12 Giant Plot Holes In Successful Films

1. Interstellar

Maybe films should be barred from meddling in knowledge beyond human understanding?

Interstellar is a spectacle of space, time and planets beyond the planes of mankind. Nolan's most ambitious project to date, however, encounters plot holes of a very significant degree.

Long before any complicated mathematics or science is introduced, viewers have to comprehend the fact that NASA failed to recruit anyone remotely qualified to captain the mission to save humanity; they just happen to stumble across Cooper when he drives a few miles down the road. What perplexes viewers, is NASA's failure to contact Cooper early enough to give him any sort of meaningful preparation for the journey. Hell, maybe Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were getting bladdered in town one night, and Buzz stopped to pee beside a shack on the way home and found Apollo 11 hidden behind a thorn bush. NASA thought these guys were dynamite.

Time travel soon becomes the central theme to the film, with Cooper shifting through wormholes, dimensions and entering into the time travel tesseract, and the crucial intervention of 'they' (the future survivors of the human race), who have placed binary messages throughout the universe and created a wormhole through which humanity can travel to their salvation. Although this plot is about as patchy and flawed as the majority of temporal paradoxes, Nolan should be praised for sustaining a compelling story through this narrative minefield. The paradox exists, however, and it's a massive one: how can future humans use their advanced technology to create a wormhole to save their ancestors if their ancestors never survived to begin with?

The only narrative and scientific solution to this problem is that Nolan assumes everything that has ever happened or will eventually come to pass, is actually happening right this very moment, over and over again in multiple dimensions; or that audiences will have to accept contrivances to enjoy the plot.

And it should probably be 'Intergalactic', whilst we're striving for scientific correctness!