One Plot Hole in Every Bond Movie
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Whether minor or big, plot holes can usually be found in every film. And the Bond films are no exception. I take a look at one plot hole in every Bond film. Enjoy!
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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.
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
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 Anja makes perfect sense. It’s one thing reading about the car, it’s another seeing it in practice
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 🤣🤣
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.
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....
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.
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.
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
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.
Really nice video! I enjoy plot holes in general they offer good content for long discussions among fans
This was the first of your videos I have seen. Very interesting and well presented. You just got a like and a sub!
Welcome aboard! I suggest checking out my Recapping 007 series if you're intrested in watching the series im 'known for'. (They are detailed retrospective reviews on ALL Bond films) Im currently in the process of revising them actually!
The plot hole that immediately came to mind when I saw the movie was in TWINE when Bond was in the boat approaching Carver's HQ in Hong Kong. He said Carver had an Oedipus complex. He /meant/ Narcissus which Bond would know as he allegedly studied Classics.
I know you mean TND, not TWINE
@@robbrown7592 whoops yes TND.
For Spectre, also why would Bond not sneak into Blofelds lair. Instead he allows him self to be captured? Knowing that Blofeld has tried to kill him already, you think he would do something similar to Goldeneye or Tomorrow never dies , and sneak into his base.
James Bond the famous secret agent (everyone knows him everywhere he goes)
My thought on goldeneye:
The soldiers are soviet not Janus group and so the whole act was for them not bond. He shoots Alec, kills bond, defused the explosives and becomes a big Russian hero. The soldiers confirm Alec is dead to Moscow so he can get on with setting up the group. Bond was never meant to escape
The Titanic scene wasn't about room. There was plenty of room for him on the door, but it would lose bouyancy if he tried to get on, and they'd both go in the water.
With Goldfinger telling the Gangsters when he was just going to kill them its the Nan liked tooting his own horn or Stroke his Ego in others he wanted to Brag
Great video as always.
Well, well, well. LTK is also my favoured Bond. Again, not the best, but . . .and the ending theme tune: I find myself returning to it more often than dignity permits.
Bond jumping off the dam in Goldeneye; Jeremy, in the EWW that video, pointed out "not Pierce Brosnan basically mugs for the camera."
It always has been intriguing to me that two REAL atomic bombs were taken aboard the NATO test filght. From my point of view it's very huge plot hole in Thunderball. Why did they take real bombs if it was only trial?
This is not an in-plot explanation, but... the problem with THUNDERBALL is, it started as an unfilmed movie project, which went thru at least 12 script drafts. Fleming then rewrote it as his next novel (which I feel is the BEST version of the story). Several years later, instead of adapting the novel (or, novelization, depending on your POV), they did saeveral MORE script drafts.
I've seen several movies that were "assembled" from the "best" bits of multiple script drafts, and the results usually turn out to be non-sensical disasters. HALLOWEEN 6 was another. THE WRATH OF KHAN was another... though that one turned out to be entertaining enough, most people never realized just how much in it made no sense.
@@henrykujawa4427 It makes sense! Do you know something about explanation this fact in one of the draft versions?
Remember in “The Man with the Golden Gun” how he had to twist the girl’s arm to get her to reveal information about Scaramanga when it was she who risked her life to put him on the case? 🤔
M: 007, we've got some plot holes that we want you to fill.
Roger: *raises eyebrow*
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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“Hip is a moron.” So glad you brought that back 😂😂😂
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. 😂
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?
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
🤷♂️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.
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.
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.
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...
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"
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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The film makers reason for the plot holes it’s only a film basically it’s lazy writing
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 don't see some of these things as plot holes. There are some that are factual errors or odd creative choices, but they don't harm the story.
For example, I would say that the Moonraker shuttle had to be stolen. Presumably the government of the country it was being delivered to knew nothing of the other shuttles that Drax had made. Simply saying "I need it back" would've raised suspicions. I guess he hoped the wreckage would have hidden the fact the shuttle had gone missing. It's not bullet proof, but it can be explained away.
The Skyfall stuff ruins the film for me though. Totally overrated.
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 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.
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.
I’m glad you brought up the Casino Royale plothole because it reminded me of the “How Casino Royale Should Have Ended” video (th-cam.com/video/byku-4Sl4zE/w-d-xo.html)
Defenitely where I got the inspiration! (I used that clip in my review of the film too! (Recapping episode 21)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 love it in Austin Powers when Scotty, Seth Green says "Dad, why not just shoot him."
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.
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.
Not everything is a plot hole here. However If they staged 006 death in Goldeneye and had Colonel Ourumov using blanks then how come he could kill the soldier few moments later with the same gun? Unless that was staged as well, which made no sense....its an odd scene thats for sure.
5:40 In the German dubbed version of TMWTGG, Hip says something like: "I have to bring my nieces to safety first."
In Octopussy the British Embassy shows soldiers checking guests at the front gates, but their military training does not anticipate staggering clowns with big shoes and balloons.
And why the fuck is Trevelyan so young? His beef revolves around World War 2.
In the statue graveyard scene, he tells Bond that his father killed his mother and then himself out of survivor's guilt for having survived the massacre of the Lienz Cossacks by Stalin's death squads in 1945. So because Sean Bean was in his mid thirties and is in the cold open set in 1986, Alec's parents would've had to have died some time in the 50s at the absolute earliest. Your confusion is justified because the whole thing makes no sense.
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😂
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!!!
😂😂😂
A great video, you identified some I wasn't aware of
OHMSS cannot exist in the same continuity as YOLT and DAF. Both of those movies are inconsistent with OHMSS.
After Thunderball, it should be OHMSS and then LALD.
An alterate timeline would be Thunderball-YOLT-DAF, but then that wouldn't work with any later references to Tracy.
Or ohmss should have been adapted before yolt since yolt is a direct sequel to ohmss.
@@dashtoroya2838 yes, you are right. In the books, OHMSS is between Thunderball and YOLT
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?
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.
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?
A better plot hole for Goldfinger might be, 'why did Goldfinger allow that one guy to opt out, then have him driven all the way across town to be squished, only to have the cube -- the EVIDENCE of a major crime driven all the way back to his mansion? Does Goldy have a modern art sculpture he's working on, one car-brick at a time? Seems like a bullet in the back room would have achieved the same result.
I feel like with the Casino Royale example, they can't have enough evidence to officially arrest LeChiffre yet. Like, that has to be the case for the whole plot to make sense and they failed to address this on screen. They have a lot of *circumstantial* evidence certainly, and they effectively know what's going on, but they simply can't have enough evidence to satisfy British jurisprudence to make that arrest, which is what they're aiming for in order to get more information on various terror networks from him.
If this is the case, then the goal of bankrupting LeChiffre during his last ditch effort to recoup his funds makes at least some sense as both an interim measure and the stated pressure tactic to get him to seek protection from his former clients. Really, this could've been fixed with a single line from Tanner or another secondary character in response to Bond asking "so why don't we just arrest him then?"
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..
Goldfinger's plan never made any sense. He had, as he said himself, a life long obsession with acquiring gold. He was in love with its physical attributes he never mentions its value. Therefore nuking the gold supply of the US merely to increase the value of his own stock is completely out of character for someone who wants to increase the volume he possesses not its value.
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...
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.
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!
The biggest plot hole in Goldeneye is that a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 keeps up with a 1994 Ferrari F355
You can’t see OHMSS as a stand-alone film because Tracy’s death referenced multiple times throughout the series
Die Another Day plot hole, when Brosnan bond comes out of the North Korean Jail
he has a beer gut.. clearly he was not there for long, and clearly their torture method must have been getting him fat n drunk, not poison
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
I have to strongly disagree with you about bond wouldn't be skiing in summer. Many countries have skiing in summer if you go up into the mountains here in Australia there is skiing all year around. As for the plothole well honestly who is going to see the date on that card when watching that scene as all I saw in the half a second scene was the name Max kalba
One rejected song in every bond movie
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!
Why would Harry Potter be in the Desert when the fact He did the exact same thing as 007 in DAD in POA
There’s a difference between contrived writing and plot holes. A lot of these are not plot holes.
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.
The door in titanic wouldn't be stable or buoyant with two people.... it has nothing to do with enough 'room.'
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?
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
In Die Another Day I always thought, why did they just send one missile to destroy Icarus?
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.
Narrated by Goldmember.
Do enjoy the video, though.
It's geologically impossible to have a diamond mine in Iceland. Any first year geology student could have deduced that Gustav Grimes's fortune must have come from elsewhere.
I think Gustav Graves's entire story might be the single biggest plot hole in all 25 movies.
In SkyFall, if Bond was dead for months and his stuff put in storage, then they would have most likely filled the empty 007 spot. What happened to the person who took the 007 spot?
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. ;)
The moonraker one is great. The whole movie based around a plot hole.