biggest plot hole in a film

[The Rut]

what is the biggest supidest maddest plot hole ever to apear in a film or tv series

[bednobs]

i have to say sunset beach topped itself every other episode

[Postdog]

Has to be Dallas, when an entire series was just a dream.

[dot.hawkes]

trust me , i have been to see My Super ex-girlfriend this afternoon at the cinema, Uma Thurman's love interest (disregarding Luke Wilson) was Eddie Izzard!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No seriously, it wasa, honest!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it has to be tha daftest film i have seen in a very very long time.

[wonderwoman1]

i got that impression from the trailer dot!!!! i agree about dallas...so stupid!!

[missjef]

In friends the kids always seemed to disappear - whatever happened to the triplets?

[dot.hawkes]

WW I only went cos my company are promoting the movie (with special offer tickets) with their Nine West brand shoes. not my usual choice lol

[Llamatron]

I thought the Star Wars movies had some whoppers.
Like how R2D2 and C3PO managed to crash their escape pod near where Luke Skywalker lived. I mean, how lucky was it to land on the right planet let alone near his home.

[joko]

highlander

- turns out connor macleod and all the other immortals are just aliens!!

mmm...

[twain11]

Yeah in the second film, what a load of cack

[Mattk]

highlander was bad,yeh - the whole point of highlander one is that there can be only one......turns out theres still loads !

[rugeleyboy]

although i loved the film "meet joe black" i cant help wonder what they were thinking when they wrote it??

[Postdog]

Ooh, I just remembered, which is surprising because this gave me a headache the other week trying to work out if I was right or wrong in what I was thinking. I think I'm right.

n "Back to the future", Marty comes back ten minutes before he leaves (if you see what I mean) in order to warn Doc Brown that the Libyans will shoot him. Anyway cos the car breaks down he has to run to the mall, where he see Doc get shot, and sees himself drive of into the past.

This means that in the past, there is yet another Marty, who is going to also come back early, and so on and so on.

[Backdrifter]

I don't think so, postdog. The Marty watching himself go into the past IS that Marty, returned FROM the past. Based on your theory, you could argue that there's always that Marty in the past anyway, since we know he went back there - as well as another one in 1885, as we later discover (not to mention the future Marty too). Then there's the Marty from the future that watches his present self in the past.

What I mean is, I think it's too big to be a plot "hole" as such. Anything based on the time travel concept is going to be fraught with problems if you start examining it - you could argue the entire 40-year history of Dr Who is one big plot hole!

[Backdrifter]

Anyway.

They're not major, but I've got a few Jurassic Park ones. (***SPOILERS ALERT***) When the fences fail, Hammond orders everyone into the bunker, saying it's too unsafe outside. At the same time, they send Arnold (Samuel L Jackson) off to restart the generator - for which he has to go outside and get to the generator shed. Moments after they've all agreed it's too dangerous!

Later, no-one sees Muldoon the gamekeeper get killed, and when the survivors all reconvene to make their escape in a helicopter, NO-ONE looks around and says "Hang on - where's Muldoon, isn't he with you?"

As they're backing away from raptors in the exhibition area, they're "saved" by a T Rex that attacks the raptors. Yet the entrance to the building is a normal-sized door that seems to still be intact as they escape through it. How did the 30-foot rex squeeze through?

When they're travelling to the island in a helicopter, Hammond is sitting facing away from the direction of travel. As they approach the island he leans forward excitedly and points, exclaiming "there it is!" But the approaching island is behind him!

And even earlier, at the Montana dig, a helicopter lands and Grant, angry at the mess it's making, runs over to it to ask what's going on. The pilot points him towards the hut, so he goes there and finds Hammond already there, having apparently instantaneously teleported over from the helicopter.

And, of course, there's Hammond's amazing disappearing Scottish accent.

[Llamatron]

Hold on guys, aren't most of these continuity errors and gaffs rather than plot holes?
Sorry, I have an overactive pedant gland.

[Backdrifter]

I know what you mean llamatron, but no they're definitely plot holes. Continuity errors are more like: e.g. Fatal Attraction, close up Glenn Close in bed, sheets not in view - cut to long shot, sheets pulled right up, then back and forth again. And Manhunter - guy talking to son in supermarket, cereal packets in background - at the next cut from son to father, it's suddenly soup cans in backgrounds.

On the other hand, children that vanish for episode after episode, ludicrous coincidences, people appearing impossibly, characters being forgotten about, etc - yeah I reckon those qualify as plot holes.

Admittedly, we still haven't properly answered Rut's question though - no-one's come up with a single gaping plot-hole that makes nonsense of a film.

By the way I too have too-finely tuned pedantry antennae and have to regularly restrain myself from getting all picky.

[Ollie_P]

Backdrifter & Postdog it's safe to say time travel is always dealt with badly in films a la Terminator & Terminator 2. In T2 they say they used the chip from the first Terminator to help develop sky net which in turn took control & sent the first Terminator back. Ans so on and so on....