What’s one movie plot hole on which you simply cannot suspend disbelief?

Bonus points if you can name one in your favorite movie!

I’ll go!

In the original Jurassic Park, Grant and Ellie are holding the door to keep the velociraptor out of the control room while Lex tries to bring the phones back online. Timmy is just tapping on Lex’s chair. Grant asks Ellie to try to reach the shotgun on the floor. Ellie tries but can’t reach it without moving away from the door.

Why didn’t Grant just ask Timmy to grab it for them?

Not exactly a plot hole, but the time travel in Endgame takes up way more of my mental processing on a regular basis than I like to admit.

Not my fav film, but the 2003 French horror film "High Tension" (Haute Tension) still has the wildest plot hole I've ever seen in a film.

SPOILERS: For those who don't know, the twist in the films is a Fight Club turn where the protagonist/final girl, Marie, is revealed to actually be the killer who has been stalking her and her friend/crush Alex during the film. The logic of that is utterly impossible, as the killer is given solo scenes in a truck that seems to actually physically exist, committing murders (and SA on a corpse) even though Marie is elsewhere with Alex at the time. Those gratuitous scenes make no sense at all; the whole film reflects the post-Fight Club/Sixth Sense trend of identity twists.

Look, Halloween is my favorite movie of all time, but that doesn't mean any of it makes a real lick of sense.

How can Michael Myers drive a car?

I don't care, but I think about it a lot.

1 minute ago, saperry said:

Look, Halloween is my favorite movie of all time, but that doesn't mean any of it makes a real lick of sense.

How can Michael Myers drive a car?

I don't care, but I think about it a lot.

My favorite part of this is that someone mentions how improbable this is early on in the movie and Loomis is like "WELL, HE DID IT!"

I guess whatever powers him to be borderline unkillable also taught him how to drive.

Not exactly a plot hole, more of a “are we getting a sequel or aren’t we” moment. But it has always bothered me that the ending scene with Mary Jane in Spider-man (2002) very heavily implies she has just realized Peter is Spider-man.

Then the second movie starts and she’s mad at him for being “flaky” and seems to have no notions he could be busy being a superhero.

My biggest one will always be how a major plotpoint in Zach Snyder's Justice League is that after losing the battle on Earth for the Anti-Life Equation, Darkseid just... forgot where the Earth was. Like, you'd think this would be the ONE planet he remembers

In any take on War of the Worlds, movie or otherwise, it doesn’t make sense to me that they’re likely highly intelligent but not smart enough to recognize that different planets have different atmospheres

1 hour ago, saperry said:

Look, Halloween is my favorite movie of all time, but that doesn't mean any of it makes a real lick of sense.

How can Michael Myers drive a car?

I don't care, but I think about it a lot.

Yeah, “Maybe someone around here gave him lessons” isn’t a super convincing dashed off explanation. I’ll still never say Halloween is anything less than perfect.

The Sixth Sense. Great drama as it is , the plot doesn’t make any sense.

There is no way Malcolm wouldn’t have deduced everything in a single day, and the movie takes place in the course of what, months?

When his first session with Cole is about to start, the boy enters the house and sees his mother and Malcolm sitting in front of each other and waiting for him. Do you want tell me that Malcolm somehow found his house , just entered, sat there and waited for him to come without even talking to his mother?

And don’t even get me started on the whole “video of girl’s death” thing, it’s so absurd.

Still such an emotional movie.

On 10/9/2025 at 11:53 AM, Payzulakh said:

The Sixth Sense. Great drama as it is , the plot doesn’t make any sense.

There is no way Malcolm wouldn’t have deduced everything in a single day, and the movie takes place in the course of what, months?

When his first session with Cole is about to start, the boy enters the house and sees his mother and Malcolm sitting in front of each other and waiting for him. Do you want tell me that Malcolm somehow found his house , just entered, sat there and waited for him to come without even talking to his mother?

And don’t even get me started on the whole “video of girl’s death” thing, it’s so absurd.

Still such an emotional movie.

This is a good one for sure. Great movie but agreed that, in context, suspension of disbelief.

The spinning top at the end of Inception. Since Mal and others know how the top works, it technically should not function as a reliable totem for Cobb against someone else's dream design, including Mal's projection. If he is in someone else's dream, that dreamer could manipulate the top to spin forever or to fall, regardless of true reality.

So Indy rode the submarine all the way to the nazi island? Did it seem or look like it didn’t want to dive? Big gamble, so Indy..