10. Independence Day: The computer virus - This movie has so many unanswered questions that one is forced to conclude that most, if not all, really are just plot holes after all. But then there’s the computer virus that Jeff Goldblum uploads into the alien mothership, that is ultimately what allows the humans to defeat the invaders. Ask any software developer, and they will tell you that it is ridiculously hard to write a virus on a PC that works on a Mac, or vice-versa, and those are two computer systems that were designed and built by human beings. The likelihood of being able to successfully write a virus on a human-built computer of any sort that would affect a computer built by telepathic aliens is infinitesimal. Of course, this is an alien species that has managed to travel in huge ships across vast distances but has never invented a clock (hence the countdown timer they use before initiating their attack), so who knows what sort of vulnerabilities their computers might have?
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Click link for the rest! I love it. I'm sure there are plenty more though. Any suggestions?
Here's how I've always resolved that particular ID4 plothole: because the aliens were using Terran satellites to solve the line-of-sight problem, they had to use computer code that would run on Terran satellites. That provided the backdoor that Goldblum's character used to upload the virus.
Of course, that leaves the small problem of how, after a holocaust wave destroys LA, when Viveca Fox climbs out of the tunnel and surveys the ruins, there are still palm trees standing in the background.
Top 10 unanswered Questions in Geeky Movies
- 29/09/2009 05:39:22 PM
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Another one with the Death Star attack
- 29/09/2009 06:53:56 PM
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Re: Another one with the Death Star attack
- 29/09/2009 08:00:23 PM
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Re: Another one with the Death Star attack
- 30/09/2009 02:40:26 PM
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Unless he stayed far enough away. We never see where the MF is in relation to the Skywalkers *NM*
- 30/09/2009 02:45:35 PM
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Some of these are kind of lame.
- 29/09/2009 07:47:01 PM
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Re: Top 10 unanswered Questions in Geeky Movies
- 17/10/2009 02:28:28 AM
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