10 More Infamous Movie Plot-Holes (Solved By Fans)
Fans figured out these nagging "plot holes" for themselves.
With modern film discourse being what it is, everyone and their uncle loves to treat movies like things you're supposed to defeat with the powers of your deductive mind.
It's not merely good enough to watch a film - you need to scrutinise it and unfurl every last logical lapse and outright plot hole.
That said, sometimes these holes go viral and become a serious talking point among audiences, and if the filmmakers are lucky, other fans might come up with a novel solution or two.
Though not strictly speaking canon, smart viewers can come up with ways to seal up those apparent plot holes and silence most, if not all, of the doubters.
And so, as a sequel to our previous article on the very subject, here are 10 more infamous movie plot holes that ended up being solved by fans.
Again, these answers aren't definitive as they haven't come from the mouths of the filmmakers themselves, but they track well enough that they're incredibly easy to accept, in turn giving audiences one less thing to nitpick when they revisit said movie in the future...
10. Where Did The Cliff Come From? - Jurassic Park
The Plot Hole:
When the T-rex bursts through its paddock boundary to confront the heroes, a huge cliff suddenly appears that absolutely, positively wasn't there before.
The vehicle that Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and co. were previously in is knocked over the edge of the cliff, yet the location of this drop seemed to be a totally flat part of the enclosure moments earlier. What gives?
The Solution:
Now to be fair, the precise layout of Isla Nublar in general is never made hugely clear, and from a spatial geography perspective it does look like the cliff materialises out of thin air when the plot needs it to exist.
However, earlier this year Redditor Specialist-Ad-5300 posted a diagram to the Jurassic Park subreddit which made a convincing argument of precisely how this all made sense.
Basically, the right-hand side of the enclosure has a small, delineated cliffside area where the vehicle could be pushed.
Sure, you have to question why anyone would build an unguarded steep drop like that, but then again, that's pretty far down on the list of things wrong with John Hammond's (Richard Attenborough) park.