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MIB3: How is agent J still a member after K's death in the past?

Men In Black 3 never explained how agent J was still not just a member, but a well respected senior member of MIB after K was killed in 1969. After all K recruited J in the first film. 🤔

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2024/12/01
21:13 UTC

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MIB3. How is J still an agent?

Men In Black 3 never explained how J was still not just a member, but a well respected senior member of MIB after K was killed in 1969. After all K recruited J in the first film. 🤔

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2024/12/01
21:07 UTC

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The Terminator - Forget the time travel paradoxical nonsense, let us look at the human behaviour…

To fully explain my problem with this particular series of events, I’ll use the stand point of Sarah Conner to make my point…

Sarah is at a night club, someone (or something) tries to murder her. This strange dude(Kyle) saves her and they steal a car and get away.

They end up at the police station. She starts to believe Kyle may be completely mental because the cops explain he’s got serious mental problems. Then the terminator shows up and wreaks havoc and meanwhile she’s being mentally tortured by fear and watching people get murdered all around her.

She then reunites with Kyle and they hide out in a motel. He confesses to her that he’s basically masturbated to her picture his entire adult life. She somehow is turned on by his creepy behaviour and they passionately fuck and he nuts inside her. Bam - You get John Conner.

In conclusion:

She has known this random guy for a few hours, he’s sweaty, creepy and talking about some crazy shit. She has been exposed to horrors then entire time and then out of no where they play hide the pickle bareback… to dive into this a little deeper:

a)She has just learned about the existence of time travel, the existence of a son she hasn’t had yet and more importantly humanoid robot killing machines and just sort of accepts it.

b)The movie alludes to the fact that she feels a sense of duty to be the Sarah Conner that Kyle told her she would become. In the final scene she is at the gas station where the kid takes the picture of her. She’s clearly pregnant and in Mexico, ready for the future war. In reality most people would probably check themselves into a mental institution after going through all that.

c)She sleeps with Kyle, sure he saved her life but being “a hero” doesn’t mean you immediately get laid. He was creepy and aggressive, and she didn’t even use a condom!

You can make any storyline (no matter how fantastic) work if the characters reactions to what’s happening make sense. (For example: Movies like E.T., Dreamcatcher, LOTRs, Harry Potter etc.). I just can’t really understand the thought process, it seems like a big plot problem.

If they had even just made it out like they had been on the run for a month or two and developed a bond, I could believe it.

7 Comments
2024/12/01
17:51 UTC

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Outer Banks police and government

In Outer Banks a sheriff drives out to a runway to arrest Sarah's dad and, is shot by Rafe. Why does her body cam and dash cam record Rafe shooting. Also inside the police car she uses a radio and there is a recording mic on the roof. She by law has to have a dash and body cam. Also police radio in what there about to do so how come there isn't a record of her going to arrest Sarah's dad? Also government employees are plain stupid. They "set up a premiter" around toppers friends house that they captured John b in but don't close off the back. Also when a sheriff deputy and a firefighter search a house John and Sarah are hiding in, the fire fighter sees Sarah and John b paddling away, but doesn't tell anyone. Later John b steals a police car, there are two logical issues:

  1. There is no key, all he has to do is press a button and he can steal a government vehicle and the items and the door shotgun in the back.
  2. One time I was at a carnival in my town and there where to sheriff's walking directing people. When I walked past they where running with no one in them. When I told the sheriff he said that it's on so if someone steals it he can press "the red button" and litterly stop the car before it gets out the parking lot.
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2024/12/01
13:34 UTC

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Why is there no track on the other side of the portal in big hero six?

Wouldn't the rocket pod, if the test was successful, just crash onto the ground?? What's the point of this

2 Comments
2024/12/01
03:30 UTC

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In The Last of Us 2 it made no sense for Abby’s crew to spare Ellie and Tommy

After killing Joel they let Tommy and Ellie live which would give them a chance to enact their revenge. Owen was all like insistent on letting them go because they didn’t do anything and they were there for Joel. They went through all the trouble of hunting Joel down after he killed Abby’s father, so they pretty much shoulda seen it coming that Ellie and Tommy would do the same thing, especially when Tommy introduced Joel as his brother and Ellie was a young girl crying and screaming over Joel who was clearly old enough to be her father so it wouldn’t be difficult to make that connection.

35 Comments
2024/12/01
02:17 UTC

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Better Call Saul

Not sure if this is a plothole or if I’m missing something but during Nacho’s final speech, Hector becomes visibly upset when he’s told that Nacho switched his pills. This is despite Gus previously visiting him in the hospital and basically telling him that he was the one who did it. Why would he give into Nacho’s attempt to anger him if he knew this?

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2024/11/30
05:40 UTC

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The Leftovers

I think it’s more unrealistic than plot holes but rewatching The Leftovers which is a great show but noticed two things concerning the night Evie and the girls disappeared.

The first is the car was locked but the engine was running. I’ve had many cars and none allowed me to lock the doors while the keys were in the ignition. Every one would automatically unlock the doors or not let me lock them while the engine was running and the door was open. Granted I’m sure it’s possible on some cars but just seems unlikely.

The second is I’ve never seen kids have parents who set a curfew then went to bed before the kid came back. This seems especially true when looking at the parents who are protective and a bit controlling. We would also have to assume the other girls parents went to bed before their kids came back.

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2024/11/30
03:07 UTC

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The Prestige

I know there are a LOT of plot holes in this movie. One I can't find mention of which annoys me is:

When the great Danton comes back with his transporting act, why all of a sudden are audiences going crazy for it?

It's basically the same truck he did before with the two doors, the same trick the brothers do, and the Michael Caine says he's seen it done before with doubles.

The audience doesn't know 'the prestige', so why is it getting a standing ovation?

26 Comments
2024/11/29
23:24 UTC

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Meet The Fockers

I recently watched Meet The Fockers…

When Greg was given the truth serum…he admitted that Jorge was his son. Towards the end, Foxtrot One stated that Jorge was not Greg’s son. If that’s so, and with everything that Greg told the family at the party from Pam being pregnant to finding Pam’s mother attractive…what made him say that Jorge was his son…?

4 Comments
2024/11/29
22:57 UTC

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Question about Wedding Crashers...

Sorry if this has come up, but I have a question about Wedding Crashers. The guys attend the Cleary wedding under the guise of being "Uncle Ned's kids"....which everyone seems to believe. So the 2 daughters (and mom, i guess) engage in romantic/sexual situations with these guys that they believe are related to them. Was this explained somehow? Just wondering...cheers.

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2024/11/29
06:45 UTC

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Meet the parents: whatever happened to the imposter mr. Jinx?

In meet the parents, Greg loses the cat Mr. Jinx and replaces him with a near-doppelgänger (spray paints his tail to make him look like the real one). The neighbors inform the dad that the real mr. Jinx is at his house.

Greg is eventually confronted, and we never hear about or see the imposter cat again. What happened to him?

2 Comments
2024/11/29
02:35 UTC

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(SPOILER WARNING) Descendants 4: Time Travel didn't fix anything

Mal shouldn't exist because Maleficent and Hades were perma-frozen when touching Merlin's (the principal) book. So if she doesn't exist, Ben marries Audrey, and their family gets power, and I don't even know what direction Auradon would go in if that happens. The VKs would never get their chance, the barrier would still be up.

Red and Chloe never fixed anything. In the original timeline (before Red and Chloe went back in time to save Queen Cinderella and Queen of Hearts's sweeter demeanor) Merlin's book still obviously has the spell on it so if it falls into the wrong hands they would still get perma-frozen. So Uliana and her VKs shouldn't gotten the recipe for the prank on Bridget in the first place.

Forgive me if anything here is wrong.

3 Comments
2024/11/28
23:56 UTC

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Home Alone 2 - Polaroid Camera

Just watched Home Alone 2. When Kevin is on the roof throwing bricks, Harry and Marv him to throw down his camera and they will leave him alone. He took all the photos using a Polaroid camera. Is this a mistake in the script or do they not understand how a Polaroid works?

5 Comments
2024/11/28
22:42 UTC

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Field of Dreams, lose the farm

I'm watching Feild of Dreams, and they make a big deal about how they're gonna lose the farm cause the guy plowed his field into a baseball diamond.

But an acer of corn isn't worth much, and a baseball field is only 2-4 acres. ...so they're gonna lose the farm over a couple hundred bucks?

I guess he spent all his cash on the flood lights?

5 Comments
2024/11/28
02:50 UTC

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Avatar, the avatars

Did a quick search and surprised no one has asked this, so maybe I’m missing something.

The films aren’t exactly known for their strong plots, but I’ve always found the world building to be solid….except for the namesake of the franchise.

It’s said that the avatars were developed so the company could use workers that survive of Pandoran foodstuffs….except they have to be remote piloted by a human, who also has to eat.

So, in order to cut costs on *checks notes FOOD, this company made massive breakthroughs in genetic engineering, crossbreeding, and developed some yet unknown psychic remote technology while also somehow making these hybrid clones devoid of their own mind or soul?

Each element of that would cost untold trillions just to research, and I’m expected to believe it was done to save money on food and labor when the very premise is obviously flawed? And he chose to name the franchise after these things??? I have to be missing something.

9 Comments
2024/11/27
14:47 UTC

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V for vendetta timeline paradox

While, one of my favourite movies I can’t get past the timeline Paradox that I’ve noticed. It seems that the virus created from V’s blood, is what instigated the terror attacks on the three locations. The attack led to the fascist government being voted in, however, The government needed to be in power in order to orchestrate the attacks. Also, the government would need to be in power to run the detention center, which then created the virus. Also the cure which the political party had is what got them voted into power, which could only be done if they already were in power.

I’m wondering if anyone else has noticed this or if there is something that I’m missing because it seems to be a time loop that just doesn’t work. Don’t get me wrong still one of my favourite movies all all time but I’ve been struggling to try and figure it out and maybe the problem is in the movie adaptation I don’t know. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

13 Comments
2024/11/27
09:06 UTC

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Terminator 2 - The Cyberdyne microprocessor

Miles Dyson explains that Cyberdyne recovered the chip from the first terminator, which becomes the foundation of the microprocessor that leads to the creation of Skynet.

Isn't that a paradox? How could the creation of terminators in the future be dependent on a technology recovered from a terminator sent back to the past?

31 Comments
2024/11/26
21:05 UTC

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Edge of tomorrow

In the the movie Edge of Tomorrow, aliens land in Europe and take it over. The humans prepare a massive invasion that will inevitably fail. The main character has to go through a ton of blood and sweat dying then going back into time and then sacrificed himself to kill the leader alien. Why doesn't the UN just nuke the crap out of alien territory and, it would hit the alien alpha without the government knowing it and then all the aliens die.

4 Comments
2024/11/26
14:56 UTC

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The Platform 1 & 2 - How did people survive the lower floors?

I watched the platform 2, a few days back and I've been thinking, how do people survive the lower floors when there is no water that reaches the bottom?

6 Comments
2024/11/26
04:56 UTC

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SHAPE OF WATER - why the film is idiotic

The whole reason she decides to hide the Fishman in her apartment, is to wait until it rains until the viaduct can fill up and she can put him in it, so he can go back out to sea. SHE LIVES IN BALTIMORE. Why didn't she just take him down to any dock and dump the effer in the water?

81 Comments
2024/11/25
06:23 UTC

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The riddler

In The Batman (2022) the riddler makes several tapes of himself and sends them to news sources. Why don't the police use voice/eye recognition to find out his id?

5 Comments
2024/11/24
17:16 UTC

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Gladiator II Plotholes

Yesterday I watched Gladiator II. Completely unnecessary movie in my opinion, but here we go:

There are no guards in this movie. Lucilla is locked in a cell and two minutes after that, she's going around and visiting Lucius, Macrinus...

She's getting executed, all the gladiators jump to the arena. No one was guarding the doors nor the stables.

In the same scene, Macrinus gets a horse and starts riding toward the Acacius army. Lucius gets a horse to chase him down too (there are available horses everywhere perfectly ready use in Rome in fact).

Lucius chases Macrinus riding though all the 6000 men army that is supposed to protect Macrinus. No one says nothing nor stops him. An angry random guy carrying a sword riding after the council (future emperor) and no one tries to stop him. Who wrote this?

Then, both the scenes of the fight against the baboons and the naval battle get cut abruptly. Literally the fights were not finished and the screewriters decided to cut them. Cheap writing in my opinion.

21 Comments
2024/11/24
09:00 UTC

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Wolfs: The true ending doesn’t make sense.

Brad Pitt and George Clooney at the end figure out what was going on.

It’s a long winded explanation but basically they think their boss is killing them off in order to clean house.

The boss had a kid delivering drugs with a tracking device, but the kid disappears so he decides to orchestrate Pitt and Clooney to find him and be on the hook when the drug delievery fails.

The problem is that the woman who delays the courier was given Clooney’s number by his boss. Which she couldn’t have gotten if the Boss planned this. Because the courier only went missing when he went to the hotel room with her.

2 Comments
2024/11/24
00:02 UTC

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World War Z (Zombie Motivation)

I'm a decade late to the party, but I'm watching World War Z and I'm trying to understand what the zombies' motivation is. Do zombies have an innate drive to bite (i.e. convert) non-zombies, are they looking for food, or both? Like, do the zombies get full and stop chasing non-zombies (for a moment, anyway)?

8 Comments
2024/11/23
21:31 UTC

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Love at First Sight

#1 Haley Lu is 5 foot two Opening says Hadley is 65 inches Oliver says she is five foot nothing

#2 Hadley is wearing the same two necklaces (heart chain, green stone on a chain) in 2year? Flashback as present day. Admittedly, she has added a third. Unless this is some unreferenced book homage

Not plot holes, but annoying math(s) inconsistency and dubious fashion consistency

3 Comments
2024/11/22
16:05 UTC

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Jumper 2008. I just can't figure this out....

Just watched it again after 10 years, and the first time, I felt something was very off with the story.

But why couldn't the jumpers just jump onto the people chasing them, and drop them off in the middle of the pacific?

The story would make better sense if the people chasing them, the paladins, also could jump.

14 Comments
2024/11/22
15:44 UTC

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The beginning of Home Alone: Why were they ordering 10 pizzas?

We know that's there's 17 people in the house going on the trip. That's more than half a pizza per person! And some were children and would be consuming less. That seems like a pretty insane order. At an average of three slices a person you'd need barely over 6 pizzas....even 7 pizzas would have plenty left over.

30 Comments
2024/11/22
05:02 UTC

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Muppet Christmas Carol: Christmas past plot hole

The spirit tells Ebenezer that no one can see or hear them, but Charles Dickens corrects the headmaster about what country they are in

8 Comments
2024/11/21
00:34 UTC

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X-Men Days of Future Past: Mystique/Stryker reveal

So near the end of Days of Future Past, Wolverine gets fished out of the water after being impaled and thrown there by Magneto. The boat that fishes him out contains several soldiers and Seargent/Lieutenant (idk his rank) Stryker

However, his eyes reveal that it's actually Mystique.

So, with Days of Future Past essentially wiping out the events of X-Men 1,2,3, Origins Wolverine and The Wolverine, creating a new weird timeline which takes place before those movies and presumably ends with Logan, what the hell did Mystique/Stryker do with Wolverine?

He still gets experimented on because he's locked up in Strykers facility in Apocalypse and has metal claws and his healing factor, so did Mystique just...give Wolverine to the government to be experimented on? But then that goes against her rant to Magneto about how all of her mutant brethren from First Class were killed, when she finds out about the deaths of people like Angel and Azazel in Trasks office.

6 Comments
2024/11/20
12:48 UTC

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