15 Movie Plot Holes Broken Down By Cinephiles Who Know The Facts
I’ve always loved watching movies alone, either in theaters or at home. This is mostly because when I watch a movie, I WATCH a movie.
I don’t look at my phone or talk to anyone. I like taking it all in. Every detail.
Because of this I get the full experience of enjoying the movie, but I also see glaring plot holes.
These cinephiles saw the plot holes too, but also can simply explain the ones people bring up the most. I found all of these very educational.
1. The Terminator
How does Sarah Connor know which button to press to crush the Terminator in The Terminator (1984)? Because she accidentally presses it a few minutes earlier and it set the crusher off, it what lead the Terminator to find them. – u/SuvenPan
2. Fight Club
The first rule of Fight Club, and their growing number of members is because it is meant to teach the members to break rules. – u/Thedeacon161
3. Star Wars
For the people who spend all the Star Wars movies saying, “why don’t they just Jedi Mind trick everyone into doing this or that,” Obi-Wan is very clear the first time he uses it that it works on the “weak-minded.” I think the way Stormtroopers function throughout the first three films shows they aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, and are probably trained to do whatever without question and just be cannon fodder. – u/zazzlekdazzle
4. The Truman Show
There was a whole topic on the front page a while back about The Truman Show asking about what happens when Truman wants to sleep with his onscreen wife. Is that upsetting to her because she’s just an actress? How do they avoid showing it on TV? People offering all kinds of explanations like, “he was raised not to know what sex is.” I thought I was going crazy because not only does the movie directly address this, (two guys watching the show complain that the camera always cuts away when Truman and his wife go to bed). But, it’s an actual plot point in the movie that she’s trying to have a baby with him so that they can start Truman Show Phase 2, and his obsession with a woman they kicked off the show years ago is ruining the director’s plans. – u/plankingatavigil
5. Back to the Future
Not a bad one, but the DeLorean in Back To The Future is always being brought up in conversations as, “actually, it was a really crappy car.” Like, yes. That was the joke. Marty even asks Doc incredulously, “you built a time machine out of a DeLorean?” The car became famous because of Back to the Future. Before then, it was a laughing stock. – u/thepen*s_mightier
6. Titanic
Jack and Rose couldn’t both fit on the door in Titanic. In the movie, they try to both get on the door and it capsizes, because the door isn’t buoyant enough with both of them on it. Jack then gets off the door so Rose can get more of herself out of the water. It’s in the movie. They try to do it in the movie and it doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter how much surface area the door had, it’s the buoyancy of the door that was the problem. – u/TheJostler
7. The Sixth Sense
On watching The Sixth Sense it may seem completely improbable that Bruce Willis’ character didn’t realize that he was dead. Yet it’s explained right there in the movie: ghosts see only what they want to see. – u/prosa123
8. Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
People sometimes wonder how Indiana Jones initially remains skeptical of the mystical events happening in the second film, when he just witnessed a magical ark mass killing a bunch of people in the first film. But that’s because the second film is a prequel. – u/chillyhellion
9. The Hunger Games
Katniss, who nearly died in The Hunger Games twice, yet still had sympathy for the children of the Capitol, wasn’t acting out of character when she agreed to Coin’s idea of one last symbolic Hunger Games with the Capitol children. When Coin suggested the symbolic Hunger Games, that was the moment Katniss made up her mind to assassinate her, (but I think she had been considering it long before then). She only agreed so Coin wouldn’t suspect anything. – u/absentbusiness
10. Jurassic World
In Jurassic World, Claire didn’t “outrun” the T-Rex (in heels) because it wasn’t chasing her. The dinosaur was conditioned to equate the flare with feeding time so it was patiently following her to an anticipated meal. The situation is similar to how zookeepers can have (limited) interactions with lions and bears. – u/PARed717
11. Home Alone
I’ve said this for a while now: I’ll defend the movie Home Alone with my life.
Kevin got left behind because his family was mad at him and obviously didn’t like him that much, he was in his room and there was so much chaos. Also other factors such as we see his passport/ticket being accidentally thrown away, and a neighbor kid snooping through the van accidentally gets counted.
Why didn’t Kevin call the police? The phone lines were down. We also see Kevin’s mum talking to the police, but they don’t care or take her seriously. Also, it is likely that Kevin didn’t trust the police because the burglar disguised himself as a cop. (Kevin recognized his golden tooth).
The thing people bring up that has some validity is how Kevin pulled off the traps and how he had some of the stuff he used. For this, it’s just expected to suspend your disbelief because it’s a comedy for kids. But also some things are plausible. I can fully believe that young boys in the ’90s had a Michael Jordan cardboard cutout. – u/Ok-Draw-5338
12. The Incredibles
Not exactly a plot hole, but I hate when people misinterpret the scene in The Incredibles where Violet saves Dash from being shot as her intending to take the bullets for him. Yes, Dash says, “how are you doing that?” And she responds “I don’t know,” but the “that” he means is suspending herself in midair inside a spherical force field, which she’s never done before. She already knew how to make dome-shaped fields big enough to cover Dash; we saw her do that when they were fighting at dinner earlier in the movie.
She jumped in front of Dash because that was the only way she could get close enough to him in time to protect him, since she had not yet learned how to make force fields far away from herself like we see her do when fighting the Underminer in the sequel. – u/DBSeamZ
13. Toy Story
Toy Story. Buzz stops moving in front of humans, but doesn’t think he’s a toy. His delusion is the whole point. It’s what drives Woody crazy. He tries explaining it to him. “YOU ARE A TOY.” – u/Basketball312
14. The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded. The scene where Neo is talking to the architect, the screens behind them are not other ones, it is the predictions the machines are making on Neo’s responses. Most of the scenes are incorrect in those predictions, except for when Neo must choose between Trinity and all of humanity, the machines nailed that response on all screens. – u/Omegaprimus
15. Memento
In Memento, people always wonder how a guy with short-term memory loss remembers he has memory loss. But he’s conditioned himself to say it, just like Sammy was subjected to it. – u/wakeruncollapse