Movie plot holes

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Bullitt. The very most famous scene in the movie, and rightly so as it's amazing, is the car chase. There is within the film no explanation or even suggestion as to why the mob heavies would go zooming around. San Francisco and then try to kill a cop just because he was following them. Also, within the chase itself is a lack of continuity that is hilarious if you've been to San Francisco. End point: Remove the car chase, and the actual plot of the movie rolls along without a hitch. It's utterly superfluous, but then again, without it, movie probably makes $234.56 at the box office.

 

Don't they pass the same green Volkswagen like four times during the chase?

 

Or here’s one: 1955 Biff looks at the Almanac, is told by 2015 Biff about the book and the results with a UCLA football game, has the book taken away, sees a flying car before crashing again in manure, and never tells anyone about it or tries to find out about the book.

Some other Back to the Future stuff:

*’in the first film, Marty goes back to ‘55, goes in the diner, and, after striking out on getting a Tab and a Pepsi Free, gets a cup of coffee and puts down a few coins. Would anyone in the next 30 years see the coins with a future year on it and wonder how that coin go there (also a major issue in Somewhere in Time).


* In the first film, Marty decides to warn Doc about the Libyans by going back 10 minutes early. Why cut it so close, and only allow a few minutes to warn Doc? Likewise in the third, film, why only devote a few days before Doc is to be gunned down by Mad Dog? It’s a time machine, go back to have plenty of time to figure things out.

* In III, 1955 Doc tells Marty there are no roads where he is going in 1885c but doesn’t think to give him an extra few cans of gas.

* In I, why doesn’t Old Man Peabody or the elderly couple who Marty asks for help ever mention to anyone that an alien is in Hill Valley.

 

Rocky plot holes:

* Second film devotes time to everyone worried that Rocky can go blind with the bad eye. Rocky wins, then fights on and nobody every mentions the bad eye again.

* In II, Mickey has Rocky fight right-handed and tells him they’ll switch partway through to confuse Apollo. Instead, Rocky gets his ass kicked for 14 rounds before Mickey finally decides to switch, and Rocky doesn’t want to switch anyways. Then Rocky does switch to lefty halfway through Round 15. Dumb strategy.

 

Ugh. This one bugs me every time someone brings it up as a plot hole. Of course the parents don’t notice the morning after Marty gets back.

1) they didn’t go back in time. They didn’t suddenly remember Calvin that morning. They had 30 years. Only Marty remembers it like yesterday because it was yesterday for him.

2) It is very likely they noticed the resemblance to someone they remember much earlier. Just because we as the audience didn’t see it doesn’t mean it wasn’t mentioned.

3) They knew Calvin for a matter of days. Do you remember what someone you knew for a week looks like a year later let alone 30?

 

missing scene explains it:

 

1) We don't know that Biff doesn't ever mention this again or tries to find the book. If he did, who would believe him? He would sound like a crazy person.

2) The novelization has a scene where Marty is thrown out of the cafe for using fake money. I think in the movie, Marty does a half dozen suspicious things in the span of five minutes, so that could explain why Lou doesn't notice that the money isn't the right weight.

3) Marty is panicked when he's setting the time machine circuits, because he doesn't realize Doc ripped up the note and put it in his pocket. So, that's why he only gave himself 10 minutes, instead of 10 days. By the time of the third film, both Marty and Doc realize how easy it is to really eff up things with time travel, and a week seems like a reasonable amount of time anyway.

4) If there are no roads, why would he needs extra cans of gas? Also, given the generally shitty condition of the DeLorean and some of the things they've had to do in the past to get it going, time traveling with extra canisters of gasoline in the trunk seems like a poor idea.

5) We don't see Old Man Peabody or the elderly couple again, so we don't know that they don't tell people about their strange encounters. Even if they had told someone - so what? In our current reality, people are convinced they've seen UFOs and ghosts, and they're generally seen as quacks.

 

Well, I guess I have to make like a tree and get outta here.

 

1. Sounds plausible.

2. That explains it.

3. Eh, even with panicking, the smarter thought is that he gives more than 10 minutes. He has to find Doc, explain to him that he's coming back from the more than 10 minutes in the future, explain to him that he knows about the Libyans and that they are about to attack him. Plus, Doc hasn't yet explained to him that he shouldn't be running into his other self like he did in II. Your second line seems more plausible.

4. Doc nearly forgot, then remembered in I that he needed extra plutonium to take with him in the future in case it wasn't available, and remembered in II that he needed different denominations in money. He probably should have thought, "Hey, he's going back to 1885. There's no gas stations back there, so I'll fill up his tank, and give him an extra can or two just in case."

5. True, although Old Man Peabody explaining to people why he only has one pine would have been interesting.

 

My friend, Mr. Hobbs’s mysterious lost years are no “plot hole.” It is central to the myth.

 

Correct. You're not supposed to know where he was or what he was doing. He is a man of mystery and intrigue.