Movie Scenes That Make No Logical Sense (Spoilers!)

[JJ Sefton]

These three come to mind immediately:

Goldfinger:

Goldfinger goes to great lengths to give an elaborate presentation to a bunch of hoods that he wants to join him in a scheme to "knock off Fort Knox". One of them, Mr. Solo, declines his offer and leaves the premises, while the others remain and indicate pretty clearly that they are willing to go along with the heist. Then, every one of them are gassed to their deaths. The question is, of course, why did Goldfinger go through with such a detailed dog-and-pony show if he was just going to kill them anyway, even though they were amenable to the plan? Makes no sense.

Aliens:

Ripley rescues Newt from being cocooned and is carrying her out when she discovers the lair of the Alien queen. Her and Newt are under a considerable time constraint, since the entire planet is going to be nuked within a few minutes, but Ripley takes the time to destroy the eggs and numerous Aliens, pissing off the queen who comes after them while they desperately run out. The question is, of course, why did Ripley bother to waste time and effort with her endeavors and making it much more perilous for her and Newt to get out, when she could have just gotten out without being pursued by the queen and made it on to the ship with time to spare, when the planet and the Aliens were going to be blown to kingdom come anyway? Makes no sense.

A Few Good Men:

This one isn't as questionable as the first two but, to me anyway, it never seemed to make sense. In the final courtroom scene, Kaffee makes it clear to Col. Jessep that he is willing to call two Airmen to the stand to testify that Santiago could have been flown off the base the previous evening rather than having to wait until the next morning for a flight. Even though Kaffee is bluffing, it obviously has Jessep nervous, since he knows that the earlier flight WAS available and he went to the trouble of having the record of the flight removed from the logbooks. What I never understood is this: even though it made Jessep nervous, and even though it may have cast doubt on the honesty of Jessep if it was indeed proven that there was an earlier flight, it does NOTHING to prove that Jessep ordered the code red, which was what Kaffee was trying to prove in the first place. There is no jury, I believe, that would have made that connection without additional proof, which Kaffee did not have, and his bluff contributed nothing to Jessep fessing up. Makes no sense to me.