Movies so stupid they hurt to watch

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I just watched the movie Rest Stop. It is the traditional slasher type horror movie but this wasn't the problem. I actually like a good slasher film when it doesn't insult my intelligence too much. The problem with this movie is that it is completely filled with illogical acts. So much so that I really wanted to reach into the TV screen and b**ch slap the main character.

There is a scene where the girl is holding a cop that was run over by the bad guy in her arms. The bad guy gets out of his vehicle and slowing walks over to the officers motorcycle to hook up and chain to the bike to drag it off. It never once occured to this girl to grab his gun and shoot the guy. Instead, she ends up gragging the cop into a restroom and only after being assaulted by the bad guy again and the cop tells her to take his gun and shoot the guy, does the thought of the cops gun even enter her mind. Of course her response was, "I don't know if I could even use it." Funny considering it was a revolver. I guess "point and pull the trigger" was a little too tough for her to understnad. Then when she does use it she shoots through a door hitting nothing. Also, it seems this cop didn't carried spare ammo loaders, a back-up weapon, or even have a radio on his belt to use to call for back-up.

How about it guy, any other movies you can think of where the character avoids any attempt at logic so much that you wanted to throw something at the screen?

*Note: I'm not looking for gun errors like the infamous porcelain Glock or a gun that seems to fire forever without a reload. I am looking for intances where the main character (or a supporting character) has the opertunity to go something (gun related) completely logical but acts differently. For example, walking right past a gun cabinet and grabbing a knife for self-defense.
 
I just find it odd that all guns in movies make loud clicking sounds when they get moved around. If a guy has a gun out at his side and he bring it up and aim, it makes a sound. And if the move and aims somewhere else, it makes yet more noise. Why it that?
 
Worst movie that I've spent good money on lately was "The Marine". Actually, I'd feel confidant in saying its the worst movie i've seen since "Bloodrayne".
 
The Trigger Effect
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117965/
"How tenuous is man's hold on civilization when survival becomes an issue? When the lights go out and stay out for several days, suburbanites Matthew and Annie learn the hard way that man is 'by nature' a predatory creature."

Excellent checklist of what NOT to do during an emergency, any number of things that would just not happen, and elitist antigun extremism all rolled into one.

If Elisabeth Shue had gotten naked, then it might have been worth seeing.
 
I checked out "Bloody Mallory" .. on OnDemand a French paranormal armed strike force takes on the undead... and turned it off pretty quickly... personally I've seen movies based on video games that had a way more plot and made more sense.

3 armed to the teeth agents kick in the door to a monastary to take on ghouls... and they immediately pull swords and go kung-fu. Later, they all pull guns.

Call me crazy but gun-fu trumps kung fu at 60 feet. This was obviously not the only issue with the film.

Many tv shows and movies contain people doing stupid things.
 
DRMMR02 said:
I just find it odd that all guns in movies make loud clicking sounds when they get moved around. If a guy has a gun out at his side and he bring it up and aim, it makes a sound. And if the move and aims somewhere else, it makes yet more noise. Why it that?
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It's obviously a case of overacting on the part of the guns. :p

I noticed the same thing in last week's NCIS. Agents were clearing a building, and each time they entered a room or passed through a doorway... clickety-clak.

I have to vigorously shake (or drop :eek: ) my guns to get them to make any noise at all, without activating the bang switch of course.

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Worst movie that I've spent good money on lately was "The Marine". Actually, I'd feel confidant in saying its the worst movie i've seen since "Bloodrayne".
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Really? It's hard to imagine there's something worse than Bloodrayne

Ms. Loken's nakedness couldn't even save that one.

:uhoh:
 
In nearly every "slasher, zombie, really,really bad guy" movie there is, there is a point where the bad guy is down but not out. The hero, or whomever else there is does not finish them off. They either stand there and look at them, or (more often) run off--usually, leaving whatever weapon existed behind with the bad guy. Every time. This pattern is see so often that it makes it tough to get through any of those movies. BUT, it also makes those movies that do not use this idiodic ploy more enjoyable.
 
A mistake 98.9% Hollywood slasher-banger movies have

It's when the main character and villain in the final scene have @a talk@ instead of finishing off a guy, a her/villain give a speech and the something happens and villain dies NOT because of a gun, like in classical Van Damme style movies, or James Bond movies. Why You talk down your opponent when You can just pull the trigger-audience applauses-CAST???
Really stupid and hollywoodish:cuss:
 
Any movie with Jean Claude VanDam, followed closely by...

any movie with Steven Segal, followed closely by...

any movie in which teens first get naked, scream alot, get hacked apart, but can't run faster than a plodding mad man. UGH!:barf:
 
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I watched the start of a Stallone movie last week, called "Cobra".


A BG (a member of some death-cut) walks into a supermarket, pulls a pump-action shotgun out from under his coat, and shoots several people.

The rest of the shoppers take cover, and shortly after, Stallone turns up to save the day.

As the BG is stalking through the store, looking for Stallone and/or more victims, he repeatedly pumps his shotgun (i.e. without having just fired it).


Later, we see a woman leaving her office. She says goodbye to her colleagues and a security guard, then takes the lift down to the carpark. Where she is attacked by several BGs (more cult members).

She flees back to the lift, and calls it down. Just as the BGs are about to reach her, the doors open, revealing the security guard.

Rather than just running inside, the woman grabs the guard, and hauls him out as she runs in, almost as if she wanted to use him as a human shield.

I think the guard shot one of the BGs (I wasn't really paying much attention by now), but then another BG in a van charges at him. Rather than retreating inside the lift, where he would be safe, he stands his ground, tries to shoot the driver, and ends up getting run over.
 
IAPETUS, I'm with you on that one. Cobra is awful. If I remember right there is one scene where Stallone is being chased through an orange grove and then runs right into a steel mill. A little incongrous I think.
 
Yeah, the awfulness of that movie led me to pick my username!!

The scene of Cobra in the back of the truck shooting bad guys off of motorcycles is priceless!! The Stallone body count in the movie is probably over 200.
 
That movie was made during the era of "ban the evil machine gun" and has a plethora of eeevil tec-9s...

Thing is, a LOT of those horror flicks would be quite a bit shorter if a few of us were in it...

"Yeah, lady? There's a psycho chasing you? And he's gonna be coming out of that corn over there? And he's got a machete, a chainsaw, and a meat hook? And you've spoken crossly and slapped him repeatedly, and he won't stop? Just sit over there... No, not in the front seat - it's a new car and I don't want you bleeding all over it... Now, lemme get my leetle friend outta da trunk..."
 
There hasn't been a really good movie since Braveheart imo, and that was made back in what, 1995? Saving Private Ryan was well done but not terribly realistic, and the band-of-brothers series was excellent, but was really a tv mini-series, not a 'movie' per-se. Just about 100% of what comes out of hollywood these days is pure crap.
 
Ugh!

The movie that almost got me kicked out of the theater (because I was almost yelling at the screen in disbelief) was Signs.

All I could do say was "Where. Are. The. GUNS?!?!?!" Over and over.

Ok, midwestern farmer with aliens in his cornfield.

What does he do?

Start shooting into the corn or bug out with his kids? Oh no, he boards himself up in the basement. GarrgghH!

Never happen, folks. I'm from up here in northern Illinois. Solid liberal area about 75 miles northwest of Chicago (god I want to move... but I digress). I have several farmers in the family, and we know quite a few more.

Every single one owns, at a minimum, a .22 rifle and a 12 gauge shotgun for varmint control. Most of them have a lot more than that. And if they needed something a bit more potent, they'd call me....

Bah! I could see if they showed the aliens to be bulletproof or something, but for the farmers to just not be armed is pure stupidity. :banghead:
 
And not just the blood-and-guts flicks. Yesterday, watching the football game, during the commercials I would drop down to another channel and watch a movie called "Moulin Rouge". I didn't know whether to laugh or vomit. Overacting extraordinary. Female lead was the Australian girl whom Tom Cruise divorced. The only redeeming factor was some of the music. My son told me later that the movie was directed by her husband, Tom Cruise. Maybe that explains it.
 
Most every movie ends up using some stupid plot device to make the story continue. Horror movies are the worst. IMHO, that is why comedies that parody those movies are so funny.
 
Any movie or show where the good guy takes down the bad guy, then DOES NOT PICK UP their gun, but runs off again unarmed to face further peril from other armed people. :banghead:

Same for if the knocked-down bad guy has a rifle, and the good guy keeps their pistol instead and runs off.
 
Why all the bashing of Marion Cobretti and the Zombie Squad? That movie is so bad that it is HILARIOUS!!!

Horror movies wouldn't be any fun to watch if the people trapped in them acted even remotely rationally...that is fun of a slasher flick...characters die as a result of either a) their sinful behavior or b) their stupidity....that is the formula.
 
MI3 with Tom Nut Case was everything I dont like about hollywood and guns. If you can ignore the totally silly things keeps doing, it's a fun enough movie with good special effects. If you are a person who likes some realism to the use of guns in movies, it's hard to watch.
 
The first thing I learned in the Army was a little drill in a nice soft sand box about 20x20'. Two men were were told they were about to learn the basics of hand-to-hand combat. It was suggested it was a great hand-to-hand fighting move, hense the sand to fall on.

I was placed in the box with another guy and the order was given: "Acquire a weapon !!"

The man who first reached down and got a fist full of sand was awarded light duty. I don't know what the other guy did.

When a BG goes down and the hero fails to take his weapon or bullets and later runs out of ammo or his weapon fails, it makes me want to scream.
 
House of the Dead 2
(Sci Fi original garbage)

A combined team of zombie hunters and special ops go into an infested college to... kill zombies. The first zombie that appears, a soldier throws down his weapon, and proceeds to grapple with the zombie. This gets him bit, and he ends up biting the teams medic before they are both put down. Two guys lost because the character decides to ditch his gun.

Throughout the rest of the film, the characters all seem afraid to actually shoot their guns. They frequently are faced handfuls and swarms of zombies, and they usually just stare at them till the last minute, and then run away.
 
Doom, what a huge dissapointment. I was a little bit sad about the remake Doom 3 because it was quite different than the original however it was still a pretty decent game then they make a movie and everyone figures "It's hollywood it's gonna suck" meanwhile the IMDB fanboys are saying "oh it'll be good give the movie a chance". I think everyone knew the movie was doomed from the start due to the fact The Rock was playing sarge. They turned a great video game into a mediocre craptastic movie with generic futuristic guns and some storyline that was like resident evil on mars. I guess the really religious people were offended by the original doom portraying hell and they altered the movie storyline, ticks me off...
 
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