Top 20 Major Movie Plot Holes

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You won't be able to unsee these movie plot holes. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most glaringly obvious plot holes from popular films. Our countdown includes “The Shawshank Redemption”, “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, "Batman Begins", “The Matrix”, The “Fantastic Beasts” franchise, and more! What do you make of these plot holes? Do they ruin the story for you? Let us know in the comments below!

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[WatchMojo]

What do you make of these plot holes? Do they ruin the story for you? Let us know in the comments below!
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[GrantKanigan]

One of my favourite quotes about plot holes is: “if the audience can come up with a reasonable explanation themselves, it’s not a plot hole.”

[NekoHibaCosplay]

The plothole about the poster in Shawshank redemption is partially explained in the original novella, since Andy became so good at being useful to the guards and the wardens (since in the book changed a few times) that he managed to receive some privileges like more personal freedom, shallow perquisitions and even to live alone in his cell (which was the main reason he managed to create the hole without being noticed for twenty years)
For how he reattached the poster, I have no explanation but if I recall correctly in the novella they found the hole immediately, it's an invention of the movie that they discovered it when the warden arrived, which imho was one of the best shots of the movie nonetheless.

[jackhussey]

#8 to be fair, The arms are controlling Octavius. So they’re to blame, not him

[FionaApplewright]

I've always thought Leia was feeling and seeing memories others had of her mother and misinterpreting them as her own. She was Anikin's daughter, and it is clearly stated "there is another", implying that she also has the ability to feel and influence the force, which could explain her accuracy (or she could just be a great shot). But it's fun to think about.

[melaniem]

For the "after midnight" issue in Gremlins, I never before thought of time zones or Daylight Savings Time, but I always wondered what time it was okay to feed them again.

[tropicaltracerbirdie]

8:02 On Beauty and the Beast:
I just had a thought on the portrait being an older (21-year-old) version of himself as young man, compared to when he was cursed as a pre-teen: The castle is enchanted along with the people living there. In the ending you see even the castle itself was transformed into a dark foreboding place when it was cursed, turning back into angelic figures and gleaming marble and bright stone. Maybe the painting was too enchanted in that moment of the first curse to be the real image of the prince as he would have been aging naturally, growing along side with him (like a Dorian Grey painting in a sense) and that is why the Beast rips at it, because he does not look or resemble this person; it's a reminder of what he is now: A Beast, not a Man.

[petrastedman]

When Neo comes across Cypher in the "I don't even see the code. I just see blonde, brunette, redhead' scene, C shuts down his terminal quickly. The implication is that he's writing a code that will allow him to plug in and get out without an operator.

[ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom]

That Age of Ultron post credit scene could be seen as taking place just before Infinity War. Not necessarily a plot hole.

[ansongordon-creed]

The Lost World entry is actually a case of failed visual storytelling:
When we go onto the ship's deck, we see the T-Rex's cage from the island, and a dead crewmember's hand holding the controls for the hold, implying it was on deck when the incorrect injection caused it to break free. Afterwhich, it killed the crew, then was either lured or willingly went into the hold, where a dying crewmember closed the doors on it.

The deleted scene is a myth.

[michaelgariti]

#1- That isn't even my biggest qualm about the aliens being "allergic" to water. It's not just that there is liquid water covering 66-75% of Earth, or even that there's precipitation most of the time. The biggest problem is that there's HUMIDITY IN THE AIR! The aliens should've started disintegrating or whatever the second they opened their ship doors. That single aspect of the film makes me go insane every time I remember it!

[wtfdoodsrsly]

With Spider-Man, Electro actually partially explains this. When he talks about getting fried by Garfield’s Spider-Man, he was taking in “all that data”. That includes the data from ozcorp. They most likely had information connecting Peter Parker to the project. He wouldn’t have had a face to connect the name to

[elisamuels]

In "Blade", Whistler didn't actually turn yet (he was still human), which is why he didn't ash or anything when he shot himself. Also he was so weakened by the attack on him by the vampires, he probably didn't have enough strength to shoot himself in a vital place like the head, or heart. And also also, he was to weak to pick up the gun (which he dropped), and do it right. In fact they explained what happened clearly in "Blade 2" when one of the vampires said, " He shot himself then he turned" They didn't state specifically say where the bullet went. Remember, Blade walked away and we heard the gunshot, but this doesn't necessarily mean that Whistler was dead. He laid there "close" to death for hours until he actually did turn into a vampire and healed. Simple.

[meagansanders]

Professor McGonagall's age doesn't seem all that absurd when you consider that Dumbledore was 115-116. So I see no reason why McGonagall couldn't age just as slowly.

[Boyso]

In Shawshank when Red is telling the story of Andy’s escape they show Andy digging out the hole and the poster is taped at the top but not at the bottom. You can see Andy pause for a second cause he thinks someone is coming and the poster is draped on his back. While this may not have worked it does explain how the poster was attached

[robertmarginean]

In TDKR, Batman didn't teleport to Gotham, there was like a 20-something day gap between the time he escaped and the day the bomb exploded

[justapeacefulmanwhosbornin]

In 'Superman: The Movie' (based on the Golden Age comic book version created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster), the live action movie version of Superman's maximum speed was 98 percent of the speed of light.
Ladies and gentlemen, Christopher Reeve's Superman version was indeed an Earth-level Kryptonian hero.

[kongab]

Dock ock throwing a car at Peter can easily be explained. He's insane. Guys not really thinking clearly when he did that

[GenisysPrime]

The Dark Knight Rises plothole that you mentioned is null and void. He reached Gotham so fast from the prison because He's Batman as simple as that.

[dheezknutz]

I never felt that the Leia thing was a plot hole. I just felt what she perceived as memories were just do to her connection to the force.