Films with ludicrous holes in the plot

tampaxboo

the wizard of oz. how come kansas is in black and white, yet when she gets to Oz she's wearing blue ribbons and blue socks to match her blue dress?

too much coincidence to be true. so to me it all seems far less believable from that point on.

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tampaxboo

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Grandpa Joe has been bedridden for decades while Charlie's mum slaves to provide for the family.
Charlie wins a golden ticket and he's dancing around the room.
Charlie's mum doesn't stab him?

not credible. next...

munckee

ThePrettyDamned said:

stickyfiddle said:

Bygone_Tones said:

I watched the Matrix last week. How does Neo manage to fire hundreds of rounds from a mini gun into a small room, killing all the bad guys in there, leaving morpheus sitting on a chair in the center of the room without a scratch on him?  Bit silly in places, but interesting fillum.

Cos he's "the one" and none of it is real?

I thought agent Smith was the one, and Neo was simply the vessel for Smith to accomplish his task. 

Smith was the anomaly, a virus which the matrix couldn't cure so it made a bargain with Neo, who was the 6th (or 7th I can't remember) "the one" to fight him, Neo thinks he's fighting to win but in reality the matrix is just waiting for him to lose so it can delete Smith while plugged into Neo.  Its about choice, eventually Neo chooses to lose the fight as he works out whats going on.  

The real "one" is the little girl program who was the subject of love of other programmes.

munckee

ThePrettyDamned said:

stickyfiddle said:

Bygone_Tones said:

I watched the Matrix last week. How does Neo manage to fire hundreds of rounds from a mini gun into a small room, killing all the bad guys in there, leaving morpheus sitting on a chair in the center of the room without a scratch on him?  Bit silly in places, but interesting fillum.

Cos he's "the one" and none of it is real?

I thought agent Smith was the one, and Neo was simply the vessel for Smith to accomplish his task. 

Smith was the anomaly, a virus which the matrix couldn't cure so it made a bargain with Neo, who was the 6th (or 7th I can't remember) "the one" to fight him, Neo thinks he's fighting to win but in reality the matrix is just waiting for him to lose so it can delete Smith while plugged into Neo.  Its about choice, eventually Neo chooses to lose the fight as he works out whats going on.  

The real "one" is the little girl program who was the subject of love of other programmes.

JDE

Thanks for the explanation @munckee ;

i remember watching one of the Matrix’s (Matrixes? Matrices? Matri?) at uni (only one them I’ve ever seen) totally stoned off my face and being absolutely livid I couldn’t understand what was happening. 

Zoolooter

The 10 Commandments 

tampaxboo

Star Wars (proper one). why do they need a rubbish compressor in a spaceship?

seriously stormtroopers... just chuck it out of the window. you won't run out of space.

what do you think of the film so far?

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munckee

JDE said:

Thanks for the explanation @munckee ;

i remember watching one of the Matrix’s (Matrixes? Matrices? Matri?) at uni (only one them I’ve ever seen) totally stoned off my face and being absolutely livid I couldn’t understand what was happening. 

I was really disappointed with the ending first time I watched it but it makes sense, the people couldn't win and nor could the computers as they rely on each other.  The guy in charge of the free city explains it in the second film, neither works without the other.  

I think being stoned would have helped it to make more sense : )

Ravenous

Danny1969 said:

Independence day

And another film from the same director - The Day After Tomorrow.  Freak storms bring super-cold air down from the upper atmosphere, air so cold people are frozen solid immediately, glass shattered, even helicopters are downed by their fuel freezing.

-Why doesn't the air warm up as it descends?

-It can't there's not enough time.

Total rubbish! Descending air would increase in temperature immediately as a function of pressure rise.  But I don't fancy explaining Boyle's Law to a bunch of Hollywood producers whose brains are more engaged in finding their next harassment victim.

ESBlonde

Niallseroreilly said:

i think its absurd when someone says 'I suspend my disbelief' or 'its a film, none of it is real'.

It there is a major plothole in a film it makes the whole narrative collapse.... the plothole takes you out of the film.... i dont see how people can gloss over plotholes and still call them good films.

Agreed, and the council should fix the plotholes to save the tyre and suspension of the tax payers cars!

Garthy

How did Cypher have dinner in the Matrix with Smith without his crewmates uploading him?

camoflamingo

Rocker said:

Batman. Who supplied and installed all that technology in rooms underneath his house? Nobody talked. Nobody seems to know where the bat cave is. 

But thousands were involved in faking the moon landings and none of them have spoken out.*


*I don't really believe the moon landings were fake

HAL9000

The Martian - Given Matt Damon’s history of having to be rescued from far and difficult places...

“Courage Under Fire (Gulf War 1 helicopter rescue)
Saving Private Ryan (WW2 Europe search party)
Titan A.E. (Earth evacuation spaceship)
Syriana (Middle East private security return flight)
Green Zone (US Army transport from Middle East)
Elysium (Space station security deployment and damages)
Interstellar (Interstellar spaceship)

...why on Earth would anybody think that sending him to Mars was likely to end well?

crunchman

We should get my nine year old involved in this thread.  I was reading her younger sister a Mister Men book as a bed time story.  She was interrupting every 30 seconds or so picking holes in it.

Sometimes you just have to suspend your critical faculties and enjoy a story.

Moltisanti

ICBM said:

Fuengi said:

HAL900 0 said:

Shawshank Redemption - surely Andy Dufresne would have just ended up in the cell next to his own...

He was on the end of the row. There are a few scenes where they show this, especially the one when the warden visits - 'salvation lies within'. 

But how did he stick Raquel Welch back to the wall, when he left?

And why doesn't Captain Hadley get any older in 20 years?

The poster is only stuck at the top, and weighted at the bottom so every night when Andy crawls into the hole to dig it drops back and hides where he is.

Captain Hadley is such a hardass that time has no effect on him.