10 Movie Rules That Make No Sense
No-kill policies just aren't realistic.
In the fantastical world of Hollywood filmmaking, it's not so much important that films be "realistic," but simply that they adhere to their own internal logic - that is, lay down some clear rules and stick to them throughout.
But as we all know, that's a lot easier said than done, especially in franchise cinema which potentially invites a diverse array of different voices lending their own knowledge (or lack thereof) to a project.
But sometimes it's also simply a case of a single screenwriter failing to fact-check their own movie, or perhaps even trying to slip a contradiction past audiences in the hope they either don't notice or don't care.
Yet care audiences certainly did where these 10 movie rules are concerned. Each is a firmly established rule which governs its respective movie, and yet, each also fell apart like wet toilet paper the moment audiences stopped and thought about them for more than a few seconds.
While in most cases the movies are good enough to survive the internal rule-breaking, they're nevertheless all major sticking points for the most committed die-hard fans...
10. Don't Feed Gremlins After Midnight - Gremlins
The Gremlins movies are of course governed by three seemingly specific rules: don't get the cute creatures wet, don't expose them to bright lights, and most importantly, don't feed them after midnight.
We all know what happens when these rules are inevitably broken - Gizmo spawns mogwai out of his back which eventually transform into evil Gremlins - and while the first two rules make perfectly simple sense, the third remains a major point of contention among fans.
The issue is that "after midnight" is a vague and relative term. When does the post-midnight period end? And as briefly, hilariously mentioned in the sequel, what happens if a mogwai crosses time zones?
Sure, fans have theorised that a mogwai can't be fed again until sunrise, but this isn't information that the movie gives us, and so the precise mechanics of their physiology are left needlessly ambiguous.