Best Movie Plot Holes

The Book of Eli ... not sure how a blind guy in a gas mask can shoot an arrow threw a small animal from 100 feet away. Sense of smell is one thing, but that pushes it a tad too far.

In Dodgeball, how is $5 million enough cash to purchase a controlling interest in a company as large as Globo Gym?

Patches O'Houlihan wrote:

In Dodgeball, how is $5 million enough cash to purchase a controlling interest in a company as large as Globo Gym?

Crap, I also forgot that it might not be allowed to bet on a dodgeball game that you are also playing in!

Marty McFly wrote:

I'll start with how Marty's parents in back to the future fail to acknowledge the stream of events taht follow their son's visit to the past, like the emergence of calvin klein, chuck barry, and a son that looks exactly like the mom's old boyfriend.

Whatever.

When people basically get together exclusively with people who look like their siblings and cousins, like most people do in America, it is not exactly shocking when gee whiz their kids look like people they dated (who all looked the same within 99% anyway).

Honestly. 9 out of 10 couples on the street could easily be siblings, definitely cousins.

How in "the flaming globes of sigmund" Dude is wearing a fire suit and googles but nothing covering his head?

We are going from plot holes to plausible.

On that note: every single film ever that depicts a dead body...where is all the piss and faeces?

Every Marvel film: other than a well placed 7.62mm sniper round would end them. If they are effected by velocity - a punch, then a bullet would kill them.

Tolkien probably decided that the eagles were enough of a deus ex machine as is, and Peter Jackson wasn't one to outright change things from the novels (until the Hobbit trilogy, that is).

Gravity :

When Kowalski asks Stone to let go of him because the rope will not hold them both, that could never happen because they are both in the same orbit around the earth. A short simple tug would have brought him back to her.

I have nothing to add, but lol at the post quoted in this response apparently being deleted. I know the mods are fickle, but criticizing Rocky might be the shakiest grounds for deletion I’ve seen on LR.

Home Alone:

Kevin could just tell the cops that he's home alone and bad guys are planning to rob his house at 9:00 tonight. The cops show up. Movie over.

Instead, Kevin doesn't think to tell the cops, and decides instead to elaborately booby trap his house, doing thousands of dollars of damage and risking his life in the process, all for our Christmas entertainment.

Angels with Filthy Souls wrote:

Home Alone:

Kevin could just tell the cops that he's home alone and bad guys are planning to rob his house at 9:00 tonight. The cops show up. Movie over.

Instead, Kevin doesn't think to tell the cops, and decides instead to elaborately booby trap his house, doing thousands of dollars of damage and risking his life in the process, all for our Christmas entertainment.

His parents just went to France and left their 8-year-old at home. If he alerts the authorities, Children and Youth (or whatever the Illinois equivalent is) will investigate the family and possibly take Kevin from his parents. He has good reason to avoid bringing the cops in.

he thought it through better than you wrote:

Angels with Filthy Souls wrote:

Home Alone:

Kevin could just tell the cops that he's home alone and bad guys are planning to rob his house at 9:00 tonight. The cops show up. Movie over.

Instead, Kevin doesn't think to tell the cops, and decides instead to elaborately booby trap his house, doing thousands of dollars of damage and risking his life in the process, all for our Christmas entertainment.

His parents just went to France and left their 8-year-old at home. If he alerts the authorities, Children and Youth (or whatever the Illinois equivalent is) will investigate the family and possibly take Kevin from his parents. He has good reason to avoid bringing the cops in.

But he WANTED his family to disappear!

Scully. Seriously, it’s impossible to land a disabled jetliner in a river without killing someone

Snakes wrote:

he thought it through better than you wrote:

His parents just went to France and left their 8-year-old at home. If he alerts the authorities, Children and Youth (or whatever the Illinois equivalent is) will investigate the family and possibly take Kevin from his parents. He has good reason to avoid bringing the cops in.

But he WANTED his family to disappear!

I don't blame him. His family treated him like dirt. His siblings and cousins were mean to him, his uncle called him a little jerk, Fuller took great delight in chugging Pepsi so he'd pee all over him, and his mother told him to ask Santa for a new family.

Old man Marley was the only one who treated Kevin kindly, and everyone thought he was a mass murderer.

in all honesty wrote:

In "Lord of the Rings" why didn't Gandalf ask the giant eagles who rescued him from Orthanc and showed up again at the end to pick up Frodo and Sam in Mordor just to take Frodo and Sam at least most of the way to Mordor to begin with? It would have saved a lot of hassle.

This one was never a plot hole, just repeated ad nausea after a character in some movie said it as a joke.

-Saruman and Sauron have ears everywhere. This includes almost every flying creature besides the eagles. This point is stated constantly.

-Mordor is the most heavily fortified place on the planet.

-The ring wraiths patrol the lands BY AIR, on Nazgul.

Eagles would have been the worst choice. And keep in mind, the hobbits would have been captured had Aragon and the remaining forces not gone on a insane suicide mission to draw out all of the enemy.

And I almost forgot, Hobbits.....

They are incredibly sneaky. Like, on par with foxes and other creatures of the woods sneaky. And small to the point that they are confused with children. Yet yoked in terms of strength, and equipped with all sorts of useful skills, like the ability to throw rocks harder and more accurate than Randy Johnson, and equipped with steadfast determination.

Amateur Movie Critic wrote:

What about "Rochelle, Rochelle"? It was just a bunch of excuses for the girl to take her clothes off.

True and traveling from Milan to Minsk is not a romantic trip.

Without Limits- No way a world class runner starts a kick with a mile to go and thinks it will pay off with a podium finish. Amateur hour! At least talk to some track athletes about proper race strategy.

Skeptical Racer wrote:

In Shooter the guy shoots right handed, then later in the movie shoots left handed, they dont allow left handed snipers in the army/marines/armed forces at all.

Doesn't matter, it's not that difficult to shoot 'switch'.

In Godfather 2 there was an assination attempt against Michael early in the movie. Michael knew something was up when he saw that the curtains were open in the bedroom. We later learn that Fredo was involved. Was he the one that opened the curtains? And why would the shooters be killed by the people that sent them and how did Michael know that would happen?

Why did Hyman Roth live in a middle-class home in Miami with only his wife to protect him? Why didn't they kill him then instead of sending a top family hitman on a suicide mission at the airport? And who was behind the attempt to strangle. Pentangeli at a bar?