold treasure. How would you set it all up and get out? How would you dry-run test it? How become there is always a burning torch even when it has been there for decades? What happens if it is false triggered? How does it reset itself?

[spitfire-ian]

Wasn't it pointed out in a Big Bang Theory episode that in Raiders of the Lost Ark the outcome of the film would have been the same even if Indiana Jones had not existed?

[Nardiola]

Dark Knight Rises, why did Commissioner Gordon send his entire police force underground!

[FourWheelDrift]

spitfire-ian said:

Wasn't it pointed out in a Big Bang Theory episode that in Raiders of the Lost Ark the outcome of the film would have been the same even if Indiana Jones had not existed?

Up until the point when they open the Ark what he did had no real bearing on what happens. Then the spirits escape, Nazi's die, Ark closes and Indiana's ropes turn to dust, he would have to be there as the survivor to contact the US forces to retrieve the Ark. If he didn't exist ze Germans would recover it.

[Shakermaker]

Nardiola said:

Dark Knight Rises, why did Commissioner Gordon send his entire police force underground!

That whole film is a plot canyon!

How did Bruce Wayne get smuggled out of a shut-down city, placed into a weird foreign prison hole, who seemingly all have contact with Bane, without anyone noticing? and then, how did he get back IN to Gotham by obviously crossing multiple borders from wherever the prison hole is, with no money, no identity documents, and nobody notice him come back in?