Big flaws in film plots

Jonathangus · April 2019

OK, try this one. Why did the Death Star have to wait to clear Yavin before destroying the Rebel Base? Why not just blast it out of the way?

Adam_MD · April 2019

Cols said:

Not clear how Indy knew she was there. Maybe she sent the occasional ‘Wish you weren’t here’ postcard?

Her fretboard profile location was listed as 'dingy bar in Nepal. Thanks dad'

Kilgore · April 2019

I find glaring historical inaccuracies in films particularly irksome.

In the opening scenes of Carry on Cleo, Horsa is captured by Mark Antony's (played by Sid James) forces whilst attempting to alert Boudicca of the Roman invasion.

Mark Antony was active in the conquest of Gaul but played no part in the invasion of Britain. Additionally, Boudicca wasn't born until over 80 years after Caesars campaign.

There is no historical corroboration for the film's most famous line. Caesar's (played by Kenneth Williams) declaration: "Infamy,Infamy! They've all got it in for me". There is no mention of this in the works of Seutonius or any other Roman source, yet it has come to be accepted as fact.

You would have thought the film's historical consultant would have noticed these errors.

Now, in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure...

tony99 · April 2019

Andy putting the poster back over the hole once he's entered the escape tunnel in The Shawshank Redemption.

There's just no fucking way.

stickyfiddle · April 2019

EricTheWeary said:

I was watching something on YouTube about toilets ( really) and the presenter was talking about how often in movies there is an attempt to drown someone in a toilet bowl. Yet if you actually look in a toilet the water level is far too low to ever do this. When I was watching The Highway Men last night yep they had a toilet bowl drowning scene. Although maybe toilets were different in the 1930s.

Americky toilets often have much deeper water than European ones.

axisus · April 2019

Pretty thin bunch of flaws posted here. The only one with any weight is the LotR Eagle one that has been around for decades.

RandallFlagg · April 2019

EricTheWeary said:

I was watching something on YouTube about toilets ( really) and the presenter was talking about how often in movies there is an attempt to drown someone in a toilet bowl. Yet if you actually look in a toilet the water level is far too low to ever do this. When I was watching The Highway Men last night yep they had a toilet bowl drowning scene. Although maybe toilets were different in the 1930s.

US toilets are often very different to UK ones. Typically The bowl is wider and the water a lot higher.

Caffeine_Vampire · April 2019

tony99 said:

Andy putting the poster back over the hole once he's entered the escape tunnel in The Shawshank Redemption.

There's just no fucking way.

Mind blown!!

Stuckfast · April 2019

In Star Wars episode 7, whatever it's called, there's a scene where a bunch of people on one planet watch horrified as another planetary system is destroyed by the evil thing-that's-basically-a-deathstar-by-another-name. But of course in real life the light from that destruction would take years to reach them.

joeyowen · April 2019

Pixar Cars... WHY DO THEY HAVE DOORS!?

Jonathangus · April 2019

tony99 said:

Andy putting the poster back over the hole once he's entered the escape tunnel in The Shawshank Redemption.

There's just no fucking way.

Surely it's just attached at the top? Lift it up, climb through the hole, let it fall back down.

Sassafras · April 2019

digitalscream said:

Cols said:

Jonathangus said:

Cols said:

digitalscream said:

Really? Nobody's going to mention the fact that Indiana Jones is totally unnecessary in Raiders?

But yeah, now that you mention it; if he got squished by the boulder in scene 1 the Nazis wouldn’t have got past the ‘scratching their heads in the desert’ stage.

But they would, though. They'd have got their hands on the actual headpiece, so would have known to make the staff shorter, found the Ark, opened it up, and still all have been melted.

They followed Indy to Nepal and Marion’s bar - without him, they would have literally no idea where to find the headpiece. They would have been fruitlessly looking around for her father, who is revealed to be dead.

Frankly, they'd successfully traced the existence of the medallion itself and were devoting masses of resources to it. It's a bit of a stretch to believe that they couldn't figure out that the guy had a daughter, and where she might be.

One thing we've learnt from that other thread about the master race is that nazis aren't blessed with a high level of intelligence.

ICBM · April 2019

Jonathangus said:

tony99 said:

Andy putting the poster back over the hole once he's entered the escape tunnel in The Shawshank Redemption.

There's just no fucking way.

Surely it's just attached at the top? Lift it up, climb through the hole, let it fall back down.

And have it not blow up in the draught from a huge hole through the outside wall of the building? No chance.

And also in Toy Story 3, how does Woody get into the box at the end?

fretmeister · April 2019

The Da Vinci Code.

The secret box thing with the password. Contains vinegar to ruin the paper.

Vinegar will freeze in a home freezer. Freeze it solid and smash it open.

Gassage · April 2019

Saturday Night Fever.

That had a huge dance flaw.

EricTheWeary · April 2019

joeyowen said:

Pixar Cars... WHY DO THEY HAVE DOORS!?

It's a sexual thing.

stickyfiddle said:

EricTheWeary said:

I was watching something on YouTube about toilets ( really) and the presenter was talking about how often in movies there is an attempt to drown someone in a toilet bowl. Yet if you actually look in a toilet the water level is far too low to ever do this. When I was watching The Highway Men last night yep they had a toilet bowl drowning scene. Although maybe toilets were different in the 1930s.

Americky toilets often have much deeper water than European ones.

I found a buzzfeed article and here are a couple of photos from it, the U.K. toilet then the US one. Every day’s a learning day.

https://i.imgur.com/v9FsoWX.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/APswDSt.jpg

stimpsonslostson · April 2019

Braveheart. All of it.

Kilgore · April 2019

Gassage said:

Saturday Night Fever.

That had a huge dance flaw.

Laminate?

stimpsonslostson · April 2019

Batman begins: all the water in Gotham is vaporised... And yet all the (70% water) humans are fine.

sinbaadi · April 2019

The Raiders one isn't really a plot hole. It's just a funny thing that the hero isn't really saving the day but the story still makes sense.

Surely a big flaw in those kinds of movies is the mad way we are supposed to believe that ropes can somehow suspend huge boulders for hundreds if not thousands of years, and that gears made from wood and belts made from twine and skin can somehow function as deterrents to intruders.

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