Movie plot holes

[AD]

why, in "La La Land," did they have to break up when she went to Paris?

he's a jazz guy. paris is as welcoming a place for jazz musicians as anywhere on earth, far more than LA. but he HAS to stay in LA and their amazing true once-in-a-lifetime love MUST then end? because she's going away for something, like (gasp!)....six whole months? have they not heard of visits, or jet travel? what is this, 1832?

there's plenty for people to hate and love about this movie. i actually don't care about it that much. but everytime it comes on, i think, 'did everyone involved in movieland really regard that as an uncrossable barrier to this couple's epic love?'

seriously? if that's the romantic, heartbreaking hinge, then the whole movie seems just, well, stupid.

 

[heyabbott]

Kill Bill Vol. 1. There's no way Kiddo would be allowed to carry that Hattori Hanzo sword on the plane.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

Kill Bill Vol. 1. There's no way Kiddo would be allowed to carry that Hattori Hanzo sword on the plane.

maybe she had an in with one of the flight attendants

 

[Baron Scicluna]

From Part III...

Doc's tombstone says he died on 9/7/1885 and refers to his beloved Clara.

When Marty travels to 1885 in the days prior to that date, Doc is asked to pick up Clara when she arrives in town.

However, Doc and Marty end up saving her before she tumbled into Shownash Ravine, which we find out is renamed Clayton Ravine after a schoolteacher who went down it.

If Clara was meant to perish in the ravine, how can she become the beloved of Doc when they hadn't met?

Flipping back through this thread and found this. I think I have an explanation. Doc was asked by the mayor to pick her up at the train station. Instead, they went to the ravine to look at it after Marty points out that on the map they were looking at, there is no bridge. Clara later says that since Doc wasn't there, she got the buckboard herself and drove.

If Marty didn't go back to the west to get him, then Doc would have picked Clara up at the train station and they would have had a lovely conversation dropping her off at her new home instead of her crashing into the ravine, and had several days to spend together before Mad Dog Tannen shot him, probably at the dance, since where Tannen said the one shot in the back would make him die over several days, and Marty wasn't there to deflect the shot with the Frisbee pie tin.

Also, without Marty going back to get him, Doc would be assuming he was just doing a good deed by picking up Clara, and not be looking for love.

And the ravine would have remained as Shownash Ravine.

 

[Wendell Barnhouse]

That also reminds me that one of my favorite moments in Raiders of the Lost Ark was when Indy takes out the German guard in the submarine base so he can take his uniform and go unnoticed — only to find the jacket is WAY too small.

Major plot hole before that scene: So, Indy climbs on the German sub - which doesn't submerge on its journey? And if doesn't submerge, where does he hide when the crew is on deck, in the conning tower?

 

[Wendell Barnhouse]

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

In The Big Game in "All The Right Moves," Tom Cruise's team has apparently won the game with a goal-line stand. The team leads 14-10 with the ball on its own 1-yard line, but in a driving rain storm the coach (played by future sitcom Coach Craig T. Nelson), doesn't call for the safe QB sneak or even having his team take a safety - he calls for a handoff, which is fumbled and recovered by the defense for the game-winning score.

 

[Killick]

The Minnesota State national title was a fluke. He was a HORRIBLE coach.

 

[da man]

In The Big Game in "All The Right Moves," Tom Cruise's team has apparently won the game with a goal-line stand. The team leads 14-10 with the ball on its own 1-yard line, but in a driving rain storm the coach (played by future sitcom Coach Craig T. Nelson), doesn't call for the safe QB sneak or even having his team take a safety - he calls for a handoff, which is fumbled and recovered by the defense for the game-winning score.

Was he playing John McVay?

 

[Batman]

Major plot hole before that scene: So, Indy climbs on the German sub - which doesn't submerge on its journey? And if doesn't submerge, where does he hide when the crew is on deck, in the conning tower?

WWII diesel subs ran on battery power while submerged, so they usually stayed on the surface unless attacking or hiding. If the sub was heading directly to base and didn't encounter trouble, it's plausible it would have stayed on the surface the whole time.

 

[Batman]

The Minnesota State national title was a fluke. He was a HORRIBLE coach.

IIRC, wasn't that part of the plot that season? That it was one of those fluky seasons where every weird, seemingly stupid move works out because of fate?

 

[Batman]

In The Big Game in "All The Right Moves," Tom Cruise's team has apparently won the game with a goal-line stand. The team leads 14-10 with the ball on its own 1-yard line, but in a driving rain storm the coach (played by future sitcom Coach Craig T. Nelson), doesn't call for the safe QB sneak or even having his team take a safety - he calls for a handoff, which is fumbled and recovered by the defense for the game-winning score.

It's been a while since I've seen it, but I think they called that out in the movie itself. It's even a big plot point. In the locker room scene after the game, Cruise calls out the coach for it to stick up for his teammates and it leads to their big blow up.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

It's been a while since I've seen it, but I think they called that out in the movie itself. It's even a big plot point. In the locker room scene after the game, Cruise calls out the coach for it to stick up for his teammates and it leads to their big blow up.

I've always found the aftermath of the blow-up to be amusing when Craig T. tells Cruise that he's not allowed on tbe bus for the trip home and leaves him at the stadium. If that happened today in real life, Craig T. would be getting in trouble for abandoning a student on a trip.