Technical Inaccuracies / Plot Holes

[Danoff]

Well, Morpheus did explain that the people's engery was used in a special kind of "fusion" So I'm sure that's how they harnessed our energy.

Why not just use the fusion and be done with it?

And the self-changing bike tyres, which oscillate between semi-slicked road tyres and studded dirt tyres scene by scene.

I caught that one too. 👍

 

[Danoff]

Almost every action movie (but the one I'm thinking of specifically is X-men 2):

They punch the guy in the chest and he goes down... and stays down.... forever.

You can't kill someone by punching them in the chest. Just like people don't die instantly from a stab in the foot, or a stab in the stomach for that matter.

 

[Swift]

Why not just use the fusion and be done with it?

Because you just can't do "fusion" just like you can't just do "fission" Certain materials are needed and conditions, etc, etc....so I guess humans provided one of the elements that they need for the fusion.

 

[Ev0]

Almost every action movie (but the one I'm thinking of specifically is X-men 2):

They punch the guy in the chest and he goes down... and stays down.... forever.

You can't kill someone by punching them in the chest. Just like people don't die instantly from a stab in the foot, or a stab in the stomach for that matter.

Thanks for jogging my memory on what is a hideous inaccuracy/plot hole.

In Panic Room, this guy had a massive hydraulic blast proof steel door close on his hand earlier in the movie. This would take most people out of action for a hell of a long time, just due to the pain alone, but he just wrapped it up, and was back doing whatever the hell it was he did.

But, it gets better. Later in the movie, the same guy is trying to kill Jodie Foster's character, so Ms. Foster defends herself. With a sledgehammer. So, she takes a hearty swing and nails the guy right in the face. And, as if that is not bad enough, the impact from the sledgehammer knocked him back, through a railing, and down a flight of stairs. All of that would incapacitate, if not kill a normal man. But no, this guy is built like a tank, because minutes later, he comes up the stairs and nearly kills Jodie Foster's daughter. What a bunch of crap.

If this guy was in the X-Men movie, I think the story would have ended very differently

 

[Danoff]

Because you just can't do "fusion" just like you can't just do "fission" Certain materials are needed and conditions, etc, etc....so I guess humans provided one of the elements that they need for the fusion.

The matrials necessary to get nuclear power are abundant on the Earth. There really is no need to use humans to generate heat. Don't get me wrong, I love the matrix movies (and I love the X-Men movies), but this is totally a plot hole. I personally like to imagine that the machines were actually interested in us as a species and studying us in captivity.

 

[Danoff]

Ok this one gets me every time and is featured in the move Love Actually. I hate it, absolutely hate it, when kids in movies have lines that would be considered intelligent for someone 30 years old. The kid’s like 10 ok? He wouldn’t look at his dad and say “let’s go get the **** kicked out of us by love.” No! That’s something someone with a whole hell of a lot more experience would say. Another routine way of doing this is when the 6 year old in the room points out the logical fallacies that her parents are using. The kid's says crap like "Hey dad, I know my mom just died and all, but you really need to get some a*s."

How the hell can an 8 year old outsmart his/her 40 year old parents?

Take the Wendy’s commercial for instance.

Idiot Dad (because all dads in commercials are idiots): Hey kids, wanna go to wendy’s?
Kids: No response, keep playing video games
Dad: Hey they’ve got good food!
Kids: No response
Dad: And they’ve got toys (or whatever the hell it was they were selling)
Kids: YAY!!!!

(at Wendys)

Super Cool Smart Mom (cause they all are in commercials): Wow Dad how did you get the kids to stop playing video games?
Kid: He just told us that it would be good for our social development (etc. etc.)

Ok that’s not funny. It’s just stupid, he’s a Kid.



Edit: Looks Who's Talking is an entire movie based on this retarded line of thinking.

 

[Ev0]

I hate how commercials always make men look like complete and utter idiots. Just turn on a TV with this in mind, and you'll see what I mean. I can't remember the last time I saw a commercial which involved a man outsmarting a woman. It's always the other way around.

 

[Danoff]

I hate how commercials always make men look like complete and utter idiots. Just turn on a TV with this in mind, and you'll see what I mean. I can't remember the last time I saw a commercial which involved a man outsmarting a woman. It's always the other way around.

Almost without fail. Kids too, moms and kids always outsmart stupid old Dad.

Like the VISA commericals right now. Or the Wendy's commericals... or even best buy (which you might think wouldn't do that).... or any of the cell phone commericals.

One of the few exceptions on TV is that one dodge coommerical where the guy is picking up the furiture for his wife and also buys a motorcycle... and she thinks he doesn't have to table because it isn't in the bed of the pickup.


Edit: You know come to think of it, it seems like commerical families are modeled after the simpsons.

 

[Duke]

I'm rather fond of that Dodge commercial (not just because it's for Dodge) but because the woman obviously says "You're an ***hole!" just before he opens the door.

I think the man outsmarts the woman on the recent Mercury Mountaineer commercial, where the couple keep trying to trick each other by getting up earlier and earlier so they can be the one who gets to drive the car to work. It's been a while since I've seen that one, though.

Just remember, the safest target in the world is the middle-class white guy. Nobody will ever accuse you of being prejudiced so long as you follow that simple rule.

 

[TwinTurboJay]

[QUOTE=daan]The whole of Driven.

Driving the wrong way down the track.

Methanol, which is put out by water, catching fire whilst upside down in a pond whilst it was raining.

Driving Indycars on the street with no earplugs or helmets.

etc

etc

etc.[/QUOTE]


Yeah...but how cool would it be to drive an indy through downtown Chicago ?

 

[Mike Rotch]

Another Star Trek phenomenon...

A starship goes from standstill to Warp 8 in an instant, yet the people inside the ship can continue standing or sitting or doing whatever they where doing before. Havent the producers ever heard of inertia? Just like when you accelerate in a fast car, you get pushed back into the seat. Only multiply that by <insert large numebr here> to achieve Warp acceleration.

Surely the occupants of the ship would all be spattered against the nearest aft bulkhead with that sort of acceleration?

 

[Famine]

Inertial Dampeners, Mike... That's why, just before everyone shakes about after a phaser strike, someone says "Inertial dampeners offline!".

Also, the Enterprise creates a Warp Field, which moves space around it, rather than moving the ship.

 

[Taurine]

http://www.moviemistakes.com/ - anyone?

 

[Mike Rotch]

Inertial Dampeners, Mike... That's why, just before everyone shakes about after a phaser strike, someone says "Inertial dampeners offline!".

Also, the Enterprise creates a Warp Field, which moves space around it, rather than moving the ship.

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[Taurine]

Thats just made me think of something..

If some guys hop in a car and storm off chasing someone when do they do their belts up? Because I certainly don't see them go flying out the windscreen when they hit someone head on. Some of them get mangled up on the inside of the windscreen yeah, but usually they're travelling at a hell of a speed?

 

[Arwin]

Almost every action movie (but the one I'm thinking of specifically is X-men 2):

They punch the guy in the chest and he goes down... and stays down.... forever.

You can't kill someone by punching them in the chest. Just like people don't die instantly from a stab in the foot, or a stab in the stomach for that matter.

You don't even have to hit someone on the solar plexus all that hard to take him out for at least a good while. I'm sure Famine can explain why better than me.

As far as the stupid dad in commercials go, we don't really have that problem here. Everytime I see a woman starring in a laundry or cleaning commercial that makes up for a tonne of stupid dad commercials. Generally, most people in a commercial look stupid anyway. And apart from realism not really being the piont in many of the things discussed here, kids have this funny tendency to repeat verbatim phrases they hear adults say, with or without understanding what they mean exactly or approximately. And kids can mature real fast too sometimes, given the right circumstances (and kids).

I think this thread shows clearly though that most men don't need commercials to make fools of themselves.

 

[Swift]

Inertial Dampeners, Mike... That's why, just before everyone shakes about after a phaser strike, someone says "Inertial dampeners offline!".

Also, the Enterprise creates a Warp Field, which moves space around it, rather than moving the ship.

Thanx Famine. you beat me to it. That's is infact one of the main technologies that has to be developed before extremely fast space travel can be acheived.

 

[Danoff]

Everytime I see a woman starring in a laundry or cleaning commercial that makes up for a tonne of stupid dad commercials.

Good point, why is it always assumed that men don't do laundry or clean? That ticks me off.

(actually it's because women are the main customers for those products, it's not bias on the part of the commerical maker)

The stupid dad syndrome in TV commericals is due to the fact that women are the main purchasers and men aren't likely to say "Hey, I'm personally offended that Cingular is sterotyping dad's as being stupid and out of touch. I'm not buying from Cingular". They're more likely to say "that guy is stupid".

Just remember, the safest target in the world is the middle-class white guy. Nobody will ever accuse you of being prejudiced so long as you follow that simple rule.

That's true though I would change "middle-class" to "rich" and suggest that the middle-class white guy is picked on more often because more people know people like that.

 

[Danoff]

Another Plot Hole in Contact

They try to blame the signal from Vega on Hadden… but even if the aliens stopped the signal the moment Jodie got there, it would take 25 years for them to stop getting the signal at Earth. Which means they have 25 years to try to figure out if the signal is fake.

While I really enjoyed the movie as a whole, Contact really got stupid at the end – which I think is because they deviated most from the original story at the end.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

[QUOTE=daan]The whole of Driven.

Driving the wrong way down the track.

Methanol, which is put out by water, catching fire whilst upside down in a pond whilst it was raining.

Driving Indycars on the street with no earplugs or helmets.

etc

etc

etc.

Yeah...but how cool would it be to drive an indy through downtown Chicago ? [/QUOTE]

Hmm...

It takes at least ten people, two laptops, a battery, and an hour to start a Champcar.

The imperfections in the road surface would likely tear the tub apart in minutes, and would give the driver compressed vertebrae from the impacts.

 

[Mike Rotch]

Saw 10 mins of Space Cowboys last night. Just enough to see them using a fire extinguisher to put out flames. Flames in their pressurised, oxygen filled capsure orbiting the earth. Anyone heard of Apollo 1?

 

[Morlow]

As for more plot hole goodness, how about the ending of The Last Samurai? Great movie, right up until the end. What a lame ending. One of the main points of the movie was making the viewer understand the mind of a Samurai, which does not fear death. Yet, even though the Samurai are supposed to all die in a massive battle in the end, Tom Cruise somehow manages to survive, and carry on with life. This, despite the fact he and his allies fought off thousands of well armed infantry, survived a charge on an artillery position, and he even survives getting shot numerous times by a gattling gun. I could go on about how it seemed that the Samurai magically had at least 1,000 more troops than they had claimed to have, but I'll just quickly summarize by saying the ending ruined the movie, left a very bad taste in my mouth, and completely contradicted one of the main points of the movie. 👎

Couldn't agree more. I really liked the movie until near the end. I couldn't believe they totally ruined a great movie like that. My best friend really likes the movie and I just don't see how...

 

[Gil]

Most of you are too young to remember the TV series "FBI" with Efram Zimbalist Jr. as the main character. But at the end of the show every week he would have to shoot the bad guy, usually from a distance of 25-50 yards. He always did this with his 2-inch Smith and Wesson Model 36 "Chief's Special". He never missed the bad guy. And he never fired more than one shot.

Also, why is it that in war/action movies, a grenade with a standard 3-5 second fuse, either goes off almost instantly, or it takes an eternity? I was watching the end of a Van Damme movies last night, and JC stuffs a grenade down a guys pants and the dude has time to pull it out, and unscrew the top before the fuse ignites. (He still blew up because the spark jumped the distance and ignited the explosive).
Which brings up yet another question: If plastique requires another explosion to make it blow, why did a mere spark set it off?
Also, why does a 200 lb man go flying thru the air when hit by a half-oz. slug fired from a snubby revolver?
Why does a 3700 lb Trans AM, or a certain Dodge Charger land on all four wheels after jumping over some distance? Wouldn't the weight of the engine cause the front end to land first, and rather punishingly?

 

[demon of speed]

Haven't seen this since it was in the cinema.

Enemy of the state: In the beginning, I think Smith is on the run. He's in a room being monitored by the government. The camera is facing one direction the whole time, but with the latest technology they could rotate this camera 'Matrix style' and view areas of the room that weren't able to be seen in the single view. Quite vague really, might not be fully true to what happened but the fake 3D camera was present.

 

[Danoff]

Enemy of the state: In the beginning, I think Smith is on the run. He's in a room being monitored by the government. The camera is facing one direction the whole time, but with the latest technology they could rotate this camera 'Matrix style' and view areas of the room that weren't able to be seen in the single view. Quite vague really, might not be fully true to what happened but the fake 3D camera was present.

Yea, that was a pretty bad scene. They also use the magic enhance button to turn 3 pixles into a fully resolved 3Drendering. Man I wish I had that button on my computer.

 

[Mike Rotch]

They also use the magic enhance button to turn 3 pixles into a fully resolved 3Drendering. Man I wish I had that button on my computer.

It must be similar to that other button. You know, the one that given an image from a closed circuit camera, you can zoom in without loosing clarity, rotate to image to see the guys face (even if the camera is pointing at his back) and enhance a still photo of an office park to see the brand of cigarette butt lying in the trash can behind the tree.

 

[Swift]

Spidey 2. After Doc Oc is "killed". Spidey and MJ swing away.....on what?!?!!? They were in a warehouse on a peir. There was nothing close by to swing from! I thought the movie in general was pretty cool. But that just irked me to death!

 

[demon of speed]

And what about the Sun experiment that fell into the water? Doc Oc said "Drown it!" but the thing was still burning brightly when we saw he's body under water.

 

[slackbladder]

Titanic - How on earth can you not see an iceberg?!!

 

[Swift]

Titanic - How on earth can you not see an iceberg?!!

Uh....it was night and there was no moon as far as I know.