Inconsistencies or plot holes in films

[MontyVeda]

The Titfield Thunderbolt... stealing the train from the museum and driving it through the town's streets.. how do they steer the sodding thing?

 

[figbat]

it was a dire attempt at covering it... as you say, just wrap the weapon in meat.

IIRC the emphasis is on "living" flesh. I guess if you were as desperate as the freedom fighters claim to be you could ram a weapon into a living organism long enough to get through the portal and not really care about its fate, compared to the fate of mankind.

 

[MontyVeda]

IIRC the emphasis is on "living" flesh. I guess if you were as desperate as the freedom fighters claim to be you could ram a weapon into a living organism long enough to get through the portal and not really care about its fate, compared to the fate of mankind.

you know it's shoddy reasoning... and the one in T2 had no flesh at all, living or otherwise. explain that one!

 

[mustang1]

Superman and Loise: when superman comes in for a gentle landing, why does he always have to have one leg straight and one bent?
S & L (again): when superman is in the kitchen (or whatever room in the house) and he has to attend an emergency so leaves the house really quickly, surely the speed at which he opens doors to leave the house will knock those doors off the hinges?

You don't see this anymore, but in the older movies where someone has to login to a computer by entering a password, why is the "Enter password" caption written in huge characters across the entire screen and then a voiceover says "Enter password" as if no one can read dthe darn text in megafont? If the password is not accepted, the voiceover tells you but when it is accepted, it says "password is accepted. You now have access to (whatever you have access to). Can't name any moves that does this, but I KNOW they are out there....)

 

[Beebo]

Billy Elliott.
The end when the dad and brother go to watch Billy on stage. They exit the tube on the jubilee line at Canary Wharf but go to the Royal Opera House in the Covent Garden. That’s a very long walk. It would make more sense for them to have exited at Westminster or changed at Green Park for the Piccadilly line.
But they were from up north so probably got all confused. 😀

 

[figbat]

and the one in T2 had no flesh at all, living or otherwise. explain that one!

This isn't explained in the films - apparently in the fandom world there are competing explanations; it travelled in a flesh cocoon which was discarded or it can replicate the electrical field of living cells. I think it is left deliberately vague since it is a mimetic polyalloy so can just do whatever it needs to.

 

[matticus]

I follow a lot of Tube nerds on various social media platforms

Do you mean the Youtube Tube nerds?

(Careful - you can disappear down a rabbit hole there ... )

 

[wiggydiggy]

Superman and Loise: when superman comes in for a gentle landing, why does he always have to have one leg straight and one bent?
S & L (again): when superman is in the kitchen (or whatever room in the house) and he has to attend an emergency so leaves the house really quickly, surely the speed at which he opens doors to leave the house will knock those doors off the hinges?

You don't see this anymore, but in the older movies where someone has to login to a computer by entering a password, why is the "Enter password" caption written in huge characters across the entire screen and then a voiceover says "Enter password" as if no one can read dthe darn text in megafont? If the password is not accepted, the voiceover tells you but when it is accepted, it says "password is accepted. You now have access to (whatever you have access to). Can't name any moves that does this, but I KNOW they are out there....)

Similar thing but in Jurrasic Park when John Arnold is trying to get back into the system after Dennis Nedry's system freeze he speaks every command he's typing. I can't remember if we see the commands being written on screen but no system admin I know will sit there speaking to themself every command they type!

Oh and this is just brilliant - some has made a website recreating the entire scene, and yes you do see the words beng typed on screen!

https://jurassicsystems.com/

 

[DRM]

There's barely any in the Royal Navy these days!

Especially ones that work!

 

[DRM]

I think that was a red herring.

Definitely a bit fishy

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The Titfield Thunderbolt... stealing the train from the museum and driving it through the town's streets.. how do they steer the sodding thing?

You mean the other loco they took from the yard? They didn't (couldn't) steer it and it crashed into a tree.

As for the TT itself (actually Lion), I guess they just humphed it through the streets with a lot of elbow grease.

 

[Drago]

Why on films when someone picks up a pistol and aims it at someone is there a click?

These semi auto pistols are either double-action and don't need the hammer cocking in order to get off the first shot (Sig, 1911, Hi Power, older Walther), or else have an internal striker with no external hammer that can be physically cocked at all! (Glock, S&W)

Seeing someone aim a Glock 17 Gen4 at someone with an accompanying 'click' makes me feel physically ill. It's the firearm equivalent of using a starting handle to crank a Prius into life, that's how realistic it isn't, so why do film makers insist upon this affectation?

 

[Threevok]

Batfink

If his wings were like a shield of steel, why didn't they shoot at his feet?

 

[Drago]

Superman. Kryptonite weakens him as its the same molecular density as it is from his homeworld.

Then why doesn't proximity to his spaceship or crystals, also from his homeworld, weaken him?

 

[MichaelW2]

Why on films when someone picks up a pistol and aims it at someone is there a click?

These semi auto pistols are either double-action and don't need the hammer cocking in order to get off the first shot (Sig, 1911, Hi Power, older Walther), or else have an internal striker with no external hammer that can be physically cocked at all! (Glock, S&W)

Seeing someone aim a Glock 17 Gen4 at someone with an accompanying 'click' makes me feel physically ill. It's the firearm equivalent of using a starting handle to crank a Prius into life, that's how realistic it isn't, so why do film makers insist upon this affectation?

Having cocked their Glock and shot nearly all of the 50+ bullets from the clip, they then put it back in their holster with the safety off!
Firearms errors are such a mainstay of Hollywood such that it is the realistic portrayals such as in Heat that are notable. Not sure any count as plot holes.