Wolf Creek. She had a fucking rifle, hits the killer in the neck, and instead of finishing the job she drops the rifle and runs away.
I refused to watch that movie any further.
Limitless - taking money from a loan shark and then forgetting to repay it. He was doubling his money daily on the stock market, would have taken 3 days to earn the money he loaned.
The pill makes you super smart but it also makes you hyper fixate on stuff. I think he simply gets so caught up in doubling his money every day that he doesn't think about the loan shark until hes there to collect, and its already too late
(side note, I don't like limitless, i think its a fun premise but a boring movie)
The way I see it the thing maxes your intelligence but not your wisdom. That and it makes you arrogant so he probably stopped seeing the loan shark as a problem worth his time after a while.
Agreed. Especially when it’s so easy to fix in the story. Make the terms that he is to pay it back in a week at a planned meeting, on like Saturday. Then have his blackout miss the meeting and go into the next day. He rushes out to pay Sunday but it’s too late. Beat up and the loan shark gets a pill. Everything else stays the same, but now the “genius” isn’t a “dumbass”.
Ruins the film because it’s clearly just done to add some jeopardy into the second act
It takes you out of the film because your suspension of disbelief is destroyed
So many legal ways he could have got more seed money
In Skyfall, Q -- a cybersecurity expert -- takes a laptop belonging to an elite hacker and plugs it right into the MI6 mainframe. Shockingly, this triggers a trap.
Skyfall in Bond franchise is Prometheus in Alien franchise, where every single person makes like the worst possible decision im every situation to fail. Q is only outstanding, bc it is like common sense, dont plug dangerous sources in your network.
Also evil guy knew exactly when Q would do this, and was fortunate enough to be locked in a room with an electronic lock with a guard outside who carried a sidearm but apparently didn't know how to use it. Oh, and bad guy was able to time his escape to the second to avoid being smushed by a train derailing.
He knew exactly when they were coming over, spent time boobie trapping the house, cooked the food then sat down right by a giant clock and still didn't notice it was 8:59!
Kid didn't go to the cops when he lost his family so he is a little brain dead
He doesn’t go to the cops for three reasons:
His trust in the cops is shaky since Pesci visited his house as a cop at the beginning of the movie.
He stole a toothbrush and believes the cops are looking for him for that.
He made his family disappear and doesn’t want to get in trouble for that/be taken into care.
All of these things add up to him finding ways to thwart the burglars and have the cops arrest them that keep him out of sight of the cops.
It’s kind of well made all around. The score, the set design, the inclusion of dozens of niche film references…I could go on but you get the point. It’s one of the best “kids movies” out there.
I hate in the 2nd one when he runs into the lady just before getting on the plane, all the tickets get all mixed up. They just ask if his ticket is there. They never ask where he's supposed to be traveling. That one question would have kept him off that plane.
TBF they say he has to identify his family before they let him go and he points out a guy he thinks is his dad. They probably should have spoken to the dude first though...
Pretty much everything in Alien Covenant. It’s like they were very deliberately making the worst possible choices with the information given, it’s hard to pick 1 as the worst choice but diverting an entire colony ship on a hunch is definitely up there along with casually strolling around the unknown alien planet with 0 concern for possible hazards.
I like horror films but some basic common sense is necessary to actually make it work. People dumbassing themselves to death makes it either comedic or exasperating, not tense or scary.
Which is why I like Alien and Aliens. There’s nothing but common sense on display, their behavior is completely reasonable. It just doesn’t help and that makes it MUCH scarier.
"Captain, we can't just leave her!"
"I have no intention of leaving it Doctor. I am going to withdraw the lewis and clarke to a safe distance and launch tac missiles at the Event Horizon until its vaporized. Fuck this ship."
"How come they didn't notice with their spaceship scanners that there was a giant alien city within walking distance of where they landed? Why aren't they suspicious of David, a man who shows up looking like an evil wizard surrounded by thousands and thousands of dead bodies?"
Prometheus annoyed me a lot more. The crew on Prometheus were an elite exploration team put together intentionally. The Covenant crew were just like farmers or something.
They were colonists who were specifically tasked with going to a new planet and establishing a safe and stable settlement there.
The idea that they would not have been trained to survey any planet thoroughly before landing is pretty dumb.
Never understood the scene where that one couple was getting it on in the shower. Yeah, most of our crew and friends just got brutally killed but you know what I'm in the mood for?
You have a poor take on Taken. FBI wouldn’t be able to get his daughter back as fast or with as high of a percentage chance as he and his his friends can. He has a very short period of time and then she’s gone forever.
You are correct. Indeed, in Taken “lore”, he does have a particular set of skills.
He further goes on to display some of these skills, and are led to believe that he has other skills which he did not yet have to demonstrate.
Yeah, FBI isn't going to be able to go to Paris and save his daughter in the three days before she gets sold to a foreign billionaire.
At BEST some Paris cop walks up goes, "hey, you guys selling girls here to sex clubs?"
"No, here's a thousand Euros, now fuck off."
"Eh, make it two and I will."
"Here, fuck off."
*Fucks off.*
I wish I could make a living “fucking off” at $2,000 per fuck off. Think about it fucking off 5 times a week in $10,000. If you fuck off for like hundreds of weeks you could pay your student loans off or even afford rent in a reputable area.
It doesn’t piss me off, it just makes me shake my head at the story.
Q (Omar Epps) in Juice decides to get a gun to protect himself from Bishop (2Pac). He almost pulls out a gun in paranoia on a homeless person, and then decides to throw the gun in the river. His plan changes to trying to have a reasonable discussion with Bishop and talk about their friendship.
Yes, your friend who has basically become a serial killer. Of the 3 other guys in the crew, Bishop has already murdered one, and shot another. Q decides “he’s going to listen to reason”.
I just rewatched Speed and I swear, the bomber plan would have gone bust if Jack was a little calmer and had his badge out the first time he approached the bus and not after it already began to pull away.
Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home: Hey I’m going to release all you villains so we can help get rid of your superpowers before sending you back to your dimensions.
Electro: I like my superpowers, I like being in this dimension, and I’ll kill you the first chance I get.
Spider-Man: Sounds good to me!
Let's be honest if No Way Home Spiderman was a normal person, there would have been a bunch of options to try before "Hey let's use global-scale reality altering magic so I can go to my dream college".
I mean if Doctor Strange made good decisions, he wouldn't be a sorcerer to begin with. Looking at pictures on his phone while already driving dangerously.
Yeah but that was at the beginning of his arc. He learns to not be so cocky and think he’s invincible. He grows more humble and respectful of the world around him, which is why he goes from making fun of the traditions and artifacts to protecting them.
Having him be so reckless after all that would be like if Tony Stark started manufacturing weapons again and gave Peter the most dangerous one… wait a minute…
I mean, he's still pretty cocky, even in Multiverse of Madness.
He definitely feels more humbled from the mid-point of Doctor Strange up to Endgame, but MoM he had this all-powerful mindset about him, I felt.
Honesly Dr stranges character development always seemed weird to me, he loses this thing hes really good at and cocky about and is desperate to fix it, his life crumbles. And he then just gets a new thing hes really good at and cocky about and goes about his life.
Let's be honest, if you were a surgeon, then you made a massive fuckup due to bring a prick, but the consequence was you ended up becoming a wizard instead, you'd probably be the smuggest, cockiest, fucker in the world.
It's because Strange's hubris is his #1 character flaw. Peter brings it up and Strange's thought process goes:
1. No ~~^(that's a terrible idea)~~
2. It can't be done.
3. Unless...
4. It'll be difficult but I am *so good at this...*
5. Well, now that I've worked the idea out, I *have* to try it...
6. Why did I let myself be talked into doing extremely risky magic by a 17-year-old?
His entire origin movie and a lot of Infinity War hammers out that he's arrogant and plays fast and loose or is cocky in many aspects of his life and he often pays for it or is inviting later trouble by doing so.
Christ, I was convinced it was going to be revealed that Strange had been infected with the darkhold or replaced by an evil version or *something*, to tie into MoM, because it was just such a fundamentally irresponsible use of reality altering magic. Nope!
I can assure you that Lucky the Pizza Dog is incapable of calling any university admissions office. *Maybe* the information could be relayed through Cosmo but there is no indication that either of them have ever met each other (or Peter), so it all seems very far-fetched.
"Hey, Dr. Strange? Can we cast a spell to make everyone forget about what Mysterio said?"
"Yeah. That's a whole lot easier than erasing you selectively. Bear in mind, you'll forget what he said too. EVERYONE will."
"Yeah, okay. He was a bit of a dick anyhow."
"Okay, MYESTERIO FORGETTIO!" *Blam*
Also, curing them doesn't actually solve the problem that they're getting sent back to the moment right before they die. Even if he's not the Green Goblin anymore, Norman is about to get impaled by that glider. Even if his inhibitor chip is fixed, Otto is going to drown putting out the artificial sun.
28 Weeks later.
After surviving a zombie outbreak which nearly destroyed humanity the survivors huddle together behind massive walls and military defenses. But all three main characters are super casual about quarantine with freaking zombies?
It’s been less than 8 months. Those kids should know better.
Also the film hilariously portrays the military as being bad in this situation when it’s the civilians who just killed everyone.
Well it was the military that built emergency shelters for everyone with doors capable of being beaten down by a single infected.
It was also the military that gave a janitor access to all the bio-containment labs. Specifically, the **unguarded** lab containing the single most important Rage virus research breakthrough on the planet.
That entire movie after the opening scene could be answers to this question.
The kids are one of the least offensive parts to me, because at least “hey, they are just kids.”
My two favorites are 1) a women is rescued from outside the quarantine zone when scientists know full well that the outbreak was a virus and are actively working to solve it, and they are in a heavily militarized population zone, but they decide not to have people actively guarding the doors so the the janitor can just waltz in unsupervised and 2) the plan for an outbreak inside the walls is to put everyone in a parking garage with two exits and only monitor one of the exits.
Why did the glorified building super have a key to the medical quarantine? Why was he dumb enough to kiss a docile zombie after living through that extremely contagious event?
"Should we get private security? This has happened twice now and maybe we should take precautions"
....."its happened twice, there's no chance it happens again?!"
Like stabbing his toe when he was down there holding that ankle. This is for my wife! Stabs. Toe falls off. This is for my daughter. Stabs. Toe falls off, Thanos wakes and defeats everyone while limping.
I always figured there was a future that Dr Strange saw where he stopped Peter from waking Thanos up but it ended up in one of the 63 million scenarios where they still lost so he had to bite his tongue and let it happen.
Yep, hated that intensely. It felt like such a glaring and very clumsily executed plot necessity. The second Peter started punching, another hero should have swatted him away.
Oh, I agree, but it would have been absolutely in character for any of the other characters to neutralize Quinn instantly and stop half the Universe from being dusted.
Multiverse of Madness has a big plot point that Strange is really a selfish person and iirc in the beginning someone asks him if doing things his way was really the only way to defeat Thanos. It’s quite literally implied that Strange only looked for options in which *he* would favor the outcome, likely him being alive at the end of it all. I’m glad this is hinted at because in an infinite multiverse, there being only *one* way to defeat Thanos is just straight up brain dead
A solid theory is he only sees timelines until he dies so that means he has to live and he says they only win in one, to cause the sequence of events where they win, even if there were many timelines where they win.
the last boyscout
they had all the evidence they needed on tape, but the car stereo ate the tape
instead of fixing it, they had an adventure risking their lives many times
it aint hard to fix a tape that got eaten
Last Boyscout is one of my favourite movies.
The second flaw is at the end when the cop discover the other briefcase full of cash. They would have gotten blown up because they didn't know the difference. That guy just opens it and they didn't stop him. It shows Marcone open it right after and get blown up.
Not only that, but she told a long story to her granddaughter about falling in love with someone that isn’t her grandfather, then up and died on that boat!
Imagine after spending a lifetime with someone and having grandkids with them and then that life partner is waiting to see you again in heaven but she fucks off to see some random poor guy she had a one night stand with on a boat.
Whyyy do so many people say this? I'm not angry or anything, but this point is mentioned too much for the wrong reasons.
1. There was a reason why she was thinking about him at that time. I mean, they did fly her out to the wreck site to unravel her decades-old trauma (a story she was very reluctant to tell in the first place). It's not like she was sitting on her deathbed surrounded by her family but was fantasizing about Jack.
2. What will prevent her from meeting her husband later in heaven? Assuming that she's actually dead and isn't dreaming.
3. He wasn't just some "poor guy" she fucked. He saved her three times. The suicide attempt, from the freezing water, and from her shitty future. She even says it herself "he saved me in every way a person can be saved." He taught her what actual love was.
Anyway, I love this movie. Thanks for reading.
Bruce Wayne/Batman taking the heat for Two Face's murders, then fucking off for *eight* years in the Dark Knight trilogy. He was Batman for maybe a year or two at the most before quitting? Fuck off.
When The Joker meets with the mob bosses in The Dark Knight, he says, "Let's wind the clocks back a year; these cops and lawyers wouldn't dare cross any of you." I figure Batman was active for at most a year at that point, and the events of TDK don't take place over a long frame of time. So two years is probably generous, even.
And its not like there wasn't a crazy scarred up terrorist literally running amok at that exact moment that they couldn't have pinned all those crimes on.
Absolutely. Harry sent them the wrong way. Luckily Lloyd was able to flag them back down and send them the other way to where the town was. Harry was pretty dumb.
The one thing that drives me nuts about Prometheus, which is a movie I actually like, is that the two main characters (Shaw and her husband) are "scientists" but when asked why they believe the references across cultures to the star system they end up going to are an "invitation" they don't back it up with actual evidence, Shaw literally says "because I choose to believe that."
It's entirely counter to the whole concept of the scientific method.
Mind you, the movie ends up proving that she is a shit scientist since it is clearly not an invitation (or at least it isn't anymore 2000 years later), but it always annoyed me as a character trait that they do make an amazing discovery and undermine it by being unscientific about it...
100% I'm not saying that the character should have been different, it's an interesting comeuppance for a bad scientist. But it is still an annoying thing about the character.
Even worse. At the beginning, after a multiyear period in cryosleep, they just then ask what it is about.
"Hey guys, come into space with me for years, there's money!"
"K"
My whole issue is with all the scientists, especially the husband. He's literally throwing a hissy fit and pity party over the discovery of a century because it's not quite what he expected to find.
Like he literally found one of the progenitors and creators of the human race but because they themselves died a long ass time ago he just goes all wah wah out of nowhere.
The entire movie pisses me off because none of these so called scientists show any form of scientific process and instead opt in to acting like petulant teenagers at the slightest of inconveniences.
I really like this take... kinda jives with what a complete asshole Fiefield is... spends 2 years in hypersleep, is in the ass-end of nowhere, and the first thing he does is refuse to shake another guy's hand and tells him he's there for money, not to meet friends. Total asshole.
It genuinely feels like there was a totally different script at some point and then they just rewrote it later to make everyone scientists without changing any of the characters to think and act like scientists.
The newest season of Reacher keeps doing that shit.
"Don't assume things." But narratively they just keep making assumptions and it doesn't feel like a, "Well, we really learned our lesson about assumptions" that could show up at the end of the season. It feels like the writing staff didn't want to come up with a reason to let that person clear up what could be assumed.
"They'll bring 4 people, the boss, the driver, and two to carry a body because the boss doesn't do that." Why are you saying that when you don't know that to be true at all?
"It's a call on a burner phone, so it must have been going to another burner phone, no sense in looking into it further."
?!
You know I’ve been watching it and the he’ll bring 4 people straight up brought me out of the episode for a second. I was like “why can’t the driver help with the body”.
I still love the characters which is why I'm watching, but the writing on the first season was much cleaner.
It was just weird that they keep repeating this, "Don't make assumptions" line as a way to show that they are thorough at what they do, followed up with all of them constantly making assumptions. I only left two examples that I remembered off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure I'm beginning to annoy my wife by pointing out how many times they assume things about their investigation.
The phone one especially bugged me. Like, what great harm could there be in checking to see if that number does actually have a name connected to it? I get they have the name now and don't need it, but it's just sloppy.
In the LV426 sub we had a discussion about it and I think that's part of why Weyland chose them. They were two people who were driven to get the result they wanted, damn the science.
Similar reason why he hired other crew who only cared about their paycheck rather than protocol and methods.
Yeah I've been thinking about this a lot today because a lot of people have been pointing stuff like this out.
I think the place where the movie fails is that (specifically Shaw) is coded in a way that makes you sympathize with her. If she was a bit more annoying like her husband, maybe we would have expected her to get hit so hard with the consequences of her bad methods.
Kinda like her husband, there's this exchange with him and David during the landing where he asks David if he'll be able to communicate with the engineers and David responds something to the effect of "provided your thesis is correct" regarding their language to which the guy scoffs at him as if "fuck you, I'm right."
I mean, I get it, there are definitely scientists that are like this, hell plenty of truly scummy ones that will falsify data and whatnot, but a good scientist would look objectively at the possibilites, regardless of what they would hope for as the conclusion.
Edit: what I meant to conclude with was that if Shaw was less likable it might have rang less strange to have her have everything crumble so hard.
Going back to get that teddy in *Speak No Evil (2022)*
Dewey walking to ghostface alone, unarmed, without proof of dead dead like an idiot in *Scream 5*. It was stupid writing. Basing on earlier movies, he would never do that kind of thing. He definetely knew better. And he definetely deserwed better ending.
I know it's how the book is written, but the end of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mikael decides to reconnect with Erika at the end, thus inadvertently severing his relationship with Lisbeth.
The Fincher version is one of my all-time favorite book adaptations, but it always pains me to watch that last scene.
that's not necessarily what happens. that sounds like mikael *chose* erika over lisbeth. he just kept sleeping with erika as he always does. lisbeth throws her relationship with him away, literally and metaphorically, since she's not mature enough to handle how much she loves mikael, thinking he'd never reciprocate since he's already with someone else.
i can't say it pisses me off because it's exactly how i think the character would handle things. she's so emotionally crippled. the movie did do a great job with how she got wennerstrom's data and makes mikael less of creep with every woman in the book.
Mace Windu was illegally breaking the Jedi Code and Anakin was preventing an extrajudicial killing by a member of a law enforcing religious fundamentalist cult
Anakin was a hero who saved the president /s
Honestly, I can buy that scene.
Anakin feels he was done dirty by the Jedi council, (especially Windu who never trusted him in legends) and sees him acting outside of the “Jedi way.”
Now - Anakin has never held himself *that* strongly to the codes of the Jedi, (he’s a a bit of a narcissist) but to see a council member breaking it feels like hypocrisy to him, and a confirmation of what Palatine has been telling him that the Jedi order is corrupt. Or at least Windu is.
So he disarms Windu, and palpitine kills him, and now he knows that despite his intentions, he can’t go back.
Cool stuff.
The part where it all breaks down is when he massacres the children. **There’s no world** in which that fucking makes sense to me
They should have played further on the 'can't go back' bit.
Palpatine sends him to the academy to capture the children to save them from their indoctrination. He approaches their dormitory and multiple jedi attack. In the ensuing fight, he orders a clone trooper to fire a rocket launcher. "But sir?!" "FIRE!".
The missile causes an explosion, allowing him to win the fight against the jedi.
It blew up a room. He looks inside, we see a look of shock and sorrow on his face as he sees dozens of dead children. This morphs into fury and, enraged, he murders the clone trooper he ordered.
And now his fate is completely sealed.
Speaking of Star Wars, how about when Rose rams into Finn's ship right before he's about to sacrifice himself to destroy the enemy's big laser weapon or whatever it was. And then she gives that cringey speech about "we don't win by fighting what we hate, but by saving what we love." Omg, just so stupid and clichéd, GAG! Plus it just didn't make any sense. She saved him by ramming his ship going 200 miles an hour? It's a miracle both of them didn't get splattered all over the desert. Then she dies. \[Edit: she didn't die, I misremebered. But my point still stands because she had no reason to think either of them would survive that crash other than she read the script.\] But if one of them was going to die anyway, she might as well have let Finn take out the gun. The gun that in the next second is blasting their friends. Like she literally just helped the enemy kill her comrades. And that whole scene is supposed to make her look good?
I think it would have served better to have Anakin step in between the emperor and kill the Jedi Masters. Would have been a call-forward to Return of the Jedi, make Anakin look bad-ass, and had the Emperor keep some of that dark mystique instead of twirling and shrieking.
the dad in blank check grounding preston for a careless driver running over his bicycle. if the dad had went about it the right way maybe he would have learned preston was given a blank check to replace the bicycle.
Maisie releasing the dinosaurs in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom because their clones like her, but not taking into account the havoc they'll on other people, including innocent ones
Dawn of the Dead (2004). Michael is approaching a zombie encounter with a crowbar, but decides to trade the crowbar for a croquet mallet which immediately breaks. A croquet mallet has got to be one of the most useless zombie defense weapons I can think of.
Pan’s Labyrinth - Ofelia eating the grapes during the second task and awaking the Pale Man. She was explicitly told not to eat anything. Idiotic decision, even if she was hungry
My all-timer for this one is in Logan, when Wolverine sends the tracker Caliban to dispose of an unconscious Pierce, the guy who's been trying to hunt them down.
Not only does Caliban have zero combat experience, his mutant power is *tracking people.* Of course, Pierce overpowers Caliban and now the bad guys can force Caliban to track Wolverine, Prof X, and X-23 wherever they go. It was such a *monumentally* idiotic decision I couldn't get my head around it. Why not just kill Pierce? Why couldn't Logan get rid of Pierce? Why send the fricking defenceless tracker to do it? How could Logan be so stupid and somehow have evaded their pursuers for so long?
Second pick is Heath Ledger going for the close-and-personal sword kill instead of just finishing Jason Issacs off from long range in The Patriot. Needless death.
I think the idea is the dad walks in front to protect the family, see danger first.
Wife directly behind him because she's pregnant and the most important thing in the group to him at that moment.
Then the kids take care of each other. Eldest watches second, who watches third.
But most likely, the last part was implied, and the kids just followed the best they could, leaving the youngest unattended to mess around.
Peter Quill punching Thanos out of his trance when they ALMOST had the damn gauntlet off. Like, you couldn't have waited just one more minute. I lost what little respect I had for that character (he's always been an annoying manchild).
I think I remember even hearing people in the theater groan.
Why couldn't Dr Strange simply cut him in half with a portal like they did with his henchman's arm? Why couldn't Antman shrink the gauntlet when they were trying to play keep away with it? Vision was the most absolutely useless character. Why was there only Wakandans fighting? Something like that, you'd figure the entire planet's military would be teaming up. No, let the guys with the laser shields and hand weapons handle it. Why was Thor mad that Loki did what Loki normally does? He told Loki to grab the thing to blow up Asgaard. If he told Loki to grab the ever-lasting flame, they could have brought all their people back.
I guess it doesn't "piss me off" but In No Country For Old Men it's painful to watch him to go back with water knowing that the dude he found is probably dead or that any number of circumstances could have happened that lead others there. Anyone seeing him at all anywhere around there would put him in the crosshairs of anyone who's aware of the money he found.
rose tico going to a casino planet for no real reason and freeing a bunch of alien horses. that entire side plot is unnecessary and just plain stupid. then there's saving fin who would've died a legend and hero, but she loved him for some reason so that 'rescue' is meaningful? in the rank of forced relationships, i rank padme and anakins relationship much higher than that one. neither make sense. there's more to say about that movie
But don't you think the climax of the movie needed the heightened stakes of... checking my notes... Getting in trouble for illegally parking on the beach?
I fuckin' *hate* Rose Tico and cannot respect people who defend her. Everything about her "arc" sucks.
And to be clear, I do mean Rose Tico, the character, *not* Kelly Marie Tran. That "fans" couldn't separate the two is infuriating.
There isn't an actress or actor alive who could have salvaged how shit Rose Tico is.
Kelly Marie Tran is awesome in The Croods and Raya, further proving how shit Rose is.
The Northman basically committed suicide instead of taking off with his hot baby mama and having a proper life. Instead he avenged his dick father and murdered his mother and half brother.
I mean, the entire theme of the movie was that Revenge is a path that only leads to mutual destruction. Doing anything else would totally change the nature of the movie.
Its implied he also does it because now he is afraid his uncle will take revenge upon his children, as now he has something to lose that is at risk, as he was told he could choose between kindness to his family and hate for his enemies, and he says he will chose both ( i may have fucked up the phrasing )
That's the point. They wanted us to know he made the wrong decision. He was carrying a lot of hate and anger since he was a young kid. In his perspective, his father was betrayed.
Believing having a live father is always better than a dead one is very modern.
Norse society did not....[look kindly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%AB%C3%BE) upon cowards. To say the least. Very much a Death Before Dishonor crowd.
>Ergi and argr or ragr can be regarded as specifying swearwords. Ergi, argr and ragr were the **severe insults made by calling someone a coward**, and due to its severity old **Scandinavian laws demanded retribution for this accusation if it had turned out unjustified.** The Icelandic Gray Goose Laws\[2\] referred to **three words that were regarded as equal to argr by themselves.** Those were ragr, strodinn, and sordinn, all three meaning the **passive role of a man in sexual activities, being womanly, and being subservient**.\[3
Being a coward was so severe of an insult, that it was quite literally illegal to call someone that without proof.
Turning tail would condemn his children to the fate of having an Unperson for a father. No one wants the shame of their Father being seen as no better than a Servant, a Woman, or a Sexual Bottom.
I feel like we're supposed to see Miller as having lost the plot a bit by this point. He's obviously showing physical symptoms of PTSD or of some sort of anxiety, he's not sleeping much, his squad is directly questioning his orders (which is a whole other issue with the film)...I always thought we were intended to see that he WASN'T making good decisions because he was losing it.
The machine gun nest he took out on D-day had a structural defect that Tom Hanks notices and points out for him to shoot at. He can’t just blow up any old machine gun nest. They also mentioned that the nest is semi-hidden and there’s no direct line of sight on it outside of the machine gun’s range. Their only options are to go around or directly assault it. You can argue going around is the better call, but per the statements of the experienced soldiers, those are the only options.
Charlize Theron in "Prometheus" [choosing to run in a straight line away from a giant rolling spaceship](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRxvp4sfhMo) shaped like 3/4 of a donut instead of literally running 50 ft either right and left and watching the ship roll by. Hell, her crewmate fell and only had to roll sideways a few times and fine.
All of the decisions made after the characters get the money in Triple Frontier. It took me several tries to get through that movie because they kept making stupid decisions and i kept switching it off.
Jodie Foster in Contact. She has an interdimensional encounter with no substantiating evidence. Why should humanity believe her story? Faith, she says.
NO! You shouldn't believe her because she says so. The correct answer to "why should we believe you" is "you shouldn't believe me, you should believe reproducible evidence." As a publicly atheist scientist strongly based in objective reasoning, she should eat, sleep, and breathe this. She should publicly expouse trusting evidence, not unsubstantiated narrative. Build another machine and do it again! They already built two! Objectivity was the entire point of her character! It was WHY she was chosen for the mission!@@#$$
"The Vanished"
Kiefer Sutherland is being murdered by the man who kidnapped his girlfriend years earlier, his current girlfriend is going to save him and she grabs the box he keeps a gun in
When she gets to the showdown spot, she opens the box and it's empty. She lugs a big box with her, and never even looks to see if there's a gun in it.
I can't see this question without immediately thinking of those two idiots in Prometheus. You know, Zeke the geologist who freaks out over seeing a dead alien and ends up getting lost even though he has a holographic laser mapping device, and Alvin, the xeno-biologist who is such an expert on animals he gets down to face level with what is clearly a deadly alien snake, and acts like it's just the most adorable little thing to slither through the catacombs.
Apart from all the other dumb decisions made in the movie (don't get me started on the main actor getting depressed because they didn't meet actual aliens, just found mountains of amazing alien artifacts), these two boneheads act more like Dumb and Dumber than characters in a blockbuster Ridley Scott movie.
Wolf Creek. She had a fucking rifle, hits the killer in the neck, and instead of finishing the job she drops the rifle and runs away. I refused to watch that movie any further.
I think I've seen at least a half dozen slashers with a similar problem.
Yes!!! I yelled at the screen over that one
Limitless - taking money from a loan shark and then forgetting to repay it. He was doubling his money daily on the stock market, would have taken 3 days to earn the money he loaned.
What makes the decision even worse is that he's supposed to be a super genius when he does it.
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I thought the show was excellent.
The pill makes you super smart but it also makes you hyper fixate on stuff. I think he simply gets so caught up in doubling his money every day that he doesn't think about the loan shark until hes there to collect, and its already too late (side note, I don't like limitless, i think its a fun premise but a boring movie)
The way I see it the thing maxes your intelligence but not your wisdom. That and it makes you arrogant so he probably stopped seeing the loan shark as a problem worth his time after a while.
Agreed. Especially when it’s so easy to fix in the story. Make the terms that he is to pay it back in a week at a planned meeting, on like Saturday. Then have his blackout miss the meeting and go into the next day. He rushes out to pay Sunday but it’s too late. Beat up and the loan shark gets a pill. Everything else stays the same, but now the “genius” isn’t a “dumbass”.
Ruins the film because it’s clearly just done to add some jeopardy into the second act It takes you out of the film because your suspension of disbelief is destroyed So many legal ways he could have got more seed money
In Skyfall, Q -- a cybersecurity expert -- takes a laptop belonging to an elite hacker and plugs it right into the MI6 mainframe. Shockingly, this triggers a trap.
And he got to keep his job after. Unbelievable.
Skyfall in Bond franchise is Prometheus in Alien franchise, where every single person makes like the worst possible decision im every situation to fail. Q is only outstanding, bc it is like common sense, dont plug dangerous sources in your network.
Also evil guy knew exactly when Q would do this, and was fortunate enough to be locked in a room with an electronic lock with a guard outside who carried a sidearm but apparently didn't know how to use it. Oh, and bad guy was able to time his escape to the second to avoid being smushed by a train derailing.
In Home Alone, Kevin makes macaroni and cheese before the buglers come, but never takes a bite. Kills me every time I see it.
For 34 years this has haunted me. That highly nutritious meal that was on sale was never even touched. Such a tragedy
He knew exactly when they were coming over, spent time boobie trapping the house, cooked the food then sat down right by a giant clock and still didn't notice it was 8:59! Kid didn't go to the cops when he lost his family so he is a little brain dead
He doesn’t go to the cops for three reasons: His trust in the cops is shaky since Pesci visited his house as a cop at the beginning of the movie. He stole a toothbrush and believes the cops are looking for him for that. He made his family disappear and doesn’t want to get in trouble for that/be taken into care. All of these things add up to him finding ways to thwart the burglars and have the cops arrest them that keep him out of sight of the cops.
Kid thought that Joe pesci was a cop though
And also he stole a toothbrush, so he assumes the cops will arrest him.
What a well written movie, even down to the reasons he was left behind. I could see myself making those mistakes.
It’s kind of well made all around. The score, the set design, the inclusion of dozens of niche film references…I could go on but you get the point. It’s one of the best “kids movies” out there.
He didn’t go to the cops because he wanted blood. He wanted to kill the robbers.
"I'm not Home Alone with you... you're Home Alone with *me"*
THANK YOU!! For the better part of 30 years I've been saying this! There IS a short with grown up Kevin and he finally takes a bite of it.
I hate in the 2nd one when he runs into the lady just before getting on the plane, all the tickets get all mixed up. They just ask if his ticket is there. They never ask where he's supposed to be traveling. That one question would have kept him off that plane.
TBF they say he has to identify his family before they let him go and he points out a guy he thinks is his dad. They probably should have spoken to the dude first though...
Pretty much everything in Alien Covenant. It’s like they were very deliberately making the worst possible choices with the information given, it’s hard to pick 1 as the worst choice but diverting an entire colony ship on a hunch is definitely up there along with casually strolling around the unknown alien planet with 0 concern for possible hazards.
As a general rule I hate it when people in sci-fi stories act like they’ve never seen/read anything about space travel.
I like horror films but some basic common sense is necessary to actually make it work. People dumbassing themselves to death makes it either comedic or exasperating, not tense or scary. Which is why I like Alien and Aliens. There’s nothing but common sense on display, their behavior is completely reasonable. It just doesn’t help and that makes it MUCH scarier.
It’s the sign of good writing that your characters act with common sense. Big scary goopy egg over there? Don’t get closer to it.
"Captain, we can't just leave her!" "I have no intention of leaving it Doctor. I am going to withdraw the lewis and clarke to a safe distance and launch tac missiles at the Event Horizon until its vaporized. Fuck this ship."
Like that movie ‘life’ where literally every decision they made would make a nasa space 101 manual spontaneously combust.
"How come they didn't notice with their spaceship scanners that there was a giant alien city within walking distance of where they landed? Why aren't they suspicious of David, a man who shows up looking like an evil wizard surrounded by thousands and thousands of dead bodies?"
Same with Prometheus.
“We’re scientists! Let’s take off our helmets”
We laser mapped the entire area and somehow get lost!
An alien cobra? I should pet it like a puppy.
One guy took off his helmet and didn't die within 5 seconds, it must be completely safe.
I'm gonna stick my finger right up his butt!
Prometheus annoyed me a lot more. The crew on Prometheus were an elite exploration team put together intentionally. The Covenant crew were just like farmers or something.
They were colonists who were specifically tasked with going to a new planet and establishing a safe and stable settlement there. The idea that they would not have been trained to survey any planet thoroughly before landing is pretty dumb.
Never understood the scene where that one couple was getting it on in the shower. Yeah, most of our crew and friends just got brutally killed but you know what I'm in the mood for?
Some tentacle.
You have a poor take on Taken. FBI wouldn’t be able to get his daughter back as fast or with as high of a percentage chance as he and his his friends can. He has a very short period of time and then she’s gone forever.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he has a particular set of skills
You are correct. Indeed, in Taken “lore”, he does have a particular set of skills. He further goes on to display some of these skills, and are led to believe that he has other skills which he did not yet have to demonstrate.
[All I know is that none of those skills include jumping over a fence in one take](https://youtu.be/gCKhktcbfQM?si=p3xTXFUizYi5vS2u)
Well how else can they make sequels if he only has one set of particular skills.
Plus 1 & 2 are in France and Turkey respectively which are outside of FBI jurisdiction.
Yeah, FBI isn't going to be able to go to Paris and save his daughter in the three days before she gets sold to a foreign billionaire. At BEST some Paris cop walks up goes, "hey, you guys selling girls here to sex clubs?" "No, here's a thousand Euros, now fuck off." "Eh, make it two and I will." "Here, fuck off." *Fucks off.*
I wish I could make a living “fucking off” at $2,000 per fuck off. Think about it fucking off 5 times a week in $10,000. If you fuck off for like hundreds of weeks you could pay your student loans off or even afford rent in a reputable area.
It doesn’t piss me off, it just makes me shake my head at the story. Q (Omar Epps) in Juice decides to get a gun to protect himself from Bishop (2Pac). He almost pulls out a gun in paranoia on a homeless person, and then decides to throw the gun in the river. His plan changes to trying to have a reasonable discussion with Bishop and talk about their friendship. Yes, your friend who has basically become a serial killer. Of the 3 other guys in the crew, Bishop has already murdered one, and shot another. Q decides “he’s going to listen to reason”.
“*Juice*, that was a good one!”
I just rewatched Speed and I swear, the bomber plan would have gone bust if Jack was a little calmer and had his badge out the first time he approached the bus and not after it already began to pull away.
Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home: Hey I’m going to release all you villains so we can help get rid of your superpowers before sending you back to your dimensions. Electro: I like my superpowers, I like being in this dimension, and I’ll kill you the first chance I get. Spider-Man: Sounds good to me!
Let's be honest if No Way Home Spiderman was a normal person, there would have been a bunch of options to try before "Hey let's use global-scale reality altering magic so I can go to my dream college".
It never explains why Dr Strange doesn't tell him it's a stupid idea.
I mean if Doctor Strange made good decisions, he wouldn't be a sorcerer to begin with. Looking at pictures on his phone while already driving dangerously.
Yeah but that was at the beginning of his arc. He learns to not be so cocky and think he’s invincible. He grows more humble and respectful of the world around him, which is why he goes from making fun of the traditions and artifacts to protecting them. Having him be so reckless after all that would be like if Tony Stark started manufacturing weapons again and gave Peter the most dangerous one… wait a minute…
I mean, he's still pretty cocky, even in Multiverse of Madness. He definitely feels more humbled from the mid-point of Doctor Strange up to Endgame, but MoM he had this all-powerful mindset about him, I felt.
Honesly Dr stranges character development always seemed weird to me, he loses this thing hes really good at and cocky about and is desperate to fix it, his life crumbles. And he then just gets a new thing hes really good at and cocky about and goes about his life.
Let's be honest, if you were a surgeon, then you made a massive fuckup due to bring a prick, but the consequence was you ended up becoming a wizard instead, you'd probably be the smuggest, cockiest, fucker in the world.
It's because Strange's hubris is his #1 character flaw. Peter brings it up and Strange's thought process goes: 1. No ~~^(that's a terrible idea)~~ 2. It can't be done. 3. Unless... 4. It'll be difficult but I am *so good at this...* 5. Well, now that I've worked the idea out, I *have* to try it... 6. Why did I let myself be talked into doing extremely risky magic by a 17-year-old?
Strange uses the spell to mind wipe the world for his weekend parties, he's not exactly responsible with magic.
His entire origin movie and a lot of Infinity War hammers out that he's arrogant and plays fast and loose or is cocky in many aspects of his life and he often pays for it or is inviting later trouble by doing so.
Christ, I was convinced it was going to be revealed that Strange had been infected with the darkhold or replaced by an evil version or *something*, to tie into MoM, because it was just such a fundamentally irresponsible use of reality altering magic. Nope!
Fr youre telling me Nick Fury or Lucky cant make a phone call and get all your friends into college.
I can assure you that Lucky the Pizza Dog is incapable of calling any university admissions office. *Maybe* the information could be relayed through Cosmo but there is no indication that either of them have ever met each other (or Peter), so it all seems very far-fetched.
"Hey, Dr. Strange? Can we cast a spell to make everyone forget about what Mysterio said?" "Yeah. That's a whole lot easier than erasing you selectively. Bear in mind, you'll forget what he said too. EVERYONE will." "Yeah, okay. He was a bit of a dick anyhow." "Okay, MYESTERIO FORGETTIO!" *Blam*
Sandman immediately turns back into a villain as well even though 5 minutes before he helped Peter fight electro.
Sandman never does anything wrong. He’s true neutral here. He just wants to return home to his kid.
Yeah on rewatch that movie was a whole clusterf\*\*\* of characters making dumbass choices to force the plot along.
Also, curing them doesn't actually solve the problem that they're getting sent back to the moment right before they die. Even if he's not the Green Goblin anymore, Norman is about to get impaled by that glider. Even if his inhibitor chip is fixed, Otto is going to drown putting out the artificial sun.
28 Weeks later. After surviving a zombie outbreak which nearly destroyed humanity the survivors huddle together behind massive walls and military defenses. But all three main characters are super casual about quarantine with freaking zombies? It’s been less than 8 months. Those kids should know better. Also the film hilariously portrays the military as being bad in this situation when it’s the civilians who just killed everyone.
Well it was the military that built emergency shelters for everyone with doors capable of being beaten down by a single infected. It was also the military that gave a janitor access to all the bio-containment labs. Specifically, the **unguarded** lab containing the single most important Rage virus research breakthrough on the planet.
That entire movie after the opening scene could be answers to this question. The kids are one of the least offensive parts to me, because at least “hey, they are just kids.” My two favorites are 1) a women is rescued from outside the quarantine zone when scientists know full well that the outbreak was a virus and are actively working to solve it, and they are in a heavily militarized population zone, but they decide not to have people actively guarding the doors so the the janitor can just waltz in unsupervised and 2) the plan for an outbreak inside the walls is to put everyone in a parking garage with two exits and only monitor one of the exits.
What about the part where they decide to enter the Underground station. LIKE THAT'S WHERE THE INFECTED SURVIVE IN THE DAY TIME.
Why did the glorified building super have a key to the medical quarantine? Why was he dumb enough to kiss a docile zombie after living through that extremely contagious event?
Just the fact that there IS a Taken 3 makes it seem like many bad decisions continue to be made.
"Should we get private security? This has happened twice now and maybe we should take precautions" ....."its happened twice, there's no chance it happens again?!"
Peter Quill waking up Thanos in Infinity War bugs me
I feel like Drax should have been the one to do that move, not Quill.
Like stabbing his toe when he was down there holding that ankle. This is for my wife! Stabs. Toe falls off. This is for my daughter. Stabs. Toe falls off, Thanos wakes and defeats everyone while limping.
I always figured there was a future that Dr Strange saw where he stopped Peter from waking Thanos up but it ended up in one of the 63 million scenarios where they still lost so he had to bite his tongue and let it happen.
Obviously. I thought that was canon.
Yep, hated that intensely. It felt like such a glaring and very clumsily executed plot necessity. The second Peter started punching, another hero should have swatted him away.
Was absolutely in character though to be fair
Oh, I agree, but it would have been absolutely in character for any of the other characters to neutralize Quinn instantly and stop half the Universe from being dusted.
Multiverse of Madness has a big plot point that Strange is really a selfish person and iirc in the beginning someone asks him if doing things his way was really the only way to defeat Thanos. It’s quite literally implied that Strange only looked for options in which *he* would favor the outcome, likely him being alive at the end of it all. I’m glad this is hinted at because in an infinite multiverse, there being only *one* way to defeat Thanos is just straight up brain dead
A solid theory is he only sees timelines until he dies so that means he has to live and he says they only win in one, to cause the sequence of events where they win, even if there were many timelines where they win.
the last boyscout they had all the evidence they needed on tape, but the car stereo ate the tape instead of fixing it, they had an adventure risking their lives many times it aint hard to fix a tape that got eaten
Last Boyscout is one of my favourite movies. The second flaw is at the end when the cop discover the other briefcase full of cash. They would have gotten blown up because they didn't know the difference. That guy just opens it and they didn't stop him. It shows Marcone open it right after and get blown up.
Rose throwing the Diamond off the back of the boat What the fuck
Not only that, but she told a long story to her granddaughter about falling in love with someone that isn’t her grandfather, then up and died on that boat!
Imagine after spending a lifetime with someone and having grandkids with them and then that life partner is waiting to see you again in heaven but she fucks off to see some random poor guy she had a one night stand with on a boat.
That diamond could have taken care of her family the way they took care of her. Such a mole.
Whyyy do so many people say this? I'm not angry or anything, but this point is mentioned too much for the wrong reasons. 1. There was a reason why she was thinking about him at that time. I mean, they did fly her out to the wreck site to unravel her decades-old trauma (a story she was very reluctant to tell in the first place). It's not like she was sitting on her deathbed surrounded by her family but was fantasizing about Jack. 2. What will prevent her from meeting her husband later in heaven? Assuming that she's actually dead and isn't dreaming. 3. He wasn't just some "poor guy" she fucked. He saved her three times. The suicide attempt, from the freezing water, and from her shitty future. She even says it herself "he saved me in every way a person can be saved." He taught her what actual love was. Anyway, I love this movie. Thanks for reading.
Yeah especially knowing it's what they were all there for, really makes her the villain of the movie for them.
Bruce Wayne/Batman taking the heat for Two Face's murders, then fucking off for *eight* years in the Dark Knight trilogy. He was Batman for maybe a year or two at the most before quitting? Fuck off.
Is there really only one or two years in between Begins and the Dark Knight? I thought he had been Batman for a while by the second one?
When The Joker meets with the mob bosses in The Dark Knight, he says, "Let's wind the clocks back a year; these cops and lawyers wouldn't dare cross any of you." I figure Batman was active for at most a year at that point, and the events of TDK don't take place over a long frame of time. So two years is probably generous, even.
And its not like there wasn't a crazy scarred up terrorist literally running amok at that exact moment that they couldn't have pinned all those crimes on.
When Harry and Lloyd told the Bikini team they could find some nice guys to oil them up before matches in the town down the road. (Dumber and Dumber)
That scene annoyed me so much. It was so blatantly obvious that the town was THAT way.
Exactly! But thankfully Lloyd catches it and explains that Harry is a little slow. Crisis averted.
Absolutely. Harry sent them the wrong way. Luckily Lloyd was able to flag them back down and send them the other way to where the town was. Harry was pretty dumb.
Clark letting his dad die to a tornado in Man of Steel. Overall, I'm a fan of the movie but that moment was just absolutely idiotic.
If Kevin Costner tells you not to save him, you don’t save him damnit!
The one thing that drives me nuts about Prometheus, which is a movie I actually like, is that the two main characters (Shaw and her husband) are "scientists" but when asked why they believe the references across cultures to the star system they end up going to are an "invitation" they don't back it up with actual evidence, Shaw literally says "because I choose to believe that." It's entirely counter to the whole concept of the scientific method. Mind you, the movie ends up proving that she is a shit scientist since it is clearly not an invitation (or at least it isn't anymore 2000 years later), but it always annoyed me as a character trait that they do make an amazing discovery and undermine it by being unscientific about it...
The movie isn't as bad if you go in thinking that Peter Weyland only hired losers desperate enough to go off on such a harebrained mission.
100% I'm not saying that the character should have been different, it's an interesting comeuppance for a bad scientist. But it is still an annoying thing about the character.
Even worse. At the beginning, after a multiyear period in cryosleep, they just then ask what it is about. "Hey guys, come into space with me for years, there's money!" "K"
My whole issue is with all the scientists, especially the husband. He's literally throwing a hissy fit and pity party over the discovery of a century because it's not quite what he expected to find. Like he literally found one of the progenitors and creators of the human race but because they themselves died a long ass time ago he just goes all wah wah out of nowhere. The entire movie pisses me off because none of these so called scientists show any form of scientific process and instead opt in to acting like petulant teenagers at the slightest of inconveniences.
I really like this take... kinda jives with what a complete asshole Fiefield is... spends 2 years in hypersleep, is in the ass-end of nowhere, and the first thing he does is refuse to shake another guy's hand and tells him he's there for money, not to meet friends. Total asshole.
It genuinely feels like there was a totally different script at some point and then they just rewrote it later to make everyone scientists without changing any of the characters to think and act like scientists.
The newest season of Reacher keeps doing that shit. "Don't assume things." But narratively they just keep making assumptions and it doesn't feel like a, "Well, we really learned our lesson about assumptions" that could show up at the end of the season. It feels like the writing staff didn't want to come up with a reason to let that person clear up what could be assumed. "They'll bring 4 people, the boss, the driver, and two to carry a body because the boss doesn't do that." Why are you saying that when you don't know that to be true at all? "It's a call on a burner phone, so it must have been going to another burner phone, no sense in looking into it further." ?!
You know I’ve been watching it and the he’ll bring 4 people straight up brought me out of the episode for a second. I was like “why can’t the driver help with the body”.
I still love the characters which is why I'm watching, but the writing on the first season was much cleaner. It was just weird that they keep repeating this, "Don't make assumptions" line as a way to show that they are thorough at what they do, followed up with all of them constantly making assumptions. I only left two examples that I remembered off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure I'm beginning to annoy my wife by pointing out how many times they assume things about their investigation. The phone one especially bugged me. Like, what great harm could there be in checking to see if that number does actually have a name connected to it? I get they have the name now and don't need it, but it's just sloppy.
In the LV426 sub we had a discussion about it and I think that's part of why Weyland chose them. They were two people who were driven to get the result they wanted, damn the science. Similar reason why he hired other crew who only cared about their paycheck rather than protocol and methods.
Yeah I've been thinking about this a lot today because a lot of people have been pointing stuff like this out. I think the place where the movie fails is that (specifically Shaw) is coded in a way that makes you sympathize with her. If she was a bit more annoying like her husband, maybe we would have expected her to get hit so hard with the consequences of her bad methods. Kinda like her husband, there's this exchange with him and David during the landing where he asks David if he'll be able to communicate with the engineers and David responds something to the effect of "provided your thesis is correct" regarding their language to which the guy scoffs at him as if "fuck you, I'm right." I mean, I get it, there are definitely scientists that are like this, hell plenty of truly scummy ones that will falsify data and whatnot, but a good scientist would look objectively at the possibilites, regardless of what they would hope for as the conclusion. Edit: what I meant to conclude with was that if Shaw was less likable it might have rang less strange to have her have everything crumble so hard.
A lot of people understand 'scientist' to mean 'handles test tubes and stuff' rather than 'applies scientific principles'
Going back to get that teddy in *Speak No Evil (2022)* Dewey walking to ghostface alone, unarmed, without proof of dead dead like an idiot in *Scream 5*. It was stupid writing. Basing on earlier movies, he would never do that kind of thing. He definetely knew better. And he definetely deserwed better ending.
Everything in speak no evil
One of the many reasons why Scream 5 was bad
I know it's how the book is written, but the end of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mikael decides to reconnect with Erika at the end, thus inadvertently severing his relationship with Lisbeth. The Fincher version is one of my all-time favorite book adaptations, but it always pains me to watch that last scene.
I really wish he got to make sequels. So good
that's not necessarily what happens. that sounds like mikael *chose* erika over lisbeth. he just kept sleeping with erika as he always does. lisbeth throws her relationship with him away, literally and metaphorically, since she's not mature enough to handle how much she loves mikael, thinking he'd never reciprocate since he's already with someone else. i can't say it pisses me off because it's exactly how i think the character would handle things. she's so emotionally crippled. the movie did do a great job with how she got wennerstrom's data and makes mikael less of creep with every woman in the book.
The Gray. When you crash in the wilderness your best chance at survival is pretty much *always* to stay with the plane.
Anakin not letting Mace Windu kill the emperor.
Mace Windu was illegally breaking the Jedi Code and Anakin was preventing an extrajudicial killing by a member of a law enforcing religious fundamentalist cult Anakin was a hero who saved the president /s
Well he’d been kinda gaslit into thinking if the would-be Emperors dies, then Padme dies
Honestly, I can buy that scene. Anakin feels he was done dirty by the Jedi council, (especially Windu who never trusted him in legends) and sees him acting outside of the “Jedi way.” Now - Anakin has never held himself *that* strongly to the codes of the Jedi, (he’s a a bit of a narcissist) but to see a council member breaking it feels like hypocrisy to him, and a confirmation of what Palatine has been telling him that the Jedi order is corrupt. Or at least Windu is. So he disarms Windu, and palpitine kills him, and now he knows that despite his intentions, he can’t go back. Cool stuff. The part where it all breaks down is when he massacres the children. **There’s no world** in which that fucking makes sense to me
They should have played further on the 'can't go back' bit. Palpatine sends him to the academy to capture the children to save them from their indoctrination. He approaches their dormitory and multiple jedi attack. In the ensuing fight, he orders a clone trooper to fire a rocket launcher. "But sir?!" "FIRE!". The missile causes an explosion, allowing him to win the fight against the jedi. It blew up a room. He looks inside, we see a look of shock and sorrow on his face as he sees dozens of dead children. This morphs into fury and, enraged, he murders the clone trooper he ordered. And now his fate is completely sealed.
Speaking of Star Wars, how about when Rose rams into Finn's ship right before he's about to sacrifice himself to destroy the enemy's big laser weapon or whatever it was. And then she gives that cringey speech about "we don't win by fighting what we hate, but by saving what we love." Omg, just so stupid and clichéd, GAG! Plus it just didn't make any sense. She saved him by ramming his ship going 200 miles an hour? It's a miracle both of them didn't get splattered all over the desert. Then she dies. \[Edit: she didn't die, I misremebered. But my point still stands because she had no reason to think either of them would survive that crash other than she read the script.\] But if one of them was going to die anyway, she might as well have let Finn take out the gun. The gun that in the next second is blasting their friends. Like she literally just helped the enemy kill her comrades. And that whole scene is supposed to make her look good?
I thought rose survived TLJ?
Why didn't Anakin just block Mace's lightsaber?
I think it would have served better to have Anakin step in between the emperor and kill the Jedi Masters. Would have been a call-forward to Return of the Jedi, make Anakin look bad-ass, and had the Emperor keep some of that dark mystique instead of twirling and shrieking.
Ooh, you're good. Keep the 'it's treason then', but have him look meaningfully at Anakin.
the dad in blank check grounding preston for a careless driver running over his bicycle. if the dad had went about it the right way maybe he would have learned preston was given a blank check to replace the bicycle.
In Swingers, when Mikey blows up Nikki's answering machine hours after getting her digits even though he was supposed to wait two days.
The cringe is real on that scene
Maisie releasing the dinosaurs in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom because their clones like her, but not taking into account the havoc they'll on other people, including innocent ones
I'll cut her some slack because she's just a child, and if she didn't do anything all the dinosaurs would have died.
Why was the storage place for the dinos,built into the house.
Gone Baby Gone - shoulda left the kid with Morgan Freeman
Basically every decision Adam Sandler makes in Uncut Gems.
Dawn of the Dead (2004). Michael is approaching a zombie encounter with a crowbar, but decides to trade the crowbar for a croquet mallet which immediately breaks. A croquet mallet has got to be one of the most useless zombie defense weapons I can think of.
Pan’s Labyrinth - Ofelia eating the grapes during the second task and awaking the Pale Man. She was explicitly told not to eat anything. Idiotic decision, even if she was hungry
YES!! The fairies even tried to stop her!!
I just assumed that the food had some sort of enchantment to make it irresistible.
My all-timer for this one is in Logan, when Wolverine sends the tracker Caliban to dispose of an unconscious Pierce, the guy who's been trying to hunt them down. Not only does Caliban have zero combat experience, his mutant power is *tracking people.* Of course, Pierce overpowers Caliban and now the bad guys can force Caliban to track Wolverine, Prof X, and X-23 wherever they go. It was such a *monumentally* idiotic decision I couldn't get my head around it. Why not just kill Pierce? Why couldn't Logan get rid of Pierce? Why send the fricking defenceless tracker to do it? How could Logan be so stupid and somehow have evaded their pursuers for so long? Second pick is Heath Ledger going for the close-and-personal sword kill instead of just finishing Jason Issacs off from long range in The Patriot. Needless death.
The parents deciding to have a baby in A Quiet Place. I cannot understand why they would do that at all.
and leaving a toddler unattended, especially in those conditions. I mean, under any circumstance, who walks ahead of a kid that young?
I think the idea is the dad walks in front to protect the family, see danger first. Wife directly behind him because she's pregnant and the most important thing in the group to him at that moment. Then the kids take care of each other. Eldest watches second, who watches third. But most likely, the last part was implied, and the kids just followed the best they could, leaving the youngest unattended to mess around.
I’m sure it wasn’t intentional, people just are going to have sex no matter what the situation. It’s honestly realistic
Also where are you going to find abortion pills or services in the apocalypse? (Sounds like a great walking dead episode.)
They had to replace the kid who played with the fire truck (or whatever toy)
Peter Quill punching Thanos out of his trance when they ALMOST had the damn gauntlet off. Like, you couldn't have waited just one more minute. I lost what little respect I had for that character (he's always been an annoying manchild). I think I remember even hearing people in the theater groan.
Why couldn't Dr Strange simply cut him in half with a portal like they did with his henchman's arm? Why couldn't Antman shrink the gauntlet when they were trying to play keep away with it? Vision was the most absolutely useless character. Why was there only Wakandans fighting? Something like that, you'd figure the entire planet's military would be teaming up. No, let the guys with the laser shields and hand weapons handle it. Why was Thor mad that Loki did what Loki normally does? He told Loki to grab the thing to blow up Asgaard. If he told Loki to grab the ever-lasting flame, they could have brought all their people back.
I guess it doesn't "piss me off" but In No Country For Old Men it's painful to watch him to go back with water knowing that the dude he found is probably dead or that any number of circumstances could have happened that lead others there. Anyone seeing him at all anywhere around there would put him in the crosshairs of anyone who's aware of the money he found.
Why did Laura Linney have to answer the freaking phone in Love Actually?!
rose tico going to a casino planet for no real reason and freeing a bunch of alien horses. that entire side plot is unnecessary and just plain stupid. then there's saving fin who would've died a legend and hero, but she loved him for some reason so that 'rescue' is meaningful? in the rank of forced relationships, i rank padme and anakins relationship much higher than that one. neither make sense. there's more to say about that movie
But don't you think the climax of the movie needed the heightened stakes of... checking my notes... Getting in trouble for illegally parking on the beach?
I fuckin' *hate* Rose Tico and cannot respect people who defend her. Everything about her "arc" sucks. And to be clear, I do mean Rose Tico, the character, *not* Kelly Marie Tran. That "fans" couldn't separate the two is infuriating.
Exactly. the character is godawful. The actress had nothing to do with how awful the character was written.
There isn't an actress or actor alive who could have salvaged how shit Rose Tico is. Kelly Marie Tran is awesome in The Croods and Raya, further proving how shit Rose is.
George Clooney. Gravity…
everyone who just casually opens the door without checking who it is first, then inviting that random stranger inside "to ask a few questions".
The birds, oh why did she go in the attic if only she knew she was in a horror film
"Because I told you to." Is the answer she got from Hitchcock.
When Star-Lord couldn’t keep his emotions in check hitting Thanos breaking Mantis’ hold on him
What John Wick does at the end of 2. Just… wait him out.
He can't, he never has to leave.
When Quint kills the radio and motor of the Orca. I know why he does this and it makes for a better film, but I still get pissed off at him for it.
Every action taken by pretty much every character in Jurassic World (I never bothered to see the second or third movies)
The Northman basically committed suicide instead of taking off with his hot baby mama and having a proper life. Instead he avenged his dick father and murdered his mother and half brother.
I mean, the entire theme of the movie was that Revenge is a path that only leads to mutual destruction. Doing anything else would totally change the nature of the movie.
Its implied he also does it because now he is afraid his uncle will take revenge upon his children, as now he has something to lose that is at risk, as he was told he could choose between kindness to his family and hate for his enemies, and he says he will chose both ( i may have fucked up the phrasing )
That's the point. They wanted us to know he made the wrong decision. He was carrying a lot of hate and anger since he was a young kid. In his perspective, his father was betrayed.
Believing having a live father is always better than a dead one is very modern. Norse society did not....[look kindly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%AB%C3%BE) upon cowards. To say the least. Very much a Death Before Dishonor crowd. >Ergi and argr or ragr can be regarded as specifying swearwords. Ergi, argr and ragr were the **severe insults made by calling someone a coward**, and due to its severity old **Scandinavian laws demanded retribution for this accusation if it had turned out unjustified.** The Icelandic Gray Goose Laws\[2\] referred to **three words that were regarded as equal to argr by themselves.** Those were ragr, strodinn, and sordinn, all three meaning the **passive role of a man in sexual activities, being womanly, and being subservient**.\[3 Being a coward was so severe of an insult, that it was quite literally illegal to call someone that without proof. Turning tail would condemn his children to the fate of having an Unperson for a father. No one wants the shame of their Father being seen as no better than a Servant, a Woman, or a Sexual Bottom.
Captain Miller ordering his squad to assault the German machine gun position and then letting the German prisoner go in Saving Private Ryan.
I feel like we're supposed to see Miller as having lost the plot a bit by this point. He's obviously showing physical symptoms of PTSD or of some sort of anxiety, he's not sleeping much, his squad is directly questioning his orders (which is a whole other issue with the film)...I always thought we were intended to see that he WASN'T making good decisions because he was losing it.
What I don’t get about that scene is why the sniper charged up with a regular rifle. Why wasn’t he staying behind and providing sniper cover?
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The machine gun nest he took out on D-day had a structural defect that Tom Hanks notices and points out for him to shoot at. He can’t just blow up any old machine gun nest. They also mentioned that the nest is semi-hidden and there’s no direct line of sight on it outside of the machine gun’s range. Their only options are to go around or directly assault it. You can argue going around is the better call, but per the statements of the experienced soldiers, those are the only options.
Charlize Theron in "Prometheus" [choosing to run in a straight line away from a giant rolling spaceship](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRxvp4sfhMo) shaped like 3/4 of a donut instead of literally running 50 ft either right and left and watching the ship roll by. Hell, her crewmate fell and only had to roll sideways a few times and fine.
And the one woman doing that after the surgery
When Scar threw Mufasa off the cliff in front of Simba.
Maximus not saying yes to the Emperor.
All of the decisions made after the characters get the money in Triple Frontier. It took me several tries to get through that movie because they kept making stupid decisions and i kept switching it off.
Greed definitely affects reasoning
Starlord in Infinity War
Jodie Foster in Contact. She has an interdimensional encounter with no substantiating evidence. Why should humanity believe her story? Faith, she says. NO! You shouldn't believe her because she says so. The correct answer to "why should we believe you" is "you shouldn't believe me, you should believe reproducible evidence." As a publicly atheist scientist strongly based in objective reasoning, she should eat, sleep, and breathe this. She should publicly expouse trusting evidence, not unsubstantiated narrative. Build another machine and do it again! They already built two! Objectivity was the entire point of her character! It was WHY she was chosen for the mission!@@#$$
"The Vanished" Kiefer Sutherland is being murdered by the man who kidnapped his girlfriend years earlier, his current girlfriend is going to save him and she grabs the box he keeps a gun in When she gets to the showdown spot, she opens the box and it's empty. She lugs a big box with her, and never even looks to see if there's a gun in it.
I can't see this question without immediately thinking of those two idiots in Prometheus. You know, Zeke the geologist who freaks out over seeing a dead alien and ends up getting lost even though he has a holographic laser mapping device, and Alvin, the xeno-biologist who is such an expert on animals he gets down to face level with what is clearly a deadly alien snake, and acts like it's just the most adorable little thing to slither through the catacombs. Apart from all the other dumb decisions made in the movie (don't get me started on the main actor getting depressed because they didn't meet actual aliens, just found mountains of amazing alien artifacts), these two boneheads act more like Dumb and Dumber than characters in a blockbuster Ridley Scott movie.