discussion Do you hate it when movies/shows have the people keep making frustrating or weird choices that you were like what?

[Jakeisone123]

like they should have made an obvious choice but for more dramatics or oh dang moments but you were like that makes me mad

 

[Vidilo]

Yes. That is very annoying when the only way the writer can create drama (or solve a situation) is by making the protagonists (or villains) act very stupid.

 

[JadedSkywalker]

I hate when they defy logic just to set up the story direction. Like when the hero just gives up for no reason, just so they can killed off and replaced.

 

[Faturek]

In serious movies yes!
In comedy movies it can be incredibly funny. Especially in dark or horror comedies

 

[AlBetGam]

My specific hated version of this is characters who fail to apply violence when it would solve their problems and the failure to apply it makes everything worse. This comes up a lot in superhero shows:

Jessica Jones: Wants Kilgrave alive to prove this girl was min-controlled. Has a major fight with an ally who wants to kill Kilgrave, accidentally freeing Kilgrave in the process. Kilgrave's further rampage now that he's freed drives the girl to despair and she kills herself so now Jessica has nothing to do but kill Kilgrave. Shoulda popped his neck off like a cork six episodes ago!

Smallville: Clark and the villain spend 12 episodes of each season having boring conversations with/about each other until Clark solves everything in the season finale by punching him (sometimes even twice!). If he'd done that 10 episodes ago we coulda been spared eight filler episodes of "Lana/Lois almost dies, again".

The Flash: Barry stares slackjawed as a villain who moves at normal human speeds and has a normally fracturable human skull says something threatening and then walks away at normal human speeds. Repeat process until the end of the episode/season when the other six or ten members of Team Flash have pumped up his self-esteem enough for him to RUN FAST(er than he did last episode/season). Again, you run fast enough to spaghettify people, coulda solved this stuff practically instantly. (I feel bad for this one as Barry is clearly severely special needs and it's inspiring that he's able to stand up straight and mostly not drool)

Scooby-Doo: Every single episode. Four healthy young adults and a Great Dane vs. a real estate fraudster in a glow-in-the-dark Halloween costume? Violence is the solution here.

 

[User_157099]

I know y’all are talking about movie and shows but along the same line of thinking there are books where the characters consistently with no reasonable explanation make the dumbest decisions after idiotic choice to the point I just stop reading

 

[samurai544]

RIP game of thrones. WAS one of the best tv shows ever.

 

[impisi]

This is only (sometimes) acceptable when the character in question is already established as not being terribly smart.
When it's someone who's supposed to be intelligent making idiotic decisions for no obvious reason then it's just a sign of bad writing being used to move the plot along because the writer can't think of anything else.

 

[trashaway345]

Yeah, it's pretty bad writing when the characters HAVE to do a stupid decision in order for the plot to happen

 

[Vidilo]

One extreme example are the Avatar movies. The human military are so amazingly stupid. But if they weren't, there would be no fight at all. Throw one rock from space, tree gone, natives gone, unobtainium accessible.

 

[bobrob]

People in real life dont always make the best choices so i dont expect movie/tv characters to do so eather. But it can ruin a movie if a character lacks consistancy in choices

 

[User_158771]

People in real life dont always make the best choices so i dont expect movie/tv characters to do so eather. But it can ruin a movie if a character lacks consistancy in choices

I agree with bobrob. I used to get really frustrated at characters not acting the way I would until I realized that that's the point, they're not me. So I tried stepping back and just enjoying their choices. 100s of times harder to do in real life, we all have that person, or even ourselves, that makes us go "wtf are you doing?" but we can't really do anything about it.

 

[impisi]

One extreme example are the Avatar movies. The human military are so amazingly stupid. But if they weren't, there would be no fight at all. Throw one rock from space, tree gone, natives gone, unobtainium accessible.

You don't get it, they HAVE to knife-fight the aliens that have been stated numerous times to be physically superior to them and next to impossible to kill in an environment entirely hostile to humans!

 

[DadD]

That's one of main reasons why major part of movies today are bad. Bad scenario, bad writing - can kill any project. If you have weird logic, you must give people a choice what to do.

 

[DadD]

RIP game of thrones. WAS one of the best tv shows ever.

Yep. Last two seasons ruined everything. Especially final season, it's just horrible, illogical, bad written and absolutely feministic.

 

[xpcor]

It's not just shows/movies. Game ads are even worse. The whole "can you do better?" thing is annoying. Especially those ads that have a character that moves left or right through some kind of choice. Or the one that has a king stuck and you have to match items or the king gets crushed or eaten.

 

[Vidilo]

You don't get it, they HAVE to knife-fight the aliens that have been stated numerous times to be physically superior to them and next to impossible to kill in an environment entirely hostile to humans!

Exactly! It says so in the script!

 

[Azraelith]

All the time.

 

[ChaosLoli]

Hate when a character carries the idiot ball for no reason.

 

[Wh0Ar3Y0u?!]

Yes. Especially when it comes to them not doing a thing they knew about previously