In addition to the plot hole, M:I also has the WORST use of technology ever. Yes, Virginia, worse than using a Mac to plant a virus in an alien spacecraft!
Not only does he search the Internet for “job” and get a smallish (fewer than 100, IIRC) set of listings… he then proceeds to email them his query. By retyping his email over and over for each one. Bear in mind that he’s witnessed his whole team being killed and he’s in danger himself, as the chance he will be found increases with every passing minute. Oh, the DRAMATIC TENSION!, Oh, the UTTER LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF BASIC COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY!
Futher plotholishness: The whole movie rests on the idea that
Phelps has this elaborate plot to get Hunt to steal something for him by setting him up… but M:I teams steal shit all the time, and Phelps could have just told him to steal it and then offed him, without setting up all the elaborate crap.
Re: Die Hard 2… Recall that at the beginning of the movie, McClane gets paged by his wife and calls her on the phone in the seat in front of her. When the whole “we can’t reach the airplanes” thing starts happening, I wondered “gosh, when will he remember that he has her airphone number in his pocket?”
Not really a plothole. They wouldn’t have had any reason to suspect the there was a coordinated rebel attack underway. I’m sure “protect the shield bunker” in the long run would include supressing local insurgents.
A plothole might be that Vader didn’t warn them when he sensed Luke in the shuttle, but I figured it must be a jedi thang.
Huh? They captured a whole platoon of rebel troops and I’m sure they were told to expect something big soon. At least, they should have been, because the Emporer obviosuly knew about the upcoming rebel attack.
And they knew the rebels were in the bunker to capture them, which implies they were tipped off. Hell, the fleet commander knew about the attack, so the ground commander should have been kept in the loop. Maybe a meme along the lines of “In case of contact with a rebel strike force on endor, bunker security is to go to full alert until further notice”
But even if there are insurgents in the woods, how does that threaten the bunker? Let them run around in the woods. The bunker is the most valuable thing on the entire planet.
I guess it annoys me because after analysing the battle, the empire had to make a number of big mistakes in order to lose, and they hit them on the nose.
Hell, Just ordering the fleet to engage immediatly could have won the battle for the imperials. By the time the shield had dropped, there wouldn’t have been enough of the rebels left for it to matter much to them.
There are bigger holes than that in Pearl Harbor.
Battleships had no medical department? Cuba Gooding had to go ashore to get patched up after the boxing match on a battleship.
The CGI planes bombing the airfield were carrying torpedos. What, the dreaded dry land torpedo?
Compared to BA being in the Battle of Brittian, being lost at sea, showing up at Pearl Harbor just before the attack, shooting down the bad guys in his P 40, and being on the Doolittle raid, taking a train to London is the most believeable part of the damn movie.
They definitely swapped magazines. They had some with different color tape. (Or are you saying that guns have to be actually physically modified to shoot blanks? Because if so, I’ll give that a pass, as it’s a QUITE obscure piece of information.)
Yeah, I love the idea that some guy walks into a cop’s office, starts (apparently) unloading a submachine gun at the police chief, and everyone just stands there long enough to process the scene and realize that he’s shooting blanks before they, I dunno, shoot him.
I enjoyed many parts of it. The plot twist with the special forces was an excellent one, and Bruce Willis as John McClane is always good times. It just kept pushing thing way too far, and the entire plot was built on one big implausibility.
Why would they think, even for an instant, that a big game fishing trip in calm summer waters would be dangerous? Sure, swimmers are in danger, these guys are in a fairly sizable boat, with an experienced shark fisherman. They had a whole marina full of yahoos in rowboats out there trying to get this fish, and not one of them was munched.
Note also, how Quint reacted to Brody calling for help on the radio, after the boat was disabled, no less. I doubt he would have agreed to go out with college boy Hooper and his fancy ass boat as his safety net.
Not obscure to anyone who’s ever served in the military. You have to use a blank adapter on M16s to make them cycle with blanks—it partially blocks off the barrel to allow the rifle to work with the reduced pressure of a blank round. In the movies, they use guns with the barrels permanently partially blocked off to avoid tell-tale blank adapters screwed to the end of the barrel. But it’s a definite physical impossibility for any semiautomatic or automatic firearm with no adapter mounted to cycle blanks AND live rounds.
I agree with you here. Unfortunately, that was about the only clever part of the movie.
Maybe the magazine-swapping scene could have included them removing blank adapters too? Most of the audience wouldn’t know enough about guns to figure out what was going on, and gun enthusiasts would be able to figure out the twist on their own.
Chronicles of Riddick was on last night. I liked Pitch Black, but for some reason they chose to have the movie take place in a different universe. In Pitch Black you had people traveling on ugly utilitarian sub-light transports which are so flimsy they can be put into peril by micro-meteorites.
In Chronicles, they suddenly have very ornately decorated FTL ships, Necromonger super powers and psionics.
As a Star Wars nerd, I’m pretty certain that Jabba CAN speak Basic. He just doesn’t.
Just like I don’t go meet with El Capo and say, “Look, lasagne eater, talk English already!”. If he feels like speaking Italian, well, I don’t think I’ll complain.
Thank you! I withdraw my objection to Mrs. Henderson Presents. She was a rich widow and could have easily afforded the ferry toll, which I’m sure was more expensive then than it is now.
Well, I don’t actually withdraw all of my objections to Mrs. Henderson Presents, because Oscar nomination or no, it just wasn’t a very good movie.
Kate and Leopold (horrid movie, btw)–if I followed the plot correctly (and that’s a big if, Meg Ryan’s hair was a complete distraction to me–made me cross her off my list of actor’s to see), she basically became her own husband’s grandmother.
Very odd, time travel and all that. Plus the portal was silly. The whole movie was silly.
There’s a hole at the end of Casablanca, but I can’t recall it offhand just now. (Louie makes an unneccessary phone call, IMS).
I think it says something in the book where Lecter showed respect to Barney and not Chilton because Barney knew how dangerous Lecter could be and that Lecter could turn on anybody at anytime. Chilton and the cops, on the other hand, thought they were better than him. So they ended up letting their guard down and, well, there you go.
That damn movie Flightplan that I finally caught last night.
I tired to figure out just how many things this Air Marshall had to pull off to get his plan to work.
-Kill Jodi Foster’s husband and get away with it.
-Make sure that the coroner she use’s is the one he’s being helped with.
-Make sure he get’s assigned to the same flight as she does.
-Make sure no one sees the daughter board the plane.
-Make sure no one sees the daughter on the plane.
-Somehow get the daughter off the manifest.
-Get the boarding pass away from Jodi without her noticing.
-Hope to god Jodi falls asleep and doesn’t wake up while he takes the daughter.
-Hope no one notices him taking the daughter.
-Hope the daughter doesn’t make a scene while she’s being taken.
-Hope no one on the crew besides his stewardess helper don’t look in the nose of the plane.
-Hope Jodi goes nuts enough to seek out and unlock the coffin so he can get his explosives out.
-Get some people on the ground to agree to the hijackers demands of wiring money.
-Hope there’s no swat team at the airport to deal with.
And probably a whole lot of other points I missed. Just waaay to far fetched to even attempt.
In the original cut, which I saw at a free sneak preview, she became her ex-lover’s (Liev Schreiber’s) great-grandmother. When reviewers started pointing out the wacky incest angle that the filmmakers apparently never noticed, they re-edited the movie to delete any references to Schreiber’s character being a descendant of Jackman’s. And yeah, the movie sucked anyway.
Of course, he could always have just told the Captain there was a terrorist on board demanding money and that it needed to be wired to Account X.
Then he could later get his money out of the account, assuming he’d use whatever menthod in the original plan…
None of the other wackiness was even necessary. At all. Because one can just tell the Captain that there’s a bomb and he’ll call up Corporate and have them put $50M into a random account…
