7 Recent Movies With Gaping Plotholes You Never Noticed
Suspension of disbelief is on its last legs.
Plotholes have been around since the dawn of cinema, the logic gaps that make suspension of disbelief difficult and give opinionated fans ammo to fire at Hollywood.
Since there are countless films out there, it's inevitable that some will be marred by continuity gaffes, timeline confusion and other stuff that makes no sense, but the number of guilty parties is higher than you might think.
Often these blunders are minor and slip under the radar, though at other times, they're glaring and have the potential to throw a spanner in the story's works.
Most movie fans would like to believe this is a problem of the past. Wouldn't it be great if lessons were learned, standards were raised and filmmakers and screenwriters finally cracked the formula for error-free storytelling?
Sadly, none of these things appear to be happening as plotholes are just as prevalent today as they were during Hollywood's formative years, and it isn't just amateurish B-movie directors who are guilty of serving them up.
Some of the biggest blockbuster of the last two years have more holes in them than The Godfather's Sonny Corleone post-assassination.
7. Spider-Man: Homecoming Breaks The MCU Timeline
Spider-Man: Homecoming marked a triumphant return for the wall-crawling superhero and successfully integrated him into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but not without screwing its timeline eight ways from Sunday.
The movie's intro sequences introduce Adrian Toomes and explains why he has a bee in his bonnet about Tony Stark and the government. It's set in the aftermath of the Battle of New York from the original Avengers, or 2012, if you prefer numerical terms.
The action then spider jumps to eight years later, which some quick arithmetic reveals to be the year 2020, but the film was a little hasty with that time leap and failed to take the bigger MCU picture into account.
Spider-Man: Homecoming couldn't possibly take place in 2020 since Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige had already revealed that Peter Parker's next outing in Avengers: Infinity War will be set in 2018 by that point.
The MCU timeline spiralled out of control somewhere between Phase 1 and the launch of the TV universe, but this Homecoming plothole makes it almost as broken as X-Men movie continuity, which can at least lay the blame on time travel.