8 Ways Modern Blockbusters Trick You Into Ignoring Plot Holes

7. Hey, It's Sci-Fi!

There is a tendency in modern science fiction cinema to brush off suggestions of plot-holery by merely countering that, well, it's sci-fi, and sci-fi can make as much or as little sense as it pleases. After Earth finds animals rapidly evolving within just a thousand years? Science! Pacific Rim's Dr. Geiszler needs Kaiju DNA to enter the Kaiju portal, but doesn't need one leaving it? Science! People on future-Earth have the right amount of technology and know-how to fly to Elysium, but not enough to build one of those healing devices on their home planet? SCIENCE. Inception is one of the biggest recent offenders when it comes to using the "Hey, it's sci-fi" method €“ there are plot holes aplenty in the way Nolan uses and defies his own 'dream level' logic. And, of course, any movie that uses time travel is always problematic. Take Looper, for example €“ that the younger Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) killing himself makes the older Joe (Bruce Willis) die too is a bit shifty, considering they're technically from different dimensions (if older Joe has already lived as younger Joe, then why should he automatically die when the younger Joe from another timeline dies?). But hey, after all, science fiction doesn't have to make sense - the word "fiction" is in there for a reason, so best not to quibble, even when those films disobey their own internal logic. Just don't worry your pretty little head about it.