movie plot holes and paradoxes

The iconic bike scene proves E.T. is basically magic and can levitate objects. So

Den Of Geek is well known for its fondness for Batman & Robin. It s a cruelly dismissed mini masterpiece of comic camp (don t worry, he s not being serious Ed), but there s one thing even we writers on the site can t accept. If Mr Freeze really does have a terrible condition which has meant he has to lock his body in what amounts to a walking freezer unit, for fear of over heating and dying, then why is he smoking a cigar? That s just asking for trouble.

So Obadiah Stane spends years slowly and subtly manoeuvring himself into a position where he can take over Stark Industries. He must have been planning this for decades, first befriending Howard Stark and then mentoring young Tony throughout his life. Guiding him where appropriate but always with a incredibly long view to one day usurping the throne. It s an Iago worthy shadowy plan accelerated only when Stane arranges a hit on Tony as he finally makes his move. But Tony survives, and provides Stane with one more incredible piece of technology. It s then Stane reveals his master plan, one which he finally rid himself of the thorn in his side and control the world s supply of weapons all with no one realising. Yep, he builds a massive metal suit for himself and goes mental with it in downtown Los Angeles.

Was this the straw that broke the back of the villain meaning to get caught plot device? Perhaps, as no matter how fine a film Skyfall is (and it is), Silva s ridiculous plan just gets even sillier on re watches. Even if we buy into the fact that his plan was first to attack M but not kill her destroying her office, leak the agents identities and therefore get the government to summon her to a hearing and dismiss her in disgrace, we then have to accept that this was all to lead her into an exposed position for him to kill her that two henchmen give him a fake police uniform backs up the fact that the hearing was always the target. But even ignoring that he could plant some explosives to bring down a tube train directly on top of Bond mid chase, how did he know he would be captured when he was? What if Q took ages deciphering the code? He would have missed the court hearing! Oh well, it s still a beautiful film.

Not once once! in five years together does Freida Pinto s character decide to ask James Franco why he has a super intelligent child ape in his house. There s nothing else to say.

The original Superman movie has often been held up as an example of how to do a comic book movie right. It s a truly brilliant depiction of Superman on screen, but one thing has always bothered me about it. That stupid ending. So despite it never being mentioned at all, Superman suddenly knows he has the ability to fly round the Earth really fast and turn back time? See my earlier Harry Potter entry for how that might have been a convenient power to re use. Then in the almost as good sequel, he s at it again with his magical amnesia kiss to take away the knowledge that Clark Kent is Superman. What are these powers, his special party tricks?

We all love Ewoks (we do), but even as a child I was a bit incredulous that the cute little bears could defeat an entire legion of the Emperor s best troops. It wasn t their ingenuity or fighting skills I doubted though, it was the fact that sticks and stones could apparently pierce armour. It must have been made of paper they way some of them go down. Obviously, the Empire is an expensive thing to run, especially when you ve got a penchant for building moon sized super weapons with a limited shelf life, but you d hope that your best soldiers could get some decent blast armour..

In X Men: The Last Stand s finale, Phoenix Jean Grey is literally tearing reality apart and ripping people into nothingness. Wolverine battles his way to his unrequited love, skin ripping from his adamantium frame. His life is being destroyed. But,weirdly, not his pants. They seem to be made from something even stronger than adamantium. No peek of a Wolver willy for us then.

Many people point to Cypher eating the steak despite not being jacked into the Matrix as a plot point. After digging around however, I found this amazing theory that explains how he s able to do this and makes the character of Cypher a lot more interesting. Basically, it all boils down to the fact Morpheus mistakenly thought he was the One, and unplugged him. How does the theory work? Well, Cypher is older than the rest of the crew older people don t get unplugged, even Neo in his 20s was an issue. So they must have had good reason to do so and the reason is that he s clearly a genius hacker with ability to manipulate the Matrix. However, once it s clear he s not the One, Morpheus is forced to babysit him on the Nebuchadnezzar. But he always retains his Matrix knowledge, and explicitly states that he can see the Matrix just by looking at the code therefore that s what he s doing while eating the steak.

The Fifth Element (1997) Trivia on IMDb: Cameos, Mistakes, Spoilers and more. ... In the future New York City, Central Park is the same size as the real one and