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 does Harry only make use of time travel in The Prisoner of Azkaban?
At the end of The Prisoner of Azkaban,
Harry and Hermione travel back in time to save Sirius (and as it turns out, Buckbeak) and escape the Dementors.
If this is a legitimate option for saving ...
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Why does George Mcfly employ Biff to wax his car after he had previously tried to rape his wife?
In Back to the Future, Marty goes back to 1955 and devises a plan for his father George McFly to win over Lorraine in order to ensure Marty's survival.
The plan involved Marty pretending to sexually ...
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Why didn't Loki's mind control work on Tony Stark?
Right before the final fight, we see Loki and Stark discussing the terms of the upcoming battle, bantering back and forth between who will win.
It is then that Loki gets the idea of turning Stark ...
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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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What changes were made to the Star Wars Blu-ray and what effect did they have on the plot?
The recently released Blu-ray edition of Star Wars has a few changes made personally by George Lucas. The most striking is Darth Vader's "No!" in episode VI. Why were these changes made, and do such ...
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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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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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Why didn't they use a brute force method to activate the Stargate?
In the movie Stargate, they have been trying to activate the Stargate for the last 2 years but could never get the right sequence. After Dr. Daniel Jackson figures out the seventh symbol, they try to ...
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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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Bay's Transformers: Shiny and new in “vehicle mode”, yet battle-damage re-appears in “robot” mode
I've often wondered about this apparent inconsistency. I'm assuming it's a case of Deux ex Hollywood, but could there be a specific explanation for the fact that Transformers in the Michael Bay movies ...
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207 views
When grabbing the commisoner what is Tyler Durden actually doing?
In the movie there is a scene where the group grab the police commissioner at fund raiser and drag him into the bathroom to threaten him so that he doesn't follow through on a vow to take down their ...
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How did they fill the bags with paper in Ocean's Eleven?
It is shown that the bags of money are in fact bags full of some paper. How did the Oceans gang manage to achieve this?
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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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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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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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Back to the Future Part 3 - Why doesn't Marty use the other DeLorean?
In Back to the Future Part 3 Marty follows Doc back to 1885 to rescue him from being shot at the hands of Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen.
He arrives in 1885 some time after Doc has written the letter that ...
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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 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 ...
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236 views
Where did the Spider-Suit come from?
Watching Spider-Man last night, after Parker's fateful night with the robber, we flash-forward to him being Spider-Man in full.
However, it is never shown where exactly his costume came from or how ...
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Tron Legacy - Why Doesn't CLU Visit Flynn Earlier?
In Tron : Legacy, When Quorra initially rescues Sam she tells him that Rinzler and co. can't follow them off the grid. But then when Quorra and the Fylnns go back into grid city, CLU and his cronies ...
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Looper: Why don't more things change back?
In looper why don't more things change when they kill/mame people?
Like when Joe shoots himself at the end and Older Joe disappears why doesn't it undo the things that Older Joe did seeings as he now ...
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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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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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No “spider-sense tingling”?
In Spiderman-2 [2004] there are a number of scenes where Peter Parker exits and comes back as Spiderman only after he witnesses something wrong (even if he is in the vicinity of the occurring crime).
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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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Where did Deb live towards the end of the season?
Just finishing the 5th season of Dexter and partway through the season Deb ends up going to live with Quinn because of their relationship and because of Dexter's old apartment becoming too crowded for ...
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Why didn't they keep the brakes on when revving the Delorean to 88mph?
In the first movie, they had the Delorean rev up with the emergency brake turned on and the speedometer revved up close to the magical 88mph. What I'm wondering is why they didn't just have the car do ...
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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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444 views
Fellowship of the Ring continuity error?
I've watched The Fellowship of the Ring several times and am convinced that this is a continuity error but have never seen it documented. Can someone clarify whether this is an error or my eyes ...
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952 views
Was “Hanna Schmitz” responsible for the death of 300 people in “The Reader ”?
Couple of months back I watched The Reader. In that movie, Hanna Schmitz was sentenced to life imprisonment because of her role in the death of 300 victims. But I could not understand whether she ...
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234 views
Why did the time machine work different for J?
Towards the end of the film, J decides to use the time machine to gain an advantage over Boris. However, unlike before, when he time jumps he comes back into his body that was in 1969 before he made ...
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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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For Magneto, does being powerless mean he is innocent?
Magneto spends the better part of the X-Men trilogy trying to exterminate all human life on earth, being imprisoned and subsequently killing his way out. Afterwards, why was he left free to roam sunny ...
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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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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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How did Liam Neeson know his location in Taken 2?
In Taken 2 when Bryan Mills/Liam Neeson, was kidnapped, and calling Kim/Maggie Grace from his locked cell.
He asked her to draw 2 circles, according to the map chart:
One of 3 km from the hotel, ...
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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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Cracks in the wall inconsistencies
In the 11th doctor's 1st series there is a story arc involving cracks appearing across the universe and removing people from history.
However I don't understand, in some examples people are removed ...
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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 is J the only person who remembers K?
I just saw the film yesterday and it seems like they have a very half baked theory to the entire time travel plot.
Why can only Agent J remember K correctly?
As in - why can only he remember him ...
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Does Elastigirl leave her baby in the car by himself?
Notice during the “tack scene” in the principal’s office, Helen is not holding Jack Jack:
Then, in the next scene, while Dash is begging to play sports, Jack Jack is quietly sitting in the back ...
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Why was the body needed in Lucky Number Slevin?
Lucky Number Slevin is a fantastic genre bending movie with a strange blend of thriller-crime-humour. And it has an excellent twist which I won't reveal for those who have not seen it (but it is the ...
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In Mission Impossible 1, why didn't Phelps kill Ethan as easily as his wife?
We see Jim Phelps murder his wife, needlessly, and yet, only give Ethan what amounts to a glancing blow.
Why wouldn't he just kill Ethan and try to escape with his wife instead of taking the risk of ...
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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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In Total Recall, why didn't they stop the invasion sooner?
In Total Recall (2012), the invasion is reported throughout the colony with a TV-announcement that thousands of troops have boarded The Fall. The governor declares a state of emergency and orders ...
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Why did they allow Anna onto the helicopter?
At the end of Predator we see Anna is on the American helicopter when Dutch gets there.
Why did they allow her on? As far as they were concerned, she was a random stranger at best and a guerilla ...
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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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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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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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Is the “Pin number cracking” scene in Terminator 2 a plot hole?
When the Terminator, the teen John Connor, Sarah Connor and Miles Dyson go to the Cyberdyne Systems Corporation building in order to destroy any data that could lead to Skynet's creation (and ...
