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[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 75 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Home Alone.

"Hey, sorry Kevin. Come on, hop in the car."

[-] esc27@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think the movie actually did a reasonable job of explaining it. Multiple different households were traveling together, the whole thing was chaotic, a neighbors kid dropped by and was included in the head count, Kevin was on the attic and so out of sight, they were running late, etc.

[-] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

The 2nd and third time tho?

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

Oh this is a great one.

[-] tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz 56 points 2 months ago

Air bud. "You guys are insane. Listen. Your team will forfeit every game that dog takes the court."

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

It's crazy how this became a movie trope. It doesn't say in the rules that a giraffe can't be in the swim team.

[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

28 Weeks Later.

After the opening sequence sets it up and the story proper begins, it only progresses due to repeated, profound stupidity.

“Let’s just run around outside of quarantine during a zombie apocalypse!”

“My wife has been out in Zombieworld for ages and has turned up seemingly unaffected and is being kept under strict quarantine protocols - I should make out with her!”

[-] Redacted@lemmy.world 105 points 2 months ago

Seems pretty realistic to me if Covid is anything to go by...

[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

Ugh. You’re annoyingly right.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 months ago

It's completely normal behaviour, it just turns out that normal people are fucking morons.

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

Crap, you're right. My original question is some fantasy that people aren't idiots.

[-] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 12 points 2 months ago

if I recall correctly, one of Melbourne's major outbreaks was because one of the quarantine security guards was fucking a quarantined patient

[-] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

Good to see you are out of your 5 year coma...

[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

…surely you have kissably fresh breath…

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 38 points 2 months ago

As a bonus, I remember watching Walker Texas Ranger with my father in law, amd the amount of times people had their sights on him and didn't shoot him was ridiculous. He'd have died so fast.

[-] Xianshi@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

Same with James Bond

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He would have reflected the bullets with his abs

[-] Spaceinv8er@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Nah, the bullets would've just given up halfway through flight

[-] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 months ago

The Host

„Dump all the formaldehyde down the drain.“

„No that would pollute the water!“

„Oh ok let’s not do that.“

The End.

[-] spicystraw@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

John Wick, I mean who the fuck brakes in to a dudes house and shoots his dog.

[-] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 months ago

Every police officer ever.

[-] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago

that would make for an amazing john wick film

[-] ClusterBomb 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Alien.

"Waow what the f-!"
"- DON'T KILL IT!"
*kills it* "- Sorry, you were saying?"

Still can't figure why they didn't kill it when they had opportunity. 😬

[-] Broken@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was thinking more along the lines of:

We were woken up to check out this signal.

Shine that, let's go home and get paid.

But you know, we're required by law to do so or we forfeit our payment.

OK, so what's the story we all say?

Yeah, nothing there. Must have been a glitch.

OK, let's go home.

[-] Hamknight@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

To bad both mother and the android were sent to look for the aliens in the first place. The crews main misson was a cover-up

[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 17 points 2 months ago

Lord of the rings

“You know, I have these amazing birds, and we could use them to fly straight to the end of this trilogy.“

[-] chowdertailz@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure the whole reasoning behind the eagles not taking the ring to Mt doom was because of the nazgul. That's why Gandalf had the whole Hobbits sneak into Mordor plan.

[-] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago

Yeah, not understanding that is a consequence of people not reading the source material, because Tolkien definitely explains exactly why the eagles couldn't do that.

On the other hand, I think it's a valid criticism of the movies that, for all the amazing things he did in that trilogy, Peter Jackson failed to explain something minor that turned out to be a lingering issue for some segment of the wider audience that would consume that adaptation.

[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

As an absurdly fervent Tolkien fan, people bringing up the Eagles spikes my blood pressure in a way that cannot be good in the long run.

[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 2 months ago

Can confirm. Didn’t read the books, so here we are.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

And get shot out of the sky, hand-delivering the Ring to Sauron.

[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 15 points 2 months ago

That would be an interesting start for a completely different saga.

“Ok, so that plan didn’t work. Like, not even a little bit. Now the whole world is on fire, thanks to our genius shortcut. Any plans how we could fix that?“

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

*begin construction of a large cartoony catapult*

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 2 months ago

In addition to the flying Nazgûl and what not, the ring could corrupt the proud eagle. They'd just fly off with it and then you have another problem.

[-] ulkesh@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Like somehow picking the new ruler of Numenor. Such a weird thing.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Plus, nobody tells a Middle Earth eagle what to do.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Most hallmark movies.

Also Nothing to Lose

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Fight Club and the countless movies like it, which are character-driven and the character is driven by extremely maladjusted desires and behaviors.

"Alright, but isn't that being ableist in Fight Club's case?"

No, if both of the alters acted like normal people, you'd just have an especially weird buddy comedy with none of the conflict of the original movie.

[-] 0_0j@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pffft got a pen?

Series:

Sons of anarchy

Heroes

13 reasons why

Terra nova

The 100

Mr. & Mrs Smith

-> pretty much almost every series I've watched

Movies:

All transformers

Almost all FFurious

Definitely all jack sparrows

Even the orig Mr. & Mrs Smith

-> the more I think, the more the list grows

Movies are all about those few moments that throw characters off the "right way," spinning up bunch of placebos with consequences and how characters emerge through all those stronger.

[-] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

Jesus, I thought this was the other post, "Whats your favorite movie of all time?" and I was judging the shit out of you for this list.

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

I don't get most of this list. If they only talked to megatron nothing would've happend. These street racers in fast and furious seem like smart level headed people, why do they talk instead of racing cars?

[-] gedhrel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

The Sixth Sense.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Donnie Darko

oh the weird bunny man who is the dead boyfriend of your sister told you to come out of bed and onto the street?

Nah, bad dream, just stay in bed. Jet engine goes boom, Donnie's buried under, only one other family in another timeline loses a jet engine, story over in 5 minutes...

...unless the story then fixates on the other timeline where a jet engine just vanished off a plane and no one knows where, ah goddamit

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago
[-] root@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Back to the Future.

A normal Doc Brown wouldn't have invented a time machine.

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