Are we the only ones that thought about this…
Here at JOE Towers we like to consider ourselves as film connoisseurs, which is fancy pants talk for ‘we have seen waaaaaaaay too many films but we’re really good at the occasional table quiz’.
Like all people that are passionate about films, we are slightly guilty when it comes to over thinking and analysing certain plot holes. All of these have never been able to sit right with us and you probably will agree.
Back to the Future: The odd friendship between Marty McFly and Doc Brown.
From the outset of Back to the Future, we are informed that most of the adults don’t trust the lovably eccentric Doc Brown and on the surface it seems like good advice.
Principal Strickland even warns Marty that “this so called Dr Brown is dangerous, he’s a real nutcase”.
Let’s look at the facts. Doc Brown was contacted by Libyan terrorists to build a bomb and these lads have access to plutonium. JOE doesn’t know many scientists but this seems odd to us.
Also, what was Marty and the doc’s first conversation about?
We imagine it went like this “Hi I’m Marty, I’m 17 and I like playing guitar and hanging out with my girlfriend, what do you do? Wait a minute, are you that crazy inventor that everyone is talking about? The guy who looks like he never made it back from Woodstock in one piece? Ill be your best mate…but only if you have a time machine. Sound”.
Clerks – Independent contractors on the Death Star 2.o
This scene is just so right.
Clips via – MOVIECLIPS
Lord of the Rings- Those Eagles might have come in handy
Wouldn’t life for Sam, Frodo, Aragorn et all have been much easier if Gandalf just said this, “Hey lads, I know a bunch of Eagles that can fly. If you’re nice and give them some worms, they’ll probably offer you a free lift to that Mount Doom place that we were all talking about”.
It could have saved us the 74 different endings also.
The Goonies – Sloth and Chunk living together
Are we the only ones that wonder how Chunk’s parents reacted when they learned that their ten year old son has invited a loveable manchild to come and live with them?
We like to think that they said yes and that the two lads grew up and went to college together. Sloth love Chunk, it’s just right.
Clip via – StellaNUFC
The Hangover – Doug just sits there for the whole movie.
JOE are big fans of The Hangover mainly because we have all been in that position before.
The unfortunate groom had one too many drinks (spiked with floories) and he ended up waking up in a strange place that he had never seen before with no memory.
Doug you have a hangover, it doesn’t make you instantly thick. Surely he could have just called someone from the roof or made a lot of noise.
It’s either that he isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer or he slept for the best part of two days. Now that’s a proper hangover/booze induced coma, we’re not sure which.
Toy Story – We need to talk about Buzz
Ok, so the entire premise of this classic Pixar animation is that Buzz Lightyear is convinced that he is a real person.
Buzz is so convinced of this that he constantly moans and complains at the other toys because he thinks Woody, Mr Potato Head, Rex and co are all insane.
Buzz Lightyear is so sure that he isn’t a toy that he decides to go on a dangerous adventure just to prove them wrong.
Then why does Buzz constantly freeze and play dead whenever a real human comes into the room?
JOE imagines that it’s either peer pressure or that he is going through some existentialist crisis and is questioning his identity.
Are we over thinking this too much?
Gremlins – Mogwais at the Midnight hour
One of the golden rules regarding the Gremlins is that you aren’t allowed to feed them after midnight.
Ok, but what happens to Gremlins that are in different time zones? Surely it’s always going to be midnight somewhere in the world? What happens when the clocks change?
To be honest, we don’t care. Just give us a Gremlin so we can feed it and watch them rapidly multiply, endless craic would ensue.
If JOE was a Gremlin then we would definitely want to be this lad.
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The Matrix – Who plugged Cypher in?
Ok so everyone on Morpheus’ ship needs an operator to plug them into the Matrix. So who was the traitor that helped plug Cypher in and out when he met Agent Smith to make the treacherous deal to capture Morpheus?
Maybe Cypher just casually hung back and tied his shoe laces for a really long time after a previous mission with Neo and co.
Transformers – The Decepticons can’t use a computer
Sam Witwicky, aka ‘Ladiesman217,’ has just put a pair of glasses up for auction eBay in an effort to make some money to impress Megan Fox. JOE might put a kidney up for auction if it meant a date with her but that’s a different story.
By an unfortunate coincidence, these glasses are exactly the same ones that the Decepticons are looking for because they contain a map to where the All Spark is.
Later in the film we learn that the Decepticons can easily hack into the United States military network. You would think that some of them might know how to bid on eBay? They must still use the Buy & Sell.
Batman Begins – Everyone in Gotham should be dead
Both of the Irish bad guys, Scarecrow and Ducard, have just executed a fiendish plan to spread a water-borne toxin throughout Gotham City by vapourising the city’s water supply using a microwave emitter.
Water pipes burst, man hole covers explode and the toxin spreads everywhere but since the human body is composed of 75% water, shouldn’t everybody in the city that drank water, have died when the device was triggered?
You would hate to have been making a cup of tea when that thing went off.
Reservoir Dogs – Magic bullets during a Mexican stand-off
Joe has his gun aimed at Mr Orange. Mr White’s gun is trained on Joe. Nice Guy Eddie is pointing his gun at Mr White.
Bang, bang, bang. Everyone goes down…but who shot Nice Guy Eddie?
Come to think about it, who shot J.R and Mr Burns also?
Big – That entire last scene
If you have never seen the Tom Hanks classic then let us briefly summarise it for you:
12-year-old boy wishes he was big. Boy wakes up and magically is an adult. Adult boy moves to the city for work.
Boy meets nice girl. Nice girl likes boy. Boy and girl get together.
The magic wears off. Adult returns to previous boy state.
Girl sees boy as a child upon breaking up. JOE thinks boy and girl will require years of therapy.
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith – Worst choice of foster parents ever
Obi-Wan Kenobi has just managed to defeat his recently turned to the dark side apprentice Anakin Skywalker in an epic lightsaber duel.
Not only this, but he also helped rescue Padme so she can safely deliver her babies, the most famous twins in cinema history, Luke and Leia.
Who and where does Obi-Wan choose to give the newly born Luke to? Sure, let’s take the boy back to his dad’s home planet, leave him with Darth Vader’s family, put him in danger and also ask him to keep the very well known surname Skywalker. That’ll work.
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