Does something not add up? Was something left out? Was something inexplicably changed? Plot inconsistancies are when something in a movie just doesn't make sense.
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Was the margin really paid by Barings? But Why?
I have only limited knowledge of Stock Trading, and I have recently watched Rogue Trader. It's the story of Nick Leeson, an investment trader who single-handedly bankrupted Barings Bank in the 90s.
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Why didn't Lord Coward spot the origin of the sound while Sherlock was hiding in the smoke?
When Sherlock blocks the chimney in Lord Coward's office in order to hide in the smoke, he decides to continue talking to Lord Coward who could have simply spotted the origin of the sound and shoot ...
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Why do the machines keep humans alive if they have nuclear reactors?
The machines are keeping humans alive for their body heat, right? But they also have nuclear fusion reactors, and (while I haven’t run the numbers) I’d be willing to bet that a single fusion reactor ...
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How does Borden do The Transported Man after his date with Sarah?
At the end of Alfred Borden's first date with Sarah, he asks her if he could come into her apartment for a cup of tea. When she says that the landlord would not allow it, Borden jokes that a small ...
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How could Lt. Hicox fluently speak German and then give himself away by using the wrong gesture?
In Inglorious Basterds Lt. Hicox is an English officer who speaks German fluently yet with a mild accent. Speaking a language fluently requires a lot of practice with native speakers and so spending a ...
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Why does no one notice the Joker when he is present as a policeman during the mayor's speech? [closed]
In The Dark Knight, when The Joker plans to kill the Mayor at a public gathering. His attempt to shoot the Mayor is foiled by Gordon. After this we see Joker's face in frustration. This is the only ...
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Where did Iron Man 2 take place?
During Iron Man 2, the Stark Expo is pretty clearly modeled on the New York World's Fair grounds. Tony and Happy are able to drive from Stark Expo to Washington D.C. in a few hours (at most, ...
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Doc knows he will invent time machine 30 years ahead and it doesnt change the future
In Back to the Future, Doc invented time machine in 1985 and he was really excited and little surprised that it worked. But later in movie, Marty goes back and tells young Doc about it.
Why was Doc ...
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How could the stars be going out in the alternate universe?
In Turn Left we see what the world would be like if Donna never met the Doctor and he perished beating the Racnoss.
In this timeline, we cryptically see Rose all over the place using the companions ...
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What happens to Lim (hacker) in Olympus Has Fallen?
I don't think she was one of the eleven who were killed on the black hawk helicopter. Later, when Mike goes to find Kang and Asher, he kills a couple of people, but I didn't see Lim getting killed at ...
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Were the 5 men indicted for murder?
I recently saw, 30+ years after my first viewing, the 1968 Truffaut classic La mariée était en noir, starring Jeanne Moreau as the avenging bride Julie Kohler. There's something in the plot that I ...
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Should the Trebles have been “cut off”?
Watching Pitch Perfect again, and through the riff-off, and it seems like the Trebles broke the rule of "stealing the song by picking off a word that they are singing and making it your first word." ...
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In “Prometheus” why bring anyone but David-type androids?
In the movie "Prometheus" the android David flawlessly executes a seemingly endless range of tasks:
learns to read and speak an alien language
shoots a basketball with precision
keeps the spaceship ...
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How is Eduardo unaware of the progress on Face Mash?
In the movie 'The Social Network', in the scene after Fashmash has been created but the algorithm has not yet been coded, where Eduardo Saverin gets back to the dorm and talks to Mark about how he and ...
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How could Carl run or jump when he is using apparatus for his walking?
In the movie Up, it is shown that 80-year-old Carl Fredericksen is using a zimmer frame to aid in his walking. However, later in the movie he runs and even jumps around - how is this possible when ...
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Why didn't the zombies eat her initially?
After R eats Perry's brains, he falls for Julie. He then takes her back to the airport, and she was in the group of zombies that went back to the airport. Why didn't the other zombies attack and eat ...
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How did the two McClanes get to Chernobyl as quickly as the bad guys?
In the later part of Good Day to Die Hard the two McClanes steal a car to follow the bad guys. They drive from Moscow to Chernobyl, which is in the middle of the Ukraine, a long way from Moscow.
The ...
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Why doesn't John Spartan know how to use the 3 shells?
In Demolition Man, shortly after Spartan is thawed out, he tries to use the toilet after which he declares they have 3 shells where the toilet paper should be.
Later on in the film when Spartan finds ...
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Why don't more cops recognise the identity of the Man on a Ledge?
At the start of the movie Man on a Ledge, Nick Cassidy goes to some lengths to make it hard for the police to discover his identity by using a false credit card and wiping his prints from the hotel ...
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Why didn't they all explode at the end of The Abyss?
At the end of The Abyss all the characters are brought to the surface of the sea from deep below. They should suffer terrible decompression but they're all fine? It's even addressed by the characters:
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Why wasn't Miles Dyson disarmed?
In Terminator 2, they break into Miles Dyson's workplace (can't remember the name of it) and begin to plant explosives in order to destroy all the work he had been doing
When the police get to the ...
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Why did the aliens return Barry so soon, in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'?
The 1977 movie -'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is truly iconic and one of my all time favorites, but there is one thing I am curious about.
During the climax we see the aliens returning many ...
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Was Caesar suppose to have bitten off the neighbor's finger?
In the 2011 film of Rise of the Planet of the Apes there is a scene where Caesar escapes from the house and attacks the neighbor, and during that attack he bites the mans finger.
During that ...
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Is there a term for the opposite of the Chuck Cunningham Syndrome?
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome refers to when a character simply disappears with no explanation and is treated in later episodes as if they never existed.
I was wondering if there was a term, maybe ...
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How could Harry and his friends survive the fall without the charm?
We have seen several instances where Harry or in specila cases his frineds survive several falls by using the "Arrestro Momentum" spell like in Prisoner of Azkaban and Deathly Hallows 2. But in Order ...
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Did Noah and Allie commit suicide in the end?
At the end of the movie, we see Allie and Noah dead together holding each others hand. I think that Noah had been trying for a couple of times to let Allie remember everything permanently, but as he ...
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Why did Mona's name change in the later part of 3 idiots?
Mona Singh, whose name is Poonam, becomes Mona in the later part of the film 3 Idiots. After squabbling with Viru Sahasrbuddhe, Rancho suddenly starts calling 'Mona Push'. AFter that everybody, ...
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Killing of so many people in Misfits?
In the television series, Misfits, through out the various seasons, We see the main characters killing a large number of people - many of the probation workers, cheerleaders etc...
And we just see a ...
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Why are the festivals misordered in the movie Baghban?
Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini are separated right after Holi (remember Amitabh singing Holi khele Raghubeera?). They are said to be separated for six months, ie from March to September.
Within ...
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What plot points/cultural significance would making Steve Austin a civilian member of NASA have served?
In the pilot movie "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1973) which preceded the TV series, Steve Austin was a "civilian member" of NASA who had walked on the moon, which justified his role as a test pilot. ...
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How did Cobb manage to go to sleep and dream to save Saito after Mal's death?
As far as I can tell the subjects need to sleep in order to dream and for going under fast and consistent sleep they use sedatives.
Now my question is how did Cobb manage to just fall sleep and dream ...
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Star Wars IV : Why was the princess rescued in the first place?
In the 1977 movie release of Star Wars Episode IV, Why was the princess rescued in the first place?
As the required information was with the droid and a lot of time had passed since she was captured, ...
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Sense and purpose of anti-demon possesion symbol?
In the television series, Supernatural, throughout the series it is shown that Sam and Dean have a symbol at their chest to protect themselves from possession by deamons.
But in S08E02, it is shown ...
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Why were sam and lilith going to have sex?
In the television series, Supernatural, S04E18, Why were Sam and Lilith going to have sex at the first place at all?
If Sam was going to have a contract with Lilith, then that would require just a ...
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John Winchester was not a rightious man?
In the television series, Supernatural S04E16, It is said that the first seal is broken when a rightious man serves in the hell. And so, Dean has broken the seal. But already, John has served in hell ...
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Star Wars IV : Why is the princess not executed?
In the 1977 movie, Star Wars Episode IV, orders to excecute the princess are given several times. Once an order to execute her "immediately" but still she was not executed and was later rescued. Why ...
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Why not just make him forget again?
In the TV Series, The Vampire Diaries, Emilly (the main character) with the help of Deamon makes her brother forget about the death of his girlfriend.
After some time, her brother finds about it by ...
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Why did Beowulf bring the prized gift to the cave?
The golden drinking horn proved useful in the cave, but it did not look like Beowulf (from the 2007 movie) knew it would. Why did he bring it, especially since his sole purpose to visit that cave was ...
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Alien Director's cut - What does Ash drink in the movie?
I was watching the Alien director's cut and noticed that Ash the science officer, who is revealed to be an android later in the movie, in one of the scenes is shown to be drinking what appears to be ...
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Clarification about closing a loop in The Looper
After watching "The Looper", I could not understand how closing a loop works. What I understood is, If person A is in present as a looper, he would be sent to Past where he would wait for the victim ...
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What happened to the new room mate?
In the television series, New Girl, S01E24, it is shown that Smith and Jess conduct interview for new room mate to replace Nick. They select one of them and he also moves in with his luggage but at ...
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Why aren't all the werewolves turning at the same time?
In the Vampire Diaries S02E21, The Sun Also Rises, when Klaus's main werewolf turns, why doesn't Kyle himself and his backup werewolf also turn at the same time?
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The movie Prometheus and Alien android designs:
Why are the androids in ALIENS and ALIEN³ designed after the original Weyland from AVP, but not in any of the other movies?
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Complaints about “Pati Sudharo Sansthan”?
In the 2010 hindi movie, Hello Darling, how come the victims of "Pati Sudharo Sansthan" never filed any police complain about it. It is surely illegal and should not be operating at all.
How were ...
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Does Harry's cloak make the wearer invisible to all charms and spells?
In "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" in the end of the "That's for my father" incident with Malfoy on the Hogwarts Express, Luna Lovegood finds Harry Potter under his cloak with the help of ...
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How did Hardick steal Manasi's presentation?
In the Bollywood movie, Hello Darling how did Hardick managed to steal the power-point presentation prepared by Manasi?
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How the new Omnitrix watch connected to the old Ultimatrix plot?
In the Ben 10 Omniverse there are so many continuity issues i observed But the main issue is with his new watch, Is there anything mention in any episode which i have missed?
I mean how can this new ...
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How does Leonard know about his condition?
After the incident, which caused his condition, he cannot remember anything more than a few minutes old, other than the events before that incident. Yet, he remembers his condition?
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How did FBI know that Amanda Young was an accomplice of Jigsaw?
How did FBI know that Amanda Young was an accomplice of Jigsaw at the point of Saw 4? I mean at this instance the people who knows the reality of Amanda Young are dead or in traps.
So who informed ...
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Is it realistic for a terrorist to leave his phone number behind in the call list?
In Source Code, it is shown that by redialing a number from the same phone that was connected to the bomb, Capt. found the guy finally who set up the bomb.
But is it realistic for a terrorist to ...
