Movies

"About time" is my favorite movie. It's about time travel. And it have some incosistencies about mechanics of how it work. But I don't see it as mistakes.

I choose to belive that this is "lost in translation". I'm not able to time travel. I don't have the capability to understand it. So they have to metaforized it down for me.

Telling someone who can't see that the "blue is like a cols water, yellow is like a sanshine on your face and red is lime rage or intense love" would work for the purpose of the story you are telling them. But its not ideally accurate.

Most of the time, I don’t go looking for them. I wouldn’t say it’s a favorite, or even that I like it, but the plot of Chappie might as well have been Swiss cheese.

I lost track of the number of things that didn’t make sense halfway through my first watch. Granted, I don’t think it was ever destined to be a masterpiece, but even the McGuffin was just forgotten about halfway through. It might be Hugh Jackman’s worst movie. And Die Antwoord’s best.

Some really good movies that, unfortunately, hinge on pretty big plot holes

Inside Out: probably one of the greatest animated movies ever, but why didn't they just send the core memories back up the tubes? The best explanation I can think of is that Joy is a control freak and thinks she needs to deliver them herself.

Meet the Robinsons: not as popular as Inside Out but I personally consider it great. The time travel rules make no sense though. Lewis going back in time and startling his birth mother while she left him at the orphanage, implies the whole thing was a stable time loop and was always supposed to happen that way but somehow he was able to completely change what happened to Goob at the baseball game

Mr Crocket: as far as horror movies go, it's one of my favourites though it scared me too much to watch again. But the whole thing hinges on a big plot hole. Mr Crocket is in the habit of brutally murdering parents and taking their kids. Our hero is a mom trying to get her kid back from him. But why didn't he kill her when he took her kid? There is no explanation given for why he spared her.

Forrest Gump is an idiot but he somehow he becomes a millionaire?

I hope someone got fired for that blunder

Most Star Wars movies. Episode 8 can suck it, though.

The second Pacific Rim movie.

One of the biggest frustrations in their world is finding two people who can coordinate to power the giant suits. It's more than physical coordination, they seem to need some sort of bond.

The second movie opens up with the young female character hodgepodging together a single smaller one she can drive alone, nobody gives a s***. They continue looking for people with perfect partners to drive the slightly larger ones.

I'm pretty sure The Adventure of Baron Von Munchausen counts, in spades.

Perfect Days: the toilet cleaner has a humble and fulfilling life but there's no way he can be happy with his low status job

Past Lives: Korean woman struggles when her childhood sweetheart shows up in America despite her having a new man; if she still loved her old flame she'd just ditch the new guy

The Master: Cult leader finds animalistic man interesting/arousing but they are not intellectual peers

Parasite: Poor family stumble upon a dark secret after ingratiating themselves with a rich family but the rich family should be too clever to fall for their scheme and are generally better than them

Casablanca: Humphrey Bogart is supposed to be in love but he lets her go for some reason

Brief Encounter: Married woman has emotional affair with a stranger on a train but doesn't act on her feelings for some reason

Rashomon: None of the characters can agree on what happened even though some events must have objectively happened

2001 Space Odyssey: Super intelligent AI is outsmarted by humans it is supposed to be more clever than

Alien: Perfect killing machine fails to kill everyone

Goodfellas: Gangster gets his commuppance despite the film establishing in the first half that he's a winner

The Exorcist: Ancient demon is supposed to be the ultimate evil but is defeated

Grave of the Fireflies: Child starves despite knowing they are eating mud balls instead of rice - they should have just eaten rice

Big Fish: Man reconciles with estranged father after falling out with him over tall tales by becoming immersed in more tall tales

I could go on but I think I've demonstrated my superior media literacy with the examples I've given already. Movie makers need to start portraying evil as winning, humans as uncomplicated and magic as not being real to improve their artform.