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sometimes even smart people make stupid
decisions welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten dumbest decisions in science
fiction movies like me will strike the
Clocktower electrifying the cable just
as a connecting hook makes contact there
by sending 1.21 jigowatts into the flux
capacitor and sending you back to 1985
for this list we’re looking at the bad
decisions in science fiction movies that
likely lead to death or disaster number
10 training drillers to become
astronauts
Armageddon you want to send these boys
into space fine sure they’ll make good
astronauts they don’t know jack about
drilling when an asteroid the size of
Texas hurtles towards Earth who does
NASA send into space to blow it up
astronaut sir deep sea drill operators
well to be fair one of the drillers is
Bruce Willis this is the best that you
could get the government the US
government can come up with I mean
you’re NASA for crying out loud while it
would have been way easier to teach
astronauts to drill than teach drillers
to navigate space this premise does
allow for a pretty entertaining training
montage which includes a Michael Clarke
Duncan dance and strip scene
nonetheless even Ben Affleck questioned
the film’s logic director Michael Bay’s
answer shut up Ben shut up shut up check
but how about this why does the grumpy
Colonel character bring a gun on board
gotta get it off the ship on the plus
side NASA actually screens the movie in
their management training program
because it contains 168 errors about
space that’s all wrong man we shouldn’t
even be here
number 9 buying the sports Almanac Back
to the Future Part 2 the Almanac son of
a bitch stole my idea time travels
tricky change one little thing and the
whole future could unravel Marty McFly
learns that lesson the hard way when
he’s almost erased from existence in the
original movie erased from existence yet
when he and Doc Brown traveled to the
distant future of 2015 Marty recklessly
purchases a sports Almanac to get rich
quick upon his return to 1985 wasn’t it
all right souvenir 50 years of sports
statistics hardly recreational reading
material not right of course the time
travelers fail to notice Marty’s
arch-nemesis Biff Tannen listening in
then fail to notice him following them
then fail to close the damn doors on the
DeLorean giving old Biff the chance to
give the Almanac to his younger self
I’m fine today Oh piffle short to give
young Biff the Almanac above all you
must not interfere with that event we
must let all be believed he succeeded so
that he’ll leave 1955 and bring a
DeLorean back to the future right the
result is an alternate 1985 Hell Valley
where Biff is not only powerful but also
married to Marty’s mother heavy
stop it bitch – stop it look at him
he’s a butt just like his old man was
number 8 falling in love with a humanoid
robot ex machina how do I look
look good
robots fascinate enchant and seduce in
Alex Garland’s debut indie hit computer
programmer Caleb Smith wins a
competition to evaluate a humanoid
artificial intelligence who happens to
look pretty good in mesh are you
attracted to me
what are you attracted to me you give me
indications as well Eva isn’t the first
sexy robot to hit the screen remembers
aura from Blade Runner or gigolo Joe
from AI is this your first time with
something like me however Eva might be
the most dangerous when Caleb Falls for
her he finds himself in a battle of wits
with her creator she’s gonna reprogram
your AI which is the same as killing you
Oh Caleb you have to help me but who’s
really testing whom and how smart is it
to fall in love with a super intelligent
machine that can predict your every move
spoiler alert not very please stay
stay here number seven testing the drug
alz 113 Rise of the Planet of the Apes
ask me the 113 when it comes to
dangerous experiments in movies that
warning light or slip-up probably means
something pretty bad seeking to cure his
father’s Alzheimer’s scientist will
Rodman discovers a viral drug that
inadvertently increases the intelligence
of chimpanzees no idea the 113 is stable
what kind of damage it can do to people
well that is why we test it on chimps
isn’t it
when will adopts orphan chimps Cesar as
his own everything is hunky-dory until
Cesar begins to realize how humans treat
animals but the real mistake here isn’t
boosting Cesar’s intelligence it’s when
the team doesn’t make a big enough deal
of the fact that Franklin’s mask was
knocked off during the alz 113
experiment leading to an infection that
ultimately destroys human civilization
and paves the way for Caesars takeover
number six
running straight ahead prometheus
mission was taking off what what the
hell’s she talking about when Indiana
Jones runs away from the rolling Boulder
and Raiders of the Lost Ark there’s only
one way to run forward
viewers facepalm din unison when
archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw and mission
director Meredith Vickers took the same
approach to escape the thin disk of a
falling alien spacecraft running
straight ahead in an open area that
offers them a pretty simple solution to
their problem just turn left or right
anything Shaw at least eventually thinks
things through diving sideways and out
of the way Vickers not so much number
five not quarantine in Cain alien you
know the quarantine procedure 24 hours
for decontamination Ridley Scott has
earned his reputation as a legendary
director but he receives a second
mention here for his horror masterpiece
alien listen to me if we break
quarantine we could all dock oh but
y’all be the goddamn hatch we have to
get him inside the crew of the Nostromo
makes a fatal mistake when crew member
Kane returns from exploring a mysterious
planetoid with an alien organism
attached to his face warrant officer in
general badass Ellen Ripley refuses to
let him inside citing quarantine laws no
I can’t do that and if you were in my
position you’d do the same she is
overruled however and then apparently
forgets her concerns when the organism
falls off of its own accord leading to
one of the most famous mealtimes in
movie history what comes next is well
someone ruins his dinner number for
kissing the infected 28 weeks later oh
you have a bun down there
kiss my ass sometimes a kiss is just a
kiss and sometimes it involves an
apocalyptic rage virus that will end
human life as we know it there’s no
question sir she has the virus she’s
infected why is he showing any symptoms
mm-hmm when zombies attack
Don Harris a survivor of the original
outbreak seen in 28 days later abandons
his wife and runs for the hills
hey if until death do us part not undef
still his betrayal is pretty crappy and
in order to ease his guilt he sneaks
into his now infected wife’s isolation
cell to beg for forgiveness
they seal their love with a kiss can
they have just oh we don’t know shakin
hands
this gives dawn the worst STI ever and
now a rage-filled zombie he goes on a
murderous rampage through the former
safe zone of district 1
[Music]
number three
trusting robots The Terminator how can
that man just get up after you did not a
man-machine Terminator if science
fiction has taught us anything it’s not
to trust super intelligent computers
remember Hal 9000 in 2001 the master
control program in Tron and then there
was Skynet the primary antagonist of the
Terminator franchise Skynet is an
artificial intelligence developed by the
US military and given control of
military defense systems including
nuclear weapons what a great idea he’s
saying it’s from the future
but surprise sometime in the future
Skynet becomes too smart and in order to
preserve itself and the world decides to
wipe out humanity we’d won taking out
Connor then would make no difference
Skynet had to wipe out his entire
existence then a bunch of stuff happens
and Arnold Schwarzenegger arrives naked
at a biker bar but take our word for it
trusting the robots was a bad plan come
with me if you want to live number two
capturing dinosaurs and bringing them to
America the lost world Jurassic Park you
don’t bring people halfway around the
world to visit a zoo bring the zoo to
them San Diego is the perfect set what
do you do with rampaging dinosaurs
running amuck on a remote jungle island
bring them to San Diego good ID no wait
that’s an awful idea
tonight we’ll christen Jurassic Park San
Diego with a mega attraction that will
drive turnstile novice rival any theme
park in the world but after a fun slash
death filled trip to a hitherto unseen
tropical island somewhat inspired by
Michael Crichton’s novel of the same
name the movie completely abandons its
source material when in gen decides to
transport adult and infant t-rexes to
America’s finest city because what could
possibly go wrong
besides exactly the same thing as last
time only this time in a busy populated
city you think engine would have learned
it’s lesson the first time it tried to
play God life finds a way
especially when life is a ten-ton
Taranis or before we unveil our number
one pick here are some honorable
mentions right so what happens when we
die drop in a limbo are you serious
limbo unconstructed dream space well
what the hell is down there just raw
infinite subconscious what do you want
[Music]
take one god damn gas nice
number one putting the exhaust port on
the Death Star
Star Wars Episode four a new hope it’s a
small thermal exhaust port right below
the main put the shaft leads directly to
the reactor system a precise hit will
start a chain reaction which should
destroy the station the Death Star is a
mega structure of death and destruction
the size of a small moon with one fatal
flaw the size of that thing the Empire
rules millions of civilized planets has
unlimited resources and access to the
greatest minds in the galaxy drawing on
these assets the Emperor decides to
construct the most powerful weapon of
mass destruction the universe has ever
known there’s just one little problem
shaft is ray-shielded so you’ll have to
use proton torpedoes this massive
armored space station has a little hole
on its surface that leads straight down
to a reactor core shoot a torpedo in
there and boom so how could such a
methodical organization make such a dumb
decision this was such a big boo-boo
that they basically devoted an entire
movie to explaining why it happened but
hey at least it meant that we got rogue
one
do you agree with our list what do you
think was the dumbest decision in
science fiction movies oh holy shit
okay can you stop the test for more
entertaining top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
remember we’ll be with you always
[Music]
motorcycle
sometimes even smart people make stupid
decisions welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten dumbest decisions in science
fiction movies like me will strike the
Clocktower electrifying the cable just
as a connecting hook makes contact there
by sending 1.21 jigowatts into the flux
capacitor and sending you back to 1985
for this list we’re looking at the bad
decisions in science fiction movies that
likely lead to death or disaster number
10 training drillers to become
astronauts
Armageddon you want to send these boys
into space fine sure they’ll make good
astronauts they don’t know jack about
drilling when an asteroid the size of
Texas hurtles towards Earth who does
NASA send into space to blow it up
astronaut sir deep sea drill operators
well to be fair one of the drillers is
Bruce Willis this is the best that you
could get the government the US
government can come up with I mean
you’re NASA for crying out loud while it
would have been way easier to teach
astronauts to drill than teach drillers
to navigate space this premise does
allow for a pretty entertaining training
montage which includes a Michael Clarke
Duncan dance and strip scene
nonetheless even Ben Affleck questioned
the film’s logic director Michael Bay’s
answer shut up Ben shut up shut up check
but how about this why does the grumpy
Colonel character bring a gun on board
gotta get it off the ship on the plus
side NASA actually screens the movie in
their management training program
because it contains 168 errors about
space that’s all wrong man we shouldn’t
even be here
number 9 buying the sports Almanac Back
to the Future Part 2 the Almanac son of
a bitch stole my idea time travels
tricky change one little thing and the
whole future could unravel Marty McFly
learns that lesson the hard way when
he’s almost erased from existence in the
original movie erased from existence yet
when he and Doc Brown traveled to the
distant future of 2015 Marty recklessly
purchases a sports Almanac to get rich
quick upon his return to 1985 wasn’t it
all right souvenir 50 years of sports
statistics hardly recreational reading
material not right of course the time
travelers fail to notice Marty’s
arch-nemesis Biff Tannen listening in
then fail to notice him following them
then fail to close the damn doors on the
DeLorean giving old Biff the chance to
give the Almanac to his younger self
I’m fine today Oh piffle short to give
young Biff the Almanac above all you
must not interfere with that event we
must let all be believed he succeeded so
that he’ll leave 1955 and bring a
DeLorean back to the future right the
result is an alternate 1985 Hell Valley
where Biff is not only powerful but also
married to Marty’s mother heavy
stop it bitch – stop it look at him
he’s a butt just like his old man was
number 8 falling in love with a humanoid
robot ex machina how do I look
look good
robots fascinate enchant and seduce in
Alex Garland’s debut indie hit computer
programmer Caleb Smith wins a
competition to evaluate a humanoid
artificial intelligence who happens to
look pretty good in mesh are you
attracted to me
what are you attracted to me you give me
indications as well Eva isn’t the first
sexy robot to hit the screen remembers
aura from Blade Runner or gigolo Joe
from AI is this your first time with
something like me however Eva might be
the most dangerous when Caleb Falls for
her he finds himself in a battle of wits
with her creator she’s gonna reprogram
your AI which is the same as killing you
Oh Caleb you have to help me but who’s
really testing whom and how smart is it
to fall in love with a super intelligent
machine that can predict your every move
spoiler alert not very please stay
stay here number seven testing the drug
alz 113 Rise of the Planet of the Apes
ask me the 113 when it comes to
dangerous experiments in movies that
warning light or slip-up probably means
something pretty bad seeking to cure his
father’s Alzheimer’s scientist will
Rodman discovers a viral drug that
inadvertently increases the intelligence
of chimpanzees no idea the 113 is stable
what kind of damage it can do to people
well that is why we test it on chimps
isn’t it
when will adopts orphan chimps Cesar as
his own everything is hunky-dory until
Cesar begins to realize how humans treat
animals but the real mistake here isn’t
boosting Cesar’s intelligence it’s when
the team doesn’t make a big enough deal
of the fact that Franklin’s mask was
knocked off during the alz 113
experiment leading to an infection that
ultimately destroys human civilization
and paves the way for Caesars takeover
number six
running straight ahead prometheus
mission was taking off what what the
hell’s she talking about when Indiana
Jones runs away from the rolling Boulder
and Raiders of the Lost Ark there’s only
one way to run forward
viewers facepalm din unison when
archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw and mission
director Meredith Vickers took the same
approach to escape the thin disk of a
falling alien spacecraft running
straight ahead in an open area that
offers them a pretty simple solution to
their problem just turn left or right
anything Shaw at least eventually thinks
things through diving sideways and out
of the way Vickers not so much number
five not quarantine in Cain alien you
know the quarantine procedure 24 hours
for decontamination Ridley Scott has
earned his reputation as a legendary
director but he receives a second
mention here for his horror masterpiece
alien listen to me if we break
quarantine we could all dock oh but
y’all be the goddamn hatch we have to
get him inside the crew of the Nostromo
makes a fatal mistake when crew member
Kane returns from exploring a mysterious
planetoid with an alien organism
attached to his face warrant officer in
general badass Ellen Ripley refuses to
let him inside citing quarantine laws no
I can’t do that and if you were in my
position you’d do the same she is
overruled however and then apparently
forgets her concerns when the organism
falls off of its own accord leading to
one of the most famous mealtimes in
movie history what comes next is well
someone ruins his dinner number for
kissing the infected 28 weeks later oh
you have a bun down there
kiss my ass sometimes a kiss is just a
kiss and sometimes it involves an
apocalyptic rage virus that will end
human life as we know it there’s no
question sir she has the virus she’s
infected why is he showing any symptoms
mm-hmm when zombies attack
Don Harris a survivor of the original
outbreak seen in 28 days later abandons
his wife and runs for the hills
hey if until death do us part not undef
still his betrayal is pretty crappy and
in order to ease his guilt he sneaks
into his now infected wife’s isolation
cell to beg for forgiveness
they seal their love with a kiss can
they have just oh we don’t know shakin
hands
this gives dawn the worst STI ever and
now a rage-filled zombie he goes on a
murderous rampage through the former
safe zone of district 1
[Music]
number three
trusting robots The Terminator how can
that man just get up after you did not a
man-machine Terminator if science
fiction has taught us anything it’s not
to trust super intelligent computers
remember Hal 9000 in 2001 the master
control program in Tron and then there
was Skynet the primary antagonist of the
Terminator franchise Skynet is an
artificial intelligence developed by the
US military and given control of
military defense systems including
nuclear weapons what a great idea he’s
saying it’s from the future
but surprise sometime in the future
Skynet becomes too smart and in order to
preserve itself and the world decides to
wipe out humanity we’d won taking out
Connor then would make no difference
Skynet had to wipe out his entire
existence then a bunch of stuff happens
and Arnold Schwarzenegger arrives naked
at a biker bar but take our word for it
trusting the robots was a bad plan come
with me if you want to live number two
capturing dinosaurs and bringing them to
America the lost world Jurassic Park you
don’t bring people halfway around the
world to visit a zoo bring the zoo to
them San Diego is the perfect set what
do you do with rampaging dinosaurs
running amuck on a remote jungle island
bring them to San Diego good ID no wait
that’s an awful idea
tonight we’ll christen Jurassic Park San
Diego with a mega attraction that will
drive turnstile novice rival any theme
park in the world but after a fun slash
death filled trip to a hitherto unseen
tropical island somewhat inspired by
Michael Crichton’s novel of the same
name the movie completely abandons its
source material when in gen decides to
transport adult and infant t-rexes to
America’s finest city because what could
possibly go wrong
besides exactly the same thing as last
time only this time in a busy populated
city you think engine would have learned
it’s lesson the first time it tried to
play God life finds a way
especially when life is a ten-ton
Taranis or before we unveil our number
one pick here are some honorable
mentions right so what happens when we
die drop in a limbo are you serious
limbo unconstructed dream space well
what the hell is down there just raw
infinite subconscious what do you want
[Music]
take one god damn gas nice
number one putting the exhaust port on
the Death Star
Star Wars Episode four a new hope it’s a
small thermal exhaust port right below
the main put the shaft leads directly to
the reactor system a precise hit will
start a chain reaction which should
destroy the station the Death Star is a
mega structure of death and destruction
the size of a small moon with one fatal
flaw the size of that thing the Empire
rules millions of civilized planets has
unlimited resources and access to the
greatest minds in the galaxy drawing on
these assets the Emperor decides to
construct the most powerful weapon of
mass destruction the universe has ever
known there’s just one little problem
shaft is ray-shielded so you’ll have to
use proton torpedoes this massive
armored space station has a little hole
on its surface that leads straight down
to a reactor core shoot a torpedo in
there and boom so how could such a
methodical organization make such a dumb
decision this was such a big boo-boo
that they basically devoted an entire
movie to explaining why it happened but
hey at least it meant that we got rogue
one
do you agree with our list what do you
think was the dumbest decision in
science fiction movies oh holy shit
okay can you stop the test for more
entertaining top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
remember we’ll be with you always
[Music]
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