Ever gone to a really bad movie and wonder how it got made? How did the appalling script get past the studio bosses?
Why did an actor or actress totally unsuited for the role get one of the main parts? And why did the movie drag on forever?
That is enough about Top Gun but there are plenty of questions to be asked about the All Black performances in Durban, which resembled an Ed Wood production at best.
Why did no-one in the All Black camp pop up and say last week, "Hey, this game plan of running it around is not the way to go."?
Why did not one of the leadership group on the field realise that with little ball and even less territory, discipline had to be top notch?
And why are the likes of Joe Rokocoko and Ma'a Nonu even in the team when they are so badly out of form?
Graham Henry is facing the biggest test of his All Black coaching career, just a few weeks after his contract was extended to 2011.
If he loses two of his next four games, then questions about his future must be asked.
Henry got it badly wrong in Durban, with the plan of trying to move the ball around against a Springbok team whose biggest strength is defence.
When a game plan is based around plenty of ball movement, the crucial element is holding on to the ball.
With more than 20 handling errors, the All Blacks failed miserably in that department.
There was a complete lack of basics, which at times was frightening.
Running the ball out of their own in-goal.
Trying to run the ball with no support under the shadow of their own goalposts.
Throwing wayward passes behind the dead ball line . . . the list goes on.
Was that the coaches' call or just bad judgements by the players? Collectively, both were at fault - the players for the poor execution of the poor tactics thought up by the coaching panel.
The worrying question is where the All Blacks go now, after a season where there have been plenty of forgettable performances.
Few, if any, players seem to have progressed in the six games this season.
Even players like fullback Mils Muliaina and prop Tony Woodcock are struggling.
Why the sudden loss of form by so many players? Too much rugby, too much listening to the same coach and, most importantly lacking that mental edge.
Where does that mental edge come from? It comes from within.
Maybe many of the All Blacks, after years of international rugby, just cannot get that edge any more.
The only positive the All Blacks can now go to is history.
The siege mentality may take over, especially if the players and coaches read any newspapers or turn on the television in the next two weeks.
Last year after being walloped by the Wallabies, the All Blacks came to life the next week against the same opposition and crushed them at Eden Park.
By August 22 the side needs to find that mental edge in Sydney or what has been a rough ride for All Black fans this year will become a trip to hell and back.
All Blacks
The season so far
v France, Carisbrook, lost 27-22
v France, Wellington, win 14-10
v Italy, Christchurch win 27-6
v Australia, Auckland, win 22-16
v Springboks, Bloemfontein, lost 28-19
v Springboks, Durban, lost 31-19
Best: Centre Conrad Smith has looked lively and Brad Thorn has done little wrong.
Struggling: Wingers Joe Rokocoko and Sitiveni Sivivatu look out of form while Ma'a Nonu is a shadow of the player of last year.
Three key questions:
1) Is Stephen Donald too hot and cold for international rugby and is his hot only really lukewarm?
2) What is more certain: the sun coming up tomorrow or Dan Carter wearing an All Black jersey in the next six weeks?
3) Whatever happened to simple line-out calls?
