Most idiotic decision by a character in any movie

[AndyC]

Any protagonist who manages to capture a small but nasty creature in a box, garbage can, suitcase, etc., then can't resist peeking in to see if it's really in there.

All James Bond villains. By now they should realize that Bond needs to be shot on sight.

[Andrew]

The moron in "Demon Wind" who go outside to check out the "hot chick" who is beckoning to them.  The characters know that they are in the middle of a cursed land and in a cursed house, but out the door he goes.  Heck, I cannot remember for certain, it might even be two of the men.

[Conrad]

I can think of two instances that really annoy me.  Firstly, in "The Thing" towards the end of the film, the cook is working in an underground passage.  He sees something further down the passage, so he walks down towards it.  HELLO!  This guy is one of only three survivors in a camp infiltrated by a shape-shifting alien monster, and he walks off into a dark ice passage ALONE, UNARMED and WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE!

Secondly, in "Arachnophobia", the hot shot arachnologist (right word?) played by Julian Sands finds a huge web in a barn, obviously spun by the sinister spider he's hunting.  He sees it and - plucks one of the strands with his finger.  HELLO AGAIN!  What is this guy thinking?  "I'll just see if Spidey is home"?  "Can I get an F sharp on this"? "Has Peter Parker been here"?  For Heaven's sake, he's supposed to know his spiders and the first part of the film sets up how incredibly knowledgeable he is about them.  And then he gets tired of life???  Grrr!

[Creepozoid]

Andrew wrote:

> The moron in "Demon Wind" who go outside to check out the "hot
> chick" who is beckoning to them.  The characters know that they
> are in the middle of a cursed land and in a cursed house, but
> out the door he goes.  Heck, I cannot remember for certain, it
> might even be two of the men.

Oh, yeah. I remember those guys. But it should be noted that the chick outside was exposing her big boobies so many of us wuld have fallen for that also.

[Flangepart]

What, no ones taken the "Hero knocks out armed thug, and does not take the thug's gun" card? Guess its up to me, then.
People...mostly, but not always women, who stand there and scream, when confronted by a known lethal threat.
To paraphrase  Arther J. Rimmer, "I choose to avoid any creature that has more teeth then the entire osmond family".
In short...run, you moron! At least try!....sheesh!

[The Burgomaster]

After reading all these responses, I guess my 2 all-time favorite stupid decision (which appears in MANY, MANY movies) are when:

1. Someone knocks out (or apparently kills) the villain, and then decides to get very close to where the body is lying in order to check and see if the villain is really unconscious (or dead) . . . only to have the villain open his eyes and grab the person's throat.

2. Someone knocks out (or apparently kills) the villain, and then decides that the best way to escape is to step over the villain's body . . . only to have the villain open his eyes and grab the person's ankle.

(I think the same scriptwriter invented both of these scenarios).

[raj]

Or even just leaving the unconscious villian there.  At least tie him up!

[Goon]

There is a simple rule for monster movie survival:  Don't.  Touch.  The goop.  Ever.  Tasting requires touch old man.
Idiotic decisions goes to all the folks in "The Creeping Terror" who end up in the Creeping Terror.
As a friend once said to me:  "Oo!  Oh!  It looks dangerous!  Lets poke it with something!"


----ooo-'U'-ooo-----Kilroy was here.

[Ash]

Why didn't any of the criminals think to shoot Robocop in the fleshy part of his face?

I don't know if that would've put him down but it sure would have made a mess of him!

I remember the first time I saw Robocop back in the late 80's.

I remember thinking that throughout the entire film....whether or not they'd hurt him by shooting him there.



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[Evan3]

I cant believe Ripley in Alien, the only survivor on the ship and she goes back for a damn cat. Now I am a pet lover for sure, but not enough to go back through alien territory to find a damn cat.

In fact I hate it whenever the protaginist decides to go back and rescue everyone else instead of calling for help or grabbing a weapon they wont drop the first time they are hit.

[Neon Noodle]

Trying to reassure someone that "it's just your imagination",  "there's nothing out there", "relax and have a toke/drink/etc".

The horror movie characters who say "There's no such thing as..." will usually find a chainsaw cleaving them in half before the end of that sentence.

JUST KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT AND BELIEVE THE CRAZY OLD MAN WHEN HE SAYS THE VOYAGE IS DOOMED!!!!

[Janice]

No one has mentioned the number one rule, which is DO NOT GO UP (or in the case of basements DOWN) THE STAIRS!!!

[ErikJ]

I have quite a few and 2 of them come from the movie Daredevil
Right after Bullseye gets shot through the hands he looks to this guy ,who he just spent the past 10 to 15 minutes trying to kill him, and asks him to show mercy. Only to have him introduced to the finer ponts of base jumping without the parachute.
Now he falls like 6 stories into a car and basicly goes through the car. The NYPD ,good work in making them seem like a laughing stock, run up to the car with guns drawn screaming, "Don't Move!" Hello?!?!?!?!?!

I also see all of these posts aboout horror movies and not one person has mentioned the number one killer of women in horror movies, High heels.
How many movies have you seen where they are supposed to be roughing it only to see a woman running from the killer or monster in 5 inch spike heels?



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[Perk]

Like in Dreamcatcher when BEaver has the worm thingy in the toilet and drops his toothppicks in the red crap.  He decides to go for the toothpick even though he's holding something thats not good under him in a toilet.  Needless to say he gets ate.

[D]

What about the hero in Octopus? This a guy who's whole damn existance is idiotic. He can't bring himself to shoot the bad guy afer the guy kills his partner, or when his's escaping, or whe he has a hostage (he even kills the hostage and the boob can't even aim).
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