Inconsistencies or plot holes in films

[Threevok]

P.S. How is the artificial gravity system supposed to work?

artificially

 

[cougie uk]

The Edge Of Tomorrow

Great sci-fi film, based on a japanese book that I still haven't read but anyway.....

Tom Cruise's character is an arrogant Army PR person, generally used as a 'talking head' on TV shows, news etc about the invasion. Yet he's demoted and given a fake identity as punishment by a General he insults. Why does nobody recognise him? If he's spent the last year on TV talking about the invasion I'd have at least expected him to be a little famous, surely someone would have noticed the new private looks a bit like the guy from TV?

Maybe nobody watches TV in the future? Or they think he's too small to be that guy ?

 

[wiggydiggy]

Maybe nobody watches TV in the future? Or they think he's too small to be that guy ?

To be fair none of the soldiers he initally meets seem intelligent enough to work it out....

 

[Dogtrousers]

Small black holes

I have those in my socks

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I have those in my socks

That’s what ultimately leads to socks going missing. The sock passes the black hole event horizon and appears out of a white hole in a parallel universe. There people have lots of collections of three matching socks as random solo socks appear in the washing.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

That’s what ultimately leads to socks going missing. The sock passes the black hole event horizon and appears out of a white hole in a parallel universe. There people have lots of collections of three matching socks as random solo socks appear in the washing.

Ah, the tripod people. Famously, they have 3 legs which allows them to run away quickly in any direction. Their society places high value in cowardice as it's an excellent survival trait. Females seek out the male at the back of the room nearest the door as he's the one that will escape any event the quickest. Their leader holds the title "The Hindmost" in recognition of this.








What on earth is in this drink?

 

[MichaelW2]

In The Internatinal, our Interpol hero is trying to bring in a hired assassin before his employers can kill him. The Assassin has set up a meeting in the Guggenheim museum ( one way in same way out) and is wearing body armour.
In the middle of a frantic gunfight, after being shot a few times the professional assassin demands assistance to take off his body armour. He then gets shot a few more times.
Why in movies do they rip the body armour off before the bullets have stopped flying.
Even if you check for injury, you put it back on.

 

[yello]

Maybe nobody watches TV in the future? Or they think he's too small to be that guy ?

They could only ever see his hat on TV.

 

[yello]

I reckon that when you start noticing plot holes in tv, film or books that it's a pretty good sign that you're only a half step away from declaring it (whatever it is) nonsense.

 

[cougie uk]

In The Internatinal, our Interpol hero is trying to bring in a hired assassin before his employers can kill him. The Assassin has set up a meeting in the Guggenheim museum ( one way in same way out) and is wearing body armour.
In the middle of a frantic gunfight, after being shot a few times the professional assassin demands assistance to take off his body armour. He then gets shot a few more times.
Why in movies do they rip the body armour off before the bullets have stopped flying.
Even if you check for injury, you put it back on.

Only one exit ? How did that get past H&S ? Madness!

 

[Hicky]

To be fair none of the soldiers he initally meets seem intelligent enough to work it out....

They must be infantry.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

They must be infantry.

Or sappers

 

[captain nemo1701]

In trek

When a spaceship loses power and reverts to emergency systems only why doesn't the artificial gravity fail? You never see the crew floating helplessly around.

P.S. How is the artificial gravity system supposed to work?

Well...since you asked....

It's gravity plating in the floors/ceilings which is totally independent power-wise. In theory it holds you in a graviton field, pushing from above & pulling from below. In Deep Space 9 & Star Trek Voyager, there are a couple of episodes where they adjust the plating to lower the gravity. Same in Enterprise where they captured a lizard alien once by tricking it onto walking on gravity plating whacked up to full power. In the pilot episode, Trip shows Travis the 'sweet spot' on the ship away from the plating & gravity generator where they can float. And in ST: The Undiscovered Country, the gravity was switched off on the Klingon ship, so the assassins in magnetic boots could move around & shoot everyone else who was floating about.

 

[Hicky]

Or sappers

Do sappers also have to take their shoes off to count beyond ten?🤣🫣

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Do sappers also have to take their shoes off to count beyond ten?🤣🫣

They can't. Their boots are held on with massive jubilee clips.

Counting is one, two three, lots.