People Are Sharing Plot Holes You Probably Never Noticed, And They’re Huge
All the way back in 2005, the late critic Roger Ebert wrote in his review for the French horror film High Tension: "Clever viewers will be able to see for themselves that the movie's plot has a hole that is not only large enough to drive a truck through, but in fact does have a truck driven right through it."
A week ago, reddit user Naweezy decided to tribute Ebert and his poetic phrase. So they posted a question to r/AskReddit, "What are some plot holes so big you can drive a truck through?" Immediately, screen detectives started revealing their insights. From Star Wars to The Simpsons, it's crazy to think producers didn't notice these humongous craters in their stories and let them through. Continue scrolling and check them out.
#1
In Black Panther, when he falls into the water, he gets pulled out by a fisherman from the northern tribe, later on the movie, the leader of the tribe says that they are all vegetarians. They are also completely isolated, and don't trade. Why do they have a fisherman?
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#2
One of my favourite movies but Interstellar. There's the one planet where the surface is water with huge waves and time moves much slower, so like 5 minutes on that planet is 2 years on earth (or something like that). Before going down, the scientists discuss how risky this is, as even if they go down to get the earlier astronaut and check the planet out for habitability, years will pass on earth while they're down there, and earth is running out of time. They are experts in this and they fully understand the time distortion on this planet caused by the black hole it orbits. HOWEVER, they decide to go anyways because the astronaut that went there to check it out has been sending positive signals about he environment and habitability of the planet for something like 12 years. So OMG we have to go if it's so good that she's been there that long and everything is good. Their only concern is about the amount of time that will pass on earth... After they land, they have this massive realization that it's just a bunch of shallow water with massive tidal waves every hour or so, and the astronaut they sent there 12 years ago actually just landed like 30 mins ago in her time because of the time distortion, and is dead. Then they are like "oh doh we've been getting positive signals for 12 years because for her it's only been 30 mins and she hadn't been hit by a wave and killed yet - this planet is bad". The entire rest of the plot is completely dependent on the fact that they get f**ked by this stop as the ship now has low fuel from orbiting the planet for like 15 years while the others were down there. So the entire movie rests on the idea that a group of the world's best physicists who had already identified and discussed the time distortion of the planet didn't connect that to the fact that the "12 years of good signals" actually means less than an hour of good signals because of that very time dilation.
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#3
In Friends Joey & Chandler watch "Die Hard" and refer to it as their favourite movie.In later seasons, Rachel dates Paul who is played by Bruce Willis.
Despite it being their favourite movie they never thought of mentioning that Paul looked like Bruce Willis.
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#4
Madagascar. They give Alex the Lion hell for eating animals. In the end, they give him sashimi as a substitute.What, in a world of talking animals, fish aren't considered animals too?
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#5
Lily and James could have been their own secret keepers. Thus removing the need to use Wormtail and give away their position to Voldemort Most likely saving the potters lives.Peter Pettigrew was also around for a few years while the Weasley twins had the Marauder's map. He should have been visible. Ron was sleeping with a man every night and Fred and George were silent about it.
Veritas Serum exists. Should have been extremely useful in discovering who the death eaters were after the first fall of Voldemort.
Unbreakable vows and time turners are also universe breaking magics.
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#6
Daenerys Targaryen forgetting about the Iron Fleet. I’ll never understand the rush to finish that season.
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#7
The aliens in the movie Signs melted when exposed to water. Why would you try to take over a planet that is covered in 75% water and where it rains on land regularly?
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#8
In the final episode of GoT Tyrion is put on trial for murder, yet this somehow turns into choosing the next king of Westeros. Imagine if during the OJ Simpson trial, Simpson chose who the next president of the United States would be and everybody was okay with that.#9
That track would have been absolutely [screwed] with no maintenance in minus degrees. The rail companies in England can't even manage to run a full service when there's a wet leaf somewhere on the track.
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#10
Voldemort went through so much trouble to get Harry into the Wizarding World Cup or whatever. Helped him win. Killed other students. All so Harry could touch a port key at the end of the final event.Why didn’t he just like, turn his pillow into a port key?
#11
Every Christmas movie where no one believes in Santa but then it turns out Santa does exist. Like, who did they think was putting presents under the Christmas tree? If Santa is real then it wasn’t them.
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#12
C3PO, human cyborg relations, is fluent in over 8 million forms of communication and, in fact, was built on Tatooine, yet doesn't speak Jawa?
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#13
Bart said Santa's Little Helper didn't eat Millhouse's goldfish and that Millhouse never had a goldfish. Then WHY DID HE HAVE THE BOWL, BART!
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#14
The parents deciding to each take one twin to raise on different continents and never talk to each other again.
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#15
Peter takes a small sample of the symbiote to one of his college professors so he can get a better idea of what it is. The professor looks at it under a microscope and says "It's definitely alien. I wouldn't let any of this stuff touch you.". That's it? Proof of alien life brought to you by one of your students and your only takeaway is "Don't touch it"? That's f***ing insane.
#16
If Dr. Strange could do that portal thingy for that epic entrance... What's up with him and Stark worrying about not being able to return to earth while in orbit towards the planet where they fought Thanos.
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#17
In Supernatural, it’s mentioned that demons react negatively to the word Christo, but the word is never mentioned again after that episode.
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#18
Shrek 2 - How does a donkey [make love to] a dragon?
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#19
In Now You See Me 2, why and how did the FBI have any jurisdiction in London. Wouldn't that be more of an Interpol thing? But character continuity right?
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#20
Ocean's 11. During the blackout scene, there is mad chaos in the casino. People stealing chips and just mass hysteria. Then the team goes to steal the money during the blackout. Afterwards, the lights are back on, and as they walk out of the casino, people in the background act like nothing has happened. No hysteria, just a normal casino with people gambling in a fun and jovial manner.#21
In Liar, Liar, Jennifer Tilly's character gets her way in the divorce despite cheating because she lied about her age, therefore making the prenup null and void. However, this would also nullify the entire marriage, entitling her to nothing.
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#22
Mission Impossible 2. The guy is trying to create a cure to all flus. To do this he has to invent super-duper flu. He does and he invents a cure. Then they destroy the cure even though it cures all flus? WTF?#23
Thanos destroying the stones in Endgame makes ZERO sense, because his logic was that "he did it so that his 50/50 snap can't be undone by anyone", but the universe's population will normalize to the previous amount in just a century or so (which is NOTHING to Thanos, considering he is over 1500 years old).Fun fact: Earth's population in 1920 was 1.9bil. Today (100 years later), it's over 7bil. So snapping earth's population to 50% would normalize back to over 7bil in less than 50years.
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#24
If Buzz-Lightyear thinks he's real and not a toy, then why is he motionless and pretending to not be alive, like all the other toys, when Andy plays with him? Wouldn't he think Andy is some sort of giant alien monster? Woody might have explained to him they they need to remain still or something, but we never get an explanation
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#25
In every war movie a shell goes off 10 feet away from a soldier, he ducks and keeps running. In reality he'd be dead from the blast and shrapnel.
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#26
Why would you need the Suicide Squad to save Midway City from Enchantress? As far as you know it won’t require any skills that the military doesn’t have.If it was to cover up government involvement then congratulations, you’ve now got a bunch of criminals who aren’t loyal to you, resent you, and are more likely to try and blackmail or defame you. They’re loose ends. You’ll have to execute them anyway and lose the asset you built.
#27
In the Mummy with Brendan Frasier, Imhotep steals body parts from the looters to put himself back together. At one point he takes the eyes from a person wearing glasses, so for the rest of the movie Imhotep should really be squinting at everyone.
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#28
In Disney’s Tangled the mother kept Rapunzel’s birthday the same, so the Festival of Lights always happened on her birthday.This led to her curiosity and her leaving.
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#29
I love Inception to death, but why didn't Dom's father just bring his kids to France?#30
My biggest problem is with logistics in the movies. Like one of the planet of the apes sequels. The apes get attacked by the last of humanity, men using these attack helicopters. And I'm sitting there thinking: Does anyone realize how many humans it takes to keep military helicopters flying?#31
If Captain America uses a vibranium shield and it absorbs all vibrations then how does he bounce it????
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#32
Face/Off... The reason Eve knows that her husband is actually Castor Troy is because his blood type is different to Sean's. But if that was the case, then the face transplants would have been rejected.#33
McGonagall in Fantastic Beasts 2. In 1927, she wasn't even born yet. She couldn't have been teaching at the school.#34
In the movie JOKER Arthur has a six shooter, but fires it eight times before running out of ammoI can't unsee it now
#35
If all Cinderella’s magically transfigured stuff goes back to normal at midnight (carriage back into a pumpkin, dress back to being all dirty and old) then why the prince walking around with a glass slipper for weeks afterward? Shouldn’t it have changed back into a normal dirty old shoe?#36
Harry Potter should've just drank the liquid luck and go fight Voldemort#37
The 2011 film Limitless - a pill makes Bradley Cooper smart enough to predict the stock market, but apparently not smart enough to count how many pills he has left or consider what happens when he runs out#38
What’s the point in James Bond having a license to kill issued by the UK government when MI6 operates overseas where a UK license would be useless?#39
Why doesn’t the pelican save all the fish (in his beak) from the Dentist’s waiting room in Finding Nemo? The lid is always off. He could save them anytime.#40
Obi Wan wants to hide Luke Skywalker from his father... so he gives him to his uncle and aunt, in their home planet, without changing his name, and he himself lives near the kid while not changing his own surname.#41
In Spider-Man 2002, Green Goblin throws a device at the festival that immediately disintegrates several people. It is an instant kill device that he NEVER uses again. If it's something he can only use once, why wouldn't he save it for a bigger threat like Spider-Man?#42
Charlie's Angels 2: They knocked a helicopter off of a high-up bridge, then jumped off the bridge, caught up to the helicopter in free-fall, and flew it away.#43
I dont understand the science behind zombies.Sure i can go along with the dead waking up eating others for sustenance.
But why don't they dry out? Why don't the characters move to the artic where the dead would freeze or the desert where they would dry out.
Why can't they out run them ? Why do they always twist their ankle while running away ?
The zombies at the very least should dry out and reanimate when it rains and surely due to evolution the only people left would have really robust ankles that don't easily sprain as they would be more likely to survive ?
#44
All of Ant-Mans powers. In the 1st Ant-Man movie, Pym says that when you shrink you maintain your same weight. This is all fine and good, and it explains why he can still punch people, until you realize that means Pym was carrying a 30 ton TANK in his pocket the entire movie. Like what the heck? And you can’t even say that it’s only the suit that maintains weight, because in Endgame there’s a scene where Scott grows and then punches one the Chitauri whales strait into the ground. I understand why they said it maintains weight, but just make them escape the building without a tank. It’s like they wanted there to be a plot hole#45
In Futurama, there's an episode where Frye pays an ungodly sum for the last can of anchovies on earth, but in a later episode, (the one where they all go fishing) they had a large bucket of anchovies they were using as bait.#46
That in a galaxy, far far away, a long time ago, various spacefaring, technologically advanced races can't secure anything.You pretty much stroll into an enemy base, your droid just plugs in to any port and can download anything. No access control, no alarms, CCTV only when it's useful to the plot. Once you've got what you want, stroll out and take an enemy ship. Again, no access control, locking doors, anything.
#47
Star wars, where does the empire and later on the new order get all the money and resources to keep building death stars/huge star destroyers. Let alone the man power, those ships have to have at least 10000 personnel on board#48
R2-D2. This droid is like 50 years old by the time we get to the end of the Skywalker saga, and yet at no point has he become obsolete or incompatible with anything he runs into.We can see the development of technology throughout the series and across several vastly different civilizations and cultures. Doesn't matter, R2 and his Magic Hacker Wand can get through any locked door or security protocol.
#49
Dr. Strange asking Tony if he can turn Ebony Maw's ship around, when he could easily just portal them back to NY.#50
Jurassic WorldThey see scratches on the wall and heat detection cameras don't pick it up so they just jump to the conclusion it escaped and enter the paddock before exploring all other avenues to check if it has escaped
Are we really supposed to believe 1 minimum wage security guard is responsible for keeping watch on the paddock? A multi million dollar genetically engineered dinosaur and all they have they have is 1 security guard........cmon
Let's say it has escaped, its bigger than a T-Rex, your telling me that thing jumped off a 60ft wall and there was literally not one single person in the area to notice
#51
House elves are insanely powerful magical beings... when they join the Battle of Hogwarts they use knives.#52
How in Harry Potter, the wizards are so clueless about the Muggle world when they literally lived in it.Also, how this is a magical world where there must be thousands if not millions of spells, yet in the Battle for Hogwarts, the students only knew how to use Expelliarmus... When this is one of the first spells that they learned, revealing that Hogwarts does not prepare the students well.
Magic can only be done with a wand...
#53
In Fight Club, when Edward Norton and Brad Pitt get in their first fight and guys are standing around saying, "Can I be next?". What the hell are they looking at? Why didn't they call the nut house?#54
Stargate. The Gate is found in the 1920s along with the stone tablet showing the 7 glyphs to 'dial' to open it to an alien world. Yet for over 50 years of study by the best minds the U.S Military throws at it they only dial the first 6 glyphs. Not once did they try a simple process of elimination with the finite number of other glyphs on the gate to get it working, no, they had to bring in quirky disgraced Egyptologist Daniel Jackson to say "Umm there's a 7th symbol that looks like a Pyramid here on the tablet and there's a pyramid looking symbol on the gate too!"#55
So in The Ring (original or remake) you sort of subvert the curse by making a copy of the tape. What happens when VHS tapes are no longer viable? Does Sadako make the jump to digital at some point and start sending out DVDs? Even then not everyone has a DVD burner so that doesn’t seem very smart. Did the curse migrate to Limewire downloads in the early 2000s and now you get freed from it by adding a new torrent seed? Was there an awkward period sometime in the early 90s where there were cursed laser discs floating around?#56
In episode 9, Rey uses force lightning, which was supposed to make us realise that she was related to PalpatineForce lightning isn’t hereditary. It’s a sith ability
#57
In Oceans 11, the total heist would weigh too much to carry out. The U.S. Treasury has the weight of $1,000,000 at 22 pounds. Multiply that by 163 and the total weight from the heist would be 3586 pounds. Divide that by all eleven con men, and each one would have to carry 326 pounds out of the casino.#58
In the Lion King, during the stampede, Zazu decides he should go get help. He mentions this to Scar, who throws him against a wall where he passes out.This is never again brought up and zazu apparently never mentioned this to anyone
#59
In Alien: Covenant, they discover this planet which never showed up on their sensors and they did not vet...yet they decide it would be a great idea to walk around without helmets as soon as they land.They even talk about spending YEARS preparing to live on the planet they originally picked, but this one they decided after 2 weeks "wE dOn'T NeEd hAzArD PrOtEcTiOn"
Of course you're going to get infected with alien spores you idiots!
#60
In Batman Begins, during his initiation into the League of Shadows Bruce Wayne refuses to kill the man that was sentenced to death. During the resulting fight with Ras al-Ghul and the League, he blows up the League hideout, resulting (likely) in dozens of deaths, including the he man he refused to execute.#61
How did Tarzan (in the Disney version) know how to say his own name in English, when the gorillas would’ve named him in gorilla-ese?#62
Rey being able to magically fly a ship even though she only knew how to drive a cobbled together speeder#63
[Any film where someone dresses up in a work uniform to go undercover in a place of work.]Does nobody notice a totally new guy wandering around doing things they shouldn't be doing? Do you not recognise the people who you work with every single day?
And does nobody think "hey, wasn't bob supposed to be in today? He's 2 hours late and nobody has let us know if his shift is being covered"
#64
Frozen - why would Elsa's family not just travel with her to the wild or at least her father on a "future ruler" trip to alow her to practice and harness her powers in secrecy?#65
Star Wars. Poe mutinies against the leader (Purple haired woman) and General Leia laughs it off when it's over.Excuse me? Every army in the world would execute a soldier for that.
#66
Every musical ever when people start singing spontaneously, and everyone's cool with it.Start singing in my face at 9am on my way to work and I'll call the police.
#67
AT-ATs only have a 60 degree firing radius on their front, so at the Battle of Hoth why did the rebels attack them with their snowspeeders from their front? Flank those b****es!#68
Prometheus.First they descend upon a planet and seemingly by chance instantly find the place they're looking for.
A bit later the cartographer gets lost. People on the bridge can't direct him back over the radio although they have a perfect holgraphic map of the entire site and everyones position in the background of the shot.
Then the expert biologist and physicists decide to take off their helmets in an unknown atmosphere and opt to touch some alien-looking slime with their bare hands just for fun.
Worst part is I could go on.
#69
The new Haunting of Bly Manor. How the ghost never killed the parents who lived in the very room she “haunted” for decades or centuries killing everyone else in her path but them#70
Every zombie film where the zombies don't disappear completely after a few weeks when they get eaten by much stronger wild animals and when they're bodies deteriorate to the point they have no tendons or muscles and therefore literally no way to f**king move.
#71
The scene in Love Guru where Mike Myers's character makes a big deal about getting hit in the crotch even though it is plainly established and a major plot point that his character wears a metal chastity belt.#72
Thanos killed half of all living things because he thought resources weren't sufficient for everyone.With his godlike powers he could have just doubled those resources
#73
In the original Sherlock Holmes story "The Speckled Band," the killer trains a poisonous snake with a whistle to cue the snake to attack (sorry, spoiler alert from 230 years ago). I remember reading this in class in 3rd grade and pointing out that snakes are deaf. The teacher was actually mad that I "spoiled" the story for everyone.#74
Pretty much the entirety of "a quiet place" - I still get s**t on in nearly any thread I mention it. It's full of boring tropes, poor writing, and plot holes but for some reason people hail it as some amazing movie.Entirety of earths military couldn't defend against them, but a single shotgun blast to the mouth - dead.
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