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About the About the Back to the Future thing: If I were George, I'd be more worried that Lorraine went and looked up Calvin Klein years later when he became a successful maker of underwear and had a wild weekend with him about 9 months before Marty was born.
They couldn't use the eagles to fly into mordor because on sauron would have seen them coming with the ring as well as the eagles could be influenced by the ring as well
Tbh i always assumed the time turner only could go back so many hours max. If i recall three spins on it was three hours? So i figured it had a maximum time of like 12-24 hours.
Time Turners are limited to only allow their user to go back up till 5 hours, as the time magic isn't stable enough to allow safe use further back in time. There is a whole story on Pottermore about an incident where things went completely wrong and it is quite dark. Voldemort was evil but the risks involved to the flow of time and the time traveler are too high for anyone with knowledge on the topic to even risk it.
@@BjornV1994 Full disclosure, I've never read The Cursed Child, though I'm aware of the plot. Is it considered non-canon, or is the time turner used in that some sort of prototype or suped-up version, because in the plot it definitely violates that 5-hour limit.
@@michaelleddick7349 The story is officially considered canon, JK Rowling has said as much. However, most fans seem to prefer to ignore it and to each their own I would say. But the Time-Turner in the story is what is refered to as a "True Time-Turner". Specially created for Lucius Malfoy, the first True Time-Turner was a prototype that had no restriction on how far back one travels but could only keep them in the past for 5 minutes before sending them back. The second and complete model didn't had even that restriction. However prior to 1899, regular Time-Turners didn't had the 5-hour limit either. It was put in place after a serious incident with Eloise Mintumble that caused Time Anomalies on a massive scale. And that's the reason why there is a 5-hour limit. Beyond 5 hours, it is hard to be completely certain to know how far you exactly will be sent back in time. With the Time Turner used in the Cursed Child, it seems to have ironed out some of the kinks that 19th century models had but in my personal headcanon, they were still pretty lucky that they ended up where they wanted to go and only messed with history, instead of trapping themselves somewhere while distorting the fabric of time itself.
I like this list the MOST because you make your points succinctly. Some of these lists (even WhatCulture) go on and on trying to prove their point, but you just stepped on the gas and deliver.
Try to explain why the Gremlins walk around in SNOW a lot of the time when they shouldn’t be near water? You could argue that they may be cold blooded reptile types but they would generate some heat enough to have it become water.
The Eagles. It's simple. They are old, sentient creatures. They rarely get involved with mortals. They're aloof. It's amazing Gandalf has the pull with them he does.
My old writing professor insisted consistently that a writer or director needing to "chime in" after the fact to fix an apparent plot hole in a finished product was a sign of a faulty story presentation. The fact that it can be explained away doesn't absolve the problem.
I'm inclined to agree with your professor there. I think what's in play most of the time is that the writers or directors have their own understanding of the internal logic most of the time, and so for them these things aren't logistical leaps. But the audience doesn't have the same perspective on a book or movie, so things need a more cohesive presentation. The audience doesn't need to have all the dots connected for them, but they do need to see the dots.
There is also time and understanding. I am not sure how you would add how a phone line works without going into quick documentary, and even if you mention it Google was not a thing to look into it. Most movies try to maintain a 90 minute mark and some struggle to cut that much out while allowing the story to flow. Books don't have that limitation, and sometimes things seem obvious to someone or they assume that you already know the lore, and if you don't the fanboys will catch you up. sorry if my poor grammar hurts your brain.
Missed Star Wars, Death Star weakness. Everybody says the should have just covered it or plug it up. It is an exhaust port! Stick a banana in your tailpipe and see how well that works for you. (Bonus points for getting the reference)
Exactly it's an EXHAUST PORT it's used for either making the Death Star move or letting heat escape if it was the latter the Death Star would have blown up or given people heat strokes when they blew up Alderann. I liked Rogue One but the whole reason for making it was ridiculous.
True, but they could have provided a bit more protection. But they would have had to think it was as issue to begin with, which they clearly didn't. They never anticipated that the rebels would obtain the plans, and the odds of them exploiting such a tiny weakness seemed slim. Even one of the rebel pilots (I think it was Wedge, who was one of the best) remarked that it was impossible when he heard what the plan was.
@@rhunter42dragon It was retconned into being a deliberate design flaw secretly placed in by a guy who was forced to design the thing against his will, and even then you had to get through at least one squadron of TIE fighters and Darth Vader himself to get a shot at it.
3: The first draft of the script ended with his Dad finding a Doc Brown invented scrapbook with a newspaper clipping from the 50s about the dance and included Marty’s picture. And ended with him saying “nah, couldn’t be.” So they definitely thought about whether he parents recognised him or noticed the resemblance or not at some point (although in a ambiguous or obvious for different reasons manner). It can be found online so check it out if you don’t believe me (search first draft, just search script you may get the later draft whose ending was the same as the finished movie)
The real plot hole in Dark Knight Rises is how Bruce healed his broken back and attempted several back snapping free falls from failed escape attempts, all in just a few weeks.
An example of a "not a plot hole" mentioned in the beginning of the vid. It's just a part of the movie that takes place off-screen. Any number of ways he could have done it.
A great point, but I think the real answer lies in the cigarettes that are pointedly explained to be European and the fact that when "Bill Clay" smokes his he holds the cig in a more European way than American. Perhaps that was just one clue coupled with the watch that was cut out and the brief glimpse of him in the elevator that brought it all together for McClane.
@@brainfat1 Add in that Hans didn't bat an eye that the cigarettes were European. It all adds up that "Clay" wasn't an American, probably European, and in on the job.
The really big plot hole overlooked in Die Hard is, how'd the ambulance (the one they escape in) get in the back of the truck when it's clearly not there as Han's team is exiting the cargo van?
What I don't get about Home Alone is, why did Kevin threaten the pizza guy with that movie footage and make it look like he was shooting at him? If he had the money to pay for the pizza, and actually did so, then why didn't he just pay for it and see the guy on his way? Also, if the pizza guy believed he was being shot at, why didn't he call the Police to report that?
Either just a kid being a kid/for the plot, or because he was worried that the guy might realize he was there alone are what I've always assumed. The bigger hole to me is the police knocking a few times and calling it. I don't think they would have given up that easily on a welfare check in that neighborhood.
Yeah he basically didn't want to get caught being home alone so he didn't want to answer the door. As for the pizza guy not calling the police we don't know that he didn't, combine it with the cops being lazy when asked to check on Kevin later on and only knocking/ ringing the bell 2 or 3 times it shows the cops were kind of half assing it for the holiday and when the pizza guy reported it they might have thought it was a joke.
I always just figured McLean was just being naturally suspicious of anyone he met. After all, he didn't take any action until Gruber dropped the charade.
@ClownHas NoPenis Right, that was always my interpretation too; the names. It *can't* have anything to do with the watches; the shots shown in this video prove that. The terrorists are wearing watches that are not even close to the same.
All of the above. Cigarettes and watches raise suspicion. McLean asks Hans his name. Hans gives a name. The surname is on the board but the first name Hans gives doesn't match the initial that is on the board. You see this when for a second it zooms in on the board.
@@stuartkelly4711 But the initials on the board were "WM", so saying Bill (short for William) as his name wouldn't really be suspicious. It actually makes the name seem less suspicious.
What’s more likely is you notice a vague resemblance in “your” kid to a guy you knew in high school 30 years ago? That, um, he’s NOT your kid and Lorraine hooked back up with him! LMAO!!!
Lol exactly, and Marty isn't a newborn. He's around 18 in 1985 so he was born in 1967. That's only 12 years after they met Calvin, once Marty became a little kid he would look more like his teenage self. His parents would notice by the time he's around let's say 5 (1972) that he looks a lot like the guy who set them up 17 years earlier.
I honestly thought the reason why Marty's parents didn't recognize him was pretty obvious. I barely remember what some of my closest friends from like seven years ago look like
studio: your move is to long cut out this scene director : but it it explains several plot points studio : people won't notice and I have your money .do it
Also with LOTR: remember that Sauron was right there and actively looking for the ring, so if eagles suddenly flew into Mordor, you'd figure Sauron would have done something about it. Leads to the true biggest plot hole in the movies: in The Two Towers, Frodo shows the Ring to a Nazgul!!! Sauron would have emptied Mordor right then and there (or whenever the Nazgul could fly back and tell him if they aren't magically connected) and probably shown up himself to take the Ring. Sauron's biggest fear was that Aragorn (or Gandalf) would use the Ring, so if he learned that a hobbit had it in Osgiliath, that's a huge plot hole.
@@Zeroless It kinda does matter. Yes, Sauron's greatest fear and expectation was that a powerful creature among the forces of the west would use it. But actual evidence of a challenge would prompt a more immediate response. In both movie and book series, Aragorn challenges Sauron by using the Palantir (difference being that in the books, he succeeds at wrestling control of the stone away from Sauron). The immediate response of that challenge is to launch the Morgul-lead attack on Gondor in a hurry, rather than wait some more and consolidate more. That whole thing is actually the main reason Frodo has an easier time getting into Mordor in the first place, as the entire valley he crosses is less densely populated with orcs. But yeah, the movie's change to have Frodo IN Osgiliath AND revealing the ring is one of the worst changes made purely for 1 nice looking scene. It never made sense to me and ruins the character of Faramir on screen in my eyes.
@@captainanopheles4307 Simple: distance and time. Sauron's power was growing ever stronger and when Bilbo got the ring, he had literally just revealed his presence to the world after millenia of absence. If Frodo had remained in the Shire, it's very possible Sauron would've become aware of it there eventually. The Nazghuls' were also only re-revealed to the world when they left Minas Morghul to search for the ring at the beginning of our story. Note that in the books, half a century pass between Bilbo finding the ring and Frodo departing. For most of that time, Sauron was still gathering forces. Also, the ring too was gathering strength. Throughout the books, we keep getting hints that the ring is getting stronger, it's "re-awakening" if you will. That's also why Bilbo could use it and it had little effect on him besides making him impossible and making him feel odd after decades of ownership and repeated use. Frodo on the other hand has to deal with a more powerful ring that is actively trying to be found by Sauron and his mates, so he is in trouble when he puts it on more often than not.
First of all bless you for disavowing The Play That Shall Not Be Named. Also as you said, taking out baby Voldemort or something would undo too much. Many people talk about taking out baby Hitler. “Mysterious thing, time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous.” (HP and the POA)
Indeed, you could assassinate Hitler only to create a timeline where Stalin conquered Europe and rose to global domination, for example, and Europe and North America are totalitarian states, and China conquers India and Japan. Even something as mundane as changing the 1 vote by which America adopted English over German as its national language, it could create a world where the Axis powers manage to ally with America and a fascist American-German alliance controls 2/3 of the world in the present.
Just gonna point it out, do with it what you will... Who says Marty's parents DIDN'T recognize him? Marty/Kalvin was George McFly's seemingly best and only friend for a time and Loraine made a serious move on him, twice... I think they'd notice the resemblance. Also, in the scene were Marty opens the garage and seems taken aback by the shiny new truck... How would he have NOT noticed that before (and in the previous timeline, that truck or one just like it was headed to a dealership for a give-away which wouldn't be over yet since this the very next day)... Has it ever occurred to anyone else that George and Loraine bought that truck for Marty as a silent 'Thank You' for everything he did to bring them together? Look at the way they smile watching their bewildered son stare at a brand new dealership customized truck that he would and should have definitely known was there if he WASN'T time traveler from an alternate reality. That's how I choose to interpret the scene anyway... I makes it a bit sweeter then "Marty is now a spoiled rich kid"
In shawshank the issue comes when the warden throws the stone and it punches a hole in the poster, proving that its pulled tight as if fastened, if it was just draped it would have moved into the hole a little bit
Not exactly. Depending on how hard the warden threw the stone, the shape of the stone, where in the poster the stone struck, etc. the weight of the poster itself would have created enough static resistance for the rock to pass through without disturbing the poster.
"No Gimli. I would not take the Mines of Moria unless I absolutely had to." Did it pretty easily and could've walked any other direction in New Zealand.
How about the theory that Marty's parents actually did recognize him and were well aware of what he did. That's why they gave him the car and were looking at him through the door at overlap of BttF 1 and BttF 2.
They remembered him enough to name their kid after him and if your wife dated a guy in high school and then your kid looks like him you wouldn't remember that?
@@bperlmutter And they might also remember they knew a guy called 'Calvin Klein' when that brand name later became one of the most popular and recognisable on earth
@@bperlmutter Marty was most likely named after Shemus’ brother who was killed prior to 1885. Marty was also the 3rd child of Lorraine and George. There are lots of people who have similar names to famous people. Klein is a relatively common name. Calvin Klein disappeared without a trace after the dance. And I’m sure when they found out about Calvin Klein the designer, they looked to see what he looked like and realized he looked nothing like that kid from high school.
The most plausible theory is the one presented in the video which is also what I always think when ever someone calls this a plothole. They knew him for atmost a week during high school. I don't know how old they were when they had him but I'm sure it was long enough that by the time he was 10 or more and started looking looking like someone they briefly knew the memory of what he looked like would have faded and at most they might have some Deja Vu. Plus they might have pictures of Shemus who looks very similar to Marty, seeing as they're both played by Fox.
@@GrimmShadowsII Don't know how old Marty's parents were when they had him? Think about it. Marty's parents are around 47 in 1985. Marty went back to 1955. Here, Loraine mentions, "I'm almost 18, it's not like I've never parked before." George was similar in age since he's also a High School senior, probably 18 at the oldest. We also have it established that Marty is 17. That means that they were around 30 when Marty was born.
About Endgame... the Pym Particles weren’t the issue. Everyone knew they could reverse engineer them. The issue lies within not having specialized suits like the Avengers did AND not having their quantum GPSs, also, like the Avengers did. Just going into the quantum realm is a crapshoot. This video didn’t explain a plot hole. There’s no way they could’ve travelled to precisely where they needed to go without them.
Because joe Pescis character plays a police officer at the start. He’s casing the house while the pizza guy comes in. Kevin got a bad vibe and assumed the police wouldn’t help. He even looked at him suspiciously and noticed his gold tooth, and he notices it later when he comes back to rob the place.
About the Time-Turner, it isn't the Cursed Child that introduced the idea of altering time through a Time-Turner. This was already present in the novel "Prisoner of Azkaban" but the ramifications of what altering time means was used as a warning why they can't alter too much. Hermione mentions instances where people either killed their future or past selfs. So it is possible to alter time in a significant and paradoxical way, it is just really ill-advised. As far as the lore goes (whether or not you included the Cursed Child), it is made clear that the only safe way to use a Time-Turner, is when you abide by the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle (or go back in time to make sure the things happen like they are already recorded). In any other case, you will definitely create time paradoxes at best and severe time anomalies at worst (and especially that last thing isn't something you don't want to cause).
The most obvious paradox with Prisoner of Azkaban is with the Stag patronus "prongs". The 1st time we see it drive away the dementors and Harry thinks his father cast it. The 2nd time (the loop) Harry is lying in wait to see his father cast it, only at that moment does he realise it was him that cast it saving his earlier self. He later says "I knew I could do it this time because I'd already done it." If Harry failed to cast the patronus during the loop, he would've failed to save his earlier self so he wouldn't get to the loop to cast the patronus.
@@aetch77 I never looked at this this way but you are right, it is indeed a paradox. A prophecy or predestination paradox as I would like to call it but still a paradox. But in that regard, the whole time travel plot could be considered one. Dumbledore knew what happened to Buckbeak and by putting Harry and Hermione up to it, he made sure that it came true. I believe it is the only "safe" paradox to create, one that is self-consisting.
The Dark Night Rises is very unclear of which time passes when. My understanding was that the countdown was from about the time that Batman went into the prison, meaning that most of the time it was ticking was while he was recuperating from his broken back, not returning to Gotham.
Just one thing about Die Hard. Some people say maybe John saw the name on the directory and knew that's where Hans pulled it from. Hans was actually pretty smart doing that, because wouldn't it be a safe assumption that someone who works in the building would be at the party?
Never ask an executive how something works! A limb falling in the street would never effect long distance. Trust me I'm a retired at&t network technician.
I might remember wrong but didn't it snap 1 or 2 of the cords, and you could also say during the storm it happened in a couple places. Coul't the phone company decied multiple breaks would make it too unreliable and just shut it off while they made repairs rather then get a bunch of complaints? I just think it would be easier to do that and say a storm knocked it out rather then constantly hearing the same complaint that the LD calls were statically or being dropped. I don't know enough about how phones and phone wires work to know for sure.
I'm from a state that gets severe winter storms. Most of the time the phone lines were not down, but even if they were, it didn't take days to put them back up. Home Alone doesn't take place over the course of one night, plus the Mom tries several times to reach him over the phone. I guess you just have to write it off as part of the movie to enjoy it. There are many things that ask one to stretch the imagination in that movie.
Directly before this video i watched "10 movie idiots who made simple solutions look impossible", in which Will does a whole bit about how they should have just flown on the back of eagles to destroy the ring in LOTR.
I'm trying to rack my brain in order to figure out if there's anyone I hadn't seen since spending a single week with in 1991, who I'd still recognise today. I mean, 'Calvin Klein' was particularly close to both 1955 George and Lorraine for that week, and yet, it's also true that thirty years is probably enough time to forget what someone looks like.
Number 5 with the Shawshank poster. Didn't the warden throw a rock at the poster? If the bottom wasn't attached the rock would either bounce off or make the poster go inside the hole. It isn't taut enough to rip through it. Fucking Family Guy even knew this. It's not hard science
Could be worse. At least no-one 'just kinda forgot about the Iron Fleet' despite the fact they killed one of your 3 beloved dragons and half wrecked your army.
John Mclain sees Hans in the elevator during the "now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho" scene. The ceiling was obviously grated and see through (based on the zoom in and decorative shadows it leaves on him). I never once assumed otherwise.
The Back to the Future one is not the point, it’s why didn’t George think something had gone on and that Kelvin was Marty’s father ? Of course he wouldn’t think time travel just that Kelvin and his wife hooked up later
In regards to die hard that is not how it happened. the security guard at the beginning of the movie said that the floor in which the party was on had the only employees left in the building. they were on a different floor. That is how John knew Hans was lying
why did Hermione not use the time turner to keep Harry company while he was not allowed to go to Hogsmead? Also about the eagles: I know there are a bunch of fancy reasons, but seeing the eagles save the day time and time again from Gondolin to Amon Amarth, it's pretty clear that aquilae ex machina was Tolkien's favourite way of cutting loose ends.
I´ve always prefer the theory (in LOTR) that Gandalf intended to get to the eagles and ask them for help but since he fell in Moria that idea is gone with him and the "Fly, you fools!" line is his way of saying "go to the eagles" without any enemies knowing that, maybe he hoped that the hobbits, having heared Bilbo´s tale many times, would think of the eagles but they don´t. As for the eagles being corrupted by the ring, i don´t think so, they are race directly conected to a Valar (Manwë) so they could ask their king, being the strongest one, to carry Frodo. Finally, for the "Eagles can´t fly long distances with people on them", they do take Frodo, Sam and Gandalf from Mordor and (presumably) to Rivendel at the end of the battle of Morannon.
I always thought in Die Hard he saw the name W.M Clay on the board so he knew Hanns made it up after subconsciously looking at the name. Kinda a 50/50 chance. Hence handing him a empty gun instead of just calling him out right then
Using magic to explain how Thanos brought his army to the world is a serious disservice to the MCU, what's next? Mickey mouse joining the Avengers? I'll stick to grounded reality thank you.
Also, the thing with the eagles is that by their very nature they deem the whole war with Sauron and the finding of the Ring as unimportant to them and, as such, would refuse to help until it directly effected them in a tangible way. If that came to pass, it would be too late anyway.
The actual plot hole in endgame is thanos was supposed to have largest army is the universe. But only maybe 100,000 show I’d expect intergalactic army to be in the billions
They weren't all with him, and in his ego didn't think he'd need his entire army to take out what he'd have thought were the same few people who stopped Loki?
@@bloodyneptune plus he stopped them before so he figured even with a few extra people he wouldn't need his full army, he wasn't expecting the wakanda army or any of the other people Wong brought it's not even clear to me how many of the actual Avengers he knew would be there. Plus you can only show so much on screen at a time so there could be more we didn't see.
Always thought like in every shrinking movie when you're in something that shrinks you shrink with it. So thats how Thanos got everyone to the future? Wrong? Or is the question because Nebula got back before them so how did they have any for the ship with everyone?
In the LoRs, I'm pretty sure Gandalf says "Fly you fools" before being dragged in the abyss by the Balrog. I think he planned to take the eagles all along but they had to meet up with them.
He ment fly as in run. In LOTR lore, the eagles are not beasts of burden. The eagles help Gandalf escape only because he had helped the King of the Eagles out way in the past. So they helped him escape as a repayment. After that, there was no way that were helping Frodo without Gandalf there.
Just for the record in regards to the eagle question an answer was offered in the games workshop release of the fellowship of the ring board game. The eagles animal mind cant withstand the rings power, seeing as it is sentient and won’t take kindly to being air lifted to mount doom. In the game Frodo can’t be carried by an eagle.
My problem with Avengers Endgame is that they made the rules of time travel clear and completely ignored them. They stole the infinity stones from the past and had to put them all back to preserve the timeline, but Thanos from the past went to the future and died. That completely goes against the rules they established. They put all the stones back, but they'd also have to resurrect Thanos and his army, wipe their memories and put them back in the past.
well, if it's as natural for them as breathing, they can still realize that they're doing it and just... not do it, just the same as humans can hold their breath. While holding your breath for too long would endanger a human, a toy doesn't really have the same concern by just talking and moving around.
Not really, if Buzz played dead as a kind of reflex, then one could assume that toys could not play dead as well, akin to holding one's breath. Since he didn't realize he was a toy, he couldn't control that reflex, once he did realize it, he could.
Ok Practical Magic: when she goes to get Gilly at the hotel, she gets out of a a Yellow cab. Yet, on the way out, she goes to open the door of a blue car (Gilly getting Tiger's Eye). Who's car is that??
Finally someone is doing their homework at whatculture, at least regarding The Shawshank Redemption plot-hole. I myself left a comment a few weeks ago in another video explaining this.
I always wondered why they they didn't use time travel after watching Prisoner of Azkaban. But I guess a lot of things happen bc Voldemort came into power and so it would have tremendous consequences if they were to try. 🤔
LotR's magic eagles are not regular earthly eagles. Like the giant spider actually being an intelligent being and not simply a giant spider. I think some of Tolkien's other stuff like the... Simularium or whatever it's called goes into these things more. The Shadow of War game even has Shelob(?) the giant spider's mother as a more neutral and natural force, as opposed to malevolent, and both are unaffected by the Ring which is why she didn't seize it herself when she bagged Frodo, and why Gollum was confident he'd get the Ring back after setting Frodo up.
Actually McClane knew Bill Clay was actually Hans Gruber is because he noticed the names on the wall next to Hans matched up with his name. Indicating that Hans looked at that wall for a brief moment and put two names together. Bill and Clay. If you watch the scene it’s actually obvious. Not a plot hole at all
He didn’t put two names together, the name on the directory is William Clay, or Bill. Someone who works in the building would probably be at the party.
about LOTR: there is also a theory that gandalf's plan was to ask the eagles to carry the ring bearer, which is why he took the longer route across the mountains, but he wasn't sure if one of the others was a spy so he didn't tell them. and when saruman forced them through moria he tried to tell them on the bridge with his "FLY you fools"...
The plot hole I’d like explained is that there is a second Delorean in Back to the Future 3. In 1955, Doc and Marty recover the Delorean Doc in 1885 hid in the mine. Therefore, when Marty goes back to 1885 to rescue Doc, that same Delorean is already in the mine. Therefore there are two Deloreans present at the same time. Doc would have kept the gasoline, since it didn’t exist yet, and could have used parts to repair one or the other. Just saying.
The true plot hole of the BttF series: How is it even possible for them to leave 2015? Old Biff steals the delorean to go back to 1955, which alters the entire timeline. We learn later that going into the future from that point means travelling on the altered timeline. so how did Biff manage to make it *back* to the "normal" 2015 timeline in order to return the delorean? Shouldn't he have also travelled to the alternate future? It isn't even properly dealt with in the deleted scene, because it just shows old Biff fading away, but he still managed to make it back to the "normal" 2015 before doing so.
Could you imagine having to explain every single plotline to an audience. How boring that movie would be. People complained about A Quiet Place and how people can just throw things to distract the monsters. Imagination is being able to fill that gaps that maybe the monsters can distinguish between the two the way bats do. Having the movie explain every single detail destroys the whole mystery of it all.
The bigger mystery in A Quiet Place is how the parents were able to have sex in order for the mom to get pregnant. Did they somehow manage to have sex in complete silence without making so much as a grunt? If not how were they not found and attacked mid or post coitus?
I don’t like this explanation for the eagles, and there’s a better one: in Tolkien’s works the eagles are effectively the servants of a minor god. While they help the heroes at times but they are not commanded by anyone. Gandalf has some sway over them for doing them a solid a few centuries before, but he wouldn’t ask them to fly into literal hell on earth.
About the About the Back to the Future thing: If I were George, I'd be more worried that Lorraine went and looked up Calvin Klein years later when he became a successful maker of underwear and had a wild weekend with him about 9 months before Marty was born.
"Ignore the cursed child, it's nonsense." Man, you're speaking true.
When he was talking about LOTR, all I could think of was The Eagles (as in the band) flying into Mordor. I want to see that movie.
Joe walsh flying in playing a magnificent solo sounds beautiful to me
Livin' it up in the hotel Rivendell?
As long as they drop them with the ring
It'd be one awesome soundtrack
They couldn't use the eagles to fly into mordor because on sauron would have seen them coming with the ring as well as the eagles could be influenced by the ring as well
Tbh i always assumed the time turner only could go back so many hours max. If i recall three spins on it was three hours? So i figured it had a maximum time of like 12-24 hours.
Time Turners are limited to only allow their user to go back up till 5 hours, as the time magic isn't stable enough to allow safe use further back in time. There is a whole story on Pottermore about an incident where things went completely wrong and it is quite dark. Voldemort was evil but the risks involved to the flow of time and the time traveler are too high for anyone with knowledge on the topic to even risk it.
@@BjornV1994 Full disclosure, I've never read The Cursed Child, though I'm aware of the plot. Is it considered non-canon, or is the time turner used in that some sort of prototype or suped-up version, because in the plot it definitely violates that 5-hour limit.
@@michaelleddick7349 The story is officially considered canon, JK Rowling has said as much. However, most fans seem to prefer to ignore it and to each their own I would say.
But the Time-Turner in the story is what is refered to as a "True Time-Turner". Specially created for Lucius Malfoy, the first True Time-Turner was a prototype that had no restriction on how far back one travels but could only keep them in the past for 5 minutes before sending them back. The second and complete model didn't had even that restriction.
However prior to 1899, regular Time-Turners didn't had the 5-hour limit either. It was put in place after a serious incident with Eloise Mintumble that caused Time Anomalies on a massive scale. And that's the reason why there is a 5-hour limit. Beyond 5 hours, it is hard to be completely certain to know how far you exactly will be sent back in time. With the Time Turner used in the Cursed Child, it seems to have ironed out some of the kinks that 19th century models had but in my personal headcanon, they were still pretty lucky that they ended up where they wanted to go and only messed with history, instead of trapping themselves somewhere while distorting the fabric of time itself.
I like this list the MOST because you make your points succinctly.
Some of these lists (even WhatCulture) go on and on trying to prove their point, but you just stepped on the gas and deliver.
Try to explain why the Gremlins walk around in SNOW a lot of the time when they shouldn’t be near water? You could argue that they may be cold blooded reptile types but they would generate some heat enough to have it become water.
Holy shit, ive never thought of that. There would be infinte amount if them
The Eagles. It's simple. They are old, sentient creatures. They rarely get involved with mortals. They're aloof. It's amazing Gandalf has the pull with them he does.
My old writing professor insisted consistently that a writer or director needing to "chime in" after the fact to fix an apparent plot hole in a finished product was a sign of a faulty story presentation. The fact that it can be explained away doesn't absolve the problem.
I'm inclined to agree with your professor there. I think what's in play most of the time is that the writers or directors have their own understanding of the internal logic most of the time, and so for them these things aren't logistical leaps. But the audience doesn't have the same perspective on a book or movie, so things need a more cohesive presentation. The audience doesn't need to have all the dots connected for them, but they do need to see the dots.
There is also time and understanding. I am not sure how you would add how a phone line works without going into quick documentary, and even if you mention it Google was not a thing to look into it. Most movies try to maintain a 90 minute mark and some struggle to cut that much out while allowing the story to flow. Books don't have that limitation, and sometimes things seem obvious to someone or they assume that you already know the lore, and if you don't the fanboys will catch you up.
sorry if my poor grammar hurts your brain.
Thank you! Some of those are so dumb I hate hearing them referred to as plot holes (particularly the Batman and Shawshank ones)
Missed Star Wars, Death Star weakness. Everybody says the should have just covered it or plug it up. It is an exhaust port! Stick a banana in your tailpipe and see how well that works for you. (Bonus points for getting the reference)
Look man, I ain't fallin' for no banana in my tailpipe!
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Exactly it's an EXHAUST PORT it's used for either making the Death Star move or letting heat escape if it was the latter the Death Star would have blown up or given people heat strokes when they blew up Alderann. I liked Rogue One but the whole reason for making it was ridiculous.
True, but they could have provided a bit more protection. But they would have had to think it was as issue to begin with, which they clearly didn't. They never anticipated that the rebels would obtain the plans, and the odds of them exploiting such a tiny weakness seemed slim. Even one of the rebel pilots (I think it was Wedge, who was one of the best) remarked that it was impossible when he heard what the plan was.
@@rhunter42dragon It was retconned into being a deliberate design flaw secretly placed in by a guy who was forced to design the thing against his will, and even then you had to get through at least one squadron of TIE fighters and Darth Vader himself to get a shot at it.
3: The first draft of the script ended with his Dad finding a Doc Brown invented scrapbook with a newspaper clipping from the 50s about the dance and included Marty’s picture. And ended with him saying “nah, couldn’t be.” So they definitely thought about whether he parents recognised him or noticed the resemblance or not at some point (although in a ambiguous or obvious for different reasons manner).
It can be found online so check it out if you don’t believe me (search first draft, just search script you may get the later draft whose ending was the same as the finished movie)
Interesting never knew about that, gonna have to check it out. Thanks.
I believe you.
The real plot hole in Dark Knight Rises is how Bruce healed his broken back and attempted several back snapping free falls from failed escape attempts, all in just a few weeks.
Obviously, Bane has access to the same Wax Tub technology as the assassins in Wanted.
Dark Knight Rises
Shot of Batman still in the Batwing
Shot of bomb with 5 seconds and counting down
Nuclear bomb explodes
Movie: Nah, he's fine.
An example of a "not a plot hole" mentioned in the beginning of the vid. It's just a part of the movie that takes place off-screen. Any number of ways he could have done it.
Bane not killing Batman is about as lame as a nerf gun.
McClane see Hans thru the top of the elevator earlier in the film. When Karl's brothers body was in it with the Christmas hat on.
A great point, but I think the real answer lies in the cigarettes that are pointedly explained to be European and the fact that when "Bill Clay" smokes his he holds the cig in a more European way than American. Perhaps that was just one clue coupled with the watch that was cut out and the brief glimpse of him in the elevator that brought it all together for McClane.
@@brainfat1 Add in that Hans didn't bat an eye that the cigarettes were European. It all adds up that "Clay" wasn't an American, probably European, and in on the job.
He also witnessed the execution of Mr. Takagi
I always wondered how Bruce just kinda ran into Selena in Bane's Gotham.
The answer on this vid was basically because hes batman yeah
The obvious answer is he didn't just run into her; he was shadowing her for some period of time.
The really big plot hole overlooked in Die Hard is, how'd the ambulance (the one they escape in) get in the back of the truck when it's clearly not there as Han's team is exiting the cargo van?
Your explanations give good insights. If we look carefully, some of our lives seem to have plot holes from someone looking from the outside 💜
Come for the entertaining video, leave with life lessons from the comments.
One of your best videos in a really long time. Very interesting.
Ah yes, the Shashank Redemption.
What I don't get about Home Alone is, why did Kevin threaten the pizza guy with that movie footage and make it look like he was shooting at him? If he had the money to pay for the pizza, and actually did so, then why didn't he just pay for it and see the guy on his way? Also, if the pizza guy believed he was being shot at, why didn't he call the Police to report that?
Either just a kid being a kid/for the plot, or because he was worried that the guy might realize he was there alone are what I've always assumed. The bigger hole to me is the police knocking a few times and calling it. I don't think they would have given up that easily on a welfare check in that neighborhood.
Because Kevin, who would later change his name to John Kramer, is kind of sadistic like that.
Yeah he basically didn't want to get caught being home alone so he didn't want to answer the door. As for the pizza guy not calling the police we don't know that he didn't, combine it with the cops being lazy when asked to check on Kevin later on and only knocking/ ringing the bell 2 or 3 times it shows the cops were kind of half assing it for the holiday and when the pizza guy reported it they might have thought it was a joke.
Erm... on Die Hard... John saw Hans kill James Takagi, and saw him in the elevator with Karl's dead brother. Of course he knew who he was.
Die Hard: I always thought what gave Alan away was the way he held and smoke the cigarette.
I always just figured McLean was just being naturally suspicious of anyone he met. After all, he didn't take any action until Gruber dropped the charade.
@ClownHas NoPenis Right, that was always my interpretation too; the names. It *can't* have anything to do with the watches; the shots shown in this video prove that. The terrorists are wearing watches that are not even close to the same.
All of the above. Cigarettes and watches raise suspicion. McLean asks Hans his name. Hans gives a name. The surname is on the board but the first name Hans gives doesn't match the initial that is on the board. You see this when for a second it zooms in on the board.
@@stuartkelly4711 But the initials on the board were "WM", so saying Bill (short for William) as his name wouldn't really be suspicious. It actually makes the name seem less suspicious.
Erika It was the fact that McClain was a huge Alan Rickman fan and recognized him immediately.
What’s more likely is you notice a vague resemblance in “your” kid to a guy you knew in high school 30 years ago? That, um, he’s NOT your kid and Lorraine hooked back up with him! LMAO!!!
Lol exactly, and Marty isn't a newborn. He's around 18 in 1985 so he was born in 1967.
That's only 12 years after they met Calvin, once Marty became a little kid he would look more like his teenage self.
His parents would notice by the time he's around let's say 5 (1972) that he looks a lot like the guy who set them up 17 years earlier.
I honestly thought the reason why Marty's parents didn't recognize him was pretty obvious. I barely remember what some of my closest friends from like seven years ago look like
studio: your move is to long cut out this scene
director : but it it explains several plot points
studio : people won't notice and I have your money .do it
Also with LOTR: remember that Sauron was right there and actively looking for the ring, so if eagles suddenly flew into Mordor, you'd figure Sauron would have done something about it.
Leads to the true biggest plot hole in the movies: in The Two Towers, Frodo shows the Ring to a Nazgul!!! Sauron would have emptied Mordor right then and there (or whenever the Nazgul could fly back and tell him if they aren't magically connected) and probably shown up himself to take the Ring. Sauron's biggest fear was that Aragorn (or Gandalf) would use the Ring, so if he learned that a hobbit had it in Osgiliath, that's a huge plot hole.
not sure since sauron always thought they were gonna use it so i dont think it matters
@@Zeroless It kinda does matter. Yes, Sauron's greatest fear and expectation was that a powerful creature among the forces of the west would use it. But actual evidence of a challenge would prompt a more immediate response. In both movie and book series, Aragorn challenges Sauron by using the Palantir (difference being that in the books, he succeeds at wrestling control of the stone away from Sauron). The immediate response of that challenge is to launch the Morgul-lead attack on Gondor in a hurry, rather than wait some more and consolidate more. That whole thing is actually the main reason Frodo has an easier time getting into Mordor in the first place, as the entire valley he crosses is less densely populated with orcs.
But yeah, the movie's change to have Frodo IN Osgiliath AND revealing the ring is one of the worst changes made purely for 1 nice looking scene. It never made sense to me and ruins the character of Faramir on screen in my eyes.
@@narsil1984 fair enough
If Sauron or the Nazghul were aware of the ring when it was put on, why didn't they visit the shire earlier when Bilbo put it on?
@@captainanopheles4307 Simple: distance and time.
Sauron's power was growing ever stronger and when Bilbo got the ring, he had literally just revealed his presence to the world after millenia of absence. If Frodo had remained in the Shire, it's very possible Sauron would've become aware of it there eventually.
The Nazghuls' were also only re-revealed to the world when they left Minas Morghul to search for the ring at the beginning of our story. Note that in the books, half a century pass between Bilbo finding the ring and Frodo departing. For most of that time, Sauron was still gathering forces.
Also, the ring too was gathering strength. Throughout the books, we keep getting hints that the ring is getting stronger, it's "re-awakening" if you will. That's also why Bilbo could use it and it had little effect on him besides making him impossible and making him feel odd after decades of ownership and repeated use. Frodo on the other hand has to deal with a more powerful ring that is actively trying to be found by Sauron and his mates, so he is in trouble when he puts it on more often than not.
So if the toys in toy story have no voluntary control over whether or not they can move when being observed, how do the toys move in front of Sid?
I was wondering same thing
I think he meant it more as like a natural instinct that they can fight if they want/need to, but he worded it very poorly...
3 weeks with a broken back, LOL.
First of all bless you for disavowing The Play That Shall Not Be Named. Also as you said, taking out baby Voldemort or something would undo too much. Many people talk about taking out baby Hitler. “Mysterious thing, time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous.” (HP and the POA)
Indeed, you could assassinate Hitler only to create a timeline where Stalin conquered Europe and rose to global domination, for example, and Europe and North America are totalitarian states, and China conquers India and Japan.
Even something as mundane as changing the 1 vote by which America adopted English over German as its national language, it could create a world where the Axis powers manage to ally with America and a fascist American-German alliance controls 2/3 of the world in the present.
Just gonna point it out, do with it what you will... Who says Marty's parents DIDN'T recognize him? Marty/Kalvin was George McFly's seemingly best and only friend for a time and Loraine made a serious move on him, twice... I think they'd notice the resemblance. Also, in the scene were Marty opens the garage and seems taken aback by the shiny new truck... How would he have NOT noticed that before (and in the previous timeline, that truck or one just like it was headed to a dealership for a give-away which wouldn't be over yet since this the very next day)... Has it ever occurred to anyone else that George and Loraine bought that truck for Marty as a silent 'Thank You' for everything he did to bring them together? Look at the way they smile watching their bewildered son stare at a brand new dealership customized truck that he would and should have definitely known was there if he WASN'T time traveler from an alternate reality. That's how I choose to interpret the scene anyway... I makes it a bit sweeter then "Marty is now a spoiled rich kid"
Cool theory.
Here I was thinking that the Time Turners just had a limited amount of time they could change, like a day at best.
In shawshank the issue comes when the warden throws the stone and it punches a hole in the poster, proving that its pulled tight as if fastened, if it was just draped it would have moved into the hole a little bit
If you apply some weight to the bottom of the print.
If you throw a stone hard enough (which the warden did as he did it in anger) you could throw a rock through it.
Not exactly. Depending on how hard the warden threw the stone, the shape of the stone, where in the poster the stone struck, etc. the weight of the poster itself would have created enough static resistance for the rock to pass through without disturbing the poster.
"No Gimli. I would not take the Mines of Moria unless I absolutely had to."
Did it pretty easily and could've walked any other direction in New Zealand.
How about the theory that Marty's parents actually did recognize him and were well aware of what he did. That's why they gave him the car and were looking at him through the door at overlap of BttF 1 and BttF 2.
They remembered him enough to name their kid after him and if your wife dated a guy in high school and then your kid looks like him you wouldn't remember that?
@@bperlmutter And they might also remember they knew a guy called 'Calvin Klein' when that brand name later became one of the most popular and recognisable on earth
@@bperlmutter Marty was most likely named after Shemus’ brother who was killed prior to 1885. Marty was also the 3rd child of Lorraine and George. There are lots of people who have similar names to famous people. Klein is a relatively common name. Calvin Klein disappeared without a trace after the dance. And I’m sure when they found out about Calvin Klein the designer, they looked to see what he looked like and realized he looked nothing like that kid from high school.
The most plausible theory is the one presented in the video which is also what I always think when ever someone calls this a plothole. They knew him for atmost a week during high school. I don't know how old they were when they had him but I'm sure it was long enough that by the time he was 10 or more and started looking looking like someone they briefly knew the memory of what he looked like would have faded and at most they might have some Deja Vu. Plus they might have pictures of Shemus who looks very similar to Marty, seeing as they're both played by Fox.
@@GrimmShadowsII Don't know how old Marty's parents were when they had him? Think about it. Marty's parents are around 47 in 1985. Marty went back to 1955. Here, Loraine mentions, "I'm almost 18, it's not like I've never parked before." George was similar in age since he's also a High School senior, probably 18 at the oldest. We also have it established that Marty is 17. That means that they were around 30 when Marty was born.
About Endgame... the Pym Particles weren’t the issue. Everyone knew they could reverse engineer them. The issue lies within not having specialized suits like the Avengers did AND not having their quantum GPSs, also, like the Avengers did.
Just going into the quantum realm is a crapshoot. This video didn’t explain a plot hole. There’s no way they could’ve travelled to precisely where they needed to go without them.
HAD to like this for the shade thrown at The Cursed Child
Hans Gruber wore a tank style business man watch...the others had different watches...
Then why didn't Kevin call the police? Little psycho.
Because joe Pescis character plays a police officer at the start. He’s casing the house while the pizza guy comes in. Kevin got a bad vibe and assumed the police wouldn’t help. He even looked at him suspiciously and noticed his gold tooth, and he notices it later when he comes back to rob the place.
@@nicko4785 That's a good point.
About the Time-Turner, it isn't the Cursed Child that introduced the idea of altering time through a Time-Turner. This was already present in the novel "Prisoner of Azkaban" but the ramifications of what altering time means was used as a warning why they can't alter too much. Hermione mentions instances where people either killed their future or past selfs. So it is possible to alter time in a significant and paradoxical way, it is just really ill-advised. As far as the lore goes (whether or not you included the Cursed Child), it is made clear that the only safe way to use a Time-Turner, is when you abide by the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle (or go back in time to make sure the things happen like they are already recorded). In any other case, you will definitely create time paradoxes at best and severe time anomalies at worst (and especially that last thing isn't something you don't want to cause).
The most obvious paradox with Prisoner of Azkaban is with the Stag patronus "prongs". The 1st time we see it drive away the dementors and Harry thinks his father cast it. The 2nd time (the loop) Harry is lying in wait to see his father cast it, only at that moment does he realise it was him that cast it saving his earlier self. He later says "I knew I could do it this time because I'd already done it." If Harry failed to cast the patronus during the loop, he would've failed to save his earlier self so he wouldn't get to the loop to cast the patronus.
@@aetch77 I never looked at this this way but you are right, it is indeed a paradox. A prophecy or predestination paradox as I would like to call it but still a paradox. But in that regard, the whole time travel plot could be considered one. Dumbledore knew what happened to Buckbeak and by putting Harry and Hermione up to it, he made sure that it came true. I believe it is the only "safe" paradox to create, one that is self-consisting.
I want to see the science behind that toy technology in the Buzz Lightyear thing.
#10, if thats the case than how did Woody come alive for Sid?
I think the explanation was just worded poorly, and it’s more just a natural instinct that they can fight off if they want/need to.
The Dark Night Rises is very unclear of which time passes when. My understanding was that the countdown was from about the time that Batman went into the prison, meaning that most of the time it was ticking was while he was recuperating from his broken back, not returning to Gotham.
What about Star Wars episode 8 and the whole fuel thing which solo happily blasted wide open
Just one thing about Die Hard. Some people say maybe John saw the name on the directory and knew that's where Hans pulled it from. Hans was actually pretty smart doing that, because wouldn't it be a safe assumption that someone who works in the building would be at the party?
Another round, please. I’m buying.
Never ask an executive how something works! A limb falling in the street would never effect long distance. Trust me I'm a retired at&t network technician.
I might remember wrong but didn't it snap 1 or 2 of the cords, and you could also say during the storm it happened in a couple places. Coul't the phone company decied multiple breaks would make it too unreliable and just shut it off while they made repairs rather then get a bunch of complaints? I just think it would be easier to do that and say a storm knocked it out rather then constantly hearing the same complaint that the LD calls were statically or being dropped. I don't know enough about how phones and phone wires work to know for sure.
I'm from a state that gets severe winter storms. Most of the time the phone lines were not down, but even if they were, it didn't take days to put them back up. Home Alone doesn't take place over the course of one night, plus the Mom tries several times to reach him over the phone. I guess you just have to write it off as part of the movie to enjoy it. There are many things that ask one to stretch the imagination in that movie.
The last one about HP is pretty weak.
I also thought that George and Lorraine would have just assumed the person they met in high school went on to become a famous fashion designer.
Hell yes to all of these
Directly before this video i watched "10 movie idiots who made simple solutions look impossible", in which Will does a whole bit about how they should have just flown on the back of eagles to destroy the ring in LOTR.
I'm trying to rack my brain in order to figure out if there's anyone I hadn't seen since spending a single week with in 1991, who I'd still recognise today. I mean, 'Calvin Klein' was particularly close to both 1955 George and Lorraine for that week, and yet, it's also true that thirty years is probably enough time to forget what someone looks like.
I'm always telling people that their lack of understanding and deductive reasoning doesn't equate to a plot hole.......
Number 5 with the Shawshank poster. Didn't the warden throw a rock at the poster? If the bottom wasn't attached the rock would either bounce off or make the poster go inside the hole. It isn't taut enough to rip through it.
Fucking Family Guy even knew this. It's not hard science
Independence Day:
The USB port and apple OS are designed from the alien ship in area 51
Three movies that use time travel. Interesting.
Could be worse. At least no-one 'just kinda forgot about the Iron Fleet' despite the fact they killed one of your 3 beloved dragons and half wrecked your army.
True
What happened to Sci Fri?
The lotr eagles were an analogy for the planes during the war which we amazing and would save the shit out of everyone but had limited use
John Mclain sees Hans in the elevator during the "now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho" scene. The ceiling was obviously grated and see through (based on the zoom in and decorative shadows it leaves on him). I never once assumed otherwise.
I think if you go back to that scene he actually doesn't get a good look at them because of the grating and the angle.
The eagles carried The One Ring before, when they carried Bilbo from the goblin warrens to near the Lonely Mountain, in The Hobbit.
So...nope.
It always just pissed me off that the eagles didn’t just carry the dwarves and Bilbo all the way to the mountain.
What were the eagles supposed to do with a tiny ring, anyway? Swallow it? They have griffins, not fingers.
04:44 So, a wizard did it?
The Back to the Future one is not the point, it’s why didn’t George think something had gone on and that Kelvin was Marty’s father ? Of course he wouldn’t think time travel just that Kelvin and his wife hooked up later
Maybe George assumed she cheated
In regards to die hard that is not how it happened. the security guard at the beginning of the movie said that the floor in which the party was on had the only employees left in the building. they were on a different floor. That is how John knew Hans was lying
Hans tells John that he snuck away during some of the confusion and was trying to get to the roof, which is why he's on a different floor.
why did Hermione not use the time turner to keep Harry company while he was not allowed to go to Hogsmead?
Also about the eagles: I know there are a bunch of fancy reasons, but seeing the eagles save the day time and time again from Gondolin to Amon Amarth, it's pretty clear that aquilae ex machina was Tolkien's favourite way of cutting loose ends.
I´ve always prefer the theory (in LOTR) that Gandalf intended to get to the eagles and ask them for help but since he fell in Moria that idea is gone with him and the "Fly, you fools!" line is his way of saying "go to the eagles" without any enemies knowing that, maybe he hoped that the hobbits, having heared Bilbo´s tale many times, would think of the eagles but they don´t. As for the eagles being corrupted by the ring, i don´t think so, they are race directly conected to a Valar (Manwë) so they could ask their king, being the strongest one, to carry Frodo. Finally, for the "Eagles can´t fly long distances with people on them", they do take Frodo, Sam and Gandalf from Mordor and (presumably) to Rivendel at the end of the battle of Morannon.
I always thought in Die Hard he saw the name W.M Clay on the board so he knew Hanns made it up after subconsciously looking at the name. Kinda a 50/50 chance. Hence handing him a empty gun instead of just calling him out right then
Using magic to explain how Thanos brought his army to the world is a serious disservice to the MCU, what's next? Mickey mouse joining the Avengers? I'll stick to grounded reality thank you.
Also, the thing with the eagles is that by their very nature they deem the whole war with Sauron and the finding of the Ring as unimportant to them and, as such, would refuse to help until it directly effected them in a tangible way. If that came to pass, it would be too late anyway.
They only helped Gandalf escape from Saruman's tower because they owed Gandalf a favor, IIRC.
How did Kevin order a pizza with the phone line down? He ordered online. Duh.
This is a film with great components.
The reason so many people don't know what an actual plot hole is is because of UA-cam channels like that one called WhatCulture
Every timeI hear of the Shawshank redemption "plot hole" I rolled my eyes..... people simple don't pay attention
#10: A.K.A.:
"BECAUSE THEY ARE TOYS."
The actual plot hole in endgame is thanos was supposed to have largest army is the universe. But only maybe 100,000 show I’d expect intergalactic army to be in the billions
They weren't all with him, and in his ego didn't think he'd need his entire army to take out what he'd have thought were the same few people who stopped Loki?
@@bloodyneptune plus he stopped them before so he figured even with a few extra people he wouldn't need his full army, he wasn't expecting the wakanda army or any of the other people Wong brought it's not even clear to me how many of the actual Avengers he knew would be there. Plus you can only show so much on screen at a time so there could be more we didn't see.
Always thought like in every shrinking movie when you're in something that shrinks you shrink with it. So thats how Thanos got everyone to the future? Wrong? Or is the question because Nebula got back before them so how did they have any for the ship with everyone?
So um. #2. Didnt Sauron have anti-air that would just blast the eagles out of the sky?
In the LoRs, I'm pretty sure Gandalf says "Fly you fools" before being dragged in the abyss by the Balrog. I think he planned to take the eagles all along but they had to meet up with them.
He ment fly as in run. In LOTR lore, the eagles are not beasts of burden. The eagles help Gandalf escape only because he had helped the King of the Eagles out way in the past. So they helped him escape as a repayment. After that, there was no way that were helping Frodo without Gandalf there.
if there's a simple solution it's not a plot hole.
Just for the record in regards to the eagle question an answer was offered in the games workshop release of the fellowship of the ring board game. The eagles animal mind cant withstand the rings power, seeing as it is sentient and won’t take kindly to being air lifted to mount doom. In the game Frodo can’t be carried by an eagle.
My problem with Avengers Endgame is that they made the rules of time travel clear and completely ignored them. They stole the infinity stones from the past and had to put them all back to preserve the timeline, but Thanos from the past went to the future and died. That completely goes against the rules they established. They put all the stones back, but they'd also have to resurrect Thanos and his army, wipe their memories and put them back in the past.
The explanation for Buzz immediately falls apart given what happens with Sid
well, if it's as natural for them as breathing, they can still realize that they're doing it and just... not do it, just the same as humans can hold their breath. While holding your breath for too long would endanger a human, a toy doesn't really have the same concern by just talking and moving around.
Not really, if Buzz played dead as a kind of reflex, then one could assume that toys could not play dead as well, akin to holding one's breath. Since he didn't realize he was a toy, he couldn't control that reflex, once he did realize it, he could.
But the eagles took Bilbo with the ring in the hobbit tho
How does Thanos know which “year” to travel to?
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Practical Magic: when she goes to get Gilly at the hotel, she gets out of a a Yellow cab. Yet, on the way out, she goes to open the door of a blue car (Gilly getting Tiger's Eye). Who's car is that??
That's not actually a plot hole, it's just a continuity error. I mean, fair question, sure, but it doesn't break the logic of the movie.
Cap is the bigger plot hole in Endgame
BurningEagle How so? They're are plenty of plot holes in Endgame(I enjoyed the film btw) but I can't remember how cap is one of them.
Finally someone is doing their homework at whatculture, at least regarding The Shawshank Redemption plot-hole. I myself left a comment a few weeks ago in another video explaining this.
come on the buzz lightyear one is a cop out explanation at best
I always wondered why they they didn't use time travel after watching Prisoner of Azkaban. But I guess a lot of things happen bc Voldemort came into power and so it would have tremendous consequences if they were to try. 🤔
Ebony Maw/"Squidward"/Big Mouth.
Eagle explanation in LOTR is laughable. Obviously whomever wrote list has never met an eagle.
LotR's magic eagles are not regular earthly eagles. Like the giant spider actually being an intelligent being and not simply a giant spider.
I think some of Tolkien's other stuff like the... Simularium or whatever it's called goes into these things more. The Shadow of War game even has Shelob(?) the giant spider's mother as a more neutral and natural force, as opposed to malevolent, and both are unaffected by the Ring which is why she didn't seize it herself when she bagged Frodo, and why Gollum was confident he'd get the Ring back after setting Frodo up.
Actually McClane knew Bill Clay was actually Hans Gruber is because he noticed the names on the wall next to Hans matched up with his name. Indicating that Hans looked at that wall for a brief moment and put two names together. Bill and Clay. If you watch the scene it’s actually obvious. Not a plot hole at all
He didn’t put two names together, the name on the directory is William Clay, or Bill. Someone who works in the building would probably be at the party.
"Shashank"?
about LOTR: there is also a theory that gandalf's plan was to ask the eagles to carry the ring bearer, which is why he took the longer route across the mountains, but he wasn't sure if one of the others was a spy so he didn't tell them. and when saruman forced them through moria he tried to tell them on the bridge with his "FLY you fools"...
4:49 - Literally “a wizard did it”.
I dont know if I'm the only one who thought this, but damn, Alan Rickman was good looking when he was younger.
Have you seen Truly Madly Deeply - I recommend
The plot hole I’d like explained is that there is a second Delorean in Back to the Future 3. In 1955, Doc and Marty recover the Delorean Doc in 1885 hid in the mine. Therefore, when Marty goes back to 1885 to rescue Doc, that same Delorean is already in the mine. Therefore there are two Deloreans present at the same time. Doc would have kept the gasoline, since it didn’t exist yet, and could have used parts to repair one or the other. Just saying.
That would then create a paradox. If the used the parts of the one in the mine to repair the other, Marty would not be able to go to 1885 in it
@@valtramatt Okay. That’s valid, thanks. What about the gas though?
The true plot hole of the BttF series:
How is it even possible for them to leave 2015?
Old Biff steals the delorean to go back to 1955, which alters the entire timeline. We learn later that going into the future from that point means travelling on the altered timeline. so how did Biff manage to make it *back* to the "normal" 2015 timeline in order to return the delorean? Shouldn't he have also travelled to the alternate future?
It isn't even properly dealt with in the deleted scene, because it just shows old Biff fading away, but he still managed to make it back to the "normal" 2015 before doing so.
@@michaelleddick7349 Great point
Could you imagine having to explain every single plotline to an audience. How boring that movie would be. People complained about A Quiet Place and how people can just throw things to distract the monsters. Imagination is being able to fill that gaps that maybe the monsters can distinguish between the two the way bats do. Having the movie explain every single detail destroys the whole mystery of it all.
The bigger mystery in A Quiet Place is how the parents were able to have sex in order for the mom to get pregnant.
Did they somehow manage to have sex in complete silence without making so much as a grunt?
If not how were they not found and attacked mid or post coitus?
I don’t like this explanation for the eagles, and there’s a better one: in Tolkien’s works the eagles are effectively the servants of a minor god. While they help the heroes at times but they are not commanded by anyone. Gandalf has some sway over them for doing them a solid a few centuries before, but he wouldn’t ask them to fly into literal hell on earth.
Wasn't there a prophecy in LOTR given in rhyme which ends "And the Halfling forth shall stand?" - Halfling, not Eagle.