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Whether you enjoy gripping psychological thrillers or action-packed sci-fi, there's nothing like watching a well-written movie with a surprising storyline and believable characters. However, some films have such bad mistakes in their scripts, they destroy our sense of disbelief and neither the score nor the actors' performances can save the moment.

From Gravity to Home Alone, Bored Panda put together a list of popular movies with plot holes you may not have noticed before, but beware: SPOILERS AHEAD.

After you're done scrolling, feel free to fire up our earlier article on the topic, too.

#1

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004)

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004)

"The way the Marauders' Map works...wouldn't Fred and George have SEEN Peter Pettigrew sleeping in bed with Ron every night on the map?"

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, yes this is a plot hole, but the theory I like best to explain this is that only the Marauders can see the Marauders on the map. It explains why Fred and George never noticed Peter, but Lupin did. It also would have been useful for the Marauders if the map ever fell into the wrong hands. There's a Super Carlin Brothers video about the entire theory somewhere, but that's the gist of it.

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Armageddon (1998)

Armageddon (1998)

"I like to imagine there was a conversation behind the scenes like this: Ben Affleck: 'Wouldn't it be easier to train astronauts to be drillers than it would be to train oil drillers to be astronauts?' Michael Bay: 'Shut the [hell] up.'"

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#3

Hercules (1997)

Hercules (1997)

Hades (James Woods), king of the underworld, wants Hercules (Tate Donovan) dead. He puts his best henchmen, Pain and Panic (Bobcat Goldthwait and Matt Frewer), on the job. They tell him he’s dead. And Hades believes them, for quite some time!

But, as we know, they’re dead wrong.

Hercules may be super strong. But Hades is, without exaggeration, the king of the underworld. Why didn’t he double check that Hercules was actually dead? Just by, like, looking around? He lives and works in the place where dead people go. Wouldn’t Hercules have shown up?

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#4

Signs (2002)

Signs (2002)

"Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix find out that water is toxic to the aliens...yet the aliens have been fine walking around with all the natural humidity in the air on a planet made up of MOSTLY water."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Still like this movie. But yeah, it is so holey it should be cheese

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#5

Every Single Christmas Movie

Every Single Christmas Movie

In literally every single Christmas movie, none of the parents believe in Santa, yet every year there are several unexpected presents under the tree and no one questions it.

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Nary Vang
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never gotten a full blown canoe for Christmas. I'm still waiting for it.

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#6

Tangled (2010)

Tangled (2010)

In Tangled, everything revolved around Rapunzel seeing the lights on her birthday, but Mother Gothel could have just lied about which day she was born.

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Virgil Blue
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So the bad guy never thought the lights would become a problem later on. And found it easier to just keep the kids original birthday because its always easier to keep your lies as limited as possible.

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#7

The Little Mermaid (1989)

The Little Mermaid (1989)

She wants to be where the people are. So Ariel, The Little Mermaid herself, makes a deal to gain legs and lose her voice, just so she can go above the sea and fall in love with Prince Eric. Complications, often involving charades, ensue.

But why didn’t she write on a piece of paper to Eric about what was going on? After all, we see her write in English earlier when she signs her name for the deal.

Fans asked animators this question at an event. The animators just smiled and said, “Next question.”

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ability to sign a name does NOT mean you're fully literate in a language. Knowing how to write *some* words, does not mean you can write all of them - just ask any kid learning how to read & write.

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#8

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

The kind of plot hole that gives directors and scriptwriters nightmares can be found in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – Angelina Jolie’s fun but flawed video game adaptation from 2001. The film focuses on Lara Croft’s mission to protect the world from the Illuminati, who are planning to use an artefact called the Triangle during a solar eclipse to inflict devastation on the world – a peak 00s plot if ever we’ve heard one. We learn that the Triangle is split into two parts, and after acquiring the first of them in Cambodia, Croft sets off on another perilous journey to retrieve the second in Siberia. The problem is, we already know the Triangle can’t work without both halves, so all Croft had to do was destroy the half she already had in her possession and the job would be done.

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David Butler
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because Lara Croft is a Chaotic-Neutral treasure hunter -- hence, "tomb raider" -- and being commissioned to find a world-changing artefact that or may not live up to its mythology is good enough all by itself.

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#9

Independence Day (1996)

Independence Day (1996)

"Oh, this human-made computer virus magically works on their alien technology, too, because that's how computers work."

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Adam C
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hollywood also think the faster you type the better hacker you are.

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#10

A Quiet Place (2018)

A Quiet Place (2018)

In A Quiet Place, instead of making shelter near the waterfall (i.e. the only place where the killer monsters couldn't hear them), they lived on a noisy farm.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wondered why people didn't build "sound traps" deadfalls or other sound based traps for the things.

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#11

Monsters University (2013)

Monsters University (2013)

In Monsters University, Mike and Sully didn't meet until their first year of college, but in Monster's, Inc. they claimed to be friends since elementary school.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe Monstropolis has a different educational structure? Maybe the monsters age differently from humans and first grade is elementary school, second grade is junior high school, third grade is high school and fourth grade is college? It's hard to place the age on a character who looks like a granny smith apple. ;-)

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#12

Back To The Future (1985)

Back To The Future (1985)

"How did Marty’s dad not recognize that his son grew up to be the person that helped him get the girl he wanted? Like, he didn't even think he looked remotely familiar later in life."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, let's have the guy who tried to rape mom help around the house and fix the car.

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#13

National Treasure (2004)

National Treasure (2004)

We know — most of the Nicolas Cage adventure flick is renowned for its calm, patient accuracy. But there’s something seriously off about the famous moment when Cage’s Benjamin Franklin Gates steals the Declaration of Independence.

Other than the sheer lunacy of those words put together in that order.

When Ben reads the Declaration later, we see it starts with “We the people”. But that’s the opening to the Constitution, not the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration begins with “When in the course of human events”. Either Ben made a serious miscalculation, or that’s a huge filmmaking error!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, why would they handle a document like that with their oily hands! Historians would know they need to use gloves to protect the document! Smh

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#14

Ant-Man (2015)

Ant-Man (2015)

The MCU got a fun jolt of unorthodox humor with 2015’s Ant-Man, starring Paul Rudd. Rudd’s superhero can shrink down to the size of an ant and back. But there’s a rule that he’s told often: His mass doesn’t change. He weighs the same tiny as he did normal.

If taken seriously, this would render essential moments, like ants picking a tiny Ant-Man up, impossible. It would also mean he couldn’t sneak around vents — his weight would collapse them instantly. And in Captain America: Civil War, his growing bigger wouldn’t give him super strength.

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#15

Star Wars Series

Star Wars Series

In the Star Wars series, the lack of air and differences in gravitational pull should have affected everyone on each new planet, especially since they're different sizes and don't have the same atmospheric pressures.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is just too geeky for these movies. The're good 'ol sci-fi and not Interstellar

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#16

Gremlins (1984)

Gremlins (1984)

Gremlins has three rules for dealing with the title creatures: Don’t put them in sunlight. Don’t put them in water. And don’t feed them after midnight. If you do any of these, you’ll risk turning the cuties into destructive, bloodthirsty creatures.

Simple enough, right? Let’s look closer…

“Don’t feed them after midnight.” Technically speaking, it’s… always after midnight. And, simultaneously, before midnight. 12:01am is both one minute after midnight and 23 hours and 59 minutes before the next midnight. Is midnight the only time you’re allowed to feed them?

Our brain hurts!

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#17

Toy Story (1995)

Toy Story (1995)

In Toy Story, if Buzz was so convinced he was a real space ranger, why did he adhere to all of the standard toy rules, like "playing dead" when a person was in the room?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it’s a natural instinct that all toys play dead when a human comes in

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#18

X-Men III: Wolverine (2006)

X-Men III: Wolverine (2006)

In X-Men: The Last Stand’s finale, Phoenix Jean Grey is literally tearing reality apart and ripping people into nothingness. Wolverine battles his way to his unrequited love, skin ripping from his adamantium frame. His life is being destroyed. But,weirdly, not his pants. They seem to be made from something even stronger than adamantium. No peek of a Wolver-willy for us then.


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Richard Brown
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The film is X-Men not X-Rated. Sometimes you have to bend reality to achieve the right rating

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#19

Home Alone (1990)

Home Alone (1990)

In Home Alone, Kevin's mom wasn't able to call him from Paris because the phone lines were down, yet Kevin was somehow able to call and order himself a pizza.

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#20

Men In Black (1997)

Men In Black (1997)

In Men in Black, Earth was literally going to be blown up in an hour, but only two agents (one of whom was a newbie) were sent to save the world.

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#21

Ant-Man (2015)

Ant-Man (2015)

In Ant-Man and the Wasp, no one noticed Hank's giant lab that would mysteriously appear and then disappear at random parts of the city, even though he was trying to be discreet while hiding from the FBI.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not to mention, his tech shrinks the space between atoms, so the mass would stay the same as a fully sized building. That thing would be inch for inch the heaviest thing ever!

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#22

Gravity (2013)

Gravity (2013)

In Gravity, Matt was floating away and ordered Ryan to let go of the tethered rope, but since there's no gravity in space all Ryan had to do was gently pull the rope toward her to bring Matt back.

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#23

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

In The Dark Knight Rises, every single member of the Gotham police force was sent underground and got trapped, but then they magically emerged MONTHS later, all clean-shaven and well-dressed.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is a population of underground barbers in the sewersystem of Gotham (they were flushed down the toilet when they were small and continued to thrive there)

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the more popular ones was named Alley Barber, and his 40 Hairdressers.

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Virgil Blue
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dont forget Bruce's magical healing spine. This movie was full of stupid potholes and silly actions by the characters. A big disappointment.

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Craig Silberman
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

in every movie where people are deprived of showers for weeks or months, the women all have cleanly-shaved underarms

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also the light didn't do much damage to their eyes, even though it should of done some serious damage

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But every single member of the police force wasn’t trapped underground though 🤷🏾‍♀️. The most obvious one here is the Captain, who was hiding out at home and Commissioner Gordon had to convince to join them.

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Adam Wiemers
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This entire movie was just one giant steaming pile of plot holes.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe... they got shaving equipment from those who contacted them

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#24

Beauty And The Beast (1991)

Beauty And The Beast (1991)

In Beauty and the Beast, the Beast was actually a prince, which meant he would have been highly educated, so why did Belle have to teach him how to read?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because as time progressed, he became less like a man and more like a beast. The story explains that.

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#25

Limitless (2011)

Limitless (2011)

In Limitless, Bradley Cooper becomes the world’s smartest man thanks to a new wonder drug. It’s actually quite an enjoyable and entertaining film (until the silly ending). However, it’s let down by one of those plot contrivances that once read, destroys the film. If he’s so smart, why does he think it’s a good idea to borrow money from a mobster? I’m an idiot and I know not to do that.


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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because he wasn't going to be able to get it from a bank now, was he?

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#26

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

In Avengers: Endgame, Captain America traveled back in time to return the Infinity Stones, which would have changed the current timeline, yet he somehow managed to reappear in the present to give Falcon his shield. Captain America reappearing in the same timeline he left goes against all of the time travel rules Bruce Banner originally laid out. Also, how the heck did Captain America return the Stones that were on different galaxies?!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Time travel plots and movie mistakes are best friends.

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#27

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

In Spider-Man: Far From Home, EDITH was so advanced and even had facial recognition technology, but for some reason she couldn't identify Beck as an ex-Stark employee or that everything in the bar was an illusion.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stark security would delete that information from the records to prevent 'bad guys' from using ex-employees as sources of information. I would presume the data wipe would be thorough and complete

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#28

Mean Girls (2004)

Mean Girls (2004)

On Wednesdays, we poke plot holes in popular film comedies.

At one point in Mean Girls, everyone believes Cady (Lindsay Lohan) made the Burn Book that was actually made by Regina (Rachel McAdams) and the rest of the Plastics. She’s shunned from school as a result.

But if this theory is meant to be plausible, how would Cady have any pictures or information on anyone in the school, given the fact that she’s a brand new student? Would they assume that she’s the speediest investigative journalist that ever lived?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This can be explained pretty easily: "teenagers". They can be so bright at times, and so damn stupid at others. All it would take is for the popular kids to have a stupid idea "it's all her fault!" and the rest of the school would probably just go along with it.

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#29

E.t. (1982)

E.t. (1982)

The iconic bike scene proves E.T. is basically magic and can levitate objects. So… why doesn’t he just levitate himself right at the beginning of the film and get back onto his spaceship? He’s really close to it! Poor E.T.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because ET was a kid himself... and like most kids, hadn't learned problem-solving / critical thinking yet.

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#30

Titanic (1997)

Titanic (1997)

Despite letting go, they’re never letting go. The love story of Jack and Rose, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, is doomed from the start of Titanic. We know this, based on the movie’s title alone. But it doesn’t stop us from becoming emotionally invested.

We do have one question. Why didn’t Rose just, like, move a couple inches to her left? If you look at that raft, and you look at how tiny 1997-Leo is, it is obvious that there’s enough room for him to fit and for them to live their dang lives!

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Linus Nilsson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This has been explained several times. If they were both on the door, it would have sunk.

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#31

The Purge (2013)

The Purge (2013)

"You can just...leave the country beforehand. Also, why does no one ever try to do fraud during those hours? What a waste of potential."

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Rob Chapman
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ohhh, don't even get me started on the tagline "ALL crime is legal". Just think of the truly horrific crimes we read about in the news, and then imagine those being LEGAL for 24 hours. Murder is tame compared to some of truly disturbing, demented things humans do to each other.

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#32

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (2019)

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (2019)

"The line: 'Somehow, Palpatine has returned' about sums it all up."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This trilogy was so bad. So much lost potential. Rey was just a very poorly written Mary Sue character and Fin, Poe and the original cast's potential was completely wasted after the first part.

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#33

Detective Pikachu (2019)

Detective Pikachu (2019)

"When I saw this in theaters, the whole movie was ruined for me when his dad turned out to be Ryan Reynolds. You’re telling me this kid didn't AUTOMATICALLY recognize his dad’s voice the minute Pikachu started talking? Are you kidding me? I’m even willing to suspend my belief and say MAYBE he didn’t think about it immediately because of the shock of a talking Pikachu...but he doesn’t figure it out until the end of the movie."

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#34

The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix (1999)

There’s a lot of rules to remember in The Matrix. Here’s an important one: Everyone who jacks into the Matrix needs someone to plug them in, make sure they’re okay, and let them back into the real world.

Got it? Good. Now forget about it.

Cypher (Joe Pantoliano) visits the evil Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) in the Matrix to betray his crew. And he does all of this alone! Even though we just saw that you can’t do that alone! How? Some viewers insist he created his own code to get around this rule.

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#35

Beauty And The Beast (1991)

Beauty And The Beast (1991)

"When Belle is singing at the beginning to the sheep, we are given a clear view of the book she just took out of the library. We see an entire page that is covered in an illustration. Later, Gaston asks Belle, 'How can you read this? There's no pictures!' Yes, there are!"

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#36

The Karate Kid (1984)

The Karate Kid (1984)

Using the crane kick trained and perfected by Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita), Daniel (Ralph Macchio) knocks out Johnny (William Zabka) and wins the tournament! Movie over, everyone cheers!

Except — was this move legal? Should Daniel have been disqualified? Was he the secret villain of The Karate Kid the entire time?

Earlier in the film, it’s said that “hits to the face” are not permitted, not specifying whether that includes kicks. Macchio himself called the crane kick a clear violation, and the later YouTube series Cobra Kai features its alleged legitimacy as a prominent plot point.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have to agree with Barney Stinson on this theory. The Karate Kid was Johnny Lawrence and the villain was Daniel Larusso. Daniel comes to town and sticks his face into an argument between Johnny and Allie, then tries to fight Johnny. Then he goes out with Johnny's ex, who he is still in love with and rubs it in his face. Then he rigs the hose to spray water all over him and his joint in the toilet. THEN, if that isn't enough provocation, he trains for a couple of weeks and beats Johnny in a championship when Johnny has been training for his entire life. Plus, Daniel is kind of an arrogant tool!

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#37

28 Weeks Later (2007)

28 Weeks Later (2007)

"Really? No one was guarding the wife who had just been rescued from the infected zone? They were wary of her enough to strap her down, but not enough to order a guard to watch her even though they did so for the two kids? Right."

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#38

Return Of The Jedi (1983)

Return Of The Jedi (1983)

We all love Ewoks (we do), but even as a child I was a bit incredulous that the cute little bears could defeat an entire legion of the Emperor’s best troops. It wasn’t their ingenuity or fighting skills I doubted though, it was the fact that sticks and stones could apparently pierce armour. It must have been made of paper they way some of them go down. Obviously, the Empire is an expensive thing to run, especially when you’ve got a penchant for building moon-sized super-weapons with a limited shelf-life, but you’d hope that your best soldiers could get some decent blast armour…


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Richard Brown
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Armour was a plastic and ceramic mix designed to be light and able to disperse heat safely. No one thought they would be up against primitive pointed projectile weapons, so they didn't use reinforced alloys to defend against them

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#39

The Martian (2015)

The Martian (2015)

"Dust storms of destructive magnitudes physically cannot happen on Mars, but Matt Damon can still play one hell of a botanist."

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#40

Avatar (2009)

Avatar (2009)

Pandora is saved. Go back home to your dying planet you humans! I like to believe that yes, the defeated humans did reflect on what they had done, and maybe decided to value life and nature above commerce and needless industrialisation. After all, that was the subtle message James Cameron was trying to teach us. But even when watching the film for the first time, all I could think was, won’t the surviving military just go back to their ship in orbit and nuke the now clearly hostile and dangerous natives? Because that’s what I would do. Of course, they might not have had weapons aboard, and the plot of the sequel may well be the return of the angry earthlings. In which case, ignore this.

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Richard Brown
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because nuking the planet from orbit (it's the only way to be sure) would render the resources useless and bankrupt the expedition

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Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004)

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004)

In the third, more mature Harry Potter adventure, the magical gang uses a time-traveling device called a Time Turner to go back and save Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) and Harry himself (Daniel Radcliffe) from the clutches of evil Dementors. How cool!

And, potentially, how franchise-killing!

Why not use the Time Turner for every single adventure they’ve ever been on? Matter fact, why not go back and stop Harry’s parents from being killed by Voldemort in the first place? Fans of HP’s deep lore have justified it, but the movies make no attempt.

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#42

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)

Have you heard of Star Wars? Robots, lightsabers, Death Stars?

In the first prequel installment, The Phantom Menace, it’s discovered that Anakin “Grows Up To Be Darth Vader” Skywalker (Jake Lloyd) built C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and interacted with R2D2 (Kenny Baker) all the time. Cute, right?

So why, in the original trilogy, does Darth “Used To Be Anakin Skywalker” Vader not recognize the droids? Why doesn’t he say or do anything with them?

Has he become so hardened he’s “forgotten his past”? Or is it because the prequels were “not very well thought out”?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, R2 and C3PO aren't unique. You can see others almost exactly like them. C3PO, for example, sees an exact duplicate on Bespin's cloud city (and Obi-wan and Qui Gon are served by another protocol droid before escaping to Naboo). Luke even refers to R2D2 as "this R2 unit", implying there are others.

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Jurassic Park (1993)

Jurassic Park (1993)

"The buildup to the introduction of the T-Rex in this is great. They literally made her seismic. You didn't know where she was coming from, but you definitely knew she was coming...then at the end, she sneaks up on everyone inside of a building."

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#44

The Dark Knight (2008)

The Dark Knight (2008)

Heath Ledger’s terrifying Joker crashes a lavish fundraising party for Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). When he can’t find the attorney, he decides to chuck Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) out a window instead. Batman (Christian Bale) falls after her, rescues her from death, and onto the next scene we go!

But, wait, pause for a sec.

When Batman and Rachel fly out of that window, the Joker… was just at the party. With a bunch of innocent people. What happened? Did the Joker just… leave? Let all these people go? Or did they mingle and make awkward small talk?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nolans "batman" movies are riddled with plot holes, inconsistencies and dumb stuff. The scarecrow guy in the first movie had a MICROWAVE WEAPON and a drug that made everyone have the same hallucinations.. it's just stupid.

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Hocus Pocus (1993)

Hocus Pocus (1993)

In Hocus Pocus, Max, Dani, and Allison could have just surrounded themselves and the book in a circle of salt to prevent the Sanderson Sisters from getting them.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As seen in Supernatural many times, a circle of salt is not the strongest barrier as it can be destroyed by wind, water...

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Iron Man 2 (2010)

Iron Man 2 (2010)

In a stodgy Iron Man 2, Whiplash’s attack on the Monaco Grand Prix is a real highlight – and a heart-pounding action scene. Posing as a pit crew member, Whiplash gets onto the track and directly attacks Tony Stark, who just happens to be driving a racing car, after impulsively deciding he wanted to and chucking his driver out (probably someone who would have won the race like Vettel). So how did Whiplash know he was going to do that?
Tony Stark didn’t even know he was going to do that until moments before. Is it another case of a villain magically being able to see into the future and being able to plan for everything? (see Skyfall entry later on). Well, actually, I think not. Whiplash knew Tony was likely to be at the Grand Prix – it’s a lavish event after all. And he knew if he caused some shit, Tony would respond – leading to the same fight on the track. He just got lucky with Tony deciding to drive.

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#47

Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

In one of Ocean’s Eleven’s delicious final reveals, the Bellagio vault’s money is found to have been switched out with nothing but adult ads. The perfect way for Danny Ocean (George Clooney) to turn the final screw on Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia). So how’d the titular eleven pull that off?

Um… well… no one knows. Not even the film’s director, Steven Soderbergh.

On his commentary track for the film, he admits it would’ve been impossible for the crew to do that. Looks like what happens in Vegas doesn’t need to be explained in Vegas.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's no way he could have done it.... yet he did it anyway. That just proves how skillful he is. It's a movie, not a how-to guide, the thief did someone no one expected him to be able to do.

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Star Trek

Star Trek

Nero arrives in the Star Trek past all-guns blazing. It’s one of the finest sci-fi action scenes ever committed to film, and is responsible for much of the goodwill the 2009 Star Trek garnered. Nero has the technology and the motive to wreak havoc across the galaxy. So what does he do? Apparently sits around in his mining ship for 25 years waiting for Spock to arrive. Uh, ok…

Now actually, there’s a deleted scene which explains this plot hole – Nero’s ship is damaged from Kirk Senior’s heroic sacrifice, and he’s therefore unable to prevent his capture by Klingons. So he then spends a good couple of decades in a prison. However, with it out of the film, it does make you wonder. I’m choosing to ignore some of the other plot holes in Star Trek – it’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

New trek is just a middling to badly written scifi universe relying on its better and more intelligent predecessor(s) to get eyeballs. This includes the last 3 movies, Discovery, Picard and (shudders) lower decks.

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Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (2011)

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (2011)

Not once – once! – in five years together does Freida Pinto’s character decide to ask James Franco why he has a super intelligent child-ape in his house. There’s nothing else to say.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not exactly keen on following the films from the start are you. In the early films (not the reboots) it is revealed that some kind of disease wiped out all the domesticated animals and apes, being close to humans, survived the disease, so they became pets. They later started to learn how to perform tasks. As time goes by the apes evolved and became servants and eventually their intelligence grew until they fought back against their slavery. Nuclear war broke out, possibly to beat the apes, but the apes took over. The twist was that during the time after the disease, three apes came back and one had a baby. The baby started the path of evolution that created intelligent apes

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Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Near the end of Quentin Tarantino’s debut film Reservoir Dogs, four people have guns on each other. And nearly simultaneously, all of them go off. Everyone falls to the ground. A dark, absurd ending to a dark, absurd film.

Except… nobody shot Nice Guy Eddie (Chris Penn).

If you look at the scene, nobody has a gun on him, and everyone fires at someone else. Eddie’s death came from… nothing.

In fact, Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) was supposed to shoot him, but Penn’s blood pack exploded before he could — and Tarantino left the mistake in.

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#51

The Hangover (2009)

The Hangover (2009)

In The Hangover, after going on a huge series of comical misadventures to try and find groom-to-be Doug (Justin Bartha), the Wolfpack (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis) realizes he’s just been on the Vegas hotel roof the entire time.

Haha! All’s well that ends well!

Except: Why didn’t Doug try to escape? If you were stuck on top of a building, wouldn’t you do anything to get down? And, frankly, how is Doug still alive? It would’ve been burning hot in Las Vegas in July, and he would’ve been majorly dehydrated at least.

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zims
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was locked up there, he threw a mattress off the roof to try to get people's attention, and yeah he's badly sunburned and dehydrated. They should have taken him to a hospital and not the wedding, but they already spent the entire movie proving they're irresponsible like that.

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Star Wars

Star Wars

There are plenty of plot holes in the Star Wars franchise, thanks mainly to narrative and timeline problems caused by the prequel films. However, arguably the biggest quirk comes at the end of the Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, when we learn that Obi-Wan Kenobi has taken it upon himself to protect baby Luke Skywalker from his father. How does he plan to do it? By keeping his surname and taking him to Darth Vader’s home planet of Tatooine, of course. Nice work, Obi-Wan — he’ll never think to look there.

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#53

Superman (1978)

Superman (1978)

The original Superman movie has often been held up as an example of how to do a comic book movie right. It’s a truly brilliant depiction of Superman on-screen, but one thing has always bothered me about it. That stupid ending. So despite it never being mentioned at all, Superman suddenly knows he has the ability to fly round the Earth really fast and turn back time? See my earlier Harry Potter entry for how that might have been a convenient power to re-use. Then in the almost as good sequel, he’s at it again – with his magical amnesia kiss to take away the knowledge that Clark Kent is Superman. What are these powers, his special party tricks?


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#54

The Meg (2018)

The Meg (2018)

In The Meg, the megalodons were trapped in an unexplored part of the ocean before the submarine allowed them to escape, yet Jonas somehow encountered a meg five years earlier on a different rescue mission.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A submarine didn't allow them to escape, the explosion in deep water near a thermal vent created a temporary "doorway" of warmer water for them to swim through. The rescue mission years earlier also involved a submarine + deep water explosion, thus presumably allowing a Meg to surface.

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Batman Begins (2005)

Batman Begins (2005)

At the beginning of Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed Dark Knight Trilogy, Scarecrow (Cillian Murphy) has been slowly putting fear toxin into the water supply. Ra’s al Ghul (Liam Neeson) goes even further, setting off an explosive microwave emitter that releases the drug at the source of Gotham’s supply.

For one — if Scarecrow’s been doing it for awhile, why hasn’t everyone gone crazy already from his plan?

For two — after al Ghul sets off his bonkers bomb, we see water explode. The human body is made out of 72% water. Shouldn’t humans be exploding, too?

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#56

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

In the first Terminator, it’s explained that you can only send living tissue back through time, which explains why the first John Connor-killing robot is introduced to us sans clothing. The second one, Judgment Day, calls back to that moment by having T-1000 (Robert Patrick) be nude, too.

But wait…

T-1000 is made entirely of liquid metal. So he shouldn’t have been able to go back in time at all. There’s no living tissue involved with metal, clothing or not! Unless Skynet made some off-camera modifications to their time travel mechanics, we say “hasta la vista” to this movie’s logic.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But Kyle also makes a point in The Terminator that he isn't positive and doesn't know foe certain because he doesn't understand the science.

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Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

In the final moments of Tim Burton’s fantastically morbid romance Edward Scissorhands, Johnny Depp’s titular creation carves beautiful ice sculptures out of his, well, scissor hands, while an older Kim (Winona Ryder in wild makeup) waxes mythological about their romance.

Beautiful? Yes. Possible? Hmm…

Edward is shown working in an attic. So where did the ice come from? Edward couldn’t have gotten it himself, because he can’t sleep in a dang waterbed without his scissorhands getting in the way. Plus, how does he keep all the ice frozen in a SoCal attic?

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Mamma Mia! (2008)

Mamma Mia! (2008)

In Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, a huge chunk of the sequel was about Donna's very-much-alive mother (aka Cher), but in the original movie she claimed her mother was dead.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They haven't spoken or seen each other in years, possibly since Donna was in college, and her mom never came to visit no matter how many invites Donna sent. Donna had no way of knowing if she was alive or dead.

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Minority Report (2002)

Minority Report (2002)

In Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise’s twisty sci-fi thriller Minority Report, “precogs” are psychics that hang out in a big bathtub (seriously) and tell the police about future crimes. In other words, they see murders happening, allowing policemen like Cruise to stop them before they happen.

Understand? Kind of?

Humor us here: If what the precogs see are the real “future,” and the outcome is getting arrested before the crimes are committed, then precogs wouldn’t see the actual crime, because it never happened. They would just see the arrest. Right?

Or do we need to take a giant bath?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My understanding was that they would see a high probability of a crime, which was one of the themes of the movie: if they didn't actually DO it, are they actually "guilty" of anything? Isn't it possible they WOULDN'T have done it? I thought that was part of the whole point.

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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Honestly, does creating lizard men make any sense to anyone? Why is he doing it? Does he even know? In fact, the entire character is just completely all over the place and never really defined – can he control when and how he turns into a lizard? Is he simply a lackey of the unseen Norman Osborn? How can he find time to go and fight Peter Parker at his high-school when he’s on a strict evil plan time-scale? But none of the Lizard issues annoy me as much as when Peter dresses up as Spider-Man to keep his identity secret and then goes around taking pictures on a camera which is clearly marked PETER PARKER.


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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well he wasn’t creating lizard men initially. He was trying to isolate the part of lizard DNA that allows it to regrow limbs so that humans can benefit. After testing it on himself, stupid mistake for a scientist, it worked but then didn’t and started turning him into a lizard man. In the all the pre Tom Holland films Spider-Man and Peter Parker are known to be friends. How did that friendship develop? That’s a different story.

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The Avengers (2012)

The Avengers (2012)

So, SHIELD takes the trouble of taking their top agent, Natalia, off a vitally important mission (right in the middle of a dangerous situation too, and violating what appears to be Russian sovereignty with the threat of blowing up the building with missiles) and sending her to India with a full squad of heavily armed soldiers in order to ask Bruce Banner to come in.

They’ve also spent millions researching and actually building a cage for his alter-ego. They know exactly what Hulk can do. Yet once they’ve got him onboard, the top-secret, state of the art HeliCarrier, they let Bruce casually wander around with no restraints, and no one watching him – free to be shocked by Tony Stark into potentially Hulking out. Guess they thought Banner was a really cool guy once they met him in person.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Presumably, everybody onboard has been briefed to not p**s Bruce Banner off. Solved.

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The Lion King (1994)

The Lion King (1994)

In an unexpected moment of love for his last surviving blood relative, Scar lets Simba go rather than confirming his position of power and right to rule. ‘Run Simba, run far away and never come back’. Then he has a change of heart and sends the frankly incompetent hyenas to do the deed. It’s only the most important mission left for Scar to do, and, yeah, I get he doesn’t want to get his claws dirty, and cub murder is probably a bit much for a Disney cartoon, but come on! I wonder what happens in Kimba The White Lion?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not a moment of love--Scar had no intention of letting Simba live, as indicated by his surprise later on Simba survived. Scar never works directly, and instead relies on his persuasion and cunning to convince others to do his dirty work. He couldn't risk being directly responsible for Simba's death anyway if he wanted to rule, in case Sarabi or one of the other lions figured it out.

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Cars (2006)

Cars (2006)

There’s a whole world built vaguely along human lines, but inhabited by cars. Who built it? Why do they need towns? I like to think that there’s a whole Planet Of The Apes subplot which will be revealed one day where humans built hyper-intelligent cars who eventually overthrew their masters and then proceeded to remake society along the only lines they knew how – human civilisation. Leaving us with a mockery of our own world. A lot of people also think they’re being clever and ask how they reproduce, but that’s a silly question. They get made in factories. However, the very best solution to this plot hole can be found in the Pixar Theory. If you’ve yet to have the pleasure, I suggest you make a cup of tea and look it up.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like the theory where humans and cars fused together over time after a nuclear holocaust making human/car hybrids.

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Citizen Kane (1941)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Widely considered one of the best movies ever made, Orson Welles’ sprawling Citizen Kane begins with an enigma: Rosebud. The last word uttered by Charles Foster Kane, a wealthy and controversial newspaper publisher, right before he dies.

What does this word mean? That question powers the entire movie.

But here’s the thing: Nobody heard him say Rosebud. It’s made clear that he’s alone when he dies. So how does anyone know?

If this moment were to be taken at face value, then literally the entire movie shouldn’t be able to happen. Hmm. Maybe some plot holes are fine.

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