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Sex Machine: So, what's your name, darling?

Kate Fuller: Kate. What's yours?

Sex Machine: Sex Machine. Pleased to meet you.

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When Jacob gets bitten, he is thrown across the room by Sex Machine. If you look closely as he's flying through the air, you can see the wound on his arm has disappeared. See more...

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Directed by Robert Rodriguez, starring Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Quentin Tarantino, Salma Hayek (add more)

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After Sex Machine bites the trucker, the trucker throws Sex Machine through the door or wall, letting in all the vampires. But later, Seth needs Carlos to break the door down in order to let in the sunlight, killing all the vampires. What happened to the big hole made by Sex Machine when he was thrown outside? Why didn't that provide the sunlight needed to kill the vampires? [Enough time has passed for the group of survivors to prepare to fight the vampires. So the vampires very well may have sealed the hole to prevent sunlight from coming in, and the survivors from escaping.]
Edit Corrected by MasterOfAll
When Scott is being sucked by the horde of vampires, Kate shoots him. This results in a big explosion. Scott may have had holy water in balloons strapped to his body, but the bullet fired off by Kate sure could not have triggered the explosion. [All the bullets had crosses filed onto the front, which causes them to explode.]
Edit Corrected by MasterOfAll
Why, and how while we are at it, would the band explode on its own instead of attacking the survivors of the first big battle? That's pretty nonsensical. [Yeah its pretty believable that their is a biker bar with vampires and such but not believable that some of the vampires could explode themselves. Seriously it doesn't need to make sense. Unless there is some contradiction the film makes, the rules made in the film are fair game.]
Edit Corrected by Lummie
How can a place like the Titty Twister attract so many people, since the vampires kill its visitors every night? Carlos mentions that he once drove by, but surely this place is not jammed because of hearsay. [You are assuming that it isn't jammed because of hearsay, but why not? It's located on the main highway through the desert, and they promise truckers sex, which is likely illegal prostitution in this area. Word of mouth is quite a powerful tool in advertising a business such as this to them.]
Edit Corrected by Jazetopher
In the final shot of the movie, the rear side of the Titty Twister is shown. Judging by the size of the Atzec temple and the amount of trash that has been dumped in there, it is inconceivable that this place has not been detected by the authorities. [The vampires kill anyone who comes around, so as far as telling anyone about it, there is no one to do this. Also, the only way the "pit" would be visible would be from the air, and a small crater looking hole in the desert would not attract much attention when viewed from an airplane, especially since you'd have to be pretty close to even make it out, much less notice that it had old trucks in it. Lastly, you can't see the pit from ground level, as it's below your line of sight, so it actually wouldn't be that hard to keep it a secret.]
Edit Corrected by Jazetopher
It's never explained how Sex Machine's strap gun works. You never see him actually make something to let his gun pop out of his groin or to fire off shots. It sure cannot be operated by the force of telepathy. [Just because it isn't explained doesn't mean that it couldn't work. There could have been a wire running up his sleeve, or a remote control type device that he presses when the camera is focused on the gun (we can't see his hands), etc.]
Edit Corrected by Jazetopher
There is a gigantic store yard behind the Titty Twister, so why keep this pretty unnecessary stuff in a store room? Just so a few survivors of a blood fest can use it as weapons? [The stuff is there for the vampires to use, or to sell on the black market.]
Edit Corrected by Twotall
Seth, Scott, and Kate flee down the hallway to the storage area, pursued by the bats all the way and barely closing the door behind them. But when Jacob goes down the hallway (backwards, so the cross faces the main room), all the bats have emptied out into the main bar instead of trying to break down the door or waiting for the prey to inevitably stick its head out. Quite convenient, since Jacob can only point his weapon one direction at a time. [This is a character mistake, not a movie mistake. Besides, if the bats thought the humans had escaped or would be hiding there a while, they might choose to wait out in the room rather than one crowded hallway.]
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In the first big battle between vampires and human beings, the barkeeper attacks Sex Machine. The pistol attached to the belt pops out and fires off several rounds driving the barkeeper backwards. But you never actually see bulletholes exploding on the barkeeper's chest. [Bullet entry wounds (other than shotguns and very large calibers) do not "explode" when they hit the body. This is a myth. A 9mm round for example with leave only a tiny hole on entry. The only evidence of the hit would be the blood from the wound.]
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After Jacob gets bitten, he estimates that it will take him approximately half an hour before he turns into a vampire. What does he base his plot-convenient estimation on? Most of whom were bitten became vampires within minutes. It has been argued that this may be a result from him being a priest. Even if that's the case, with no prior knowledge on vampirism Jacob has no reason at all to think that his faith will slow down the process of turning into a bloodsucker. [It very well could be minutes or seconds till he turns into a vampire, but if he chooses to estimate 30 minutes, that is a character choice and not a mistake.]
Edit Corrected by Cybermoose
After the first big battle in the Titty Twister, Richard Gecko transforms into a vampire. After a few lines of dialogue Richard is suddenly shown having another vampire face - more similar to the looks of his original character. A few seconds later he again has the gross vampire face. [Most vampire movies I have seen, the vampires can change their appearance at will. Richard doing this is only to confuse Seth. No mistake here.]
Edit Corrected by SAZOO1975
During the motel scene, Seth comes back in with bags of food and gives some to Richie, before asking where the woman hostage was. We see Richie chewing, then a split second later (shot is from behind), we can see Richie pick up a beer bottle and take a sip, but the very next shot (front view now), Richie is still chewing and holding the burger with two hands, and the beer bottle is not even visible. [Check again. After Richie puts down the beer bottle, there is enough time for him (while seen from behind) to pick up the burger again before the angle changes. When we next see him, from the front, he is holding the burger in ONE hand, not two, and he is only seen shoulders and up. The bottle could easily be below the frame.]
Edit Corrected by Twotall
The holes in the walls where the light comes are already there, so as the sun comes up the sunlight will only come in on one side to start with. Also the time between the first ray of light and Seth and Kate leaving is not enough for outside to become that light after dawn. [Submitted by someone who has never got up to see the dawn. It gets very bright long before the sun is actually visible, I've seen it and taken pictures of it.]
Edit Corrected by tw_stuart
At the end, after Seth hands Kate the money, and before she drives away (how did she get the motorhome keys, anyway) the money is no longer in her hands. Does she drop it and refuse to take the stolen money, or is it just another continuity screw-up? [When you see Seth start to pull out, Kate's hands are below the picture frame for a second just as her right shoulder makes a little twist. It is entirely possible that she dropped the money bundle then.]
Edit Corrected by Twotall Time
When the war veteran is telling his Vietnam story to the remaining survivors, Sex Machine grabs him from behind and bites into his neck. Although if you look at the way everyone is standing there is NO WAY that he could get behind him without being seen by Seth, Jacob, Kate or Scott. [Of course he was seen. They simply do not react to the sight of Sex Machine walking around in the bar because they do not know he is a vampire. He casually walks up behind Frost, keeping his mouth closed and his hands hidden, until he is shielded by Frost's body, before he lets the change take full effect.]
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Considering how many hundreds of bats were trying to bust into the bar, there's an awful lot of empty space to move around in and turn your back on. Since the vampires' human forms are bigger than the bats and the swarm of bats filled the hall nicely, that bar ought to be packed wall to wall. [First of all, not all the bats necessarily turn into vampires. There could be some hundred bats that were just bats, and would consequently take up less space. Secondly, it depends on what kind of vampires they were. Since you never see any of them turn from bat into vampire, there is also the possibility that they resemble Bram Stoker's Dracula in that sense, and that one single vampire does not turn into a single bat, but rather a swarm of them (which does not decrease their total mass, but spreads it around). If, say, one vampire becomes 20 or 30 bats, there should be enough room for them when they regain their humanoid form.]
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In the end Kate is shooting holes in the walls in order to let the sun shine in. Then, sunbeams come in from all sides. That´s impossible. The sun, especially in the morning, is shining in only one direction. [The sunlight would still come in through holes on the other side of the building. As an obvious example, if you open the curtains in your house sunlight doesn't just come through the windows facing the sun.]
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In Quentin Tarantino's original script Jacob kills Salma Hayek and saves Seth this way. But this was changed and Seth kills her himself. After the battle Jacob says something about that he rescued Seth although he could let him die. This makes no sense after the scene was changed. [Jacob never says he saves Seth, but rather Seth says something like "If you had half a chance, you'd feed me to those f--kers." and Jacob replies "Why didn't I?" It technically makes sense, assuming we think Jacob means he didn't somehow get the vamps to kill Seth, but it is likely from the original script.]
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In the climactic fight scene towards the end of the movie, Kate fights with a crossbow that has seven arrows. Throughout the entire scene, the bow always has seven arrows, as if she retrieved them after shooting them. [It has seven arrows stored on top, but by the looks of it, it seems to have some sort of "arrow cartridge" that holds arrows underneath, which is where the arrows are "fed" in from.]
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In the opening shoot out in the liquor store, Quentin Tarrantio shoots bottles of liquor, that then pour onto the clerk. George Clooney then throws a flaming roll of toilet paper at the clerk, causing the liquor to burst into flames. This is a neat idea, but only liquor that is 100 proof or higher(very high alcohol content) will burn. The bottles shown breaking are normal booze, which is mostly 40-80 proof and not very flammable. All of these bottles would have had to be Everclear or Bacardi 151 or a similar high alcohol liquor to cause a fire like that. [Only one of the bottles needs to be high alcohol to get the fire started then the rest will follow without hesitation. Even without that, it's relatively easy to light a cocktail made from "normal" alcohol, I've done it and seen it done many many times.]
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