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Gaping Plot Holes

· by Mr. Me · General

My last post was about gaping holes in streets.

This one is about gaping holes in plots.

If you haven't seen the movie "Premonition" (Sandra Bullock), then stop reading now unless you don't care about spoilers.

Most movies, I can enjoy despite plot holes. Really. I watch a movie to be entertained for the 90 minutes or so that the movie runs. I don't expect academy-award-winning films every time. It's just too much to be expected. Generally, I watch a movie, roll my eyes when something is totally outside the realm of reality, laugh when it's funny, and enjoy the film for telling a story and entertaining me.

Spoiler Warning Take 2: If you haven't seen the show, then stop reading unless you want to know too much about it.

Premonition bombed for me. So badly, in fact, that it's been a few days later and I can't quit thinking about the huge, gaping holes in the plot. Seriously. You could drive a tanker truck (the kind that kills the main character's husband in the movie) through these plot holes and still have a couple of road widths of space to drive a couple of more tanker trucks through.

So here's a summary of the things that bugged me about the movie.

  1. A completely unnecessary F-bomb. Normally, I don't like these, but this one was one of the worst in recent memory. Bullock's character all but screams the word in the presence of her two young children on the steps of a church on the way to her husband's funeral, right before confronting the funeral director about her husband's corpse.
  2. Speaking of the husband's corpse: During this confrontation, the muscle-headed doofuses decided this is the perfect time to remove the casket from the back of the hearse. They, of course, mess this up, dropping the casket, which pops open and the husband's head goes rolling down the street. There are WAY too many things wrong with this. First of all, meat-head one and meat-head two would realize that the altercation was about the body and would leave the hearse door CLOSED until the funeral director calmed the grieving widow down. Second, nowadays, caskets aren't usually carried around. They're rolled out of the hearse onto a cart. This keeps problems like dropped caskets from happening. Third, I'm pretty sure that sealed casket funerals have SEALED caskets that wouldn't pop open. I'm not an expert on caskets though, so I may be wrong here. Fourth, after a guy gets his car run over by a tanker truck, decapitated, and then the tanker explodes and burns, I'm doubting that there would be enough left of the guy to put in an urn, let alone a casket. This whole part of the movie STUNK to high heaven.
  3. Mr. Sheriff Guy had the misfortune of having to go to the Bullock character's house and notify her of her husband's untimely demise. This makes sense until the end of the movie where despite the fact that every problem is neatly tied up and resolved, Bullock's character not only watches her husband die in the fiery crash, but was inadvertently the CAUSE of the fiery crash. So other than to tell the viewing audience that her husband really IS dead, why would Mr. Sheriff Guy show up? He would have no reason to notify her that her husband is dead because HE WOULD HAVE TALKED TO HER AT THE SCENE. Ugh.

I can enjoy most any movie, but when one of the early plot points that sets the rest of the movie in motion IS one of the gaping holes in the plot, it just doesn't work for me. For this reason, I'd never, EVER be able to watch this movie again without yelling at the screen when Mr. Sheriff Guy showed up.