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ENM from Earth Since: Nov, 2010
#1: Oct 9th 2011 at 4:59:43 AM

The classic, biggest one I saw was in Citizen Kane and the fact that no-one actually heard him say Rosebud. And don't get me started with that tacked on shit about the butler being there, I didn't see him!

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edited 9th Oct '11 5:00:41 AM by ENM

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#2: Oct 9th 2011 at 5:02:55 AM

Hilarity ensues when one of the staff told the director of that. According to rumors, he immediately went Oh, Crap! and told him to not to tell a soul. Well, guess it worked well enough. :/

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AtomJames I need a drink Since: Apr, 2010
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#3: Oct 9th 2011 at 5:19:10 AM

The Live Action adaptation of Watchmen. So Jon and Adrian are working towards a new, reusable source of energy, right? So...why is Bubastis there? The whole point of Adrian creating a genetically altered Lynx was so he could test whether Genetic Modification would be able to create the "alien threat" he had in mind. In the film, they changed the climax so that Dr. Manhattan became the world-wide threat instead of the Squid. So, if there is no Squid, why the hell is Bubastis there? Hell, why the hell is the Gunga Din Blimp flying around New York if in the film version, Jon never made the technology possible?

Ugh.

Theres sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they dont go anywhere.
Kerrah Since: Jan, 2001
#4: Oct 9th 2011 at 6:11:36 AM

Thor:

The viking pagan religion is based on Asgardians, who actually existed. So far, so good.

Thor was only a baby when the Asgardians quit interacting with humanity. Uhh...

The humans still know all about the mythic Thor that we do. WAIT A MINUTE!

It's not really a big deal, but I can't believe nobody at any point of production noticed this little inconsistency.

edited 9th Oct '11 6:12:38 AM by Kerrah

pagad Sneering Imperialist from perfidious Albion Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#5: Oct 9th 2011 at 6:28:16 AM

Why didn't Iron Man use his anti-tank missile on Stane's suit?

edited 9th Oct '11 6:28:31 AM by pagad

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EgregiousEric from space (I am from space) Since: Jun, 2009
#6: Oct 9th 2011 at 6:29:07 AM

Didn't the butler bring that up in the movie?

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#7: Oct 9th 2011 at 6:50:20 AM

[up][up] Maybe it was hard to make? I have no idea, really.

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boronvontwiddle The Baron/Moron from bed Since: Feb, 2011
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#8: Oct 9th 2011 at 7:07:19 AM

edited 9th Oct '11 7:07:59 AM by boronvontwiddle

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syvaris Since: Dec, 2009
#9: Oct 9th 2011 at 7:15:19 AM

One word

Avatar.

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TheFreeman from Hialeah,FL. Since: Mar, 2011
#10: Oct 9th 2011 at 8:00:29 AM

Aliens. How the hell did the Queen get on the Sulaco?

And again, Alien 3. How the fuck did the EGGS get on the Sulaco?

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#11: Oct 9th 2011 at 8:08:00 AM

Not so much plot hole as an egregious Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, but in Transformers 3, the moment Sentinel activated that glowy teleporter thing and brought Cybertron into near-Earth orbit, everyone should have been fucking crushed by the pressure. An object that size? Closer to the Earth than the moon?

Squish.

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pagad Sneering Imperialist from perfidious Albion Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#12: Oct 9th 2011 at 8:23:06 AM

[up][up] More to the point, how the hell did the Queen get INSIDE THE LANDING GEAR of the dropship? If nothing else, the trimming characteristics would have been immediately shot to shit due to the extra weight!

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boronvontwiddle The Baron/Moron from bed Since: Feb, 2011
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#13: Oct 9th 2011 at 8:28:16 AM

[up][up][up] Do elaborate.

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TheFreeman from Hialeah,FL. Since: Mar, 2011
#14: Oct 9th 2011 at 9:34:47 AM

[up] Its been pretty well-established that Queens are really fucking big, so I'm definitely sure there would have been a way to notice it on the dropship either seeing it actually GET ON it or noticing that the dropship is carrying extra weight, as pagad pointed out.

As for Alien 3, there's nothing on the Queen that shows how those eggs got onboard. No sac, no pouches, nothing as far as I can tell.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#15: Oct 9th 2011 at 11:10:03 AM

Source Code, the fact that Colter has essentially become a body snatcher in whatever alternate reality he's in in the end. What happened to the real Sean Fentress in that reality? How the hell does Colter manage to keep up the facade that he's Sean without knowing anything about his life or the people Sean associates with on a daily basis?

edited 9th Oct '11 11:12:23 AM by 0dd1

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#16: Oct 9th 2011 at 12:21:57 PM

[up] He runs away? We're not actually told what happens to him, after all.

edited 9th Oct '11 12:22:15 PM by Yej

boronvontwiddle The Baron/Moron from bed Since: Feb, 2011
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#17: Oct 9th 2011 at 7:23:10 PM

The entirity of The Butterfly Effect. Specifically, the scars on his hands and the whole strangling himself with his umbilical cord. Seriously, what the firetruck?

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jewelleddragon Also known as Katz from Pasadena, CA Since: Apr, 2009
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#18: Oct 9th 2011 at 8:20:30 PM

Spielberg's War Of The Worlds: How did giant alien tripods get underneath our cities and how did no one ever notice they were there?

AtomJames I need a drink Since: Apr, 2010
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#19: Oct 9th 2011 at 8:32:44 PM

[up] I think the bigger plot hole would be if they were studying us for so long, how did they not notice the bacteria?

Theres sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they dont go anywhere.
ENM from Earth Since: Nov, 2010
#20: Oct 9th 2011 at 8:49:53 PM

I remembered another one! The whole time turner thing from Harry Potter. I think filmmakers should just NOT do time travlling stories.

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Kerrah Since: Jan, 2001
#21: Oct 10th 2011 at 9:04:36 AM

[up] Yeah, because the filmmakers totally made that up.

Premonition45 Since: Mar, 2011
#22: Oct 10th 2011 at 1:39:28 PM

Sure, Andy Dufrense spent almost 20 years digging his tunnel to freedom, but until he finished it, how the hell did he crawl back? The tunnel is simply too narrow to crawl back out of.

ENM from Earth Since: Nov, 2010
#23: Oct 10th 2011 at 7:24:06 PM

[up][up] -.- I'm aware that the filmmakers didn't make the time turner up, but in just about every film where there's time travel, they always manage to leave gaping plot holes. Timeturner aside, J.K. Rowling is awesome.

edited 10th Oct '11 9:03:18 PM by ENM

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pagad Sneering Imperialist from perfidious Albion Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#24: Oct 11th 2011 at 6:31:32 AM

Oh god, Spielberg's War Of The Worlds. What part of that movie isn't a plot hole.

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Yej (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
#25: Oct 11th 2011 at 7:27:36 AM

ENM, can you elaborate on the time turner thing? It made perfect sense to me.

And presumably listing The Core is cheating?

edited 11th Oct '11 7:27:55 AM by Yej


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