15 AWFUL MOVIE PLOT HOLES EVERYONE JUST IGNORED

When a movie is great, we don’t always notice when part of the story doesn’t make sense. We get so caught up in the story that we forget to ask, “Wait, why did that happen?” Some great movies have gaping plot holes in them, but we forgive them because everything else in it is so great. Here are some awful plot holes that everyone just ignored. Be careful: spoilers galore ahead.

Ra’s Al Ghul’s plan in Batman Begins is to destroy Gotham by filling the city’s water with a toxin that’s only effective when it’s airborne. He releases the toxin by using a microwave emitter that evaporates all the water in the city. First, humans are predominantly made of water, so the microwave emitter would kill every human. Second, why not just put a digestible version of the toxin in the water supply? Why does Ra’s Al Ghul care if people inhale or drink the toxin?

In Terminator, all Skynet knows about John Connor’s past is his name and his mother’s name. This leads to killer robots being sent back in time to kill anyone with the same name as his mom. John Connor was aware that Skynet would do this, however. If he had just lied about his name, then the Terminator would never have been able to find his mother. He still could have sent Kyle Reese back in time to become his dad, just with much fewer robots trying to kill them.

There’s a pretty big plot hole in most people’s favorite Star Trek: The Next Generation flick, First Contact. The opening space battle against the villainous Borg is disastrous until Picard shows up. Having been previously assimilated into the Borg, Picard knows of a weak point on the Borg cube. It only takes a few shots to this point to blow the cube up. So why did Picard keep this information to himself? Several Federation ships are destroyed and countless lives lost because Picard wanted to save a dramatic entrance for himself.

In The Social Network, the entire story is told through depositions being given during the different lawsuits levied against Mark Zuckerberg. There’s a scene where Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin meet two female fans of Facebook and hook up with them in the bathroom of a club. This means that apparently someone was testifying to a judge about the bathroom hookup.

Prometheus is a beautiful yet confusing movie. When an ancient alien facility on a distant planet is discovered that might have ties to life on Earth, a team of scientists is dispatched to investigate it. One of the team members is an Android, who is one of the only characters to survive (technically). Why send a group of humans into a potentially dangerous situation when a team of Androids could evaluate the site first?

Andy Dufresne escapes from Shawshank Penitentiary by digging a tunnel out of his cell. He covers the tunnel with a poster of Raquel Welch. When he escapes, the guards find his cell empty with the poster still up on the call covering the hole. How did Andy hang the poster up from inside the tunnel?

The finale of X-Men: First Class revolves around the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sebastian Shaw is trying to start World War III by taking over a Russian boat and having it cross the embargo line, which would cause the American boats to fire on it and start the war. Charles Xavier has the power to control people’s minds. When he arrives, he could have just taken control of Azazel, who’s piloted the Russian freighter. He also could have taken control of the Navy Captain and then just not ordered the missile strike. Those would have been easier options than making the Russian second in command fire on the freighter himself, thus ruining the man’s life and career.