Movie Plot Holes

1. Courageous Grace
   Sep 27th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

   I always wondered this one too....

2. Noelegy
   Sep 27th, 2009 at 5:07 pm

   That might have been an interesting article, but it's hard to tell, because the link would show up for about three seconds and then take me to a completely blank screen.

3. Alyssa Myers
   Sep 27th, 2009 at 5:09 pm

   Oh come on... Gremlins was a lot of fun! I can definitely overlook those plot holes in order to have a good time watching it.

4. Key
   Sep 27th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

   They do joke about it in the 2nd film.

   'What if he gets a bit of food stuck in his teeth on a flight!'

   Or something like that.

5. Jasmin
   Sep 27th, 2009 at 5:16 pm

   Gremlins was one of the best movies I ever seen !

6. seekshelter
   Sep 27th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

   i don't think the spiderman one was a plot hole. octavius said that oscorp funded his research and was also supplying him with the made up material that was needed to run the arms... or something like that... im sure he could have gotten financing anywhere, but someone still had to get the material..

7. Johnny Cat
   Sep 27th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

   Noelegy~
   Not sure why you're having that problem. Did you try to follow the GeekDad link and scroll down from there to the story?

   http://www.wired.com/geekdad/

8. SenorMysterioso
   Sep 27th, 2009 at 8:27 pm

   I guess anytime is technically after midnight.

   Most of these are not plot holes but like the article calls them unanswered questions. The reason they are unanswered is because most of them do not need answering.

   For example the ID4 question about the computer virus... if you can suspend disbelief long enough to accept there is a massive alien invasion why not just go with it when they say they wrote a virus capable of attacking an alien computer system.

   What were' Han and the gang doing while Luke was off training with Yoda? Who knows, maybe it was just a long boring flight.

   Why dont Marty's parents remember him from 30 years in the past where they knew him for a couple days? I dont remember what I had for breakfast. Besides, its not like he sprung out of mom full grown for them to say hey he looks just like that dude we met a long time ago.

9. Johnny Cat
   Sep 27th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

   Good points, Senor! Especially since the Falcon's hyperdrive was FUBAR.

10. Noelegy
    Sep 27th, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    Thanks, Johnny Cat. That link worked.

11. v.dog
    Sep 27th, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    Here's some possible explanation for the gremlins:
    1) it's circadian; it's midnight whenever its biological clock tells it's midnight.
    2) they're sensitive to subtle gravitational shifts, such as the sun being further from their location (Earth's diameter).

    The only real question then is, how long after midnight is it not 'after midnight'?

12. Seanette
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 3:16 am

    About the Back to the Future question, sure, if Lorraine had the "Calvin Klein" look-alike baby nine months after the events of the movie, then George would be right to wonder about that. However, if Marty was 17 in 1985, he was born around 1968, about 13 years after the events of the movie, by which time George and Lorraine are already busy with whatever he's doing to provide for a family and with raising their kids (remember, Marty's the youngest of three). Probably, neither one's memory of what someone they saw a few times over the course of a week when they were in high school (and rather preoccupied with their own new relationship as well) was going to be all that clear.

    Also, SenorMysterioso has a very good point. Figure after Marty's birth, he didn't reach his nearly-adult "Calvin Klein" appearance until about age 16 or 17, thus even more time for his parents' memories of that long-ago short-term acquaintance to fade.

13. BikerRay
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 5:13 am

    TV tropes has a bunch of stuff like this. You can spend hours there...
    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

14. ein kommentar
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 6:30 am

    yesterday I saw Star Wars III. Anakin has very realistic visions of his wifes death while giving birth to Luke and Leia. So why doesnt she just abort them?

15. karla anne
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 7:17 am

    my BF and i were watching gremlins the other day and realized something else... weren't the gremlins running around in SNOW for 80% of the movie? hello?

16. angstrom
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 7:32 am

    in the recent star trek movie, the bad guys come back in time to kill a young Spock because, in the future, Spock arrived seconds too late to save their planet.

    So if the bad guys are back in the 'past' with plenty of time to kill, so why didn't they just go and save their homeworld?
    They would have at least 40 years to do so, if they would just stop chasing baby Spock around.

    That's a big plot hole.

17. Geoduck
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    Key- They did a whole string of snarky jokes, food caught in his teeth, crossing over the international dateline, etc. Then of course Gremlins burst onto the scene and start eating everyone. The whole second movie is pretty much a parody/deconstruction of the first, and is that much better for it.

18. ryan_rt
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    Lol karla,

    I never thought about that. It's a good point!

19. Key
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    Well remembered Geoduck.

    I do love the 2nd film more than the 1st.

20. Rogerfans
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    It's hard to not find a movie or a show with a plot hole in it. A lot of times directors just skip past history and try to hope that the dedicated fans either forget or ignore. It's just lazy writing really.

    You say batman I saw Vawncast

21. Ali S.
    Sep 29th, 2009 at 12:46 am

    Ha! I love this! Great find JC! :p

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