Inconsistencies or plot holes in films

[classic33]

The Hunt For Red October.

Captain Ramius is trying to defect to America, but it'll be dicey as the east coast of murica is being picketed by Russian subs looking for him.

So why not just go down the south Atlantic, round Tierra Del Fuego, up the Pacific and sail into Los Angeles unopposed?

The book differs from the movie. There's no Royal Navy aircraft carriers in the movie.

 

[Drago]

The book differs from the movie. There's no Royal Navy aircraft carriers in the movie.

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

 

[MontyVeda]

In an opposite inconsistency.
Why can’t R2D2 speak English but can understand spoken English.
It would be a very simple add on to a droid.

R2D2 does speak English, but he was such a sweary little ******* they had to bleep out everything the filthy mouthed **** said to avoid it being rated 18, hence all the ******* bleeping.

 

[lazybloke]

More than solar panels at that distance from the sun, hence the likes of Perseverance using one.

Earth has stronger sunlight but a thick wet soupy atmosphere that aborbs and scatters solar energy.
Mars has weaker sunlight (less than half as strong), but its atmosphere is near-vacuum, with hardly any absorbption/scatter.

Put those things together, and there's not much difference between a solar panel on Mars and a solar panel on Earth.

I expect the Watney character had the best panels available, surely a few kilowatts here?

The perseverence RTG only generated 110 watts when brand new. That's two headlamp bulbs.
The larger Voyager RTG managed about 400 watts.
He must have had a much larger RTG.

 

[Drago]

Perserverence's RTG is 110W. It is very small, barely coin size units of plutonium,

In the fillum it is a crewed mission, so whatever the RTG was expecting to power it was going to be a lot larger (physically it was a lot larger in the films) so you're likely talking in the kW range, maybe even double digit. Plug the bloody thing into the Rover!

 

[cougie uk]

In 'The Spy Who Loved Me' James Bond drives a Lotus Esprit out of the sea, opens a window and drops a fish out. How did a fish get into a watertight car in the first place?

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I think that was a red herring.

 

[cougie uk]

In Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Harry and Hagrid travel from Privet drive in Surrey to the Burrow in Devon, via a chase scene through the Dartford tunnel.
Any fool knows that they are going the wrong way round the M25 to get to Devon.

That scene was filmed in the Mersey Tunnel so definitely some routing magic there.

 

[cougie uk]

Uh huh... But why English? Why not Cantonese, Tagalog, Brazilian Portuguese... Romansch?

I reckon if you watch the film in say Germany - they're speaking German.

 

[MontyVeda]

The Terminator... if Kyle Reece couldn't bring a weapon from the future because metal stuff can't travel through time or something.... how the feck did the actual Terminator travel through time?

 

[matticus]

Umm, it's set near New York after all, at the risk of giving away a crucial scene

Christ on a bike, you've ALREADY given away the key twist!!!

 

[figbat]

The Terminator... if Kyle Reece couldn't bring a weapon from the future because metal stuff can't travel through time or something.... how the feck did the actual Terminator travel through time?

Don't they cover this? Something about the T-101 being a cyborg and covered in living flesh. I guess Kyle could ram a weapon up... never mind.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Journey to the Centre of the Earth? Loads of potholes.

 

[steverob]

That's like me with any railway scene in a film or on the telly.

'But that's not the same train he got on!'

Or

'That's not historically accurate... The preserved line who shot that should be ashamed of themselves!'

Etc etc

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I follow a lot of Tube nerds on various social media platforms (I am a bit of one but maybe not to the same degree as those I follow) and I see a very similar set of discussions whenever any film or TV character is depicted as using the London Underground: "He was shown entering Leicester Square station, but ended up standing on one of the platforms at Earl's Court. Now he's boarding what is clearly a Victoria line train which serves neither of those stations and yet has then somehow got off a Central line train at Bank supposedly one station later without ever changing lines! Now he's going up the escalators at King's Cross - he's teleporting all over Central London!"

It's very tempting to wind them up and say that it doesn't really matter, but I'll admit it does grate a bit even for someone like me who only knows a little about why it's incorrect, so generally I choose not to add petrol to their flames!

 

[MontyVeda]

Don't they cover this? Something about the T-101 being a cyborg and covered in living flesh. I guess Kyle could ram a weapon up... never mind.

it was a dire attempt at covering it... as you say, just wrap the weapon in meat. It's even worse in T2 where the cyborg isn't covered in flesh of any sort.

both great films though... unlike the rest of the franchise.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Don't they cover this? Something about the T-101 being a cyborg and covered in living flesh. I guess Kyle could ram a weapon up... never mind.

it was a dire attempt at covering it... as you say, just wrap the weapon in meat. It's even worse in T2 where the cyborg isn't covered in flesh of any sort.

both great films though... unlike the rest of the franchise.

Or use the Bone Gun from ExistenZ