What movie plot hole irks you every single time you watch that movie?

I always viewed that behavior as an involuntary instinct they have.

In Up, when the Chris Plummer character goes off exploring he looks like he's in his late thirties/ early forties while Carl is about 10. Then, Carl is about 90 and the Chris Plummer character is about the same age. If Carl is 80/90 years old, shouldn't the bad guy explorer be 100/110 ? Or even older?

Buzz is basically insane at the beginning of the movie. He’s not mentally in touch with reality, even though he abides by its rules.

One that always stands out is in Jurassic Park. The film establishes very clearly that the T. rex paddock is bordered by a high electric fence; tall enough that when the tour car stops beside it, the drop on the other side appears minimal. Moments later, when the pwoer fails and the T. rex attacks, the same section of fence suddenly overlooks a sheer cliff, allowing the car to be pushed over into a deep ravine. The geography of the enclosure changes to suit the set piece. There’s no transition, no alternate angle explaining a slope or ledge. just a hard contradiction in spatial continuity. It undercuts the otherwise careful world-building because the tension relies on a physical layout that doesn’t actually exist. The scene is effective on first viewing, but once noticed, it reframes the sequence as engineered spectacle rather than something arising from a coherent environment.

Airplane 2: that it takes so long to notice the shuttle is off course. When ROC takes over the lunar shuttle and starts steering towards the sun, the gentle white circle of the moon would have been replaced by the blinding light of the sun. In addition, they travel more than twice the distance that a moon flight would have taken before Captain Oveur notices.

I understand what you're saying, but I also feel like, especially in the world we live in now, it's not that hard to make the case that sometimes people believe stuff (particularly about their own personal identity) so strongly that they will simply deny objective facts that conflict with that belief. I'm not trying to imply anything more than what I'm saying here about Buzz Lightyear, mind you. But he is a freshly minted (read: uneducated) toy, and ignorance enables this kind of denial. In the sequels he comes to accept his status as a toy, which makes sense after he's had some time to acclimate and learn from experience.

In The Martian, there are several plot holes in the movie but the biggest one that bugs me is that Mark survives only because there were potatoes available to plant, grow & replant to feed him, the potatoes were only there for the crew to make a Thanksgiving meal as a team building exercise. The problem IS that the crew (Minus Mark Watney) evacuates on Sol 18 of the mission which according to the onscreen log dates is Sunday November 25, 2035. BUT, since the date of US Thanksgiving in 2035 is Thursday November 22nd that would mean that the potatoes should have already been eaten. BTW In the novel the exact dates are not printed & the author has left it up to the reader to make those calculations according to the orbital dynamics of the mission plan. But (from a trustworthy source) the landing day is November 6th Sol zero (as in the movie). This means the evacuation on Sol 6 in the novel is November 12th, 10 days before thanksgiving instead of the movie's 3 days after.

Ocean's 11 - No explanation is given for how the flyers that got sent up from the vault in the money bags ever got into the vault in the first place. Director and writer have both admitted they basically just forgot to explain it. It's not some trivial little plot point either; the whole caper rests on those flyers and yet no-one ever went 'hang on...' at any point during the production. Irks me.

Let's see some real plot holes people. Most of y'all are just posting contrivances, farfetched or dumb plot points. Ant Man establishes that the particles make stuff small but keeps the same mass. That explains how he can punch people when he is ant sized. If that were true then his body would crush Antony when he is flying. Pym can't carry a tank in his pocket even if it can fit in there.

Another! The Dark Knight Rises. The entire third act hinges on Bruce Wayne escaping an underground prison located somewhere in the Middle East or Asia, with no money, no resources, and a body that was previously so damaged he could barely function. He then somehow makes his way back to a completely sealed-off Gotham City. a city under total lockdown, with bridges destroyed, tunnels controlled, and the military unable to get in; yet he reappears inside it, undetected, in time for the finale. The issue isn’t just that he returns; it’s that the film spends significant time establishing how impossible entry is, then skips the explanation entirely. No shown travel, no hinted smuggling route, no logistical workaround. The narrative demands an impossible re-entry while simultaneously insisting on the impossibility of that exact feat. It creates a gap where the audience has to either invent an explanation or ignore it, which stands out because the film otherwise tries to ground its stakes in realism.

"Inception" I know I will get a lot of flack for this one. In the three level dream, first level, they are falling, that affects the hotel level, where they are walking on the walls and ceilings. Then we get to the third level, and everything is normal - no falling, no walking on walls, no explanation why.

In The Dark Knight, most of his plans are impossible to fully pull off, and yet the audience claims the film is a Perfect Film because Ledger smoke-screens so much.

In Spider-man 2, Harry tells Doc Oc to make Peter Parker tell him where to find Spider-man. Makes sense since Harry knows Peter takes Spidey's picture all the time. What doesn't make sense is that when Doc Oc goes to confront Peter, he just tosses a car at him and MJ as they are sitting in a diner. He just throws a huge sedan at Peter Parker, not knowing he is Spider-man, not knowing in any way that Peter could possibly dodge the car.

In Gremlins why don't they multiply when drinking beer or walking in the snow? *I think this was actually answered in an early draft of the script that the water had to be warm, but it's absent from the final film.

Somehow, Palpatine returned.

The Matrix. Second law of thermodynamics. And yes, I have heard the counterarguments. Also, f****** paresecs on the Kessel run. That bugged me when I was 14 and seeing it in the theater when it first came out. Still watched it four more times over the next two days.

It seems no one in this thread knows what a plot hole is. Characters making dumb decisions in their stories is almost always just bad lazy writing. Its when those characters break the logic of that world, when it becomes a plot hole. Bruce Wayne going from one location to another without us seeing that happen is not a plot hole. As a viewer, I can infer that, Bruce Wayne AKA Batman, is capable of figuring out how to navigate getting into the country and sneaking into Gotham. Does that logically make sense? Yes, it does. Is it a little c**** that he just suddenly appears in Gotham? Also yes, that is the lazy writing I am referring to. But that is not a plot hole. An example of a real plot hole is from Butterfly Effect with Ashten Kutcher. We are told in the movie that when he changes the past, everything is immediately altered and his life is lived out how it would have gone. So at one point, he is trying to convince someone of his abilities and to prove it, he goes back in time, and stabs himself in the hands with something sharp. Then he returns to the present where we then see his scars appear out of nowhere, like magic, thus proving that he has abiltities. This breaks the logic of the world because if he had done that as a child, he should have always had those scars, growing up they would have been there. But instead, we saw them magically appear. So one example is lazy writing and the other is a plot hole.

I'm normally okay with things. But I still harken back to Prometheus as just being one giant plot hole. They state that these are Earth's greatest scientists and minds. And the first thing these fuckers do, is start playing with alien shit the moment they see it. It makes sense in other films because they're just space truckers or transport drivers or jarheads. But Prometheus specifically states how every person there is due to their extreme intelligence and proficiency in their fields. Then that all goes out the door once someone sees a snake.

Not destroying the Mind Stone in Infinity War just bothers me every single time. Yes yes I get that the Doctor Strange one in 16 million thing kind of yada yadas it away but the Avengers don't know that part when they're making the decision and the decision itself makes no sense.

War of the Worlds, the aliens fry all electronic devices and render them useless but there’s a scene where a guy is videotaping the first attack. The camera specifically zooms in on the camcorder capturing the footage

The Accountant 2 The entire reveal scene, that gives her the flashbacks, and re breaks her brain… They do the exact scene in the opener. Jk Simmons even talks about her son. Gives details. Nothing happens. At all. Zero. She sees the same picture, on a wall, minimal context, IT ALL FLOODS BACK🥴 The entire movie is negated by literally the opening scene. There’s even a discussion about the past. Nothing.

For me it’s Grease. Danny spends half the movie acting like he has to choose between being himself and fitting in, Sandy changes her whole look to be with him, and then at the end they just… fly away in a car? I know it’s meant to be fun and over-the-top, but every time I watch it I’m like, so nobody’s going to question the flying convertible?

Die Hard The crew arrives in the garage and they all step out of the back of a van. Over half a movie later, somebody pulls an ambulance out of the same van. An ambulance you couldn't physically get into while it was in the van, I might add. I know it's an error because the script was still being written after filming started, but it's the "unable to access it" bit that always gets me. Some poor sap would technically be stuck inside the ambulance the entire time but they have someone in the known crew go get it. Easily a 6 hour claustrophobic nightmare if they did it right too.

LOL. You just ruined Toy Story for me. I actually never thought of this. Maybe he's trained to behave like the locals in order to blend in?

The Matrix. Cipher can enter and leave The Matrix unassisted; even Neo can't do that. I spent *years* thinking that the big irony of the movie was that Cipher—not Neo—is The One, but it turns out that it's just a plot hole.

If, after crash landing, his mission requires that he act like the others so as not to be, let’s say, imprisoned by a giant human before he can fix his ship and leave, then he acts like a toy.

Flightplan.... the villains entire plan is based on no one remembering the little girl getting on the plane. WTF, if even one person, a passenger, one of the flight attendants any of the crew simply says yes she got on with a little girl and the plan is done. Jodie Foster is an attractive woman, so every straight man would have at least glanced at her and noticed she was carrying a child. That entire scenario drives me crazy.

Back to the Future Part II. The inciting motive of that movie is to go into the future and prevent something that hasn't happened yet and that is just too f****** ridiculous for me to handle.

That isn’t a plothole in Toy Story; it’s simply an automatic reflex that toys have, sort of like when you grip the back of a cat’s neck hard and they stop moving. Because that’s how their mother would carry them so they’d stay still to avoid harm. Buzz probably isn’t even truly aware that he’s doing it, and it takes deliberate mental effort to overcome it like they did when they scared Sid. Is this official? No but it makes sense and can help you enjoy the movie.

The film version of Conclave has a major plot point that is explained in the book, but not the film so if you know Canon law then you'll call bullshit. A major part of the film, and what is implied to have been a scheme by the late Pope to manipulate things to all but choose his successor, was to appoint Benitez as a Cardinal to the Middle East in secret. This is a real rule for when being Catholic would put someone in danger - it's called *in pectore*. The problem is that under Canon law, Benitez is no longer a Cardinal. *In pectore* Cardinals only hold their position for as long as the current Pope is alive. As soon as the Pope dies, unless they are publicly announces the appointment by the Pope before his death, they lose the position. The book explained this by saying there was an amendment made by the late Pope but there's no mention of this in the film.

It's a metaphor. We are being controlled by the government. We can easily overtake them, and have them actually help the people, but we let the 1% control us.

Not really plot holes but. The Rock "50 or 60." "That's not so bad." Then for no reason gets super miffed and goes on a rant like why weren't you specific. Crimson Tide - the entire horse thing Spain and Portugal are basically the same place so I didn't really understand the argument.

Toy Story still rocks, but yeah, Buzz’s logic there is kinda silly

He was following local customs as part of his space ranger protocols.

The Martian, where the protagonist gets stuck on a planet because a storm blows some pole over that causes catastrophic damage. Later he escapes in a noseless rocket covered by only a makeshift tarp, possible because the atmosphere is so thin there’s negligible air-resistance. Somehow halfway the atmosphere of Mars changed density. For a script that was touted as being very well though-it I thought this was sloppy.

Interstellar. Good movie but in the beginning there is a scene where they were chasing a military probe. They find where it landed and then in the next scene you see it in the back of the truck. That drone would have weighed at least a ton or more. How did a man with only two kids with him get this into the truck? Bugs me every time I watch it

In Looper, after hanging out with your future self for like 2 days, it would be pretty safe to say you've done this dance before and no one is going to succeed in killing you. Then again, I haven't seen that movie in years.

The Force Awakens. When Finn rescues Poe in the beginning and they’re stealing the tie fighter. Poe is piloting and Finn is the gunner. While they’re in the hangar still, Finn is gleefully and proudly shooting as many of his former fellow Stormtroopers as he can. “Did you see that!?” But Finn knows for certain that all of these troopers are just like him, victims of childhood abduction and brainwashing. You’d think that he would at least be hesitant to kill people who he knows are also victims that he could just as easily stood next to on the battlefield. He might be mournful if he had no other choice to kill them, but no, he never shows any complicated emotions about killing people who are essentially just like him.

In The Rock, they made a big deal about how Mason memorized the furnace blasts so he could get out of Alcatraz. So, he used that knowledge to get back into Alcatraz. Then, he just went and opened the door to let Stanley into Alcatraz. So, I guess he coulda just opened that same door to get out of Alcatraz in the first place without risking getting burned up in that furnace.

Interstellar - The whole water planet part. They get water in the engines and has to drain it, TARS (or the other one) says it'll take 45 min to an hour. The two characters have a conversation in real time which lasts about 3-4 minutes at the end of which the engines are now fully drained and ready to fire.

Ladies and gentlemen, the terrorists' plot in Die Hard 2: 1. They manipulate the planes' instruments so that pilots don't know where the ground is and crash. They can't just look out the window because there's a blizzard. 2. They are trying to free a certain prisoner who's being taken through the airport, so they can't wait for the weather to cooperate: they'll only have the one chance. 3. The movie takes place at Dulles. How often is there a blizzard in DC? Like, once a decade?

Batman The FmDark Knight Rises. Batman climbs put of the pit, is on foot in the middle of nowhere, then is magically back in Gotham. He also has time off camera to set up the fire display before we see him again. I dont know why it bugs me so much. Comics Are Weird

In "Casablanca" the Nazis would not have bothered with legal niceties if they really wanted to seize Victor Laszlo. They would simply do it and deal with any consequences later. It's not like Vichy France could really do anything about it.

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