What's the most plot hole-ridden movie you have seen?

[moviedoors]

d at her friend's house and they all start getting massacred and the twist was that [blackout]it was her killing them and she didn't realize it[/blackout]?

That's the one.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Daredevil comes to mind. The biggest one being how the Kingpin inexplicably gets arrested at the end, even though there's no indication that the police even suspect him of anything.


Speaking of which, RIP Michael Clarke Duncan.

The Director's Cut fixes that. Murdock takes on a murder case where he has to defend Coolio and the investigation leads back to Fisk's lawyer Wesley. Wesley then cuts a deal with the police where he sells out Kingpin.

 

[Donut]

What?

Spoiler

The timeline was altered by killing K. Everyone was affected, except J for some reason.

I'm not talking about the ending. I'm talking about the first half of the movie. When the villain goes back in time, he kills K. That changes the course of history. Everyone knows that K died. But somehow J is unaffected by the time stream changing.

Which raises another issue. Even if J was somehow unaffected by the timeline change, why is he still part of MIB? He only came to be part of MIB because K recruited him. If K died in this new timeline... why is J still part of MIB?

Spoiler

Again J being there as a kid is why he was not affected by the timeline change & K or no K someone else would have been impressed with J it seems

 

[Sundancer]

Citizen Kane. Biggest plot hole ever. No one was around when he said Rosebud

Extra points for not picking something made in the last ten years.

 

[THANOSRULES]

In the new Total Recall ..

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why would they send the invasion force via only the core tram and not by air, which they seemed perfectly capable of? Why would the evil president lead a military invasion in person? Not only that a simple raid as well to the rebel camp?

 

[Thundarr]

T2: Judgement Day

In the first movie, Riese explains that non-living matter cannot travel through time. That's why he couldn't bring any more advanced weaponry with him. That's why time travelers arrive in the present completely naked. And the only reason the T-800 was able to travel back in time, despite being a robot made of metal, is because he was surrounded by living flesh & blood. Thus it was able to fool the sensors of the time travel device. However, the T-1000 was made entirely out of liquid metal. Absolutely no flesh & blood anywhere. Thus, by their own rules, it should never had been able to travel back through time.

I understand that in the novelization of the movie, the T-1000 went back in time encased in a sack of artificial flesh & blood. Then when the cop found it, the T-1000 burst out and killed him, taking his identity. But since they skipped that in the film, it's a major plot hole.

 

[Dave McFly]

nope T1000 appears in the book just as he did in the film a cop called in to investigate the electrical disturbance and finds the fence with the hole in it and the T1000 walks up to him and kills him. but what is different in the book is he places his hands on the cops body and the uniform grows out from his skin. and later they find the cop's dead body in the trunk of his LAPD cruiser.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I simply assumed that the T-1000 had some way to mimic human flesh (since it was a shapeshifter).

 

[Slushy]

Star Wars series

Back To The Future

Minority Report

Superman: The Movie

Terminator series

SAW series (although I blame the writers who were hired after Part III)

Transformers series

Die Another Day

Basically, any movie that uses time travel, but Star Trek is the main culprit of this since it results in plot holes

The Dark Knight Rises

 

[Thundercrack85]

Well you could specify a little more.

The Phantom Menace had a fairly big one. When they were stuck on Tatooine, why didn't Obi Wan just go to another trader and use his jedi mind trick?

Or if he has some moral dilemma with that (for some reason), why not just go find someone to take them to Coruscant. Maybe a smuggler? Promise him riches?

 

[Gianakin_]

You got me on the latter, but regarding the former, it's said in the movie that only Watto has the parts they need.

 

[Thundercrack85]

You got me on the latter, but regarding the former, it's said in the movie that only Watto has the parts they need.

Ah well they could totally take care of that in the re-re-re-release of A New Hope…

Luke: So, how are we getting off this rock?
Obi Wan: Well, I suggest we take what money we have and bet it all on a pod-race. Then we buy a ship, and-
Luke: Couldn't we just use the money we have now to charter a small starship?
Obi Wan: You can do that?
Luke: Uh, yeah.
Obi Wan: Huh… if we had thought of that forty years ago, we could have avoided the whole rise of Darth Vader, and the fall of the Republic.
Luke: What?

And one Jedi mind wipe later, they're off, and the trilogy works.

 

[Gianakin_]

Hahaha, I'd buy that version of ANH. Then again, I've bought every single one and will continue to do so...

 

[Thundarr]

nope T1000 appears in the book just as he did in the film a cop called in to investigate the electrical disturbance and finds the fence with the hole in it and the T1000 walks up to him and kills him. but what is different in the book is he places his hands on the cops body and the uniform grows out from his skin. and later they find the cop's dead body in the trunk of his LAPD cruiser.

Well I hadn't read the book myself, I was going by 2nd hand information. But that's even worse. Even in the book they go against their own time travel rules.

 

[Thundercrack85]

That's still pretty damn minor compared to Terminator 3 though.

The whole premises of Terminator 3 directly contradicts everything in the sequel. Skynet is still made (even though they destroyed everything, including backs ups in Terminator 2).

And that's just the first major plot hole.

 

[Thundarr]

That's still pretty damn minor compared to Terminator 3 though.

The whole premises of Terminator 3 directly contradicts everything in the sequel. Skynet is still made (even though they destroyed everything, including backs ups in Terminator 2).

And that's just the first major plot hole.

Yeah, but I'm trying to erase the very existence of T3 from my memory.

With the exception of the fact that the T-1000 NEVER should have been able to travel back in time, T2 was actually a pretty damn good movie.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I just assumed Skynet put some skin around it, which burned off when it got to the late 20th century.

In the Terminator show, they actually had one Terminator who put a gun in its leg...

 

[Thundarr]

In the Terminator comic, an overweight freedom fighter smuggled a laser gun into the present by having it surgically inserted into his gut. Still, that's the comic and the TV show. For the movie, there really should be SOME sort of exposition. Maybe Edward could have asked Arnold how something made out of 100% liquid metal can come through the time machine when only living flesh and blood can travel through time, and Arnold could have explained it to him. It would've taken all of 2 extra minutes of dialogue, and would have improved the movie so much.

 

[Crockett]

Citizen Kane. Biggest plot hole ever. No one was around when he said Rosebud

Welles intentionally lets the audience see only fragments of Kane's bedroom as he's more focused to showed Kane's solitude during the opening scene, even though we don't see anyone else in the room doesn't rule out the possibility as evident at the end as his butler Raymond mentioned "that other time" he heard Rosebud (first time after Kane's wife left him and he wrecked her room), the whole scene when Kane passed away was from the butler's point of view so one can assume he's the source.

 

[kedrell]

That's still pretty damn minor compared to Terminator 3 though.

The whole premises of Terminator 3 directly contradicts everything in the sequel. Skynet is still made (even though they destroyed everything, including backs ups in Terminator 2).

And that's just the first major plot hole.

To me that didn't bother me. I just chalked it up to finding out that in the Terminator universe, all time travel accomplished diddley squat. You can't ultimately change the past(which is all skynet has been trying to do since otherwise it loses the war). It's a conundrum but rather a good kind, I think. It works against the humans in the past so that averting the war and skynet is futile as the universe WILL ensure that there is no paradox of skynet not being created. All they can do is alter the HOW of it. It WILL happen. But at the same time all of syknet's efforts to alter history so it doesn't lose the war are also futile.

 

[marvelman2006]

As good as The dark knight was I still have a problem with how batman randomly showed up to stop harvey from killing the henchman. I mean how the heck did batman know which alley in gotham he would be in trying to execute jokers thug? Also timeline wise how fast batman was able to get from the joker to harvey and gordon and know too where they were. Since we have to assume lucius last favor using the tracking system was to find the joker no?

 

[Victarion]

I have one for The Dark Knight

When Harvey abducts Thomas Schiff, how did no one notice the D.A. climbing into the ambulance and pulling off? Harvey didn't even close the back doors, so anyone who looked would've seen Schiff in the back of the ambulance.

 

[Gianakin_]

That's not a plot hole, though, is it? An improbability, but it's not like it can't happen in real life.

 

[Mandalore464]

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[marvelman2006]

How about in episode 1 phantom menace when obiwan is named a jedi knight at the end by yoda but yet in the opening titles he is already called a jedi knight......



Turmoil has engulfed the
Galactic Republic. The taxation
of trade routes to outlying star
systems is in dispute.

Hoping to resolve the matter
with a blockade of deadly
battleships, the greedy Trade
Federation has stopped all
shipping to the small planet
of Naboo.

While the congress of the
Republic endlessly debates
this alarming chain of events,
the Supreme Chancellor has
secretly dispatched two Jedi
Knights, the guardians of
peace and justice in the
galaxy, to settle the conflict...