10 Major Plot Holes You Probably Missed

1. Independence Day

The Hole: Randy's Crazy!

A similar one to the Ghostbusters 2 hole featured on this list - why is it that Randy Quaid's drunken crop-duster Russell Casse remains a figure of ridicule, thanks to his belief that he was abducted and probed by aliens, even after his doubters have irrefutable evidence of both the existence and hostility of aliens?

There's a collection of giant flying saucers in the sky which have already wiped out several major cities across the globe, and Area 51 has been confirmed as a real crash-site (so they definitely visited in the past) and yet Russell's assertion that he has a personal vendetta to settle with the aliens is greeted by smirks and eye-rolls. "Sure, boozy, whatever you say! Alien abductions, my ass - now let's go and attack that giant alien ship in the sky up there..."

And don't even get me started on the fact that the alien mothership somehow has the same operating system as Jeff Goldblum's laptop. Another favourite of the plot-holers communities online, this was apparently explained by a deleted scene that said we gained all of our knowledge of computers from the Area 51 crashed ship - but that would suggest that the aliens had never needed to upgrade their technology in 40 years, and could somehow manage intergalactic space travel with the same technology that we could barely operate PCs with.

Still, a great film nonetheless.