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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Why did the pipe explode in The Shawshank Redemption?
I have a question regarding the end of The Shawshank Redemption when Red is narrating Andy's escape - can some one explain why the pipe erupts when Andy breaks it when he is escaping from Shawshank?
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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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In Back to the Future Part II, how could old Biff have made it back to 2015?
So in Back to the Future Part II, Doc picks up Marty in 1985 and takes him to 2015. Then old Biff realizes the Delorean is a time machine. Old Biff steals the Delorean and travels from 2015 to 1955 to ...
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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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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 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 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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2answers
84 views
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 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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1answer
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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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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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279 views
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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2answers
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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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2answers
356 views
Where did the T-Rex come from?
Although there is no disputing the impact that Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park had when it was released in 1992, there has always been one scene that has bugged/perplexed me.
I speak of the climax, ...
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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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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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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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6answers
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How credible is the ending of Collateral?
Here's what happens at the end of Collateral (2004):
The taxi driver manages to defeat a highly skilled hitman. Is it mere luck?
Should we accept this as a screw-up on the part of the movie ...
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3 Masks in The Man With The Iron Mask
In the movie The Man With The Iron Mask (1998) in the scene where the three musketeers want to free Philippe (Leonorado De Caprio), Philippe has one iron mask on (mask 1). They then make another mask ...
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Fox's analysis of the Bat
Near the end of The Dark Knight Rises, Fox examines the Bat and finds out that an auto-pilot had been installed. This seems to me a bit strange, because we have seen the Bat carrying the bomb far from ...
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1answer
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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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How does Cohagen track Quaid after the bug is removed?
After watching both Total Recall versions back to back I was struck by by a very similar anomaly.
In both movies Quaid starts out bugged so Cohagen's people can track him (in the Arnie version he ...
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1answer
110 views
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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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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1answer
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How did Conrad come back to life after the gunshot in “The Game”?
In The Game, At the end of the movie Conrad was shot by his own brother Nicholas Van Orton. But Conrad came back to life at the very end of the movie.
How does it possible? Because, Nicholas Van ...
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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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1answer
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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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Are they in France or Portugal at the end of Love Actually?
The Colin Firth character, Jamie, meets Aurelia the Portuguese housekeeper when he is writing his novel by himself at a lake house in France. You know they're in France because the French-speaking ...
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2answers
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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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Why are rainy scenes in Thelma & Louise sunny?
Why do rainy scenes in Thelma & Louise movie happen in sunny weather? I know sometimes when it rains it's possible to see the sun in sky, but this happens in several scenes even in different ...
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1answer
92 views
Why does the werewolf exhale a green mist?
I have only watched a few episodes of Being Human (the original BBC series) so I may have missed something. (Just got hold of the dvds so trying to catch up.) In episode 3, George transforms into a ...
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1answer
192 views
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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1answer
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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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Battlestar Galactica: What was Starbuck?
Just finished watching season 4, wrapped it up nicely. But I'm a little confused about Starbuck.
She was not a Cylon, but she died and came back. Was she supposed to be an angel?
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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 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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1answer
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Why is the white ranger's transformation different in Power Rangers Dino Thunder?
In Power Rangers Dino Thunder the Red, Yellow, and Blue ranger don't transform when they first touch a Dinogem. Tommy Oliver modifiest their gems to morph them into rangers. However, Trent Mercer, the ...
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2answers
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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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How is the fluent conversation with spacecraft possible in Capricorn One?
In Capricorn One, the NASA mission control center maintains fluent communication with the spacecraft crew, which is obvious especially in the scene where the astronauts talk with their wives, even ...
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1answer
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Did Petey actually kill himself or did someone else kill him?
In the movie "Setup",
When Sonny and Petey visit their friend (with the guns and drugs), Petey starts playing around with guns. Later, while Sonny and his friend were talking, they hear a shot and ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
194 views
Ending dialog in “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
In the war movie, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), at the end Major Warden has a brief dialog with the women porters.
The women back away from him as he exclaims:
I had to do it. They might ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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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 did Thor and Banner know where to go?
In the middle of The Avengers, the team is split up after coming together on the SHIELD Helicarrier. Bruce Banner/Hulk end up in an abandoned warehouse. Thor ends up in a field. Shortly afterwards, ...
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1answer
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How did Pippin know that Merry was part of the Rohirrim army at Minas Tirith?
After the battle of the Pellenor Fields in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Pippin searched for Merry on the battlefield. The last time they spoke, Merry was still in Rohan. How, aside ...
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3answers
880 views
How did Thor know Loki was on the plane?
During the movie Avengers, we are first introduced to Thor when he crashes the party on the plane, taking his brother Loki to get the location of the Tesseract from him. How did Thor know that Loki ...
