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With over a quadrillion movies in existence, there’s bound to be a few that have mistakes in them. Whether it’s one of the actors wearing a Rolex watch in a movie based in ancient China, or a background extra throwing a dog into a river. But there are those movies, some of them critically acclaimed, that go beyond minor mistakes and leave huge plot holes in the final cut.
This article is about 15 movies with gaping plot holes that nobody in the movie though to question!
1. Hocus Pocus
As most people already know, salt can ward off the darkest of creatures, including witches. Salt and the sun. Knowing these things, the group of children tasked to eliminate evil but dimwitted witches should have just gone to Billy’s grave, poured a circle of salt around it, and waited for the sun to rise. But this probably would’ve just led to 90 minutes of waiting around, making small talk, and cracking one-liners with the Sanderson sisters.
2. The Fate of the Furious
You really shouldn’t expect realism when watching any of the Fast and Furious movies, but one thing that really ticked a lot of people was the ineptitude of the Russian government. They somehow failed to disarm the nuclear launch codes within the 9-hour time frame it took to travel from the US to Russia.
3. Signs
Signs is a movie that showed what would happen in the event of an alien invasion. They come to Earth, cause a little mayhem and destruction, and… it ends almost as abruptly as the invasion began. It turns out that the aliens’ weakness is good ol’ H2O, which raises the question: how come they tried to invade a planet that’s more than 70% water? Hell, there’s even water in the air! And they weren’t wearing anti-water suits either, so they were exposed to water from the get-go.
4. Tangled
Tangled is a CGI animated film that retells the classic story of Rapunzel and her evil mother. In this film, Rapunzel has more than 50 feet of free-flowing hair. Despite the name of the film, Rapunzel’s hair never gets caught or tangled in anything. It may be because of her mother’s obsession with her daughter’s hair that she needs to keep it as straight and tangle-free as possible. Whatever the case, the movie’s title doesn’t make any sense.