Holey plots Batman

[Wolferz]

Have you ever noticed glaring holes in the plots or just plain stupid things that characters are made to do in movies or TV shows?
Enumerate them here...

I'll start with Star Wars... The Empire strikes back...

Scene: The ice planet Hoth... Luke and his Taun Taun have been jumped by a Yeti that drags them both back to it's cave. Luke wakes up and discovers he's been hung up for later consumption while the Yeti is finishing off the waca waca Taun Taun. Luke spots his light saber stuck in the snow and force grabs it to free himself. The Yeti charges to prevent his midnight snack from escaping and quickly loses an arm. Luke panics and runs out of the cave into a blizzard? WTF? How stupid do they make these Jedi or is there a sliding intelligence scale in the recruiting department? Wait, I have a nifty Laser Sword, so this Yeti shouldn't be a problem as long as he doesn't sucker punch me again and this cave will protect me from the elements outside.
Maybe it was the smell of his former mount's guts? Ha ha. The galaxy is loaded with irony. What's the first thing Han does when he finds Luke face down in the snow? Right! Stuffs him in the belly of his own recently departed Taun Taun to keep him warm.
I can hear Master Yoda now; " He's dumber than a box of rocks but the force is strong with this one."

Too bad it couldn't have been stronger with George Lucas.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Have you ever noticed glaring holes in the plots or just plain stupid things that characters are made to do in movies or TV shows?
Enumerate them here...

I'll start with Star Wars... The Empire strikes back...

Scene: The ice planet Hoth... Luke and his Taun Taun have been jumped by a Yeti that drags them both back to it's cave. Luke wakes up and discovers he's been hung up for later consumption while the Yeti is finishing off the waca waca Taun Taun. Luke spots his light saber stuck in the snow and force grabs it to free himself. The Yeti charges to prevent his midnight snack from escaping and quickly loses an arm. Luke panics and runs out of the cave into a blizzard? WTF? How stupid do they make these Jedi or is there a sliding intelligence scale in the recruiting department? Wait, I have a nifty Laser Sword, so this Yeti shouldn't be a problem as long as he doesn't sucker punch me again and this cave will protect me from the elements outside.
Maybe it was the smell of his former mount's guts? Ha ha. The galaxy is loaded with irony. What's the first thing Han does when he finds Luke face down in the snow? Right! Stuffs him in the belly of his own recently departed Taun Taun to keep him warm.
I can hear Master Yoda now; " He's dumber than a box of rocks but the force is strong with this one."

Too bad it couldn't have been stronger with George Lucas.

Well I think if I had been bashed in the face by a Wampa(it is not a Yeti) or any larger beast then suspended by my feet for an unknown time span once I did regain awareness I would most likely be highly disorientated and might not take the most logical course do to shock and such.Just saying.Also how do you know that that was the only Wampa?Furthermore had he not run out of the cave and passed out he would not have had the vision and Han Solo would never have found him.So actually running out of the cave was the better course of action.Besides that grabbing of the light saber and escaping took energy last bit of energy that Luke had left.

That and all movies have plot holes because they need to tell a story in a reasonable amount of time they also need to keep the viewers engaged some who might not have the most lengthy attention span.Really in any story you can say that the plot is stupid or tear it up by asking why this why that.The whole idea is that it is a story with some kind of struggle.You watch Luke suffer in the snow and it makes you feel empathy for him and you are already rooting for him because you know that he is the hero but heroes fail sometimes too.

Another example The Road in the book (or movie) it is obvious that thigns are rather horrible yet the man keeps on going.Someone could say "why not just kill yourself and get it over with" but that would make a very boring story.

[TarJak]

plot holes? Julia Roberts?

[Jimbuna]

A charioteer in Ben Hur wearing a wrist watch.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

A charioteer in Ben Hur wearing a wrist watch.

Maybe it was a portable sun dial worn round the wrist.

They call that something else errors like those in films continuity mistakes/errors.If you try you'll find some in just about every single movie.

One of the best is Troy at one point you can see a powerful Greek god flying over observing the battle.Everyone knows that Greek gods do not look like modern jet airliners.I think most of these are to blame on filming schedules and things get missed when everyone comes back from lunch or comes in the for the next day and they are working on the same scene.Of course editors go through hundreds of hours of film and things just get missed. Most of the time you have to really hunt for them.

I think Apollo 13 had a spot at one point where you cloud see a cameraman below the crews feet.

[kranz]

This is a sub-devoted board so it's time for Das Boot: one of the crew says that Gibraltar is as narrow as a virgin's...... .In another scene the navigator says that Gibraltar is 7 miles wide.