Bad plot holes in good movies...

Maybe already mentioned but...

How does Roy Batty know Deckard's name? The only person who could have told him was Tyrell - who he kills after a brief conversation.
 
I think the convo with Tyrell and Batty was meant to be longer but it didn't turn out that way. I wouldn't be surprised if they got in touch with a replicant underground or sympathizers who knew about Deckard but it would have been nice if they'd mentioned it.
 
Often misinterpreted as a plot hole, when it actually doesn't affect the plot at all: the cliff drop that appears in the t-rex enclosure in Jurassic Park. While it is a flaw in the movie, it has nothing to do with the plot. The t-rex could have put that car in any tree. It makes no difference to the plot that the tree was at the bottom of a cliff.
Something that is a plot hole, however, is the size of the raptors. While real velociraptors were deadly, they were small enough so that you could put up a fight as long as they didn't slash any of your arteries. Making them 200 pounds and 6 feet tall gives them a huge melee advantage that real velociraptors didn't have.
And in case you want to say the raptors were mutated by gene sequence patches, you're forgetting the over-sized velociraptor fossil that Alan's dig team uncovers at the beginning of the movie. He calls it a velociraptor and its size is consistent with the living raptors on the island.

I know the novel contains the same error.
Also in the novel, rather than being dropped from a cliff, the t-rex actually lifts the car and tosses it into a tree. Same outcome. That's why it's not a plot hole.
 
Something that is a plot hole, however, is the size of the raptors. While real velociraptors were deadly, they were small enough so that you could put up a fight as long as they didn't slash any of your arteries. Making them 200 pounds and 6 feet tall gives them a huge melee advantage that real velociraptors didn't have.
And in case you want to say the raptors were mutated by gene sequence patches, you're forgetting the over-sized velociraptor fossil that Alan's dig team uncovers at the beginning of the movie. He calls it a velociraptor and its size is consistent with the living raptors on the island.

Also not a plot hole as the size of a real velociraptor vs. the ones in the movie has no bearing on the plot what so ever. You could call them deinonychus or Utahraptor or a baby allasauras if you wanted and it still wouldn't have made a single difference to the plot because the whole purpose of them was to menace the heroes. It only becomes a plot hole if they had the raptors do something that a raptor shouldn't be physically capable of or if they were last shown on the far side of the island then all of a sudden on the same side as our heroes. or were knocked with tranqs and we were specifically told that they would be out for days, or something like that.

Likewise the talk of BTTF where trucks are disappearing or changing angles, that not a plot hole, that's what's known as a continuity error. This kind of thing happens all of the time in movies & TV shows, both good and bad ones.
 
Also not a plot hole as the size of a real velociraptor vs. the ones in the movie has no bearing on the plot what so ever. You could call them deinonychus or Utahraptor or a baby allasauras if you wanted and it still wouldn't have made a single difference to the plot because the whole purpose of them was to menace the heroes. It only becomes a plot hole if they had the raptors do something that a raptor shouldn't be physically capable of or if they were last shown on the far side of the island then all of a sudden on the same side as our heroes. or were knocked with tranqs and we were specifically told that they would be out for days, or something like that.
I think it's understood that the name Velociraptor, or Raptor, sounds much more menacing and catchy. That's the only reason why they used it. For the same reason the film could have been more appropriately called, Cretaceous Park (era of T-Rexes and Triceratops), but it doesn't sound as good as Jurassic Park.
 
Also not a plot hole as the size of a real velociraptor vs. the ones in the movie has no bearing on the plot what so ever. You could call them deinonychus or Utahraptor or a baby allasauras if you wanted and it still wouldn't have made a single difference to the plot because the whole purpose of them was to menace the heroes. It only becomes a plot hole if they had the raptors do something that a raptor shouldn't be physically capable of or if they were last shown on the far side of the island then all of a sudden on the same side as our heroes. or were knocked with tranqs and we were specifically told that they would be out for days, or something like that.

From the filmmakers perspective, that's true; but within the context of the universe of the movie, it is a plot hole. They were velociraptors, but their size was wrong. Dr. Wu didn't accidentally misname them. It would be like putting dragon wings on the t-rex, with none of the characters ever mentioning how strange that is. It gives the t-rex the ability of flight, which a real t-rex didn't have. It would be a plot hole, because real t-rexes didn't have wings. By the same token, the raptors in the movie were velociraptors, but they were given more size (ie, made bigger), without any characters ever mentioning how strange that is. It's a plot hole.
Doing something for the sake of drama doesn't absolve it from being a plot hole.
 
From the filmmakers perspective, that's true; but within the context of the universe of the movie, it is a plot hole. They were velociraptors, but their size was wrong. Dr. Wu didn't accidentally misname them. It would be like putting dragon wings on the t-rex, with none of the characters ever mentioning how strange that is. It gives the t-rex the ability of flight, which a real t-rex didn't have. It would be a plot hole, because real t-rexes didn't have wings. By the same token, the raptors in the movie were velociraptors, but they were given more size (ie, made bigger), without any characters ever mentioning how strange that is. It's a plot hole.
Doing something for the sake of drama doesn't absolve it from being a plot hole.

Still doesn't make it a plot hole since the fact that they're larger than a real life velociraptor has no bearing on the plot what so ever, the plot would work the same even if they were the correct size, just less menacing.
 
Still doesn't make it a plot hole since the fact that they're larger than a real life velociraptor has no bearing on the plot what so ever, the plot would work the same even if they were the correct size, just less menacing.

You could kill a real velociraptor by hitting it with a chair. If they were accurately sized in the movie, it would have completely changed the plot.
 
You could kill a real velociraptor by hitting it with a chair. If they were accurately sized in the movie, it would have completely changed the plot.

A single one yes, multiple raptors, less likely. True, a real raptor isn't all that big but to the kids it would have been big enough, add to that sharp claws and teeth I'd be a little leery of taking on more than one lion tamer style. Besides, their size didn't play an real measure in the plot except to make them seem more menacing, I don't recall one scene where their larger size had an impact on the plot. If you had the kids hiding inside a small air duct or something like then all of a sudden the raptors were in it then you'd have a plot hole caused by their size.
 
A single one yes, multiple raptors, less likely. True, a real raptor isn't all that big but to the kids it would have been big enough, add to that sharp claws and teeth I'd be a little leery of taking on more than one lion tamer style. Besides, their size didn't play an real measure in the plot except to make them seem more menacing, I don't recall one scene where their larger size had an impact on the plot. If you had the kids hiding inside a small air duct or something like then all of a sudden the raptors were in it then you'd have a plot hole caused by their size.

The only reason Muldoon gets overpowered is because that raptor was massive and heavy. If it had been a real raptor, he could have smacked it with his shotgun.
A real velociraptor would have never been able to push the door open to the control room. Alan Grant would have been able to close it easily, and the survivors could leisurely reset the controls to the park.
Also, you could put real velociraptors behind a regular, un-electrified chainlink cage, and they would never be able to tear through it. Losing power in the park would not make it any easier for the raptors to escape, because electricity will have played no part in keeping them caged in the first place. Changes a huge portion of plot.
 
Empire strikes back. How is long did it take them to get to bespin? Is long enough to go through Jedi training?
 
Inception

The entire movie is about a quest to go back to the US to be with his kids.

Why didn't he just fly his kids to see him?
 
Empire strikes back. How is long did it take them to get to bespin? Is long enough to go through Jedi training?

I think Luke's training was extremely brief. Even the most rudimentary Jedi training would have to take at least 5 years. Luke took a crash course.
 
Luke went through a temporal rift and actually arrived at Dagobah before the Imperial drone was discovered on Hoth.
 
Jarjar binks on the senate. You appoint a backwoods barely understandable freak of nature to represent you on an important organization? I wouldn't trust him to buy toilet paper.
 
I think some folks are making a good point that any particular nit one might find to pick about a film does not necessarily make it a plot hole.
 
I think you need to check the color on your TV the light saber obi wan gives him is blue not very bright blue because of the 1970's tech they had then but blue and in the final movie it shows obi wan pick up Anakin's saber after he hacks off his legs and whatnot so he kept must have kept it . and for the final question because Anakin goes through light sabers like dwarfs go through step stools also part of Jedi training is building your own saber .
 
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