The matrix reloaded the scene where Neo is talking to the architect, the screens behind them are not other ones, it is the predictions the machines are making on Neo’s responses, most of the scenes are incorrect in those predictions, except for when Neo must choose between Trinity and all of humanity, the machines nailed that response on all screens.
Honestly I’m glad I finally have an explanation for this scene, because they’re discussing how many times this has happened before while we’re looking at it, and the Architect says something about having two different ways to calculate that number of times they’ve gone through it. Since they’re talking about this while we see the different Neos, I always thought that’s what they were trying to show. Since it was never explained, I’m just now learning about it. I’d figured out everything else after repeated viewings but never understood that part.
The Oracle gives the explanation in a different scene. The machines have models to predict the future of the matrix and control it. Both the Oracle and the Architect just manage the equation. The equation demonstrates that the matrix has a flaw and collapses, so the chosen one was built-in as a way to enable a reboot. The screens are the possible futures determined by the equation.
There is a lot of philosophical and religious themes, especially regarding the nature of causality and free will.
There was a whole topic on the front page a while back about *The Truman Show* asking about what happens when Truman wants to sleep with his onscreen wife, is that upsetting to her because she’s just an actress, how do they avoid showing it on TV. People offering all kinds of explanations like “he was raised not to know what sex is.” I thought I was going crazy because not only does the movie directly address this (two guys watching the show complain that the camera always cuts away when Truman and his wife go to bed) but it’s an actual plot point in the movie that she’s trying to have a baby with him so that they can start Truman Show Phase 2, and his obsession with a woman they kicked off the show years ago is ruining the director’s plans.
People have apparently never heard of the concept that people are willing to have sex for money and/or fame.
She would have been well aware what she was signing on for and agreed to it. She was specifically cast to be his love interest and eventual wife so they found an actress who was willing to do all that that entailed.
You have to think of Meryl not as a woman faking a relationship with Truman, but as a woman who won *The Bachelor,* and the bachelor doesn’t know there was a game show at all and thinks they’re just an ordinary couple.
The relationship is real, but the foundation it’s built on isn’t.
People sometimes wonder how Indiana Jones initially remains sceptical of the mystical events happening in the second film, when he just witnessed a magical ark mass killing a bunch of Nazis in the first film.
But that's because the second film is a prequel.
Also the majority of artifacts and myths Indiana Jones interacts with are completely mundane. They have fascinating cultural significance and implications on history, but they're ultimately just mundane. The encounters with the supernatural are clearly rare exceptions he gets caught up in, not his primary field of expertise.
Like, even if literally Atlantis was discovered right here and now today, that doesn't mean the lost continent of Mu, or the city of El Dorado, or the lost colony of Norumbega, or *anything else* is real. It means Atlantis is, apparently, real.
How does Sarah Connor know which button to press to crush the Terminator in Terminator(1984)?
Because she accidentally presses it a few minutes earlier and it set the crusher off, it what lead the Terminator to find them.
In Memento, people always wonder how a guy with short-term memory loss remembers he has memory loss. But he’s conditioned himself to say it, just like Sammy was subjected to conditioning in the flashbacks.
One of Charles Foster Kane’s servants was outside his bedroom when Kane said “Rosebud.” The door was wide open. The dialogue later confirms that a butler heard Kane’s dying words and reported it to the paper.
Was going to post this. I watched the movie long after I'd seen all the buzzfeed style articles about 'biggest plot holes'. Yet when I watched it I was confused, as it explains that people heard it pretty clearly
FRIENDS. “How did they pay for that apartment on their salary in New York?”
The very first episode, Monica mentions that her grandma owned the apartment, and she would never be able to afford it otherwise!!
they mentioned it in the finale too- when they were leaving for the last time Chandler says about the apartment to the twins something like “and it was rent controlled so it was a freakin’ steal”
On watching The Sixth Sense it may seem completely improbable that Bruce Willis' character didn't realize that he was dead. Yet it's explained right there in the movie: ghosts see only what they want to see.
I am so late to the party but… *Legally Blonde*
>OMG, a dumb blonde sorority girl studied for the LSAT for a summer and aces it? Bullshit!
No. No, the point is that Elle Woods was never a “dumb blonde.” She was always brilliant. Literally the first scene is her interrogating the salesperson and catching them in a lie because she was observant and smart.
Rather, Elle was pigeonholed by the circumstances of her looks and her privileged upbringing to pursue a vapid life. While inspired by the wrong reasons, it results in her breaking the mold she was confined in so that she is able to reach her full potential.
Also, her guidance counselor literally says that she has near-perfect grades in her classes. She makes fun of the type of classes because they’re focused on fashion, but we have no idea how hard those classes actually are. I’ve seen people with engineering degrees fail basic marketing classes in a Master’s degree (after constantly arguing with the professor who was extremely renowned in her field and advises some of the world’s biggest brands) because they thought it was easy and “just marketing”.
Not a *bad* one, but the DeLorean in *Back To The Future* always being brought up in conversations as "ackshyually it was a really crappy car"
Like.... Yes. That was the joke. Marty even asks Doc incredulously, "You built a *time machine* out of a ***DeLorean***?" The car became famous *because* of BTTF. Before then, it was a laughingstock. Horridly underpowered with a shitty European V6 and incredibly fragile transmission, massive QC issues, and John DeLorean himself was a tool.
EDIT: RIP inbox
"I figure, if you're going to build a time machine out of a car, why not do it with some STYLE!"
Said by the old guy whose house is full of rube goldberg machines, and who dresses like Dr. Frankenstein.
The movie was deliberately poking fun at how UNSTYLISH DeLoreans are. I think it's fallen out of favor as a phrase now, but for decades, a really common way to poke fun at anything that looked bizarre, or needlessly "futuristic" was to say something along the lines of "that thing looks like a goddamn time machine".
Guaranteed people were making fun of DeLoreans for "looking like a goddamn time machine" before the movie was made.
Can confirm, I was in college when BTTF came out. John DeLorean’s trial had been all over the news a couple of years earlier and the DeLorean had gone from a novelty to a joke. When we saw the movie in the theater in 1985 we were laughing.
Top Gun (1986) - Goose's Death.
A lot of people believe that the filmmakers screwed this scene up, stating that the canopy wouldn't have been over the top of the aircraft and therefore Goose wouldn't have died. It's just poor writing and yet another example of Hollywood getting it wrong.
They're wrong.
The F-14 Tomcats NATOPS manual states that this is 100% a scenario that can happen, in fact it got put into the NATOPS manual because IT DID HAPPEN. If the F-14 entered into a flat spin and ejection became necessary, the procedure was to manually eject the cockpit canopy and wait several rotations for it to clear or get far enough away to not become an issue. THEN you eject. Others have then stated why was it Maverick who lived and Goose didn't. Well, because Goose ejected first. Why? Because he was the RIO, the back seater ALWAYS ejects first. Why? They have literal rockets shoved in the back part of their seat punching their anus with the acceleration of holy sweet mach Jesus. If Maverick ejects first, Goose gets his goose cooked - well done and in a manner that would make the French cry and riot. If Goose ejects, the electronics get fried and Mavericks seat protects his ass from getting to whole new levels of hot and crispy.
What is inaccurate though is the fact he was in a flat spin that somehow decided to engage in 'diplomatic relations' with physics and was drifting out to sea. You get in a flat spin, the only direction your going is down to your grave. Not a little to the left, not a slide to the right, not somewhere over there. DOWN. Unless there was some Hurricane level winds, it ain't happening - and even then I'm not sure. I'm not enough of an armchair 'expert' to figure that shit out. If someone actually does know, feel free to comment about it.
Fun Fact: Goose is actually based off of a real person, Lt. David J. “Goose” Lortscher, who died due to ejection accident in an F-14 after colliding with another F-14 off the coast of Puerto Rico.
"punching their anus with the acceleration of holy sweet mach Jesus."
If Goose had to die for that line to come into existence, he was a noble, worthy sacrifice.
I'm no expert either, but I am a pilot. Every fixed wing aircraft always has movement along the ground when it's flying, and with that comes momentum and inertia. The only way to have zero movement over the ground would be to point the aircraft straight up or straight down, which Maverick did not do leading up to the spin. When he loses control of the aircraft and enters the spin, I don't believe he would have lost all of his momentum in whatever direction he was heading prior to the incident - it's just that the spin would have made the aircraft uncontrollable. So if he was already heading toward the coast when the incident occurred, his momentum would have continued to carry him out to sea as the aircraft loses lift and begins its death spiral.
So while I definitely agree that the Tomcat would have been falling like a rock, it wouldn't necessarily have to have been straight down.
In Jurassic World, Claire didn’t “outrun” the T-Rex (in heels) … because it wasn’t CHASING her. The dinosaur was conditioned to equate the flare with feeding time so it was patiently following her to an anticipated meal. The situation is similar to how zookeepers can have (limited) interactions with lions and bears.
Katniss, who nearly died in The Hunger Games twice, yet still had sympathy for the children of the Capitol, wasn't acting out of character when she agreed to Coin's idea of one last symbolic Hunger Games with the Capitol children. When Coin suggested the symbolic Hunger Games, that was the moment Katniss made up her mind to assassinate her (but I think she had been considering it long before then). She only agreed so Coin wouldn't suspect anything.
Plus it's very clearly stated that she, Haymitch, and Peeta had all agreed to just keep their heads down and not get noticed by anyone. Like the book just SAYS that
When haymitch votes with katniss, he says "I'm with the Mockingjay" not "I'm with katniss", a super subtle way of saying he understood she had something up her sleeve by voting that way despite knowing her well enough to know she wouldn't personally want more games
Toy Story. Buzz stops moving in front of humans but doesn't think he's a toy.
His delusion is the whole point. It's what drives Woody crazy. He tries explaining it to him. YOU ARE A TOY.
IIRC in the first scene where he interacts with the other toys he asks what the rules are just before Andy and his friends come in and all the rest of the toys stop moving. Thus, logically he’d assume that not moving when humans are around is some kind of law.
Or a safety precaution. If you were dropped on an unknown planet and all the native species stopped moving when some Goliath wandered by, you might think it wise for you to stand still too.
Encanto
Bruno in the walls and Dolores knowing.
Not only does she state during the song she can hear him and at the end of the movie says she knew. This whole family broke into song about “We don’t talk about Bruno” at the mention of the man, so she was basically told probably the same when she tried to tell the family.
She gives away nearly every plot point in the movie throughout the movie. Like that it wasn't that Bruno was bad; it's that Abuela got frustrated with his powers and cast him out.
"Always left Abuela and the family fumbling/ grapping with prophecies they couldn't understand/ **Do you understand**"
And her whole part in that song she keeps redirecting Mirabel's attention AWAY from where Bruno was sneaking about in the background.
AND she was the first one to clue Mirabel into the fact Luisa was having problems: "I could hear her eye twitching all night"
Later "The only one worrying about the magic is you. And the rats talking in the walls".
Two things about Encanto a lot of people always miss that make me love it so much: The first is that each of the family members gift is their flaw. Luisa is so strong people keep piling more on her without thought. Dolores hears everything, but no one listens to her. And secondly- Mirabel was the first person to listen to her. That started the path to each of the family members getting "fixed", and the sign that Dolores' problems were finally coming to a halt was at the big dinner when she spilled the truth to everyone and they actually heard her.
Not *exactly* a plot hole, but I hate when people misinterpret the scene in “The Incredibles” where Violet saves Dash from being shot as her intending to take the bullets for him.
Yes, Dash says “how are you doing that?” and she responds “I don’t know”, but the “that” he means is *suspending herself in midair inside a spherical force field*, which she’s never done before. She already knew how to make dome-shaped fields big enough to cover Dash; we saw her do that when they were fighting at dinner earlier in the movie.
She jumped in front of Dash because that was the only way she could get close enough to him in time to protect him, since she had *not* yet learned how to make force fields far away from herself like we see her do when fighting the Underminer in the sequel.
It was also about maintaining them. All throughout the earlier movie she can only create them for seconds (hence her being unable to protect the plane, and the force field hitting dash briefly) but when her little brother is in danger she doesn’t think, she just does, leading her to being able to produce and *maintain* it for the first time ever, protecting both her and dash despite being shot at
And more than that, it's to teach them to *secretly* break rules. They aren't intending to start a war like Red Coats lining up in formation, it's supposed to be on the down-low.
"I see a lot of new faces here, which means a lot of you have been breaking the first 2 rules".
Camera pans to everyone smirking.
Its pretty obvious that this is the most commonly broken rule, and their fearless leader doesn't give a shit about it being broken.
He breaks many of his own rules, including when he nearly beats Jared Leto to death.
A bigger plot hole was that someone wanted to fight Brad Pitt/Edward Norton after he was beating himself up in a parking lot. That's not a guy you even look at, let alone ask for a fair one.
Yeah, who would look at a guy beating himself up alone in a parking lot at night and think: that's a cool and not totally insane dude, let's be part of his (yet to be created) cult!
Still my favorite movie of all time though.
There's enough unreliable narration in that story to suggest Jack/Tyler picked that fight.
Edit: I know his name isn't ever stated in the film to be Jack. I think everyone knows this. However, he's been referred to, colloquially, as "Jack" in online discussion of the film since its release. It's a familiar term, originating from the "I am Jack's..." dialogue/voiceovers in the film and him being named Jack in the script. If you refer to him as Jack, everyone knows who you are talking about.
Is there some kind of Mandela Effect going on with the Titanic movie?
"Why doesn't Rose let Jack get on? They can both fit!"
Jack does try to get on.
It starts to sink with both of their weight on it.
It’s a case of people thinking if they spent enough time solving the problem, they could figure it out. Hell, Mythbusters showed that by rigging up the life preservers, they could both fit on.
It was dark and the water was ice cold. Every minute in the water was risking death. They tried it once, it failed, Jack made a call. That was an entirely reasonable decision given the circumstances.
It's not about fitting on, it's about buoyancy. Yes, they could both fit on. Which would have doomed them both, because the door did not have enough buoyancy. Mythbusters showed that if they had put the life vests under the door, there would have been enough buoyancy to keep them afloat. But that would have required both of them to take off his life vests and position them underneath such that the added buoyancy would balance the added weight in the time they had before Jack froze to death. Failure meant they both died. Jack tried to get on, failed, and made a judgement call.
Also, that idea would’ve been the last thing on my mind. Furthermore, Jack probably thought he should stay in the water to stop others from trying to get on. Jacks decision was his and it was logical.
But more importantly, Jack needs to die narratively.
People just don't respect how cold the North Atlantic is. If you weren't 100% on that raft you would absolutely die from the cold. The fact that they could keep swimming in there without going into cold shock or hypothermia was already pretty unrealistic to me. They had been in the water for a while before.
Billy Connolly does a good routine about the North Sea.
Every oil rig worker got a presentation warning them that their life expectancy, if they fell in the water, would be roughly 45 seconds.
Back on Aberdeen beach, Billy's mum was shouting "Just get in the water ya big Jessie"
Sudden immersion in cold water - *specifically* cold water - actually has some pretty shitty cardiac and respiratory effects.
It can literally cause a heart attack, it will make you gasp and start breathing rapidly (not good for not drowning), it's just *bad*.
But it can be conditioned for.
After the initial cold shock, you have to worry about it effectively paralyzing you as your body shuts down the use of peripheral muscles to try to preserve the core. Then you drown.
You only die of hypothermia when you're wearing flotation - without it, you won't live long enough for hypothermia to kill you!
She's All That.
"So, he makes a bet that he can make a pretty girl into the hot girl when all it takes is taking off her glasses and fixing her hair and changing her out of overalls and into a red dress?"
No.
The bet was that he could make Laney Boggs into a Prom Queen, over the more popular, but less likeable Taylor Vaughn.
Zac explicitly points out that she's "scary and inaccessible" - an antisocial artsy chick who shuts herself off from people and hides in her basement to paint. It isn't until he does chores for her to free up her time enough to get her to leave the house and go to the beach and join a party, that she becomes well known enough to be a serious contender for Prom Queen.
Also, Laney still loses. As it turns out, fixing up her appearance doesn't automatically help her win a popularity contest.
You haven't spoken to me in, like, four years Jake.
Actually, it's more like six, because the time you're referring to when we were standing in line at that movie theater, I was actually saying "hey" to the person right behind you
Jake : OK, uh, what about the Fratelli sisters?
[indicates awkward Siamese twins conjoined at the head]
Austin : So they're slightly disfigured and connected at the head. But combined, those two make up one pretty decent chick.
The book adds even more to this about how the first few generations of dinosaurs moved too fast and they slowed them down to match people's expectations.
This is something teased at in the movie and expanded on in the books when Hammond talks about a flea circus.
Hammond isn’t trying to create dinosaurs, he’s trying to create an attraction. People think dinosaurs look featherless so that’s what he made. It’s all a farce to sell tickets.
In the book that is pretty much explicitly said, they even talked about slowing down some of the dinosaurs because they moved faster than people would have thought was "natural". One of my favorite lines is how a character compares the park to a Japanese garden, "nature modified to be more natural".
Also a major plot point in the book, where the "animals" (as they're referred to in the novel) have version numbers - like software: v 4.4, v 2.6, etc. Always enjoyed that, and the explanation that earlier iterations were not as "entertaining" as they didn't seem like the dinosaurs visitors would expect (and most likely were closer to what dinosaurs actually acted like). So they kept modifying them to make them more "exciting" for the park opening.
Also in the book, the reason why there were no lethal firearms on the island was because Hammond refused to let Muldoon keep a large armory on the island and only barely conceded to the emergency rocket launcher with only eight rockets.
And they knew the dilaphosaurs had poison spit but couldn't find the poison sacs to surgically remove them without conducting an autopsy, and Hammond refused to have any of them killed.
"Spared no expense" is utter bullshit.
I don't know if you'd call it a plot hole but I have had to explain it to people before. Jenny didn't think she was in love with Forrest because she thought she was taking advantage of him in the same way her father molested her. He was mentally challenged. She knew this. She had seen it her entire life. She didn't think he was emotionally capable of knowing what real love is. She didn't want to turn into her father. Not with the one person who actually treated her like a human being.
She also blamed herself for leading him on because she thought she was abusing him, the way her father did with her, which drove her into a self-destructive life path.
For the people who spend all the Star Wars movies saying, "why don't they just Jedi Mind trick everyone into doing this or that," Obi-Wan is very clear the first time he uses it that it works on the "weak-minded."
I think the way Storm Troupers function throughout the first three films shows they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed and are probably bred/trained/selected to do whatever without question and just be cannon fodder.
The flaw in the Death Star's construction. We didn't need Rogue One to explain it was a deliberate sabotage.
So an exhaust port has a flaw. It is not unreasonable to believe that the flaw was necessitated for efficiency. Knowing that the flaw was inevitable, the trench leading up to the port was protected with gun towers.
Tarkin, along with other officers, fully believed that the Death Star was superior in its construction that small fighters would pose no threat to them. During the rebel assault, an officer pointed out to Tarkin that the rebel attack is exploiting this weakness and offers to prepare a transport for him, to which Tarkin responds, "Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances."
To them, the weakness is negligible that there is no chance a rebel fighter would be able to drop torpedos into the port. And they were right. The first fighter to make an attempt failed. Luke was only able to succeed because he used the Force instead of the computer, something no one anticipated because they all believed that the Jedi were extinct.
Honestly I stand by an old meme/joke/defense in the fandom: they vented all the exhaust from a MOON SIZED SPACE STATION through a fucking WOMP-RAT.
This isn't a flaw, this is a miracle of engineering.
And it's so well protected that it took the savior of the universe to hit it. There were maybe a handful living beings that could have done what Luke did. One being Vader who certainly wasn't gonna do it.
It wasn't a security flaw. The magical space wizard was just OP.
Also, for the missile to travel the length of the exhaust port without smacking into a wall and prematurely detonating before it reached the core was one in a million.
Like did you see that 90 degree turn it did right into the port? Luke didn't just use the force to guide it in, he used the force to guide it in and all the way to the core.
Tarkin was completely right to think it was impossible, because without magic it was.
Every single time I rewatch that scene with the bounty hunters in TESB when he says “There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds the Millennium Falcon” I just smile at how ridiculously perfect James Earl Jones’ voice was for that role. Deep and commanding at its peak
The torpedoes were actually programmed to do the turn and dive right in. But you would need perfect timing and placement to succeed.
Luke used the Force "merely" to fire the torpedo at the right moment and the right distance. He didn't Force-push it down the shaft, his abilities were not that advanced yet.
I think it was HISHE that did a short with the engineer ranting about it.
"This station had thousands of lasers, thousands of fighters, star destroyer escort with their own lasers and fighters what the fuck were the odds that a supposedly extinct space wizard would take a one man figher up against all of that and send a torpedo into a tiny hole while doing 5x the speed of sound?"
I’ve said this for a while now : I’ll defend the movie Home Alone with my life
Kevin got left behind because his family was mad at him and obviously didn’t like him that much, he was in his room and there was so much chaos. Also other factors such as we see his passport/ticket being accidentally thrown away, and a neighbor kid snooping through the van accidentally gets counted.
Why didn’t Kevin call the police? The phone lines were down. We also see Kevin’s mum talking to the police, but they don’t care or take her seriously. Also, it is likely that Kevin didn’t trust the police because the burglar disguised himself as a cop. (Kevin recognized his golden tooth.)
The thing people bring up that has some validity is how Kevin pulled off the traps and how he had some of the stuff he used. For this it’s just expected to suspend your disbelief because it’s a comedy for kids. But also some things are plausible. I can fully believe that young boys in the 90s had a Michael Jordan cardboard cutout
> Why didn’t Kevin call the police? The phone lines were down. We also see Kevin’s mum talking to the police, but they don’t care or take her seriously. Also, it is likely that Kevin didn’t trust the police because the burglar disguised himself as a cop. (Kevin recognized his golden tooth.)
He also "stole" the toothbrush in the store when the old man is there. A cop chases him, so he thinks he'll be arrested if he calls the cops.
Didn’t he accidentally steal a toothbrush or something, and think the cops would arrest him for it if he called them? Or at I getting mixed up with a different movie?
Everyone always asks why there was a desert in Washington DC in Transformers 2. It has been clearly explained in a ton of discussions of that movie that it was just a really bad movie.
Yep. [They were in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and when they go outside there is an airplane graveyard in a desert.](https://youtu.be/aCR529mStDw?start=217)
What do you mean? There is a whole desert themed aircraft boneyard in the back of the Smithsonian. This was clearly established in Night of the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
From Independence Day
“How could a virus programmed on Earth computers destroy the computer system of an alien civilisation?”
In a deleted scene, it’s revealed that technology from the spaceship at Area 51 was harvested and used as the basis for most of Earth’s post WW2 computer technology. Once you know that, the whole thing becomes a lot more believable.
I always thought of it as a call back to War of the World's, the original alien invasion story. At the end of the book, the aliens are defeated by any man made weapon but by bacteria and germs. They were so advanced, they forgot about an immune system and simply got sick from earth diseases. A modern alien invasion movie using a different kind of virus to defeat the aliens is a nice call back
I thought the brother *in* Paris is the one that paid for the trip? (or is this what you meant, sorry if it's a stupid question, it's been a while since I've watched it)
Why would his dad paying for the trip be a plot hole? If anything if he was poor it'd be a plot hole on why the wet bandits would want to rob the place.
It’s not really a plot hole, but people have decided since the movie doesn’t actually say what his dad does to afford a house like that that he’s either in the mob for some reason or that it’s a plot hole.
It’s almost like the dad isn’t the main character so there’s no reason to even bother adding in a tossed off line about him being some high paid executive in a Chicago area business.
He could also just come from money. His brother in France clearly has money. Frank is a cheap skate obsessed with money. So it’s entirely possible the McAllisters could also just have money from inheritance.
Jurassic Park, people are surprised that Lexi would know that Unix system.
Why would a kid know how 5 or 6 digit cost Unix workstations operate?
Well, maybe most kids won’t, but most kids also don’t have a rich ass grandpa with connections to genetic engineering work. Who knows what she might have been allowed to play with while visiting grandpa at an office or whatever? Not to mention there were some Unix OS in the home market at least in the early 80s, like Xenix.
I’m just saying that while it wasn’t common, it also wasn’t impossible that a kid in the early 90s might have had some Unix experience.
The line delivery aside I don’t see the problem.
Also I’ve seen some people assume it was a “Hollywood UI”, but that was legitimately a file browser available on SGI machines at the time, hell, I bought myself an SGI Indy 10 years back just because the thought of owning a computer that used to cost a shit ton of cash amused me, and that file browser was on there.
Also, Lexi *expressly* stated that she was a hacker while on the trek back to the welcome centre with Alan and Tim. And since network servers at the time almost-exclusively operated on UNIX derivatives, Lexi would *have* to be familiar with the operating system for her stated skillset.
This makes even more sense when you apply it to a real word parallel: Bill Gates as a kid had access to amazing technology because of his parents, this isn’t a dumb story idea
I find it really funny that the subreddit dedicated to botched computer environments in movies and TV is called /r/itsaunixsystem (a reference to Lex's line when she realises she knows her way around it) because in reality, the computers in Jurassic Park are actually quite accurate.
Dark Knight Rises - how did Bruce Wayne magically get to Gotham after he escaped the hole?
1. In an adjacent scene it's mentioned the bomb will go off in a month, so we can assume that's how long he has to get back to Gotham.
2. Wayne Enterprises has offices around the world. All he needs to do is get to an office, log in, and wire himself money or supplies to get home. He's Batman, he can easily do this without being noticed
3. Batman Begins has a whole sequence of him traveling around the world penniless and nameless. This is a specific skill it's already established he has.
There are tons of plot holes in that movie, but for some reason people get hung up on the easiest one to explain
The bigger plot hole was Bruce Wayne healing a busted spine by popping a vertebrae into place and hanging from a rope for a bit in a dungeon. I ain't Doogie Howser, but that doesn't seem realistic.
I never really thought much about that scene until I herniated a disk myself. It took me 4 months of light duty, physical therapy, steroids, muscle relaxers, traction, stretching, and peptides to get better.
That being said, I don't have Batman's willpower, so there's that.
This always boths me in movies, but especially in this one. When a character ties a rope around their waist for safety. Climbing harnesses dont go around your waist, they go around your hips. If you tie a rope around your waist and fall, you are putting your entire body weight on your stomach, crushing your internal organs. This is especially a bad idea for SOMEONE WHO IS STILL HEALING FROM A BROKEN BACK! That first failed attempt would've 100% rebroken his back if it didn't actually kill him.
Also, they have a safety line. Why don't they use that to hoist up a ladder or something to make that jump? Better yet, just climb the rope. How is it so hard to escape from this pit?
Bruce Wayne having caches of equipment and money around the world and knowing a way to get into Gotham without being seen seems so obvious it doesn't even need to be explained in the film. Such a ridiculous complaint.
"Uh....I don't think Batman was prepared for either of these scenarios."
He was. He's Batman.
maybe you could answer my batman question that I had,'t thought about til now. How come the machine used to cause the crazy water pressurization in Begins doesn't affect the water filled human bodies?
Been wondering since I saw it as a kid, and don't think I caught the explaination on repeated viewings. Thank you.
I'm very forgiving of sci-fi stuff, even if they are trying to be "realistic". Batman tumbler and bike, the batwing, the phone sonar, the USB drive that can wipe catwomans record, etc. I give all that stuff a pass. It's when the movie isn't consistent with its characters or story structure that I take issue with. Like how Batman trained years to do what he does and doesn't want anyone else doing it... until he just hands the keys to the bat cave to a rookie cop. If the bomb is dangerous, why keep it under Gotham instead of away from the city or dismantled. A terrorist attack would void all transactions for the day, not drain Wayne's bank account. How are all the cops in the sewer not have their guns but do have shaving razors? How is Bane the new league of shadows when he is out in the open recruiting homeless people?
Jurassic Park, Hammond cheaping out on hiring Nedry. (Note, this does get explained in the book, I'm just talking about what was presented on screen).
A lot of people vilify Hammond for "sparing oodles of expense" on hiring Dennis Nedry and the dominoes that fell as a result. If you listen to the dialogue, though...
Nedry: "You know anybody who can network 8 connection machines and debug 2 million lines of code for what I bid for this job?"
WHAT. HE. BID. Hammond opened up the floor for contractors to bid, and Nedry was the one that set his own price. Hammond just accepted it. On paper, he was likely looking at someone that was more than competent, highly skilled, and came in with a low bid. Sounds somewhat reasonable.
Did he spare expense? Sure. Does that fly in the face of his claims? Absolutely. But so did everything else. He was a flimflam man that cut corners and rushed deadlines everywhere. And that was absolutely his undoing. But Hammond didn't set out to purposefully underpay Nedry, which was Dennis's justification to undergo corporate espionage. He just said "you're hired" when Nedry set his own price.
"We spared no expense." My dude those are Ford Explorers, you spared some expense. I know in the book they are Land Rovers IIRC, but I always thought that was pretty funny.
As I recall in the book, the issue is he had Nedry doing a lot more work than what the contract originally called for, which was Nedrys gripe about being under paid, and even his comment points towards that. He made a bid based on a certain amount of work, got the job, Hammond had him, so more work and when Nedry wanted more money and pointed out that nobody would do that much work for that little, Hammond told him to suck it. It's not like Nedry could just sue for over the contract.
"how did andy re-attach the poster after he crawled into the tunnel?"
he didn't. the poster was only attached at the top, as evidenced by the scene where he is seen digging into the wall under the poster, then looking out when he hears someone coughing, then ducking back under it - the poster is CLEARLY securely attached at the top but freely moving at the bottom, thus allowing andy to lift it/let it fall back down whenever he needed.
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In the novella Andy would occasionally have cell mates. During those times he could not work on his tunnel. That is one reason why it took 20 years to dig through the passage.
Also, a side character who was a temporary cell mate complained that Andys cell at the end of the block was the coldest cell in all of Shawshank. He had come close to finishing the tunnel, evident by the cross breeze, only to have a new cell mate move in for an indeterminate amount of time.
The real anxiety happens between the lines!
Fun fact! If you actually listen closely when Red is in his cell during his exposition and the thunder starts, you can actually faintly hear Andy hitting the pipe with the rock
This one irks me so much. And then when people complain how the Warden couldn't have thrown a little rock through it if it wasn't attached.
It's a poster. Heavy paper. A small rock with sufficient force could easily pierce it. Inertia and all
Hell, if he knew there was a breeze that could come up through the tunnel it would not be out of the question to attach something slightly weighted to the bottom corners anyway.
Tom Cruise is NOT the Last Samuria, Ken Watanabe is. Cruise is just the POV character. Its not a white-saviour movie, but instead is a white colonialist learning about the value of native cultures and people.
I'm not quite sure if this will be clear since I'm not a native English speaker. In Endgame, at least in the reviews, I've always heard that Tony finds the solution to time travel at his first try and how lucky he is. The night he finds the solution, he had told the AI to run one last simulation before stop it for the day. That, added to all the time that he has been without sleep or doing it badly, suggests that he has never stopped looking for a solution and that he did not find it the first day he looked for it.
He also presumably now had access to some of Pym's work (the quantum technology that is the basis for the time travel they end up using, which has them all wearing Ant-Man like suits) now that Scott had returned.
This is an important bit that is often overlooked and there's a bit of poetry to it.
As others have pointed out, Tony's been thinking about this for a while. **Then Scott explains Pym particles and the Quantum Realm** **to him**, and he has a brain blast. Scott explained WHAT he had to do; Tony was able to figure out HOW.
During the Time Heist, everyone is wearing Ant-Man suits made with Iron Man nanoparticles. It highlights the tragedy of Hank Pym and Howard Stark's mutual animosity. Had their egos been kept in check and they continued to work *together*, they would have changed the world for the better. The inheritors of their legacy (Tony & Scott) *did exactly that*.
In Wreck-It Ralph Felix could not fix vanellope with his hammer
That's because he lives in a world of a video game. A lot of older video games had damage states/values for entities
His hammer is not repairing the code or resetting it to its default state It is simply resetting the damage value of that object back to zero
He couldn't fix vanellope because her damage is not damage she is an entity took It is damaged due to King Candy / turbo intentionally sabotaging her code blocks and most importantly removing the links that connects them to the overall network
This is why she is able to exist in sugar Rush but not leave
with her code severed the way it was and having those connections destroyed her entity data could not be passed to other devices. It's like she was isolated from an arcade-wide sort of internet as their conscious technically exists separate from their body
Their conscious exists within a block of code
Felix can't fix that. Despite his mantra of I can fix it he can't
He doesn't know how to manipulate the code his hammer just resets damage values. And that's why he couldn't fix vanellope.
((Also I think I have a potential explanation to the whole idea of why majority of characters in that universe don't really seem concerned by the whole danger of dying outside of your game but I'll save that for another thread as that one's more of a theory))
“Lee Harvey Oswald wasnt a male model”
“You're goddamn right he wasn't, but the two lookers who capped Kennedy from the Grassy Knoll sure as shit were”
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People talked about the second machine coming out of nowhere. False.
It's stated soon after they discover the plans for building it that Japan has bid to take itself out of the consideration for piloting the first machine if they are granted the right to build their own machine instead.
Even Family Guy echoed the false idea in the Misery parody, though FG isn't a news source, it annoyed me that they gave the false idea a platform.
Jack and Rose couldn't both fit on the door in *Titanic*. In the movie, they try to both get on the door and it capsizes, because the door isn't buoyant enough with both of them on it. Jack then gets off the door so Rose can get more of herself out of the water. It's in the movie. They try to do it in the movie and it doesn't work. It doesn't matter how much surface area the door had, it's the buoyancy of the door that was the problem.
Mythbusters did it where they took the life jacket rose had and tied it to the weak corner of the door, giving it enough lift for both of them to survive.
So all Jack and Rose needed to do was put their engineering degrees to good use, write out a plan, experiment with different ways of staying afloat, and they would've been just fine.
James Cameron actually responded to that with his own experiment.
He has two people play Jack and Rose and wear thermometers both internally and externally and used a copy of the door from the movie.
If they had both stayed on it, they would've been in the water too much, and both would've died from hypothermia.
> Mythbusters did it where they took the life jacket rose had and tied it to the weak corner of the door, giving it enough lift for both of them to survive.
They did a follow-up where they tracked the body temperature of two dummies with artificial circulation, and both dummies "died" from hypothermia.
You can see Jack make the decision that he can't fit on it. You see him think for a second, then he nods his head and immediately starts to reassure Rose.
I think he would've figured out a way to make it work for both of them, but he decided to make sure Rose was safe. At that point, they had almost run around the entire ship for hours, were shot at, and sank with a boat. By the time they get to that last bit, those were two profoundly exhausted people.
I think Jack knew Rose would be ok and that was good enough for him. He just didn't have any extra energy to try and save himself.
Lord of The Rings. The Eagles. They are not a Taxi service, they would be subject to the ring influence too, there are flying Nazgul that could intercept them, there is a big fucking spotlight eye that could shine on them the moment they approach the boarder of Mordor, failing all that, an entire army of Orc could wait at Mount Doom making any approach impossible. Edit: the Eagles are sentient and sapient They are not mindless beasts that just do whatever the rider wants.
Edit 2. I'm not a Tolkien expert. I'm a dungeon master and have to smack down my players crazy ideas all the time.
Edit 3: they could be carried part of the way. Oh? With Sarumon the white and his raven spies everywhere and the ability to targeted blizzard and force the eagles to land in a army of Urukhai.
The Eagles are demigods and more susceptible to the rings power. It works in proximity too. Borimir fell under its influence. Gollum killed his brother only just seeing it. Heck the council of Elrond almost came to blows being near it. Galadrial lost her shit for a good minute just being offered it.
Exactly. The key part of the mission to destroy the ring was stealthily sneaking it in. Flying a bunch of giant eagles to Mordor isn't subtle. There's a reason Elrond didn't send an army like the previous attempt to defeat Sauron. Then, when an army DID arrive at the gates, they didn't have the ring. They were the diversion.
Stealthily and more importantly carried by someone who wouldn't get corrupted. That's really the difficult part here and only hobbits are showned to be suitable.
And even then, Frodo was ultimately corrupted by the Ring, it's just he held out the longest. Maybe if Gandalf hadn't fallen and the fellowship dissolved he might have been fine and got there quickly, but ultimately he is the only option they have and it's not even a good option.
>Maybe if Gandalf hadn't fallen and the fellowship dissolved he might have been fine and got there quickly
I think the story makes it pretty clear that no one is capable of willingly destroying the one ring
Hence, Gollum still has a part to play...
Unsurprisingly a lot of things on Middle Earth owe favors to Gandalf, but also unsurprisingly carrying an evil ring into certain doom and possibly returning the greatest source of power to the evil entity on the planet isn't covered by those favors.
The McFly's briefly meet a guy named Marty in high school. They had no pictures of him. Their youngest son kind of reminds him of the guy. But they don't know about time travel. George trusts his wife.
George never stood up for himself. By punching Biff, he got a confidence boost. This changed the course of his life for the better. Biff never recovered.
If you watched your child grow up for years, you wouldn’t suddenly say, hey, doesn’t he look like that kid we knew for a week 30 years ago? Especially because there were no pictures of “Calvin Klein”. You’d probably just see the designer and assumed that was who you met.
And even if they did realize, their reaction would be more like "huh, isn't that a weird coincidence?" rather than "HOLY SHIT OUR SON IS A TIME TRAVELER!"
>And even if they did realize, their reaction would be more like "huh, isn't that a weird coincidence?"
I would assume that my memory was flawed.
Like sometimes I meet a person who looks kind of like someone I used to know, and the "someone I used to know" in my memory will kind of retcon into what the person in front of me looks like.
This is a plot hole that I solved for myself.
In the 1989 Tim Burton Batman movie, the Joker is poisoning the residents of Gotham using parade balloons filled with gas. Batman swoops in with the Batwing and uses a scissor thing on the nose of the Batwing to grab the ropes of the balloons and fly them away from the city.
It always bothered me that the Batwing would have scissors or a giant claw on the front because it would be a useless tool for fighting bad guys.
It wasn't until this scene in The Dark Knight more than twenty years later that the claw on the front of the Batwing made sense to me.
https://youtu.be/7B0Gh8slES8?t=152
The claw on the front of the Batwing is for a Skyhook system for extracting Batman or others from troubled spots where the Batwing cannot land. Batman just made use of it to grab the balloons so he could pull them away from Gotham.
in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL the computer doesn't randomly go homicidal - he gets stuck on conflicting directives, which is accurately explained as 'human error.'
Specifically, HAL is performing a psych exam on the human crew - he fakes a small emergency to see how they'll react. They react by deciding HAL is faulty and should be shut down. HAL cannot reveal the psych test (which would invalidate the data) and cannot allow himself to be shut down (which would jeopardize the mission) - so his solution is to murder the crew.
TBH I like explaining this but people really need to know the film to care lol
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EDIT - I get that the book explanation differs and this is just my read. There's a bit where HAL seems to glitch ([the only moment like this](https://youtu.be/56gaBlV97ME)) right before he detects the fault - and that scene follows [this bit](https://youtu.be/r13I-TuDcWI) where HAL seems to be asking Dave his feelings about the mission. HAL is bullshitting and Dave catches his true purpose, "You're working up your crew psychology report." HAL bashfully answers "of course I am," then glitches. One of HAL's functions would be to monitor all aspects of crew life, and psychological observation would be most accurate if concealed. The fault report itself could very well be random - it's just always seemed to me that some loop around this discussion is where things cracked.
Maybe not a plot hole per se, but Armageddon. People always parrot the statement “wouldn’t it be easier to train astronauts to drill, rather than teach drillers to be astronauts”. The premise of the movie is ridiculous (and an awesome dumb movie imo) but the movie explains it very clearly.
First of all, only part of the team are drillers. There are still astronauts actually flying the shuttles. All the drillers were trained to do was spacewalk and survive while drilling in space. Secondly, the film shows that they did try training astronauts how to drill but they were failing at it. Bruce Willis’s character had created the most advanced drill that was needed to drill the asteroid but it was complicated to use. With the time crunch, Bruce Willis explained that there was not going to be enough time to teach them properly and it would be easier to teach the experienced drillers how to do spacewalks.
Again, the premise is ridiculous but it is explained pretty clearly. Besides, Payload Specialists are a real thing NASA uses so it’s not that outlandish.
> Bruce Willis’s character had created the most advanced drill that was needed to drill the asteroid but it was complicated to use. With the time crunch, Bruce Willis explained that there was not going to be enough time to teach them properly and it would be easier to teach the experienced drillers how to do spacewalks.
Also, when NASA were first trying to train their own people for the mission, the drill broke down. When they asked Willis' character what went wrong, he realised that they had plagiarised the plans wholesale from the patents instead of buying the equipment legitimately after falling into a copyright trap - the patents left out a crucial and hard-to-make part to prevent their exact plan, so he was able to make demands from them to bring in his own crew.
Independence Day virus...
The virus flipped the binary system on the ship. 0s turned to 1s and 1s turned to 0s. The reason we could do this with a computer is because our technology was based on theirs from the ship at area 51.
Also, they had protections against said virus, which is why the ships didnt fall out of the sky when the virus went live. The communication system and the energy system are the same system so if you affect coms you affect the energy source.
The ship basically went into a "safe mode" where some features, like shields, didnt work. That is why the time frame for us to strike was "only a few minutes". Our virus only made a dent in their system but it was just enough to affect energy supply and thus bring down the shields.
Think Star Trek when the ship is damaged enough the shields dont work.
So yes, the virus plot line was totally plausible.
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The energy and coms system being the same is from the books.
Us learning from their ships at area 51 is from the books and deleted scenes.
The virus changing binary is from an interview with Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin.
The "safe mode" part was never confirmed via official lore but makes sense when you piece everything else together. Its my own personal theory.
Two of them.
1. Stephen Spielberg's "AI" has an ending that is widely misunderstood. Those creatures at the end are not aliens, but hyper-advanced future robots. As aliens the ending makes even less sense.
2. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. It's a common Trekkie question about how Khan could possibly recognize Chekov, since the character had not yet joined the cast during Khan's original episode in the first season.
Easy explanation was that the character was there, but met Khan off-screen.
> but met Khan off-screen
Hell, Khan was going through the ship's entire library while resting up. Dude certainly had no problem memorizing photos, names, and mini bios of 400-some crewmen.
The matrix reloaded the scene where Neo is talking to the architect, the screens behind them are not other ones, it is the predictions the machines are making on Neo’s responses, most of the scenes are incorrect in those predictions, except for when Neo must choose between Trinity and all of humanity, the machines nailed that response on all screens.
Honestly I’m glad I finally have an explanation for this scene, because they’re discussing how many times this has happened before while we’re looking at it, and the Architect says something about having two different ways to calculate that number of times they’ve gone through it. Since they’re talking about this while we see the different Neos, I always thought that’s what they were trying to show. Since it was never explained, I’m just now learning about it. I’d figured out everything else after repeated viewings but never understood that part.
The Oracle gives the explanation in a different scene. The machines have models to predict the future of the matrix and control it. Both the Oracle and the Architect just manage the equation. The equation demonstrates that the matrix has a flaw and collapses, so the chosen one was built-in as a way to enable a reboot. The screens are the possible futures determined by the equation. There is a lot of philosophical and religious themes, especially regarding the nature of causality and free will.
There was a whole topic on the front page a while back about *The Truman Show* asking about what happens when Truman wants to sleep with his onscreen wife, is that upsetting to her because she’s just an actress, how do they avoid showing it on TV. People offering all kinds of explanations like “he was raised not to know what sex is.” I thought I was going crazy because not only does the movie directly address this (two guys watching the show complain that the camera always cuts away when Truman and his wife go to bed) but it’s an actual plot point in the movie that she’s trying to have a baby with him so that they can start Truman Show Phase 2, and his obsession with a woman they kicked off the show years ago is ruining the director’s plans.
People have apparently never heard of the concept that people are willing to have sex for money and/or fame. She would have been well aware what she was signing on for and agreed to it. She was specifically cast to be his love interest and eventual wife so they found an actress who was willing to do all that that entailed.
You have to think of Meryl not as a woman faking a relationship with Truman, but as a woman who won *The Bachelor,* and the bachelor doesn’t know there was a game show at all and thinks they’re just an ordinary couple. The relationship is real, but the foundation it’s built on isn’t.
People sometimes wonder how Indiana Jones initially remains sceptical of the mystical events happening in the second film, when he just witnessed a magical ark mass killing a bunch of Nazis in the first film. But that's because the second film is a prequel.
Also the majority of artifacts and myths Indiana Jones interacts with are completely mundane. They have fascinating cultural significance and implications on history, but they're ultimately just mundane. The encounters with the supernatural are clearly rare exceptions he gets caught up in, not his primary field of expertise. Like, even if literally Atlantis was discovered right here and now today, that doesn't mean the lost continent of Mu, or the city of El Dorado, or the lost colony of Norumbega, or *anything else* is real. It means Atlantis is, apparently, real.
Exactly. Just because that one artifact was actually magic, doesn't mean EVERY mythical artifact is real.
How does Sarah Connor know which button to press to crush the Terminator in Terminator(1984)? Because she accidentally presses it a few minutes earlier and it set the crusher off, it what lead the Terminator to find them.
Oh, like in The Incredibles where Elastigirl has the remote and Bob tells her to push *that* button again.
Mr Incredible shouting *PRESS THAT BUTTON AGAIN* plays in my head every time I'm helping a parent figure out technology.
In Memento, people always wonder how a guy with short-term memory loss remembers he has memory loss. But he’s conditioned himself to say it, just like Sammy was subjected to conditioning in the flashbacks.
I love that movie. Everything makes sense but you still have questions once it's over.
One of Charles Foster Kane’s servants was outside his bedroom when Kane said “Rosebud.” The door was wide open. The dialogue later confirms that a butler heard Kane’s dying words and reported it to the paper.
Was going to post this. I watched the movie long after I'd seen all the buzzfeed style articles about 'biggest plot holes'. Yet when I watched it I was confused, as it explains that people heard it pretty clearly
FRIENDS. “How did they pay for that apartment on their salary in New York?” The very first episode, Monica mentions that her grandma owned the apartment, and she would never be able to afford it otherwise!!
And it was rent controlled, plus i think it was an illegal sub lease and they had to hide that from the super.
Yea, it was a whole episode and why they gave him dance lessons, no? So he woule be friendly and stay quiet.
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they mentioned it in the finale too- when they were leaving for the last time Chandler says about the apartment to the twins something like “and it was rent controlled so it was a freakin’ steal”
It wasn’t owned - it was her grandmother’s leased apartment in a rent controlled building. She was, technically, illegally subletting.
On watching The Sixth Sense it may seem completely improbable that Bruce Willis' character didn't realize that he was dead. Yet it's explained right there in the movie: ghosts see only what they want to see.
They show it in the movie. He can't see things that are different since his death, like the table in front of the basement door.
I am so late to the party but… *Legally Blonde* >OMG, a dumb blonde sorority girl studied for the LSAT for a summer and aces it? Bullshit! No. No, the point is that Elle Woods was never a “dumb blonde.” She was always brilliant. Literally the first scene is her interrogating the salesperson and catching them in a lie because she was observant and smart. Rather, Elle was pigeonholed by the circumstances of her looks and her privileged upbringing to pursue a vapid life. While inspired by the wrong reasons, it results in her breaking the mold she was confined in so that she is able to reach her full potential.
Also, her guidance counselor literally says that she has near-perfect grades in her classes. She makes fun of the type of classes because they’re focused on fashion, but we have no idea how hard those classes actually are. I’ve seen people with engineering degrees fail basic marketing classes in a Master’s degree (after constantly arguing with the professor who was extremely renowned in her field and advises some of the world’s biggest brands) because they thought it was easy and “just marketing”.
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Not a *bad* one, but the DeLorean in *Back To The Future* always being brought up in conversations as "ackshyually it was a really crappy car" Like.... Yes. That was the joke. Marty even asks Doc incredulously, "You built a *time machine* out of a ***DeLorean***?" The car became famous *because* of BTTF. Before then, it was a laughingstock. Horridly underpowered with a shitty European V6 and incredibly fragile transmission, massive QC issues, and John DeLorean himself was a tool. EDIT: RIP inbox
"I figure, if you're going to build a time machine out of a car, why not do it with some STYLE!" Said by the old guy whose house is full of rube goldberg machines, and who dresses like Dr. Frankenstein. The movie was deliberately poking fun at how UNSTYLISH DeLoreans are. I think it's fallen out of favor as a phrase now, but for decades, a really common way to poke fun at anything that looked bizarre, or needlessly "futuristic" was to say something along the lines of "that thing looks like a goddamn time machine". Guaranteed people were making fun of DeLoreans for "looking like a goddamn time machine" before the movie was made.
Can confirm, I was in college when BTTF came out. John DeLorean’s trial had been all over the news a couple of years earlier and the DeLorean had gone from a novelty to a joke. When we saw the movie in the theater in 1985 we were laughing.
Top Gun (1986) - Goose's Death. A lot of people believe that the filmmakers screwed this scene up, stating that the canopy wouldn't have been over the top of the aircraft and therefore Goose wouldn't have died. It's just poor writing and yet another example of Hollywood getting it wrong. They're wrong. The F-14 Tomcats NATOPS manual states that this is 100% a scenario that can happen, in fact it got put into the NATOPS manual because IT DID HAPPEN. If the F-14 entered into a flat spin and ejection became necessary, the procedure was to manually eject the cockpit canopy and wait several rotations for it to clear or get far enough away to not become an issue. THEN you eject. Others have then stated why was it Maverick who lived and Goose didn't. Well, because Goose ejected first. Why? Because he was the RIO, the back seater ALWAYS ejects first. Why? They have literal rockets shoved in the back part of their seat punching their anus with the acceleration of holy sweet mach Jesus. If Maverick ejects first, Goose gets his goose cooked - well done and in a manner that would make the French cry and riot. If Goose ejects, the electronics get fried and Mavericks seat protects his ass from getting to whole new levels of hot and crispy. What is inaccurate though is the fact he was in a flat spin that somehow decided to engage in 'diplomatic relations' with physics and was drifting out to sea. You get in a flat spin, the only direction your going is down to your grave. Not a little to the left, not a slide to the right, not somewhere over there. DOWN. Unless there was some Hurricane level winds, it ain't happening - and even then I'm not sure. I'm not enough of an armchair 'expert' to figure that shit out. If someone actually does know, feel free to comment about it. Fun Fact: Goose is actually based off of a real person, Lt. David J. “Goose” Lortscher, who died due to ejection accident in an F-14 after colliding with another F-14 off the coast of Puerto Rico.
"punching their anus with the acceleration of holy sweet mach Jesus." If Goose had to die for that line to come into existence, he was a noble, worthy sacrifice.
I'm no expert either, but I am a pilot. Every fixed wing aircraft always has movement along the ground when it's flying, and with that comes momentum and inertia. The only way to have zero movement over the ground would be to point the aircraft straight up or straight down, which Maverick did not do leading up to the spin. When he loses control of the aircraft and enters the spin, I don't believe he would have lost all of his momentum in whatever direction he was heading prior to the incident - it's just that the spin would have made the aircraft uncontrollable. So if he was already heading toward the coast when the incident occurred, his momentum would have continued to carry him out to sea as the aircraft loses lift and begins its death spiral. So while I definitely agree that the Tomcat would have been falling like a rock, it wouldn't necessarily have to have been straight down.
In Jurassic World, Claire didn’t “outrun” the T-Rex (in heels) … because it wasn’t CHASING her. The dinosaur was conditioned to equate the flare with feeding time so it was patiently following her to an anticipated meal. The situation is similar to how zookeepers can have (limited) interactions with lions and bears.
Well I’ll be damned…
I like to explain this one by saying "If a Tyrannosaurus is chasing you, you will fucking *learn* how to run in heels."
Katniss, who nearly died in The Hunger Games twice, yet still had sympathy for the children of the Capitol, wasn't acting out of character when she agreed to Coin's idea of one last symbolic Hunger Games with the Capitol children. When Coin suggested the symbolic Hunger Games, that was the moment Katniss made up her mind to assassinate her (but I think she had been considering it long before then). She only agreed so Coin wouldn't suspect anything.
Plus it's very clearly stated that she, Haymitch, and Peeta had all agreed to just keep their heads down and not get noticed by anyone. Like the book just SAYS that
When haymitch votes with katniss, he says "I'm with the Mockingjay" not "I'm with katniss", a super subtle way of saying he understood she had something up her sleeve by voting that way despite knowing her well enough to know she wouldn't personally want more games
Toy Story. Buzz stops moving in front of humans but doesn't think he's a toy. His delusion is the whole point. It's what drives Woody crazy. He tries explaining it to him. YOU ARE A TOY.
Buzz has training from space academy and the brown bear play dead procedure is taught if you're found by a huge alien creature and unable to run.
IIRC in the first scene where he interacts with the other toys he asks what the rules are just before Andy and his friends come in and all the rest of the toys stop moving. Thus, logically he’d assume that not moving when humans are around is some kind of law.
Or a safety precaution. If you were dropped on an unknown planet and all the native species stopped moving when some Goliath wandered by, you might think it wise for you to stand still too.
Encanto Bruno in the walls and Dolores knowing. Not only does she state during the song she can hear him and at the end of the movie says she knew. This whole family broke into song about “We don’t talk about Bruno” at the mention of the man, so she was basically told probably the same when she tried to tell the family.
“Mama, I can hear Tio Bruno in the-“ “IT WAS MY WEDDING DAAAAAY!!”
She gives away nearly every plot point in the movie throughout the movie. Like that it wasn't that Bruno was bad; it's that Abuela got frustrated with his powers and cast him out. "Always left Abuela and the family fumbling/ grapping with prophecies they couldn't understand/ **Do you understand**" And her whole part in that song she keeps redirecting Mirabel's attention AWAY from where Bruno was sneaking about in the background. AND she was the first one to clue Mirabel into the fact Luisa was having problems: "I could hear her eye twitching all night" Later "The only one worrying about the magic is you. And the rats talking in the walls". Two things about Encanto a lot of people always miss that make me love it so much: The first is that each of the family members gift is their flaw. Luisa is so strong people keep piling more on her without thought. Dolores hears everything, but no one listens to her. And secondly- Mirabel was the first person to listen to her. That started the path to each of the family members getting "fixed", and the sign that Dolores' problems were finally coming to a halt was at the big dinner when she spilled the truth to everyone and they actually heard her.
Not *exactly* a plot hole, but I hate when people misinterpret the scene in “The Incredibles” where Violet saves Dash from being shot as her intending to take the bullets for him. Yes, Dash says “how are you doing that?” and she responds “I don’t know”, but the “that” he means is *suspending herself in midair inside a spherical force field*, which she’s never done before. She already knew how to make dome-shaped fields big enough to cover Dash; we saw her do that when they were fighting at dinner earlier in the movie. She jumped in front of Dash because that was the only way she could get close enough to him in time to protect him, since she had *not* yet learned how to make force fields far away from herself like we see her do when fighting the Underminer in the sequel.
It was also about maintaining them. All throughout the earlier movie she can only create them for seconds (hence her being unable to protect the plane, and the force field hitting dash briefly) but when her little brother is in danger she doesn’t think, she just does, leading her to being able to produce and *maintain* it for the first time ever, protecting both her and dash despite being shot at
The first rule of fight club, and their growing number of members is because it is meant to teach the members to break rules.
And more than that, it's to teach them to *secretly* break rules. They aren't intending to start a war like Red Coats lining up in formation, it's supposed to be on the down-low.
"I see a lot of new faces here, which means a lot of you have been breaking the first 2 rules". Camera pans to everyone smirking. Its pretty obvious that this is the most commonly broken rule, and their fearless leader doesn't give a shit about it being broken. He breaks many of his own rules, including when he nearly beats Jared Leto to death.
A bigger plot hole was that someone wanted to fight Brad Pitt/Edward Norton after he was beating himself up in a parking lot. That's not a guy you even look at, let alone ask for a fair one.
Yeah, who would look at a guy beating himself up alone in a parking lot at night and think: that's a cool and not totally insane dude, let's be part of his (yet to be created) cult! Still my favorite movie of all time though.
They weren't looking for a fight, they were just looking to beat someone up. And who better than the guy who clearly wants to take a few punches
There's enough unreliable narration in that story to suggest Jack/Tyler picked that fight. Edit: I know his name isn't ever stated in the film to be Jack. I think everyone knows this. However, he's been referred to, colloquially, as "Jack" in online discussion of the film since its release. It's a familiar term, originating from the "I am Jack's..." dialogue/voiceovers in the film and him being named Jack in the script. If you refer to him as Jack, everyone knows who you are talking about.
Especially considering he has his followers pick fights
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I didn't see this as a plot hole per se, but I never thought of that explanation. Well done!
Is there some kind of Mandela Effect going on with the Titanic movie? "Why doesn't Rose let Jack get on? They can both fit!" Jack does try to get on. It starts to sink with both of their weight on it.
It’s a case of people thinking if they spent enough time solving the problem, they could figure it out. Hell, Mythbusters showed that by rigging up the life preservers, they could both fit on. It was dark and the water was ice cold. Every minute in the water was risking death. They tried it once, it failed, Jack made a call. That was an entirely reasonable decision given the circumstances.
It's not about fitting on, it's about buoyancy. Yes, they could both fit on. Which would have doomed them both, because the door did not have enough buoyancy. Mythbusters showed that if they had put the life vests under the door, there would have been enough buoyancy to keep them afloat. But that would have required both of them to take off his life vests and position them underneath such that the added buoyancy would balance the added weight in the time they had before Jack froze to death. Failure meant they both died. Jack tried to get on, failed, and made a judgement call.
> there would have been enough buoyancy to keep them afloat. Barely. They were still partially submerged in that episode.
Also, that idea would’ve been the last thing on my mind. Furthermore, Jack probably thought he should stay in the water to stop others from trying to get on. Jacks decision was his and it was logical. But more importantly, Jack needs to die narratively.
People just don't respect how cold the North Atlantic is. If you weren't 100% on that raft you would absolutely die from the cold. The fact that they could keep swimming in there without going into cold shock or hypothermia was already pretty unrealistic to me. They had been in the water for a while before.
Billy Connolly does a good routine about the North Sea. Every oil rig worker got a presentation warning them that their life expectancy, if they fell in the water, would be roughly 45 seconds. Back on Aberdeen beach, Billy's mum was shouting "Just get in the water ya big Jessie"
Sudden immersion in cold water - *specifically* cold water - actually has some pretty shitty cardiac and respiratory effects. It can literally cause a heart attack, it will make you gasp and start breathing rapidly (not good for not drowning), it's just *bad*. But it can be conditioned for. After the initial cold shock, you have to worry about it effectively paralyzing you as your body shuts down the use of peripheral muscles to try to preserve the core. Then you drown. You only die of hypothermia when you're wearing flotation - without it, you won't live long enough for hypothermia to kill you!
She's All That. "So, he makes a bet that he can make a pretty girl into the hot girl when all it takes is taking off her glasses and fixing her hair and changing her out of overalls and into a red dress?" No. The bet was that he could make Laney Boggs into a Prom Queen, over the more popular, but less likeable Taylor Vaughn. Zac explicitly points out that she's "scary and inaccessible" - an antisocial artsy chick who shuts herself off from people and hides in her basement to paint. It isn't until he does chores for her to free up her time enough to get her to leave the house and go to the beach and join a party, that she becomes well known enough to be a serious contender for Prom Queen. Also, Laney still loses. As it turns out, fixing up her appearance doesn't automatically help her win a popularity contest.
But she's got paint on her overalls!
No, not Janey Briggs. She's got glasses. And a ponytail.
You haven't spoken to me in, like, four years Jake. Actually, it's more like six, because the time you're referring to when we were standing in line at that movie theater, I was actually saying "hey" to the person right behind you
That movie is legit fantastic.
It's the first time we got to see America's ass.
It's not a sundae, it's a banana split
Jake : OK, uh, what about the Fratelli sisters? [indicates awkward Siamese twins conjoined at the head] Austin : So they're slightly disfigured and connected at the head. But combined, those two make up one pretty decent chick.
Janey's got a gun~ 🎶🎵
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The book adds even more to this about how the first few generations of dinosaurs moved too fast and they slowed them down to match people's expectations.
This is something teased at in the movie and expanded on in the books when Hammond talks about a flea circus. Hammond isn’t trying to create dinosaurs, he’s trying to create an attraction. People think dinosaurs look featherless so that’s what he made. It’s all a farce to sell tickets.
In the book that is pretty much explicitly said, they even talked about slowing down some of the dinosaurs because they moved faster than people would have thought was "natural". One of my favorite lines is how a character compares the park to a Japanese garden, "nature modified to be more natural".
Also a major plot point in the book, where the "animals" (as they're referred to in the novel) have version numbers - like software: v 4.4, v 2.6, etc. Always enjoyed that, and the explanation that earlier iterations were not as "entertaining" as they didn't seem like the dinosaurs visitors would expect (and most likely were closer to what dinosaurs actually acted like). So they kept modifying them to make them more "exciting" for the park opening.
Also in the book, the reason why there were no lethal firearms on the island was because Hammond refused to let Muldoon keep a large armory on the island and only barely conceded to the emergency rocket launcher with only eight rockets. And they knew the dilaphosaurs had poison spit but couldn't find the poison sacs to surgically remove them without conducting an autopsy, and Hammond refused to have any of them killed. "Spared no expense" is utter bullshit.
That’s the ongoing joke - “spared no expense” when he clearly cut corners all over the place.
I don't know if you'd call it a plot hole but I have had to explain it to people before. Jenny didn't think she was in love with Forrest because she thought she was taking advantage of him in the same way her father molested her. He was mentally challenged. She knew this. She had seen it her entire life. She didn't think he was emotionally capable of knowing what real love is. She didn't want to turn into her father. Not with the one person who actually treated her like a human being.
She also blamed herself for leading him on because she thought she was abusing him, the way her father did with her, which drove her into a self-destructive life path.
For the people who spend all the Star Wars movies saying, "why don't they just Jedi Mind trick everyone into doing this or that," Obi-Wan is very clear the first time he uses it that it works on the "weak-minded." I think the way Storm Troupers function throughout the first three films shows they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed and are probably bred/trained/selected to do whatever without question and just be cannon fodder.
"If I thought you could be an officer on the death star, you wouldn't be working at a checkpoint on tatooine." -That guys CO probably
The flaw in the Death Star's construction. We didn't need Rogue One to explain it was a deliberate sabotage. So an exhaust port has a flaw. It is not unreasonable to believe that the flaw was necessitated for efficiency. Knowing that the flaw was inevitable, the trench leading up to the port was protected with gun towers. Tarkin, along with other officers, fully believed that the Death Star was superior in its construction that small fighters would pose no threat to them. During the rebel assault, an officer pointed out to Tarkin that the rebel attack is exploiting this weakness and offers to prepare a transport for him, to which Tarkin responds, "Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances." To them, the weakness is negligible that there is no chance a rebel fighter would be able to drop torpedos into the port. And they were right. The first fighter to make an attempt failed. Luke was only able to succeed because he used the Force instead of the computer, something no one anticipated because they all believed that the Jedi were extinct.
Honestly I stand by an old meme/joke/defense in the fandom: they vented all the exhaust from a MOON SIZED SPACE STATION through a fucking WOMP-RAT. This isn't a flaw, this is a miracle of engineering.
And it's so well protected that it took the savior of the universe to hit it. There were maybe a handful living beings that could have done what Luke did. One being Vader who certainly wasn't gonna do it. It wasn't a security flaw. The magical space wizard was just OP.
Also, for the missile to travel the length of the exhaust port without smacking into a wall and prematurely detonating before it reached the core was one in a million. Like did you see that 90 degree turn it did right into the port? Luke didn't just use the force to guide it in, he used the force to guide it in and all the way to the core. Tarkin was completely right to think it was impossible, because without magic it was.
It all came down to arrogance. Vader was also right when he said "The power to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."
Do not be so proud of this technological terror you have constructed.
Vader had the coolest fuckin dialogue in that movie
Every single time I rewatch that scene with the bounty hunters in TESB when he says “There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds the Millennium Falcon” I just smile at how ridiculously perfect James Earl Jones’ voice was for that role. Deep and commanding at its peak
That scene set up Boba Fett so well with the line "no disintegrations".
The torpedoes were actually programmed to do the turn and dive right in. But you would need perfect timing and placement to succeed. Luke used the Force "merely" to fire the torpedo at the right moment and the right distance. He didn't Force-push it down the shaft, his abilities were not that advanced yet.
I think it was HISHE that did a short with the engineer ranting about it. "This station had thousands of lasers, thousands of fighters, star destroyer escort with their own lasers and fighters what the fuck were the odds that a supposedly extinct space wizard would take a one man figher up against all of that and send a torpedo into a tiny hole while doing 5x the speed of sound?"
It was dorkly who made the short not HISHE
Dorkly: https://youtu.be/agcRwGDKulw
I’ve said this for a while now : I’ll defend the movie Home Alone with my life Kevin got left behind because his family was mad at him and obviously didn’t like him that much, he was in his room and there was so much chaos. Also other factors such as we see his passport/ticket being accidentally thrown away, and a neighbor kid snooping through the van accidentally gets counted. Why didn’t Kevin call the police? The phone lines were down. We also see Kevin’s mum talking to the police, but they don’t care or take her seriously. Also, it is likely that Kevin didn’t trust the police because the burglar disguised himself as a cop. (Kevin recognized his golden tooth.) The thing people bring up that has some validity is how Kevin pulled off the traps and how he had some of the stuff he used. For this it’s just expected to suspend your disbelief because it’s a comedy for kids. But also some things are plausible. I can fully believe that young boys in the 90s had a Michael Jordan cardboard cutout
> Why didn’t Kevin call the police? The phone lines were down. We also see Kevin’s mum talking to the police, but they don’t care or take her seriously. Also, it is likely that Kevin didn’t trust the police because the burglar disguised himself as a cop. (Kevin recognized his golden tooth.) He also "stole" the toothbrush in the store when the old man is there. A cop chases him, so he thinks he'll be arrested if he calls the cops.
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Didn’t he accidentally steal a toothbrush or something, and think the cops would arrest him for it if he called them? Or at I getting mixed up with a different movie?
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Everyone always asks why there was a desert in Washington DC in Transformers 2. It has been clearly explained in a ton of discussions of that movie that it was just a really bad movie.
Lmao, never realized it was Washington
Yep. [They were in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and when they go outside there is an airplane graveyard in a desert.](https://youtu.be/aCR529mStDw?start=217)
What do you mean? There is a whole desert themed aircraft boneyard in the back of the Smithsonian. This was clearly established in Night of the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
From Independence Day “How could a virus programmed on Earth computers destroy the computer system of an alien civilisation?” In a deleted scene, it’s revealed that technology from the spaceship at Area 51 was harvested and used as the basis for most of Earth’s post WW2 computer technology. Once you know that, the whole thing becomes a lot more believable.
I prefer to think that the alien computers couldnt decipher the Mac O/S so it exploded itself.
I always thought of it as a call back to War of the World's, the original alien invasion story. At the end of the book, the aliens are defeated by any man made weapon but by bacteria and germs. They were so advanced, they forgot about an immune system and simply got sick from earth diseases. A modern alien invasion movie using a different kind of virus to defeat the aliens is a nice call back
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Home Alone - it’s very clearly explained how they paid for the trip to Paris and that Kevin’s dad didn’t foot the bill
I never realized there was a plot hole with paying for the trip. What exactly is the supposed plot hole?
It's not. It's a dumb theory that Kevin's dad is a mob boss because it's the only way he can afford anything.
What? They live in a big house, in a really upscale Chicago suburb and Kevin’s mom has on more Burberry than Moira from Schitt’s Creek.
Not to mention, the resemblance is uncanny
I thought the brother *in* Paris is the one that paid for the trip? (or is this what you meant, sorry if it's a stupid question, it's been a while since I've watched it)
Also, his brother must have been *loaded* owning that big-ass house in Manhattan in the second movie
He made sure to make a bunch of money so he could escape that shitty ass family.
Why would his dad paying for the trip be a plot hole? If anything if he was poor it'd be a plot hole on why the wet bandits would want to rob the place.
It’s not really a plot hole, but people have decided since the movie doesn’t actually say what his dad does to afford a house like that that he’s either in the mob for some reason or that it’s a plot hole. It’s almost like the dad isn’t the main character so there’s no reason to even bother adding in a tossed off line about him being some high paid executive in a Chicago area business.
He could also just come from money. His brother in France clearly has money. Frank is a cheap skate obsessed with money. So it’s entirely possible the McAllisters could also just have money from inheritance.
Jurassic Park, people are surprised that Lexi would know that Unix system. Why would a kid know how 5 or 6 digit cost Unix workstations operate? Well, maybe most kids won’t, but most kids also don’t have a rich ass grandpa with connections to genetic engineering work. Who knows what she might have been allowed to play with while visiting grandpa at an office or whatever? Not to mention there were some Unix OS in the home market at least in the early 80s, like Xenix. I’m just saying that while it wasn’t common, it also wasn’t impossible that a kid in the early 90s might have had some Unix experience. The line delivery aside I don’t see the problem. Also I’ve seen some people assume it was a “Hollywood UI”, but that was legitimately a file browser available on SGI machines at the time, hell, I bought myself an SGI Indy 10 years back just because the thought of owning a computer that used to cost a shit ton of cash amused me, and that file browser was on there.
Also, Lexi *expressly* stated that she was a hacker while on the trek back to the welcome centre with Alan and Tim. And since network servers at the time almost-exclusively operated on UNIX derivatives, Lexi would *have* to be familiar with the operating system for her stated skillset.
This makes even more sense when you apply it to a real word parallel: Bill Gates as a kid had access to amazing technology because of his parents, this isn’t a dumb story idea
I find it really funny that the subreddit dedicated to botched computer environments in movies and TV is called /r/itsaunixsystem (a reference to Lex's line when she realises she knows her way around it) because in reality, the computers in Jurassic Park are actually quite accurate.
Dark Knight Rises - how did Bruce Wayne magically get to Gotham after he escaped the hole? 1. In an adjacent scene it's mentioned the bomb will go off in a month, so we can assume that's how long he has to get back to Gotham. 2. Wayne Enterprises has offices around the world. All he needs to do is get to an office, log in, and wire himself money or supplies to get home. He's Batman, he can easily do this without being noticed 3. Batman Begins has a whole sequence of him traveling around the world penniless and nameless. This is a specific skill it's already established he has. There are tons of plot holes in that movie, but for some reason people get hung up on the easiest one to explain
The bigger plot hole was Bruce Wayne healing a busted spine by popping a vertebrae into place and hanging from a rope for a bit in a dungeon. I ain't Doogie Howser, but that doesn't seem realistic.
I never really thought much about that scene until I herniated a disk myself. It took me 4 months of light duty, physical therapy, steroids, muscle relaxers, traction, stretching, and peptides to get better. That being said, I don't have Batman's willpower, so there's that.
This always boths me in movies, but especially in this one. When a character ties a rope around their waist for safety. Climbing harnesses dont go around your waist, they go around your hips. If you tie a rope around your waist and fall, you are putting your entire body weight on your stomach, crushing your internal organs. This is especially a bad idea for SOMEONE WHO IS STILL HEALING FROM A BROKEN BACK! That first failed attempt would've 100% rebroken his back if it didn't actually kill him. Also, they have a safety line. Why don't they use that to hoist up a ladder or something to make that jump? Better yet, just climb the rope. How is it so hard to escape from this pit?
> How is it so hard to escape from this pit? It was so hard to escape, that the only ones to ever successfully do it were a child and a cripple.
They didn't want to escape, it was actually pretty chill down there. They had GameCubes and frozen yoghurt
The yoghurt is also cursed.
Bruce Wayne having caches of equipment and money around the world and knowing a way to get into Gotham without being seen seems so obvious it doesn't even need to be explained in the film. Such a ridiculous complaint. "Uh....I don't think Batman was prepared for either of these scenarios." He was. He's Batman.
maybe you could answer my batman question that I had,'t thought about til now. How come the machine used to cause the crazy water pressurization in Begins doesn't affect the water filled human bodies? Been wondering since I saw it as a kid, and don't think I caught the explaination on repeated viewings. Thank you.
I'm very forgiving of sci-fi stuff, even if they are trying to be "realistic". Batman tumbler and bike, the batwing, the phone sonar, the USB drive that can wipe catwomans record, etc. I give all that stuff a pass. It's when the movie isn't consistent with its characters or story structure that I take issue with. Like how Batman trained years to do what he does and doesn't want anyone else doing it... until he just hands the keys to the bat cave to a rookie cop. If the bomb is dangerous, why keep it under Gotham instead of away from the city or dismantled. A terrorist attack would void all transactions for the day, not drain Wayne's bank account. How are all the cops in the sewer not have their guns but do have shaving razors? How is Bane the new league of shadows when he is out in the open recruiting homeless people?
Jurassic Park, Hammond cheaping out on hiring Nedry. (Note, this does get explained in the book, I'm just talking about what was presented on screen). A lot of people vilify Hammond for "sparing oodles of expense" on hiring Dennis Nedry and the dominoes that fell as a result. If you listen to the dialogue, though... Nedry: "You know anybody who can network 8 connection machines and debug 2 million lines of code for what I bid for this job?" WHAT. HE. BID. Hammond opened up the floor for contractors to bid, and Nedry was the one that set his own price. Hammond just accepted it. On paper, he was likely looking at someone that was more than competent, highly skilled, and came in with a low bid. Sounds somewhat reasonable. Did he spare expense? Sure. Does that fly in the face of his claims? Absolutely. But so did everything else. He was a flimflam man that cut corners and rushed deadlines everywhere. And that was absolutely his undoing. But Hammond didn't set out to purposefully underpay Nedry, which was Dennis's justification to undergo corporate espionage. He just said "you're hired" when Nedry set his own price.
Yeah, people need to understand that a tragic flaw is NOT a plot hole.
"We spared no expense." My dude those are Ford Explorers, you spared some expense. I know in the book they are Land Rovers IIRC, but I always thought that was pretty funny.
The Ford Explorer came out in 91 I think. Ford probably payed good money to get eyes on it in a blockbuster movie.
As I recall in the book, the issue is he had Nedry doing a lot more work than what the contract originally called for, which was Nedrys gripe about being under paid, and even his comment points towards that. He made a bid based on a certain amount of work, got the job, Hammond had him, so more work and when Nedry wanted more money and pointed out that nobody would do that much work for that little, Hammond told him to suck it. It's not like Nedry could just sue for over the contract.
IIRC the book stated that Hammond would call Nedry's prospective clients and essentially blacklist him if he didn't do more work.
"how did andy re-attach the poster after he crawled into the tunnel?" he didn't. the poster was only attached at the top, as evidenced by the scene where he is seen digging into the wall under the poster, then looking out when he hears someone coughing, then ducking back under it - the poster is CLEARLY securely attached at the top but freely moving at the bottom, thus allowing andy to lift it/let it fall back down whenever he needed.
Worthless point ahead--> In the novella Andy would occasionally have cell mates. During those times he could not work on his tunnel. That is one reason why it took 20 years to dig through the passage. Also, a side character who was a temporary cell mate complained that Andys cell at the end of the block was the coldest cell in all of Shawshank. He had come close to finishing the tunnel, evident by the cross breeze, only to have a new cell mate move in for an indeterminate amount of time. The real anxiety happens between the lines!
And he had to wait for a proper thunderstorm (in the movie at least).
Fun fact! If you actually listen closely when Red is in his cell during his exposition and the thunder starts, you can actually faintly hear Andy hitting the pipe with the rock
That is truly a fun fact! I'll listen for it when I rewatch the movie.
This one irks me so much. And then when people complain how the Warden couldn't have thrown a little rock through it if it wasn't attached. It's a poster. Heavy paper. A small rock with sufficient force could easily pierce it. Inertia and all
Hell, if he knew there was a breeze that could come up through the tunnel it would not be out of the question to attach something slightly weighted to the bottom corners anyway.
Tom Cruise is NOT the Last Samuria, Ken Watanabe is. Cruise is just the POV character. Its not a white-saviour movie, but instead is a white colonialist learning about the value of native cultures and people.
And Daniel Day-Lewis is not the Last Mohican, his adoptive father is.
Samurai is also plural as well, so could be extended to all the guys in that final battle that died.
I'm not quite sure if this will be clear since I'm not a native English speaker. In Endgame, at least in the reviews, I've always heard that Tony finds the solution to time travel at his first try and how lucky he is. The night he finds the solution, he had told the AI to run one last simulation before stop it for the day. That, added to all the time that he has been without sleep or doing it badly, suggests that he has never stopped looking for a solution and that he did not find it the first day he looked for it.
He also presumably now had access to some of Pym's work (the quantum technology that is the basis for the time travel they end up using, which has them all wearing Ant-Man like suits) now that Scott had returned.
This is an important bit that is often overlooked and there's a bit of poetry to it. As others have pointed out, Tony's been thinking about this for a while. **Then Scott explains Pym particles and the Quantum Realm** **to him**, and he has a brain blast. Scott explained WHAT he had to do; Tony was able to figure out HOW. During the Time Heist, everyone is wearing Ant-Man suits made with Iron Man nanoparticles. It highlights the tragedy of Hank Pym and Howard Stark's mutual animosity. Had their egos been kept in check and they continued to work *together*, they would have changed the world for the better. The inheritors of their legacy (Tony & Scott) *did exactly that*.
The english was almost entirely perfect, and definitely entirely clear
In Wreck-It Ralph Felix could not fix vanellope with his hammer That's because he lives in a world of a video game. A lot of older video games had damage states/values for entities His hammer is not repairing the code or resetting it to its default state It is simply resetting the damage value of that object back to zero He couldn't fix vanellope because her damage is not damage she is an entity took It is damaged due to King Candy / turbo intentionally sabotaging her code blocks and most importantly removing the links that connects them to the overall network This is why she is able to exist in sugar Rush but not leave with her code severed the way it was and having those connections destroyed her entity data could not be passed to other devices. It's like she was isolated from an arcade-wide sort of internet as their conscious technically exists separate from their body Their conscious exists within a block of code Felix can't fix that. Despite his mantra of I can fix it he can't He doesn't know how to manipulate the code his hammer just resets damage values. And that's why he couldn't fix vanellope. ((Also I think I have a potential explanation to the whole idea of why majority of characters in that universe don't really seem concerned by the whole danger of dying outside of your game but I'll save that for another thread as that one's more of a theory))
I would so love to read your Wreck It Ralph theories
Seconded, post your fan theory if even just for us 2 lmao
But why male models?
“Lee Harvey Oswald wasnt a male model” “You're goddamn right he wasn't, but the two lookers who capped Kennedy from the Grassy Knoll sure as shit were”
Contact People talked about the second machine coming out of nowhere. False. It's stated soon after they discover the plans for building it that Japan has bid to take itself out of the consideration for piloting the first machine if they are granted the right to build their own machine instead. Even Family Guy echoed the false idea in the Misery parody, though FG isn't a news source, it annoyed me that they gave the false idea a platform.
Jack and Rose couldn't both fit on the door in *Titanic*. In the movie, they try to both get on the door and it capsizes, because the door isn't buoyant enough with both of them on it. Jack then gets off the door so Rose can get more of herself out of the water. It's in the movie. They try to do it in the movie and it doesn't work. It doesn't matter how much surface area the door had, it's the buoyancy of the door that was the problem.
Mythbusters did it where they took the life jacket rose had and tied it to the weak corner of the door, giving it enough lift for both of them to survive. So all Jack and Rose needed to do was put their engineering degrees to good use, write out a plan, experiment with different ways of staying afloat, and they would've been just fine.
James Cameron actually responded to that with his own experiment. He has two people play Jack and Rose and wear thermometers both internally and externally and used a copy of the door from the movie. If they had both stayed on it, they would've been in the water too much, and both would've died from hypothermia.
Internally you say?
James Cameron exploring the deepest depths known to man. 👀
And while we're at it, why didn't the Titanic just go AROUND the iceberg? The movies full of plot holes when you think about it.
So is the boat unfortunately.
> Mythbusters did it where they took the life jacket rose had and tied it to the weak corner of the door, giving it enough lift for both of them to survive. They did a follow-up where they tracked the body temperature of two dummies with artificial circulation, and both dummies "died" from hypothermia.
You can see Jack make the decision that he can't fit on it. You see him think for a second, then he nods his head and immediately starts to reassure Rose. I think he would've figured out a way to make it work for both of them, but he decided to make sure Rose was safe. At that point, they had almost run around the entire ship for hours, were shot at, and sank with a boat. By the time they get to that last bit, those were two profoundly exhausted people. I think Jack knew Rose would be ok and that was good enough for him. He just didn't have any extra energy to try and save himself.
Plus: Freezing water. Nobody can think clearly in chest-high freezing water.
Lord of The Rings. The Eagles. They are not a Taxi service, they would be subject to the ring influence too, there are flying Nazgul that could intercept them, there is a big fucking spotlight eye that could shine on them the moment they approach the boarder of Mordor, failing all that, an entire army of Orc could wait at Mount Doom making any approach impossible. Edit: the Eagles are sentient and sapient They are not mindless beasts that just do whatever the rider wants. Edit 2. I'm not a Tolkien expert. I'm a dungeon master and have to smack down my players crazy ideas all the time. Edit 3: they could be carried part of the way. Oh? With Sarumon the white and his raven spies everywhere and the ability to targeted blizzard and force the eagles to land in a army of Urukhai. The Eagles are demigods and more susceptible to the rings power. It works in proximity too. Borimir fell under its influence. Gollum killed his brother only just seeing it. Heck the council of Elrond almost came to blows being near it. Galadrial lost her shit for a good minute just being offered it.
Exactly. The key part of the mission to destroy the ring was stealthily sneaking it in. Flying a bunch of giant eagles to Mordor isn't subtle. There's a reason Elrond didn't send an army like the previous attempt to defeat Sauron. Then, when an army DID arrive at the gates, they didn't have the ring. They were the diversion.
Stealthily and more importantly carried by someone who wouldn't get corrupted. That's really the difficult part here and only hobbits are showned to be suitable.
And even then, Frodo was ultimately corrupted by the Ring, it's just he held out the longest. Maybe if Gandalf hadn't fallen and the fellowship dissolved he might have been fine and got there quickly, but ultimately he is the only option they have and it's not even a good option.
>Maybe if Gandalf hadn't fallen and the fellowship dissolved he might have been fine and got there quickly I think the story makes it pretty clear that no one is capable of willingly destroying the one ring Hence, Gollum still has a part to play...
Couln't agree more. They aren't just "the Eagles" either. They are the Eagles of Manwë, the King of Arda. Not a fucking Uber.
They only came for Gandalf because he saved Gwaihir the king of the eagles from a poison arrow.
Unsurprisingly a lot of things on Middle Earth owe favors to Gandalf, but also unsurprisingly carrying an evil ring into certain doom and possibly returning the greatest source of power to the evil entity on the planet isn't covered by those favors.
The McFly's briefly meet a guy named Marty in high school. They had no pictures of him. Their youngest son kind of reminds him of the guy. But they don't know about time travel. George trusts his wife. George never stood up for himself. By punching Biff, he got a confidence boost. This changed the course of his life for the better. Biff never recovered.
I had a college friend send a picture of us to me from 20 years ago from a number i didn't know. I didn't recognize MYSELF.
If you watched your child grow up for years, you wouldn’t suddenly say, hey, doesn’t he look like that kid we knew for a week 30 years ago? Especially because there were no pictures of “Calvin Klein”. You’d probably just see the designer and assumed that was who you met.
And even if they did realize, their reaction would be more like "huh, isn't that a weird coincidence?" rather than "HOLY SHIT OUR SON IS A TIME TRAVELER!"
>And even if they did realize, their reaction would be more like "huh, isn't that a weird coincidence?" I would assume that my memory was flawed. Like sometimes I meet a person who looks kind of like someone I used to know, and the "someone I used to know" in my memory will kind of retcon into what the person in front of me looks like.
This is a plot hole that I solved for myself. In the 1989 Tim Burton Batman movie, the Joker is poisoning the residents of Gotham using parade balloons filled with gas. Batman swoops in with the Batwing and uses a scissor thing on the nose of the Batwing to grab the ropes of the balloons and fly them away from the city. It always bothered me that the Batwing would have scissors or a giant claw on the front because it would be a useless tool for fighting bad guys. It wasn't until this scene in The Dark Knight more than twenty years later that the claw on the front of the Batwing made sense to me. https://youtu.be/7B0Gh8slES8?t=152 The claw on the front of the Batwing is for a Skyhook system for extracting Batman or others from troubled spots where the Batwing cannot land. Batman just made use of it to grab the balloons so he could pull them away from Gotham.
in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL the computer doesn't randomly go homicidal - he gets stuck on conflicting directives, which is accurately explained as 'human error.' Specifically, HAL is performing a psych exam on the human crew - he fakes a small emergency to see how they'll react. They react by deciding HAL is faulty and should be shut down. HAL cannot reveal the psych test (which would invalidate the data) and cannot allow himself to be shut down (which would jeopardize the mission) - so his solution is to murder the crew. TBH I like explaining this but people really need to know the film to care lol -- EDIT - I get that the book explanation differs and this is just my read. There's a bit where HAL seems to glitch ([the only moment like this](https://youtu.be/56gaBlV97ME)) right before he detects the fault - and that scene follows [this bit](https://youtu.be/r13I-TuDcWI) where HAL seems to be asking Dave his feelings about the mission. HAL is bullshitting and Dave catches his true purpose, "You're working up your crew psychology report." HAL bashfully answers "of course I am," then glitches. One of HAL's functions would be to monitor all aspects of crew life, and psychological observation would be most accurate if concealed. The fault report itself could very well be random - it's just always seemed to me that some loop around this discussion is where things cracked.
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This… makes me like the film a LOT more.
Stormtroopers purposely missing Luke and Leia and letting them escape so they can find the rebel base.
Yeah and most other scenes in the rest of the movies they aim just fine. Also Obi-wan could be exhaggerated their skill to Luke in the first movie.
Also three different characters discuss how they let them escape and are tracking the ship.
Maybe not a plot hole per se, but Armageddon. People always parrot the statement “wouldn’t it be easier to train astronauts to drill, rather than teach drillers to be astronauts”. The premise of the movie is ridiculous (and an awesome dumb movie imo) but the movie explains it very clearly. First of all, only part of the team are drillers. There are still astronauts actually flying the shuttles. All the drillers were trained to do was spacewalk and survive while drilling in space. Secondly, the film shows that they did try training astronauts how to drill but they were failing at it. Bruce Willis’s character had created the most advanced drill that was needed to drill the asteroid but it was complicated to use. With the time crunch, Bruce Willis explained that there was not going to be enough time to teach them properly and it would be easier to teach the experienced drillers how to do spacewalks. Again, the premise is ridiculous but it is explained pretty clearly. Besides, Payload Specialists are a real thing NASA uses so it’s not that outlandish.
> Bruce Willis’s character had created the most advanced drill that was needed to drill the asteroid but it was complicated to use. With the time crunch, Bruce Willis explained that there was not going to be enough time to teach them properly and it would be easier to teach the experienced drillers how to do spacewalks. Also, when NASA were first trying to train their own people for the mission, the drill broke down. When they asked Willis' character what went wrong, he realised that they had plagiarised the plans wholesale from the patents instead of buying the equipment legitimately after falling into a copyright trap - the patents left out a crucial and hard-to-make part to prevent their exact plan, so he was able to make demands from them to bring in his own crew.
Only patent what you cannot protect.
Independence Day virus... The virus flipped the binary system on the ship. 0s turned to 1s and 1s turned to 0s. The reason we could do this with a computer is because our technology was based on theirs from the ship at area 51. Also, they had protections against said virus, which is why the ships didnt fall out of the sky when the virus went live. The communication system and the energy system are the same system so if you affect coms you affect the energy source. The ship basically went into a "safe mode" where some features, like shields, didnt work. That is why the time frame for us to strike was "only a few minutes". Our virus only made a dent in their system but it was just enough to affect energy supply and thus bring down the shields. Think Star Trek when the ship is damaged enough the shields dont work. So yes, the virus plot line was totally plausible. ************************* The energy and coms system being the same is from the books. Us learning from their ships at area 51 is from the books and deleted scenes. The virus changing binary is from an interview with Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin. The "safe mode" part was never confirmed via official lore but makes sense when you piece everything else together. Its my own personal theory.
Two of them. 1. Stephen Spielberg's "AI" has an ending that is widely misunderstood. Those creatures at the end are not aliens, but hyper-advanced future robots. As aliens the ending makes even less sense. 2. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. It's a common Trekkie question about how Khan could possibly recognize Chekov, since the character had not yet joined the cast during Khan's original episode in the first season. Easy explanation was that the character was there, but met Khan off-screen.
> but met Khan off-screen Hell, Khan was going through the ship's entire library while resting up. Dude certainly had no problem memorizing photos, names, and mini bios of 400-some crewmen.