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[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 78 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Home Alone.

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

[–] esc27@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 1 month ago

The 2nd and third time tho?

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

Oh this is a great one.

[–] tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month 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 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

28 Weeks Later.

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

β€œLet’s just run around outside of quarantine during a zombie apocalypse!”

β€œMy 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 111 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

Ugh. You’re annoyingly right.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 13 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

…surely you have kissably fresh breath…

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 1 month ago

Same with James Bond

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He would have reflected the bullets with his abs

[–] Spaceinv8er@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

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

The Host

β€žDump all the formaldehyde down the drain.β€œ

β€žNo that would pollute the water!β€œ

β€žOh ok let’s not do that.β€œ

The End.

[–] ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 3 points 1 month 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

[–] spicystraw@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Every police officer ever.

[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

that would make for an amazing john wick film

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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Most hallmark movies.

Also Nothing to Lose

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month 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.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ouRKaoS 7 points 1 month ago

2020 proved that one entirely plausible

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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 1 month 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 5 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

The Sixth Sense.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ouRKaoS 2 points 1 month ago

House on haunted Hill & Cabin in the woods bouth seem kinda plausible

[–] root@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Back to the Future.

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

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