23 Careless Plot Holes That Almost Ruined Movies
Nathan Johnson
Published
08/17/2020
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There's nothing more infuriating than movies that are otherwise pretty decent except for their dumb little plot holes.
Some of the ones on this list are so bad though, you'd think someone should have been fired for letting these mistakes slip past.
Others aren't that bad, and may have even gone unnoticed if it weren't for hardcore movie nerds paying such close attention.
But then again, that's what movie nerds are for, so we gotta appreciate them. At least what they're doing is somewhat of a public service (kinda).
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In Gravity, Matt was floating away and ordered Ryan to let go of the tethered rope, but since there's no gravity in space all Ryan had to do was gently pull the rope toward her to bring Matt back. -
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"Oh, this human-made computer virus magically works on their alien technology, too, because that's how computers work." -
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In Home Alone, Kevin's mom wasn't able to call him from Paris because the phone lines were down, yet Kevin was somehow able to call and order himself a pizza. -
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In Monsters University, Mike and Sully didn't meet until their first year of college, but in Monster's, Inc. they claimed to be friends since elementary school. -
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"Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix find out that water is toxic to the aliens...yet the aliens have been fine walking around with all the natural humidity in the air on a planet made up of MOSTLY water." -
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In literally every single Christmas movie, none of the parents believe in Santa, yet every year there are several unexpected presents under the tree and no one questions it. -
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In the Star Wars series, the lack of air and differences in gravitational pull should have affected everyone on each new planet, especially since they're different sizes and don't have the same atmospheric pressures. -
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There’s a lot of rules to remember in The Matrix. Here’s an important one: Everyone who jacks into the Matrix needs someone to plug them in, make sure they’re okay, and let them back into the real world. Got it? Good. Now forget about it. Cypher (Joe Pantoliano) visits the evil Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) in the Matrix to betray his crew. And he does all of this alone! Even though we just saw that you can’t do that alone! How? Some viewers insist he created his own code to get around this rule. -
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In Beauty and the Beast, the Beast was actually a prince, which meant he would have been highly educated, so why did Belle have to teach him how to read? -
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In Toy Story, if Buzz was so convinced he was a real space ranger, why did he adhere to all of the standard toy rules, like "playing dead" when a person was in the room? -
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In Men in Black, Earth was literally going to be blown up in an hour, but only two agents (one of whom was a newbie) were sent to save the world. -
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"The buildup to the introduction of the T-Rex in this is great. They literally made her seismic. You didn't know where she was coming from, but you definitely knew she was coming...then at the end, she sneaks up on everyone inside of a building." -
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"How did Marty’s dad not recognize that his son grew up to be the person that helped him get the girl he wanted? Like, he didn't even think he looked remotely familiar later in life." -
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In The Dark Knight Rises, every single member of the Gotham police force was sent underground and got trapped, but then they magically emerged MONTHS later, all clean-shaven and well-dressed. -
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"You can just...leave the country beforehand. Also, why does no one ever try to do fraud during those hours? What a waste of potential." -
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"The line: 'Somehow, Palpatine has returned' about sums it all up." -
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She wants to be where the people are. So Ariel, The Little Mermaid herself, makes a deal to gain legs and lose her voice, just so she can go above the sea and fall in love with Prince Eric. Complications, often involving charades, ensue. But why didn’t she write on a piece of paper to Eric about what was going on? After all, we see her write in English earlier when she signs her name for the deal. Fans asked animators this question at an event. The animators just smiled and said, “Next question.” -
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"I like to imagine there was a conversation behind the scenes like this: Ben Affleck: 'Wouldn't it be easier to train astronauts to be drillers than it would be to train oil drillers to be astronauts?'" -
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In The Meg, the megalodons were trapped in an unexplored part of the ocean before the submarine allowed them to escape, yet Jonas somehow encountered a meg five years earlier on a different rescue mission. -
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Despite letting go, they’re never letting go. The love story of Jack and Rose, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, is doomed from the start of Titanic. We know this, based on the movie’s title alone. But it doesn’t stop us from becoming emotionally invested. We do have one question. Why didn’t Rose just, like, move a couple inches to her left? If you look at that raft, and you look at how tiny 1997-Leo is, it is obvious that there’s enough room for him to fit and for them to live their dang lives! -
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The iconic bike scene proves E.T. is basically magic and can levitate objects. So… why doesn’t he just levitate himself right at the beginning of the film and get back onto his spaceship? He’s really close to it! -
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"Dust storms of destructive magnitudes physically cannot happen on Mars. -
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In one of Ocean’s Eleven’s delicious final reveals, the Bellagio vault’s money is found to have been switched out with nothing but adult ads. The perfect way for Danny Ocean (George Clooney) to turn the final screw on Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia). So how’d the titular eleven pull that off? Um… well… no one knows. Not even the film’s director, Steven Soderbergh. On his commentary track for the film, he admits it would’ve been impossible for the crew to do that.
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