Movie Plot Holes That Are Huge- Page 3

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 3:27pm

Calvin - I think probably the most amazing thing is that not that you included it in your thesis, but that you actually remembered that film in order to use it. I completely forgot it existed until today.

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 3:49pm

Before people think any less of me than they already do, let me say for the record that the thesis thing was a joke.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 3:58pm

I didn't think less of you. But don't worry, I didn't believe the thesis thing either. *wink wink* EVERYONE, THAT WAS NOT HIS THESIS! *nudge nudge* CALVIN WOULD NEVER WRITE SOMETHING LIKE THAT! *wink nudge*

I hope that helps.

[MyMeredithMonster]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 4:05pm

Ok, The Terminator. The whole movie bothered me. Why would they send a robot back from the future to kill their enemy before he was born. When, if he did die, then he wouldn't be around in the future to be their enemy and therefore they wouldn't send a robot back to kill him....

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 4:18pm

Here's another one. In Clue the movie, as part of the "Mrs. Peacock did it all" ending when she's walking to her car, the police chief, posing as an evangelist, calls to her saying: "Oh, Mrs. Peacock?" She then turns around and says, "How did you know my name?"

But at the beginning, they made a big deal about how everyone there as using a pseudonym, so her name was really not Mrs. Peacock.

[Act0r721]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:13pm

I've just been thinking about this. . .

At the end of "Saw," are we to assume the Doctor gets away? Or does Jigsaw just go shoot him because he lost the game?
If he got away, why didn't he tell anyone where Adam is? In the 2nd one, Adam is dead and rotting in there.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:48pm

(This is complicated) In Back To The Future Part 3, 1955 Doc discovers his own gravestone with Marty (thereby learning that his future self would be shot in the past). When Marty travels back to 1885 to meet the 1985 Doc, shouldn't Doc already know he is going to be shot, having experienced the discovery of his grave? He is, after all, the future self of 1955 Doc, just living in 1885.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:52pm

Time travel plots always have paradoxes. They just don't work out, which is why time travel itself is a skeptical and rather nonsensical concept.

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:55pm

There is some website out there that actually tries to make sense of all of the time travel 'problems' from BTTF but I am way to tired to try and find it now.

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 12:00am

actor721, did you see saw 2? i just watched the first one and i was confused about the same thing. i have not seen the sequel, so i don't know how that ties in, but i was curious about a lot of things in this movie.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 6:15am

In the 1960's Time Machine, after an atomic blast, they show a volcano exploding & burying some cars even though the scene is supposed to be London England. I did not know London had volcanos

[AndyHardy]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 11:21am

The Harvey Girls (1945). It basically tries to be the story of three waitresses played by Judy Garland, Cyd Charrisse and Virginia O'Brien (with the emphasis on Judy. Natch.) Mid-way through the film the three decide to stick it out in the wild west even though it is...well, wild!

Then Virginia O'Brien disappears from the film. She's not even in the final wedding scene. Where did she go? Now, I realize its easy for today's audience to overlook this but in 1945 Virginia O'Brien was a very big star. Did they notice?

(note: I know she was preggie while filming but always found it odd that she just vanishes. maybe she was kidnapped by Indians and became an "Injun, Too!" Oh wait, that's another musical.)

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 11:23am

I did not know London had volcanos

There's one, called Camilla Parker Bowles.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 12:05pm

I never noticed that, AndyHardy! Now I have to go back and watch back for that.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 12:19pm

The whispering of "Rosebud" from CITIZEN KANE is probably the most famous plot hole. If Kane was alone when he whispered it, how did people know his last words?

[Craig]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 12:30pm

One has to suspend disbelief with any time travel movie and "assume" we're watching the first "cycle" of the travel - so since history hasn't been changed until we're watching it - there's no reason characters would know or be changed until the events unfold as we watch them.

Doc Brown explains it well in BTTF part 2 with various time lines.

In "The Butterfly Effect" it's handled a bit better since not only do timelines shift - but you see the character's memory complete get re-written

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 1:10pm

I got one for ya: In "Shakespeare In Love," Lord Wessex tells Viola about his tobacco plantation in Virginia, which was not colonized until 1607. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 1:46pm

Thing is, Craig, he remembered sending Marty back to the future in the first movie, when Marty returned from 1985. Why wouldn't he remember finding his own grave?

[Craig]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 2:43pm

that was because we just watched the cycle begin. Different scenarios

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 2:49pm

Titanic - How did Jack end up on one of the first-class decks the day after he "saves" Rose from jumping? (more of a deleted scene than a plot hole)

[jasonf]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 5:52pm

Another War of the Worlds one -- how is it that if all the electronic equipment stopped working, the guy in the crowd can still VIDEO TAPE IT -- just so we get the shot of the machines through the viewfinder?