Best movie plot holes of 2013

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White House Down picture

Plot hole: After blowing up the gate, the President turns on the TV news in the car...for no reason, other than for them to conveniently get the information that Channing Tatum's daughter is about to be executed, distracting him.

Jon Sandys

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Hansel & Gretel picture

Plot hole: The room that the teens are kept in while being fattened up is locked up by a single, wooden, thin door with a conventional doorknob as the only lock. That door is way too flimsy to hold them. Two strong teenage boys with two girls there as well could have easily broken the door down with little effort and escaped.

Quantom X

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The Last Stand picture

Plot hole: When the magnet grabs the van, all the metal objects, including the gun fly to the roof. However, Cortez's cuff's don't, in spite of being metal. (00:16:20)

Ssiscool

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Plot hole: When the mom spots the tornado behind them down the street, she brings the car to a screeching halt on the side of the road and orders the sisters to get out. They then take off on foot down a long driveway to get to a stranger's house. This is an illogical decision. If wanting to hurry to escape the tornado, why stop at the driveway and take off on foot? They would have reached the house much much quicker by driving down the driveway to the house. (00:14:55)

Quantom X

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Iron Man: Rise of Technovore picture

Plot hole: Nick Fury wants to detain Tony as he is the only witness. Tony takes off and Nick Fury even says to apprehend him so their only witness isn't killed. Yet when the S.H.I.E.L.D. robots confront Tony at Pepper's vacation spot, they say they are authorized to use deadly force against Tony. And Nick Fury even orders them to fire when Tony resists. If they need Tony to keep their only witness alive, why try to kill him when he doesn't cooperate? (00:31:05)

Quantom X

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Plot hole: The same zombie who can smell through a vault that Gerry is not worth a bite, just minutes before couldn't smell the presence of three alive humans two meters apart.

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47 Ronin picture

Plot hole: Every single one of the ronin are portrayed as being extremely lax with their most prized possession, their swords. When they first gather, one of the ronin tells Oishi "We do not have any swords", whereupon Oishi casually hand over his own. First of all, only the most poverty-stricken and desperate ronin sold their swords, as giving up one's sword was the ultimate humiliation for a samurai, it was a denial of both one's status and legacy. Secondly, selling your sword would mean never being able to be employed as samurai again, or even to be hired as a temporary bodyguard. Thirdly, swords were often inherited from one's father, or given as personal gifts by parents or lords, not something one would willingly give up. It is possible a few of the ronin would have been driven to selling or otherwise losing their swords, but not every single one of the 50+ ronin who gather. And those who still had them would be extremely loathe to even lend them to others.

Twotall

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Plot hole: At the end of the film Shaw and Dom drive their cars onto the plane and the pilot says they are too heavy to take off, but Shaw's team consisted of an extra car, which the plane was clearly prepared to take off with.

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Texas Chainsaw 3D picture

Plot hole: The beginning of the film takes place in 1973 right after the original Texas Chainsaw film ends. Right after the house is burned, one of the townspeople takes a baby who survived the fire who is Heather. The film then takes place in 2012 but Heather seems 20 years old and should be 39.

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Plot hole: Marshall isn't present in the flashback where Chow steals the gold from the black van. How did Marshall know that it was Chow who stole the gold?

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Bayonetta: Bloody Fate picture

Plot hole: Luka sneaks into Bayonetta's hotel room and plants a hidden microphone. While sneaking out, he is caught. That's when he is astonished to find a child with Bayonetta who calls her "mummy." He does eventually escape the room and sits in corner with his radio, surprised that they both went to bed and he receives nothing. The problem is: One must be an idiot to plant a mic in a lone woman's hotel room in the dead of the night, unless he truly enjoys listening to her snoring! Planting the mic in her apartment or office, or on her mobile phone makes a lot more sense.

FleetCommand

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Plot hole: Although Parker is seeking his revenge on the gang holed up in Palm Beach, he is staying in Boca Raton at the Boca Hotel and Beach Club and hires a real estate agent in Boca to look at properties and scout Palm Beach. Boca and Palm Beach. Boca is about 30 miles from Palm Beach and real estate agents in Boca would have little to no knowledge of real estate there.

bnemirow

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 picture

Plot hole: If Chester's plan was to steal the machine the entire time why didn't he just have his people steal the machine while it was still floating in the air during the first film? There was plenty of time to capture it before the food started mutating so what was he waiting for if he needed it so bad?

jbrbbt

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Suggested correction: Because he wasn't there in the first film? He first made an appearance in this film, doesn't know how to work the machine without Flint, and how the hell would he even get it in the sky? He also didn't even know about it, or what happened to Chew and Swallow, again, until he made an appearance in this film. Not a mistake.

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Plot hole: Emily begins to pull Henry out of the shed, but however there is no track leading to the other end. Also, the turntable is not big enough for both engines to fit on.

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Plot hole: When Evanora runs off at the end, Oz loudly shouts "We got one!" to Knuck and the tinker. But the machine projecting his face is still activated. The people of Oz should have heard him and realised something was up since as far as they were concerned he wasn't talking to anyone.

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Plot hole: After the tyre, with Higgins in it, bounces on top of the cop car you can't see anyone in the back. When the tyre is stopped and they open the back of the cop car, Braden is inside. They didn't have time to pick up Braden before stopping the tyre. (00:47:00 - 00:48:10)

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Plot hole: When they leave the B+B Gary's car The Beast is left parked outside as they walk into town. Later in the film they get to The King's Head and The Beast is parked out of the back of the pub. It's later used to escape from the next pub when it is driven through the wall. The Beast should be still at the B+B.

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Plot hole: When the robot pilots first connect after the first attack, Red tells the story of his battle. They don't seem to even notice the dozen or so civilian bodies they have to actually physically step over - and the bodies are just lying there along the sidewalk & parking lot; no signs of any monster attack, so how did they die?

DavidRTurner

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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones picture

Plot hole: When Clary uses the rune that temporarily freezes the demons, the group just slowly creeps past them to escape rather than destroying the demons when they're are completely helpless. When the rune wears off, they begin fighting and killing the demons again.

raywest

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Monsters University picture

Plot hole: During the final scare event, Mike gets a perfect score because Sully broke the simulator to allow the 6th scarer to get a perfect score no matter what. After the contest, the simulation resets and Mike pretends to scare the child in the simulator and it registers a perfect score on the scoreboard for the 6th scarer when it should really have registered a score for the 1st scarer, because the simulator had been reset.

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