Rob245

12th Mar 2024

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Plot hole: Unless he was afraid Emma might use the truth against him to turn Penny against him, there's no reason Flint couldn't have told her the truth about the night Uncle Ben died.

Rob245

A Scooby-Doo Valentine - S3-E3

Plot hole: It's never explained how JC Chasez and the Hollywood extras impersonating the gang gained the super strength they possessed to do things like ripping car roofs open or holding up the Mystery Machine.

Rob245

Continuity mistake: Closeau gets out of the Hong Kong harbour dripping wet, yet by the time he's in the fireworks factory he's completely dry.

Rob245

Trivia: This entry in the franchise sees the biggest appearance of Cato and the most screen time he's ever had.

Rob245

Other mistake: During the final chase, Dreyfus seems to shoot an endless amount of bullets without stopping to reload.

Rob245

27th Feb 2024

Matlock (1986)

Answer: From online sources, it appears her character's storyline had gone as far as the show wanted to take it after one season.

raywest

Thank you.

Rob245

15th Feb 2024

Payback (1999)

Stupidity: Kind of dumb for the bad guys to leave Porter in the car trunk with nobody there to watch and make sure he doesn't try to escape.

Rob245

15th Feb 2024

Gotham Knights (2022)

Plot hole: Strange that when Quinn advertises that she's at the Monarch Theater and she's also escaped from Blackgate, no police show up to arrest her for her breakout.

Rob245

15th Feb 2024

Payback (1999)

Question: Why doesn't Porter demand more money? Sure, his cut was $70,000, but since he's a crook, why not demand more?

Rob245

Answer: Quote, "A work man is worthy of his hire." In the original version, the Mob Boss asked, "why are you doing all this?" He replied, "I want my money." It's as simple as that. He did a job and wants his payment.

Answer: Porter only wanted what he was owed and had been cheated out of, and nothing more. He is a former Marine, so probably still adheres to a certain code of honor.

raywest

15th Feb 2024

The Uninvited (2009)

Question: Surely there's some violation of ethics of nurses when Rachel starts sleeping with her patient's husband while she's still alive, right? That, and how could she be considered nice, given what she did helping Anna's father cheat on his wife?

Rob245

Answer: It is a serious ethical violation for a nurse to have a sexual relationship with a patient's spouse. It could lead to the nurse's license being revoked. The "nice" part is more subjective, but sometimes good people, driven by their passions and desires, have lapses in judgment.

raywest

28th Jan 2024

Matlock (1986)

28th Jan 2024

Murder, She Wrote (1984)

28th Jan 2024

The Batman (2004)

20th Jan 2024

Skin Deep (1989)

11th Jan 2024

Young Sheldon (2017)

Stupidity: Amazing during the final battle, Electro lets Doc Ock get near him while forgetting that he saw him get cured earlier.

Rob245

5th Jan 2024

Spider-Man (2002)

Answer: You could make an argument that the Goblin didn't want to quickly kill Spider-Man, so he's toying with him by beating him, throwing the razor-bats at him, etc. Goblin is psychopathic and petty... he's absolutely go for the longer death after Spider-Man turned down his offer to team up. (But of course, the actual reason behind the scenes is that the vaporizing bomb was just meant to be a cool little one-off moment to show how much of a threat Goblin was. And it'd make the movie very boring if he kept using it, especially given how overpowered it was.)

TedStixon

Show generally

Question: The following puzzles me: 1. Why don't the survivors try leaving on a boat and finding an island? 2. Why wouldn't the zombies just eat each other? 3. Why do they seem surprised when the zombies show up when they can smell their decaying smell? 4. Why do the zombies need to eat since they still walk around anyway? 5. Why can't the zombies climb ladders? 6. How can they feel hunger with their brains and nerve system gone?

Rob245

Answer: Some of these questions address general zombie lore (or at least, post-Romero zombie lore) and are thus usually accepted that they just "are" a certain way. 1. That's easier said than done if you don't know how to operate a boat, which the average person does not. They're also in the middle of America, nowhere near the sea. 2. There is not a single example of zombie fiction in which the zombies consume one another; they always feed on living humans. No reason other than it wouldn't be scary if they just ate one another. 3. Can you tell the exact source/direction/distance of every smell, even a powerful one? 4. In all media, zombies are driven by primordial hunger for living flesh, which almost never serves any physiological purpose. 5. Lack of physical coordination. It's also why they can't run, swim, dance, etc. 6. Again, it's just how they "are" in the fictional world they inhabit.

I want to add that "finding an island" is not guaranteed anyway. They could end up getting lost at sea and dying of starvation or dehydration. And if they do find an island, they don't know what they will be dealing with: natives who became zombies, natives who don't want them there, unfamiliar plants that might be poisonous, etc. It makes more sense to "start over" where they are.

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