All the way back in 2005, the late critic Roger Ebert wrote in his review for the French horror film High Tension: "Clever viewers will be able to see for themselves that the movie's plot has a hole that is not only large enough to drive a truck through, but in fact does have a truck driven right through it."
A week ago, reddit user Naweezy decided to tribute Ebert and his poetic phrase. So they posted a question to r/AskReddit, "What are some plot holes so big you can drive a truck through?" Immediately, screen detectives started revealing their insights. From Star Wars to The Simpsons, it's crazy to think producers didn't notice these humongous craters in their stories and let them through.
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In the Mummy with Brendan Frasier, Imhotep steals body parts from the looters to put himself back together. At one point he takes the eyes from a person wearing glasses, so for the rest of the movie Imhotep should really be squinting at everyone.
That’s what I thought when I watched it the other day!!
Load More Replies...Also, why does he need dufferent parts from different people? Or does he just keep getting distracted?
I commented on this on another site, and I said he could probably heal the dude's eyes considering they still work at all after being ripped out of his head.
My problem with the movie was that Imhotep recoiled from cats. Why didn't they just all walk around with cats???
Yeah. First time I watched it- that what I thought. Just get more cats.
Load More Replies...Or did they? In Patrick McGilligan's book "Backstory 1: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age," for example, screenwriter Richard Maibaum recalls working with Alfred Hitchcock on Foreign Correspondent (1940). "I was writer number thirty ... primarily I rewrote the ... part of the old statesman who was kidnapped. (Hitchcock) said to me, 'Did you read what we've got?' Which was half a screenplay. I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'What do you think about it?' I replied, 'It's not very logical.' He grimaced and said, 'Oh, dear boy, don't be dull. I'm not interested in logic, I'm interested in effect. If the audience ever thinks about logic, it's on their way home after the show, and by that time, you see, they've paid for their tickets.'"
Thanos killed half of all living things because he thought resources weren't sufficient for everyone. With his godlike powers he could have just doubled those resources
with great power comes great responsibility, Thanos was not responsible
Load More Replies...The writers explained that it wasn't so much as him not thinking of doubling the resources. It's that he was so megalomaniacal that he thought his solution was the only viable solution, dead set on enacting it, and disregarding other possibilities. It doesn't cover all the bases, but it's their justification.
and there are many examples of people who won't hear any other opinion, so it's completely plausible.
Load More Replies...Well it would have been useless, eventually. As people would have reproduced and destroyed the planet 100x than normal speed. Killing people is easy but building world is not. More resources means less mind and less compassion. History shows how after every large disaster or pandemic there is better distribution of money and resources. That is why nature has the natural process to halt the unstoppable production of problems by humans. Disaster are responsible for the weeding out
World is enough for everyone's need, not enough for everyone's greed
Because if he just doubled the resources, we wouldnt have learned anything. We dont hold dear what we gain too easily.
what if earth was unable to produce that much resources? he would be snapping his fingers every day, plus the garbage build up?
Being a movie enthusiast, Naweezy said they asked the question simply out of curiosity. "I just love reading posts on movies and people's thoughts and opinions on them," they told Bored Panda, adding that even though they definitely are a fan of the late Roger Ebert, they haven't seen that review and came up with the angle for question themselves.
Clearly, a movie or TV show can have a plot hole and still be popular. But can it still be good? Naweezy said it depends. "Movies with plot holes can still be good but the plot holes need to be small and not affect the main storyline. It's not a good thing when a plot hole is the first thing you think of when remembering a movie or show."
If all Cinderella’s magically transfigured stuff goes back to normal at midnight (carriage back into a pumpkin, dress back to being all dirty and old) then why the prince walking around with a glass slipper for weeks afterward? Shouldn’t it have changed back into a normal dirty old shoe?
In the story I read, the fairy godmother transformed the dress, the carriage, the mice, yadda yadda yadda, then gives Cinderella the slippers afterwards so it was not a magically transfigured item, but a gift. In the version I read, Cinderella also kept the other slipper, and after the prince puts the first one on and it fits perfectly, she takes out the other one and puts it on too, further proving that she was the one at the ball.
I believe the shoes were created by the Fairy Godmother’s magic, so therefore would be permanent. Not 100% sure but I think I read that somewhere?
In the fairy tale is told that the shoes were gift from the Fairy. That's way they didn't transform into old shoes. (Excuse my English grammar)
Not a plot hole. It was meant to be that way so the Prince would find Cinderella.
Experts agree with that thought. They say that if a plot hole is so glaring that it takes the viewer out of the story, breaking the suspension of disbelief and causing harm to the enjoyment of the narrative, it matters. However, if it's just a minor discrepancy in the plot and doesn't break the experience, it's probably no big deal and can still be pleasant to the average audience member. So it's probably the size of the hole that determines whether or not it destroys the movie.
The aliens in the movie Signs melted when exposed to water. Why would you try to take over a planet that is covered in 75% water and where it rains on land regularly?
Yet we constantly scheme on how to colonize Mars, the Moon and space. None of them are atmospheres we can naturally live in unaided. The aliens can apparently survive for short periods in our atmosphere in Signs. Also you are applying human logic to a species that is not part of our evolutionary tree, which means its logic may not make sense to us at all.
Also, it literally pours rain from the skies on regular but unpredictable basis...
Load More Replies...There's a fan theory that they are not aliens, but demons You never see any advanced tech/machinery The 'water' that affects them has been poured by a priest and therefore 'holy water'
Oh of course, never thought of it as holy water! It would fit into the religious vibe of shaymalans movies.
Load More Replies...NOPE. They didn't react to the water. They reacted to bacteria in the water, as referenced in the dialogue.
if the aliens had gone to the UK... trust me, they'd be dead within the hour
Cause they have evolved so much that their body can't accept cheap water anymore. Only the most expensive bottled water will do.
Madagascar. They give Alex the Lion hell for eating animals. In the end, they give him sashimi as a substitute.
What, in a world of talking animals, fish aren't considered animals too?
In the world of talking animals it's vice-versa
Load More Replies...Weirdly, a lot of "vegetarians" don't consider fish to be animals either. Causes no end of problems for actual vegetarians who are often faced with a "vegetarian meal" of a tuna sandwich or some s**t.
Not everyone is a vegetarian / vegan for ethical purposes, sometimes it's for health, religion, family tradition, financial problem, culture, etc. By the end of the day, everybody's diet is their own business. So if someone wants to be a pescatarian, they totally can.
Load More Replies...Mickey Mouse has a pet dog and a dog who wear clothes as a friend...
Zootopia and SIng are also like this, there is even a store selling fish in zootopia
Zootopia only has mammals, i think, so they can eat fish
Load More Replies...Every musical ever when people start singing spontaneously, and everyone's cool with it. Start singing in my face at 9am on my way to work and I'll call the police.
Watch "The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals" on youtube from Starkid. Highly recommended
omg yaaaasssssss. one of my favorite musicals by Starkid
Load More Replies...I think songs in musicals are entertaining forms of external or internal dialogue.
Exactly, it’s dialogue, the music is solely for the audience.
Load More Replies...And let's not forget that EVERYBODY seems to know every song and dance numbers too, especially if the cool kids and nerds never even talk to each other ;)
One of my favourite movies but Interstellar. There's the one planet where the surface is water with huge waves and time moves much slower, so like 5 minutes on that planet is 2 years on earth (or something like that). Before going down, the scientists discuss how risky this is, as even if they go down to get the earlier astronaut and check the planet out for habitability, years will pass on earth while they're down there, and earth is running out of time. They are experts in this and they fully understand the time distortion on this planet caused by the black hole it orbits. HOWEVER, they decide to go anyways because the astronaut that went there to check it out has been sending positive signals about he environment and habitability of the planet for something like 12 years. So OMG we have to go if it's so good that she's been there that long and everything is good. Their only concern is about the amount of time that will pass on earth... After they land, they have this massive realization that it's just a bunch of shallow water with massive tidal waves every hour or so, and the astronaut they sent there 12 years ago actually just landed like 30 mins ago in her time because of the time distortion, and is dead. Then they are like "oh doh we've been getting positive signals for 12 years because for her it's only been 30 mins and she hadn't been hit by a wave and killed yet - this planet is bad". The entire rest of the plot is completely dependent on the fact that they get f**ked by this stop as the ship now has low fuel from orbiting the planet for like 15 years while the others were down there. So the entire movie rests on the idea that a group of the world's best physicists who had already identified and discussed the time distortion of the planet didn't connect that to the fact that the "12 years of good signals" actually means less than an hour of good signals because of that very time dilation.
Also the signals should be waaaay apart and also distorted, how come they received 12 years of signals instead of 30 minutes of signals spread over 12 years. The wave length would also be distorted.
This is discussed in the non theatrical cut....the RF frequencies "stretched" into the lowest end, thus getting through as gamma waves...which is also why there are no other species watching our TV shows contrary to popular belief...
Load More Replies...This bothered me so much I was asked to leave the theater. I immediately burst out, "Wait, if that's five minutes as two years, and she's sent messages for 12 years, do the math, she's been there half an hour, she doesn't know ANYthing yet!"....
A planet where it's all water? Is the name by chance 4546B(Planet Subnautica takes place on)
I have not seen the movie, but the ship orbiting that SAME planet should be affected by the same time distorsión.
There's alot' in that movie that doesn't add up. Here's one....McConaughey's character finally reunites with his daughter on her sick bed at the end. Her kids kids/grand kids come in say hi and don't even acknowledge their grandpa/great grandpa has come back from space and is now younger!? This is somehow not a topic of conversation or a quick convo' about time dialation? wtf man...lol.
There is more... How come they can leave this planet whis their small ship, when from Earth they need a huge rocket. Gravity is even stronger on this planet...
Why would the gravity be stronger on that planet? I don't remember them ever saying it was bigger or denser than earth?
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In every war movie a shell goes off 10 feet away from a soldier, he ducks and keeps running. In reality he'd be dead from the blast and shrapnel.
We know, just as we know about the handguns with 100 000 bullets and about the guy who got fatally wounded but yet manages to recite all of Shakespeare's sonnets and poems before drawing his last breath.
Yup, and how a bunch of TRAINED hitmen (think I spelled it right) can't even hit the protagonist or good guy ONCE because he's ducked behind a sofa or something... How strong is a sofa really?
Load More Replies...Not necessarily. Having read dozens of journals and memoirs from WW1 soldiers, the ground the shells impact has a huge effect. For instance, in WW1 like the image for this one, the ground was often muddy and had been shelled for years. If the shell had a percussion tip - so as to explode on impact, the shell would often bury itself under a meter of mud or so before detonating, essentially nullifying the shock wave. Also, not all shells were shrapnel. Shrapnel shells didn't explode on impact - they would detonate about 10 meters above the ground to better spread the shrapnel, meaning the shockwave wouldn't affect them either. There are also accounts of a squad being in a forward position (usually a big crater out in no mans land) that gets hit by a shell, killing some and sparing others. There's no hard and fast rules you can apply to for this.
nowadays a good quality artillery projectile can kill anyone with 200 metres if no obstacle comes in its way. And that just basic ones.
It also happens in every James Bond movie, every XXX movie, every Fast & Furious movie... S**t happens in movies.
No matter what, if you are getting hit by mortars you are going to run until they stop or they stop you.
Watch Jocko Willink's Youtube videos about war movies, totally recommended.
Obi Wan wants to hide Luke Skywalker from his father... so he gives him to his uncle and aunt, in their home planet, without changing his name, and he himself lives near the kid while not changing his own surname.
I hear it’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere
Load More Replies...Obiwan changed his name to Ben. Who says they were actually his aunt an Uncle in the related sense? Anakin lived with just his mother and had no family.
Anakin's mother married the father or Owen Lars.
Load More Replies...Hide in plain site. Obi Wan was counting on Darth Vader thinking he would have some elaborate hiding place, not right in front of his face.
In Liar, Liar, Jennifer Tilly's character gets her way in the divorce despite cheating because she lied about her age, therefore making the prenup null and void. However, this would also nullify the entire marriage, entitling her to nothing.
Legal Eagle talked about this and why in the real world the prenup and marriage may not have been invalidated. https://youtu.be/2Pt51e3U7IY?t=1030
Tell that to the many single mothers I know for whom the opposite is true.
Load More Replies...Nullifying the marriage would be a separate case. The case portrayed in the movie would still be won. The husband would need another case to deal with everything else.
If the marriage were invalid, she wouldn't need to sue for custody of the children though, because unmarried women have custody of their own children... no?
Age of consent in some places to get married is under 18 though
That track would have been absolutely [screwed] with no maintenance in minus degrees. The rail companies in England can't even manage to run a full service when there's a wet leaf somewhere on the track.
All works fine at -15 Celsius WITH regular maintenance.
Load More Replies...Netherlands: It's summer the tracks are deforming from the heath, trains won't be running. It's autumn, there are leaves on the track, trains won't be running. It's winter, there snow on the tracks, trains won't be running. It's spring, we have some problems with our tracks, trains won't be running.
As a German joke puts it: What are the greatest enemies of the Deutsche Bahn (German railway)? Spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Load More Replies...British railways are not adapted to extremes in weather because such events are so exceedingly rare in the UK that the cost of adapting them for a once in a lifetime event is a massive loss.
Come to Austria where everything works at least reasonably fine at -15°C and below.
[Any film where someone dresses up in a work uniform to go undercover in a place of work.] Does nobody notice a totally new guy wandering around doing things they shouldn't be doing? Do you not recognise the people who you work with every single day? And does nobody think "hey, wasn't bob supposed to be in today? He's 2 hours late and nobody has let us know if his shift is being covered"
You could totally go undercover at big box stores. I've seen some big screen tvs get stolen that way. No one blinked an eye
Exactly, you just need to know where to go and how to act. Act like you belong and nobody will ask serious questions for a suspiciously long time.
Load More Replies...Where I work, you definitely wouldn't notice. A lot of places, corporate spots particularly, there's too many people trying to get ahead and step on everyone else to notice that the world exists around them. Another janitor, or delivery guy, or maintenance person wouldn't be noticed at all, probably not even after the ne'er-do-well handled his business. Alarms and all.
This statement just ignores how blind people are. Dancing gorilla anyone?
Depends on how big the company is. I work in a large hospital and I promise you, no one would notice.
No, because people see what they expect to see. The best camouflage in the world is a hardhat, a hi-vis safety vest, a clipboard, and an officious attitude.
Had a guy try to fall into ranks with the National Guard some months back. They sure noticed!
the only movie i know that fixes this problem is harry potter with polyjuice potion
If it's a large place of work, with several locations, (like a retail chain) then no, people might not notice a random new guy, especially if it's around the time of year when workers are taking turns using their vacation time. Every summer I encounter two or three strangers when my co-workers take vacation time, because those strangers/co-workers were "borrowed" from another location in the chain. If the Boss doesn't seem to be worried, nobody else is going to say anything.
Peter takes a small sample of the symbiote to one of his college professors so he can get a better idea of what it is. The professor looks at it under a microscope and says "It's definitely alien. I wouldn't let any of this stuff touch you.". That's it? Proof of alien life brought to you by one of your students and your only takeaway is "Don't touch it"? That's f***ing insane.
hm proof of alien life that should probably go to the government, you know what, ill give it to this random college student
Please explain what a "symbiote" is? I havent seen any of the older spiderman movies and i havent seen "venom"
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Every Christmas movie where no one believes in Santa but then it turns out Santa does exist. Like, who did they think was putting presents under the Christmas tree? If Santa is real then it wasn’t them.
I just found a box with all my lost teeth inside it in my mom's closet-
I love Christmas movies but yes I’ve always wondered this. So he only goes to the houses where they believe in him? Like where the kids believe in him ? So where do the parents think these presents are randomly coming from? Is it like a magic spell that’s put on them when Santa brings the presents and the parents think they actually bought all the presents ?!
Jurassic World They see scratches on the wall and heat detection cameras don't pick it up so they just jump to the conclusion it escaped and enter the paddock before exploring all other avenues to check if it has escaped Are we really supposed to believe 1 minimum wage security guard is responsible for keeping watch on the paddock? A multi million dollar genetically engineered dinosaur and all they have they have is 1 security guard........cmon Let's say it has escaped, its bigger than a T-Rex, your telling me that thing jumped off a 60ft wall and there was literally not one single person in the area to notice
More importantly, why did the big door opened directly on the rest of the park? In zoos, there is generally a sas. If the animal gets through the first door, it's still blocked by the second door which is not opened until the animal is back in their pen, with the first door closed. Furthermore, we're talking about a very large animal, so adding a human sized door would be a nice thing to avoid something like, say, a panicking moron opening the only large door of the pen to escape and letting the dinosaur out.
Why was there only one giant doorway in? Why not have a regular door? Makes no sense.
As a common theme in all the films, human over-dependence on technology was the point. Max automation, minimum human activity.
If that was true, they wouldn't have sent people into the pen to look for the dinosaur first, and checked the tracker second.
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Shrek 2 - How does a donkey [make love to] a dragon?
As for procreation, dragon lays eggs, donkey fertilizes eggs. As for love making, sex is not necessary for that.
In Black Panther, when he falls into the water, he gets pulled out by a fisherman from the northern tribe, later on the movie, the leader of the tribe says that they are all vegetarians. They are also completely isolated, and don't trade. Why do they have a fisherman?
whoever eats fish shouldn't call themselves vegetarian, its like saying I am afraid of amphibians but I like 'frogs'.
Many vegetarians eat fish, actually. It's vegans who are strict about everything. Vegetarianism has fluid boundaries, by comparison ;)
Load More Replies...I don’t remember how cold and barren the northern tribes environment was, but as far as I know basically all Arctic societies eat meat. They need the fats. Where would they get meat? From the sea. I grew up in alaska and all the native communities I learned about or interacted with ate almost exclusively meat
I dont understand the science behind zombies. Sure i can go along with the dead waking up eating others for sustenance. But why don't they dry out? Why don't the characters move to the artic where the dead would freeze or the desert where they would dry out. Why can't they out run them ? Why do they always twist their ankle while running away ? The zombies at the very least should dry out and reanimate when it rains and surely due to evolution the only people left would have really robust ankles that don't easily sprain as they would be more likely to survive ?
i think this question is too general. What kind of zombies? What caused their undeadness?
If it were the T-Virus, then the zombies should still have to worry about freezing and drying out. Because it's just a virus, it still needs livable conditions. Right?
Load More Replies...To ask about the science behind zombies is like asking why one isn't required to have an IQ above 70 to be president.
I have always thought a Zombie apocalypse would be easy to stop if it happened in the real world. The way people are responding to the Covid pandemic makes me sure it would succeed.
I wouldn't be surprised if people just start running towards the zombies screaming "they're not real!!!!1" or be like, "why are you violating my RIGHT to befriend a zombie????"
Load More Replies...That's why zombie outbreaks don't scare me. Sunshine? They'll rot. Cold? They'll still rot, just more slowly. Below freezing? Freezer burn and stiffness. Besides, don't forget the living creatures. Flies would love them, dogs would have a field day.
Max Brooks covers the freezing of zombies in his World War Z book. Part of the problem is the same reason deserts and frozen ground are inhospitable to zombies, they're also inhospitable to humans. Can't get water to grow crops in deserts and ice precludes the same. Whatever "virus" reanimates them also keeps them alive in other climates.
Movie Zombies are not scientific, we must assume "magical" or at least "beyond our comprehension" mechanisms to explain them.
The whole Zombie lore is utter non sense. So no point getting logical or scientific about it
Nope, way too much fun imagining it happening. I read an article that was put out that the best way for people to prepare for a 'sudden bad event' was to prepare as if for a zombie apocalypse as you would take the exact same measures for survival.
Load More Replies...They would keep rotting and fall apart, eventually there wouldn't be as many. Too many "zombie franchises" treat them as dead in stasis.
Why don't zombies eat each other? To perambulate they have to have a brain and blood etc. Why aren't they taken advantage of a meal that is numerous and slow moving?
I don't understand why , if every thing else is rotten, how come they still have teeth to bite and tear? Plus, their tongues would be one of the first things to rot out, too, how do they make any sound at all?
Doesn't matter if their tongues fall out. Sound comes from the throat.
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Thanos destroying the stones in Endgame makes ZERO sense, because his logic was that "he did it so that his 50/50 snap can't be undone by anyone", but the universe's population will normalize to the previous amount in just a century or so (which is NOTHING to Thanos, considering he is over 1500 years old).
Fun fact: Earth's population in 1920 was 1.9bil. Today (100 years later), it's over 7bil. So snapping earth's population to 50% would normalize back to over 7bil in less than 50years.
My thoughts exactly. Maybe he thought people would be more careful afterwards. Still it's 2020 and we've learned how reasonable people really are. If wearing a mask is a thing then using a condom won't work either. 😂
He really should have snapped and made so that the population only could be by a specific a number or until planet could be sustainable or the level of population etc etc.
Load More Replies...It wasn't just humans he snapped away. It was literally 50% of all life. That's why in Endgame they showed the scene with the birds returning. Also, someone in the reddit thread mentions that it was possible more than 50% casualty occurred due to possible factors of pilots and drivers being dusted.
The writer have pointed out that the Infinity Gauntlet could easily be used to solve resource issues without all the killing. The issue is more that Thanos is projecting his peoples' rejection of him and his ideals. He's trying to prove himself right and is completely delusional of the full ramifications of what he's actually doing.
In the original he falls in love with lady death. After he gets the stones she (not being interested) tells him to kill half of life as a tribute to her. and he can't figure out why she is pissed. Lol
Given that he cut by half the genetic pool I guess we would take maybe 100 years? XD
This is a great thing to point out but i think it's solved by realizing Thanos' plan was never to balance things, he just wanted to be an egomaniacal mass murderer and found a flimsy rational to hide behind. He also could have just used the stones to provide infinite resources to a growing population, but he never even explores this option.
Lily and James could have been their own secret keepers. Thus removing the need to use Wormtail and give away their position to Voldemort Most likely saving the potters lives.
Peter Pettigrew was also around for a few years while the Weasley twins had the Marauder's map. He should have been visible. Ron was sleeping with a man every night and Fred and George were silent about it.
Veritas Serum exists. Should have been extremely useful in discovering who the death eaters were after the first fall of Voldemort.
Unbreakable vows and time turners are also universe breaking magics.
Only question the first two statements: Firstly, want to point out that if Lily and James were the only secret keepers they'd have been totally isolated from their friends and unable to leave their home for anything. They were being hunted by Voldemort and couldn't exactly go out and about their daily lives. Secondly, the twins had been using the map in the years before Ron came to Hogwarts. So isn't it possible that they just memorized their favorite secret routes and didn't need the map too much? Also, they probably weren't too focused on their younger brother and they definitely would not have known who Peter Pettigrew was. For all they knew it was some clingy student in Ron's dormitory.
I will point out though, if a time turner was used to save Harry's parents, wouldn't there be no point to the whole series? Voldemort would not have died and remained in power. The Potters would have been living in fear all the time.
Load More Replies...its a 2D map, so if Ron was sleeping with a man it could have been on a floor above or below said man
Actually you can’t see an animagus on the map when they’re in animal form unless you know they’re an animagus (like Lupin did, which was why he could see Petigrew)
I always thought that maybe only the Marauders could see each other on the map. In the movie that wouldn't make sense coz Harry saw Pettigrew, but that didn't happen in the books. The only person who saw Pettigrew on the map was Lupin
Load More Replies...I m thinking Veritas is like polygraph test, not very reliable. But more importantly. After every war a lot of people go free by cutting a deal or bribery . All the prominent and violent supporters did get nabbed. Ppl like Lucius got away d/t money and influence. Yes a lot could have been done better but Veritas is made from rare materials and is hard to come by ,and voldemort was cautious and worked from shadows and used fear and imperius curse. There were likely thousands of people who needed to be tested ,not to mention a lot of people had gone lax d/t new found freedom. They just wanted it done with.
1) Strangely enough, the canon does state that they could be their own secret keepers. It would have isolated them though, even more than they already were isolated. Dumbledore did do one thing right in those books and offered to be their secret keeper, but they refused. 2) Simple - the twins stated that they had memorised the map long before and only ever used it to look for Filch. Also why would they be spying on their brother in bed? Ew. 3) Veritaserum can be resisted, it can also be fooled by memory charms and imperious curse. It also affected different people differently so it was illegal to use as it breeched fair trial. 4) Yes and she regrets making them.
The truth is that JK isn't that great of a world builder with her writing. She started out with books that had light hearted whimsy in them, and they kind of folded it all together into something deeper and darker, without really mentioning or clearing it up. Like at one point in one of the first 3 books, there's a throwaway line about Hermione "vanishing kittens"! References to animal transmogrification are made throughout the books with no explanation or consequences- hedgehogs are an endangered species and you're gonna turn them into pincushions? Are they alive and trapped as a pincushion or does it kill them? Does it wear off? That dog that Cedric makes out of a rock to distract his dragon- is that a real dog? So now someone has to look after a dog for 8 years? These things bothered me when I was 11 and they bother me now at 30
But instead of mentioning actual plotholes, they mentioned things that have been answered by the books. The first three points have full explanations.
Load More Replies...Come on. Harry Potter's literary saga stinks from the fourth book on. Bad movie scripts only. No sense in no book.
The Marauders map shows last names, too. Fred and George probably should have recognized the name Peter Pettigrew
Load More Replies...R2-D2. This droid is like 50 years old by the time we get to the end of the Skywalker saga, and yet at no point has he become obsolete or incompatible with anything he runs into. We can see the development of technology throughout the series and across several vastly different civilizations and cultures. Doesn't matter, R2 and his Magic Hacker Wand can get through any locked door or security protocol.
3CPO was just as old, and the Rebels werent rolling in money so a lot of their ships were out dated. The Millenium Falcon was supposed to be old and shitty
R2 is obsolete. He's not incompatible because everything is standardised, and he's a basic standardising astromech.
I mean, technology may move, but you can't use a 3.75 floppy dish without a floppy drive to accommodate. The fact that the plans for the Death Star were on operating technology then, and that Luke's whereabouts were stored there would be the same thing. Need an amiga to play amiga games, no two ways about it.
R2D2 has a self -updating programme which keeps him from becoming obsolete, no matter time elapsed. See R.Daneel Olivaw on Asimov's sagas, and the way he constantly updates himself.
The remake of star wars series does not exist to me. Too many plot holes, it never ONCE followed the original plot, never even kept it's own plot, and why would Kylo Ren NOT DIE ALREADY??? He "died" like 30 times throughout the remake series! The whole series shames and contradicts everything in the original.......
The parents deciding to each take one twin to raise on different continents and never talk to each other again.
Well, it's actually a children's book written in 1940ies. In the book they weren't on different continents, but i guess, at that times, you could more or less do with your kids as you pleased :D
I grew up with a girl who as far as she was concerned was only child and that her dad had walked out when her mum was pregnant ... Until she was 20 odds and her older by one year sister found her on Facebook. No f*****g s**t her mum took her and her dad took her sister! They look like bloody twins so if they had ever banged into each other it would have been immediately obvious
If Buzz-Lightyear thinks he's real and not a toy, then why is he motionless and pretending to not be alive, like all the other toys, when Andy plays with him? Wouldn't he think Andy is some sort of giant alien monster? Woody might have explained to him they they need to remain still or something, but we never get an explanation
I don't think he has a choice. People have pointed this out for a while and I just think toys involuntarily do that in the Toy Story universe.
no because if that was the case, the whole scene where they scare Sid (the mean next door neighbor) wouldn't be possible... so yeah, just a doughnut shaped plot device
Load More Replies...Under Star Command regulations he is not initiate contact until authorized
It’s because he thinks he is on an alien planet and he copies the “aliens” in order to survive from the “bigger aliens”
Buzz IS A TOY. He may pretend to be alive while with peers, but always remains a toy. That's the magic of the story.
He does also think he's a space traveller on an alien planet. He could just be trying to observe the native customs. After all, when in Rome...
I asked my aunt, the mother of a toy story loving 3 year old, why this happens. She replied with "I don't know, common sense?"
That in a galaxy, far far away, a long time ago, various spacefaring, technologically advanced races can't secure anything. You pretty much stroll into an enemy base, your droid just plugs in to any port and can download anything. No access control, no alarms, CCTV only when it's useful to the plot. Once you've got what you want, stroll out and take an enemy ship. Again, no access control, locking doors, anything.
The major issue this seems to be pointing out is that the empire are using older tech that is standardised, which is unsurprising given that 20 years isn't enough time to R&D such let alone replace everything. What if they did manage though, to make it so everything wasn't so standardised so no R2 break ins or hiding as a stormtrooper? Defectors were hiding throughout the empire so just use one of them for access unquestioned, or t obtain and reprogram an updaed or new droid.
When you only have 19 years to work on things after a horrific and devastating civil war, in addition to localised fights erupting across the entire galaxy for the entire time, and your entire R&D budget going into a huge slow weapon that gets wrecked twice, other stuff is going to fall by the wayside. It's kinda why the Rebellion won.
Load More Replies...I'm not sure i would trust the technology of a species who can't seem to create fine fabric or better fasteners than a belt. Everyone seems to be walking around with burlap capes but then pulling out lasers to kill people. *yes I know what they are called but they are basically lasers* And with so many robots, why would there be a need for humanoid slaves? Surely a robot that never ate, slept or pooped would be vastly superior to a person that would continue costing more money to feed & bed? Last rant, why would Ani revere the Jedis when they couldn't be bothered to come up with a few more coins or mind tricks to buy his mother? And why would the dickhead not just buy his mother anyway? He was what, 4-5 years old! He was a baby! Movies I to III were s**t anyway. Should have just left it where it was....
Communications sounded like cheap short wave radios or walkie-talkies. Radio contact should have been so clear that it would sound like they were next to you . . . and what's with all the noise of the fighters in space? It's a vacuum . . . no sound!
When I realized that, I found it harder to enjoy the "Star Wars" movies. And this isn't even the biggest plot hole!
House elves are insanely powerful magical beings... when they join the Battle of Hogwarts they use knives.
Better question, could a house elf do laundry? Really want to know.
No. House elves are freed when given clothes by their masters, wether the master meant it or not. So by giving a house elf laundry you would be freeing them.
Load More Replies...They may have somehow had their powers limited during the year. Also they have been ordered not to use their powers by Snape (the headmaster) against anyone. If he didn't mention knives, then they can go nuts
I have a theory: what if house elf’s magic is restricted wile enslaved? Especially towards their masters and their masters allies. Only free elves can use the whole of there magic.
Load More Replies...Again, Rawlings stole ideas from everywhere, and didn't care to use them well.
Knives ate quicker and a definite hit and kill whereas a spell might go wrongc or be deflected. 🙂🙂
also, I'll never understand how a powerful being as such could be kept as slaves. I mean why don't they just zap the wizards enslaving them, tell them to do their own damned dishes, and leave?
That's all in the goblet of fire and onwards, like hermiones s.p.e.w. organisation, it's like banging her head against a brick wall trying to understand the house elves: they see being paid as offensive, and seemingly want nothing more than to look after wizards. Dobby is a rare exception. Perhaps just years of brainwashing etc but Hermione is relentless, the house elves end up banning her from the kitchens after she gets frustrated and tells them they have rights
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Daenerys Targaryen forgetting about the Iron Fleet. I’ll never understand the rush to finish that season.
There was nothing good in that season. They need to just remake this whole season. One of the worse travesty on screen.
Daenerys's entire military strategy was stupid from the onset. She had a huge Calvary, air support (the Dragons), a good sized navy, and a good sizeable infantry force. Plus reserve troops in Essos. I mean come on, if she had better military consul she would have won easily.
The most stupid season of GOT. Nonsense after nonsense. Only possible reason is "Danaerys got insane in this very moment". Bad pretext. You can't justify everything with sudden madness or waking up from a bad dream. Bad literature, bad movie.
Also, she is flying above the water and doesn't happen to see a huge fleet of ships coming? Is she blind?
The showrunners were bored with GoT and wanted to concentrate on other projects. Something I will never forgive them for.
In Supernatural, it’s mentioned that demons react negatively to the word Christo, but the word is never mentioned again after that episode.
So in The Ring (original or remake) you sort of subvert the curse by making a copy of the tape. What happens when VHS tapes are no longer viable? Does Sadako make the jump to digital at some point and start sending out DVDs? Even then not everyone has a DVD burner so that doesn’t seem very smart. Did the curse migrate to Limewire downloads in the early 2000s and now you get freed from it by adding a new torrent seed? Was there an awkward period sometime in the early 90s where there were cursed laser discs floating around?
More important question, who would win in a fight, King Kong, or Samara coming through a Jumbotron to kill someone.
Voldemort went through so much trouble to get Harry into the Wizarding World Cup or whatever. Helped him win. Killed other students. All so Harry could touch a port key at the end of the final event. Why didn’t he just like, turn his pillow into a port key?
Portkeys don't usually work at Hogwarts, I think. Any Potterheads know for sure?
Only the headmaster has the ability to create portkeys in Hogwarts, the quidditch pitch is outside the boundaries The plan revolved around two parts 1-Harry to appear to die via the Triwiard task three 2- To get him away from Hogwarts to complete the ritual of Voldemorts resurrection Voldemorts second rise to power was planned on the basis that no-one knew he was back
Load More Replies...The plan was an elaborate scheme to keep Dumbledore from suspecting something was up and get Harry away from Hogwarts protections.
Because then all of Hogwarts would be like “What the hell? Where’d Harry go?” Then there would be a big search for him and yada yada yada.
Voldemort is an ass#le of evil wizard/spirit/demon and Harry Potter is a stupid resentful teenager with a stupid vain father who did nothing for him. Snape's character was wasted all along the eight movies. Bad characters, with bad backgrounds. Hermione appears to be sprouted from a mushroom, her parents being just a postcard.
He wasn't that powerful yet and he couldn't get into magic school.
All these theories are clearly made up by people who have never tried to kill someone and make it look like an accident
Hogwarts has a number of protective spells and charms set up around the school grounds to prevent such things from happening.
How in Harry Potter, the wizards are so clueless about the Muggle world when they literally lived in it. Also, how this is a magical world where there must be thousands if not millions of spells, yet in the Battle for Hogwarts, the students only knew how to use Expelliarmus... When this is one of the first spells that they learned, revealing that Hogwarts does not prepare the students well. Magic can only be done with a wand...
Harry Potter has done magic without a wand, such as disappearing the glass in book one and blowing up the aunt like a balloon in one of the later novels. I think the logic for the wand is to focus the magic and control it. A lightning rod for magic, if you like.
Agreed, it acts like lens. Any wizard can do wandless magic but it would unpredictable and dangerous
Load More Replies...Wizards have lived in isolation from the Muggle world for centuries. Even if they share the same planet their worlds rarely intersected. They see no need to learn about Muggle world because they have the convenience of Magic to do everything for them.
If you'd read any of the books you'd learn that most magical families would live nearby muggle villages & towns but not actively mix with them as, especially with young kids, the risk of discovery is too high. The students knew more than Expelliarmus, especially those in Dumbledore's army (Harry literally teaches them all the other defensive spells he's able to) and don't forget that there was a year where Umbridge made all Defence Against the Dark Arts classes theory only, so some may have had gaps in knowledge thanks to that. And as another commenter points out, magic can be done with or without wands, even with or without speaking, it's just a more refined way of casting a spell with a wand.
But they don't live in muggle world. The magical world exist side by side. They have their own hospital government and shopping centers and everything. It's like not knowing about a different country. D/t internet I know a lot ABT diff culture but I don't know deeply or how things work coz I don't actually live there. A lot of appliances used in Japan or usa won't make sense to me.even when I m not used to working with only magic as they r. For them it's like we r different species evolving side by side. They just don't have the use of those things. As for the 2nd there is a rule of 80/20. U always use the 20% of things 80% of time. They r not trained in combat in school coz it's not middle ages. They only know the defence arts not actually how to summon the dark arts as the death eaters, besides they r kids. U passed out of school that doesn't mean u remember evry detail u were ever told. This post is BS
the thing i'm confused about is them wearing "muggle" clothes in the movies. in the book, they only wear robes.
Films were really annoying for that. In Goblet of Fire there is a scene at the Quidditch tourney of a wizard trying to convince an older wizard to put on trousers to blend in, and the older wizard didn't even know what trousers were.
Load More Replies...There's numerous examples of wandless magic being used, most notably Dumbledore saving Harry when he fell during the quidditch match in Book 3. Mad-Eye One of the wizarding schools, Uagadou (Ugandan school), was well known for not using wands and its students would instead point their finger or use gestures. Wandless magic requires a great amount of skill, and without a wand, spells could sometimes turn volatile and chaotic since there is no wand to act as a focus.
Ok, there’s lots of plot holes in Harry Potter, but I will explain this one using examples. I lived in a predominantly white suburb, but where I worked for ten years was mostly Chinese. I could tell you that when invited to their house, I’d take off my shoes, asked if I’ve eaten, be fed noodle soup etc, but I could never identify everything on their bookshelf, my understanding of their history was academic only, and there were many traditions that I couldn’t just pick up on. I never learnt to speak either langue, even though I was surrounded by them every day.i feel like this would have been the same with the wizarding world. They passed them on the street, they were immersed in their language, but because their work place was magical, and their home life was magical, there would have been no chance to learn. Now, imagine that I had to pretend every time I hung out with my coworkers that I wasn’t European. I’d learn even less because I’d avoid as much interaction as posssible.
Those that do live in it isolate themselves - the whole wizards understanding that their isolationism is bad for them is a major theme of the series. Te students are prepared for defence, not war. Wandless magic is possible and demonstrated throughout the series.
Every zombie film where the zombies don't disappear completely after a few weeks when they get eaten by much stronger wild animals and when they're bodies deteriorate to the point they have no tendons or muscles and therefore literally no way to f**king move.
28 Days Later. The Major specifically says he's keeping one of the infected to see how long it would take to starve and die. Also near the end of the movie you see a couple of infected laying in the street very close to death. Alright, technically not zombies or undead in this movie, but you get my point.
If that doesn't happen, keep in mind the US president takes no responsibility. So yeah build your own levy.
Load More Replies...My biggest problem is with logistics in the movies. Like one of the planet of the apes sequels. The apes get attacked by the last of humanity, men using these attack helicopters. And I'm sitting there thinking: Does anyone realize how many humans it takes to keep military helicopters flying?
BE is a movie badly in need ot an MST3K treatment.
Load More Replies...In Spider-Man 2002, Green Goblin throws a device at the festival that immediately disintegrates several people. It is an instant kill device that he NEVER uses again. If it's something he can only use once, why wouldn't he save it for a bigger threat like Spider-Man?
How did Tarzan (in the Disney version) know how to say his own name in English, when the gorillas would’ve named him in gorilla-ese?
Also, if the people who taught him to speak English are British, why does he have a U.S. acent?
Because it is Disney so it doesn't need to make any sense.
Load More Replies...How do we know that the name Tarzan isn't a Human-ized name from Gorilla-ese?
Considering real life feral children? He was taken in as a baby, he shouldn’t have know his name much less been able to speak. At most he would have been able to emulate the gorillas around him but another point, if he was raised by apes, he wouldn’t have had any human behaviours at all!
It's worse in the original novel. When Tarzan (gorilla-speech) finds his parents' cabin he (somehow) teaches himself to read and write (but not speak) English, and the person who taught Tarzan to speak (Paul d'Arnot) taught him to speak (but not read nor write) French; he is never taught how to pronounce the written word. When Tarzan writes a letter (in English) to Jane, he (somehow) knows how to spell "Tarzan".
In Now You See Me 2, why and how did the FBI have any jurisdiction in London. Wouldn't that be more of an Interpol thing? But character continuity right?
The 2011 film Limitless - a pill makes Bradley Cooper smart enough to predict the stock market, but apparently not smart enough to count how many pills he has left or consider what happens when he runs out
Been a while but I seem to remember he did consider this, actually set up his own lab to produce an even better pill.
Really liked that series I was sad to find out it was over.
Load More Replies...Well it could probably that he was hyper focused on making money and didn't really think of other things like the pills, the debt to the loan shark, or side effects.
McGonagall in Fantastic Beasts 2. In 1927, she wasn't even born yet. She couldn't have been teaching at the school.
I would upvote this , like 10 times if I could. Excellent point!
Load More Replies...Yes. Plus, in the first or second movie, you may remember seeing McGonagall's quidditch award in the trophy case being from 1971...
In Alien: Covenant, they discover this planet which never showed up on their sensors and they did not vet...yet they decide it would be a great idea to walk around without helmets as soon as they land. They even talk about spending YEARS preparing to live on the planet they originally picked, but this one they decided after 2 weeks "wE dOn'T NeEd hAzArD PrOtEcTiOn" Of course you're going to get infected with alien spores you idiots!
This is discussed in the film. The previously undocumented planet had a perfect earth-like atmosphere. The intended colony planet did not. The real plot hole is that the undocumented planet, which was actually a moon around a gas giant just like in the original film, already had a "LV" designation on the screens, as did the other planetary bodies....meaning it was not undocumented.
Why doesn’t the pelican save all the fish (in his beak) from the Dentist’s waiting room in Finding Nemo? The lid is always off. He could save them anytime.
C3PO, human cyborg relations, is fluent in over 8 million forms of communication and, in fact, was built on Tatooine, yet doesn't speak Jawa?
He got his logic circuit from the boy who became the man who thought becoming the Evil Incarnate's henchman was a good idea. At this point, C3PO should be glad he doesn't rattle as he walks.
“I am fluent in over 8 million forms of communication and cringe!” “What do you mean?” “This is pod racing, from my point of view the jedi are evil, I hate sand.”
Load More Replies...Are we talking Jawaese (which he can't speak and nor can any non-Jawa) o Jawa Trade Language (which he can)? Also Jawas understand Basic so you don't have to speak to them in Jawa Trade Language, thy just can't speak Basic themslves.
Then perhaps Jawa is the most obscure, rarest and/or unpopular language in the SW universe.
Lots of languages that droids can't speak - Jawaese is one, another example of one would be Lek (Twi'lek lekku language).
Load More Replies...Ocean's 11. During the blackout scene, there is mad chaos in the casino. People stealing chips and just mass hysteria. Then the team goes to steal the money during the blackout. Afterwards, the lights are back on, and as they walk out of the casino, people in the background act like nothing has happened. No hysteria, just a normal casino with people gambling in a fun and jovial manner.
I am pretty sure that they were calmed down before they come out holding the money, there had to have been at least a good twenty minutes between the power coming back on and them coming out...
There are so many plot holes in that movie. I could list at least 5 huge ones. For me it makes the whole movie unenjoyable because it is supposed to be a smart movie about smart people.
Personally, I think that even with the huge plot holes, it was still amusing, just in a more fictional way
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In Disney’s Tangled the mother kept Rapunzel’s birthday the same, so the Festival of Lights always happened on her birthday.
This led to her curiosity and her leaving.
Ok, strange fan theory here, but what if mother Gothel is the mother of the Sanderson sisters from Hocus Pocus. She fits the description, is also obsessed with being young forever, and, if you go back into her history, she comes from a family line of powerful witches that valued three children. The timeline would work, and they both appear to use similar types of magic.
Lol, then when would the rejuvenating spell go from Enchanted flower/hair to killing children?
Load More Replies...I have a different problem with the timing. Rapunzel is shown focussing on a mobile above her crib. Something an hours old newborn would not be able to do. Plus, her mother had such a traumatic pregnancy and labour that she needed a magic flower just to survive, she would not be in any position to get up and send lanterns into the sky the same day. The lanterns were to celebrate Rapunzel's birthday, and later to mark the anniversary of her kidnapping, that does not automatically mean it's the same day. Rapunzel had probably been 18 for about a fortnight before the start of the main plot.
Prometheus. First they descend upon a planet and seemingly by chance instantly find the place they're looking for. A bit later the cartographer gets lost. People on the bridge can't direct him back over the radio although they have a perfect holgraphic map of the entire site and everyones position in the background of the shot. Then the expert biologist and physicists decide to take off their helmets in an unknown atmosphere and opt to touch some alien-looking slime with their bare hands just for fun. Worst part is I could go on.
Yeah same it's a good rewatch movie. The beginning scene is a great opening, and the engineers are oddly fascinating.
Load More Replies...I would have preferred "Species" (MGM: 1995) as a prequel to "Alien" (20C Fox). Both stories begin with the reception and translation of an alien language connected to Gigeresque biomechanoids; maybe the reason the company had the Nostromo react to the signal on LV-426 because all company ships were programmed to react to the same language it received in the 20th century.
Its not like we don't have our own Maskless wandering around, sampling with their snoots to see if the air is safe....maybe they are their society's dum-dums?
In the final episode of GoT Tyrion is put on trial for murder, yet this somehow turns into choosing the next king of Westeros. Imagine if during the OJ Simpson trial, Simpson chose who the next president of the United States would be and everybody was okay with that.
In Batman Begins, during his initiation into the League of Shadows Bruce Wayne refuses to kill the man that was sentenced to death. During the resulting fight with Ras al-Ghul and the League, he blows up the League hideout, resulting (likely) in dozens of deaths, including the he man he refused to execute.
If Dr. Strange could do that portal thingy for that epic entrance... What's up with him and Stark worrying about not being able to return to earth while in orbit towards the planet where they fought Thanos.
He may never have tried such a long jump, also he may not be able to create a portal on a moving ship
Yes, the ship was moving, and should have been moving pretty fast.
Load More Replies...He was out of teleportation juice, could only make on jump, maybe?
In Friends Joey & Chandler watch "Die Hard" and refer to it as their favourite movie.
In later seasons, Rachel dates Paul who is played by Bruce Willis.
Despite it being their favourite movie they never thought of mentioning that Paul looked like Bruce Willis.
If I'm not mistaken, it was already a wig at that time.
Load More Replies...Isn't the best example of this Bridget Jones's Diary? With Colin Firth playing Mark Darcy but who also plays Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice yet he is the subject of much lusting after in the book (can't remember if so much is made of it in the film or if it gets played down).
because Bruce Willis is an Actor and he was acting as a character in a TV show and just cause he looks like Bruce Willis to the audience his FICTIONAL CHARACTER obviously doesn't look like Bruce Willis to the other FICTIONAL CHARACTERS in the TV show . Unless of course they want to use it as a laugh as done in other shows.
Mission Impossible 2. The guy is trying to create a cure to all flus. To do this he has to invent super-duper flu. He does and he invents a cure. Then they destroy the cure even though it cures all flus? WTF?
Well, i mean, its a freaking movie, its not true!
Load More Replies...The cure may contain fragments of the initial disease, therefore is too dangerous to keep. Since it has been shown can be stolen
MI 2 has many continuity errors. Tyres change on bikes mid jump, things destroyed by gunfire reappear in the next shot and so on.
All of Ant-Mans powers. In the 1st Ant-Man movie, Pym says that when you shrink you maintain your same weight. This is all fine and good, and it explains why he can still punch people, until you realize that means Pym was carrying a 30 ton TANK in his pocket the entire movie. Like what the heck? And you can’t even say that it’s only the suit that maintains weight, because in Endgame there’s a scene where Scott grows and then punches one the Chitauri whales strait into the ground. I understand why they said it maintains weight, but just make them escape the building without a tank. It’s like they wanted there to be a plot hole
The Atom, a DC character, can adjust size and weigh with a control on each arm, and I just say Ant-Man can to.
But then the interior would not exist, and the enemy could just gather around it and pick it up.
Load More Replies...I don't know about all this mass and weight and density stuff. All I know is the more I weigh bigger m'ass gets.
The Ant-Man films are full of these (full mass of man can fly on flying ants, Thomas the Tank Engine crashes through wall etc) - they simply go with whatever makes for the best action at the time - best to suspend any scientific scrutiny and just enjoy the fun!
In Futurama, there's an episode where Frye pays an ungodly sum for the last can of anchovies on earth, but in a later episode, (the one where they all go fishing) they had a large bucket of anchovies they were using as bait.
I'm astonished someone actually is searching for seriousness in this, amazing, cartoon
Right? Like the whole thing is fantasy/sci-fi, so who cares about this little detail?
Load More Replies...Those little fishies were disgusting and I don't even have taste buds.
Frozen - why would Elsa's family not just travel with her to the wild or at least her father on a "future ruler" trip to alow her to practice and harness her powers in secrecy?
This person clearly never saw frozen 2. They didn’t want her to know where they were going, and they most likely knew it would be dangerous.
But also the fact that Elsa seemed to cross the sea in which her parents died in, in like a few hours. I don't see how a horse (magical water horse or not) could travel faster than a ship?
Load More Replies...Star Wars. Poe mutinies against the leader (Purple haired woman) and General Leia laughs it off when it's over. Excuse me? Every army in the world would execute a soldier for that.
Exactly, also Holdo (purple hair woman), does not include Poe in her plan in the beginning which would have prevented Poe from turning against her in the first place. Also Finn and Rose discussing classified plans with a person the don't know right next to them is extremely stupid.
Why would she include him in her plan? For all she knows, Poe is a troublemaker. If you were a military officer, would you trust a troublemaker with your plan? I know I wouldn't.
Load More Replies...also the movies are about people who can move things with there mind and whip around swords made of light, and ur stuffing over the fact that they didnt kill him because its not REALISTIC xd
Harry Potter should've just drank the liquid luck and go fight Voldemort
Don't forget the Horcruxes my dear, Horcruxes. If he had gone to fight Voldemort without having dealt with the Horcruxes, it wouldn't have mattered how lucky he was. No one knew they existed except Dumbledore who only started to suspect after book 2. Also, Lucky potion could only do so much, Voldemort would not have suddenly decided to gather all his Horcruxes together in one place at the one time Harry decided to face him.
I wish there was still one horcrux not accounted for, she killed off Remus/Tonks/Fred/Dobby and made sure Hedwig ate it too because she wanted it to symbolize Harry's childhood ending or something. Tonks/Remus dying because orphans are a consequence of war and that is also how Harry started out, a missing horcux would have lined up perfectly because evil will always exist too, and yadda yadda we all most be brave and vigilant. It definitely would have added to the lackluster train ending for the gang (now as parents) to feel a ripple of anxiety and worry. Since apparently Hogwarts is a school that has reoccurrences of murder, rising evil and major events that affect the entire world.
No it isn't. It's a probability. The potions magic pushes u to choose the path that has highest chance of success, that u as a individual won't see. It works like Sherlock's brain or a super computer. Identifying patterns and what is most likely. That's why u could get lucky(increased chances) or not.
Load More Replies...No it isn't. It's a probability. The potions magic pushes u to choose the path that has highest chance of success, that u as a individual won't see. It works like Sherlock's brain or a super computer. Identifying patterns and what is most likely. That's why u could get lucky(increased chances) or not
Load More Replies...In the Lion King, during the stampede, Zazu decides he should go get help. He mentions this to Scar, who throws him against a wall where he passes out. This is never again brought up and zazu apparently never mentioned this to anyone
Pretty much the entirety of "a quiet place" - I still get s**t on in nearly any thread I mention it. It's full of boring tropes, poor writing, and plot holes but for some reason people hail it as some amazing movie. Entirety of earths military couldn't defend against them, but a single shotgun blast to the mouth - dead.
I never got why they didn't hoard toys and such that made noise. Those would have been great to have for distractions.
Exactly! I told my friend that they should make death traps using the toys, the toys would go off and make noise, luring the monster to the trap, where BAM! it falls in a hole full of spikes. Also why did they decide to live in a very quiet country setting when there is a waterfall that they could walk to! This movie irritates me because of all the plot holes and stupid decisions.
Load More Replies...AND the idea of successfully raising a baby?! Absolutely impossible! They randomly cry, wail, fart, burp, fall over, knock into things...just nonsensical really to try and make us believe it.
It is a good movie, just full of plot holes. Plot holes don't necessarily mean bad
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Bart said Santa's Little Helper didn't eat Millhouse's goldfish and that Millhouse never had a goldfish. Then WHY DID HE HAVE THE BOWL, BART!
AT-ATs only have a 60 degree firing radius on their front, so at the Battle of Hoth why did the rebels attack them with their snowspeeders from their front? Flank those b****es!
The armour was too thick for snowspeeders. What they should have done is actually used the bloody X-Wings, they are capable of atmospheric combat and their weapons were powerful enough.
If Captain America uses a vibranium shield and it absorbs all vibrations then how does he bounce it????
The edge is made of adamantium which they legally couldn't use due to x-men being a different studio
Throwing the Shield: When the shield is thrown, edge on, the vibranium allows the shield to resonate and continue bouncing from object to object when struck from the side. ... With sufficient training, Captain America has learned to be able to throw the shield so it returns to his hand, apparently effortlessly.
Face/Off... The reason Eve knows that her husband is actually Castor Troy is because his blood type is different to Sean's. But if that was the case, then the face transplants would have been rejected.
I mean the whole premise is illogical, you have to be able to shave the bones in the face to perfectly match the person you are swapping with, change the vocal chords, eye color, hairline, and a host of other things to look exactly like the person. Not to mention be heavily medicated to not reject the transplant due to mismatched blood type and other reasons.
Yeah - reminds me of a movie where someone gets a corneal transplant which changes the colour of their eyes from blue to brown. FFS.
Load More Replies...Medication lower the threshold of the immune system, but you still need a compatible donor and one of the compatibility marker is blood type.
Load More Replies...Rey being able to magically fly a ship even though she only knew how to drive a cobbled together speeder
This person needs to look up "Mary Sue". Why don't people ever question why men in movies can do these sorts of things.
It said she studied old flight manuals from the crashed ships she found so maybe that's why
Episode IV - Luke Skywalker was able to fly an X-wing, even though he had never seen one before :D
The same film has Luke and Bigga state that the X-Wing has similar controls to the T-16 Skyhopper, and confirmation from Luke and Biggs that he knows how to fly and shoot a T-16.
Load More Replies...to quote Kaywinnet Lee Frye - "Just do it. That's all. Daddy says I got natural talent."
It wasn't enough for her to be a Space Wizard, she has to be the bestiest of Space Wizards
Dr. Strange asking Tony if he can turn Ebony Maw's ship around, when he could easily just portal them back to NY.
Dr. Strange looked at the most obvious option first. He still could have portaled back, but Tony convinced him to take the fight to Thanos.
In episode 9, Rey uses force lightning, which was supposed to make us realise that she was related to Palpatine Force lightning isn’t hereditary. It’s a sith ability
She used Force Lightning to highlight that she was a Grey Jedi; user of both light and dark.
It's a general Force ability. It's not a Sith thing. You can make Force Lightning on the Light Side too. It's only the Jedi who disapproved of Light Side lightning.
Like Luke was, Rey is a powerful force user at a young age. Always walking that fine line between the light and the dark while the whole resistance is depending on her. Kylo was trying to get dark side reaction from her and it worked.
Charlie's Angels 2: They knocked a helicopter off of a high-up bridge, then jumped off the bridge, caught up to the helicopter in free-fall, and flew it away.
Hey Christian - wanted to send you a link: https://um-insight.net/perspectives/has-%E2%80%9Chomosexual%E2%80%9D-always-been-in-the-bible/ (couldn't answer on the parents post so you would see so, here you go.)
Load More Replies...Not really a plot hole. It was poking fun at the crazy action sequences in the early Charlie's Angels / action films. There was very little in the movie that was actually physically possible. That's the fun!
Star wars, where does the empire and later on the new order get all the money and resources to keep building death stars/huge star destroyers. Let alone the man power, those ships have to have at least 10000 personnel on board
Finn says they get all their storm troopers from steeling kids and brainwash them.
That is only the First Order though. The story of the dude who made that happen - Brendol Hux - is pretty interesting and outlined in a set of pretty good books from the Rebels series.
Load More Replies...Also, why does the Death Star have to orbit Yavin, giving the rebels time to mount an attack? However the space station got to the Yavin system, it could have approached Yavin IV from any direction.
And why does the Death Star arrives there without a fleet of Star Destroyers?
Load More Replies...All I'm saying is there's a great debate to be had here, compliments of Mall Rats
In Fight Club, when Edward Norton and Brad Pitt get in their first fight and guys are standing around saying, "Can I be next?". What the hell are they looking at? Why didn't they call the nut house?
Don't rabbithole that thought. It's one of my favorite movies, but I hadn't read the book for YEARS and when I did, it effed. me. up. Marla isn't real either... dwell on that awhile.
Load More Replies...In the scene when the guy says 'can I be next?' Brad is actually fighting some random, not Edward
In the movie JOKER Arthur has a six shooter, but fires it eight times before running out of ammo I can't unsee it now
There is no way of knowing how much of this movie was 'real' and how much was just in Arthurs head.
Very true. That movie f*cked me up. And the clock thing? Where it's always 11:11? Messed me up even more
Load More Replies...In Oceans 11, the total heist would weigh too much to carry out. The U.S. Treasury has the weight of $1,000,000 at 22 pounds. Multiply that by 163 and the total weight from the heist would be 3586 pounds. Divide that by all eleven con men, and each one would have to carry 326 pounds out of the casino.
Why did Anakin grow up but Padme didn’t change at all in all those years?
Anakin was 8(?), a child, and Padme a mature 17 (a young woman) at the beginning. Ten years later Anakin was 18 (young man), Padme 27 (still a young woman).
Padme is 14 in Episode 1. Awesome age chart of all the Star Wars characters - http://www.yodasdatapad.com/ages.html
Load More Replies...Because Natalie Portman has looked the same since she was 12 years old on the set of The Professional... not smiling for all those years as a Queen and Senator probably helped with wrinkles too
Padme is a Sith. Shes just really really good at hiding it. But shh, retcon spoilers
I love Inception to death, but why didn't Dom's father just bring his kids to France?
The new Haunting of Bly Manor. How the ghost never killed the parents who lived in the very room she “haunted” for decades or centuries killing everyone else in her path but them
I think this is explained as because they were in their room at 3 am or whatever, and that’s why the kids want the au pair (I forget her name) to stay in her room. She(the ghost) only reacts to the people in the bed if it’s a child? I dunno, I read it somewhere, kind of a dumb explanation, but whatever, it makes a *little* sense I guess
There was so much bad in that show. She was "haunted" by her fiance and all of a sudden he was gone. We saw her confront him for about 2 seconds and then not another word. I hated that series.
That’s because, he wasn’t a real ghost, but rather a manifestation of her guilt of his death, once she dealt with her feelings about it, she let that guilt go.
Load More Replies...Stargate. The Gate is found in the 1920s along with the stone tablet showing the 7 glyphs to 'dial' to open it to an alien world. Yet for over 50 years of study by the best minds the U.S Military throws at it they only dial the first 6 glyphs. Not once did they try a simple process of elimination with the finite number of other glyphs on the gate to get it working, no, they had to bring in quirky disgraced Egyptologist Daniel Jackson to say "Umm there's a 7th symbol that looks like a Pyramid here on the tablet and there's a pyramid looking symbol on the gate too!"
Why would you need the Suicide Squad to save Midway City from Enchantress? As far as you know it won’t require any skills that the military doesn’t have. If it was to cover up government involvement then congratulations, you’ve now got a bunch of criminals who aren’t loyal to you, resent you, and are more likely to try and blackmail or defame you. They’re loose ends. You’ll have to execute them anyway and lose the asset you built.
The scene in Love Guru where Mike Myers's character makes a big deal about getting hit in the crotch even though it is plainly established and a major plot point that his character wears a metal chastity belt.
From a boyfriend, even if you get hit in the crotch with a cup on, the vibrations still hurt like a bitch. Imagine the vibrations from a metal one!
BULLETS TO SHOULDERS. OK? I am tired of TV and books and movies all saying this is a walk-it-off back-to-work in two weeks injury. A bullet to the shoulder can: 1. kill (there's arteries!) 2. cause permanent disability (nerves). In real life, if you are shot in the shoulder, you are not getting up, you are not fighting back, you are in hospital, you are in PT, and then you are lucky to use your arm fully again. Assuming you don't die.
Say it with me everyone: suspension of disbelief. Movies need to be dramatic or funny or scary or make time move unnaturally to be entertaining. Stop being “that person” and enjoy the damn film.
I agree for the most part, but some movies just have too many to let it slide. For me Ocean's 11 was that movie. It all depends on the universe the movie creates. If you make yourself out to be a smart movie and has many plot holes it is a problem.
Load More Replies...Has everyone on Earth seen only Star Wars, Harry Potter, Avengers and GOT? Sometimes I wonder.
If it's anything, I didn't watch or read any of that, truthfully speaking, thanks to my WONDERFUL attention span.
Load More Replies...another harry potter wonky thing that doesn't make sense: why do wizards ever need to shop for clothes? cant they just enlarge/repair/change color with magic?
What surprised me too: in the books, the wizards in the wizardly world are very confused and surprised by telephones, money and other muggle items. Most wizards are apparently able to live their lives very isolated from the muggle world.
Load More Replies...Also, people walking through burning buildings. Have you ever stood next to a garden bonfire? Just that is enough to make your skin feel crispy and your eyes close.
Because he assumed he Could, the angry subway guy said something along the lines of "you thank ur standing in that floor/wearing those clothes?" as if his interactions like running on the floor and stuff was so ingrained he was just doing It, like how anger could help him push stuff?
Load More Replies...Personally the indestructible car in the car chases always leaves me cold.
In the Friends episode where Monica and Rachel bet their apartment against Joey and Chandler, they lose, because Rachel incorrectly guesses Chandler’s job as a Transponster. Instead of Ross immediately confirming the answer as wrong and moving to the next question (as he had done twice already in the game) he lets Monica and Rachel bicker amongst themselves and trying to come up with the correct answer until the time runs out. It bugs me every time I see it.
And most of those that aren't are actually fully explained in the media in question but they didn't pay enough attention to notice.
Load More Replies...BULLETS TO SHOULDERS. OK? I am tired of TV and books and movies all saying this is a walk-it-off back-to-work in two weeks injury. A bullet to the shoulder can: 1. kill (there's arteries!) 2. cause permanent disability (nerves). In real life, if you are shot in the shoulder, you are not getting up, you are not fighting back, you are in hospital, you are in PT, and then you are lucky to use your arm fully again. Assuming you don't die.
Say it with me everyone: suspension of disbelief. Movies need to be dramatic or funny or scary or make time move unnaturally to be entertaining. Stop being “that person” and enjoy the damn film.
I agree for the most part, but some movies just have too many to let it slide. For me Ocean's 11 was that movie. It all depends on the universe the movie creates. If you make yourself out to be a smart movie and has many plot holes it is a problem.
Load More Replies...Has everyone on Earth seen only Star Wars, Harry Potter, Avengers and GOT? Sometimes I wonder.
If it's anything, I didn't watch or read any of that, truthfully speaking, thanks to my WONDERFUL attention span.
Load More Replies...another harry potter wonky thing that doesn't make sense: why do wizards ever need to shop for clothes? cant they just enlarge/repair/change color with magic?
What surprised me too: in the books, the wizards in the wizardly world are very confused and surprised by telephones, money and other muggle items. Most wizards are apparently able to live their lives very isolated from the muggle world.
Load More Replies...Also, people walking through burning buildings. Have you ever stood next to a garden bonfire? Just that is enough to make your skin feel crispy and your eyes close.
Because he assumed he Could, the angry subway guy said something along the lines of "you thank ur standing in that floor/wearing those clothes?" as if his interactions like running on the floor and stuff was so ingrained he was just doing It, like how anger could help him push stuff?
Load More Replies...Personally the indestructible car in the car chases always leaves me cold.
In the Friends episode where Monica and Rachel bet their apartment against Joey and Chandler, they lose, because Rachel incorrectly guesses Chandler’s job as a Transponster. Instead of Ross immediately confirming the answer as wrong and moving to the next question (as he had done twice already in the game) he lets Monica and Rachel bicker amongst themselves and trying to come up with the correct answer until the time runs out. It bugs me every time I see it.
And most of those that aren't are actually fully explained in the media in question but they didn't pay enough attention to notice.
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