"They wouldn't do that" at the movies.

[raccoon]

Anybody else (like me and my sib) like to watch movies and say, "They wouldn't do that," when the movie characters, in your opinion, wouldn't do what they are doing in the movie.

One film we really had a good time with was HOME ALONE, when the bad guys kept trying to break in the house after the little boy had heaped all kinds of abuse on them (which they of course deserved).

[charlie and algernon]

1. heh, anytime someone throws away their gun to fight hand to hand

it happens all the time, two rivals finally meet, both are armed with guns and/or some other weapon, and they both WILLINGLY throw their weapons down so they can get into an old fashioned brawl or show off their kung-fu moves.

[CBHagman]

2. Oh, where do I start, raccoon?

Just for starters:

New Yorkers staring at James Spader and Susan Sarandon's tryst in White Palace.

Maxine Bahns and Ed Burns procuring a quickie marriage from a priest in a bar in She's the One. I'd have to call in the entire Catholic Church to explain why that one won't fly.

[siligut]

3. These just go without saying.

The bad guys are always bad shots.

When a man and woman kiss after a harrowing situation.

Anything Eddie Murphy does in a film.

James Bond, but that is actually the fun.

[geardaddy]

4. The classic...

James Bond villains always tell him the way to stop whatever machine is going to blow up the planet, or whatever.

[JTG of the PRB]

15. So THAT'S what I've been doing wrong!

I told that spy I captured how to deactivate my Doomsday Device to taunt him because I was certain he could never escape from those flimsy chains in a room guarded by only two inept minions! Oh, what a FOOL I've been!

Next time, I'll only give him a general idea of how to deactivate my weapon and leave him chained in a room guarded by FOUR inept minions! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

[NewJeffCT]

16. "You expect me to talk?" - "No Mr Bond, I expect you to die"

Come on, that was classic.

[geardaddy]

18. Indeed.

I love the old Bond films.

[Ava]

5. so you mean if several of your peers disappeared in a spooky house

you wouldn't go in and check it out just for the hell of it? :P :rofl:

[madeline_con]

13. Or if you hear a sound coming from the dark

forest on the side of the road where your car broke down, walk toward it!

[NewJeffCT]

14. of course - and, I wouldn't turn the light on upon entering a dark room, either

grr...whenever I come home to a dark house, I always stumble about through a few rooms in the dark.

[IronLionZion]

6. If you had a problem with somebody you wouldn't just kill them? nt

[petronius]

11. That one is often a problem - the good guy has the drop on the villain

in the first five minutes, but lets him go with a warning - resulting in 90 minutes of turmoil before getting another shot...

[DS1]

7. No hero or main antagonist ever bruises up for a week after taking multiple hard punches

to the face. That irks the shit out of me.

[hunter]

12. Who the hell punches faces, anyways?

What is that? A boxing match?

The real fights I've seen (looking over my shoulder and running away as fast as I can...) never go like that.

[bigwillq]

8. I say that all the time.

Sometimes it ruins a movie for me when something like that happens.

[CBHagman]

9. I thought of another one.

Most of the time, you don't see people eat or drink, unless you have someone tying one on at the bar in a fit of despair. In Serendipity, for example, a character orders a rich chocolate dessert and then walks out without eating it. I'm sorry, but nothing but a five-alarm fire would separate most people from their chocolate.:9

[Sequoia]

10. Being in the desert and they throw away their canteen

after drinking the last bit of water but then after a number of miles find water but now no canteen to put it in.

That's makes me thirsty...off to the water cooler.

[MsKandice01]

17. I ruin movies for my husband all the time...

When I make "they wouldn't do that" comments. My husband says I should just relax and be entertained but I just can't turn off my sense of logic and reasoning arbitrarily.

[driver8]

19. People always leave a gun lying next to the bad guy after they

have just kicked the crap out of him/her.

The bad guy then magically recovers, grabs the gun, and takes a shot at the good guys.

WTF?

The first thing I would do would be to take away the gun!!