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I haven't seen it in years, but the plot hole that always bothered me about that movie was why, after the tower at Dulles was taken over, couldn't the planes just land at BWI or National instead of worrying about running out of fuel while flying in a circular holding pattern waiting for the good guys to regain control?

National and BWI can't take large aircraft (I know I know they only had enough fuel to divert to Andrews AFB, Philly, Newark, Charlotte, Atlanta, JFK, etc)

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12-05-2015 , 05:59 PM

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So is there anywhere in the US with a big airport not near other big airports?

I'd guess even Honolulu has a nearby military airfield where you could land anything.

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12-05-2015 , 08:14 PM

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National and BWI can't take large aircraft

I'm pretty sure BWI takes everything with the possible exception of the A380.

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12-05-2015 , 08:47 PM

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Original Bad News Bears is absolutely a great movie. And the conceit was that everyone associated with the league watched the championship game, not just the parents from the two teams, and they only started leaving with Bears down four, two outs, nobody on base. With Rudy Stein up.

So not even close to a hole imo. Fans have left World Series games when their team had more win equity.

Btw how good is Vic Morrow in that movie?

Yeah Bad News Bears is a classic. I grew up playing little league baseball in the suburbs and it captured it perfectly. Scene with Morrow where his son won't throw the ball is one of the all-time great movie scenes imo.

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12-06-2015 , 10:16 PM

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12-08-2015 , 12:00 AM

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Speed - they rescue everyone from the bus, Hopper no longer has any leverage. So why do they still put actual cash in the bags they drop off in the trash bin???

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12-08-2015 , 01:35 AM

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The bus that couldn't slow down

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12-09-2015 , 07:15 AM

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It's surprising how many gaping plot holes could be eliminated by one tiny little insignificant change.

In "Raiders of the Lost Ark", it made no sense that the Wehrmacht was running around the desert outside Cairo like they owned the place, when Egypt was a British protectorate in the 1930s.

All they had to do was simply change it to Libya (run by Italy) and there's no plot hole.

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Indy couldn't walk away from the discover PLUS they'd have to assume the Nazis will just keep digging everywhere until they find the Ark.

MUCH, MUCH, MUCH bigger plot hole is that the Nazi are running around ****ing prewar Egypt like they own the place, when it was a British protectorate. Could have fixed the entire hole by changing one word. If they're digging outside of Tripoli instead of Cairo, no plot hole (Italians controlled Libya).

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In Raiders of the Lost Ark there Nazis running around the Egyptian desert in full uniform with military equipment. Egypt was occupied by the British. Would have been hilarious to see an unarmed Bobby show up and ask for their papers.

Wow, this must really bother you.

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12-09-2015 , 10:41 AM

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Speed - they rescue everyone from the bus, Hopper no longer has any leverage. So why do they still put actual cash in the bags they drop off in the trash bin???

Speed has a million plot holes. 2 biggest imo are the fact that Keanu can't slow the subway down because the throttle is broken, but then he calmly pushes the throttle forward to speed it up so it will jump the tracks.

Also I think I've mentioned this one before, but Keanu pointing his gun at Sandra Bullock and delivering the "pop quiz hotshot" speech, all the while mistaking her for Dennis Hopper (from like 10 feet away) is pretty lol.

Also bringing Sandra Bullock to the scene of the stakeout after the rescue from the bus... good thinking, LAPD!

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12-10-2015 , 09:34 AM

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Speed has a million plot holes.

I'm pretty oblivious to plot holes most of the time, but another one in Speed was too absurd. That was the part about the bus somehow being rigged to send a closed circuit (and perfect) TV signal while moving around town. There was no technology to do that at the time. And then having the TV folks successfully tap into that signal and replace the video was equally ridiculous.

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12-10-2015 , 10:41 AM

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Fortunately the movie was saved by another stellar acting performance by Keanu Reeves.

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12-11-2015 , 01:00 AM

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And Keanu is supposed to be a professional badass who is trained for anything and he just let's some random woman drive the bus that's rigged with explosives...even AFTER she tried to stop at a red light.

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12-11-2015 , 01:05 AM

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Wow, this must really bother you.

You have no ****ing idea how much.

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12-11-2015 , 10:50 AM

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Speed is a great movie?

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12-11-2015 , 06:09 PM

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Speed is a great movie?

Heh not really. But a big box office draw.

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12-11-2015 , 07:27 PM

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Not a movie but a great series, Breaking Bad. Uncle Jack and his gang murder 2 DEA agents and find 70 million dollars. When Hank comes back from New Hampshire months later it has not changed their lifestyle one bit!! They are still on the same ****ty compound cooking meth.

These guys had 70 million dollars, they were all on the hook for murdering federal agents. Wouldn't you think 99.9999% of people are going to just split up the money and make themselves scarce?

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12-11-2015 , 07:34 PM

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it's a lifestyle choice

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12-11-2015 , 07:56 PM

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Maybe they considered skipping town but decided to get into in the empire business

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12-11-2015 , 09:18 PM

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Never under estimate how stupid drug dealers/criminals are. 90% are dipshts.

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Who is Hank?

Probably 99.9999% of people would. These are neo-Nazi murderers. Hitler invaded the USSR; I expect these guys to be in that 0.00001%. It's in their DNA. Uncle Jack would be a Trump supporter, imo.

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12-12-2015 , 08:35 AM

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It always bugged me that Pinkman never got a new car.

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12-18-2015 , 12:43 AM

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I thought The Martian was terrific, but one big hole jumped out at me:

Spoiler:

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12-20-2015 , 01:02 AM

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The "Nazis running free in a British protectorate" thing in Raiders of the Lost Ark is not a plot hole. The movie takes place in 1936. Britain and Germany were not at war nor had hostile relations between them. They probably just applied for a digging license or whatever and got on with it. Also, the movie would not make sense in Libya since Libya doesn't have any Biblical connections, while Egypt does.

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12-20-2015 , 01:21 AM

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They were at peace. That doesn't mean the ****ing GERMAN ARMY would be running around in British territory with what appeared to be dozens of vehicles, hundredsof soldiers, and at least one combat ready airplane.

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