This has little to do with excellent marksmanship. Quite the opposite: How could Batman (in a high-tech Batplane, using machine guns) miss The Joker?
Also, how could a single bullet from a handgun take down the Batplane?
Unless…
…she was killed in the twister.
Notice also that Marty’s great grandfather looks just like him, his future son looks just like him, and his father looks just like . . . Crispin Glover? I guess the McFly genes responsible for looks, charm, and good motor skills skipped a generation.
Batman wasn’t prepared for that.
It’s called a joke, and everybody in the theater got it when I saw the movie.
Especially when Batman is specifically shown zeroing in on him with a BIG FAT RED COMPUTER TARGET immediately before pulling the trigger. Either Batman really needs to invest in a new targeting system, or he should dispense with it completely and start using the Force.
Of course, it’s debatable whether the missiles would have killed the Joker even if they had hit him, since they appeared to have the explosive power of a cheap roman candle.
Especially since the Joker clearly had no idea Batman would attack that way (“Why didn’t somebody tell me he had one of those things?”). Or that said plane would just happen to be equipped with a giant pair of scissors on the front – you know, just in case Batman ever needed to cut the cables on poison-gas-filled parade balloons.
That being said, I would disagree that this qualifies as a bad plothole in a quality movie.
Just watched this over the weekend…the U-boat captain barks orders in German; an alarm claxon sounds, and crewmen start energetically closing valves. All the standard movie cliches for “Dive! Dive! Aoooogah!”, but not speaking German, I cannot 100% say that it was a goof.
Now, how did Indy & Marion get off the island after all the Germans had been sucked up by Wrath O’ God? (Not technically a plot hole…just a stretch.)
I’m sure some ship passing by came over to investigate that giant pillar of light that stabbed up into the clouds.
The new movie, Deception.
[spoiler]Hugh Jackman’s character is a charlatan who pretends to be an attorney in a firm where Ewan McGregor’s character is working briefly as a consultant, in order to get to know him. The movie never explains how Jackman gained entrance to the firm, was initially joking around with characters who worked there, etc.
Also, no explanation of how he was able to get into McGregor’s apartment to take the photos or how Ewan McGregor was able to get a fake passport in less than a weekend.
Also not explained how McGregor had access to an apartment where later it is revealed someone else is living.[/spoiler]
Right… but that’s not mentioned or even hinted at at the end of the movie.
Zev Steinhardt
I think it’s funny that the greatest of all Star Wars movies has the greatest of all Star Wars plot holes:
How, exactly, did the Millenium Falcon get from Hoth to Bespin without entering hyperspace? Did they travel in sublight speed… for several years? Actually, that would have explaned how Luke learned advanced lightsabre fighting in what seemed, based upon the cutaways to Han, Leia et al, like a single afternoon.
Not much of a stretch at all: they used a radio to call for help.
According to the EU, most starships larger than a fighter have an “emergency hyperdrive.” It can get you to another star system, but is extremely slow. It’s a post-hoc handwave that’s not remotely hinted at in the movie, but it works for me.
Who sez it didn’t?
If anything, it makes the mutant cure motivation in X3 all that much more sensible.
Oh, and as for Nightcrawler teleporting thing, I wanted to make sure that those discussing it understood that it was a practical, self-imposed limitation, not a mental block or anything like that - teleporting blind runs the risk of you bamfing into existence right in the middle of a solid object.
Except that a German flying wing aircraft did exist, though it was not in production in the right timeframe for the movie. Earlier designs or prototypes could have been around though.
It’s somewhat hinted close to the beginning, though. When Dorothy gets sucked up by the hurricane, one of the people she sees outside is Elmira, pedalling away like mad. How much of this is actually hallucination is unclear (I assume Elmira transforming into the WW of the W is an unambiguous sign of crossing over), but assuming Elmira got conveniently killed isn’t a huge stretch, nor is assuming that after a hurricane cuts a swath through downtown Kansas, the local sheriff might not care so much about taking some yappy dog for a ride.
No, if you take a peek at that cite of yours you’ll see the first Ho229 didn’t take to the air until 1944, although the Horten brothers were playing with flying-wing gliders a decade earlier. That’s why I mentioned the timeframe.
I always thought Face/Off (which I did enjoy quite a bit) would be even more enjoyable if the operations weren’t perfect. If instead the whole movie was massively deformed Travolta and Cage running around. Or something like the “Edgar-suit” from Men in Black. Could be comedy, could be horror movie…
*Vertigo. * As Robin Wood points out, the murderers’ plan rests entirely on the fact that Jimmy Stewart will slink away from the accident scene rather than staying to make sure that there is nothing to be done to help/answer questions. The ridiculously convulated plot rests entirely on a man banking on precisely how Jimmy will react in a set of unlikely circumstances despite not having seen him for twenty years.
Still - fantastic movie and this plothole doesn’t stop my enjoyment.
Has anybody mentioned “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, yet? Enjoyable book/movie, but the villain has the most unnecessarily convoluted plan I’ve ever heard.
[spoiler]It’s established that ordinary-looking objects can be transformed into “port keys”, meaning you touch one and it teleports you somewhere. The villain kidnaps one of Harry’s teachers, disguises himself as him, impersonates him for a whole year, manages to get Harry entered into the Tri-wizard Tournament, and guides him through all the challenges to ensure that Harry is the one to grab the trophy at the end – the trophy being a “port key” which sends Harry into the clutches of Lord Voldemort.
Or, of course, the villain could have just handed Harry an enchanted pen on the first day of school and accomplished the exact same thing. :smack: [/spoiler]
I’ve only seen the movie, but…
[spoiler]…was there any part of that story that wasn’t a plot hole? I mean, what’s the point of the Goblet of Fire competition in the first place? IIRC, it’s some sort of team building exercise between different magic schools. Is that really important enough to potentially kill a bunch of students every few years? Can’t they just go on a camping trip or something? (Preferably to a set of woods not inhabited by giant spiders, of course.) They say they don’t yet younger students compete because it’s so dangerous, but when Harry’s name shows up in the goblet, they not only let him compete, they kidnap two of his friends and throw them in a lake full of carniverous merfolk. The logic being, apparently, that if you’re going to imperil one child for no particular reason, you might as well imperil three of them.
Man, that was a stupid movie.[/spoiler]