Movies break their own rules and ignore it

Sometimes I wonder if movies assume the viewer is stupid. It all depends on the movie, but sometimes they establish rules that are virtually ignored, such as Terminator 2 or The Matrix, and then sometimes they expect the viewer to be lacking in practical common sense. Case in point:

Back to the Future:

Marty McFly takes a DeLoreon (a car which ironically only lasted a few years because the founder was into cocaine) into his past where he accidently alters the events that result in his parents coming together. This very significant detail regarding the impossibility of changing things in the space-time continuum will be ignored in here. This article's focus is on another relatively important detail that the entire plot and the success of its protagonist focuses on.

 

"It says here that a bolt of lightning is going to strike the clock at precisely 10:04 pm"

But how many seconds, dumbass. Marty Mcfly drives that damn DeLoreon 88 mph into a cable, expecting the power to surge into his time machine at the exact second his speeding car makes contact – at 10:04 pm. How much do you want to bet the newspaper reporter at that time in the 60's did not take into account the seconds, not just the minute, when the clock tower was struck. There is an entire 60 seconds of leeway time before the clock is struck and it doesn't change from 10:04 to 10:05. So marty speeding down the road with a hook extending from the rear of his car would have most likely ripped the electrical cable out once it made contact, and twenty to thirty seconds later, Marty would have watched the lightening strike, not sending him back in time, and him mumbling "shit" to himself. Yeah he might have saved his parents' marriage only to cause divorce later on when his father realizes that his firstborn son looks very similar, or should I say exactly, like his wife's former high school fling.

Only an idiot of a father would jump to the assumption that a high-schooler befriended an eccentric mad scientist, accidently travelled back in time when said mad scientist was shot to death with a machine gun by terrorists from which he stole uranium to power his time machine, accidently disrupted his parent's first time meeting, and caused a interference at their high-school prom. Logic states that she had an affair and her first born looked exactly like her lover on the side, not like George McFly.

Either way, back to the point. His car would never have hit the cable at the exact time as the lightning strike, so even though this makes for a dramatic ending to the movie in 1985, he would have failed and Marty McFly would have had to adjust to life in the 60's.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day:

I have briefly pointed out this problem, but the first Terminator sets forth one very specific rule: nothing non-organic can travel back in time. This prevents the machines from going to the past, bringing a nuclear bomb, and destroying everything before the robot revolution. Terminator 2 is awesome. Robert Patrick is a badass, especially when he does his cameo in Wayne's World 2, but yet his very existence defies the rules of the first movie. The original Terminator was a robot wrapped in living human tissue, so the humans had no choice but to send a human back in time to fuck Sarah Conner and impregnate her with his seed and give the gift of John Conner to the post-apocalyptic world. But a liquid metal terminator, one that has no organic tissue, goes against the very basis of the rules established in the first terminator movie. I got nothing else to say about that. The movies provide no explanation on this, only state of the art special effects for a movie made in 1991. Either way, Terminator 2 should not and could not have happened, according to the rules of time travel.

The Matrix:

In The Matrix, if a person is plugged into the matrix somebody on the outside has to disconnect them via a phonecall. If they are unplugged any other way, they die. Yet somehow cypher finds a way to go into the matrix and meet with the agents whose existence in limited solely to the matrix. He makes a deal with them and betrays the resistance. But how the hell does he go into the Matrix to meet with said agents, and how the hell does he get out of there alive? No explanation is given, he never leaves the ship The Nebuchadnezzar to find some other entrance into the matrix, yet somehow he betrays everyone and kills all but Morpheus, Neo, and his lover. Pretty big plot hole if you ask me.

Now, it's midnight, I've been drinking, so I have no guarantee that any of this typing is in English. If I've fucked this blog entry up, let me know. Leave comments, not just on this, but on any blog posts you read, and let me know that somebody aside from Daryl Allen (btw, your awesome. Thanks for the feedback), is reading what I write. Also, if anybody who reads my blog is interested in any of my actual writing (novels and short stories), let me know. In all honesty, I think my stuff is pretty damn good, just waiting to be discovered. I'll send you stuff if you ask for it.

Either way, happy midnight to all, and to all a good night.