Plot Holes

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Wouldn't Marty (the youngest of three McFly children) be the first to be erased from time?

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no, because it would take longer for the parents to hook up meaning the eldest has a lesser chance of being born.....at least that's what I always assumed

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Dab

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Nice avatar.

I guess, like the way his parents met was by him falling out of a tree, and the order of events led to his oldest brother being born. Since they didn't meet that way, the probability of the oldest being born diminished....because of him knocking out Biff at the dance a week later, the probability increased to 100% again.

Something still could have happened a couple years later where they meet and fall in love meaning Marty still had a probability of birth.

I loved the new Star Trek but it was full of them.

1. Vulcan being devoid of any planetary defense whatsoever. Not even a shuttle craft to toss at the silly drill.

2.The silly drill. Twice they use the drill to drop the red matter into the core of the planet, then later in the movie, we find they don't need to do this to cause the planet or space to implode.

3.The fact that the Romulans were captured by the Klingons and kept in prison for 17 years. In those 17 years, the klingons did not move the Romulan ship into Klingon, nor did they fix the ship and make it their #1 ship, nor did they take it apart to reverse engineer the technology. No, they left in near the prison which held the Romulans so 17 years later they would be able to escape on it. By the way, most of this was cut from the movie but implied. In the movie it simply appeared as if the Romulans sat in the same spot waiting for Spock for 17+ years.

There were several other ones, I think I made a list of about 20 after the movie came out.

Still enjoyed the film, but that had more to do with just being happy trek was back on the big screen than a superbly scripted film.

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The computer virus that took away the alien shields in Independence Day always bugged me. It seemed too easy/illogical of a solution.

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I could be wrong, but the virus was also pointless. The nuclear bomb blew up the mothership and sending something up the main weapon to make it backfire destroyed the smaller ships covering the planet. The only thing the virus did was take away the shields of the fighter alien ships that were trying to stop the human jets.

The bad thing about ID is that the aliens were not utterly defeated. Yes we knocked out their invasion fleet.

What about the next fleet. Maybe next time they just totally annihilate the planet from orbit.

I seem to recall a made for tv movie years and years ago about aliens lobbing a meteor at earth. The whole movie was about our struggle to knock that single meteor off course.

We succeed. Yay! Happy moment. Woot.

Er....uh oh..... the movie ends with 100s of meteors entering the atmosphere.

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speaking of the Back to the Futures....how is it that at the end of each movie when marty gets back home his family's memories have changed but marty still has the old memories.....i guess his family didnt care that marty had none of the same memories as the rest of them

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or that his mom or dad dont remember him from back in their high school days. Shouldn't Marty's dad have been suspicions after Marty was born and he looked EXACTLY like Calvin Klein?

I mean, why did he not suspect that his wife went and had an affair with Calvin since the kid looked like him?

The big plot hole of back to the future is, why the hell wouldn't his parents remember how much the guy looked like their son.

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The entire Terminator series baffles me.

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I def kige this. I enjoy watching the (first two) movies, but it's hard to overlook these details of the stories. Also, why weren't clothes able to travel thru time?

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The bad thing about ID is that the aliens were not utterly defeated. Yes we knocked out their invasion fleet.

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I think we were led to believe that they were the entire civilization. They were like locusts and didn't necesarrily have a "home".