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Cinema's Worst Decisions

post #1 of 41
3/10/07 at 3:08pm
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I'm not talking about the choice of director, writer or studio here. Decisions made by characters is what I'm hoping for.

I'll start it off with a funny and CHUD essential one:
Mike McDermott deciding not to sleep with Famke Jannsen in Rounders.
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post #2 of 41
3/10/07 at 4:19pm
Jar Jar gives Emergency War Powers to Palpatine.
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post #3 of 41
3/10/07 at 4:28pm
The beaches of Amity STAY OPEN! I don't foresee any kind of re-election on that one.
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post #4 of 41
3/10/07 at 4:47pm
http://www.chud.com/forums/showthrea...pidest+moments
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post #5 of 41
3/10/07 at 4:51pm
Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right.
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post #6 of 41
3/10/07 at 5:16pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Schwartz
I was just reading that the other day.

I was trying to be a little more specific. Bad ideas from characters, not the script. Which is the way the "Stupidest Moments" thread seems to go. I suppose it could be construed as argumentative.
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post #7 of 41
3/10/07 at 5:35pm
Zodiac:

"Hmm, the wheel that that nice man fixed for me just fell off. And now here he is offering to give me a ride! How thoughtful!"
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post #8 of 41
3/10/07 at 7:53pm
A Simple Plan-the decision to take the money from the plane in the first place and everything that followed. It's one of my favorite movies, and it's filled with horrible decisions.

Sleuth-Olivier's stupid games.

Crash (Haggis' version)-Everything the characters do, all the way through the movie.
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post #9 of 41
3/10/07 at 8:55pm
If those damn horny camp counselors had just abstained, they wouldn't have unleashed killer mama Vorhees and her retarded zombie son.
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post #10 of 41
3/10/07 at 9:02pm
The Hitcher- 95 % of what the protagnist does throughout the film. C. Thomas Howell's character is such a moronic little twerp its hard to root for him.

Pulp Fiction-Ving Rhames leaving his gun on the counter while he goes for cofee.

Pet Semetary-Yeah, good plan Herman Munster. There's no way telling your neighbor about the demonic Indian burial ground will backfire.

Taxi Driver-If I have to explain why taking a date to a porno theater is a bad idea then chances are you're still a virgin.

Straight Time- One of the first heist films to have the Junkie-Who-Fucks-Up-Everything plot point. Okay, let me see this guy fucks up your parole and you still trust him to be your wheel man?
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post #11 of 41
3/10/07 at 10:04pm
If the Beerfest crew didn't let Mo'nique snoop around, Landfill would've lived.
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post #12 of 41
3/10/07 at 10:46pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Whirlybird
Pulp Fiction-Ving Rhames leaving his gun on the counter while he goes for coffee.
What was he going to do? Bring it with him to Dunkin Donuts?
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post #13 of 41
3/10/07 at 11:31pm
That's silly, Marcellus has a weapon on him, I always just assumed Vincent left his gun on the counter. Seems like Vincent would be the one brandishing the awkward Mac-10, or whatever it was. He's the hired muscle.
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post #14 of 41
3/10/07 at 11:36pm
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Originally Posted by The_Bodhisattva
What was he going to do? Bring it with him to Dunkin Donuts?
OK, I'm gonna really sound like an idiot newbie here, but...I always assumed it was Vincent's gun, and he left it on the counter when he went to take a shit. Is it in the script, some interview with QT, or other source that Marsellus was with him and left to get donuts?
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post #15 of 41
3/10/07 at 11:41pm
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Originally Posted by Big Jim Slade
OK, I'm gonna really sound like an idiot newbie here, but...I always assumed it was Vincent's gun, and he left it on the counter when he went to take a shit. Is it in the script, some interview with QT, or other source that Marsellus was with him and left to get donuts?
I believe I read that it was Marsellus' gun in a frame by frame critique of the movie by Roger Ebert. I'm not exactly sure how Ebert (and the theater full of people he watched the movie with) arrived at the conclusion that it had to be Marsellus' instead of Vincent's. I guess what I'm saying is it could be either, but the Ebert thing always stuck in my head.
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post #16 of 41
3/11/07 at 9:56am
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Keith Fordyce
That's silly, Marcellus has a weapon on him, I always just assumed Vincent left his gun on the counter. Seems like Vincent would be the one brandishing the awkward Mac-10, or whatever it was. He's the hired muscle.
It does make more sense. Especially considering Marcellus had the other gun in his wasteband prior to getting hit by the Honda. It's Vincent's gun. Fine.
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post #17 of 41
3/11/07 at 11:12am
-- Luke deciding to take on Vader in Empire. He fought you one-handed and still kicked your ass.

-- Not listening to Parker and not freezing Kane in Alien. But noooo, never listen to the black man in a horror film.

-- Hey. Porkins. Next time someone says "Eject," you eject. Okay?
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post #18 of 41
3/11/07 at 11:53am
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Originally Posted by The_Bodhisattva
It does make more sense. Especially considering Marcellus had the other gun in his wasteband prior to getting hit by the Honda. It's Vincent's gun. Fine.

I always thought it was Marcellus' gun because I thought Vincent, being a hitman after all, wouldn't have made such a boneheaded mistake; but then again Vincent was such an absent minded fuck up at times, I guess you could make the case it was his gun.
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post #19 of 41
3/11/07 at 1:30pm
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Originally Posted by Whirlybird
I always thought it was Marcellus' gun because I thought Vincent, being a hitman after all, wouldn't have made such a boneheaded mistake; but then again Vincent was such an absent minded fuck up at times, I guess you could make the case it was his gun.
I thought that they made it a point to show that he, ironically, misses out on shit when he goes to the bathroom.

I've gotta steal schwartz' idea from the other thread and bring up the CIA guy from Independence Day. He doesn't reveal area 51 even after the aliens attack. But attacking stupidity in a movie where a Mac can give an alien operating system a virus is kind of a moot point.
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post #20 of 41
3/11/07 at 2:01pm
John Hammond clones donosaurs.

Carl Denham brings Kong back to New York.
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post #21 of 41
3/11/07 at 8:30pm
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Originally Posted by Whirlybird
Taxi Driver-If I have to explain why taking a date to a porno theater is a bad idea then chances are you're still a virgin.
The theater is showing a swedish pornfilm! That makes me really proud that i am a Swede.
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post #22 of 41
3/11/07 at 9:34pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
-- Hey. Porkins. Next time someone says "Eject," you eject. Okay?
And don't forget your breathing mask!
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post #23 of 41
3/11/07 at 10:11pm
Perhaps I'm a rare bird in that I like "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead" (it's title alone could count as one of cinema's worst decisions) but why the hell Jimmy the Saint ignored his better judgement and invited psycho bastard Critical Bill along for the job, I'll never understand. Friend or not, knowing the guy you'd have to be immensely fucking stupid to involve him in anything so sensitive.
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post #24 of 41
3/14/07 at 1:26am
Babel: Sure, supernanny, take your employer's children across the mexican border for a wedding. What? You're not a US citizen and have no paperwork on the kids? No problemo!

Oh, now the wedding's over and you need to get back to San Diego. Why not let your drunk nephew drive you back, I'm sure nothing bad could come of it, in fact, don't even bother volunteering to drive yourself.

Oops, you're now lost in the desert with the kids. I know, let's leave them behind so you can stumble around looking for help. And pay absolutely no attention to the road that the Border Patrol just drove on by. I'm sure no one else will ever use that road again.
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post #25 of 41
3/16/07 at 10:24pm
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Originally Posted by Whirlybird
Taxi Driver-If I have to explain why taking a date to a porno theater is a bad idea then chances are you're still a virgin.
You are correct that this is a bad decision, but that is the point. If you aren't aware of that then you missed the point of Taxi Driver altogether.
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post #26 of 41
3/16/07 at 10:36pm
BABEL:Everyooooooooooooones's decisions.
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post #27 of 41
3/16/07 at 11:43pm
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Originally Posted by Barkatthemoon
Carl Denham brings Kong back to New York.

Going to a place called Skull Island in the first place. Sometimes a name says it all. Why, just last summer I cancelled my vacation when I realized I would have to stay in a hotel called AnalShank Inn. I don't care how good their continental breakfast is.
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post #28 of 41
6/6/07 at 8:57pm
Frank deciding to show how much damage the canister in the basement could take in Return Of The Living Dead was a decision that kind of led to a pretty bad evening for a lot of people.

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Originally Posted by Mad Man Mundt
You are correct that this is a bad decision, but that is the point. If you aren't aware of that then you missed the point of Taxi Driver altogether.
No kidding, right? As if removing the theater scene would show what an otherwise normal person Travis Bickle is.
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post #29 of 41
6/7/07 at 10:16am
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Originally Posted by JacknifeJohnny
Perhaps I'm a rare bird in that I like "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead" (it's title alone could count as one of cinema's worst decisions) but why the hell Jimmy the Saint ignored his better judgement and invited psycho bastard Critical Bill along for the job, I'll never understand. Friend or not, knowing the guy you'd have to be immensely fucking stupid to involve him in anything so sensitive.
Hell yes! that might have been one of the worst decisions in film history together with every other time an otherwise sharp team leader decides to bring a loose cannon along on a job (reservoir dogs, anyone?).
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post #30 of 41
6/7/07 at 10:57am
pretty much every decision in The Descent. "First let me leave the map behind, cause that would, like, just be so cool, and then we'll all RUN blindly through unchartered caves and hope we don't fall down a hole and break limbs. All of this before we even encounter any underground monsters. Yea, we're a bunch of geniuses who deserve to live."

Marty McFly's decision to sneak the Sports Almanac back to '85. There'd be no movie without that one. or it would at least be reduced to a one act.
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post #31 of 41
6/7/07 at 12:26pm
Red Dawn: The USSR and Cuba decide to mess with America.

Boy, were their faces red by the end of that movie (unintentional pun, but I'll apologize anyways). Mess with the Wolverines, you get the claws.
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post #32 of 41
6/7/07 at 12:48pm
It's the Swayze/Jennifer Grey combination. Deadly when on screen. Whether it's commies or viewers, they're always victims.
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post #33 of 41
6/8/07 at 8:53pm
Letting Weingro, Gregor, Jimmy Silk or Glenn Michaels tag along. Or Maurice Miller's posse for that matter.

And genetically enhance smarter, bigger, faster and stronger killer sharks to find a cure for Alzheimer's doesn't look like a good idea. But what do I know about medicine, right?
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post #34 of 41
6/8/07 at 9:16pm
You're home free, Neil. Nevermind the guy staying in at the airport Marquis under the name of Jamieson.
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post #35 of 41
6/9/07 at 8:02am
Having Sean Penn as a friend (see The Falcon and the Snowman and Carlito's Way).
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post #36 of 41
6/9/07 at 11:48am
Failing to secure the entrance to the dropship in ALIENS.

Quint destroying the radio in JAWS.

Dr. Frankenstein sending Fritz to retrieve a brain and then letting Fritz torment the monster in FRANKENSTEIN.
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post #37 of 41
6/9/07 at 2:57pm
Pretty much any decision made by Nick Van Owen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
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post #38 of 41
6/9/07 at 3:10pm
Natural Born Killers: Shooting Russell Means.
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post #39 of 41
6/9/07 at 6:39pm
Jeepers Creepers - The whole part were the kid goes back after seeing that scary ass dude in the distance and then say, hey fuck it lets go down this pipe too, hold my legs sis. He got his in the end thou that swarmy little shit.

Texas Chainsaw - Hitchhiker Pickup (Original or remake) we all know WHY you dont pickup a hitcher.

Big Trouble in Little China - "Nice Knife, Goodbye Mr. Burton" Thousand year old sorcerer dead to a guy with a CDL and a sandwhich!
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post #40 of 41
6/17/07 at 11:19pm
Orlando Bloom falls in love with Eva Green in "Kingdom of Heaven", yet refuses to marry her and kick the evil Martin Csokas to the curb for some unfathomable reason. The decimation of the Christian Army and the conquering of Jerusalem ensues. Even dumber seeing as how he ends up with Green and kicks Csokas to the curb anyway.
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post #41 of 41
6/22/07 at 11:31pm
Not killing The Bride. She may be your ex and all but when she wakes up she will come for you
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