What infamous movie plot hole has an explanation that you’re tired of explaining?

How does Sarah Connor know which button to press to crush the Terminator in Terminator(1984)?

Because she accidentally presses it a few minutes earlier and it set the crusher off, it what lead the Terminator to find them.

One of Charles Foster Kane’s servants was outside his bedroom when Kane said “Rosebud.” The door was wide open. The dialogue later confirms that a butler heard Kane’s dying words and reported it to the paper.

FRIENDS. “How did they pay for that apartment on their salary in New York?”

The very first episode, Monica mentions that her grandma owned the apartment, and she would never be able to afford it otherwise!!

On watching The Sixth Sense it may seem completely improbable that Bruce Willis’ character didn’t realize that he was dead. Yet it’s explained right there in the movie: ghosts see only what they want to see.

In Memento, people always wonder how a guy with short-term memory loss remembers he has memory loss. But he’s conditioned himself to say it, just like Sammy was subjected to conditioning in the flashbacks.

People sometimes wonder how Indiana Jones initially remains sceptical of the mystical events happening in the second film, when he just witnessed a magical ark mass killing a bunch of Nazis in the first film.

But that’s because the second film is a prequel.

Not a bad one, but the DeLorean in Back To The Future always being brought up in conversations as “ackshyually it was a really crappy car”

Like…. Yes. That was the joke. Marty even asks Doc incredulously, “You built a time machine out of a DeLorean?” The car became famous because of BTTF. Before then, it was a laughingstock. Horridly underpowered with a shitty European V6 and incredibly fragile transmission, massive QC issues, and John DeLorean himself was a tool.

The first rule of fight club, and their growing number of members is because it is meant to teach the members to break rules.

Is there some kind of Mandela Effect going on with the Titanic movie?

“Why doesn’t Rose let Jack get on? They can both fit!”

Jack does try to get on.

It starts to sink with both of their weight on it.

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In Jurassic World, Claire didn’t “outrun” the T-Rex (in heels) … because it wasn’t CHASING her. The dinosaur was conditioned to equate the flare with feeding time so it was patiently following her to an anticipated meal. The situation is similar to how zookeepers can have (limited) interactions with lions and bears.

Toy Story. Buzz stops moving in front of humans but doesn’t think he’s a toy.

His delusion is the whole point. It’s what drives Woody crazy. He tries explaining it to him. YOU ARE A TOY.

The flaw in the Death Star’s construction. We didn’t need Rogue One to explain it was a deliberate sabotage.

So an exhaust port has a flaw. It is not unreasonable to believe that the flaw was necessitated for efficiency. Knowing that the flaw was inevitable, the trench leading up to the port was protected with gun towers.

Tarkin, along with other officers, fully believed that the Death Star was superior in its construction that small fighters would pose no threat to them. During the rebel assault, an officer pointed out to Tarkin that the rebel attack is exploiting this weakness and offers to prepare a transport for him, to which Tarkin responds, “Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.”

To them, the weakness is negligible that there is no chance a rebel fighter would be able to drop torpedos into the port. And they were right. The first fighter to make an attempt failed. Luke was only able to succeed because he used the Force instead of the computer, something no one anticipated because they all believed that the Jedi were extinct.

She’s All That.

“So, he makes a bet that he can make a pretty girl into the hot girl when all it takes is taking off her glasses and fixing her hair and changing her out of overalls and into a red dress?”

No.

The bet was that he could make Laney Boggs into a Prom Queen, over the more popular, but less likeable Taylor Vaughn.

Zac explicitly points out that she’s “scary and inaccessible” – an antisocial artsy chick who shuts herself off from people and hides in her basement to paint. It isn’t until he does chores for her to free up her time enough to get her to leave the house and go to the beach and join a party, that she becomes well known enough to be a serious contender for Prom Queen.

Also, Laney still loses. As it turns out, fixing up her appearance doesn’t automatically help her win a popularity contest.

For the people who spend all the Star Wars movies saying, “why don’t they just Jedi Mind trick everyone into doing this or that,” Obi-Wan is very clear the first time he uses it that it works on the “weak-minded.”

I think the way Storm Troupers function throughout the first three films shows they aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed and are probably bred/trained/selected to do whatever without question and just be cannon fodder.

Everyone always asks why there was a desert in Washington DC in Transformers 2. It has been clearly explained in a ton of discussions of that movie that it was just a really bad movie.

From Independence Day

“How could a virus programmed on Earth computers destroy the computer system of an alien civilisation?”

In a deleted scene, it’s revealed that technology from the spaceship at Area 51 was harvested and used as the basis for most of Earth’s post WW2 computer technology. Once you know that, the whole thing becomes a lot more believable.

Dark Knight Rises – how did Bruce Wayne magically get to Gotham after he escaped the hole?

1. In an adjacent scene it’s mentioned the bomb will go off in a month, so we can assume that’s how long he has to get back to Gotham.

2. Wayne Enterprises has offices around the world. All he needs to do is get to an office, log in, and wire himself money or supplies to get home. He’s Batman, he can easily do this without being noticed

3. Batman Begins has a whole sequence of him traveling around the world penniless and nameless. This is a specific skill it’s already established he has.

There are tons of plot holes in that movie, but for some reason people get hung up on the easiest one to explain

Home Alone – it’s very clearly explained how they paid for the trip to Paris and that Kevin’s dad didn’t foot the bill

Not exactly a plot hole, but I hate when people misinterpret the scene in “The Incredibles” where Violet saves Dash from being shot as her intending to take the bullets for him.

Yes, Dash says “how are you doing that?” and she responds “I don’t know”, but the “that” he means is suspending herself in midair inside a spherical force field, which she’s never done before. She already knew how to make dome-shaped fields big enough to cover Dash; we saw her do that when they were fighting at dinner earlier in the movie.

She jumped in front of Dash because that was the only way she could get close enough to him in time to protect him, since she had not yet learned how to make force fields far away from herself like we see her do when fighting the Underminer in the sequel.