What are your most annoying plot holes in films?

OK, I'm not sure if many people have seen this film, funnily enough called The Hole, but I watched it on Film4 the other day.. it was full of plot holes, but this was the one that stuck out.

1. The premise of the film is that 4 teenagers get locked in a disused war bunker, and Thora Birch tries to frame this geeky guy, Martin, by saying he locked them in from the outside. She says he waited for 17 days or whatever, until three of them were dead, then unlocked the door letting her out.

2. So Thora Birch gets out of the bunker, goes to the cops, who then arrests the geek, who was on holiday in the Bahamas with his parents. At no point throughout the entire film do any of the police question Birch's version of events and they spend all of the film convinced it was him.

PLOT HOLE: If he was on holiday in the Bahamas, who the frig unlocked the door to let Birch out of the bunker?? They even arrested him at the airport! How stupid are the police?
 
My favourite is 'The Game'

How did the designers of the game know that he was going to jump of the roof at that particular place thus landing on the mat? I know there was a gap there but if you thought you'd just killed your brother I think it would be more likely you'd take a flying leap over the nearest edge, not walk halfway across the roof to a convenient gap.

Alternatively, and even more likely, you would have just shot yourself in the face with the gun you already had in your hand.
 
Book Of Eli. Never rewatched it, but I'm guessing the twist at the end doesn't hold up on a second watch, it's a little too far fetched.
 
Hush

It's a great film but...

- What & why are the baddies doing with the women?

- How is the woman who pretenRAB to be a escapee captive involved with the other two guys and how are they linked?

I'm sure there's more...
 
And then Bond changes back in DiamonRAB Are Forever and Blofeld turns into someone who was a good guy in You Only Live Twice :confused:
 
I've always wondered that too, and they must've remembered Calvin Klein given how he played such a fundamental part in their pairing. :confused:

Also, in Back to the Future 2, how is it that the old Biff managed to return to the original 2015 after going back to 1955? Surely he would've ended up in the Dystopian future he created?
 
Brilliant! :D

One of the biggest and most augued in recent times...

At the begining of Alien 3, where did that little egg on the Sulaco come from? How did it get in such a hidden place? The Queen couldn't have put it there, she was only on the ship for a few minutes and spent that time trying to grab Newt and then fighting Ripley. No way of producing the egg, let alone going around trying to find somewhere to hide it before returning to the hiding place for the big reveal where she grabs Bishop and rips him in two halves.
 
You think you've got it bad - just try being a computer programmer and some idiot thinks that because Jeff Goldblum can write a virus to infect an alien mother ship in a night that you should be able to write a multi-user, online secure document management system in a couple of hours.

Trying to explain to some people that

A) You are not Jeff Goldblum

B) The computer is a bit thick and it takes a long time to explain the simplest things to it.
 
I would assume she laid it in the landing gear area of the drop ship where she was hiding . however - rather stupid of them not to check before going to sleep !


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In the film Michael Douglas shoots his brother close to the edge of the building. He then leaps off the nearest edge. The gun also has blanks so he couldn't have shot himself. He's also told by his brother in the party that if he hadn't of jumped he would have been thrown off by the others that burst through the door to the rooftop.

I don't see it as a plot hole whatsoever and suggest you re-watch it.
 
The shot of the egg shows it in a corridor somewhere on the ship, presumably near the sleeping quarters, so it wasn't in the landing area, but was in an area that she could never have got to in the time given, or even fitted through the doors for that matter. And seeing as she detached herself from her egg making sack, how did she make the egg anyway to leave behind?
 
who's to say it was that queen who laid an egg on the spaceship though? Newt could've easily been impregnated (is that the right word for it? :confused:) when she was captured and it couldve been her alien that was a queen and laid the egg thingy for ripley's and kyle reese's. but then that leaves the question where did those aliens go? :confused: i dunno lol :D
 
In 'The Sixth Sense'

Haley Joe Osmont arrives home from school. His mother answers the door and Bruce Willis is sitting in a chair in his living room.

How did Bruce Willis get in the house?
 
It was on the ceiling, eggs can roll up walls all by themselves now? :p
One of the first opening shots of Alien 3, after we see the outside of the Sulaco is a shot of an open Alien egg on the ceiling of a room/corridor right in the corner. How did it get up there? Where did the egg come from? Why did no-one notice it?
 
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