Things that don't make sense in movies

Speaking of "Back To The Future"...

In the third one, they spend the entire movie trying to figure out how to get the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour without gas as they lost it all when the fuel line was hit.

Why didn't they just go and dig up the DeLorean that Doc had recently buried for Marty to find in 1955? And don't tell me there can't be two of them, because the second movie clearly established that there can be two Martys and two Docs in the same place without repercussions.

I SUPPOSE you could argue that Doc drained the gas out of the tank before storing the DeLorean, but still--- that ruined the whole movie for me.
 
Humm, things that don't make sense in movies.

How about in "Music and Lyrics" when they are discussing the book about Drew Barrymore's character in the coffee shop, the muffin in front of Hugh Grant goes back and forth with and without a bite with every shot. That annoyed the hell out of me.
 
I don't understand how in most boxing movies neither fighter seem to know how to keep their guard up. e.g., see Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV...
 
Any time a cop discharges his weapon and stays on duty. Hell, when that actually happens, the cop is on desk duty for six months of investigation.
 
The Patriot. Bad colonel is talking to Cornwalis about the reason he hasn't been able to find the ghost. Cornwalis says "Oh in the Fifth" As in the 5 admendment whcih won't be written for another 13 years.

And the end of Return of the jedi. Darth Vader is watching the Emporer electrocute luke, the first time they show him his helmet is dirty, the next tiem it is clean.
 
somebody brought this up in the other thread, but Dodgeball. Vince takes the money, quits on the team, but he believes so much in the team that he bet on them?
 
In every movie that is set in a foreign land, where English is substituted of the home language, they always have accents. Why? That has always annoyed me. If a movie is set in Spain, but the substitute English for Spanish, they inevitably will have an accent as though they were a Spanish speaking person in the US. Hopefully that makes sense.

Also, in the Devils Advocate, Al Pacino is supposed to be the devil. He speaks perfect English, but when he speaks Spanish it's horrible. Why does the devil know English better than Spanish?
 
Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
 
I'm thinking it's in Raiders of the Lost Ark, right at the first a map or globe is shown. When it gets to the Middle East, one country is clearly labeled "Iran", when it was still Persia at the time the story supposedly takes place. That just about ruined the whole movie for me.
 
Every time I am driving somewhere in my DeLorean, I arrive later than when I started out. Something is wrong with the damn thing.
How about how in every car chase, there just happens to be a woman pushing a baby carriage across the street, and enough room to veer around her for all 85 vehicles involved in the chase?
 
XMEN- Last Stand. That girl from Juno was talking about how she missed the "first snow" from back home. Wasn't Xavier's school in western New York, not south Texas?
 
The Hunt for Red October. When Capt. Mancuso from the USS Dallas is communicating with Ramius via visual morse code through their respective periscopes, why does Ryan feel it is necessary for Ramius to acknowledge his plans with a ping of active sonar versus morse code?
 
Never quite sure how in The Godfather how there are so many henchmen willing to kill around. Who are these people!? I bet thats explained in the book.
 
This is slightly off topic but I have a question...

Seeing as how a high majority of early American colonists were from England or Ireland, or were 1st or 2nd generation Americans, wouldn't they all have accents? For example, in The Patriot, wouldn't they all (Americans and British) have some sort of accent?
 
I finally got around to watching American Gangster this weekend, so here goes...

Russell Crowe leads a group of cops he handpicks to take down Denzel Washington, the drug kingpin, while simultaneously preparing for the New Jersey bar exam. Through the movie's character (over) development, we know Crowe is a hands on, no nonsense, honest to a fault kind of cop. He takes this case personally, to the point of arresting Denzel himself following a Sunday morning church service. Roll credits? Nope.

Because Crowe has now passed the bar, landed a job with the DA's office and been appointed the lead prosecutor in Denzel's trial. That's right. He's going to prosecute the same case that he would be the State's key witness in, which you can't do in New Jersey or any other state. Something about being an advocate and a neutral, unbiased witness at the same time.

To top it all off, Crowe and Denzel become bestest buddies, when they were mortal enemies only a couple of scenes before. Since Ridley Scott made Alien, Bladerunner and Gladiator, I'll give him a pass and blame a studio exec.
 
was watching 'the thing' on scifi yesterday. the hot copper wire to the petri dishes of blood scene, they end up roasting a couple of the guys. well, after being caught on fire, these things squirm for a minute or two, then EXPLODE like they've stepped on a claymore. made me think of this thread.
 
Armageddon - instances of things that don't make sense too numerous to mention, but I'll start with fires in outer space.
 
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