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20 Plot Holes In Movies That Actually Have Reallyyy Good Explanations
You know that feeling when you love a movie, but there’s a BIG plot hole that you just can’t get over? Well, Reddit user u/Animeking1108 recently posed the question, “What infamous movie plot hole has an explanation that you’re tired of explaining?”
And there were so many interesting answers! Here are some of the top-voted responses:
Note: Some of these are canon, and some are probably just opinions from the internet. It’s all in good fun!
1. “Lord of The Rings. The eagles are not a taxi service. They would be subject to the ring’s influence, too. There are flying Nazgûl that could intercept them, and there is a big fucking spotlight eye that could shine on them the moment they approach the border of Mordor. Failing all that, an entire army of Orcs could wait at Mount Doom, making any approach impossible. ‘They could be carried part of the way.’ Oh? With Saruman the White and his raven spies everywhere, and the ability to target blizzards and force the eagles to land in a army of Uruk-hai?”
New Line Cinema / Via youtube.com“It works in proximity, too. Boromir fell under its influence. Gollum killed his brother after only just seeing it. Heck, the council of Elrond almost came to blows being near it. Galadriel lost her shit for a good minute just by being offered it.”
–u/chewie8291
“Exactly. The key part of the mission to destroy the ring was stealthily sneaking it in. Flying a bunch of giant eagles to Mordor isn’t subtle. There’s a reason Elrond didn’t send an army like the previous attempt to defeat Sauron. Then, when an army DID arrive at the gates, they didn’t have the ring. They were the persion.”
–u/Darwinian_10
2. “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.”
Universal / Via youtube.com–u/PARed717
3. “For the people who spend all the Star Wars movies asking, ‘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. 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 bred/trained/selected to do whatever without question and just be cannon fodder.”
20th Century Fox / Via youtube.com–u/zazzlekdazzle
4. “Legally Blonde. ‘OMG, a dumb blonde sorority girl studies for the LSAT for a summer and aces it? Bullshit!’ No, the point is that Elle Woods was never a ‘dumb blonde.’ She was always brilliant. Elle was pigeonholed by the circumstances of her looks and her privileged upbringing to pursue a vapid life. While inspired by the wrong reasons, it results in her breaking the mold she was confined in so that she is able to reach her full potential.”
MGM / Via youtube.com–u/Spectrum2081
5. “The Shawshank Redemption. ‘How did Andy reattach the poster after he crawled into the tunnel?’ He didn’t. The poster was only attached at the top, as evidenced by the scene where he is seen digging into the wall under the poster, then looking out when he hears someone coughing, then ducking back under it. The poster is CLEARLY securely attached at the top but freely moving at the bottom, thus allowing Andy to lift it/let it fall back down whenever he needed.”
Columbia / Via youtube.com–u/MikrokosmicUnicorn
6. “I’ll defend 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: 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.”
20th Century Fox / Via youtube.com / youtube.com / youtube.com“We also see Kevin’s mom 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).”
–u/Ok-Draw-5338
“Kevin also ‘stole’ the toothbrush in the store when the old man was there. A cop chased him, so he thought he’d be arrested if he called the cops.”
–u/-Tartantyco-
7. “The Dark Knight Rises. ‘How did Bruce Wayne magically get to Gotham after he escaped the hole?’ 1) In an adjacent scene, it’s mentioned the bomb will go off in a month, so we can assume that’s how long he has to get back to Gotham. 2) Wayne Enterprises has offices around the world. All he needs to do is get to an office, log in, and wire himself money or supplies to get home. He’s Batman; he can easily do this without being noticed. 3) Batman Begins has a whole sequence of him traveling around the world penniless and nameless. This is a specific skill it’s already established he has.”
Warner Bros. / Via youtube.com“There are tons of plot holes in that movie, but for some reason, people get hung up on the easiest one to explain.”
–u/nowhereman136
“Bruce Wayne having caches of equipment and money around the world and knowing a way to get into Gotham without being seen seems so obvious that it doesn’t even need to be explained in the film. Such a ridiculous complaint. ‘Uh, I don’t think Batman was prepared for either of these scenarios.’ He was. He’s Batman.”
–u/Roook36
8. “Encanto, regarding Bruno in the walls and Dolores knowing. Not only does she state during the song that she can hear him, but at the end of the movie, she says she knew. This whole family broke into song about ‘We don’t talk about Bruno’ at the mention of the man, so she was probably told the same when she tried to tell the family.”
Disney–u/Strictly4MyRedditors
9. “Is there some kind of Mandela effect going on with the Titanic movie? ‘Why doesn’t Rose let Jack get on? They can both fit!’ Jack does try to get on. It starts to sink with both of their weight on it.”
Paramount / Via youtube.com–u/cal-nomen-official
“It’s a case of people thinking if they spent enough time solving the problem, they could figure it out. Hell, Mythbusters showed that by rigging up the life preservers, they could both fit on. But it was dark, and the water was ice cold. Every minute in the water was risking death. They tried it once, it failed, and Jack made a call. That was an entirely reasonable decision given the circumstances.”
–u/MoobyTheGoldenSock
10. “Armageddon. People always ask, ‘Wouldn’t it be easier to train astronauts to drill, rather than teach drillers to be astronauts?’ First of all, only part of the team are drillers. There are still astronauts actually flying the shuttles. All the drillers were trained to do was spacewalk and survive while drilling in space. Secondly, the film shows that they did try training astronauts how to drill, but they were failing at it.”
Buena Vista / Via youtube.com“Bruce Willis’ character created the most advanced drill that was needed to drill the asteroid, but it was complicated to use. With the time crunch, Bruce Willis explained that there was not going to be enough time to teach them properly, and it would be easier to teach the experienced drillers how to do spacewalks. The premise is ridiculous, but it is explained pretty clearly. Besides, Payload Specialists are a real thing NASA uses, so it’s not that outlandish.”
–u/Dirtsquirrel321
11. “The flaw in the Death Star’s construction. We didn’t need Rogue One to explain it was a deliberate sabotage. So an exhaust port has a flaw. It is not unreasonable to believe that the flaw was necessitated for efficiency. Knowing that the flaw was inevitable, the trench leading up to the port was protected with gun towers. Tarkin, along with other officers, fully believed that the Death Star was superior in its construction that small fighters would pose no threat to them.”
20th Century Fox / Via youtube.com“During the rebel assault, an officer pointed out to Tarkin that the rebel attack is exploiting this weakness and offers to prepare a transport for him, to which Tarkin responds, ‘Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.’ To them, the weakness is so negligible that there is no chance a rebel fighter would be able to drop torpedos into the port. And they were right. The first fighter to make an attempt failed. Luke was only able to succeed because he used the Force instead of the computer, something no one anticipated because they all believed that the Jedi were extinct.”
–u/giantbynameofandre
12. “The first rule of Fight Club and their growing number of members is because it is meant to teach the members to break rules.”
20th Century Fox / Via youtube.com–u/Thedeacon161
“And more than that, it’s to teach them to secretly break rules. They aren’t intending to start a war like Red Coats lining up in formation – it’s supposed to be on the down-low.”
–u/Patchumz
13. “The Matrix Reloaded. In the scene where Neo is talking to the Architect, the screens behind them are not showing other Ones. They are 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.”
Warner Bros. / Via youtube.com–u/Omegaprimus
14. “Independence Day. ‘How could a virus programmed on Earth computers destroy the computer system of an alien civilization?’ In a deleted scene, it’s revealed that technology from the spaceship at Area 51 was harvested and used as the basis for most of Earth’s post WW2 computer technology. Once you know that, the whole thing becomes a lot more believable.”
20th Century Fox / Via youtube.com–u/DrSaturn42
15. “Black Panther. Why does the technologically-advanced Wakanda still choose their king by combat? They don’t. The whole challenge is clearly just for ceremony, and no one is actually supposed to challenge the king — which is why the only people who do so are M’Baku, who’s from a tribe that lives in the mountains and is isolated from the rest of Wakanda, and Killmonger, who’s an outsider that doesn’t care about their traditions and rules.”
Disney / Marvel / Via youtube.com / youtube.com–u/demaxzero
16. “How does Sarah Connor know which button to press to crush the Terminator in the first movie? Because she accidentally pressed it a few minutes earlier, and it set the crusher off. It was what lead the Terminator to find them.”
Orion Pictures / Via youtube.com / youtube.com–u/SuvenPan
17. “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.'”
Disney–u/Basketball312
“IIRC, in the first scene where he interacts with the other toys, he asks what the rules are just before Andy and his friends come in, and all the rest of the toys stop moving. Thus, he’d logically assume that not moving when humans are around is some kind of law.”
–u/then00bgm
“Or a safety precaution. If you were dropped on an unknown planet and all the native species stopped moving when some Goliath wandered by, you might think it wise for you to stand still, too.”
–u/KatieCashew
18. “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 killing a bunch of Nazis in the first film. But that’s because the second film is a prequel.”
Paramount / Via youtube.com–u/hillyhellion
19. “While 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.”
Buena Vista / Via youtube.com–u/prosa123
20. And finally, “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.”
Lionsgate / Via youtube.com–u/absentbusiness
“When Haymitch votes with Katniss, he says, ‘I’m with the Mockingjay,’ not ‘I’m with Katniss.’ This was a super subtle way of saying he understood she had something up her sleeve by voting that way, despite knowing her well enough to know she wouldn’t personally want more Games.”
–u/catfurcoat
Now that we’ve heard about movie plot holes that have perfectly good explanations, can you think of any from TV shows? LMK in the comments below!
Note: Some resposes have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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