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30 Movies That Could’ve Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit
Interview With Author
In order to enjoy a film, you need two things. A big bag of popcorn (with salt or caramel, your choice) and willingly suspending your disbelief for a couple of hours. That way, you can kick back, relax, and enjoy the show without illogical things making you irritated every few minutes.
However, quite a lot of movies and TV shows could end before the end of the first act if some of the characters were a bit smarter or relied on common sense. That’s what redditor RedstonekPL showed us with their viral thread where they asked people to share what movies could be resolved in 10 minutes if the main characters weren’t such fools.
Scroll down for Bored Panda's insightful interview with the author of the thread about why filmmakers make some characters very foolish, upvote your fave pics, and let us know in the comments if you know of any other films that would end quickly if the characters were a tad more rational. Oh, and a small note of warning: you might not be able to enjoy some of these movies on repeat viewings afterward.
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#1
The Little Mermaid.
Ariel: Daddy I love him!
King Triton: You don’t even know him!
Ariel: Good point.
postboredom 5 years ago
this could have worked for 50 shades too and twilight too and every single movie which is like them too..
Erica 5 years ago
I cheered when Elsa told her sister you can’t marry someone you just met!! 😂 I don’t care how cute the song was!
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Sherbaan Naab 5 years ago
You're expecting a teenage girl, that thinks she's in love, to be reasonable and rational? They should make a two hour movie about that, just so we could upvote it to the number one place in this thread.
Fire Breathing Queen 5 years ago
Oh my god. Love at first sight is in nearly every Disney movie ever. Urgh
PattonPawter 5 years ago
Or Ariel could have written a note to Eric telling him what happened. She did know how to write after all.
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#2
"50 Shades of Gray."
Ana - "You're an abusive stalker with serious emotional trauma. Seek help."
S. 5 years ago
Alternative plot to this trilogy: Everything is the same, except it's marketed as a psychothriller horror. Whether it ends with Ana escaping and writing a book about her experience, or teaming up with Christian, or perhaps turning out to be a secret agent performing a sting operation on him (my personal favourite) — it's all up to your imagination.
postboredom 5 years ago
okay, this sounds awesome. I would love to read it
Load More Replies... E Menendez 5 years ago
If he didn't have money and showed up in a white van instead of a helicopter the story would have a very different tone...
Hugo Raible 5 years ago
Both find that they are turned on by BDSM, negotiate boundaries and happily and consensually enjoy living their best lifes.
Łukasz Wydra 5 years ago
I searched for that comment. You, sir, are an awesome human being.
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The ring
Girl 1: “Hey do you wanna watch the tape that kills you in 7 days”
Girl 2: “No thanks”
Richard Brown 5 years ago
Picks up tape. Puts it in VCR. Records favourite program over it. The end.
Redditor RedstonekPL, whose real name is Timothy, told us all about what inspired them to create the thread and why some characters act really dumb.
“Pretty often in movies, the main character (or main characters) does something dumb. When that happens, I think to myself, ‘Man, if only they were a little bit smarter this would be a lot shorter.’ I wanted to spark some discussion about it on the internet, see other people's opinions and examples, and r/AskReddit is the best place for questions like that.”
According to Timothy, asking a question on the sub is like a lottery: you never know when your thread might go viral. “You can get nothing, get a lot, and anything in between. Although questions like this usually are more popular in the community, people there like to discuss stuff,” he said, adding that the awards he got were a total surprise to him.
#4
Sleeping Beauty
"Honey, we should invite Maleficent to our daughter's christening. I know she's the Mistress of All Evil, but it'd probably end up worse for us if we don't invite her."
glowworm2 5 years ago
Knowing how petty fairies were in French fairy tales, I'm 100% certain she'd still curse Aurora in some manner. Also, in the Perrault version, the fairy wasn't invited by accident. She had not left her tower for years so it was assumed that she had died. She was also pissed because even though she was welcomed in anyway, the other fairies had gotten special customary gold plates, and forks and knives with diamonds and rubies to eat with and she understandingly felt left out.
Erica 5 years ago
A rendition of it I saw as a child told it that there were 13 fairies in the kingdom and 13 gold plates on which to serve them but a servant broke one so the guest list had to be trimmed haha! I know there are a lot of logic issues with that but since it’s a warm memory for me that’s how I tell it to my kids 😆
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Flash Henry 5 years ago
or maybe..... I dunno... like keep her hidden for an extra year before blowing your cover with all the magicking for her 16th birthday
#5
All the crew had to do was listen to Ripley and not break quarantine
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
They did and ended up with face hugging masks.
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Pseudo Puppy 5 years ago
"But god gave us skin to protect us from the Alien's acidic blood. God gave me the right to do what I want. Ripley is a nazi / anti-facist by telling me to stay in quarantine. And I'm boooooooored!!!"
Patrick O'Harris 5 years ago
Damn, I could hear a noisy Karen voice saying that while I read it.
Load More Replies... Laugh or not 5 years ago
We know, now, why every horror/catastroph movie works. We always thought the characters were unbelievably stupid for not following safety protocols. But we, as a group, are really THAT stupid irl.
Pierre Carles 5 years ago
To be fully honest, Dan O'Bannon, who wrote the screenplay, made things much subtler than the crew simply being dumb and breaking quarantine. If you remember well, it is Ash, the Science Officer, who manually opens the door in spite of Ripley's order not to do so. We later learn that he is, in fact, an undercover android set up by the Company, with the instruction to get the alien specimen onboard regardless of all other considerations. So, no scenario's dumbness in Alien !
MrTree1779 5 years ago
"There's a signal coming from the planet surface." --- "Okay, send down a probe. Let's not take any chances..."
Richard Brown 5 years ago
*Detects emergency signal* *Team lands and see's derelict ship from a safe distance* "Well, looks like we are too late by about a thousand years. Let's go back to the ship and carry on with the trip" *Returns to Nostromo and continues journey*
#6
Literally not picking Anakin to be Padme bodyguard when the sexual tension between them is thicker than Jabba.
Hans 5 years ago
"Pick up line: do you want to see where my dark side is?"
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Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 5 years ago
This story arc always creeps me out. she was already an adult and knew him as a 9 year old. I don't have issue with age differences - my husband is 7 years my senior - but he didn't meet me till I was 24.
Surfing Panda 2 years ago
Well... I've been had plenty of sexual tensions for the wrong girls... so, I understand.
Timothy pondered that filmmakers make some characters intentionally foolish for a variety of reasons. “In my opinion, there are 3 types of foolish characters. Some characters are foolish because without them the movie wouldn't exist. Some characters' foolishness is a part of their personality. And some characters sometimes do stupid things once or twice to make the viewer laugh.”
He continued: “There are some movies where not being dumb wouldn't be boring, but there are some films, where one or two foolish actions are required to even start it. A good example for the former is a stereotypical horror film where some characters enter some kind of an abandoned house and then read out loud some kind of ancient curse or whatever from a book with a note saying, "Do not open," and then get attacked.”
#7
Twilight. "Stop staring at me you vitamin D deficient creep" DONE
Flisey 5 years ago
I have one daughter that loved these movies and another who hates sparkly vampires
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
Well u atleast did a good job with one daughter. I hope u fighure out which before it's too late
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Nothanks L. Walk 5 years ago
Sigh. It's not a vitamin D deficiency just because he doesn't look like a fieldworker.
J W 5 years ago
FELLOW LORD OF THE RINGS LOVERS, this one's for you... Samwise-an...22964.jpeg 
#8
Well, if Voldemort had conjured a shotgun to kill Harry Potter, not even a mother's love would have saved him from that. But noooo, he had to be all melodramatic and Avada Kedavra the little Chosen One...
Shelp 5 years ago
I mean, every time he had used the Avada Kedavra until then has perfectly worked, so...
Dragonfruit'nrollerskates 5 years ago
He also cared quite a bit about HP's education, I mean waiting til the end of every school year?
Tovah Roche 5 years ago
Implausible. Voldemort despised Muggles. It's highly unlikely he'd used one of their tools. Even to do his dirty work.
Blue of the yams (They/He) 5 years ago
Or: Harry and his friends do as they are told. A lot of bad things could have been avoided.
MantisKeeper 5 years ago
but they have no idea how guns work. they describe it as a "metal wand that muggles use to kill each other".
Stephen Branley 4 years ago
Yes. The title was changed in the US (and other non-English speaking countries). No idea why.
Load More Replies... PattonPawter 5 years ago
Well Voldemort is actually smart. If muggle police come, they’ll find no evidence-no blood, poison, wounds, burn marks, etc. He’s not being melodramatic, he’s being cunning(like a true Slytherin) and covering up his tracks.
#9
"Huh. I can't see the indominus rex. Let me just take a look at the GPS tracking device. Oh. It's in the cage but invisible. Better not open any doors or go inside."
Richard Brown 5 years ago
Walks perimeter checking for footprints made by a 10 tonne dinosaur. Sees none "It's still in there"
Joeshar 5 years ago
Just like Deep Blue Sea. Is there no other animal/dino to make it smarter? Why do they choose always the deadliest ones?
Erica 5 years ago
Agree! They need to start these intellectual tests on something like snails....atleast then if it goes wrong you can outrun it!
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Bacony Cakes 5 years ago
This whole thing could've been avoided if they just made lizard people by smacking the DNA of a People and a Raptor until you get something presentable, but NO! We have to combine high intelligence with the largest god-damn carnivore of all time! Why not just test an RMBK reactor while you're at it? Or turn an airship in stormy weather? Or how about you put weird alien crystals into a poorly aimed explosion laser?!?
The redditor said that another stereotypical example of this would be a horror movie where the characters get warned by the locals not to enter an abandoned, haunted house, but they do it anyway. If the characters didn’t do this, there would be no need for the movie in the first place.
Bored Panda also wanted to learn more about Timothy’s viewing preferences. “To be honest, I'm a person who would rather watch a TV series rather than a movie. When I do watch one, it's a comedy, so being stupid is basically required.”
They added: “I just want to tell everyone, that y'all should watch anything you want, don't let anyone insult you for what you watch.”
#10
"Don't swim to the drop-off, nemo"
"ok dad"
CREDITS
#11
Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory: The kid finds the golden ticket and sells it to another rich, spoiled kid. Easy millions, they are not poor anymore and he wouldn't have a trauma because of the dying kids in the factory
postboredom 5 years ago
by the way, i love the word scrumdidilyumptious. Thats what im gonna call chocolate ice cream now
Ronnie Beaton 5 years ago
Fun Fact: Roald Dahl wanted Spike Milligan to play Wonka. But he was overruled by the producers who felt Gene Wilder was more marketable.
#12
If Mr. and Mrs. Bueller were anything like my parents, the movie would have been called “Ferris Bueller’s Day at School”
Some Cool Guy 5 years ago
Charlie Sheen's best part. He pulled off smooth druggy so well somehow.
postboredom 5 years ago
and at tuition. and at band. and at dance. and at bed at 12am after 3 hours of homework
RedstonekPL’s thread got over 73.5k upvotes, more than 23k comments, and got 112 awards (which had us thinking whether Christmas has come early since everyone’s in such a giving mood).
If everyone were perfect and behaved rationally, movies would end very quickly because problems would get solved or avoided almost immediately. However, this would make for incredibly boring movies.
In fact, you could argue that the essence of any film (or any story, to be honest) is that there are challenges and issues to overcome and that things don’t go according to plan.
#13
Elrond should have just stabbed Isildur the instant he said, "no"
Jon S. 5 years ago (edited)
The eagles would not go to mt doom for 2 canon reasons I know of. 1) They were frightened by the nazgul. 2) As messengers of the gods, they were forbidden from taking over mortal affairs, just like gandalf was. They could only offer guidance and small helps.
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#14
Lion King- “don’t listen to Scar, Simba. He wants to be king through any means necessary. And nobody goes to that gorge to practice their roars.”
Dragonfruit'nrollerskates 5 years ago
"I just can't wait to be King" is basically "can't wait for Dad to die," so I mean the whole movie would've gone that route eventually
glowworm2 5 years ago
He was a little kid though. I don't quite think he realized that when he became king, his father would no longer be around.
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AflyingSquirrel 5 years ago
but musafa was mean to scar during the younger years and Musafa is the favorite one in the family
Grace Skerp 5 years ago
Ah Scar ... Bro, I've appointed you our ambassador to the Komodo Dragon kingdom
#15
Tangled, if Mother Gothel had simply given Rapunzel a different birthday in the first place, she never would have thought the lanterns were "for her"
Shelp 5 years ago
Or she could just have kept with the right birthday (it's always easier not to lie as to remember a lie), and said that the lanterns were there because of some sort of unrelated patriotic public holiday or whatever
Monday 5 years ago
Or she could have used the lanterns to help her remember the lie and said her birthday was actually the day after the lanterns.
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N G 5 years ago
Ok, so given that it's a Disney movie so there has to be a suspension of belief right off the bat, Rapunzel has remarkable focus and movement for an hours-old newborn. So maybe the first lanterns were not on her birthday (coz a traumatic pregnancy/birth and *of course* the queen is in a fit state to get dressed up to go out on the balcony to send up a lantern), but as a formal announcement to the rest of the kingdom. And the subsequent lanterns are on the anniversary of her kidnapping in the hope of bringing her home. Gothel just compounded the whole thing by making up the birthday link.
Science fiction author James Blish coined and film critic Roger Ebert popularized the term ‘idiot plot’ where everything could be resolved in the blink of an eye if the characters weren’t, well, ‘idiots.’
Idiot plots don’t allow thinking, asking the right questions, or behaving like a normal human being, otherwise, the plot would fall apart. No plot. No movie. No big blockbuster and millions of dollars in revenue.
However, keep in mind that far from everyone behaves rationally all the time in real life: we don’t magically solve all of our problems even though we could. If we suddenly found out that we’re the protagonists in our own movies, is there something that we’d do differently? Would our movies end in 10 minutes or 10 hours?
#16
Batman Begins
The Waynes shouldn't have left through the side exit of the theater. Just call Alfred and wait out front.
Henry Cheves 5 years ago
Batman was once given a chance to go back in time and save his parents, but he realized that all the people he had saved from death as Batman would die, so he had to be miserable for others to survive.
Fajar Kurniawan 5 years ago
I always wonder why they choose to exit via dark alley at the first place
Mark 5 years ago
Maybe but there were telephones, you know, those old fashioned things with wires attached to them ;)
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Aladdin. If Jafar would have just paid Aladdin what he promised him instead of betraying him at the cave, he would have had the lamp and become king be mighty powerful. Aladdin just wanted his money in return for the lamp.
postboredom 5 years ago
but he wouldnt meet jasmine, then he wouldnt sing a whole new world and he wouldnt get a true happily-ever-after..
glowworm2 5 years ago
He already met Jasmine though. The reward might have helped him get into society and get to know her better without the help of the genie though.
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ispeak catanese 5 years ago
But we'd miss out on the Genie! Nobody puts Robin Williams in a corner!
#18
Frozen.
The parents completely isolated Elsa from the world, leaving her with insecurity and anxiety. They also seemingly neglected Anna as her behavior was never in check, which is why she continuously butted her way into Elsa's space when she CLEARLY needed some time alone to clear her head. Maybe if they two actually talked instead of Anna's near assault on Elsa, something could've been worked out that didn't include running away and getting hypothermia in a semi-frozen river.
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
U mean they should have let it all go. Let it go. The cold never bothers me anyway
#19
Cars.
If Lighting McQueen listened to his crew and changed his tires as ordered, he could have won the race.
#20
Not a movie, but breaking bad would have worked out much better for Walt if he had just swallowed his pride and allowed his old friend to pay for his cancer treatment.
Laetitia Astolfi 5 years ago
Or if he lived in a country with proper healthcare where he wouldn't have had to pay in the first place...
Katinka Min 5 years ago
One good thing about the crazyness of the US: It makes for fantastic movies. my country is safe and incredibyl boring - so are most of its movies.
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Marie 5 years ago
Breaking bad in Europe: you have cancer. You need to have chemo treatment. It is covered by public insurance. The. End.
Dave P 5 years ago
And this is proof you never actually saw the series. He NEVER made meth to pay for his treatment, rather he is making Meth to provide for his family when he dies. He very early on gives up on trying to live as the chances of recover was slim. The whole plot was about him making money to support his loved ones when he is gone, not anything to do with paying for treatment. Proof all those commenting as well never watched the series
NMN 5 years ago
Before I moved to US, if I died of cancer (and had husband/kids at the time) they would receive a pension until my kids turned 18 or 21 (don't remember). Also I would not need to work during the treatment period. I guess Europe, Canada and other places would have something similar
Load More Replies... Richard Brown 5 years ago
Set in the UK. Gets free at access healthcare and does not need to pay for his treatments
Faith Hurst-Bilinski 5 years ago
People still think this was about medical payments? He had insurance. He had the ability to get money if he wanted more than the treatment he was offered. He wanted to live before he died.
Pierre Carles 5 years ago
Breaking Bad in France: Walt _ "I have just been diagnosed with cancer." Oncologist _" I have an appointment for you next week to start chemotherapy. A medicalised car will drive you to the clinic for each session and drive you back home afterwards, so you can rest and maximise your chances of recovery. In the meantime, send this document to your employer for your 6-month full-pay medical leave. See you next week." Walt _ "How much do I owe you ?" Oncologist _ "Check with my secretary. I believe the copayment is around $10. The rest is taken care of by universal health care." End credits.
#21
The Matrix. If Neo had just taken the blue pill and lived out his miserable days like the rest of us
Joeshar 5 years ago
Maybe that happened hundreds of times. Buy this is the story of a guy who has chosen the red pill.
earringnut 5 years ago
Maybe Neo said no a hundred times before but this is the story of the one and only time he said yes.
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Malwin Wellham 2 years ago
That was case with all the other humans who were plugged in. Simply living their lives hooked into the Matrix.
Jeremy 5 years ago (edited)
They showed him miserable, but many people are happy and satisfied
Hugo Raible 5 years ago
There is a movie called "The Red Pill". It's an eye opener, watch it if you care about feminism.
#22
School of rock - Mrs Mullins: Can I see your ID mr Sheebly? Dewey: Uh sorry I don’t have it Mrs Mullins: Sorry you won’t be able to teach the kids unless you have proof you’re a teacher/who you are! CREDITS
#23
Star Wars Episode 1. Not exactly 10 minutes, but, Padme could have bought Anakin's mom and he would have probably never turned to the Dark Side.
Republic credits may not be worth much on Tatooine, but im sure one of her jewel encrusted headdresses is.
Malwin Wellham 2 years ago
Mother Shmi Skywalker could have done little to protect Anakin from Palpatine's influence. Palpatine fooled the senate and the Jedi council. Manipulating Anakin was easy.
#24
The Visit:
Kids: "We're going to visit our grandparents."
Mom: "I don't want you to go, but if you feel like you really want to go, I'll drive you to their house."
Mom: "Hey, y'all ain't my parents. I'm calling the police."
The end.
François Carré 5 years ago
I actually found the whole plot of this movie pretty stupid. And in the end the kid still finds the guts to throw a funny rap song about the creepy old man who spread his own s**t on his face before trying to kill him. Come on.
#25
Back to the Future. The man stored plutonium in his garage. Anyone willing to do that should be throwing off red flags like candy at a parade.
Marty: "I'm sorry Crazy Old Man with tons of potentially dangerous and toxic crap in your garage, you want me to do what? At 1am? On a school night? Yeah, no can do, got a test tomorrow."
Headline the next morning: "Local Crazy Person Gunned Down By Terrorists at Hill Valley Mall. Police Reportedly Not Surprised As He Was Really Crazy and Into Weird Stuff."
Marty: "Well huh, glad I didn't go to the mall."
The end.
Mark 5 years ago
"The man stored plutonium in his garage" did he? Remember him getting it out of a case in the parking lot but don't remember him keeping it in his garage although I suppose it was unlikely he kept it in the fridge :)
John Smith 5 years ago
In the opening scene there's a box for holding radioactive material under the bed.
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Marty didn't know about the plutonium until he was already at the mall, so this aversion wouldn't have worked. My version: Doc Brown gives the terrorists a convincing but fake nuclear bomb. As a result, they're not angry with him and never show up at the mall to kill him, he goes to the future as planned, and Marty never uses the time machine. The first movie is completely averted.
#26
Gremlins, if the idiot had only followed the rules!
Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 5 years ago
You can just buy the furby that give the kids same kind of nightmare without all the mess.
MrTree1779 5 years ago
"Don't feed him after midnight." -- "After midnight, and until....? When." --- "Oh, yes. Until 3am. No feeding between midnight and 3am. Sorry."
Richard Brown 5 years ago
Old guy: Ok, the rules. 1. No bright lights Dad: Ok Old guy: No feed after midnight Dad: Right no probs Old guy: No get wet Dad: Got ya. No baths or walks in the rain Old guy: Always wear mask Dad: WHAT! Are you trying to deny me my freedom! I will snap you old man!
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Gizmo keeps quiet and still when Dad arrives and stays that way until he leaves
#27
Forget movies, How I Met Your Mother took 9 years, a 5 min story....
Misterscooter 5 years ago
How I tell my kids all about the sexual escapades of myself and their "aunts and uncles."
Malwin Wellham 2 years ago
How I met your mother, is not about the mother. It is about aunt Robin. The mother was a misdirection all along.
MrTree1779 5 years ago
"Did you know I met your mother at a bus station, or something? And, can I date Robin?" --- "Why are you asking us? You're our father, and a grown adult. Act like it and date who you want."
#28
The Blair Witch Project, just walk downstream
Richard Brown 5 years ago
"Wanna go look for a witch in some creepy woods or stay at home in the warm and play xbox/playstation?" "Let's stay at home. I'll put the kettle on"
Daniel Callaway 5 years ago
THat's what I was thinking when I wasted my money on this stupid movie!!!!
#29
Emperor’s New Groove
Yzma originally says that she could just turn him into a flea, put that flea in a box, put that box into another box, and eventually send it to herself so she could smash it with a hammer.
Then she says to save on postage, she’ll just use poison which ends up not being poison. Even if she went with the original plan he’d be a flea, and, for all intents and purposes, out of the picture pretty instantly. Yzma screwed herself trying to save like a quarter.
PattonPawter 5 years ago
Or she could have just put the flea in one box and smashed it with a hammer.
#30
Avatar the Last Airbender movie. It could have been 0 mins long if M. Night Shyamalan had been smart.
Jayne Kyra 5 years ago
Look into this nice light and repeat after me: "There is no The Last Airbender movie."
person guy 5 years ago
there is no last air-bender movie and there is no war in ba sing se.
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#31
Inside out. In the scene where Sadness and Joy meet the two workers in the long term, they send the gum commercial memory through the wall (the little flap that opens if you push a memory through it)and up to headquarters. Idk why they didn’t think of sending the core memories through that instead.
Henry Cheves 5 years ago
Also, why do all the emotions in other people's heads have special physical traits while Riley's look generic?
#32
Robert: Ned come with me to king's landing
Ned: No.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
Caitlin Stark: Bran don’t climb the wall Bran: yes mother. Roll credits
ƒιѕн 5 years ago
I want to know about two of these swords in the Iron Throne, left and right of center. One on the left looks like Glamdring, one on the right looks like the sword from Robinhood. I could be wrong got-5f563e...d08447.jpg 
Jon S. 5 years ago
I know Glamdring is in there, so I think you are right on that one. I don't know about the other, but it wouldn't surprise me if you are right about that as well!
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#33
Home alone - yeah sick just forget about one of your kids.
Home alone 2 - congratulations on learning from your mistakes and managing to get your kid to the airport this time...and he’s gone.
#34
UP! The dude should have sold! The property was worth a whole bunch and it would have been worthwhile to even just pick up and move the house if he was so attached to it, which as evidenced by the movie was a solution he would have been perfectly ok with.
PattonPawter 5 years ago
Well he and Ellie basically built that house together. It’s the only reminder of Ellie he has, it’s like refusing to get rid of something because it reminds you of your friend who moved away.
#36
28 days later.
How about we don't let the diseased rage monkey out of the cage?
Colin L 5 years ago
Nope. PETA would kill it... they have some deep problems in their ethics and euthanize waaaaaay more than their mission advertises.
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#37
Reservoir Dogs:
"I dunno, Joe. This heist seems kinda risky and dangerous."
"Yeah, I'm not actually sure everyone in this crew is on the up and up. IT'S OFF!"
Some Cool Guy 5 years ago
I haven't heard "Stuck in the middle with you" the same way ever since.
#38
Gone with the Wind.
If Ashley had just told Scarlett in plain English that he loved Melanie then Scarlett would have given up chasing him. Instead he would say things like, she’s like me, we’re blood (they were cousins), we understand each other, etc. Scarlett misinterpreted that to mean he didn’t ‘love’ her, but was marrying her for other reasons.
It wasn’t until the end that after Melanie died that Scarlett realized Ashley loved Melly and not her. She wasted years of her life on something that could have been cleared up with a simple phrase.
MrTree1779 5 years ago
Some people can't ever take a hint, no matter how plainly stated. In her mind, Scarlet didn't see Ashley as anything but an image of what she wanted. --- Ashley, "Scarlet. You're an awful person, and I'm in love with Melanie. Stay away from us." --- Scarlet's mind: "Ash-leh is just playin' hard ta get. Ah know he is."
#39
IT
"they float, Georgie, and when you're down here with me, you'll float, too!"
Nah! float yourself. Bye
Credits
Richard Brown 5 years ago
It's just a paper boat. I'll get my brother to make me a new one. We are close and he will understand creepy sewer clown. Bye
Monday 5 years ago
EXACTLY! They were close. George could totally have apologized for losing the boat and Bill would've just made him another one.
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Not the main character but : Dont reopen the beach for the holiday weekend in Jaws
#41
Frozen
Anna: Why do you shut me out?
Elsa: Enough, Anna.
Anna: Okay we are gonna discuss it later in private.
#42
Star Wars - After discovering that Anakin could be very powerful with the force, but had a lot of fear and attachment issues over his mother. The council sends Obi-Wan back to Tatooine to buy his mother out of slavery and relocate her to Corrsscant in a safe neighbor hood.
Anakin now knows that even without him in the picture his mother will live a safe and happy life and can detach from her much more easily than leaving her alone on a savage world, and even if he isn't able to fully detach from her he never has the impetus to slaughter the sand people and kick start his descent to the darkside.
It's not a sure plan, but certainly one that would produce a version of Anakin who ends up resenting the jedi just a little less. Maybe even enough to no slaughter younglings in the future.
Richard Brown 5 years ago
Obi-Wan looks at Anakin, smiles, and walks away not saying a word. He does not know he is strong with the force and no else has noticed and never will
SykesDaMan 5 years ago
In this plan you're taking the risk that he'll be taken (no pun intended, Liam Neeson) by a Sith someday instead.
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Harry Potter, if Voldemort had just yeeted baby Harry against a wall
Monday 5 years ago
This doesn't really makes sense. Voldy had no way of knowing the killing curse wouldn't work. However he could have simply conjured a gun and shot the little bugger when he was VoldyQuirrel and his problems would have been solved.
PattonPawter 5 years ago
Well Voldemort is cunning, like a true Slytherin. He uses Avada Kedavra because if police investigate, they’ll find no wounds, blood, poison, burn marks, etc.
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#44
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. If they had just paid attention in class all year and written their damn essay, we wouldn’t have had one of the greatest movies of all time.
#45
The Purge.
Just stay in the secure, fortified house.
#46
Alice in Wonderland = if she had just stopped following the goddamn rabbit
Richard Brown 5 years ago
Alice asks for a second opinion and her doctor realises the drugs would have given her hallucinations
#47
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Just portkey Harry to the graveyard right off the bat, you fool.
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
It wasn't done by petigrew .it was done by Barty crouch Jr. And no he couldn't just portkey Harry out of Hogwarts. There r enchantments around Hogwarts against anyone coming in or out. U cannot just go with magical means without lifting them. And those r lifted by Dumbledore or with his knowledge
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Lukáš Záleský 5 years ago
Harry: „Screw your tournament! I didnt put my name in goblet, I am not competing!“
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
I hate it when people who haven't read comment on it. The cup doesn't care. It is magically binding . U cannot run away. Not without cancelling the whole tournament. Which Dumbledore told them to do, nobody listened. Even with that nobody knows if it was possible or not.
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The Martian
All six astronauts are fools, as are all the planners at NASA. If it were even remotely possible that the Lander could be toppled in a Martian windstorm, the first order of business upon landing would have been to tie it down, secure against such a threat.
Mark 5 years ago
It doesn't matter, it still exceeds the maximum tilt angle at one point and doesn't fall over anyway.
Henry Cheves 5 years ago
But that was because it was being controlled. If it was strapped down, they wouldn't have had to leave the Hab and get Mark stabbed.
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brukernavn340 5 years ago (edited)
If the dust storm actually had been realistic, none of it would have happened.
Nevits Yibble 5 years ago
Yep. There's barely any air at all on Mars, so even 100km/h winds would feel like a light breeze.
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#49
Meet the Parents
Ben Stiller be like, "Could everyone settle down and give me a chance to explain?"
#50
Evil Dead films.
"Whoa, creepy book, should we read from it?"
"Nah."
Richard Brown 5 years ago
Realistically, How would anyone in the group know how to pronounce the ancient Sumerian text? "What does it say Ash?" "Klattooo Berratta Neckt***cough cough cough***" "You don't know do you?" "Not a bloody clue"
Bárbara Magalhães 5 years ago
They didn't! In the first film, they hear a tape recorded by the archeologist that discovered the Necronomicon, in which he says the words 🤦♀️
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#51
The Hunger Games. Could have avoided a whole series of the older sister would have let the younger one go. She dies anyway.
Anxious Pansexual Nightmare 5 years ago
That’s unfair. Katniss couldn’t have known, and it was heroic, and... I’m getting over-protective of a book again aren’t I?
MrTree1779 5 years ago
Watch "The Running Man" instead. Same story, but better acted, more fun, better predicted the future, and it's not based on a teen novel. And it stars Schwarzenegger!
#52
Fatal Attraction. If he hadn’t slept with her, the movie would have ended after the office meeting.
#53
Over the Hedge. RJ decided to be a dum-dum and steal all of the bear's food. Like what did he think would happen even if he didn't accidentally wake him up the bear would still have woken up a week later and probably would've known it was RJ
#54
John Wick.
If Theon would have just killed John (considering they screwed hun up pretty bad), not only would we not have gotten three movies, but Theon would be known as the person who killed Baba Yaga.
Being the son of a crime lord AND world wide recognition for killing the most famous assassin on the planet would make the Tarasov family untouchable.
#55
Jumanji next level. Bro Spencer you idiot.
Anxious Pansexual Nightmare 5 years ago
Half the things on this list are like, learn communication skills
#56
The Hangover movies.. don't roofie your friends.
Madison Feehan 5 years ago
Yeah you probably shouldn't roofie your friends. But it doesn't matter because I love those movies and I want a part 4!
#58
Jurassic Park if Hammond actually spared no expense.
#59
Not the main character, but Star Wars.
The Empire grabs Leia's ship and the droids escape in a capsule.
"There's no life forms. Hold your fire. No, wait. Droids exist in this universe and could be carrying those plans Vader wants. Let's pull that ship in or dispatch some TIE Fighters to intercept it or something.
A short time later
"Sir, we pulled apart those droids. The golden one was useless, but the astromech had the plans."
Vader: "Excellent. You will be rewarded for this."
Richard Brown 5 years ago
*Shoots capsule* Storm trooper: I'm getting better at this. I didn't miss... god I'm bored
Jyri Hakola 5 years ago
”Target all turbolaser batteries to that disabled corellian corvette”... *boom* ”sir, the plans are now evaporated”
#60
Rent
"Hey, mom, Mark here. I'm sorry, it didn't work out, I'm being evicted, can I go home again?"
Credits
#61
Thor 1. Thor, don't go fight the ice people. You also made Loki into a bad guy.
#62
She’s the man. Sorry, you’re very clearly a girl dressed as a boy. Do you even go here? CREDITS
Anxious Pansexual Nightmare 5 years ago
She could have been trans or just looked kind of like a girl. In real life not many people would comment on it
#63
Dude where's my car. Just actually attempt to look for the car. You're a stoner, you know you lose stuff
#64
Get Out. His friend Rod tells him never to go to a white girls parents house. Warns him multiple times while he's there to leave.
#65
Taken, but not the main character. Don't let your teenage daughters go to a foreign city by themselves. Movie, over.
Monday 5 years ago
They didn't know they were going to be alone though. They were supposed to be with the dead girl's adult cousins...but yeah maybe speak with the cousins before allowing the trip.
Nicolas Schirvel 2 years ago
Adding the fact that we don't have those type of "pretty american girl" abduction cartel in France... Mob make girl coming from east Europe... Less risk of having american law inforcement involved since there is a mutual help contrat between both countries DOJ
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Jack should have just let Rose jump off.
Monday 5 years ago
but it would have prevented this version of the movie, since Rose couldn't have told her story then
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Labyrinth.
At the start our protagonist meets a bug and ask where to go, not where to get to the castle. The bug said to the right, and when she left the bug said, if you go to the left you will end up in the troll castle.
Final score:
8points
Nicole Tomme 5 years ago
No even before that if she had just been a good sister instead of wishing to get rid of her baby brother nothing would have happened.
Luna Wolfblood 4 years ago (edited)
Castle Beyond the Goblin City. And it’s a worm. And he said ‘ello not hello
#68
Brandt: "Here's your rug back, Lebowski." Lebowski: "I'm The Dude, man." Bowling, weed, Bob Dylan, roll credits.
#69
Batman: the dark knight.
if the bank manager with the shotgun had some training and been a better shot, he could have iced the joker and boom, roll credits.
#70
Moana the god damn ocean could've defeated the thing and restored the heart
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
God. This movie is straight up hole. It's not even a plot. The least they could have done is give some kind of story that it is needs to be restored by a human or the perpetrator (Maui). Por example. I donot understand people who think it's has a story or better than frozen
AflyingSquirrel 5 years ago
maui is actually a god in the legends of the hawaii people and actually Moana is a male god of the sea.
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Uncut Gems. Auction the damn opal, pay off your debt, divorce your wife after passover, DONE
#72
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn.
"They're not responding to our hails."
"Ok, raise shields."
Enterprise easily wins battle
MrTree1779 5 years ago
Terrell and Chekov see the energy reading on the dyno-scanner, and decide that it doesn't match what they want. They decide to keep searching for a suitable planet. Khan and Co. remain on the planet. Movie over.
#73
Short Circuit.
You build 11 million dollar robots armed with a deadly laser but you don't prepare for the possibility that they might be captured and reprogrammed by the enemy or possibly your own competition?
#74
The main antagonist in Suicide Squad is a member of the team, Enchantress, who turned out to be evil and gains power thanks to some magic MacGuffin that the lady running the team uses to control her. Literally the entire plot of Suicide Squad wouldn't have happened if they didn't bother assembling the suicide squad.
#76
Avengers infinity war. As soon as Maw and Cull landed in new York Dr Strange could have used the time stone repeatedly to his advantage.
Nela Rothenbach 5 years ago
Wouldn't he just create a new timeline but his timeline would still be messed up?
PattonPawter 5 years ago
For those of you who keep saying “oh just go back in time and kill baby Thanos” time travel doesn’t work like that. Each thing changed in the past creates an alternate reality. So if they do that that means there’s an alternate reality in which Thanos is dead.
Richard Brown 5 years ago
Dr Strange travels back in time to Thanos's mother and father and keeps c**k blocking them. Thanos is never born.
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
Shame I like his solution of killing half population. Seems things got better. But than humans r incapable of looking beyond themselves. Filthy blood
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Remember when Starlord got mad and started smacking Thanos in the face? We could’ve skipped Endgame tbh
postboredom 5 years ago
and-and widow wouldnt have sacrificed herself...*wails like a banshee*
#78
The Incredibles, had Mr. Incredible just rolled with incrediboy for a little bit
PattonPawter 5 years ago
Well mr incredible knows that superhero jobs can get pretty dangerous. He didn’t want buddy to get hurt, plus buddy kept pissing him off.
Damon Gates 5 years ago
Also, the lawsuit by the guy with the thwarted suicide didn't have a case. After all, paramedics foil suicides as a matter of course, clock out, and go home.
#79
Star Wars The Last Jedi, if Hux had just ordered the dreadnaught to fire on any Capital ships in range the whole movie would have been over bad guys won.
#81
The Lorax. Brother could've lived in blissful ignorance, but sometimes a kid's gotta listen to his d*ck over his brain.
#82
[Darth Sidous looks into Space, Bathroom Mirror (it's very spooky)] Darth Sidous: Alright Palp, it's go time. Just call Rey on the Space Phone and tell her where you are. Don't send assassins, that might not get her to come here. Don't send Darth whats his face to kill her, that might end terribly. When she gets here, just tell her you killed her parents. Don't say you want to possess her. Don't say you want her to kill you. You got this, just tell here where you are, and let her kill you. She already wants to do that. You got this, don't f*ck it up.
Final score:
4points
#83
Avengers Endgame. If that rat touched the buttons in a different order then Scott wouldn't have come back.
Robert Bailey 5 years ago
Last week it wouldn't have looked like Danai Gurira is saying a prayer for Chadwick Boseman. This week context is different.
What do you think ?
Gene Perry 5 years ago
Big Bang Theory ... when Leonard meets Sheldon to sublet a room, realizes the Sheldon is a nutjob, leaves and finds another apartment w/o a roommate.
earringnut 5 years ago
It takes place in LA... So he finds another way to find an apartment w/ a roommate.
Load More Replies... Blarrg 5 years ago
Just wanted to thank everyone for not mentioning the hyper-cliched "Just have the giant eagles fly you straight to Mount Doom instead of walking there."
William Teach 5 years ago
Not a movie, but, Game of Thrones, where everyone tells Jon Snow that there's a reason for that big freaking wall, namely, stopping the white walkers, which had worked for thousands of years, so, stop trying to build an army, stop trying to capture one, just let the wall do its job.
Monday 5 years ago
Or if Ned's wife (I forgot her name) had just asked Ned to give Jon the Stark name like she was going to if he survived his sickness and hadn't changed her mind about it. He would never have gone to the wall in the first place. He would have lived blissfully as Jon Stark.
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⚞ Katniss Everdeen ⚟ 5 years ago
The Hunger Games: Effie Trinket moves her hand slightly to the left or right on Reaping Day.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 5 years ago
The bad guys / monster / nasties are outside! Don't go outside! Credits. Any horror movie ever.
Ronnie Beaton 5 years ago
Avengers Infinity War - bombard Thanos' army with tear gas and flashbang grenades, then while they're distracted... Cap: "Hey, Bucky, take this .50 cal sniper rifle, go to the top of the tallest building you can find with a good view of the battlefield, and when Thanos appears, shoot him in the head with these armour piercing depleted Uranium bullets."
Shosh Grinberg 5 years ago
"speed" - the bomb on the bus gets turned off only after passing a certain speed. the bus in just starting. kiano is running after the bus but sandra doesnt stop. she passes the speed and the bomb is active. kiano is a policeman. he has a gun. if he ohly shot the wheels before she speeds.....
Laura Deckers 5 years ago (edited)
The bus driver was driving at that time, not Sandra. But I understand what you mean. That would have worked. LLAP
Load More Replies... Gene Perry 5 years ago
Big Bang Theory ... when Leonard meets Sheldon to sublet a room, realizes the Sheldon is a nutjob, leaves and finds another apartment w/o a roommate.
earringnut 5 years ago
It takes place in LA... So he finds another way to find an apartment w/ a roommate.
Load More Replies... Blarrg 5 years ago
Just wanted to thank everyone for not mentioning the hyper-cliched "Just have the giant eagles fly you straight to Mount Doom instead of walking there."
William Teach 5 years ago
Not a movie, but, Game of Thrones, where everyone tells Jon Snow that there's a reason for that big freaking wall, namely, stopping the white walkers, which had worked for thousands of years, so, stop trying to build an army, stop trying to capture one, just let the wall do its job.
Monday 5 years ago
Or if Ned's wife (I forgot her name) had just asked Ned to give Jon the Stark name like she was going to if he survived his sickness and hadn't changed her mind about it. He would never have gone to the wall in the first place. He would have lived blissfully as Jon Stark.
Load More Replies... ⚞ Katniss Everdeen ⚟ 5 years ago
The Hunger Games: Effie Trinket moves her hand slightly to the left or right on Reaping Day.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 5 years ago
The bad guys / monster / nasties are outside! Don't go outside! Credits. Any horror movie ever.
Ronnie Beaton 5 years ago
Avengers Infinity War - bombard Thanos' army with tear gas and flashbang grenades, then while they're distracted... Cap: "Hey, Bucky, take this .50 cal sniper rifle, go to the top of the tallest building you can find with a good view of the battlefield, and when Thanos appears, shoot him in the head with these armour piercing depleted Uranium bullets."
Shosh Grinberg 5 years ago
"speed" - the bomb on the bus gets turned off only after passing a certain speed. the bus in just starting. kiano is running after the bus but sandra doesnt stop. she passes the speed and the bomb is active. kiano is a policeman. he has a gun. if he ohly shot the wheels before she speeds.....
Laura Deckers 5 years ago (edited)
The bus driver was driving at that time, not Sandra. But I understand what you mean. That would have worked. LLAP
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