the massive plothole thread

Back To The Future (1985)

The Plot Hole: Marty McFly’s interference in the events of 1955 have changed his own family’s future for the better.
So how come George and Lorraine don't remember “Calvin Klein,” the kid who brought them together and inspired George’s career as a sci-fi novelist...?
...and who, more importantly, looks exactly like their son?

Not really a plot hole, just how well someone's memory is. They knew Clavin for what, a week, maybe less, fifteen years ago from the time Marty went back.

Hell there have been people from my highschool that I've ran into and completely forgot their names or some that I really don't remember what they look like without looking at a year book.
 
I don't think Harry told him anything. Harry didn't care about MJ and Peter at that point. The big glowing warehouse out on the pier probably gave away his position.

Impossible, since Ock didn't even fire up the reactor until Spider-Man arrived.

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Because Harry didn't yet have the tritium. Do you think Harry keeps 5 pounds of tritium in his wall safe at all times.:huh: Harry said go get Spider-Man and I will get you your tritium.

No, Harry said "Kill Spider-Man, and I'll give you all the tritium you need. On second thought, bring him to me alive"

Plus, Ock wants to get rid of Spider-Man so he doesn't interfere with his work. It's a win/win for Ock. Get rid of Spider-Man and get really expensive and really rare tritium.

Ock never saw Spider-Man as an obstacle. Ock never even gave Spider-Man a second thought after the bank. And why should he? News reports everywhere were saying Spider-Man had quit. Crime rates went up 61% because of that.

The only thing Doc Ock knows is that Peter Parker and Spider-Man know each other. Doc Ock doesn't care if he kills or hurts Peter. If he kills Peter or hurts him really badly, then Spider-Man is going to find out and come after Ock. Ock then takes MJ as hostage to use as leverage. He isn't delivering a message to Peter Parker, he is delivering a message to Spider-Man.

Baloney.

Harry told Ock "Peter takes pictures of Spider-Man for the Bugle. Make him tell you where he is". When Ock confronts Peter in the cafe, he says "I want you to find your friend Spider-Man".

Spider-Man had officially thrown in the towel according to the newspapers. Crime rates were up 61%. If that wasn't going to draw out Spider-Man, why should killing Peter Parker?

Ock knew he needed Peter alive in order to root out Spidey and deliver his message. Throwing a car at him is not the way to do it. It was a plot hole. Plain and simple.

Plus, Ock is just creating mayhem. He didn't know they were in the cafe. The car happened to land in the cafe they were at.

LOL, pull the other one, man, it rings. If Ock didn't know they were in the cafe, what the hell was he doing heading towards it in the first place? Fancied a cappuccino did he after a long day of aimlessly flinging cars around? :woot:

You can tell that because Doc Ock is surprised to see them together in the cafe. Listen to his tone when he says: "Peter Parker...and the girlfriend!"

No, he said it with a menacing tone, and an evil smile on his face. He never sounded surprised to see Peter.

He was just trying to make Spider-Man or Peter, who is a photographer, come out in the open. Peter Parker takes pictures for a living, if Doc Ock is out creating mayhem, Parker is going to come out to take pictures or Spider-Man is going to come out to fight him.

So let me see if I've got your theory straight: You're trying to say Doc Ock went to Harry, who told him that the way to find Spider-Man was to get Peter Parker to fetch him for him. So then Ock decides to stroll down a street one day aimlessly flinging cars around, one of which just happens to crash into the cafe Peter just happens to be in, nearly killing him, and Ock just happens to go in there and find him and do what Harry instructed him to do in the first place?

That's the story you're trying to sell me?
 
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Not really a plot hole, just how well someone's memory is. They knew Clavin for what, a week, maybe less, fifteen years ago from the time Marty went back.

Hell there have been people from my highschool that I've ran into and completely forgot their names or some that I really don't remember what they look like without looking at a year book.

30 years ago, actually. And Marty wasn't even the first person her dad had hit with the car (I love that line, "Another one of these damn kids got in front of my car!" :funny:), so even that wouldn't have made him so easy to remember so many years later.
 
30 years ago, actually. And Marty wasn't even the first person her dad had hit with the car (I love that line, "Another one of these damn kids got in front of my car!" :funny:), so even that wouldn't have made him so easy to remember so many years later.

Yeah, that's right 30 years ago. :doh:

Haha, you have to wonder if her undressing in front of the window was a daily routine for her and how many peeping toms knew about it.
 
Yeah, that's right 30 years ago. :doh:

Haha, you have to wonder if her undressing in front of the window was a daily routine for her and how many peeping toms knew about it.

Maybe it's why her father wound up running over so many kids with his car. :oldrazz:
 
Yeah she does give him a sort of funny look. I'm thinking she sort of notices the resemblance, but refuses to really think about it.
I have another plot hole that's been bugging me:
At the end of Transformers, Starscream takes off into outer space, yet it was explained that extreme cold incapacitated the Transformers, notibly Bumblebee and Megatron. So why didn't Starscream just go to sleep as soon as he broke orbit?
 
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In Twilight: New Moon, it's apparently a major vampire crime to reveal yourself as a vampire in public...but as they're leaving the Volturi's lair you see they're leading in a huge tour group that will ultimately wind up as Volturi lunch.

No one notices that busloads of tourists go missing in this city on a regular basis? :whatever:
 
In Twilight: New Moon, it's apparently a major vampire crime to reveal yourself as a vampire in public...but as they're leaving the Volturi's lair you see they're leading in a huge tour group that will ultimately wind up as Volturi lunch.

No one notices that busloads of tourists go missing in this city on a regular basis? :whatever:
Not when they have What'shisface to look at. :hrt:
 
Impossible, since Ock didn't even fire up the reactor until Spider-Man arrived.

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Yeah that's true. I thought he arrived afterward. But, it isn't a plot hole, it is a convenience. Spider-Man finds the bad guy...that isn't a plot hole. Peter and Aunt May being at the same bank as Ock is when robbing it is convenience. Joker going to the jail that he has a guy with explosives in his stomach at is a convenience. Two Face going to the hospital that Joker rigged with explosives when every major city has multiple large hospitals is convenience. Nobody noticing the bus driving out of a bank and the dust trail coming off of it or reporting it is convenience. Whiplash walking onto the race track to kill Tony Stark in a race car that he only moments before decided to drive is convenience. They aren't plot holes. Harry may have told Peter where Ock was because all of these huge shipments were being dropped off at an abandoned building. Peter's spider sense may have even gone off when he swung by. Who knows or better yet...who cares because it isn't a plot hole.

No, Harry said "Kill Spider-Man, and I'll give you all the tritium you need. On second thought, bring him to me alive"
To which Ock then replied after learning that Harry didn't kill him; "I should have known Osborn wouldn't have the spine to finish you." He regretted not killing Spider-Man himself because guess who just arrived to ruin Ock's party?

Ock never saw Spider-Man as an obstacle. Ock never even gave Spider-Man a second thought after the bank. And why should he? News reports everywhere were saying Spider-Man had quit. Crime rates went up 61% because of that.
Ock certainly saw Spider-Man as an obstacle. Spider-Man tried to stop his first experiment before the disaster that occurred and he tried to stop him at the bank from achieving his goals of getting money to do the experiment over. Just because he heard reports of Spider-Man quitting doesn't mean that Ock is clear from any future threat. Plus with my quote above, Ock is pretty angry that Spider-Man is back to try to stop him again. If Ock didn't see Spider-Man as a threat, he wouldn't have dealt with trying to capture him for Harry in the first place. Spider-Man beat Ock twice before...anybody would see that as a threat.

Is spelled bologna and is a nasty sandwich meat.

Harry told Ock "Peter takes pictures of Spider-Man for the Bugle. Make him tell you where he is". When Ock confronts Peter in the cafe, he says "I want you to find your friend Spider-Man".

Spider-Man had officially thrown in the towel according to the newspapers. Crime rates were up 61%. If that wasn't going to draw out Spider-Man, why should killing Peter Parker?

Ock knew he needed Peter alive in order to root out Spidey and deliver his message. Throwing a car at him is not the way to do it. It was a plot hole. Plain and simple.
You keep quoting Bugle stats. Wouldn't the Bugle have headlined: "Doc Ock Kills Bugle Photographer Peter Parker." Wouldn't that root out Spider-Man too? If Doc Ock cared about Peter living, he wouldn't have tossed a car at him and then bashed him into a brick wall. But then again I don't think he tossed the car at him on purpose and I don't think he cared if he left Peter alive or dead. Doc Ock doesn't care about human life, he exhibited that numerous times.

LOL, pull the other one, man, it rings. If Ock didn't know they were in the cafe, what the hell was he doing heading towards it in the first place? Fancied a cappuccino did he after a long day of aimlessly flinging cars around? :woot:
Big gaping hole in a coffee shop with Peter and MJ standing in the big hole...they would be so hard to notice. Even if Ock purposely threw the car and knew that Peter was in the coffee shop, it still proves my point that Ock doesn't care if he kills Peter. Killing my best friend and beating him senseless to tell me that he did it is still going to have the same affect on me. I am still going to come after who did it.

No, he said it with a menacing tone, and an evil smile on his face. He never sounded surprised to see Peter.
"Peter Parker, and the girlfriend!" He was surprised to see Mary Jane so how would he know that Peter was in there but not Mary Jane?

So let me see if I've got your theory straight: You're trying to say Doc Ock went to Harry, who told him that the way to find Spider-Man was to get Peter Parker to fetch him for him. So then Ock decides to stroll down a street one day aimlessly flinging cars around, one of which just happens to crash into the cafe Peter just happens to be in, nearly killing him, and Ock just happens to go in there and find him and do what Harry instructed him to do in the first place?

That's the story you're trying to sell me?
I am not trying to sell you anything. I could care less if you think SM2 is filled with plot holes when you think that The Dark Knight has none. All movies, especially superhero movies, have convenience. I don't care to see Jack Bauer sit down and eat dinner, take a shower, or take a dump. Just because we don't see him doing those things doesn't mean that they are plot holes and 24 is a terrible show because it has so many haxorz plot holes. Is Jack Bauer a robot TOMG!??!?!?!?!?

Doc Ock went to Harry to get tritium. Harry didn't have it. Harry said get me Spider-Man and I will get you tritium. Now follow me, it may get complicated. Ock says to himself...hmmm...I can get tritium and get rid of Spider-Man at the same time. Kill two birds with one stone.

Now, either Doc Ock followed Peter all day to watch him go into the cafe, knew that Peter liked to drink coffee at that cafe, or started to create mayhem to cause Peter Parker, a Bugle photographer, to come out into the open. If you go with c, he would need to do something sinister instead of posing for pictures with kiddies. If you go with a or b...then it shouldn't be an issue because it happened OFF SCREEN. So back to c. He throws a car, people scream, he sees Peter and Mary Jane in the hole...what luck! Or, what convenience like EVERYTHING I POSTED ABOVE.

You are making a gigantic mountain out of a mole hill that is so minuscule it is hilarious that you are getting a raging, for lack of better terms, ***** diving so deep into trying to find things wrong with a movie that I am going to guess you don't care for. But once again, I can find conveniences and plot holes in every movie. I could list 5 'plot holes' for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, which I know you love, right now.
 
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In Twilight: New Moon, it's apparently a major vampire crime to reveal yourself as a vampire in public...but as they're leaving the Volturi's lair you see they're leading in a huge tour group that will ultimately wind up as Volturi lunch.

No one notices that busloads of tourists go missing in this city on a regular basis? :whatever:

Fan fiction doesn't count.
 
Yeah that's true. I thought he arrived afterward. But, it isn't a plot hole, it is a convenience. Spider-Man finds the bad guy...that isn't a plot hole. Peter and Aunt May being at the same bank as Ock is when robbing it is convenience. Joker going to the jail that he has a guy with explosives in his stomach at is a convenience. Two Face going to the hospital that Joker rigged with explosives when every major city has multiple large hospitals is convenience. Nobody noticing the bus driving out of a bank and the dust trail coming off of it or reporting it is convenience. Whiplash walking onto the race track to kill Tony Stark in a race car that he only moments before decided to drive is convenience. They aren't plot holes. Harry may have told Peter where Ock was because all of these huge shipments were being dropped off at an abandoned building. Peter's spider sense may have even gone off when he swung by. Who knows or better yet...who cares because it isn't a plot hole.


To which Ock then replied after learning that Harry didn't kill him; "I should have known Osborn wouldn't have the spine to finish you." He regretted not killing Spider-Man himself because guess who just arrived to ruin Ock's party?


Ock certainly saw Spider-Man as an obstacle. Spider-Man tried to stop his first experiment before the disaster that occurred and he tried to stop him at the bank from achieving his goals of getting money to do the experiment over. Just because he heard reports of Spider-Man quitting doesn't mean that Ock is clear from any future threat. Plus with my quote above, Ock is pretty angry that Spider-Man is back to try to stop him again. If Ock didn't see Spider-Man as a threat, he wouldn't have dealt with trying to capture him for Harry in the first place. Spider-Man beat Ock twice before...anybody would see that as a threat.


Is spelled bologna and is a nasty sandwich meat.


You keep quoting Bugle stats. Wouldn't the Bugle have headlined: "Doc Ock Kills Bugle Photographer Peter Parker." Wouldn't that root out Spider-Man too? If Doc Ock cared about Peter living, he wouldn't have tossed a car at him and then bashed him into a brick wall. But then again I don't think he tossed the car at him on purpose and I don't think he cared if he left Peter alive or dead. Doc Ock doesn't care about human life, he exhibited that numerous times.


Big gaping hole in a coffee shop with Peter and MJ standing in the big hole...they would be so hard to notice. Even if Ock purposely threw the car and knew that Peter was in the coffee shop, it still proves my point that Ock doesn't care if he kills Peter. Killing my best friend and beating him senseless to tell me that he did it is still going to have the same affect on me. I am still going to come after who did it.


"Peter Parker, and the girlfriend!" He was surprised to see Mary Jane so how would he know that Peter was in there but not Mary Jane?


I am not trying to sell you anything. I could care less if you think SM2 is filled with plot holes when you think that The Dark Knight has none. All movies, especially superhero movies, have convenience. I don't care to see Jack Bauer sit down and eat dinner, take a shower, or take a dump. Just because we don't see him doing those things doesn't mean that they are plot holes and 24 is a terrible show because it has so many haxorz plot holes. Is Jack Bauer a robot TOMG!??!?!?!?!?

Doc Ock went to Harry to get tritium. Harry didn't have it. Harry said get me Spider-Man and I will get you tritium. Now follow me, it may get complicated. Ock says to himself...hmmm...I can get tritium and get rid of Spider-Man at the same time. Kill two birds with one stone.

Now, either Doc Ock followed Peter all day to watch him go into the cafe, knew that Peter liked to drink coffee at that cafe, or started to create mayhem to cause Peter Parker, a Bugle photographer, to come out into the open. If you go with c, he would need to do something sinister instead of posing for pictures with kiddies. If you go with a or b...then it shouldn't be an issue because it happened OFF SCREEN. So back to c. He throws a car, people scream, he sees Peter and Mary Jane in the hole...what luck! Or, what convenience like EVERYTHING I POSTED ABOVE.

You are making a gigantic mountain out of a mole hill that is so minuscule it is hilarious that you are getting a raging, for lack of better terms, ***** diving so deep into trying to find things wrong with a movie that I am going to guess you don't care for. But once again, I can find conveniences and plot holes in every movie. I could list 5 'plot holes' for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, which I know you love, right now.

You win this entire thread. :lmao:
 
Yeah that's true. I thought he arrived afterward. But, it isn't a plot hole, it is a convenience. Spider-Man finds the bad guy...that isn't a plot hole. Peter and Aunt May being at the same bank as Ock is when robbing it is convenience. Joker going to the jail that he has a guy with explosives in his stomach at is a convenience. Two Face going to the hospital that Joker rigged with explosives when every major city has multiple large hospitals is convenience. Nobody noticing the bus driving out of a bank and the dust trail coming off of it or reporting it is convenience. Whiplash walking onto the race track to kill Tony Stark in a race car that he only moments before decided to drive is convenience. They aren't plot holes. Harry may have told Peter where Ock was because all of these huge shipments were being dropped off at an abandoned building. Peter's spider sense may have even gone off when he swung by. Who knows or better yet...who cares because it isn't a plot hole.


To which Ock then replied after learning that Harry didn't kill him; "I should have known Osborn wouldn't have the spine to finish you." He regretted not killing Spider-Man himself because guess who just arrived to ruin Ock's party?


Ock certainly saw Spider-Man as an obstacle. Spider-Man tried to stop his first experiment before the disaster that occurred and he tried to stop him at the bank from achieving his goals of getting money to do the experiment over. Just because he heard reports of Spider-Man quitting doesn't mean that Ock is clear from any future threat. Plus with my quote above, Ock is pretty angry that Spider-Man is back to try to stop him again. If Ock didn't see Spider-Man as a threat, he wouldn't have dealt with trying to capture him for Harry in the first place. Spider-Man beat Ock twice before...anybody would see that as a threat.


Is spelled bologna and is a nasty sandwich meat.


You keep quoting Bugle stats. Wouldn't the Bugle have headlined: "Doc Ock Kills Bugle Photographer Peter Parker." Wouldn't that root out Spider-Man too? If Doc Ock cared about Peter living, he wouldn't have tossed a car at him and then bashed him into a brick wall. But then again I don't think he tossed the car at him on purpose and I don't think he cared if he left Peter alive or dead. Doc Ock doesn't care about human life, he exhibited that numerous times.


Big gaping hole in a coffee shop with Peter and MJ standing in the big hole...they would be so hard to notice. Even if Ock purposely threw the car and knew that Peter was in the coffee shop, it still proves my point that Ock doesn't care if he kills Peter. Killing my best friend and beating him senseless to tell me that he did it is still going to have the same affect on me. I am still going to come after who did it.


"Peter Parker, and the girlfriend!" He was surprised to see Mary Jane so how would he know that Peter was in there but not Mary Jane?


I am not trying to sell you anything. I could care less if you think SM2 is filled with plot holes when you think that The Dark Knight has none. All movies, especially superhero movies, have convenience. I don't care to see Jack Bauer sit down and eat dinner, take a shower, or take a dump. Just because we don't see him doing those things doesn't mean that they are plot holes and 24 is a terrible show because it has so many haxorz plot holes. Is Jack Bauer a robot TOMG!??!?!?!?!?

Doc Ock went to Harry to get tritium. Harry didn't have it. Harry said get me Spider-Man and I will get you tritium. Now follow me, it may get complicated. Ock says to himself...hmmm...I can get tritium and get rid of Spider-Man at the same time. Kill two birds with one stone.

Now, either Doc Ock followed Peter all day to watch him go into the cafe, knew that Peter liked to drink coffee at that cafe, or started to create mayhem to cause Peter Parker, a Bugle photographer, to come out into the open. If you go with c, he would need to do something sinister instead of posing for pictures with kiddies. If you go with a or b...then it shouldn't be an issue because it happened OFF SCREEN. So back to c. He throws a car, people scream, he sees Peter and Mary Jane in the hole...what luck! Or, what convenience like EVERYTHING I POSTED ABOVE.

You are making a gigantic mountain out of a mole hill that is so minuscule it is hilarious that you are getting a raging, for lack of better terms, ***** diving so deep into trying to find things wrong with a movie that I am going to guess you don't care for. But once again, I can find conveniences and plot holes in every movie. I could list 5 'plot holes' for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, which I know you love, right now.


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Yeah that's true. I thought he arrived afterward.

You're thinking a lot of things that are not true, as I'll proceed to show :cwink:

But, it isn't a plot hole, it is a convenience.

Like this. A convenience is a coincidence. There's nothing convenient about Harry knowing where to find Ock. Knowing where the villain's lair is located is a big plot point.

Spider-Man finds the bad guy...that isn't a plot hole.

Yes, it is. Peter asked Harry where Ock was, and in the next scene Spidey shows up in the nick of time to save the day. That shouldn't have happened because Harry didn't know where Ock really was. He couldn't have.

Peter might as well have asked some random stranger on the street where to find Ock. They'd have as much of a clue as Harry did.

Peter and Aunt May being at the same bank as Ock is when robbing it is convenience. Joker going to the jail that he has a guy with explosives in his stomach at is a convenience. Two Face going to the hospital that Joker rigged with explosives when every major city has multiple large hospitals is convenience. Nobody noticing the bus driving out of a bank and the dust trail coming off of it or reporting it is convenience. Whiplash walking onto the race track to kill Tony Stark in a race car that he only moments before decided to drive is convenience. They aren't plot holes.

That's right, they're not plot holes because they don't contradict something in the movie.

Harry telling Peter where to find Ock does, because Harry never went to Ock's lair, so how could he know where it is? That's not convenience, that's a plot hole.

Harry may have told Peter where Ock was because all of these huge shipments were being dropped off at an abandoned building.

And how in the name of god would Harry know about them? Talk about clutching at straws.

Peter's spider sense may have even gone off when he swung by.

Have you seen him locate anyone by his spider sense in the movies? No. It only reacts to imminent threats to him. Since Ock had not started the reactor yet, there's no reason for it to have been triggered.

Who knows or better yet...who cares because it isn't a plot hole.

Yes, it is. http://www.moviemistakes.com/best_plothole.php

It's a plot hole. Plain and simple. There's no logical reason for it.

To which Ock then replied after learning that Harry didn't kill him; "I should have known Osborn wouldn't have the spine to finish you." He regretted not killing Spider-Man himself because guess who just arrived to ruin Ock's party?

What has that got to do with what you said? You were arguing that Harry said he'd get the tritium, but he said he'd GIVE Ock the tritium, implying he already had it.

Ock certainly saw Spider-Man as an obstacle. Spider-Man tried to stop his first experiment before the disaster that occurred and he tried to stop him at the bank from achieving his goals of getting money to do the experiment over. Just because he heard reports of Spider-Man quitting doesn't mean that Ock is clear from any future threat.

If Ock saw Spider-Man as a threat to his plans, he would have done what the Goblin did, and sought him out himself and destroyed him.

Spider-Man didn't even register on Ock's radar until Harry made him as part of their deal.

Plus with my quote above, Ock is pretty angry that Spider-Man is back to try to stop him again.

Well of course he's angry that Spider-Man's interfering with him again. But that doesn't equate to him seeing him as a threat.

If Ock didn't see Spider-Man as a threat, he wouldn't have dealt with trying to capture him for Harry in the first place. Spider-Man beat Ock twice before...anybody would see that as a threat.

Therein lies the plot hole. Ock could have easily threatened Harry into just giving him the tritium. Harry clearly feared death when Ock dangled him over the balcony. But no, Ock decides to play delivery boy for Harry. It was simply a plot device to make Ock and Spidey clash again. Ock certainly had no intention of going looking for Spider-Man of his own accord because he never saw him as a threat.

If Ock truly saw Spider-Man as the threat you claim he did, he'd have killed him himself instead of relying on a drunken teenager to do it.

Is spelled bologna and is a nasty sandwich meat.
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You keep quoting Bugle stats. Wouldn't the Bugle have headlined: "Doc Ock Kills Bugle Photographer Peter Parker." Wouldn't that root out Spider-Man too?

No it wouldn't. Why should it? The Bugle is saying crime is up 61%. That almost certainly includes murders, robberies, and other catastrophes. None of this is drawing Spider-Man out, is it?

Why should the murder of Peter Parker draw Spider-Man out?

If Doc Ock cared about Peter living, he wouldn't have tossed a car at him and then bashed him into a brick wall. But then again I don't think he tossed the car at him on purpose and I don't think he cared if he left Peter alive or dead. Doc Ock doesn't care about human life, he exhibited that numerous times.

You keep re-affirming the plot holes in this movie. Ock was SUPPOSED to want Peter alive. There is nothing, repeat nothing to support what you're saying. But I can quote you lines where Ock needs Peter alive to deliver his message to fetch Spider-Man, and then he takes MJ to make sure Peter plays ball.

So why on earth would he toss a car at him, and then slam him into a brick wall? None of it makes sense at all. It's got nothing to do with Ock's disregard for human life. He's crazy, but he's not supposed to be stupid.

His handling of finding Peter Parker to fetch Spider-Man for him was handled with all the intelligence of the Rhino.

Big gaping hole in a coffee shop with Peter and MJ standing in the big hole...they would be so hard to notice.

Yes, they would, unless Ock has binocular vision. Not to mention Ock wasn't even outside when they looked out onto the street. So how could he have seen them? Then two second later he's right outside the cafe window striding towards it.

The whole thing has more holes in it than a lump of Swiss cheese.

Even if Ock purposely threw the car and knew that Peter was in the coffee shop, it still proves my point that Ock doesn't care if he kills Peter.

That's right, and it also proves that Ock's tactics make no sense.

Plot hole.

Killing my best friend and beating him senseless to tell me that he did it is still going to have the same affect on me. I am still going to come after who did it.

Who the hell ever said Peter and Spider-Man were best friends?

"Peter Parker, and the girlfriend!" He was surprised to see Mary Jane so how would he know that Peter was in there but not Mary Jane?

Because he went looking for Peter, and was surprised to see MJ with him.

Simple. Not to mention was he said was totally incorrect, as Peter and MJ were not an item. She was publicly engaged to John Jameson.

I am not trying to sell you anything. I could care less if you think SM2 is filled with plot holes when you think that The Dark Knight has none.

Holy putting words into my mouth, Batman. Where did I say TDK has none, and SM-2 is filled with them?

I have listed the only two plot holes I find with the movie. You'll have others argue Ock being able to take the punches and other physical punishment dished out on him as plot holes, but not me.

All movies, especially superhero movies, have convenience. I don't care to see Jack Bauer sit down and eat dinner, take a shower, or take a dump. Just because we don't see him doing those things doesn't mean that they are plot holes and 24 is a terrible show because it has so many haxorz plot holes. Is Jack Bauer a robot TOMG!??!?!?!?!?

I find it hilarious that you equate Jack Bauer taking a dump to Harry magically knowing where Ock's lair is, and Ock nearly killing the only contact he has to find Spider-Man.

Doc Ock went to Harry to get tritium. Harry didn't have it. Harry said get me Spider-Man and I will get you tritium.

Chaseter old chum, go grab your copy of Spider-Man 2, pop it into your DVD player, skip to the Ock/Harry deal scene, and listen to Harry say, and I quote: "Kill Spider-Man, and I'll give you all the tritium you need".

Not get, GIVE. There was no implication that he didn't have it there and then.

Actually I'll be a nice guy and deliver the goods to you again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bGcGSbw4xM&feature=related

Go to around 1:35

Now follow me, it may get complicated. Ock says to himself...hmmm...I can get tritium and get rid of Spider-Man at the same time. Kill two birds with one stone.

Repeating ad nauseum, Ock never saw Spider-Man as a threat or an obstacle in his path. If he did, he'd have gone out and sorted out Spider-Man himself before even proceeding further with his plan to rebuild his reactor.

But no, he went full steam ahead, ordered the parts, built the darn thing, and then said "Just one more little chore".

What was that little chore? Kill the so called threat and obstacle Spider-Man? Nooooooooo. Go and get the tritium from Harry. Then voila......plan completed.

Spider-Man never entered into the equation until Harry brought him up.

Now, either Doc Ock followed Peter all day to watch him go into the cafe, knew that Peter liked to drink coffee at that cafe, or started to create mayhem to cause Peter Parker, a Bugle photographer, to come out into the open. If you go with c, he would need to do something sinister instead of posing for pictures with kiddies. If you go with a or b...then it shouldn't be an issue because it happened OFF SCREEN. So back to c. He throws a car, people scream, he sees Peter and Mary Jane in the hole...what luck! Or, what convenience like EVERYTHING I POSTED ABOVE.

You keep reaffirming again and again why it's a plot hole. Doc Ock, if he was a smart Doc Ock, would have gone to Peter's apartment, to the Bugle where he works like Gobby did, or gone to Aunt May's house out in Forrest Hills looking for him. But he did none of these things.

But somehow he magically knew that Peter would be at the cafe. And to add insult to injury, he threw a car at him when he needed him alive.

Plot holes, plot holes, plot holes.

You are making a gigantic mountain out of a mole hill that is so minuscule it is hilarious that you are getting a raging, for lack of better terms, ***** diving so deep into trying to find things wrong with a movie that I am going to guess you don't care for.

Since I've backed up everything I've been saying with facts, while you've been using unfounded far flung theories, I'd say you're the one making something out of nothing.

But once again, I can find conveniences and plot holes in every movie. I could list 5 'plot holes' for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, which I know you love, right now.

No doubt you can. But unlike you, I can acknowledge the obvious ones.
 
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Plot holes:

In TDK how does Joker know the exact time and place where the mob boss meeting in the restaurant?

In TDK, how did nobody notice the bus smashing into the bank and sitting there for 5 minutes and then driving out and having debris all over it? Also, you are busting through a bank wall/windows...the bus is going to have massive damage on it and be noticeable.

In Batman Begins, how does Batman fly through the city? His wings do not provide lift and he glides at the same altitude until he reaches the train.

In Batman Begins, if the water evaporator is a focused beam...why are water lines bursting all around them? If that were so, then why aren't the people dying?

In Batman Begins, if Batman grappled to the side or the bottom of the train, the support beams holding up the track would have ruined that little ride.

In Batman Begins, when the train crashes in the parking garage, why are their fiery explosions for an electric train?

In TDK, how does a fire that destroys the side of Harvey's face not harm his most delicate organ on his face, his eye?

In TDK, how does the Joker ensure that Harvey Dent goes to the hospital that he planted all the bombs at? A major city like New York has a ton of major hospitals.

In TDK, if the movie is set in Gotham, why are there signs that say Chicago?

In TDK, why are there more than one stab holes on the table when Joker does his magic trick? Did he do that to multiple mob members?

In TDK, after jumping out the window to save Rachel, does nobody care about the Joker? Wouldn't they have to go out the front door at the bottom?

In TDK, did the guys in the C-130 picking up Batman with the sky hook know that they were picking up Batman? I thought they were running a mission for Bruce Wayne through Alfred's contacts?

In TDK, Joker shoots at Dent in the armored car and it leaves bullet impacts inside. When Dent gets out of the vehicle, all the dents inside are gone. Did the truck heal?

In TDK, Harvey Dent claims to be Batman but nobody ever notices Dent's huge dimple in his chin which Batman, whose chin is also visible, does not have.

When Maroni is being put in his car...nobody notices the half burned man on the other side of the car?

Oh my gosh...so many plot holes in those two movies...I don't even know why I watch them. Terrible, terrible movies.
 
Plot holes:

In TDK how does Joker know the exact time and place where the mob boss meeting in the restaurant?

In TDK, how did nobody notice the bus smashing into the bank and sitting there for 5 minutes and then driving out and having debris all over it? Also, you are busting through a bank wall/windows...the bus is going to have massive damage on it and be noticeable.

In Batman Begins, how does Batman fly through the city? His wings do not provide lift and he glides at the same altitude until he reaches the train.

In Batman Begins, if the water evaporator is a focused beam...why are water lines bursting all around them? If that were so, then why aren't the people dying?

In Batman Begins, if Batman grappled to the side or the bottom of the train, the support beams holding up the track would have ruined that little ride.

In Batman Begins, when the train crashes in the parking garage, why are their fiery explosions for an electric train?

In TDK, how does a fire that destroys the side of Harvey's face not harm his most delicate organ on his face, his eye?

In TDK, how does the Joker ensure that Harvey Dent goes to the hospital that he planted all the bombs at? A major city like New York has a ton of major hospitals.

In TDK, if the movie is set in Gotham, why are there signs that say Chicago?

In TDK, why are there more than one stab holes on the table when Joker does his magic trick? Did he do that to multiple mob members?

In TDK, after jumping out the window to save Rachel, does nobody care about the Joker? Wouldn't they have to go out the front door at the bottom?

In TDK, did the guys in the C-130 picking up Batman with the sky hook know that they were picking up Batman? I thought they were running a mission for Bruce Wayne through Alfred's contacts?

In TDK, Joker shoots at Dent in the armored car and it leaves bullet impacts inside. When Dent gets out of the vehicle, all the dents inside are gone. Did the truck heal?

In TDK, Harvey Dent claims to be Batman but nobody ever notices Dent's huge dimple in his chin which Batman, whose chin is also visible, does not have.

When Maroni is being put in his car...nobody notices the half burned man on the other side of the car?

Oh my gosh...so many plot holes in those two movies...I don't even know why I watch them. Terrible, terrible movies.

Many of the things you've listed are continuity errors (the bullet holes, the holes in the table, etc), not plot holes. There is a difference.
 
superman 1
superman flies round the world to make time go backwards (he is actually moving back in time himself not making the earth spin backs as some people suggest)

okay, so he has flown back in time, the missles never get launched, how do the krypton villians escape ready for superman 2?

They are released by the atomic bomb that Superman rips off of the Eiffel Tower and throws into space.
 
SR not really a plothole just an inconsistancy. Superman's hair is very inconsistant. With all the flying his hair would get frizzy. When he flies they show the wind pushing his hair back. When he lands or stops the hair is perfect with curl.
 
Many of the things you've listed are continuity errors (the bullet holes, the holes in the table, etc), not plot holes. There is a difference.

If you didn't catch the flow of conversation above...everything I listed I don't care about. I was making a point.
 
chaseter has a valid point, TDK is filled with as many holes as SM2.
 
Plot holes:



In Batman Begins, how does Batman fly through the city? His wings do not provide lift and he glides at the same altitude until he reaches the train.
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wasnt there some hot air around him going up? :dry:
 
one thing to bear in mind is the distance the car had to travel to hit the cafe. it looks likes it (the car) is travelling from at least 50 feet away (possibly further). could doc ock even SEE peter at that distance (50 plus feet)? it's entirely possible he (doc ock) throw the car just to cause panic and draw out spider-man, moved closer to survey the damage to the cafe caused by the car and 'THEN' spotted peter.

if doc ock DID see peter inside the cafa from a reasonable distance, say 10 feet (as doc ock doesn't have enhanced vision) he would have to move 50 yards back and THEN throw the car at the cafe, and that makes no sense whatsoever. it's safe to say when doc ock throw the car he had no clue peter was in the cafe.
 
Well, the microwave emitter is a focused beam. It's not a microwave bomb that microwaves everything around, it's focused(like a ray), and was even explained in the movie. But, the part about people who are taking a shower or boiling water is a plothole.

I would assume that the league of shadows used a specific amount of fear toxin with the idea being that it would take a vast quantity of tainted vapour to have the desired effect so they don't give themselves away in the set-up.

As for "Why would the bridges being up stop the spread" which was said earlier by someone?

It wouldn't. The water cooling again with time as the microwave superheater would though, and the bridges would have gone up for containment.
 
Those really aren't plot holes though. Inconsistencies in the premise, sure. Heck, the effects of the fear gas in BB are handled very inconsistently. When applied to Falcone, Batman, and Rachel, it basically incapacitates them. When applied to the city, it basically turns the people into a bunch of rampaging zombies. So, which is it?

Heck, I don't think there's an adequate explanation of why Ra's starts the microwave emitter miles from the hub. Why not start it at the hub and be done with it? Granted, that's not really a plot hole, but is some questionable plotting.

Heck, even with a subplot in TDK, I don't know why Bruce Wayne expects nobody to notice that he's driving around a Wayne Enterprises prototype that dozens of people must have worked on. Even with a paint job.

The police helicopter quit chasing the Batmobile because ...?

In Batman Returns, how does Catwoman know that the Penguin is holed up at Artic World for the climax? Because of all the Penguins? That's a pretty thin connection.

More of a plot contrivance than a hole, but in Aliens nobody sticks around on the Sulaco? And a fusion reactor explodes instead of fizzles out?
 
Those really aren't plot holes though. Inconsistencies in the premise, sure. Heck, the effects of the fear gas in BB are handled very inconsistently. When applied to Falcone, Batman, and Rachel, it basically incapacitates them. When applied to the city, it basically turns the people into a bunch of rampaging zombies. So, which is it?
It's both. I'm pretty sure it came down to concentration of dose. Which is in line with a boiling kettle or shower not being enough to show major signs.
Heck, I don't think there's an adequate explanation of why Ra's starts the microwave emitter miles from the hub. Why not start it at the hub and be done with it? Granted, that's not really a plot hole, but is some questionable plotting.
Theatrics. Why doesn't a man as resourceful as Ra's Al Ghul find a more practical way to contaminate the water supply or destroy Gotham, than tinkering in finance or waiting for Crane's work with fear? Because it doesn't look as good as the train built by the man who helped stop one of your schemes (the father of your greatest enemy) streaking across the cityscape of your target, cutting a path of fear and the destruction that comes with it, until said train reaches the central hub... at which point the entire target tears itself apart as pure terror reigns upon all.

In Batman Returns, how does Catwoman know that the Penguin is holed up at Artic World for the climax? Because of all the Penguins? That's a pretty thin connection.
Didn't the pair team up briefly..?
 
If anyone is thinking about Joker busting the bus into the wall of the bank, and manages to have the time to do his thing and then escape. I assumes he has people to stay outside and make sure the police werent near or something
 

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