Bird on Thinklings points to a list of 10 plot holes in sci-fi or imaginative movies, commenting on the Star Trek and Star Wars holes. Shrode makes note of two, pretty serious Bourne Identity problems. I haven’t seen those movies, so I don’t know how the red bad error would hit me. About Star Wars though, I love this list of design flaws in Star Wars technology. John Scalzi writes, among other things:
Stormtrooper Uniforms: They stand out like a sore thumb in every environment but snow, the helmets restrict view (“I can’t see a thing in this helmet!” — Luke Skywalker), and the armor is penetrable by single shots from blasters. Add it all up and you have to wonder why stormtroopers don’t just walk around naked, save for blinders and flip-flops.
Scalzi also has a Star Trek critique list: I love it.
But looping back to that plot holes article, writer Matt Blum complains about The Princess Bride, asking “how does Fezzik know Rugen is the six-fingered man?” He says, Fezzik isn’t observant enough to notice Rugen and report on it later, but I suggest the fact that Inigo didn’t know Rugen had six-fingers doesn’t mean that wasn’t a generally known fact. Neither he nor Fezzik dealt with Rugen or his people for their adult lives, I gather, so they didn’t know, but surely everyone around Rugen knew, everyone in the castle, and many in the villages. Some of these people are the type who talk about other people’s details (you know the type), and when Fezzik took up with the Brute Squad, he was in the company of people who knew and talked and I suppose Rugen himself.
This list has spoilers, btw, but you might have figured that out already.
Speaking of plot holes, here’s a gratuitous photo of a gorgeous Rita Hayworth, who is marketing war bonds in 1942.
Always appreciate a Rita fix.