Stupidity: It was completely pointless and counterproductive for Marke to involve Cage at all in the Detroit operation, since the rogue guy was just a sweaty executive with no backing, no resources and a single bodyguard with a handgun, trapped in a condemned building. Her team of boy scouts would have done the job perfectly fine, or the local SWAT team would have been in the right spot much quicker. Anyone working in a team and with better body armor than Vin Diesel's tank top, really.
Sammo
10th Sep 2020
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
10th Sep 2020
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
Stupidity: At the very beginning of Donnie Yen's fight inside the CIA conference room, security barriers start descending in the room, windows first and then doors, but somehow the exitway for him (which even communicates with the main elevator. Not a secure bunker or anything) starts shutting down a minute later so he can baseball slide past it before it closes. That's pretty nonsensical security protocol. In fact, the whole operation is successful because apparently the CIA Headquarters lack any cameras and sensors in the corridors, security at the lower floors, main doors, perimeter, especially during the top brass meetings (that happen in a room with huge windows with reinforced glass a man can break jumping at it). (00:09:20)
9th Sep 2020
Mulan (2020)
Stupidity: Bori Khan is a skilled archer and a man without honor. He's not fighting fair, and cares just to win, as established and explicitly said. He shoots an arrow at Mulan, the Witch gets in the arrow's way sacrificing herself to protect her...and for no reason whatsoever he does not shoot anymore, giving the chance for the two girls to share their very special dramatic moment together, but creating a colossal plot contrivance. It is a know movie cliche for the fight to 'pause' around the main character, but here we have a sniper who desists completely (he won't shoot anymore) for absolutely no reason. (01:29:00)
5th Jun 2020
Ten Little Indians (1974)
Stupidity: Martino's plan involves walking across the desert for 200 miles, in a raincoat, dress shoes, and nothing to cover his head. That's just silly and probably needed no sabotage from the killer at all, but he realises his compass was broken and his canteen emptied when it's already too late to go back.That's no subtle sabotage, in particular the compass being shattered, glass included. He didn't even perform a rudimentary check on his survival kit. (00:50:00)
4th Jun 2020
Ten Little Indians (1965)
Stupidity: Like in a previous movie adaptation (and unlike the novel), Lombard finds out way ahead of time that only another 'Indian' is left besides him, and knows they have the gun, but he lead them to the last body turning their back and leaving the gun to them, against any logic and declared purpose. It makes even less sense in this version than in the 1945 version, given the outcome. In the novel, the gun is stolen from him.
3rd Jun 2020
Ten Little Indians (1965)
Stupidity: Ilona Bergen's murder happening as shown is laughable; she sees the hand with the syringe coming, slowly, at her, and not only she can't defend herself or avoid it (because, damsels in distress in the 60s, you know), but she does not even scream. There's no way the killer could have been sure, or even take a calculated risk, to murder her in such a way. (00:55:25)
3rd Jun 2020
And Then There Were None (1945)
Stupidity: Lombard has already figured out who the person on the beach is, and that therefore Vera is the only remaining suspect - yet not only he never tries to take his gun back, but he leads her to the beach keeping his back constantly turned to her. That's incoherent with what he knows and how he acts later. (01:28:00)
3rd Jun 2020
And Then There Were None (1945)
Stupidity: The trail of yarn supposedly unveiled by the cat - besides the 'small' detail that comes down with perfect timing that the murderer couldn't have planned - has also a pattern that is only meant to imitate what happens when a cat plays with a ball of yarn; in reality it couldn't have such a precise trail, and yet retaining loops that wide and neat. (01:00:00)
1st Jun 2020
And Then There Were None (1945)
1st Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
30th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Stupidity: The secret service's purpose is to protect the prince of the nation. There's a roadblock (a watermelon truck across the lane). They could and should turn the car around and/or avoid the obstacle, but what they do is instead stop the limousine and walk out, right into enemy fire, leaving open the doors. Stellar work. (00:26:30)
28th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Squeeze Play - S4-E7
Stupidity: Hard hats are a necessity but they leave something to be desired in terms of comfort and nobody really is overly fond of them. Yet in a Hollywood clichè, the construction workers chilling at the bar outside of work wear their hats, even the one guy who is retired (and still somehow knows where the guy Magnum looks for currently is). (00:16:50)
25th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
25th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Stupidity: Everyone refuses to believe Waldo and treats him as a complete fraud once Magnum finds out that he was discharged from the CIA a couple years before, but it's rather preposterous; the man has been a CIA agent as he mentioned, and for over 20 years. That is not like discovering that he lied about everything, and nobody would shrug off everything he says without a second thought.
24th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
22nd May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
22nd May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Stupidity: Not Darcey nor anyone on the team including the good natured coach and people who care for him finds strange in the least that the doctor keeps giving him cortisone shots for a year. Anyone who played professionally or had to deal with injuries in any way (which should include Magnum too with the beatings he took) would find amazingly strange such a treatment this prolonged and with no benefit.
22nd May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Stupidity: The whole episode is adorable 80s camp that makes zero sense. A very public attempt is made to the life of the star player, at a party and there are 3 bullet holes in a car to prove it. He hires someone to investigate, and the only way this guy has to protect him is to be added to the team. That's absurd; not just because it's not how pro football works, but also because being on the pitch getting physical with other players in no way helps to protect Darcey from a shooter that snipes at him from distance; Magnum would have done a better job watching him from the stands and being on the lookout at the hotel.
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
21st May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Stupidity: Magnum totals his car and suffers " a severe concussion, numerous cracked ribs, bruised hip and a contused kidney." The injuries are methodically listed and can't be dismissed, but he's driving, on his own, literally the next day, and the Ferrari (which requires importing pieces, plus an insurance claim) is repaired just a day after. Both are more than miraculous recoveries - and his friends who care this much about him just let him drive in such condition (one has to assume that with damage so severe he'd also be on pain medication, but that's not mentioned).