Best movie stupidity of 2022

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Avatar: The Way of Water picture

Stupidity: The humans return to Pandora knowing how things went last time...and still haven't improved the cockpit glass to be able to resist a bow and arrow?

Jon Sandys

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Stupidity: Shae points her gun at the man and tells him to "freeze" and "drop it [gun]." The former police officer moves within an arm's reach of the man, who then almost disarms her. (00:43:45)

KeyZOid

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Stupidity: The whole premise of the plan is summarized by Helen in the sentence "They don't know Andi is dead, so why would they suspect anything?" However, "they" conspired in unison to financially ruin her sister, and "they" did not answer the mail, none of them. The possibility that "they" all could have gathered and silenced her by force is one of the most likely ones, and yet neither she or Blanc consider even for a moment that the literal crime conspirators could have conspired.

Sammo

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Stupidity: Gargantos neutralizes Strange's cape tossing a motorbike at it. Hilariously enough, someone was riding the motorbike and Gargantos knocked him off the bike. The streets were littered with all sorts of wreckage; the biker who made a conscious effort to drive around all sorts of obstacles literally blocking 90% of the roads and ride right at the enormous monster in plain sight must have been in a hell of a rush.

Sammo

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Stupidity: The protagonist with her kid stops a car with two guys, in the middle of the night in an isolated country road. Both the adult and the kid scream that a dangerous maniac is chasing them. So naturally, the two guys (who do believe them, it's not that they are being dismissive) offer them some hot coffee, and they drink it right there in the middle of the street, not dialling for help, getting in the car to drive away or anything, because that's what normal people do when you tell them a serial killer is nearby; stop for a hot cuppa.

Sammo

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Stupidity: Alex, a contract killer, went to the hospital to kill a patient. After parking in the hospital garage, Alex put his car keys under the sun visor, risking the possibility that his car could be stolen. When Alex returned to his vehicle, the keys were not there. A professional or expert assassin should take precautions to assure his getaway car will be there and keep his keys on him. (00:01:45 - 00:04:30)

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Stupidity: When Poirot's team attacks the Germans, they do it through the cover of gas they release. The Germans are having a good time chatting and not taking the situation seriously when there's a big cloud of noxious gas advancing towards them. Despite Poirot's oh-so-clever plan, they should by all means know that something is coming their way, but they get caught entirely with their pants down.

Sammo

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Stupidity: Grace (?) came out of hiding holding a fire extinguisher upside-down as though prepared to use the fire extinguisher to whack any Allosaurus that approached her. Actually spraying the dinosaur's eyes with the chemical contents of the fire extinguisher - and from a greater distance by using the hose - would have been much more practical and effective as a repellent and thereby less likely to result in getting maimed/killed. (She did not use the fire extinguisher at all). (01:02:20)

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Stupidity: Ray and the other man in the bed of the Hangman's truck could have untied each other's hands while being transported to the hanging location but apparently did not even try. (00:00:47)

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Dog (2022)

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Stupidity: To "rescue" Lulu from being locked in Briggs' SUV, the man threw a rock and smashed the rear window with Lulu on the other side and in danger of being injured with the rock and/or shattered glass. (00:27:18 - 00:28:09)

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Stupidity: Soon after the new art therapy instructor Anna arrived for her first day at the mental hospital, Leena - the most dangerous patient - was not in her room and nobody could find her. The hospital went into lock down and the doctor took Anna to a room. Without first looking in the room, the doctor said, "Do not leave this room. Don't worry, you will be safe here and we'll come back after we found her" and then locked Anna inside the room - with Leena. (00:03:36 - 00:04:41)

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Stupidity: Elderly couple Richard and Deb are staying at a secluded house in the woods, where there is likely to be wild animals (e.g, bear and raccoons). Deb tells Richard, "I hear something out there." Richard goes outside with a flashlight (but no weapon). (00:24:14 - 00:24:44)

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Stupidity: Catherine, wearing a dress and coat, was outside in the snow chopping firewood while her teenaged son sat nearby playing video games on his tablet. This could also fall under "plot hole" because having the son close by made him available to try to help his mom when Pryce attacked her (with the intent to rape). (00:36:40 - 00:37:15)

KeyZOid

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Stupidity: The cleaning crew can't open doors and stand in front of a large window. They see a couple walking a dog, so they scream, "Hey!" and wave their hands in the air, even though the people are not looking their way. They do not bang on the glass or use their flashlights to try to draw attention. (00:29:13)

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Stupidity: Despite being wanted for murder, escaping jail, and having his face plastered on the front page of the newspaper, Morbius meets Martine in a public diner and doesn't even make an attempt to conceal his identity while they are seated. Even shaving off his beard and cutting his hair short would have gone a long way in making him more unrecognizable.

Phaneron

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Stupidity: At the police station, a bucket of tools was left along the wall within a couple inches of the jail cell door where so-called "Amityville Strangler" Joe Gallo was detained. Gallo was able to reach the tools, use something to unlock his cell, and have a weapon - sledgehammer - "to go." (00:46:57 - 00:57:30)

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Stupidity: After Candace manages to break free from being tied to a chair, she runs down the hallway while still untangling the rope around her hands. When she finally removes the rope (after turning into one of many rooms), she throws it onto the floor, thereby giving away the direction in which she fled. Pettis soon finds the discarded rope and is able to recapture Candace. (01:00:10 - 01:01:10)

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Dig (2022)

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Stupidity: Victor is holding a gun a couple feet away from Pablo, who is sitting on the floor with his hands bound behind his back. As soon as Pablo breaks his hands free, he gets up and starts running. Victor immediately shoots him in the back, killing him. (00:32:00)

KeyZOid

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Stupidity: Trying to fix his dad's old car, Jesse hangs a portable "trouble light" under the open hood near the right edge - with the light facing the garage wall and the metal cage towards the engine. (00:42:45)

KeyZOid

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Stupidity: David was seriously injured by Olivia a few times (e.g, hit by her car and on the head with a baseball bat). When Olivia went into the bedroom, David was able to knock over his chair, get a knife off the floor, and free himself from being duct-taped to the chair. David took the car keys but left the knife on the floor, even though he was weak and vulnerable and Olivia had previously chased and caught him. When David returned to the cabin, Olivia came in with the knife and keys. (01:02:55 - 01:09:49)

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