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not quite a great movie but in varsity blues the final game winning trick play features an illegal forward pass.

dawson throws to his wr who's past the line of scrimmage and then he throws it down the field to the lineman (who I'm pretty sure is an receiver anyways) which obv is an illegal forward pass.

In the movie Lucas, the QB throws a forward pass to Lucas, who throws it back to the QB then runs down field and the QB throws it 40 yards down field to him. Then he drops the pass but everybody acts like it's a fumble and they continue playing on.

Varsity Blues on the other hand, got it right.

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06-21-2015 , 07:03 PM

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This really isn't a plot hole and it's not really a great movie(debatable by some) but there's a scene in National Lampoon's Vacation that's always bugged me.

When the Griswold's get to cousin Eddie's house there's a scene where the families are introducing each other. Rusty meets Dale and has this exchange.

Rusty Griswold: Hey, ya' got Pac Man?
Cousin Dale: No.
Rusty Griswold: Ya' got Space Invaders?
Cousin Dale: Nope.
Rusty Griswold: Ya' got Asteroids?
Cousin Dale: Naw, but my dad does. Can't even sit on the toilet some days.

Rusty looks upset after Dale says no each time, as if it's a huge thing to not have those games.

In the very next scene it shows them in Dale's room looking at nudie books and there's a table top Pac Man game sitting on the pillow behind Rusty.

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06-21-2015 , 08:53 PM

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Luke's assinine "plan" to rescue Han in Return of the Jedi has always just pissed me off. It's not a plan anyone with half a brain would have come up with if the goal were to actually rescue Han without casualties, and only makes sense if he were getting extra points from the judges for degree of difficulty. It depends on a very unlikely chain of events working out just right, and is clearly just an excuse to string together a series of action sequences that Lucas had thought up long before coming up with the plot to justify them. If you added an exploding Ferrari, it could have come from Michael Bay.

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06-21-2015 , 09:17 PM

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Reservoir Dogs

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06-21-2015 , 09:50 PM

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06-22-2015 , 09:07 AM

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Guess my dled copy cut that short.

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06-22-2015 , 02:16 PM

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Pretty sure that is Rustys and he just wanted to know if Dale had an Atari where they could play those versions of the games on the television screen.

Arcade sized Pac Man > Atari 2600 Pac Man > Travel sized Pac Man ( I assume )

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06-23-2015 , 12:52 PM

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I always thought the timing of the part where R2 launches the lightsaber takes waaay too long. Luke's standing there for a while, gets prodded to jump off, grabs the plank, does a flip and jumps back up ready for action...and he's just sort of standing there waiting for the lightsaber. Nobody tries to shoot him or anything they just wait it out. Yes they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell

I don't know I'd call that or the whole rescue plan a plot hole though. Just a case of movie characters doing the hard way for the sake of action.

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06-23-2015 , 01:38 PM

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It's all worth it to see Leia in that outfit.

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06-24-2015 , 11:29 AM

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I haven't seen the movie in a while but I assume he's talking about this

which was actually more like the arcade version than the 2600 version (which was objectively awful as anyone who owned it can attest)

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06-24-2015 , 02:39 PM

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That is indeed the machine in question

I typed " assume " because I had never actually played on this machine.

I know the 2600 version was NOT what everyone had expected prior to its release but I thought it still had a chance when compared to this small hand held one. Based on what you have mentioned, perhaps not.

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06-24-2015 , 02:46 PM

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The Atari 2600 version of Pac Man looked like it had been designed by someone who had never played the original game.

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06-24-2015 , 04:06 PM

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The people who designed the appearance of Donkey Kong, in the 2600 version, made him out to look like an angry gingerbread man :P

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06-24-2015 , 04:38 PM

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That is the Pac Man game I was talking about and anyone that had/played it knows it was 100x better than the 2600 version. My brother and I had just about every table top game and every one was better than the Atari version. Popeye is still my all time favorite table top game.

It's just weird seeing Rusty's reaction(like they didn't have any games) and then the very next scene is the game he asked about..

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07-06-2015 , 12:21 AM

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So the whole world thinks it's a hoax, and Jodie Foster was making it all up. Except for the one other female in the entire movie, Angela Bassett, notices that Foster recorded 18 hours of static during the half second fall.

Really?!!! Are we just expected to believe that all the scientists who poured through all the data from the dozens of cameras filming the launch, failed to see this, and Foster's character also didn't bring this up? In their defense, when I saw this in theaters at the age of 16, I was blown away by the ending, and maybe that's who it was meant for, but today, this seems like a huge plot hole.

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07-06-2015 , 12:40 PM

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So the whole world thinks it's a hoax, and Jodie Foster was making it all up. Except for the one other female in the entire movie, Angela Bassett, notices that Foster recorded 18 hours of static during the half second fall.

Really?!!! Are we just expected to believe that all the scientists who poured through all the data from the dozens of cameras filming the launch, failed to see this, and Foster's character also didn't bring this up? In their defense, when I saw this in theaters at the age of 16, I was blown away by the ending, and maybe that's who it was meant for, but today, this seems like a huge plot hole.

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07-06-2015 , 02:07 PM

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07-06-2015 , 03:28 PM

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07-06-2015 , 03:38 PM

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07-06-2015 , 03:55 PM

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You think a word in the middle of the sentence should be capitalized?

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07-06-2015 , 04:26 PM

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07-06-2015 , 09:12 PM

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You think a word in the middle of the sentence should be capitalized?

No. Just pointing out the ridiculousness of quoting and correcting a single word in a big paragraph. I'm a firm believer in anti-capitalization actually, that's why I hate Germans and their language so much.

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07-07-2015 , 09:55 PM

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Both The Terminator and Terminator II are great movies (even if the sequels haven't been):

If you're sending Kyle Reese back in time to save Sarah Connor (or sendind a T1000 back to save John Connor), why send them back to the last possible second?

Why not send them back weeks or months before they're actually needed? They could get the target far far away. Instead, they show up just in time to barely save the target's life.

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07-07-2015 , 10:01 PM

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Well the time machine belonged to Skynet, so it's likely that the resistance didn't know how to calibrate it to a specific time (or didn't have time to do so) so sent their guy to the same period it was calibrated for.

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07-07-2015 , 10:03 PM

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pretty sure they followed the terminator through the time machine and used the same date the terminator did, not sure if they would know how to truly control the machine in the pre T1 and T1 timeline

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