How it should have ended
Don't you hate it when you're enjoying a movie, but once the lights come up the plot holes just get bigger and bigger until you can't really enjoy it anymore?
You know, like how Planet of the Apes (the 2001 version set on an uninhabited planet) had all those clever monkeys which must have evolved from the research chimps on the crashed spaceship as well as dumb humans devolved from the crashed crew, leaving the big unanswered question - where did the horses come from? Research horses in space? I think not.
Anyhow, someone has obviously been doing a bit of thinking about how the Terminator series should have really ended.
They've made a really quite clever look at how the issues of Terminator could have been solved once and for all by mashing up two classic 80s sci-fi movies. Here it is.
The same people have also done a "How it should have ended" for Borat, Superman and Pirates of the Carribean, Underworld (the first one before all the Lycans took over), Star Wars Episode something-or-other and a rather longer (6-min) version of how Spider-Man 3 should have ended, in their humble opinion.
OK, some of them are funnier than others and I think we've all had that thought about Lord of the Rings (why didn't Gandalf pipe up earlier about knowing some giant eagles and save everyone from a really long walk?), but it's kinda fun to see someone else's take.
If that's not your time-wasting cup o' tea, how about a dancing baby?
So, what's your (least) favourite ending and/or plot hole?
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Love the Superman one... "are these the missiles, Lex? are you sure? I mean, I few around the Earth a few times, but these were the only ones I could find..." The Braveheart one's pretty funny too, in a random kind of way...
Flightplan. Lots of holes but the biggest one - the baddies entire plan depended on Jodie Foster boarding a plane, sitting amongst other people and falling asleep without anyone noticing she had a kid with her.
How about all of the holes in Terminator Salvation? For example how did the machines now who Connor's father was if he hadn't even been sent back in time yet. I doubt his name was on the birth certificate. Both robots they sent back were killed so how did they find out who Connor's father was? And how about how easy it was for Connor and then several helicoptors to get into the middle of the skynet base when earlier in the film the area anywhere near the base had been said to mean certain death/capture. Got to say though I did love the bit where Connor's face gets scratched to match the opening scene from T2.
I know that there are times where I have complained about plot holes but I can't really remember any off the top of my head where the movie wasn't a book first... there are some serious holes in the last Harry Potter movie for example that need to be filled for the next two movies to make any sense, and I actually had to go read Twilight after I watched the movie because I didn't really get it.
I think the biggest problem I have is that things sometimes happen in movies that are just stupid... for example last night I watched GI Joe Rise of the Cobra I could forgive the idea of a bullet train with no warning signals in the middle of paris and weird weaponry and secret training facilities etc. But what was unpardonable was where the underwater complex was blown up and the ice started sinking. Ice floats, thats why its on top of the water. Duh. Sometimes I just sit there and say well thats just stupid... theres a fine line between stupidness and outlandish ideas that would be really awesome and are bought to life with CGI.
@Thalia #5
You had to read the book after watching Twilight? I had to gouge out my eyes with a fork.
@Paul #6
I never said it was any good.. but at least the movie made more sense afterwards. The obsession that seems to have gripped women everywhere is beyond me. Edward is a dick, selfcentred with the excuse of being "noble" its a little vomitous actually.
Anything in THE ROOM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_%28film%29)
I also wonder how the alien technology in INDEPENDENCE DAY happened to be mac-compatible...
Transformers (2? Whatever): Why does a robot have testicles, let alone sensors in them to feel pain? Were they made by a particularly sadistic yet intellectually brilliant man-hater? The movie had so many plot holes in it there's a huge email doing the rounds opinting out stuff.
Turbulence (super-Z-grade film starring Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and Lauren Holly): It's Christmas Eve, yet there's only 8 people who want to get on a 747 bound for LA? Wtf? And why are they still flying a 747 with only 8 passengers? Surely the flight would be cancelled and the passengers shuffled onto other flights! And how the frickin' heck does a flight attendant know how to fly a 747 between two buildings? GAH! This film is right up there in the vomit stakes.
2012 - and that's just from the trailers.
Did anyone else think that the CGI robots in Transformers 2 looked more real than that Fox chick?
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Loved the Terminator one!!!!!!