10 Gaping Plot Holes That Will Ruin Your Favorite Movies

By David Opie /

6. International Time Zones - Gremlins

Parents, friends, school; each has the power to teach people how to live productive, successful lives, but none have shaped our outlooks as much as film. Movies have taught the masses how to survive zombie apocalypses, how to save the world from aliens and even how to lose a guy in 10 days. But no film has been as instrumental to the survival of the human race as Joe Dante's Gremlins. Don't feed the Mogwai after midnight. It's a simple, but key rule everyone should all strive to live by. Remember what happened when they did this in Gremlins? There's only one problem though. How do you define 'after midnight' and how long does this period last for? Ten minutes? Six hours? According to international time zones, it's always after midnight somewhere in the world. Short of capturing Gizmo and performing bizarre feeding experiments on him every night when the clock strikes twelve, this term is basically impossible to identify, so grab a net and a feeding funnel and get to work.