# Movie plotholes only losers would pick out

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 16, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-plotholes-only-losers-would-pick-out/312747 "2005-07-16T02:04:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-plotholes-only-losers-would-pick-out/312747/121 "2005-07-31T10:33:11Z")

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> [@Robot Arm](#):
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> Someone just started a thread about _Used Cars_. It’s about two rival used-car lots. Sleazy, manipulative Kurt Russell (the good guy) tells the new manager not to use any actual facts when she starts doing their TV commercials (use words like “gajillion” that don’t mean anything), because the sleazier guys from the other lot will bust them on a truth-in-advertising claim. But she accidentally says that they have “a mile of used cars”, and so the race is on.

IIRC, she didn’t say that at all. The rival lot redubbed the ad, changing, I think, “styles of cars” to “mile of cars”. By all means correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure.

**Practical Magic** : Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are doing a spell to resurrect NK’s boyfriend. At one point, they have to make a five-point star on his chest, and it has to be white, so SB uses Reddi-Whip. That’s cute and all, but then she swipes a fingerful off one of the sides before going on to the next step. Meanwhile, I’m going, “You idiot! You made the star imperfect! Close it, close it…aw, heck.”

**Some TV movie I’ve forgotten the name of** : It’s 1956, and the main character, who is an avid reader, gets a birthday gift from her friends who only read movie magazines: the new Lord of the Rings books! Except that LOTR was not a best-seller in 1956, and probably not even available in El Paso, where the movie was set. Her friends would have been unlikely to come up with the idea on her own, and even the idea of her asking for them was unlikely, since she very well might not have heard of them.

**Mischief** : Also in 1956, Catcher in the Rye is referred to as assigned reading in high school English. I could be wrong, but I think CITR was supposed to be a “bad” book (I mean, it had the f-word in it, among many other things frowned upon in the age of McCarthy), and would have been read secretly because it was forbidden. Anyway, recent books are hardly ever assigned reading, in any era.

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**Author:** ![Ruckinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@Ruckinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruckinge)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-plotholes-only-losers-would-pick-out/312747/122 "2005-07-31T11:10:24Z")

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> [@Slithy Tove](#):
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> In _Schindler’s List,_ when the Nazis give the kid a wire brush to remove lime deposits from the bathtub, then shoot him for failing. I’m only part German and I still know instinctively that he should have been given a bottle of vinegar.

That might not be an error. They might have intentionally set him up for failure. Nazis strike me as the type who’d do that sort of thing.

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