Random Oscar-Nominated Movies with Plot Holes You Can't Uns (23 items)

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  (#1) The Karate Kid

  • Elisabeth Shue, Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Andrew Shue, Frances Bay, Peter Jason, Chris Krisea, William Zabka, Chris Casamassa, Martin Kove, Larry Drake, Randee Heller, Larry B. Scott, Bruce Malmuth, Chad McQueen, Sam Scarber, William Bassett, Pat E. Johnson, Tony O'Dell, Israel Juarbe, Rob Garrison, Tom Fridley, Ron Thomas, David Abbott, Todd Lookinland, Joan Lemmo, Frankie Avalon Jr., Helen Siff, Dana Andersen, Ken Daly, Bernie Kuby, Jeff Fishman, Darryl Vidal, William Norren, Tom Levy, Molly Basler, Erik Felix, Brian Davis, Clarence McGee Jr., Juli Fields, David De Lange, Scott Strader

  Film: The Karate Kid

  Pat Morita earned an Oscar nod in 1985 for his performance as Mr. Myagi in The Karate Kid. But did you know that the crane kick that Daniel (Ralph Macchio) used to defeat his opponent/arch nemesis Johnny (William Zabka) was actually illegal? Throughout the karate tournament, we hear officials say kicks to the face are against the rules. Daniel should have been disqualified for using the crane kick, instead he won the tournament.
  
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  (#2) Armageddon

  • Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Isaacs, Michael Bay, Michael Clarke Duncan, Erik Per Sullivan, Keith David, Peter Stormare, Eddie Griffin, William Fichtner, Will Patton, Jessica Steen, Chris Ellis, Grayson McCouch, Ken Hudson Campbell, Marshall R. Teague, Clark Heathcliffe Brolly

  Film: Armageddon
   
  Yes, Armageddon is an Oscar-nominated film, in fact, it received four nominations. Ben Affleck himself pointed out one major plot hole that pretty much blows up the whole movie. Affleck asked Michael Bay, "Wouldn't it be easier to train astronauts to drill than to teach drillers how to be astronauts?" Bay's response to the actor? "Shut the f*ck up."
  
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  (#3) Face/Off

  • John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Gina Gershon, Margaret Cho, Thomas Jane, Joan Allen, Danny Masterson, C. C. H. Pounder, Tommy Flanagan, Colm Feore, Chris Bauer, Dominique Swain, John Carroll Lynch, James Denton, Lisa Boyle, Alessandro Nivola, Robert Wisdom, Harve Presnell, Nick Cassavetes, Myles Jeffrey, Matt Ross, Kirk Baltz

  Film: Face/Off

  John Woo's sci-fi thriller Face/Off was nominated for a Best Sound Effects Editing Oscar in 1998. An FBI agent (John Travolta) undergoes a face transplant so he can look look like a terrorist (Nic Cage) in order to stop an extortion plot. The bad guy then puts on the FBI agent's face and a classic game of switcheroo takes place. The gaping plot hole is that the two men have just switched faces, not bodies. It's hard to believe that the agent's wife doesn't realize that her husband has a completely different body.
  
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  (#4) Titanic

  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, James Cameron, Bill Paxton, Ioan Gruffudd, Billy Zane, Victor Garber, David Warner, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bernard Hill, Eric Braeden, Suzy Amis, Jonathan Hyde, Jenette Goldstein, Bernard Fox, Danny Nucci, Ewan Stewart, Nicholas Cascone, Jonathan Phillips, Jason Barry, Lewis Abernathy

  Film: Titanic

  Titanic is tied with two other films (Ben-Hur and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) for having the most Academy Award, taking home 11 statues. Additionally, it currently ranks fourth in world wide box office gross. But a question that still-mourning fans ask about Jack's (Leonardo DiCaprio) death is whether or not he could have fit on the door alongside Rose (Kate Winslet), instead of freezing to death in the water.

  Kate Winslet contends that Jack could have been saved. She admitted in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, "I agree, I think he could have actually fit on that bit of door." Jack dying at the end of Titanic is definitely a plot hole. But would the movie have had such an emotional unforgettable impact if he had lived?
  
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  (#5) The Lost World: Jurassic Park

  • Julianne Moore, Steven Spielberg, Camilla Belle, Vince Vaughn, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Mark Pellegrino, Eli Roth, Peter Stormare, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard Schiff, Ariana Richards, Ian Abercrombie, Thomas Rosales, Jr., Billy Brown, Thomas F. Duffy, Arliss Howard, David Koepp, Robin Sachs, Joseph Mazzello, Marjean Holden, Michael Milhoan, David St. James, Bernard Shaw, Vanessa Lee Chester, Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc, Harvey Jason, J. Patrick McCormack, Gordon Michaels, Geno Silva, Brian Lally, Tory Christopher, Larry Guardino, Ross Partridge, Kenneth Moskow, Jacqueline Schultz, Alan D. Purwin, Harry Hutchinson, Bob Quinn, David Gene Gibbs, Brian Turk, Colton James, Katy Boyer, Domini Hofmann, Michael Chinyamurindi, Ben Skorstad, Alex Miranda, C. Ransom Walrod, Sean Michael Allen, Bob Boehm, Michael N. Fujimoto, Patricia Bethune, Christopher Caso, Carey Eidel, Bari Buckner, Bradley Jensen, Elliot Goldwag, Jim Harley, Mark Brady, Darryl A. Imai, Cyd Strittmatter, Vincent Dee Miles, Brett Harman, David Sawyer, Rick Wheeler, Kenyon Williams, Paul Fujimoto, Thomas Stuart, Eugene Bass Jr., Darryl Oumi, J. Scott Shonka

  Film: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

  The second film in the Jurassic Park franchise earned an Oscar nod for Best Effects in 1998. A boat arrives in San Diego and the entire crew has been killed. The rub is that the T. rex is still locked up in the cargo hold when the boat docks. So how the heck did the crew meet their untimely demise?
  
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  (#6) Terminator 2: Judgment Day

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton, Nikki Cox, Danny Cooksey, Robert Patrick, Dean Norris, Joe Morton, S. Epatha Merkerson, Xander Berkeley, Don Lake, Jenette Goldstein, Earl Boen, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Terrence Evans, Cástulo Guerra, Scott Shaw, Abdul Salaam El Razzac, Mike Muscat, Pete Schrum, Colin Patrick Lynch, Charles A. Tamburro, Van Ling, Denney Pierce, Jim Palmer, Joel Kramer, DeVaughn Nixon, Leslie Hamilton Gearren, Dan Stanton, Don Stanton, Robert Winley, Tony Simotes, Gerard G. Williams, Michael Edwards, Debra Casey, Ken Gibbel, Ennalls Berl, Noel Evangelisti, William Wisher, Jr., Diane Rodriguez, Dalton Abbott, Bret A. Arnold, Lisa Brinegar, Gwenda Deacon, Anne Merrem, J. Rob Jordan, Randy Walker, Jim Dahl, Shane Wilder, Ron Young, Takao Komine, Ed Arneson, Tom McDonald, Jared Lounsbery, Casey Chavez, Steven Stear, Misty Jo Walker, Michael Albanese, Charles Robert Brown, Richard Vidan, Pat Kouri

  Film: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  
  T2 is often cited as one of the best sequels ever made, some even contend that it's a better movie than the 1984 original. In total, it was nominated for six Academy Awards and took home four Oscars. Even still, you can't ignore this science-based plot hole. The franchise is sure to explain in great detail that only organic material can travel in time (which is why everyone is naked when they time travel to their set destination). So if the T-1000 is composed of liquid metal, then how is it possible that the cyborg is able to travel in time? Liquid metal is obviously not an organic material.
  
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  (#7) Just Move To A Safer Place

  • John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe

  Film: The Quiet Place

  Nominated for sound editing, the John Krasinski-helmed horror pic created intense tension in its simple premise of noise-hating aliens invading Earth, killing off anyone who dares to eat a bag of chips. But it also created a weird plot hole.

  The movie establishes a loud, large waterfall as a safe place to talk since the noise is constant and ignored by the aliens. So why not just live near it? Especially if there will be a noisy newborn joining the group soon, why not live in the safe zone? 
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  (#8) Interstellar

  • Anne Hathaway, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Topher Grace, Casey Affleck, Ellen Burstyn, David Oyelowo, Wes Bentley, Mackenzie Foy, Bill Irwin, Elyes Gabel, Timothée Chalamet, David Gyasi

  Film: Interstellar

  A lot has been made about the plethora of plot holes in Christopher Nolan's 2014 film, which received five Academy Award nominations and won for Best Visual Effects. Here's a big one that the entire narrative is based on: the earth is supposedly screwed as humans are losing the ability to grow crops because of a plague called Blight. However, it's shown that food can grow in space stations without issue. So why can't people just grow their food in a controlled green house set with the same parameters as the space station? That seems like it would be a lot easier than figuring out how to live on another planet.
  
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  (#9) Citizen Kane

  • Orson Welles, Alan Ladd, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten, Arthur O'Connell, Ruth Warrick, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Philip Van Zandt, Harry Shannon, Fortunio Bonanova, Walter Sande, William Alland, Dorothy Comingore, Louise Currie, Erskine Sanford, Sonny Bupp, Thomas A. Curran, Charles Bennett, Carl Ekberg, Buddy Swan, Gus Schilling, Georgia Backus

  Film: Citizen Kane

  Often cited as the best film ever made, Citizen Kane received nine Academy Award nominations, and won the Oscar for Best Writing. The central question asked by a reporter at the beginning of the film is what Charles Foster Kane's dying words, "Rosebud," really meant. The rub is that Kane died all alone; no one was there to hear his dying words.
  
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  (#10) Gone Girl

  • Ben Affleck, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Emily Ratajkowski, Rosamund Pike, Kim Dickens, Missi Pyle, Casey Wilson, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Boyd Holbrook, Scoot McNairy, Patrick Fugit, Jamie McShane, Lisa Baines, Carrie Coon

  Film: Gone Girl

  Rosamund Pike earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in 2015 for her performance as one of the most manipulative, amoral, psychopathic schemers in film history. Amy pins a kidnapping on Desi (Neil Patrick Harris) by choreographing a ruse for his security cameras. The gaping plot hole is that Amy spends weeks at Desi's house, where she lives quite comfortably. What about that footage? Wouldn't that contradict her kidnapping story?
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  (#11) Back to the Future

  • Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Billy Zane, Jason Hervey, Huey Lewis, Thomas F. Wilson, Wendie Jo Sperber, James Tolkan, Norman Alden, Marc McClure, George Buck Flower, Casey Siemaszko, Courtney Gains, Deborah Harmon, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain, Donald Fullilove, Read Morgan, Claudia Wells, Ivy Bethune, Elsa Raven, Maria Brewton, J. J. Cohen, Gary Riley, Will Hare, Walter Scott, Jason Marin, Richard L. Duran, Tom Tangen, Harry Waters, Jr., Sachi Parker, Charles L. Campbell, Tommy Thomas, Janine King, Jeff O'Haco, Robert Krantz, Lloyd Tolbert, Cristen Kauffman, Granville 'Danny' Young, David Harold Brown, Lisa Freeman, Karen Petrasek, Paul Hanson, Johnny Green, Katherine Britton, Jamie Abbott, Lee Brownfield, Robert DeLapp

  Film: Back to the Future

  Back to the Future was the highest grossing movie in 1985, received three Oscar nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing. Of course, it's easy to pick apart a time travel movie and a complete dissection would lead to one massive plot hole after another. But there is one gaping hole that must be addressed. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) travels back in time, accidentally prevents his parents from meeting, and then must make sure they fall in love at the Enchanted Under the Sea Dance. During his stay in 1955, Marty becomes friends with both his mom and dad. The question that must be asked is how it's possible that neither his mother or father recognize their son to be the Calvin Klein they met when they were in high school?
  
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  (#12) Edward Scissorhands

  • Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Vincent Price, Anthony Michael Hall, Alan Arkin, Dianne Wiest, Conchata Ferrell, Kathy Baker, Caroline Aaron, Susan Blommaert, John Davidson, Dick Anthony Williams, O-Lan Jones, Biff Yeager, Robert Oliveri, Linda Perri

  Film: Edward Scissorhands

  Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands earned an Oscar nod for Best Makeup in 1991. The Fantasy film about a sweet and sensitive man with scissors for hands has one gaping plot hole. Edward (Johnny Depp) gets upset and runs off to the attic where he carves several amazing ice sculptures. One has to wonder, however, how did Edward get all those large, heavy blocks of ice up to the attic?
  
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  (#13) The Matrix

  • Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Gloria Foster, Ada Nicodemou, Rana Morrison, Robert Taylor, Belinda McClory, Matt Doran, Bill Young, Marcus Chong, Paul Goddard, David Aston, Anthony Ray Parker, Julian Arahanga, Steve Dodd, Marc Gray, Nigel Harbach, Tamara Brown, Harry Lawrence, Robert Simper, Natalie Tjen, Chris Pattinson, Fiona Johnson, Rowan Witt, Bernard Ledger, Lawrence Woodward, Denni Gordon, Adryn White, Luke Quinton, Jeremy Ball, Janaya Pender, Michael Butcher, Eleanor Witt, David O'Connor

  Film: The Matrix
   
  The Wachowskis wowed audiences with their innovative bullet-time technology, which helped pave the way for four Academy Award wins in 2000. The Matrix is a complicated mind-bending film that has quite a few head-scratching plot holes. One of them deals with the fact (as it is explained to Neo/the viewer) that in order to enter or leave the Matrix, an operator is needed. However, when Cypher (Joe Pantaliano) schemed (and enjoyed a wonderful rare steak) with Smith to betray Morpheus and the rest of the group, no one dialed him in or out of the Matrix. There have been several attempts to explain this plot hole, but none of the theories truly cover how Cypher plugs himself in, and how he is able to "enjoy" his steak if his brain is merely reading code.
  
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  (#14) Why Does Buzz Freeze?

  • Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Jim Varney

  Film: Toy Story

  In 1995, Disney/Pixar's Toy Story was nominated for best writing, best song for Randy Newman's "You've Got A Friend In Me," and best score. But despite all the accolades, there is still one glaring issue with the story and it has to do with Buzz Lightyear.

  In Toy Story, it is made clear that the toys will freeze if there is a person around who can witness their actions. It is a rule of toydom. However, since Buzz does not believe he is a toy, why does he abide by these rules?  Do space rangers have similar rules? 
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  (#15) The Shawshank Redemption

  • Morgan Freeman, Rita Hayworth, Tim Robbins, Clancy Brown, James Whitmore, William Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, Bob Gunton, David Proval, Gil Bellows, Jude Ciccolella, Mark Rolston, Paul McCrane, Ned Bellamy, Frank Medrano, Brian Delate, Don McManus, Bill Bolender, Joseph Ragno, Neil Giuntoli, Larry Brandenburg, Ken Magee, James Babson, Neil Summers, Rohn Thomas, Alfonso Freeman, V.J. Foster, Dion Anderson, Brian Libby, Gary Lee Davis, John D. Craig, Richard Doone, Dorothy Silver, Brian Brophy, Joe Pecoraro, Alonzo F. Jones, Alan R. Kessler, Paul Kennedy, James Kisicki, Robert Haley, Fred Culbertson, Mack Miles, Brad Spencer, Michael Lightsey, John R. Woodward, John Horton, Charlie Kearns, Gordon Greene, Ron Newell, Renee Blaine, Eugene C. DePasquale, Claire Slemmer, Scott Mann, Dennis Baker, Morgan Lund, Harold E. Cope Jr., John E. Summers, Donald Zinn, Dana Snyder, Cornell Wallace, Rob Reider, Chuck Brauchler

  Film: The Shawshank Redemption

  The Shawshank Redemption earned seven Academy Award nominations in 1995. Surprisingly, the film didn't win a single trophy, losing the Best Picture race to Forrest Gump. One nit-picky plot hole of Andy Dufresne's (Tim Robbins) daring prison escape concerns the picture of Raquel Welch. Over the course of many years, Andy slowly digs a hole in his prison cell and covers up his progress with the picture of Welch. After he climbs into the hole to escape, he somehow pins the picture back up so the prison guards don't immediately notice his absence.

  This seems rather impossible. First, Andy is probably going into the hole head first, and there's definitely not enough room for him to turn around. Second, even if he could miraculously turn around, it's highly improbable that he could reattach the poster so perfectly from inside the hole.
  
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  (#16) Iron Man 3

  • Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr., Ben Kingsley, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Stan Lee, Paul Bettany, Jon Favreau filmography, Rebecca Hall, Fan Bingbing, James Badge Dale, William Sadler, Miguel Ferrer, Stephanie Szostak, Ty Simpkins, Ashley Hamilton, Dale Dickey, Yvonne Zima, Justin Wheelon

  Film: Iron Man 3
  
  The third Iron Man installment earned an Oscar nod for Best Visual Effects in 2014. It also features one of the biggest plot holes of recent years. We know that Tony Stark custom makes his Iron Man armor suit so that it only fits to his body. Yet, somehow, several other characters from the movie wind up wearing the armor that is only supposed to fit Stark.
  
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  (#17) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

  • Drew Barrymore, Erika Eleniak, Debra Winger, Robert MacNaughton, C. Thomas Howell, Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Anne Lockhart, James Kahn, K. C. Martel, Milt Kogan, Sean Frye, Ted Grossman, Pat Welsh, Jean-Paul Hellendall, Mitch Suskin, Frank Toth, Robert Barton, Michael Darrell, Richard Swingler, Michael Lepre, David Berkson, Barbara Hartnett, Kevin Jessup, Will Fowler Jr., Mary Stein, Robert Murphy, David M. O'Dell, Susan Cameron, David Carlberg, Alexander Lampone, Tom Sherry, Jonathan Wasserberger, Rhoda Makoff, Diane Lampone, Richard Pesavento, Gary Ordog, Richard S. Weisman

  Film: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

  E.T. was nominated for nine Academy Awards and took home four Oscars in 1983. A lot has been made about why E.T. doesn't just fly back to his home planet. The movie doesn't really explain the alien's ability to fly on his own, so we can assume he can't fly all the back home alone through space safely. However, we do know that E.T. can levitate. So at the very least, we must ask why he doesn't simply levitate when he's being chased by the agents at the beginning of the move. It certainly would have made life a lot easier for him.
  
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  (#18) The Sixth Sense

  • Bruce Willis, Mischa Barton, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, M. Night Shyamalan, Donnie Wahlberg, Olivia Williams, Firdous Bamji, Angelica Page, Trevor Morgan, Glenn Fitzgerald, Samia Shoaib, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Greg Wood, Lisa Summerour, Jeffrey Zubernis

  Film: The Sixth Sense

  M. Night Shyamalan shocked the movie world with his never-saw-it-coming twist ending in The Sixth Sense, which was nominated for six Academy Awards. Shyamalan received an Oscar nomination for Best Writing, despite the massive plot hole in his modern day ghost story.

  If Dr. Crowe (Bruce Willis) is really dead for the duration of the movie, how come he does not realize it? He lives in a house with his wife and he is also in Cole's house when his mother is around. He doesn't wonder why no one is talking to him, or why his wife seems to be ignoring him? He doesn't go to a grocery store or run errands or have any need for any interaction for the entire length of the movie?
  
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  (#19) Indiana Jones Should Have Just Stayed Home

  • Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, John Rhys-Davies, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, Denholm Elliott

  Film: Raiders of the Lost Ark

  Nominated for eight Oscars and winner of four, Steven Spielberg's '80s masterpiece took Hollywood by storm and created a screen icon with Indiana Jones. However, all the love in the world isn't going to erase a massive oversight: Defeating the Germans would have been easier if Indiana Jones didn't get involved.

  Had Jones not gone on the hunt for the Ark of the Covenant, the end of the treasure hunt would have ended exactly the same way with melting Germans. The bad guys would have opened the Ark, the curse would be in full effect, the Germans would be turned into human candles, and the Ark would have remained safe. The end. 

  However Jones' involvement did save Marion from the evil intentions of Toht, so there is that. 
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  (#20) The Big Bang?

  • Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, Don Johnson.

  Film: Django Unchained

  Quentin Tarantino's epic Western that won Christoph Waltz an Oscar for best supporting actor. Despite the reception of the movie, there seems to be a bit of an error when dealing with the timeline. And while the director is known to get loosey-goosey with history (Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Inglorious Basterds), this seems more like a straightforward error: 

  The movie is set in 1858, but dynamite wasn't invented until 1867. Since dynamite is a necessity for the final act, it seems this should have been researched a bit more. 
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  (#21) Minority Report

  • Cameron Diaz, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, Paul Wesley, Jessica Capshaw, Paul Thomas Anderson, Samantha Morton, Jarah Mariano, Peter Stormare, Kathryn Morris, Frank Grillo, Neal McDonough, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Rash, Cameron Crowe, Jessica Harper, Meredith Monroe, Lois Smith, William Mapother, Nina Kaczorowski, Joel Gretsch, Anna Maria Horsford, Steve Harris, Arye Gross, Mike Binder, Patrick Kilpatrick, George D. Wallace, Tyler Patrick Jones, David Doty, Daniel London, Dominic Scott Kay, Ann Ryerson, Ashley Crow, Rana Morrison, Billy Morts, David Hornsby, John Bennett, Clement Blake, Jason Antoon, Gina Gallego, Caroline Lagerfelt, Rick Kain, Klea Scott, Scott Frank, Miguel Mas, Kirk B. R. Woller, Keith Campbell, Victor Raider-Wexler, Robert Randolph Caton, Blake Bashoff, David Stifel, Jorge Pallo, Bonnie Morgan, Sumalee Montano, Nancy Linehan Charles, Allie Raye, Michael Ahl, Steven Hack, Karina Logue, Severin Wunderman, Fiona Hale, Radmar Agana Jao, Tom Choi, Max Trumpower, Eugene Osment, James Henderson, Marty Terry, Clyde Tull, Keith Flippen, Richard Coca, Markus Alexander, Kathi Copeland, Ana Maria Quintana, Seth Bailey, Riley Schmidt, Daniel Browning Smith, Christian Taylor, Anne Judson-Yager, Bourke Floyd, Tonya Ivey, Tom Whitenight, Marilyn Rising, Kimiko Gelman, Tristan Jackson, Katy Boyer, Stephen Ramsey, Dollar Tan, Rebecca Ritz, Benita Nall, Rocael Leiva, Lucille M. Oliver, William Mesnik, Kurt Sinclair, Shannon O'Hurley, Erica Ford, Pamela Donnelly, Laurel Kamosa, Morgan Hasson, Adrianna Kamosa, Sunny Malick, Elizabeth Kamosa, Nicholas Edwin Barb, Andrew Sandler, Ian Salmon, Jay Shindell, Dude Walker, Victoria Kelleher, Ron Ulstad, George Kardulias, Pamela Roberts, Kelli Mandruk, Beverly Morgan, Miles Dinsmoor, Drakeel Burns, Catfish Bates, Elizabeth Payne, Elizabeth Anne Smith, Sarah Simmons, Danny Parker-Lopes, Tom Cutler, Matthew Dickman, Raquel Gordon, Nathan Taylor, Nadia Axakowsky, Vene L. Arcoraci, Jerry Perchesky, Tony Hill, Ethan Sherman, Vanessa Asbert, Michael Dickman, Kari Gordon, Vanessa Cedotal, Maureen Dunn, Lisa Danielle, Bertell Lawrence, Gene Wheeler, Baron Jay, Don Austin, Spencer A. Beckett II, Peechee Neric, Payman Kayvanfar, Jumbe Fletcher

  Film: Minority Report

  The entire premise of Steven Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-nominated film can be totally ripped apart. Pre-cogs are supposed to be able to predict the future in order to stop a crime before it happens. But if they are stopping a crime before it happens, how is the crime being committed the future?
  
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  (#22) Did Aladdin Lose His Title?

  • Robin Williams, Scott Weinger, Frank Welker, Linda Larkin, Gilbert Gottfried, Charlie Adler, Jonathan Freeman, Douglas Seale

  Film: Aladdin

  Aladdin is a timeless animated effort from Disney that won Oscars for both score and song ("A Whole New World"), but there is a still a nagging issue with the story.

  At the end of the film, before the Genie is set free, he asks Aladdin if he would like to become a prince again. Again? Did he lose his title? How did his wish become undone? Jafar's three wishes were to be made Sultan, made a wizard, and made a genie, and since Aladdin's other wishes were not erased, one has to assume he is still a prince. Right? Apparently not, as the Sultan decides to change the law so Jasmine can marry whomever she wishes. 
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  (#23) Pulp Fiction

  • John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Walken, Quentin Tarantino, Steve Buscemi, Kathy Griffin, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Rosanna Arquette, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Julia Sweeney, Amanda Plummer, Phil LaMarr, Dick Miller, Alexis Arquette, Peter Greene, Bronagh Gallagher, Maria de Medeiros, Frank Whaley, Paul Calderón, Lawrence Bender, Karen Maruyama, Michael Gilden, Stephen Hibbert, Duane Whitaker, Emil Sitka, Angela Jones, Burr Steers, Don Blakely, Joseph Pilato, Rene Beard, Venessia Valentino, Linda Kaye, Brad Parker, Chandler Lindauer, Glendon Rich, Ani Sava, Brenda Hillhouse, Susan Griffiths, Robert Ruth, Lorelei Leslie, Eric Clark, Rich Turner, Devan Richardson, Jerome Patrick Hoban, Carl Allen, Sy Sher, Laura Lovelace, Gary Shorelle, Cie Allman, Lori Pizzo

  Film: Pulp Fiction

  Pulp Fiction was nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1995, with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary taking home the Oscar for Best Writing, even though there is a pretty massive plot hole in the film.

  Hitmen Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) risk their lives in order to retrieve a briefcase for their boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames.) What's in the case? We never find out. We just know that when it's opened, a golden glow emits from inside. The Internet is filled with possible theories of what the case contains but Tarantino will never tell. However, the prop is most likely a MacGuffin - a narrative device to get the plot of a film moving forward despite having nothing to do with the actual story.

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