Stupidity: Cooper dug an underground tunnel from his house to a neighbour's house? And no one in his family noticed him hauling away tons of dirt over the course of probably years? Or wondered what he was doing spending hours by himself under the house?
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15th Mar 2025
Trap (2024)
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Suggested correction: He could have done it slowly over a long period when his family was away (wife at work or visiting her parents, children at school/kindergarten, etc.). It is also possible that there already existed some cellar that only he was aware of, which would greatly reduce the workload, and he could have stored the dirt there until he got a safe moment to take it away. Complicated, but not impossible.
3rd Jul 2018
Annihilation (2018)
Stupidity: Why does the team choose to enter the shimmer from Area X and then trek for miles to the lighthouse? They could travel by sea and stage an amphibious landing on the shore right at the foot of the lighthouse. Obviously this would make for a very short movie, but this choice still needs to be explained in the plot.
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Suggested correction: I thought it was an obvious tactical choice to go by land. If the mysterious shimmer radiates in all directions for miles, as it seems to in the movie, then it would also radiate for miles out to sea. A recon team is going to have a lot more options to deal with any "weirdness" on the ground rather than on a boat or in the water. (Also, the book "Annihilation" on which the movie is based makes it clear that there are some really big, nasty things swimming around in the water!).