I also used to think it was stupid that Goldfinger explained the plan to the gangsters. But I think it makes sense. When Bond is captured, he says to Goldfinger: “I enjoyed your presentation.” And Goldfinger replies: “So did I.” Goldfinger is a huge narcissist and without a doubt enjoyed talking about his plan, although it made no sense to explain it to someone he intended to kill off. But he did it anyway because he loved himself and his genius plan so much.
An easy fix would be the gangsters continuing to doubt the plan and call Goldfinger a maniac. Either way I enjoy the idea that he just did it for the enjoyment.
This is my thoughts exactly--and I too, have wondered about this plot hole. I see it as pure vanity. It was all about Goldfinger's ego. He wanted to impress them. Maybe initially when he had it all set up, he thought to bring them in for the purposes he initially told them of, but once he thought about it, he didn't want to pay them, and since he would have them all together, well, what a great way to bump them off and keep his gold, test his gas, AND show off his magnificent plan--all at the same time! Furthermore, by killing them, he didn't have to worry about his plan leaking out. There were other ways of doing most of this--but not the showing off part. Look how much he enjoyed laying out his plan to Bond, smiling and laughing over Mint Juleps as if Bond were an old friend rather than a mortal enemy. One more thing, for purposes of story-telling, this helps demonstrate's Goldfinger's character (or lack of). No honor, no honesty, no conscience, an absolute liar and sociopath.
@@spaceace4387 Yep. It also shows the audience the effects of the nerve gas he plans to use. It's a lot more elaborate (and a little less nonsensical) in the novel. I think they were trying to streamline the action of the story and make the exposition more entertaining.
For the Goldfinger plot hole - I like to think he told them all as a final precaution - the gangsters aren't stupid, so although Goldfinger plans to kill them all he's still interested in hearing what they have to say beforehand in case he missed something whilst strategising his plan.
@@Dustemikkel_Rev You really would not like Goldfinger in the book. He goes on ad nauseum about how great he is and how his scheme (which in the book is stupid) is foolproof.
@@thatguyfromcetialphaV The monologuing selfobsessed villain is such a silly trope, and I absolutely love it. Realistic or not, a good villain needs to be bigger than life.
In Goldfinger, there are more fatal errors. When Auric Goldfinger with his army arrives to the fort, he thinks he poisoned the soldiers - why there is almost nobody inside Fort Knox? There is only one guy lying on the desk and... what? Is he killed or he pretends? How the hell the gas would get inside? Why P. Gallore, who betrayed Goldfinger, still took him out in the helicopter? And there's one more man in the plane in the end - with Bond, Goldfinger and Pu$$y. Then he disappears. After Bond fighting Auric, this man is lying dead somehow.
I think I have some fairly reasonable explanations for a few of these: -Dr. No: We don't see Bond's entire journey through the ductwork between encountering the water and kicking through the metal grate, it is entirely reasonable that somewhere along the way he went past a downward-sloping branch of ductwork that would have diverted the water away, or he may even have found an upward-sloping branch or vertical connecting tube and taken it to get out of the water's path. -Goldfinger: Why does Goldfinger pointlessly & elaborately explain his plan to the gangsters right before killing them? The same reason Walter White in Breaking Bad tells Hank that Gale Boetticher's lab notes show no sign of creative reasoning or independent thinking but rather just seem to be rote copying of someone else's formulas, and so Gale is probably NOT the genius meth chemist "Heisenberg" that Hank has been after (and that Walt himself secretly is): sheer uncontrollable ego. Goldfinger just NEEDS to brag, to show off to *someone* what a criminal mastermind genius he is even if he then has to immediately kill them in order to assure the plan remains secret. And indeed, everything we've seen of Auric Goldfinger up to this point does seem to confirm that he has just this sort of massive, narcissistic ego. -You Only Live Twice: I can't pretend to explain most of the "logic" behind Bond's Asian disguise, but as to how he seems to spontaneously shake off his asian makeup & hair style and instantly re-grow a dense thicket of chest hair? Bond is JUST THAT DAMM MANLY! -OHMSS: It makes perfect sense that Blofeld didn't recognize Bond; If you recall, shortly before Blofeld encountered Bond in You Only Live Twice, Bond had been ingeniously disguised as an Asian fisherman. (Oh, wait....,) -Moonraker: Getting back to more serious explanations, one can easily speculate on financial motivations for Drax to steal his own shuttle rather than cancel the delivery at the last minute: If Drax simply canceled the order, not only would he have been out the considerable sum of money that had been due him from the sale of the shuttle itself, but there might well have been have been some kind of substantial penalty for cancelling the order at the very last second like that, it would almost certainly have constituted some kind of breech of contract. This way, not only does he get his shuttle back for free after having sold it, he probably also got some kind of hefty payout from insurance fraud as well. Tomorrow Never Dies: In 2019, during the big first public reveal of Tesla's upcoming Cybertruck design, Elon Musk attempted to demonstrate how indestructible even the vehicle's windows were by throwing a steal ball directly at the prototype's windows. Earlier in the day he & the truck's lead designer had rehearsed this moment by repeatedly throwing that same cannonball at two of the windows and it had harmlessly bounced off, leaving the window undamaged every time. But it turns out every one of those impacts was taking a toll on the glass's structural integrity, so that by the time Elon was onstage in front of a crowd ready to throw the ball for real the glass in both windows had quite literally reached its breaking point, and in his two attempts Musk managed to shatter the glass in both the windows. So yeah, I can easily imagine that the sledgehammer & whatnot during the BMW attempted break-in scene "softened up" the glass so that it was ready to finally shatter at the start of the backseat driving sequence. -The World Is Not Enough: You do realize you're talking about the cognitive functions of a man with a bullet imbedded deep inside his brain, right?
Speaking of YOLT: James Bond is so manly, that he visibly uses up most if not all of his ammo on the Little Nellie (especially the missiles) but flies back to Tiger Tanaka with them somehow grown back onto the chopper. 😅
Re: Moonraker Also considering his goal was TOTAL GENOCIDE, he probably won’t face any legal action if he can just steal back a shuttle and complete his Ultimate fucking Dynasty. 😂
Same with the Moonraker scene when they escape through the ducts. 1, that launch exhaust would have been too fast for them to escape from, and 2, it obviously led to a populated area so they would have all been BBQ as well.
Let alone the rocket launch being visible for a long distance, the base could hardly remain secret. Also how could such a huge building project be kept secret? Does Spectre have a huge labour force and smuggled all the mountain of needed materials and equipment into the country?
Anja was surprised, because she couldn’t know that she’s sitting in the car she already stole the plans for. There wasn’t any clue for that, Major Boothroyd took Bond aside for telling him the gadgets.
For me the most annoying plot hole in casino royale is why a supposedly massive plane reveal is happening at three in the morning in the midst of a crisis. Seriously who's awake at the time to watch a plane be revealed and why were the people revealing it completely oblivious to the sprinklers and fire alarms. Other than that perfect film
Personally, I didn’t think it was a perfect film in many ways. Everything was like a Bond plot hole for me. Pacing wasn’t great, action was violent but left me desiring more (or less in the case of the ball torture scene) especially compared to previous Bond entries. Why was Judie Dench still M? It implies it’s the same M and same Bond universe (as we see portraits of the previous “M”s from previous movies in MI6 too). So all the events of the previous movies happened, but Bond is a whole new person without double-O status? Is Craig supposed to be a new agent who just so happened to have the same exact name and given the same 007 number as the previous OO agent who saved the world multiple times? Name/describe any of the 10 major scenes in the movie Casino Royale and I’ll give you a plothole or logic fallacy example for any of them. Movie was a mess😂 (Like what you want to in life, I like Die Another Day a lot, Although I wouldn’t call it perfect… and neither is Casino Royalle lol)
@@mro4ts457 I agree with your points about Casino Royale, but Die Another Day is really almost the worst Bond movie, second only to Quantum of Solace. Writer's strike my ass - they could have hired a chimpanzee to write a better movie than that.
@@countluke2334 Golden Gun is by far the worst. An embarrassing slapstick comedy pretending to be a Bond movie. DaD starts out well, just gets more and more wacky. QoS was damaged, as Dutch Bond Fan says, by the writers strike and also tried to be too serious.
For TND, they switched ammunition and rifles. They had sub machine guns at first, which shoots hand gun calibre bullets, then they switched to actual rifles with armor piercing rounds. Still a minor plot hole but not as bad as you'd think.
In Licence to Kill (a movie I love as well) it's inesplicabile why the Hong Kong narcotics, an anglo-chinese police force, would use ninjas to stop Bond. I mean... do they not know that they're japanese? There's even a movie in this franchise, You only live twice, that explains what country they're supposed to represent. Otherwise a brilliant, underrated movie with an underrated Bond in Dalton.
Yep, it's just lazy writing and awful stereotyping. No wonder why the British would lose Hong Kong to China one-two years after the movie was released. They didn't give a fuck about those people.
Proving once again that “exotic” cultures will not be taken seriously in western fiction unless the nations themselves get stronger on the global stage. Compare that with Tomorrow Never Dies. Sure the Chinese government was being co-duped by the big bad to the brink of war, but at least the secret agent they sent out was brilliant if only she doesn’t die before she can report back.
They're not Ninjas, they're Wuxia. They look and dress in black like Ninjas but they work for the Chinese Emperor as Assassins. You can see them in old Kung Fu movies. So you could say they're a modern version of them working for the Hong-Kong government which is still independent from MI-6. Much like how the DEA is separate from CIA or the FBI.
The biggest plot hole is why the villain doesn't just shoot Bond when he gets captured in every film. They always look for "a cunning plan" giving 007 a chance to escape.
That's something that Scott Evil pointed out to his father in Austin Powers (which also mocked the classic movie trope of the bad guy explaining is whole evil plan to the protagonist when he's going to kill him anyway)
It’s like Drax said about how 007 seems to survive all his attempts to plan an amusing death for him. Just shooting Bond is too boring for these megalomaniac villains. 😂
Yeah, I remember someone complaining about that scene in No Time to Die when Safin doesn't just shoot Bond as a critique to that particular villain and I was just like "dude, that's pretty much a James Bond tradition"
16:58 What happened is Le Chiffre is sheltered in Montenegro because the government won't extradite him for whatever reason (probably bribery) and british government can't enter Montenegro to arrest Le Chiffre. They could try to send Bond to kidnap Le Chiffre, but I guess they thought it would be more problematic than sending Bond to make him lose all of his money. If he lost all of his money he'd be in debt and he'd have to leave Montenegro anyway. They would have leverage and he'd make a deal with MI6 in exchange for protection.
Great video! However in defense of the Tomorrow Never Dies "plot hole"...Bullet proof/armored glass does give after heavy sustained force. We see this in action in NTTD with the DB5 as well. I have no problem with the BMW's glass finally giving away with all those guys mercilessly shooting it.
So the invisible Aston Martin... I don't mind the tyre tracks so much; that could easily be explained as an oversight. The real problem is that Bond KNOWS the car is invisible, but still HIDES BEHIND IT.
I actually watched Moonraker recently and I think it aged quite well. It might partly have been ahead of its time, really. As far as all the "man is the biggest parasite of the planet" at least. For me, the major plothole is "how did they construct a huge space station without anybody noticing". That would have required a lot of major rocket launches which couldn't have gone unnoticed.
@@countluke2334 Yeah, I think that's the main one, along with the US Space Marines apparently sitting in a shuttle on the launchpad, ready to fly to space at the drop of a hat... ;)
@@countluke2334 I read a review once that pointed out the fact (that a massive space station was built in secret) is a plot hole the size of the universe.
The Casino Royale one is actually explained: MI6 needs LeChiffre to WANT to cut a deal with them. They don't want to "bring him in for interrogation", they want him to seek asylum and come willingly. To that end, putting him in an even worse financial situation is perfectly logical.
@@davidw.2791 The old space shuttle had engines for orbital insertion and to direct the reentry, but it was launched into space with rockets, and for the landing it acted more like a glider than a plane.
For shawshank redemption, the movie literally shows that the poster was only attached to the wall at the top. Andy just lifted up the bottom and let gravity pull it back down.
@@knownpleasures In the same scene the warden holds the bible with the rock hammer hidden inside. He even opens it, flips through a few pages, and reads a passage. It is a amazing that Andy didn't get caught. But if he did, the movie would have had a pretty unsatisfying conclusion.
@@knownpleasures Andy had certain privileges the other inmates didn't. The guards including head guard Hadley, already liked him because he helped them with their taxes. Remember Hadley and several other guards beat Boggs so badly that he never walked again because Boggs raped Andy. Maybe they were doing a very routine check because while of course not knowing about the tunnel Andy was digging, they weren't keen to bust him on some minor infraction and get him in trouble. Plus none of them thought he could dig his way out of Shawshank with any of the items in his cell. Not to mention that Norton saw the poster and shrugged it off.
@@knownpleasures That's generally explained away pretty easily though, as it isn't really a full search because the guards know he's the Warden's pet. So they search the room, sure, but they know to be a little less thorough than usual. Also, funny note from the book's story that didn't make to the film was that while Andy had the cell to himself for many years, at one point he had a cellmate when the prison got particularly overcrowded. He had to stop digging his escape tunnel in those years, and the guy complained that the cell was really cold and drafty.
One that always bugged me about NTTD. Why does Bond's EMP watch destroy Primo's eye but not the earpiece in his ear literally just a few more centimetres from the eye.
I think the biggest plot hole in No Time to Die is Bond just automatically assuming Madeleine betrayed him without first talking to her. I guess it could be explained that he still has a hard time trusting people, but if this is supposed to be the love of his life, I feel like he'd talk to her before abandoning her at the train station.
It's not a plot hole at all. Primo told Bond she was a daughter of Spectre (whatever that means) and she gets a call from Blofeld right after Bond is supposed to be dead saying "your father would be so proud of you." And with Bond already having been betrayed by Vesper you can understand why he has no interest in discussing the subject. Plus, what good would discussing it with Madeleine do? She'd deny she had any involvement. No duh. She was in a no win position whether they had a long discussion or not.
wow, you pointed out so many things that i never realised, althogh i've considered the tarantula plot hole myself, i think that was just what they used because it's a huge spider that looks menacing and the audience at the time probably wouldn't know that it's not deadly
That's exactly it. In the book it's a deadly centipede, but they understandably didn't want to film that, even using effects to keep the creature separate. They switched to a tarantula to make things easy: it still would look menacing to the audience, but it was easy to handle and predict, and looked scary without looking gross.
It's so hard to choose just one ridiculous moment in most 007 movies. One that got stuck in my head is Bond and Gustav fighting for sport and then all of a sudden trying to kill each other in a mansion full of people.
Guy Haines is also the name of the main protagonist played by Farley Granger in Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train. Perhaps the QOS producers were really committed to that Easter egg joke.
My favorite is in You Only Live Twice: Bond tells Tanaka he’s never been to Japan, but in From Russia With Love he tells Tanya, “Once, when M and I were in Tokyo we had an interesting experience…”
In FRWL, he may have just been trying to be cheeky because he knew all those officials were listening. In YOLT, Tanaka had not yet gained Bond's trust, so Bond might have just been trying to be deceptive.
@@nigelinasia2088 i’m willing to bet that once moneypenny was shushed out of the room, they replay the tape and bond ends up not elaborating about japan afterall😂
Most plot hole can be plugged fairly easily. Anya was surprised because there are several versions of the Lotus and she had not realized that this was the version for which she stole the plans. Once she realized this was the submarine Lotus, she took control. No plot hole.
Felt like the subway part of Silva's plan was intentional weather or not an agent would be chasing him. Serves as a great distraction for him to go after M- the police and emergency vehicles would all be focused there rather than the court. Regarding him knowing M would be there he's an expert hacker (shown in as much depth as Carver being a media mogul) and was probably aware of what was going on in her life.
Figure he had correspondence going with Heath LedgJoker. Both had this extensive plan to get imprisoned, then escape. Both believe "fortune favors the bold," apparently. Or is that mere contrivance that's in their favor? Both have plans that seem impeccable because they're shown to succeed, but found impossible after analysis.
@@alm2187 I never saw the Dark Knight when I saw Skyfall so the clone of a plan went over my head at the time. You can tell the writers took the ideas. Regarding the ridiculousness of it, the film was just so well made that the obvious questions didn't even enter my head till a review pointed it out. Even knowing it I was fine with it because, again, it's just such a well made film that the convenience of his plan didn't really detract heavily.
Also Silva's plan was to escape and go kill M. It really didn't matter where she was. She could have been at home having a warm bath that wouldn't have been nearly as exciting as a shootout at government hearing with many other characters present. Silva probably had multiple escape routes planned depending on where M would be when he did escape. We see one of his minions deliver him a police uniform in the subway but depending on what time he escaped they could have handed him a Maître d' uniform because M was having dinner at a restaurant. We're seeing the most exciting version of events because its a movie and movies operate by their own internal logic.
Thankfully that one train was completely empty during the commuter rush so casualties were low....Skyfall is just ridiculous the more you think about it. I've never understood the hype it gets.
One that just occurred to me while watching Dr No earlier today. Bond and Honey are locked in the cell in No's HQ, and then knocked out with drugged coffee. Why? They're not going anywhere.
The invisible Aston from die another day also wouldn't work because of perspective. If 2 people look at the car from a different position, the car can't project an image that would blend in with both of there views
In Goldeneye Ouromov and Trevelyn didn’t need Bond to think Trevelyn was dead. They needed MI6 to believe he was dead. If only Bond comes back or neither comes back MI6 is going to think Trevelyn is dead.
At the very beginning, Titanic is shown. Jack not fitting on the door is not a plot hole. It is misunderstood. The reason Jack couldn't get on the door wasn't because there wasn't enough room, it was because the door couldn't support his and Rose's weight.
How Grant could make his elaborate plan in From Russia With Love? Easy! Because Grant IS JUST THAT F***ING AWESOME! THAT'S WHY! SHUT UP! Ok, it is a plothole, but seriously; No henchman ever came close to being as naturally intimidating and downright terrifying as Grant. Damn he's a great villain.
@@DutchBondFan Indeed. As for Die Another Day: No mention of removing bone marrow to wipe DNA? That line was written. By an adult. Who got paid! He or she should be sent back to elementary school. 😁
This doesn't work great, but it fits: We know Grant has been shadowing Bond since 007 arrived in Istanbul. The date of the operation didn't matter that much, as SPECTRE set up the whole Lector theft and knew it was coming. It's possible that once Grant shadowed Bond to the Soviet embassy, he knew the theft was going down and high-tailed it to the train station. Kronsteen is a chess grandmaster and likely anticipated that Bond would use the Orient Express as his quickest escape.
You can actually still ski in summer in Austria, on glaciers in Sölden (where the FIS World Cup traditionally opens every year) or Hintertux for instance. That being said, the one in TSWLM looks more like a winter landscape to me.
I did actually research that while making this video - I did find out summer skiing is possible in Austria, but still found my reasoning strong enough for the same reason you stated - it just looks like full on winter in the PTS. - And like I stated in the video, this was just me going really deep for one of them. - It's a great film still!
Bond getting poisoned at the casino in CR is sort of plot hole for me. The rules stipulated that you could only leave during breaks. Bond bets, leaves, goes to the car, gets diagnosed online by MI6, dies, gets revived, changes tuxedo shirts and is back in time for the next hand....
FYI: the titanic scene is actually physically sound. MythBusters proved that two bodies of their weights would actually cause it to sink. The only way to have it float would be the ingenious method of tying lifevests underneath the door.
For Skyfall , also why would Bond drive M all the way to to his remote house in Scotland, and not ask for backup? If the aim was to keep M alive , why not have her put in a M16 safehouse with dozens of agents to guard her..
That scene in NTTD retroactively makes Spectre even stupider. Having Bond and Blofeld be step brothers might have been the single stupidest plot device in all 25 movies. Especially since Goldmember already did it thirteen years earlier haha.
12:52 okay professional Texan here, the initial shots taken against the 750il, is with an HK MP5k, a submachine gun which uses the 9mm NATO bullet. This is a pistol caliber round, just like Bond’s Walther P99 uses. When he rounds the corner to escape, the guns used against him are M16A2 with M203 grenade launchers. We’re taking about a significant step up in penetrating power (4x) and explosive damage from the grenade launchers. Armor piercing ammo is commonly produced for the M16’s 5.56mm NATO. Notice, the steel of the car is unscathed, and the logically more sensitive glass is the only part to sustain damage.
Editing the visuals to go along with my dialogue I did notice 'oh these guns actually do look a bit heavier. Hmm, Im still going to keep this in though!' But thanks for clearing it up. Even read your comment hearing a Texas voice! 😝
Andy had the poster attached at the top like a curtain - you can even see it in the film. Jack tried to get on the door, but it almost capsized so he realised that only one could get on - nothing to do with space. I can't believe the Internet still hasn't figured these out yet.
I explained the same as you with shawshank,it's not rocket science & like you said you see Andy lift it up. I don't think whoever done this video has thought things through lol
@@Resimaster A part of the Stephen King novella I really loved, is how Red ruminates that all in all it was a GOOD thing that Andy was not allowed to be exonerated because apparently attempting to escape prison is illegal no matter what. And if the warden let Andy be exonerated, they would do a TOTAL cleanup of the cell to make way for the next inmate, and the hole in the wall WILL have been exposed.
I believe that if Ian Fleming was alive he could explain why Bond had to bankrupt La Chiffe in Casio Royale. That was also the plot of the novel and other versions.
The novel is quite strange, really. Read it recently. It's a mystery how that one started the whole franchise. Live and Let Die is already a lot better, but basically in Casino Royale you have "Bond needs to win against LeChiffre at Baccarat for some not too compelling reasons", "Bond gets captured and tortured" and ultimately "Bond has to recover, falls in love with Vesper until she kills herself". During the first act there are a few attempts on Bond's life for no apparent reason, during acts 2 and 3 Bond does nothing remarkable (except surviving the explicit torture, including the ball torture featured in the movie) but is purely passive. The novel ends rather suddenly without Bond going after the people that drove Vesper into suicide.
@pyropulse read it for yourself. I think the pacing is all wrong. The card game is clearly the highlight, and it is supposed to be, but overall Bond is too much of a bystander IMO. I enjoyed Live and Let Die a lot. So I'm not trying to shit on Fleming's works, I just think Casino Royale is bad.
If a gangster like lechiffre becomes bankrupt he cannot afford missiles and guns that cause major destruction and kill thousands. It makes perfect sense
I think it was because Le Chiffre was playing with money given to him by Russians and the money was not for card playing but to be used to finance Russian intelligence operations in Western countries. When Le Chiffre lost the money it made Russians really mad at Le Chiffre!
I don't know about Bond's chest hair, but I do believe that his face makeup & wig were peeled off when he & Kissy Suzuki jumped to the water in order to get away from the poison gas seeping through the cave.
Very well done video and these are some great plot holes. The tarantula in Dr No reminds of the Scorpion in Diamonds are Forever. Yeah the bite and sting would hurt, but nobody would just fall down dead. And the whole Blofeld being Bond's brother, just was terrible. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your brother.... He told me enough, he told me you killed him No, I am your brother!!!
I must say, sirrah, your voice modulation produces a comic effect which is both hilarious and governed. This is most true for me when you tore apart the invisibility feature of the Aston Martin Vanquish.
Anja - Bond suddenly driving car into the sea. There's not a single person on the face of the planet who wouldn't show the same level of panic. Then, as it turns into a submarine, it dawns on her: ohhhh this must be that car I saw the blueprints for... No plot hole here.
Agree, license to kill is to me the most underrated of them all...Also I have the quantum of Solace game and it sets up Guy Haines even more only for it to go nowhere.
There is another plot hole in "The Spy Who Loved Me" . Bond and Anya are traveling from Cairo to Stromberg's base in Sardinia and they are attacked by Jaws on a sleeper train! Where? Sardinia is an island, so they would have flown there. Sardinia has trains but it is only about 220 Km long. The train from Caligari where the main airport is to Porto Palao (where Q meets them with the Lotus) would not be an overnight sleeper train. Also - why does Q bring the Lotus by Ferry? Did he come from Corsica or mainland Italy? Why didn't they just fly the lotus to the same airport that Anya and Bond flew into?
Yes I pointed that one out in my TSWLM review (Recapping episode 10) - The only thing I can think off is they take a train from Cairo to the coast of Egypt and go to Sardignia from there...
@@DutchBondFan Why go to the coast of Egypt? Cairo International Airport would be a more sensible route. And if you did want to go to the coast, Alexandria is only 178 km from Cairo, even Egyptian railways are not that slow. I would think that someone at MI-6 or KGB could plan a voyage more efficiently.
This is very detailed work, You didn't mentioned how Scaramanga got hold of a perfect likeness of bond, even though Bond is a super secret agent. Creg. I think The Bond Experience has been watching your videos. It's Craag, like The Hague. ;)
In Die another day, it could be explained that the henchman can see the tire tracks but when Bond's car is moving fast and far away, he has the heat camera as a visual aid and to see the shape of bonds car
Yea. If we accept the cloaking car, the tire tracks are just a minor drawback. If you see tracks being made by nothing, you need a moment to process what you're seeing. (Unless Anja saw those blueprints too, and briefed you on what to expect.) If you're an elite marksperson, and the Vanish vehicle is your target, you're down from sighting the right spot to shoot to mere estimation. If you're the driver, even in a snowy or otherwise unpaved area, just favor pavement wherever you find it. Perfect stakeout if that comes up. When in motion, and when the enemy is tryin'a track you, seek also large-ish objects to get next to, like roadside rocks. No line of sight to tires/tracks means invisibility factor upped.
I think the laptop-plugging thing in Skyfall is the most egregious plot-hole in the whole series. Not a single IT guy on this planet would have plugged a laptop known to have belonged to a dangerous hacker into a network. Even a novice would get his pink slip the moment he does something stupid like that. What Q would have done was a). x-ray the laptop for explosives & booby traps. b). extracted the hard drive from the laptop. c). plug the harddrive into a specially hardened UNIX computer that was not connected to any networks and with all auto-run or auto-open features disabled. d). the contents of the drive analyzed with ASCII-text ONLY tools. I know, the plot must happen, but this was beyond outrageous. This was an insult to the IT profession.
Good one. Honestly, I'd only noticed the most obvious of these, and almost never when first watching the movie. The problem with mistakes and plot holes is that most of the films are entirely unrealistic, so you will always find a ton of issues if you overthink it. The most common plot hole in Bond, and for many action movies in fact, is why does the villain always give themselves away by either trying to kill Bond or killing someone else that alerts MI6 that something is up. I think Moonraker is one of the most egregious examples, since Bond is not visiting Drax because he thinks Drax stole his own shuttle, he's there to see if Drax has any idea who could have hijacked it. All Drax has to do is answer Bond's questions and send him on his way. Instead, he immediately goes down the kill Bond route, which then alerts Bond that Drax is the villain. You can probably find similar examples in most, if not all, Bond films.
In "You Only Live Twice" Spectre has the ability to launch space craft that can capture other space craft that can then land back on Earth and ARE RESUABLE. This technology is so advanced (still can't do this) that it begs the question: What the hell does Spectre want that they can't accomplish by running a legal aerospace company with such domination they'd effectively take over the world?
The TND entry is a combination of both stronger weapons during the chase and the fact that all ballistic armor does weaken with repeated shots until it eventually fails.
For Goldeneye, I always found it too much of a coincidence that Bond happend to be in Monte Carlo where the tiger helecopter was stolen, ultimately leading him to 006 in Russia. Was he investigating Xenia onatopp already, or he happened to be in the right place at the right time?
Unfortunately, the Goldeneye one is a biggie, even though it's one of my favourites in the series. It's just really hard to imagine how Trevelyan set that up and pulled it off, and that point is integral to the entire film.
The biggest Plothole are the Craig-movies themselves. Trying desperately to make up continuity in order to satisfy a audience used to TV shows and Marvel movies. Funnily even Roger Moore Bond movies have more believable continuity without even trying.
@@Dustemikkel_Rev They didn't really nick it as Bond only knows Blofeld for a couple of summers as a child [hence in NTTD Q says 'good job he wasn't really your brother or you'd be dead too] and frankly 'plot' in Austin Powers is a loose concept given jokes rightly take precedent and that was a big in joke in itself [given Mike Myers was clearly playing both parts]. But having the two characters linked wasn't necessary in the slightest. Goldeneye did the 'Figure from Bond's past coming to haunt him' much better.
Don't know if your aware of 'James Bond radio' but they made an interesting point that if you go from Quantum to Spectre, the organisation plot is continued-it's Skyfall not including the organisation is what caused the problem and one of the guys there was glad to see it followed up [and the organisation in Casino+ Quantum was planned to be Spectre+ Blofeld before legal issues delayed it]. Not a common opinion but I do like hearing other opinions even if I don't necessarily agree with it.
@@jamesatkinsonja The whole rabbithole with the rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld was such a mess. I wish I could go back in time and tell Ian Fleming NOT to invite Kevin McClory for drinks.
I find it amusing how people are STILL going on about that damn door in Titanic. Watch the movie, people. He tries to get on and almost capsises the damn thing, thereby putting the life of the woman he loves in danger. Being a gentleman, he decides the best thing is to stay off and keep her safe. Surely, a boat will be along soon...
The Alps are very high mountains. They have snow on them year round. Or, at least, they used to. You _could_ go skiing in the alps in the summer back then.
The fact that Bond killed Primo in the opening sequence, yet Primo is still alive to fight Bond later in the film is a huge plot hole in No Time to Die. The fact that M surmises that Verper had to make a deal to save Bond's life in Casino Royale when they still needed Bond alive to get the password.
Moonraker: dr goodhead turns off moonrakers radar jammer. US military fortunately has a space shuttle on standby full of astrosoldiers with chest mounted lasers that can launch and attack the base in a couple of minutes. now that's what i call being prepared.
In "Skyfall" that Ben Whishaw's cocky, arrogant, condescending Q plugs the villain's USB drive into their network. I can't get over that. The stupidest thing ever in a Bond movie. That's like hiring a guy to pack your parachute and he fills it with rocks while bragging about what a great parachute packer he is.
I like in you only live twice when bond hiked up the volcano discovers the headquarters then strips off his clothes and has full dark gray commando gear on with suction cups for his knees to climb down walls
Maybe Dr. Julius No made a special poison for his tarantula that'll make its bite deadly to Bond, kind of like how Monarch caterpillars eat milkweed plants in order to make them poisonous to predators. Also, I like to think that the reason why Felix Leiter is cheerful at the end of *"Licence To Kill"* was the fact that Bond was successful in avenging his ex-CIA buddy and his wife.
I would explain the Goldeneye plothole this way: they faked his death for all potential survivors, both Bond and the Russian Soldiers. Even when the hole factory blew up, supposedly killing everyone in it, I think it's fair to have a plan just in case anyone survives. Ourumov betrayed the Russians by becoming an ally of Alec. That's why he also doesn't care that his men get killed. The problem is that he probably knew that they would blow up the factory, so how did he and Alec escape? Especially as Ourumov and his men followed Bond outside, so how was he able to escape with Alec without anyone noticing? And why did Alec become scared, but not Ourumov? That's a bit more confusing for me. Maybe they took different paths, but even then: how did they manage to escape this station within 3 minutes? Also confusing how he shot his own guy a moment before he "shot" Alec. The most logical explanation would be that he used real bullets but didn't shoot Alec, but into the ground instead. As all of his men were focused on Bond, this could be plausible.
Great to here the analysis about Die Another Day. That whole film made me feel like I wasted money on getting a ticket to see it. I love the whole franchise I must say. But DaD I love to bash.
Thanks man, Great video as usual! however some of these would not be "plot holes" more like contrivences or continuity errors. Some answers just for the sake of playing devil's advocate here: Dr No: Whether that water is a trap or travels through there for some reason, you as Dr No would have installed a way to drain that water out to avoid flooding the facilities everytime. FRWL: I guess the plan was moved ahead one day when the news of the bombing of the embassy were known. I guess Red Grant was like Oh shit it was today, and made a phone call before rushing to catch the orient express. Goldfinger: I guess he had already build the Fort knox model for his planning phase, and/or since the presentation was an excuse to have them all together and killed at the same time, the model was built because it would be suspicious if you were called to a presentation and there was nothing on display. I would consider a bigger plot hole Pussy's unexplained motivations and turn to the good side. The Living daylights: The movie is great, Timothy Dalton is the best Bond. Don't really have an argument here, just that Nekros is a pretty efficient Red Grant clone and if some bad guy could do it, he was. Also that death scene is great as it is. License to kill: Let Feliz be happy...he is talking to his friend who is alive, well and back on duty after going rogue for him, he is very thankful to Bond. More importantly the people who raped and killed his wife, and mutilated him, all did die horrible horrible deaths, I would be jumping in my one feet lol. QoS: I don't think that is a plot hole, it doesn't contradict the story and Bond couldn't follow them all by himself, I guess the idea was to show the scale of Quantum, rather than them being active leads. I'm pretty sure there are a lot more plot holes on that mess of a movie, but don't remember it enough and don't feel like rewatching it hehe. NTTD: I don't know, Mary Poppins maybe? XD People hire other people to take care of their children and we don't know Madeline schedule, maybe she just travels to London to see Blofeld once a month or every two weeks, and she leaves the kid with someone during those short leaves or maybe the girl is just that independent, after all she is Bonds daughter and perhaps can take care of herself lol. Also, I thought Nomi doesn't know Madeleine has a daughter not that M16 doesn't know.
Also for the Spy who loved me, I don't think Anya is surprised the car is a submarine, maybe she is more like holy shit it actually works! It would be more of a plot hole that there were guys waiting him underwater just in case Bond had a submarine car 😅
@@davidw.2791 That makes a lot of sense too since the Lotus is a 1976 car and TSWLM is a 1977 movie. She knew they were working on a submarine car, but didn't know it was the one she was in until it hit the water and started transforming. I'm still not sure about the underwater guys though, I can't see them doing patrol underwater just in case... but I guess maybe they saw Bond from inside the base and then went out to confront him. Is not that it really matters it makes for a fun badass sequence and to display the underwater capabilities of the Lotus. Such a good movie they don't make them like these anymore.
In Goldeneye, when Bond encounters Xenia at the hotel pool how do they both get dressed while Bond keeps a gun on her so she can take him to Janus later?
Don't grieve about "Spy Who Loved Me" - they do have snow in the Austrian Alps also in summer as far as I know (and it seems to be at a very high point, so the chance is even higher).
I remember at the end of License to Kill I was shocked Felix was even alive! I had to ask, wasn't that the same guy who was eaten by a shark? I never thought about the Living Daylights plot hole but thought that manner of death in itself was ridiculous.
@@frankb821 Good question. There's a shot where the sliding door is pushed by a giant piston. I'm thinking Necros modified the piston motor to speed up to the point to where the velocity of the door crushed Saunders or hit him hard enough to kill him. Both of which are ridiculously impractical!
@@GarretGrayCamera haha that is ridiculous when Necros could have just shot him with a rifle/scope upon leaving. He barely had time to get to Austria, let alone modify/install the contraption (in front of everyone) to do whatever it did...
The Moonraker (aka. Space Shuttle) does not have internal fuel tanks for it's main engines. However if it did like in the movie (presumably filled up) it would be way too heavy to carry on the back of the 747.
Most of these are good but the Goldeneye one is easy to explain: Trevelyan had either turned traitor or was going to, and he wanted MI-6 to think that he was dead so that they wouldn't go after him. As a sweetener, he added Bond to the mix: either Ouromov kills him and that's a feather in his cap, or he has a British agent in his custody to do with as he will.
Here are a couple...... NTTD: Saffin kills Spectre, kills Blofeld and......is, after years and years not caring, interested in Madeline+kid. Which will be the death of Bond, something Blofeld already knew???? Spectre: As Silva was pretty obviously just working for Silva, why is he all of a sudden part of Spectre? Skyfall: ow god, from the excavator on the train, to "taking the shot", to "let's go the Scotland instead of an armed military base"...... QofS: actually, Guy Haines goes nowhere because "Quatum" or "Spectre" organisation would be part of the next film. It never happened. Casino: yep, the cardgame. TLD: Why does MI6 need to kill Pushkin? Necros is too "Russian"? What? Octopussy: Can someone explain what Kamal Kahn's stakes are in the whole affair? FYEO: Why shouldn't Melinda kill Kristatos? She already shot the Cuban contract-killer Thunderball: Who is this nobody saving Domino at the end?
Dufresne can plot & plan this intricate years long escape, but he can't figure out how to adhere a poster back onto a wall? C'mon, we're talking Andy here!
I also used to think it was stupid that Goldfinger explained the plan to the gangsters. But I think it makes sense. When Bond is captured, he says to Goldfinger: “I enjoyed your presentation.” And Goldfinger replies: “So did I.” Goldfinger is a huge narcissist and without a doubt enjoyed talking about his plan, although it made no sense to explain it to someone he intended to kill off. But he did it anyway because he loved himself and his genius plan so much.
An easy fix would be the gangsters continuing to doubt the plan and call Goldfinger a maniac. Either way I enjoy the idea that he just did it for the enjoyment.
Yes I agree!!
It’s really so the audience knows his plan
This is my thoughts exactly--and I too, have wondered about this plot hole. I see it as pure vanity. It was all about Goldfinger's ego. He wanted to impress them. Maybe initially when he had it all set up, he thought to bring them in for the purposes he initially told them of, but once he thought about it, he didn't want to pay them, and since he would have them all together, well, what a great way to bump them off and keep his gold, test his gas, AND show off his magnificent plan--all at the same time! Furthermore, by killing them, he didn't have to worry about his plan leaking out. There were other ways of doing most of this--but not the showing off part. Look how much he enjoyed laying out his plan to Bond, smiling and laughing over Mint Juleps as if Bond were an old friend rather than a mortal enemy. One more thing, for purposes of story-telling, this helps demonstrate's Goldfinger's character (or lack of). No honor, no honesty, no conscience, an absolute liar and sociopath.
@@spaceace4387 Yep. It also shows the audience the effects of the nerve gas he plans to use. It's a lot more elaborate (and a little less nonsensical) in the novel. I think they were trying to streamline the action of the story and make the exposition more entertaining.
M: 007, we've got some plot holes that we want you to fill.
Roger: *raises eyebrow*
“Hip is a moron.” So glad you brought that back 😂😂😂
Skyfalls plothole is similar to The Dark Knight and Jokers plan. It requires so much planning ahead that it`s just ridiculous.
Rolled my eyes when I watched everything the Joker was able to plan out ahead of time.
For the Goldfinger plot hole - I like to think he told them all as a final precaution - the gangsters aren't stupid, so although Goldfinger plans to kill them all he's still interested in hearing what they have to say beforehand in case he missed something whilst strategising his plan.
Goldfinger just loves the sound of his own voice. Which is slightly ironic, considering Gert Frobe was dubbed.
@@Dustemikkel_Rev You really would not like Goldfinger in the book. He goes on ad nauseum about how great he is and how his scheme (which in the book is stupid) is foolproof.
@@thatguyfromcetialphaV The monologuing selfobsessed villain is such a silly trope, and I absolutely love it. Realistic or not, a good villain needs to be bigger than life.
In Goldfinger, there are more fatal errors. When Auric Goldfinger with his army arrives to the fort, he thinks he poisoned the soldiers - why there is almost nobody inside Fort Knox? There is only one guy lying on the desk and... what? Is he killed or he pretends? How the hell the gas would get inside? Why P. Gallore, who betrayed Goldfinger, still took him out in the helicopter? And there's one more man in the plane in the end - with Bond, Goldfinger and Pu$$y. Then he disappears. After Bond fighting Auric, this man is lying dead somehow.
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I think I have some fairly reasonable explanations for a few of these:
-Dr. No: We don't see Bond's entire journey through the ductwork between encountering the water and kicking through the metal grate, it is entirely reasonable that somewhere along the way he went past a downward-sloping branch of ductwork that would have diverted the water away, or he may even have found an upward-sloping branch or vertical connecting tube and taken it to get out of the water's path.
-Goldfinger: Why does Goldfinger pointlessly & elaborately explain his plan to the gangsters right before killing them? The same reason Walter White in Breaking Bad tells Hank that Gale Boetticher's lab notes show no sign of creative reasoning or independent thinking but rather just seem to be rote copying of someone else's formulas, and so Gale is probably NOT the genius meth chemist "Heisenberg" that Hank has been after (and that Walt himself secretly is): sheer uncontrollable ego. Goldfinger just NEEDS to brag, to show off to *someone* what a criminal mastermind genius he is even if he then has to immediately kill them in order to assure the plan remains secret. And indeed, everything we've seen of Auric Goldfinger up to this point does seem to confirm that he has just this sort of massive, narcissistic ego.
-You Only Live Twice: I can't pretend to explain most of the "logic" behind Bond's Asian disguise, but as to how he seems to spontaneously shake off his asian makeup & hair style and instantly re-grow a dense thicket of chest hair? Bond is JUST THAT DAMM MANLY!
-OHMSS: It makes perfect sense that Blofeld didn't recognize Bond; If you recall, shortly before Blofeld encountered Bond in You Only Live Twice, Bond had been ingeniously disguised as an Asian fisherman. (Oh, wait....,)
-Moonraker: Getting back to more serious explanations, one can easily speculate on financial motivations for Drax to steal his own shuttle rather than cancel the delivery at the last minute: If Drax simply canceled the order, not only would he have been out the considerable sum of money that had been due him from the sale of the shuttle itself, but there might well have been have been some kind of substantial penalty for cancelling the order at the very last second like that, it would almost certainly have constituted some kind of breech of contract. This way, not only does he get his shuttle back for free after having sold it, he probably also got some kind of hefty payout from insurance fraud as well.
Tomorrow Never Dies: In 2019, during the big first public reveal of Tesla's upcoming Cybertruck design, Elon Musk attempted to demonstrate how indestructible even the vehicle's windows were by throwing a steal ball directly at the prototype's windows. Earlier in the day he & the truck's lead designer had rehearsed this moment by repeatedly throwing that same cannonball at two of the windows and it had harmlessly bounced off, leaving the window undamaged every time. But it turns out every one of those impacts was taking a toll on the glass's structural integrity, so that by the time Elon was onstage in front of a crowd ready to throw the ball for real the glass in both windows had quite literally reached its breaking point, and in his two attempts Musk managed to shatter the glass in both the windows. So yeah, I can easily imagine that the sledgehammer & whatnot during the BMW attempted break-in scene "softened up" the glass so that it was ready to finally shatter at the start of the backseat driving sequence.
-The World Is Not Enough: You do realize you're talking about the cognitive functions of a man with a bullet imbedded deep inside his brain, right?
I thought Blofeld didn't recognize Bond in OHMSS because Connery was wearing a Lazenby mask...
My theory for tomorrow never dies is that the grenade launchers are destroying the car not the bullets.
I don't get why villains bragging is seen as a 'plot hole.' People in real life can be incredibly egotistical and bodacious
Speaking of YOLT:
James Bond is so manly, that he visibly uses up most if not all of his ammo on the Little Nellie (especially the missiles) but flies back to Tiger Tanaka with them somehow grown back onto the chopper. 😅
Re: Moonraker
Also considering his goal was TOTAL GENOCIDE, he probably won’t face any legal action if he can just steal back a shuttle and complete his Ultimate fucking Dynasty. 😂
You Only Live Twice. A space Rocket inside a volcano. Have you ever seen a space rocket being launched? Everyone in the area would have been BBQ
Same with the Moonraker scene when they escape through the ducts. 1, that launch exhaust would have been too fast for them to escape from, and 2, it obviously led to a populated area so they would have all been BBQ as well.
The base does have a huge pit below the launch pad. Plus, it's not a particularly large rocket.
Let alone the rocket launch being visible for a long distance, the base could hardly remain secret. Also how could such a huge building project be kept secret? Does Spectre have a huge labour force and smuggled all the mountain of needed materials and equipment into the country?
@@azraelle6232 Came here to say that. When they crawl down the ventilation shaft, they are MAYBE 100 feet away from the rocket haha.
They have vents you oaf
Anja was surprised, because she couldn’t know that she’s sitting in the car she already stole the plans for. There wasn’t any clue for that, Major Boothroyd took Bond aside for telling him the gadgets.
This was my thought as well. It wasn't until she saw the car actually turn into a submarine that she realized it was the same car.
I always assumed Anya feigned ignorance. She is a spy after all.
Yea, I thought that.
I thought she just reacted as anyone does when a car does a jump
Presumably the plans she stole had a picture of the car...
For me the most annoying plot hole in casino royale is why a supposedly massive plane reveal is happening at three in the morning in the midst of a crisis. Seriously who's awake at the time to watch a plane be revealed and why were the people revealing it completely oblivious to the sprinklers and fire alarms. Other than that perfect film
Personally, I didn’t think it was a perfect film in many ways.
Everything was like a Bond plot hole for me.
Pacing wasn’t great, action was violent but left me desiring more (or less in the case of the ball torture scene) especially compared to previous Bond entries.
Why was Judie Dench still M?
It implies it’s the same M and same Bond universe (as we see portraits of the previous “M”s from previous movies in MI6 too).
So all the events of the previous movies happened, but Bond is a whole new person without double-O status?
Is Craig supposed to be a new agent who just so happened to have the same exact name and given the same 007 number as the previous OO agent who saved the world multiple times?
Name/describe any of the 10 major scenes in the movie Casino Royale and I’ll give you a plothole or logic fallacy example for any of them. Movie was a mess😂
(Like what you want to in life,
I like Die Another Day a lot,
Although I wouldn’t call it perfect… and neither is Casino Royalle lol)
@@mro4ts457 I agree with your points about Casino Royale, but Die Another Day is really almost the worst Bond movie, second only to Quantum of Solace. Writer's strike my ass - they could have hired a chimpanzee to write a better movie than that.
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🤷♂️yea, I still have so much fun watching Die Another Day though, just love it for no reason lol
@@mro4ts457 considers DaD better than CR...
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@@countluke2334 Golden Gun is by far the worst. An embarrassing slapstick comedy pretending to be a Bond movie.
DaD starts out well, just gets more and more wacky.
QoS was damaged, as Dutch Bond Fan says, by the writers strike and also tried to be too serious.
The Anja makes perfect sense. It’s one thing reading about the car, it’s another seeing it in practice
For TND, they switched ammunition and rifles. They had sub machine guns at first, which shoots hand gun calibre bullets, then they switched to actual rifles with armor piercing rounds. Still a minor plot hole but not as bad as you'd think.
In Licence to Kill (a movie I love as well) it's inesplicabile why the Hong Kong narcotics, an anglo-chinese police force, would use ninjas to stop Bond. I mean... do they not know that they're japanese? There's even a movie in this franchise, You only live twice, that explains what country they're supposed to represent. Otherwise a brilliant, underrated movie with an underrated Bond in Dalton.
Yep, it's just lazy writing and awful stereotyping. No wonder why the British would lose Hong Kong to China one-two years after the movie was released. They didn't give a fuck about those people.
Proving once again that “exotic” cultures will not be taken seriously in western fiction unless the nations themselves get stronger on the global stage.
Compare that with Tomorrow Never Dies. Sure the Chinese government was being co-duped by the big bad to the brink of war, but at least the secret agent they sent out was brilliant if only she doesn’t die before she can report back.
They're not Ninjas, they're Wuxia. They look and dress in black like Ninjas but they work for the Chinese Emperor as Assassins. You can see them in old Kung Fu movies. So you could say they're a modern version of them working for the Hong-Kong government which is still independent from MI-6. Much like how the DEA is separate from CIA or the FBI.
my plot hose in Ltk was m and his fellow agents try to kill him and then q goes down there to help bond?
The biggest plot hole is why the villain doesn't just shoot Bond when he gets captured in every film. They always look for "a cunning plan" giving 007 a chance to escape.
That's something that Scott Evil pointed out to his father in Austin Powers (which also mocked the classic movie trope of the bad guy explaining is whole evil plan to the protagonist when he's going to kill him anyway)
It’s like Drax said about how 007 seems to survive all his attempts to plan an amusing death for him.
Just shooting Bond is too boring for these megalomaniac villains. 😂
That is not a plot hole.
@@twofiveb Francisco Scaramanga said the same and it makes sense in that specific case: he wanted to duel 007 to prove he's the best shot.
Yeah, I remember someone complaining about that scene in No Time to Die when Safin doesn't just shoot Bond as a critique to that particular villain and I was just like "dude, that's pretty much a James Bond tradition"
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What happened is Le Chiffre is sheltered in Montenegro because the government won't extradite him for whatever reason (probably bribery) and british government can't enter Montenegro to arrest Le Chiffre. They could try to send Bond to kidnap Le Chiffre, but I guess they thought it would be more problematic than sending Bond to make him lose all of his money. If he lost all of his money he'd be in debt and he'd have to leave Montenegro anyway. They would have leverage and he'd make a deal with MI6 in exchange for protection.
Great video! However in defense of the Tomorrow Never Dies "plot hole"...Bullet proof/armored glass does give after heavy sustained force. We see this in action in NTTD with the DB5 as well. I have no problem with the BMW's glass finally giving away with all those guys mercilessly shooting it.
Generally bullet proof glass doesn't exist, it's more bullet resistant and will, as you said, break eventually when under continuous fire.
that and the bad guys were using grenade launchers
5:40 In the German dubbed version of TMWTGG, Hip says something like: "I have to bring my nieces to safety first."
So the invisible Aston Martin... I don't mind the tyre tracks so much; that could easily be explained as an oversight. The real problem is that Bond KNOWS the car is invisible, but still HIDES BEHIND IT.
I love how the plot hole for Moonraker was just about the plausibility of needing the shuttle at the beginning, as opposed to... everything else!
Hahaha.
I actually watched Moonraker recently and I think it aged quite well. It might partly have been ahead of its time, really. As far as all the "man is the biggest parasite of the planet" at least. For me, the major plothole is "how did they construct a huge space station without anybody noticing". That would have required a lot of major rocket launches which couldn't have gone unnoticed.
@@countluke2334 As to your question about the space station: the director made is possible.
@@countluke2334 Yeah, I think that's the main one, along with the US Space Marines apparently sitting in a shuttle on the launchpad, ready to fly to space at the drop of a hat... ;)
@@countluke2334 I read a review once that pointed out the fact (that a massive space station was built in secret) is a plot hole the size of the universe.
The Casino Royale one is actually explained: MI6 needs LeChiffre to WANT to cut a deal with them. They don't want to "bring him in for interrogation", they want him to seek asylum and come willingly. To that end, putting him in an even worse financial situation is perfectly logical.
Why did the Moonraker shuttle have fuel in it? It was being transported and the fuel’s the heaviest part!
Plus , if it's based on the normal space shuttle, it wouldn't carry its own fuel anyway.
@@listerofsmeg884 How do real life Space Shuttles make reentry anyways? Surely they have enough fuel in themselves for that.
Plus the aircraft can just about carry the shuttle without fuel in it, it would be unable to transport it with fuel on board.
@@davidw.2791 They may have a small amount for manoevuring thrusters, but nowhere near enough to fly it any distance.
@@davidw.2791 The old space shuttle had engines for orbital insertion and to direct the reentry, but it was launched into space with rockets, and for the landing it acted more like a glider than a plane.
For shawshank redemption, the movie literally shows that the poster was only attached to the wall at the top. Andy just lifted up the bottom and let gravity pull it back down.
In the middle of Shawshank Tim Robbins supposedly gets a FULL search of his cell from the guards and the warden yet they never check the poster ?!?
@@knownpleasures In the same scene the warden holds the bible with the rock hammer hidden inside. He even opens it, flips through a few pages, and reads a passage.
It is a amazing that Andy didn't get caught. But if he did, the movie would have had a pretty unsatisfying conclusion.
@@knownpleasures Andy had certain privileges the other inmates didn't. The guards including head guard Hadley, already liked him because he helped them with their taxes. Remember Hadley and several other guards beat Boggs so badly that he never walked again because Boggs raped Andy. Maybe they were doing a very routine check because while of course not knowing about the tunnel Andy was digging, they weren't keen to bust him on some minor infraction and get him in trouble. Plus none of them thought he could dig his way out of Shawshank with any of the items in his cell. Not to mention that Norton saw the poster and shrugged it off.
@@knownpleasures That's generally explained away pretty easily though, as it isn't really a full search because the guards know he's the Warden's pet. So they search the room, sure, but they know to be a little less thorough than usual.
Also, funny note from the book's story that didn't make to the film was that while Andy had the cell to himself for many years, at one point he had a cellmate when the prison got particularly overcrowded. He had to stop digging his escape tunnel in those years, and the guy complained that the cell was really cold and drafty.
One that always bugged me about NTTD. Why does Bond's EMP watch destroy Primo's eye but not the earpiece in his ear literally just a few more centimetres from the eye.
I think the biggest plot hole in No Time to Die is Bond just automatically assuming Madeleine betrayed him without first talking to her. I guess it could be explained that he still has a hard time trusting people, but if this is supposed to be the love of his life, I feel like he'd talk to her before abandoning her at the train station.
I liked the whole, "She is not your daughter." deal. Not to mention how it seems the girl didn't need a babysitter.
It's not a plot hole at all. Primo told Bond she was a daughter of Spectre (whatever that means) and she gets a call from Blofeld right after Bond is supposed to be dead saying "your father would be so proud of you." And with Bond already having been betrayed by Vesper you can understand why he has no interest in discussing the subject. Plus, what good would discussing it with Madeleine do? She'd deny she had any involvement. No duh. She was in a no win position whether they had a long discussion or not.
@@williamcoolidge9884 She was the daughter of Spector agent Mr. White. He left being an agent to be with her.
How about the fact that its called No Time to Die and for the first time in 25 Eon movies he up and dies?
@@sdaniels7114 In a way I'm glad he did. They didn't need to reboot Bond. It was time to die.
wow, you pointed out so many things that i never realised, althogh i've considered the tarantula plot hole myself, i think that was just what they used because it's a huge spider that looks menacing and the audience at the time probably wouldn't know that it's not deadly
I agree, if you poll most Americans today, the majority probably would answer that Tarantulas are extremely deadly😂
That's exactly it. In the book it's a deadly centipede, but they understandably didn't want to film that, even using effects to keep the creature separate. They switched to a tarantula to make things easy: it still would look menacing to the audience, but it was easy to handle and predict, and looked scary without looking gross.
@@iainmacadam2119 Also do we know that ALL tarantulas are not poisonous enough to instantly kill those it bites?
It's so hard to choose just one ridiculous moment in most 007 movies. One that got stuck in my head is Bond and Gustav fighting for sport and then all of a sudden trying to kill each other in a mansion full of people.
oh I don;'t know. Male bravado i guess. Me and brothers used to have play fights that escalated pretty quickly 🤣🤣
15:54 Jeroen went all in on that rant🤣
Guy Haines is also the name of the main protagonist played by Farley Granger in Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train. Perhaps the QOS producers were really committed to that Easter egg joke.
My favorite is in You Only Live Twice: Bond tells Tanaka he’s never been to Japan, but in From Russia With Love he tells Tanya, “Once, when M and I were in Tokyo we had an interesting experience…”
Good point!!
In FRWL, he may have just been trying to be cheeky because he knew all those officials were listening. In YOLT, Tanaka had not yet gained Bond's trust, so Bond might have just been trying to be deceptive.
Bond tells Henderson he’s never been to Japan.
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@@ΜακηςΛ-ε5ρ you’re right, my mistake!
@@nigelinasia2088 i’m willing to bet that once moneypenny was shushed out of the room, they replay the tape and bond ends up not elaborating about japan afterall😂
Most plot hole can be plugged fairly easily. Anya was surprised because there are several versions of the Lotus and she had not realized that this was the version for which she stole the plans. Once she realized this was the submarine Lotus, she took control. No plot hole.
Felt like the subway part of Silva's plan was intentional weather or not an agent would be chasing him. Serves as a great distraction for him to go after M- the police and emergency vehicles would all be focused there rather than the court.
Regarding him knowing M would be there he's an expert hacker (shown in as much depth as Carver being a media mogul) and was probably aware of what was going on in her life.
Figure he had correspondence going with Heath LedgJoker. Both had this extensive plan to get imprisoned, then escape. Both believe "fortune favors the bold," apparently.
Or is that mere contrivance that's in their favor? Both have plans that seem impeccable because they're shown to succeed, but found impossible after analysis.
@@alm2187 I never saw the Dark Knight when I saw Skyfall so the clone of a plan went over my head at the time. You can tell the writers took the ideas. Regarding the ridiculousness of it, the film was just so well made that the obvious questions didn't even enter my head till a review pointed it out. Even knowing it I was fine with it because, again, it's just such a well made film that the convenience of his plan didn't really detract heavily.
Also Silva's plan was to escape and go kill M. It really didn't matter where she was. She could have been at home having a warm bath that wouldn't have been nearly as exciting as a shootout at government hearing with many other characters present. Silva probably had multiple escape routes planned depending on where M would be when he did escape. We see one of his minions deliver him a police uniform in the subway but depending on what time he escaped they could have handed him a Maître d' uniform because M was having dinner at a restaurant. We're seeing the most exciting version of events because its a movie and movies operate by their own internal logic.
Thankfully that one train was completely empty during the commuter rush so casualties were low....Skyfall is just ridiculous the more you think about it. I've never understood the hype it gets.
One that just occurred to me while watching Dr No earlier today. Bond and Honey are locked in the cell in No's HQ, and then knocked out with drugged coffee. Why? They're not going anywhere.
The moonraker one is great. The whole movie based around a plot hole.
0:10 James Cameron has done a experiment which proved, that no, he could not have fitted on without them both falling into the water
The invisible Aston from die another day also wouldn't work because of perspective. If 2 people look at the car from a different position, the car can't project an image that would blend in with both of there views
Also also, the car will be easily spotted in sunlight as you'd still see its shadow
In Goldeneye Ouromov and Trevelyn didn’t need Bond to think Trevelyn was dead. They needed MI6 to believe he was dead. If only Bond comes back or neither comes back MI6 is going to think Trevelyn is dead.
You can’t see OHMSS as a stand-alone film because Tracy’s death referenced multiple times throughout the series
At the very beginning, Titanic is shown. Jack not fitting on the door is not a plot hole. It is misunderstood. The reason Jack couldn't get on the door wasn't because there wasn't enough room, it was because the door couldn't support his and Rose's weight.
How Grant could make his elaborate plan in From Russia With Love? Easy! Because Grant IS JUST THAT F***ING AWESOME! THAT'S WHY! SHUT UP! Ok, it is a plothole, but seriously; No henchman ever came close to being as naturally intimidating and downright terrifying as Grant. Damn he's a great villain.
Great henchmen indeed! You may be aware, I'm quite the fan of these films myself ! 🍸
@@DutchBondFan Indeed. As for Die Another Day: No mention of removing bone marrow to wipe DNA? That line was written. By an adult. Who got paid! He or she should be sent back to elementary school. 😁
This doesn't work great, but it fits: We know Grant has been shadowing Bond since 007 arrived in Istanbul. The date of the operation didn't matter that much, as SPECTRE set up the whole Lector theft and knew it was coming. It's possible that once Grant shadowed Bond to the Soviet embassy, he knew the theft was going down and high-tailed it to the train station. Kronsteen is a chess grandmaster and likely anticipated that Bond would use the Orient Express as his quickest escape.
Agreed, he was also Quint in Jaws, one of the coolest people in movie history.
You can actually still ski in summer in Austria, on glaciers in Sölden (where the FIS World Cup traditionally opens every year) or Hintertux for instance. That being said, the one in TSWLM looks more like a winter landscape to me.
I did actually research that while making this video - I did find out summer skiing is possible in Austria, but still found my reasoning strong enough for the same reason you stated - it just looks like full on winter in the PTS. - And like I stated in the video, this was just me going really deep for one of them. - It's a great film still!
TSWLM ?
@@DutchBondFan wasn't that actual stunt performed in northern Canada?
@@guymorris6596 it's the film title
@@guymorris6596 the spy who loved me
Bond getting poisoned at the casino in CR is sort of plot hole for me. The rules stipulated that you could only leave during breaks. Bond bets, leaves, goes to the car, gets diagnosed online by MI6, dies, gets revived, changes tuxedo shirts and is back in time for the next hand....
FYI: the titanic scene is actually physically sound. MythBusters proved that two bodies of their weights would actually cause it to sink. The only way to have it float would be the ingenious method of tying lifevests underneath the door.
A great video, you identified some I wasn't aware of
For Skyfall , also why would Bond drive M all the way to to his remote house in Scotland, and not ask for backup? If the aim was to keep M alive , why not have her put in a M16 safehouse with dozens of agents to guard her..
Why would Harry Potter be in the Desert when the fact He did the exact same thing as 007 in DAD in POA
In no time to die it also says that blowfeld was born in 1946 in Qs computer making him 75 meaning he couldn’t be a child the same time bond was
That scene in NTTD retroactively makes Spectre even stupider. Having Bond and Blofeld be step brothers might have been the single stupidest plot device in all 25 movies. Especially since Goldmember already did it thirteen years earlier haha.
Craig‘s Bonds after A Quantum of Solace were only bad and in my opinion is No time to die the worst Bond movie ever
You pointed out a lot of questionable plot choices that I had never thought of. I’m impressed!
Maybe you should be the next “M.”
12:52 okay professional Texan here, the initial shots taken against the 750il, is with an HK MP5k, a submachine gun which uses the 9mm NATO bullet. This is a pistol caliber round, just like Bond’s Walther P99 uses.
When he rounds the corner to escape, the guns used against him are M16A2 with M203 grenade launchers. We’re taking about a significant step up in penetrating power (4x) and explosive damage from the grenade launchers. Armor piercing ammo is commonly produced for the M16’s 5.56mm NATO. Notice, the steel of the car is unscathed, and the logically more sensitive glass is the only part to sustain damage.
Editing the visuals to go along with my dialogue I did notice 'oh these guns actually do look a bit heavier. Hmm, Im still going to keep this in though!' But thanks for clearing it up. Even read your comment hearing a Texas voice! 😝
@@DutchBondFan I always appreciate the effort and your responses here, TND was my first Bond movie so I think about it a lot.
Andy had the poster attached at the top like a curtain - you can even see it in the film.
Jack tried to get on the door, but it almost capsized so he realised that only one could get on - nothing to do with space.
I can't believe the Internet still hasn't figured these out yet.
I explained the same as you with shawshank,it's not rocket science & like you said you see Andy lift it up. I don't think whoever done this video has thought things through lol
@@garyclarke9685 the video is good. I think he's just showing some common misconceptions on the Internet.
@@Resimaster A part of the Stephen King novella I really loved, is how Red ruminates that all in all it was a GOOD thing that Andy was not allowed to be exonerated because apparently attempting to escape prison is illegal no matter what. And if the warden let Andy be exonerated, they would do a TOTAL cleanup of the cell to make way for the next inmate, and the hole in the wall WILL have been exposed.
I believe that if Ian Fleming was alive he could explain why Bond had to bankrupt La Chiffe in Casio Royale. That was also the plot of the novel and other versions.
The novel is quite strange, really. Read it recently. It's a mystery how that one started the whole franchise. Live and Let Die is already a lot better, but basically in Casino Royale you have "Bond needs to win against LeChiffre at Baccarat for some not too compelling reasons", "Bond gets captured and tortured" and ultimately "Bond has to recover, falls in love with Vesper until she kills herself". During the first act there are a few attempts on Bond's life for no apparent reason, during acts 2 and 3 Bond does nothing remarkable (except surviving the explicit torture, including the ball torture featured in the movie) but is purely passive. The novel ends rather suddenly without Bond going after the people that drove Vesper into suicide.
@@countluke2334 sounds like a good novel to me
@pyropulse read it for yourself. I think the pacing is all wrong. The card game is clearly the highlight, and it is supposed to be, but overall Bond is too much of a bystander IMO.
I enjoyed Live and Let Die a lot. So I'm not trying to shit on Fleming's works, I just think Casino Royale is bad.
If a gangster like lechiffre becomes bankrupt he cannot afford missiles and guns that cause major destruction and kill thousands. It makes perfect sense
I think it was because Le Chiffre was playing with money given to him by Russians and the money was not for card playing but to be used to finance Russian intelligence operations in Western countries. When Le Chiffre lost the money it made Russians really mad at Le Chiffre!
I don't know about Bond's chest hair, but I do believe that his face makeup
& wig were peeled off when he & Kissy Suzuki jumped to the water in order to get away from the poison gas seeping through the cave.
Very well done video and these are some great plot holes. The tarantula in Dr No reminds of the Scorpion in Diamonds are Forever. Yeah the bite and sting would hurt, but nobody would just fall down dead. And the whole Blofeld being Bond's brother, just was terrible.
Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your brother....
He told me enough, he told me you killed him
No, I am your brother!!!
😂😂😂
The biggest plot hole in Goldeneye is that a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 keeps up with a 1994 Ferrari F355
I must say, sirrah, your voice modulation produces a comic effect which is both hilarious and governed. This is most true for me when you tore apart the invisibility feature of the Aston Martin Vanquish.
Anja - Bond suddenly driving car into the sea. There's not a single person on the face of the planet who wouldn't show the same level of panic. Then, as it turns into a submarine, it dawns on her: ohhhh this must be that car I saw the blueprints for...
No plot hole here.
Agree, license to kill is to me the most underrated of them all...Also I have the quantum of Solace game and it sets up Guy Haines even more only for it to go nowhere.
In Quantum of Solace, I love how he got pictures of their faces by taking pictures of the back of their heads. That’s a plot hole right there.
There is another plot hole in "The Spy Who Loved Me" . Bond and Anya are traveling from Cairo to Stromberg's base in Sardinia and they are attacked by Jaws on a sleeper train! Where? Sardinia is an island, so they would have flown there. Sardinia has trains but it is only about 220 Km long. The train from Caligari where the main airport is to Porto Palao (where Q meets them with the Lotus) would not be an overnight sleeper train. Also - why does Q bring the Lotus by Ferry? Did he come from Corsica or mainland Italy? Why didn't they just fly the lotus to the same airport that Anya and Bond flew into?
Because 99% of planes can't take a car in the hold.
Yes I pointed that one out in my TSWLM review (Recapping episode 10) - The only thing I can think off is they take a train from Cairo to the coast of Egypt and go to Sardignia from there...
@@DutchBondFan Why go to the coast of Egypt? Cairo International Airport would be a more sensible route. And if you did want to go to the coast, Alexandria is only 178 km from Cairo, even Egyptian railways are not that slow. I would think that someone at MI-6 or KGB could plan a voyage more efficiently.
Drax had to steal the shuttle because the plot of Moonraker is just a rehash of the Spy Who Loved Me and the villian in that one stole submarines.
In Die Another Day I always thought, why did they just send one missile to destroy Icarus?
This is very detailed work, You didn't mentioned how Scaramanga got hold of a perfect likeness of bond, even though Bond is a super secret agent.
Creg. I think The Bond Experience has been watching your videos. It's Craag, like The Hague. ;)
In Die another day, it could be explained that the henchman can see the tire tracks but when Bond's car is moving fast and far away, he has the heat camera as a visual aid and to see the shape of bonds car
Yea. If we accept the cloaking car, the tire tracks are just a minor drawback. If you see tracks being made by nothing, you need a moment to process what you're seeing. (Unless Anja saw those blueprints too, and briefed you on what to expect.) If you're an elite marksperson, and the Vanish vehicle is your target, you're down from sighting the right spot to shoot to mere estimation.
If you're the driver, even in a snowy or otherwise unpaved area, just favor pavement wherever you find it. Perfect stakeout if that comes up.
When in motion, and when the enemy is tryin'a track you, seek also large-ish objects to get next to, like roadside rocks. No line of sight to tires/tracks means invisibility factor upped.
The only reason was so that we all had to suffer through Jimmy Dean’s pronunciation of “Baha”😅. I hear that in my head all the time.
I think the laptop-plugging thing in Skyfall is the most egregious plot-hole in the whole series. Not a single IT guy on this planet would have plugged a laptop known to have belonged to a dangerous hacker into a network. Even a novice would get his pink slip the moment he does something stupid like that.
What Q would have done was a). x-ray the laptop for explosives & booby traps. b). extracted the hard drive from the laptop. c). plug the harddrive into a specially hardened UNIX computer that was not connected to any networks and with all auto-run or auto-open features disabled. d). the contents of the drive analyzed with ASCII-text ONLY tools.
I know, the plot must happen, but this was beyond outrageous. This was an insult to the IT profession.
Good one. Honestly, I'd only noticed the most obvious of these, and almost never when first watching the movie. The problem with mistakes and plot holes is that most of the films are entirely unrealistic, so you will always find a ton of issues if you overthink it. The most common plot hole in Bond, and for many action movies in fact, is why does the villain always give themselves away by either trying to kill Bond or killing someone else that alerts MI6 that something is up. I think Moonraker is one of the most egregious examples, since Bond is not visiting Drax because he thinks Drax stole his own shuttle, he's there to see if Drax has any idea who could have hijacked it. All Drax has to do is answer Bond's questions and send him on his way. Instead, he immediately goes down the kill Bond route, which then alerts Bond that Drax is the villain. You can probably find similar examples in most, if not all, Bond films.
In "You Only Live Twice" Spectre has the ability to launch space craft that can capture other space craft that can then land back on Earth and ARE RESUABLE. This technology is so advanced (still can't do this) that it begs the question: What the hell does Spectre want that they can't accomplish by running a legal aerospace company with such domination they'd effectively take over the world?
The TND entry is a combination of both stronger weapons during the chase and the fact that all ballistic armor does weaken with repeated shots until it eventually fails.
For Goldeneye, I always found it too much of a coincidence that Bond happend to be in Monte Carlo where the tiger helecopter was stolen, ultimately leading him to 006 in Russia. Was he investigating Xenia onatopp already, or he happened to be in the right place at the right time?
Unfortunately, the Goldeneye one is a biggie, even though it's one of my favourites in the series. It's just really hard to imagine how Trevelyan set that up and pulled it off, and that point is integral to the entire film.
I've been watching since moonraker and I've never noticed these. Great video!
The biggest Plothole are the Craig-movies themselves. Trying desperately to make up continuity in order to satisfy a audience used to TV shows and Marvel movies. Funnily even Roger Moore Bond movies have more believable continuity without even trying.
Was I the only one who shuttered in Spectre, wondering if they nicked a plotpoint from Austin Powers?
@@Dustemikkel_Rev They didn't really nick it as Bond only knows Blofeld for a couple of summers as a child [hence in NTTD Q says 'good job he wasn't really your brother or you'd be dead too] and frankly 'plot' in Austin Powers is a loose concept given jokes rightly take precedent and that was a big in joke in itself [given Mike Myers was clearly playing both parts]. But having the two characters linked wasn't necessary in the slightest. Goldeneye did the 'Figure from Bond's past coming to haunt him' much better.
Don't know if your aware of 'James Bond radio' but they made an interesting point that if you go from Quantum to Spectre, the organisation plot is continued-it's Skyfall not including the organisation is what caused the problem and one of the guys there was glad to see it followed up [and the organisation in Casino+ Quantum was planned to be Spectre+ Blofeld before legal issues delayed it]. Not a common opinion but I do like hearing other opinions even if I don't necessarily agree with it.
@@jamesatkinsonja The whole rabbithole with the rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld was such a mess. I wish I could go back in time and tell Ian Fleming NOT to invite Kevin McClory for drinks.
Excellent point. Case in point: "It was me James...it was always me. The author of all your pain." Um, come again?
I am go glad that Sir Roger Moore's confused face from Live And Let Die was used as a thumbnail.
One rejected song in every bond movie
I find it amusing how people are STILL going on about that damn door in Titanic. Watch the movie, people. He tries to get on and almost capsises the damn thing, thereby putting the life of the woman he loves in danger. Being a gentleman, he decides the best thing is to stay off and keep her safe. Surely, a boat will be along soon...
Really nice video! I enjoy plot holes in general they offer good content for long discussions among fans
The Alps are very high mountains. They have snow on them year round. Or, at least, they used to. You _could_ go skiing in the alps in the summer back then.
Great job Jeroen and great video. Not going to lie, some of these plot holes I did not know.
Awesome video. Solid Points. Thank you
Love your uploads. Good analysis!
The fact that Bond killed Primo in the opening sequence, yet Primo is still alive to fight Bond later in the film is a huge plot hole in No Time to Die.
The fact that M surmises that Verper had to make a deal to save Bond's life in Casino Royale when they still needed Bond alive to get the password.
I feel the same about licence to kill, its maybe not the best but its easily one of my favourites.
Moonraker: dr goodhead turns off moonrakers radar jammer. US military fortunately has a space shuttle on standby full of astrosoldiers with chest mounted lasers that can launch and attack the base in a couple of minutes. now that's what i call being prepared.
In "Skyfall" that Ben Whishaw's cocky, arrogant, condescending Q plugs the villain's USB drive into their network. I can't get over that. The stupidest thing ever in a Bond movie. That's like hiring a guy to pack your parachute and he fills it with rocks while bragging about what a great parachute packer he is.
I like in you only live twice when bond hiked up the volcano discovers the headquarters then strips off his clothes and has full dark gray commando gear on with suction cups for his knees to climb down walls
Maybe Dr. Julius No made a special poison for his tarantula that'll make
its bite deadly to Bond, kind of like how Monarch caterpillars eat milkweed plants in order to make them poisonous to predators.
Also, I like to think that the reason
why Felix Leiter is cheerful at the
end of *"Licence To Kill"* was the fact that Bond was successful in avenging his ex-CIA buddy and his wife.
Yeah and I also think Felix is putting on a brave face for Bond’s sake
@@sashaking1115 Also he’d be hopped up on morphine.
In You Only Live Twice, how was Bond able to watch the video of the space pods yet there are no cameras in space?
Furthermore how was he able to watch the video of the helicopter lifting the SPECTRE agents' car and dropping it in the ocean?
I would explain the Goldeneye plothole this way: they faked his death for all potential survivors, both Bond and the Russian Soldiers. Even when the hole factory blew up, supposedly killing everyone in it, I think it's fair to have a plan just in case anyone survives. Ourumov betrayed the Russians by becoming an ally of Alec. That's why he also doesn't care that his men get killed. The problem is that he probably knew that they would blow up the factory, so how did he and Alec escape? Especially as Ourumov and his men followed Bond outside, so how was he able to escape with Alec without anyone noticing? And why did Alec become scared, but not Ourumov? That's a bit more confusing for me. Maybe they took different paths, but even then: how did they manage to escape this station within 3 minutes?
Also confusing how he shot his own guy a moment before he "shot" Alec. The most logical explanation would be that he used real bullets but didn't shoot Alec, but into the ground instead. As all of his men were focused on Bond, this could be plausible.
Great to here the analysis about Die Another Day. That whole film made me feel like I wasted money on getting a ticket to see it. I love the whole franchise I must say. But DaD I love to bash.
I have to clarify that in Die Another Day the invisable effect of the Aston Martin in the end helped Bond to knock out Zao
The door in titanic wouldn't be stable or buoyant with two people.... it has nothing to do with enough 'room.'
Very good vid man
Thanks man, Great video as usual! however some of these would not be "plot holes" more like contrivences or continuity errors. Some answers just for the sake of playing devil's advocate here:
Dr No: Whether that water is a trap or travels through there for some reason, you as Dr No would have installed a way to drain that water out to avoid flooding the facilities everytime.
FRWL: I guess the plan was moved ahead one day when the news of the bombing of the embassy were known. I guess Red Grant was like Oh shit it was today, and made a phone call before rushing to catch the orient express.
Goldfinger: I guess he had already build the Fort knox model for his planning phase, and/or since the presentation was an excuse to have them all together and killed at the same time, the model was built because it would be suspicious if you were called to a presentation and there was nothing on display. I would consider a bigger plot hole Pussy's unexplained motivations and turn to the good side.
The Living daylights: The movie is great, Timothy Dalton is the best Bond. Don't really have an argument here, just that Nekros is a pretty efficient Red Grant clone and if some bad guy could do it, he was. Also that death scene is great as it is.
License to kill: Let Feliz be happy...he is talking to his friend who is alive, well and back on duty after going rogue for him, he is very thankful to Bond. More importantly the people who raped and killed his wife, and mutilated him, all did die horrible horrible deaths, I would be jumping in my one feet lol.
QoS: I don't think that is a plot hole, it doesn't contradict the story and Bond couldn't follow them all by himself, I guess the idea was to show the scale of Quantum, rather than them being active leads. I'm pretty sure there are a lot more plot holes on that mess of a movie, but don't remember it enough and don't feel like rewatching it hehe.
NTTD: I don't know, Mary Poppins maybe? XD People hire other people to take care of their children and we don't know Madeline schedule, maybe she just travels to London to see Blofeld once a month or every two weeks, and she leaves the kid with someone during those short leaves or maybe the girl is just that independent, after all she is Bonds daughter and perhaps can take care of herself lol. Also, I thought Nomi doesn't know Madeleine has a daughter not that M16 doesn't know.
Also for the Spy who loved me, I don't think Anya is surprised the car is a submarine, maybe she is more like holy shit it actually works!
It would be more of a plot hole that there were guys waiting him underwater just in case Bond had a submarine car 😅
@@DiegoLopez-ft5wd I’m also willing to buy that the blueprints she stole doesn’t specify what kind of Commercial Car it’ll end up looking like.
@@DiegoLopez-ft5wd There were underwater guys in TSWLM but that was because Bond and Anja were actively snooping near underwater Atlantis.
@@davidw.2791 That makes a lot of sense too since the Lotus is a 1976 car and TSWLM is a 1977 movie. She knew they were working on a submarine car, but didn't know it was the one she was in until it hit the water and started transforming.
I'm still not sure about the underwater guys though, I can't see them doing patrol underwater just in case... but I guess maybe they saw Bond from inside the base and then went out to confront him. Is not that it really matters it makes for a fun badass sequence and to display the underwater capabilities of the Lotus. Such a good movie they don't make them like these anymore.
@@DiegoLopez-ft5wd Yeah rhat’s what I meant. They’d be crazy not to send frogmen and with-water-submarines once they saw a sub coming in.
In Goldeneye, when Bond encounters Xenia at the hotel pool how do they both get dressed while Bond keeps a gun on her so she can take him to Janus later?
Don't grieve about "Spy Who Loved Me" - they do have snow in the Austrian Alps also in summer as far as I know (and it seems to be at a very high point, so the chance is even higher).
I remember at the end of License to Kill I was shocked Felix was even alive! I had to ask, wasn't that the same guy who was eaten by a shark? I never thought about the Living Daylights plot hole but thought that manner of death in itself was ridiculous.
I never even understood how it was that Saunders was actually killed. Part of it was the jump cut editing, but was that a bomb? Was he shot? Both?
@@frankb821 Good question. There's a shot where the sliding door is pushed by a giant piston. I'm thinking Necros modified the piston motor to speed up to the point to where the velocity of the door crushed Saunders or hit him hard enough to kill him. Both of which are ridiculously impractical!
@@GarretGrayCamera haha that is ridiculous when Necros could have just shot him with a rifle/scope upon leaving. He barely had time to get to Austria, let alone modify/install the contraption (in front of everyone) to do whatever it did...
@@frankb821 I know. Yet another Bond death involving an unnecessarily complex device when something simpler would have sufficed!
How did Andy keep the poster on the wall from inside? Well, as we saw in the movie, it was attached at the top and just draped over the hole.
Great video! The goldeneye plot hole is the biggest!
The Moonraker (aka. Space Shuttle) does not have internal fuel tanks for it's main engines. However if it did like in the movie (presumably filled up) it would be way too heavy to carry on the back of the 747.
Most of these are good but the Goldeneye one is easy to explain: Trevelyan had either turned traitor or was going to, and he wanted MI-6 to think that he was dead so that they wouldn't go after him. As a sweetener, he added Bond to the mix: either Ouromov kills him and that's a feather in his cap, or he has a British agent in his custody to do with as he will.
Here are a couple......
NTTD: Saffin kills Spectre, kills Blofeld and......is, after years and years not caring, interested in Madeline+kid. Which will be the death of Bond, something Blofeld already knew????
Spectre: As Silva was pretty obviously just working for Silva, why is he all of a sudden part of Spectre?
Skyfall: ow god, from the excavator on the train, to "taking the shot", to "let's go the Scotland instead of an armed military base"......
QofS: actually, Guy Haines goes nowhere because "Quatum" or "Spectre" organisation would be part of the next film. It never happened.
Casino: yep, the cardgame.
TLD: Why does MI6 need to kill Pushkin? Necros is too "Russian"? What?
Octopussy: Can someone explain what Kamal Kahn's stakes are in the whole affair?
FYEO: Why shouldn't Melinda kill Kristatos? She already shot the Cuban contract-killer
Thunderball: Who is this nobody saving Domino at the end?
Dufresne can plot & plan this intricate years long escape, but he can't figure out how to adhere a poster back onto a wall? C'mon, we're talking Andy here!