Worst movie or series plot hole?

[GreyBush]

Not really a plot hole but the series Mr. Mercedes, the first season is a straight-shooting detective type drama, then season 2 the bad guy can suddenly mind control people from his hospital bed. This irritated me so much.

Also those Zack Snyder movies about the space mielie farmers, why do a big montage to meet the crop quota, then cover your houses with the mielies because the bad guys wouldn't shoot the mielies. Only for the houses to get absolutely destroyed anyway because they did shoot the mielies.. Made no sense.

 

[Nerfherder]

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The basic plot holds true though.

Its not a crafted story, you can't have plot holes in real life.

 

[konfab]

Starship troopers, the original one,

if you cant have children without a License,
and you can only have a License if you sign up to the Federation,
and Johnny Rico's Parents are Wealthy but completely opposed to the Federation,

so How is Johnny Rico Born then? unless there are some kind of cloning in the future or something.

They said that citizens had an easier time getting a licence, not that getting a licence was impossible for civilians (namely if you have money).

https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/Civilian

 

[konfab]

Action movies where they beat the hell out of each other for like 10 mins. Each one taking turns. In real life it only takes 1 or 2 puches.

Movies where they get a hacker to access some server in like seconds. And they they throw around technical IT words that are meaningless.

I would add any action that has a woman taking on multiple men in hand to hand combat and winning. In fact any situation where there is a many vs one scenario is basically impossible for one person to win, unless they have a weapon of some kind.

 

[Sinbad]

I would add any action that has a woman taking on multiple men in hand to hand combat and winning. In fact any situation where there is a many vs one scenario is basically impossible for one person to win, unless they have a weapon of some kind.

Not if the baddies follow the unwritten rule of hollywood, which is "Only attack one at a time"

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

They said that citizens had an easier time getting a licence, not that getting a licence was impossible for civilians (namely if you have money).

https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/Civilian

finally it all makes sense,
as they kept saying Service guarantees citizenship,

 

[thestaggy]

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Regarding Harry Potter and the time turners, when they are introduced they have limited ability to time travel. You couldn't go far back in time, and you could only use it for a limited amount of time, rendering their usage to very specific, recent events. They also function in a closed loop timeline. Whatever you travel back in time to do is something that was always going to happen and you cannot create alternate timelines either.

I'm not sure how well you know Harry Potter, but even if a time turner allowed you to travel far enough back in time to save Harry's parents, they'd still end up dying because all time travelling would do is fulfill something that had already happened, just perhaps in a different way.

Their use is also tightly controlled and anybody using or abusing them would attract attention.

But JK Rowling herself realised that it could be a problematic device in terms of storytelling and in the 5th book - Order of the Phoenix - she wrote that most time turners were in possession of the Ministry of Magic and during a battle in the ministry they were destroyed, effectively removing them from the storyline. The few remaining time turners that would have been in the wild were still held to the limited usage she first introduced them with and unable to impact the story in anyway.

 

[RedViking]

Movies where they pour water on the keyboard to bring the whole system down.

 

[Prawnapple]

Regarding Harry Potter and the time turners, when they are introduced they have limited ability to time travel. You couldn't go far back in time, and you could only use it for a limited amount of time, rendering their usage to very specific, recent events. They also function in a closed loop timeline. Whatever you travel back in time to do is something that was always going to happen and you cannot create alternate timelines either.

I'm not sure how well you know Harry Potter, but even if a time turner allowed you to travel far enough back in time to save Harry's parents, they'd still end up dying because all time travelling would do is fulfill something that had already happened, just perhaps in a different way.

Their use is also tightly controlled and anybody using or abusing them would attract attention.

But JK Rowling herself realised that it could be a problematic device in terms of storytelling and in the 5th book - Order of the Phoenix - she wrote that most time turners were in possession of the Ministry of Magic and during a battle in the ministry they were destroyed, effectively removing them from the storyline. The few remaining time turners that would have been in the wild were still held to the limited usage she first introduced them with and unable to impact the story in anyway.

I see, can't they just rebuild them? Sure it will just take some OP wizard and bam, they have some new ones.

I just dislike the "no alternative timelines" vibe, how else does one timetravel effectively?

 

[Ghoster79]

Starship troopers, the original one,

if you cant have children without a License,
and you can only have a License if you sign up to the Federation,
and Johnny Rico's Parents are Wealthy but completely opposed to the Federation,

so How is Johnny Rico Born then? unless there are some kind of cloning in the future or something.

Another possibility, is that Rico's parents were in Argentina. Argentina may not have been part of the Federation and why his parents were so opposed to him joining.

 

[Slckrck]

Another possibility, is that Rico's parents were in Argentina. Argentina may not have been part of the Federation and why his parents were so opposed to him joining.

The whole movie is a satire and critique of modern politics, so the simple answer is the Rico's are rich and therefore exempt from the "rules". Just like the real world where wealth and power comes with "privileges" not afforded to most people......the books were set in cold war times as a satire of fascism, Verhoven extended it beyond its timeframe and made a commentary on propaganda in democracy, where narrative and story is more important than truth.

 

[My_King]

Another possibility, is that Rico's parents were in Argentina. Argentina may not have been part of the Federation and why his parents were so opposed to him joining.

I would have liked that Argentina may not have been part of the Federation idea. Would give an excellent reason for the Federation to throw a space rock at them and wipe them from the face of the planet.

*I meant the bugs man, the bugs did it. Do you want to know more.

 

[My_King]

Starship troopers, the original one,

if you cant have children without a License,
and you can only have a License if you sign up to the Federation,
and Johnny Rico's Parents are Wealthy but completely opposed to the Federation,

so How is Johnny Rico Born then? unless there are some kind of cloning in the future or something.

Money

 

[Cray]

I would have liked that Argentina may not have been part of the Federation idea. Would give an excellent reason for the Federation to throw a space rock at them and wipe them from the face of the planet.

*I meant the bugs man, the bugs did it. Do you want to know more.

There has always been a bit of debate that the Buenos Aires destruction was a false flag, this adds another aspect to it. However, from my understanding of the lore, the Federation governs all of humanity, both on earth and all off world colonies.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Money

maybe, or maybe there is a whole subplot we didnt see with his parents trying to convince him to go to Zegama beach.
kind of like how people who are wealthy try to get their children to dodge the Daft. Trump comes to mind.

 

[My_King]

There has always been a bit of debate that the Buenos Aires destruction was a false flag, this adds another aspect to it. However, from my understanding of the lore, the Federation governs all of humanity, both on earth and all off world colonies.

Jip they did/do.

Would have just been great if they were not part.
Would have been a great excuse for the Federation to get rid...start a war...

Shows the Federation protects its own even if they are not part of them.

 

[Crowley]

Surely that means Chuck was the most despicable type of person. Who could be a conservative and a nice guy after all?

 

[satanboy]

Who could be a conservative and a nice guy after all?

I'm sure there are plenty.

 

[rustypup]

Still not mention of Raiders of the Lost Ark?!!

You folks are slacking

Indie could have wandered off to a tropical island and gottten sloshed on cheap booze and loose women with the exact same impact on the outcome as his "active" involvment achieved.

 

[Cray]

Still not mention of Raiders of the Lost Ark?!!

You folks are slacking

Indie could have wandered off to a tropical island and gottten sloshed on cheap booze and loose women with the exact same impact on the outcome as his "active" involvment achieved.

Indy reclaimed the ark for the US which meant it ended up in the secret government warehouse. If he hadn't been there, it's entirely likely it would have been reclaimed by the Germans who were still on that Island who didn't get melted.