Giving the Scientist a gun - World War Z : The doctor (Who is clearly not trained in firearms) Freaks out at the first sign of trouble, runs away, trips on the helicopter ramp and ends up shooting himself in the head. WTF?
The Andromeda Strain (1971) -- Town doctor, for some inexplicable reason, opens military satellite, releasing deadly virus that killis or drives insane nearly everyone in town. Opening the satellte also triggers a chain of events nearly resulting in a nuclear explosion at government laboratory. Had the explosion not been stopped with only seconds to spare, it would have spread the virus, killing several million people at the very least.
@@robertbouley7697 well I feel like he believed you could convince one person given enough time or evidence. That's harder to do on a grand scale. Secondly I could totally see aliens acting like they do in that movie. Like we as a species barely get along, now multiply that 100x by other species with more advanced tech and their own problems, religions, histories, their own health needs and etc. Like I'm sure most would be fairly nice, but not all of them would be. Now I'm not saying I believe in the men in black, but if aliens came to earth and settled here, I would hundred percent believe it would look like men in black.
Ohh I always loved "The Poseidon Adventure" as one of the timeless disaster film of all time and it's still my favorite along with "The Towering Inferno".
Love "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno". They're like time capsules back to when my parents were teenagers and disaster films were box office gold. Plus, the casts in both movies are amazing.
And they made for some nice comedic comic versions from Mad (or maybe Cracked) Magazine. Like The Towering Inferno where someone's talking about tying a string around his finger as a reminder about something and the guy he's talking to shouting 'that's the main power cable!' Or for the Poseidon Adventure, annoying kid's telling various facts about the ship as they work their way up only to tell everyone how the ship has an automatic righting function to turn it back over after 24hrs right after they get to the bottom/top.
I remember seeing "Outbreak" when it came out in theaters. When that guy in the movie at the theater sneezed, everyone watching naturally "ew'd" it... And then everyone started looking around, like they were looking to make sure no one else would sneeze.
I re-watched Dante’s Peak recently and realized that there would be no movie if the stupid grandma had just gotten off the mountain. It would’ve just been a story about a small town they got evacuated ahead of a disastrous volcano eruption.
I partly agree, but wasn't Brosnan's boss the one who kept telling everyone that the town wasn't in danger, not the grandma? Even if she'd come down from the mountain before the eruption, the town would still be full when the eruption started.
Hahaha I said the same thing when I watched the movie. Especially when she got out of the boat before they reached the shore and the acid water got her
@@breezy3392 omg I had to rewatch the scene because I saw it so many years ago and thought she just blindly jumped out because she didn't wanna wait for the boat to reach the shore. Talk about watching it as an adult vs then. Someone commented on the clip they had to rewatch it for the same reason
While I agree that the whole "Leaving Shelter"-thing in "The Day After Tomorrow" is dumb, we've seen firsthand in real life that that is not outside the realm of possibility.
Someone from NASA actually said that it would indeed make sense to send drillers into space rather than teaching astronauts how to drill. As long as there were a couple astronauts with them to get them into space and back (which obviously there were), in an emergency situation that would likely be the right move.
Same here. I’m like, “Listen to his dad. He’s a science expert”. Stay inside, find something to burn. It’s common sense as well. Below 0 Freezing temperatures=death, walking on foot wondering outside for long is a death sentence. Chilling.
I'd like to augment the Independence Day one. Nuking the alien ship while knowing the shields are still up was a dumb decision. And another dumb decision in disaster movies was Stan in Volcano. He kept the subways running knowing full-well there was seismic activity going on. Still, his death managed to scare just about anyone who first watched it.
I'm wondering where 28 Days Later falls into this, sure it's kind of a zombie movie, but I think that loosely falls into the "disaster" category, more broadly. Because the hippy animal activists really pissed in the reservoir there. The guy was literally telling them, hey don't do that, the monkeys are infected.
IMHO, the dumbest decision in Independence Day was performing the autopsy on an unconscious (read: NOT DEAD) alien from a confirmed hostile race without ANY ARMED SECURITY close at hand.
Volcano did actually scare me when I was in my teens. I mean, it really does make sense that a volcano COULD form in the L.A. area, but it'd be highly unlikely
I remember feeling confusion when I saw the missiles in "Don't look up" going towards the meteor and the movie was just halfway. I thought maybe the missiles were going to malfunction halfway or were going to explode do to colliding with smaller asteroids. I sat in confusion wondering why the missiles were turning back to earth🤔then the explanation came🚮The anger and helplessness I felt in that moment was truly unprecedented because it dawned on me that the movie truly is showing how our governments and rich elite would truly act if something like this happened 🤧Greed is truly the worst part about humanity 💔
Exactly. They were not trained to be astronauts, they were just trained to use space suits. The move is clear when they mention that it would take weeks to train astronauts in basic drilling techniques.
You're wrong on number 10. Claiming astronauts would be better because they're trained for it is the exact point the character Harry was making. Just as it takes years of training to be a proper astronaut it take years of training to learn to drill and how to use the equipment right. He points it out when they show him the copy of 'His' drill they made and it was put together wrong and he knows exactly what problems they're having. While there are lots of things the movie got wrong, some of it was correct with the ideas of how to solve the problem.
There was more than one bonehead in "Outbreak". Henry Seward, who was putting the pet shop owner's blood through the centrifuge, made TWO stupid decisions-1) putting his hand into a moving centrifuge, getting the infected blood on him, and 2) going to a crowded movie theatre while obviously sick, hence getting everyone at the theatre sick
It's been proven again and again that you're wrong about armageddon. Learning how to drill is a very specialized subject that requires years of training. They didn't have years. It is far easier to teach drillers how to not die in space then it would be to teach astronauts how to drill. It's not like they were teaching the drill crew how to be astronauts. They were just teaching them how to survive.
Jonas in Twister: "Hey! Wouldn't it be cool if we drove directly into the path of this tornado. I wont die a fiery death after my driver is decapitated or anything."
The one thing about the Dante’s Peak entry is that grandma was based on a real person named Harry Truman who refused to evacuate a volcano. He and his residence were both vaporized by Mt St Helens, the volcano that inspired the movie (and was even the site of several filming sessions) in 1980
The storylines of most movies in general require stupidity to some extent. Jurassic Park would have been over before it started if they made the logical and rational decision, which would have been to not make dinosaurs. There would have been no Harry Potter story if Voldemort had used a less than lethal spell to get Lily out of the way, as he then would have been able to kill baby Harry.
“Leaving Shelter”… who should I listen to, the random security guard or the teenager whose father is a CLIMATOLOGIST?! I don’t care if he’s a teenager, I’m going to listen to the Climatologist’s son.
I've never watched the movie. How did they know the teen's father was a climatologist? Did he just tell them or did he have credentials? As we all know, anybody can claim to be anything.
@@normanwhite6677 because he told them. Sam: “The storm will kill anyone who goes outside.” (“Where are you getting this information?”) Sam: “My dad’s a Climatologist, he works for the Government.”
Most of these movies were absolutely improbable, though i did love armageddon. Outbreak on the other hand was quite probable and was one of the first films i watched when the covid pandemic began.
YOU, on the other hand, might want to consider going online and learning proper grammar and syntax. It's obvious you didn't learn them in middle school!
Top 3 (In my opinion): 1. Not listening to the experts 2. Zombie Party 3. Recalling the rockets Some of these decisions make people look like they want to die. Also, there's no beating the top spot cuz it has been in every disaster movie, and also shows you paying the price when you don't listen. Take notes on that in real life, always listen!
A word of caution though, make sure that the "expert" is the right one. As seen in Contagion, Jude Law's character masked himself to be an "expert" for personal gain.
Ben Affleck actually asked Michael Bay that same question about it being smarter to teach astronauts to drill than teach drillers to be astronauts, but was shut down quickly
As for the Armageddon- actually its normal to have something called mission specialists. Theyre basically trained only to survive in space and arent astronauts persay
If Howard(Big Bang Theory) can be trained to go into space despite having no previous Military training, then it shouldn't be hard to train the drillers in Armageddon.
#1 applies to more than just Disaster movies. Action, Suspense, Horror (especially Horror)... there are plenty of movies in other genera's where things would have gone a lot better if someone listened. Jaws for example. They could have shut down the beaches after the first victim, saved a lot of lives, but the Mayor wouldn't listen because it'd hurt tourist season.
Jaws should have been here, love that movie but the Mayor keeping the beaches open even though there’s a shark that likes eating people out there, nice one Larry 😂
What happened as a result of the Number 6 pick is EXACTLY why you should ALWAYS take the stairs in ANY emergency situation. It's even brought up in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth in the final case. An ambassador brings up the safety measure when Detective Gumshoe mentions that in a panic that he tried the elevator during a fire at an embassy before remembering to take the stairs. Case is "Turnabout Ablaze".
I used to work in a massive 10-story office complex and that movie is what convinced me to pull the fire alarm and evacuate thousands of people when I thought I smelled smoke by the elevator. Everyone wanted to know who was the idiot who made everybody walk down all those stairs into freezing weather. By the time everybody was out, there was a visible fire. It was electrical and had run up the wiring before bursting through a wall! When the investigators asked me why I had pulled the alarm, I told him they needed to see this movie.
A small scene in Temple of Doom always bugged me. Why did the 2 pilots sneak past a sleeping Indiana Jones and jump out? Why not throw him, the girl and the kid out and KEEP the plane??
In a lot of cases it's the "decision" that creates the story. Stephen King's "The Stand" would have lasted 5 minutes if the soldier had stayed on the base.
It wasn't a disaster movie as such, but one movie I saw involved a character making a dumb decision... and the person sitting next to me saw it almost immediately. Leading to: HIM: But why didn't they just (do the smart thing)? ME: You want the movie to end in ten minutes?
During the filming of Armageddon, someone asked Michael Bay if it would be easier to teach astronauts to drill than train drillers to be astronauts. He responded, "shut up."
The movie Deep Impact took a more logical approach with a comet instead of an asteroid hitting the Earth but was out played by Armageddon in terms of box office. The reverse was said with Dante's Peak and Volcano because one was more believable than the other and also had a better story. If anything, that shows that as long as you captured the full attention of the people, even the idiotic is believable.
You're so right about all 4 movies. Though I saw deep impact(the mobie made me not want to be a astronaut)as a kid in the theater, Armageddon is the one I remember the most..Volcano had that scary scene in the subway but Dante peak wasn't as memorable IMO
I always think it’s interesting when people bring this up. I know it’s true and all but I’ve actually never seen Armageddon but deep impact is one of my all-time favorite movies
@@Promthanius there's a scene in Armageddon that shows the vehicles that are used to drill into the asteroid, not the space shuttle, that each are mounted with user guided gatling gun, a tech that the user doesn't have to be behind said gatling gun to aim it but use a remote handheld scope to aim it and it gets used when one of the characters gets space dementia. Look it up on RUclips and that will tell you what was viewed as the important aspects of the movie.
About Armageddon Point, actually sending drillers instead astronauts WAS IN FACT the smarter decision, as teaching the correct drilling techniques would take to much time. A group of astronauts/military would accept the president decision of detonate the bomb prior of reaching its optimal deep for effect. Ask any military and you would get that time is essential. "A good solution applied with vigor now is better that a perfect solution applied ten minutes later" George S. Patton.
The bone head smuggling a contagious animal in Outbreak is a dumb move bit probably the most relatable of them. It would definitely be so.ething like this to wipe us out
Don't look up is mainly addressing how so many people were convinced not to look at the clear evidence in front of them. And to listen to those wanting to use them. Please don't hate me,I didn't write the thing. :)
I’m on the 3rd movie on this list and it’s as if whoever wrote the script for this video didn’t watch two of three movies…they explained their reasoning in Armageddon and the outbreak in Outbreak was contained to one town…it didn’t spread across the country. Which was a major point in the movie.
I love ID4 to bits, but it makes me laugh when Jeff Goldblum gets his laptop to link up with the alien computer to download the virus, but here on planet Earth we can't even get Macs and PCs to communicate.
The security guard in The Towering Inferno opening the door to the room where the fire originated. The chef in Contagion not washing his hands before greeting the Gwyneth Paltrow character. The flight crew in Airplane ordering fish instead of steak, or lasagna.
#10 - It is quite clearly explained in Armageddon why they didn't teach astronauts how to drill. "There is an art to drilling." NASA even built Harry's drill design wrong. There were probably a limited number of seats on the shuttles so they only had so much room for extra astronauts. Did you even watch the movie? # 1 - The "doubting Thomas" is the biggest of all disaster movie cliches', or tropes. People in authority always ignore the advice of the expert, who usually knows far more about the potential disaster than the people who get to make the decision about what to do. There have been plenty of real world examples of idiots ignoring experts.
@@olliesmith2890 who they're paid by has no bearing on things, only the deliberately ignorant ignore experts because 'oh the government paid them so it must be a lie' Nor are you even remotely qualified to know what constitutes good or bad information (as evidenced by your automatically rejecting anything from experts simply because of their paycheck coming from the government).
Unfortunately for number 9 they wouldnt have had nearly enough food anyways to feed everyone so that situation was simply sol no matter what they did and for this also there were other people who had survived in other parts of the city so at least more people did survive
The problem with #10 is that if they just had astronauts or even just didn't have AJ, regardless of how everything else goes, they all die at the end. AJ's cavalier attitude allowed him to get the 2nd armadillo across the giant canyon. If he played it safe at the end to try and avoid what happened to Max, I think the drill head get lodged, and they wouldn't have time to dislodge it and finish. The astronauts they would have sent up would have 8.5 months of training, compared to Harry's 30 years of experience plus whatever he learned from his father/grandfather.
In World War Z, the other dumb decision is giving a weapon to the least trained person who is in charge of the whole mission. They give a gun to the guy trying to find out the zombie virus only for zombies to attack the plane, and the guy panicks, slips, and shoots himself in the head.
The ID4 rooftop scene and hearing the LA Police telling them to get their asses down and the people not listening, I'm thinking "yeah that's legit." People would be there yelling fake news at the cops.
You mention Outbreak yet not mention Contagion? That movie more accurately depicts the pandemic. If only that stupid chef washed his hands properly after handling the raw pig....
The film 2012. ****NOT**** informing the general public that the end of the world was going to happen, and only letting only a select few buy their way on board.
@3:44 the first red flag was when the helicopter was blown up in all honesty. The kids going to get Grandma during the eruption in "Dante's Peak" AND the helicopter crash from the same movie should have been honorable mentions. #1 was too much of a cop-out, even though it was right
Have a problem with 10. The drillers were not asked to do anything but survive the flight and then run the machines that they are most qualified to run. They didn't need to fly either shuttle, or navigate, or problem solve. Everything that went sideways during flight would have happened anyway as everyone was strapped in. So, more astronauts would have meant that someone with the skills and experience to drive the rover would have been left trying to figure it out. The drillers needed to be there just like the movie set it up.
In The Towering Inferno, there's a scene of an attempted rescue by helicopter via the roof landing pad. Just as the chopper is moving to land (complicated by high winds surrounding the building) everyone is told to wait until the chopper has fully landed before approaching. So of course two panicky women IMMEDIATELY break free of the group and try to rush the still-trying-to-land chopper. The pilots are forced to abort the landing so abruptly that the heavy winds cause it to crash and burn, cutting off this particular avenue of escape.
In Dante's Peak, they didnt listen to the scientists that their volcano was going to erupt and the struggling mayor doomed their small town. In Volcano, no one knew what a volcano even was or that magma was traveling through the subway system. Even the subway guy did nothing and his death was horrifying. The Poseidon Adventure always amazes me at how stupid people can get. The greed of running an unsteady ship at full speed, the people saying the captain and his officers will call for help when they see the ship is upside down and the captain's cabin is under water.
Definitely would have included 'rush the fireman's basket' in _The Towering Inferno_ - As satisfying as it was to see Simmons take a 130-story swan dive, he took a lotta people with him XD
I did not realize Leslie Nielsen's pre-Zucker Bros life included being the Captain of the Poseidon. And I _saw the movie._ He was a great character actor, and as such did not stand out. Shirley that changed!
You could also have mentioned the elevator problem in the Towering Inferno because that was a disastrous one. Be it the one that stopped on the floor with the fire or the elevator going down and getting caught up in an explosion, dangling by the cable.
There was a Cracked or Mad magazine parody of the movie where the 'stopped on the fire level' elevator scene had it returning up with the charred remains and someone commenting 'well at least someone sent up a nice cooked meal' and someone else going 'that's the people that went down earlier!'
It’s not a disaster movie but Llewelyn deciding to go back and give the man some water in No Country for Old Men. If he hadn’t gone, he never would’ve run into the cartel and Anton would have no idea who took the money
Aside from not listening to the experts part, group think, greed and blaming the others instead of owning up one's mistake are all common these disaster movies.
Too be fair, I think you can make a non-disaster movie that is all about experts and their struggle to convince the powers that be to take the proper steps to avoid the disasters.
irwin allen (the master of disaster) had a great bunch of movies in the 70s hokey sure dated maybe but damn they were still good for their time and worth a watch even now
"Not taking astronauts into space." They DID take astronauts into space. The drillers were not trained for operating the shuttle, and the astronauts were not trained for drilling. That is why they took a mixed crew. "Wouldn't it make more sense to train astronauts to drill?" Sure, if you have 2 years to teach them all the ends and outs. The movie showed they did not have that much time. The zombies did not coordinate they tried to climb over each other to get to the noise. The first ones were crushed by the weight of the following ones, but enough kept coming that some finally got over the wall.
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Giving the Scientist a gun - World War Z : The doctor (Who is clearly not trained in firearms) Freaks out at the first sign of trouble, runs away, trips on the helicopter ramp and ends up shooting himself in the head. WTF?
Jonas getting too close to a F5 Tornado in Twister (1996).
28 Weeks Later, the main character's stupid kids, going into the Infected zone instead of staying in the safe area.
The Andromeda Strain (1971) -- Town doctor, for some inexplicable reason, opens military satellite, releasing deadly virus that killis or drives insane nearly everyone in town. Opening the satellte also triggers a chain of events nearly resulting in a nuclear explosion at government laboratory. Had the explosion not been stopped with only seconds to spare, it would have spread the virus, killing several million people at the very least.
"A person is smart but people are dumb panicky animals and you know it." - Agent K from Men In Black
I love that quote so much
Agent K is optimistic towards the average individual’s intelligence.
@@twocoolgamer16 ditto!
I was just thinking that
@@robertbouley7697 well I feel like he believed you could convince one person given enough time or evidence. That's harder to do on a grand scale. Secondly I could totally see aliens acting like they do in that movie. Like we as a species barely get along, now multiply that 100x by other species with more advanced tech and their own problems, religions, histories, their own health needs and etc. Like I'm sure most would be fairly nice, but not all of them would be. Now I'm not saying I believe in the men in black, but if aliens came to earth and settled here, I would hundred percent believe it would look like men in black.
Ohh I always loved "The Poseidon Adventure" as one of the timeless disaster film of all time and it's still my favorite along with "The Towering Inferno".
Love "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno". They're like time capsules back to when my parents were teenagers and disaster films were box office gold. Plus, the casts in both movies are amazing.
And they made for some nice comedic comic versions from Mad (or maybe Cracked) Magazine. Like The Towering Inferno where someone's talking about tying a string around his finger as a reminder about something and the guy he's talking to shouting 'that's the main power cable!'
Or for the Poseidon Adventure, annoying kid's telling various facts about the ship as they work their way up only to tell everyone how the ship has an automatic righting function to turn it back over after 24hrs right after they get to the bottom/top.
@@shadizersilverhand2113 The Towering Sterno and The Poopsidedown Adventure. I remember them well!
I remember seeing "Outbreak" when it came out in theaters. When that guy in the movie at the theater sneezed, everyone watching naturally "ew'd" it... And then everyone started looking around, like they were looking to make sure no one else would sneeze.
I thought it was gross and messed up that Jimbo's gf kissed him when he looked like death warmed over. I mean, really?!
@@Marshwiggles ikr!
Seriously, a hug would have been enough
I re-watched Dante’s Peak recently and realized that there would be no movie if the stupid grandma had just gotten off the mountain. It would’ve just been a story about a small town they got evacuated ahead of a disastrous volcano eruption.
I partly agree, but wasn't Brosnan's boss the one who kept telling everyone that the town wasn't in danger, not the grandma? Even if she'd come down from the mountain before the eruption, the town would still be full when the eruption started.
Hahaha I said the same thing when I watched the movie. Especially when she got out of the boat before they reached the shore and the acid water got her
@@CandraCosplays Grandma got out of the boat to pull them to shore to save the others
@@breezy3392 omg I had to rewatch the scene because I saw it so many years ago and thought she just blindly jumped out because she didn't wanna wait for the boat to reach the shore. Talk about watching it as an adult vs then. Someone commented on the clip they had to rewatch it for the same reason
@@CandraCosplays Grandma setting her granddaughter down and telling her to hold on before jumping in...That scene got to me 😢
While I agree that the whole "Leaving Shelter"-thing in "The Day After Tomorrow" is dumb, we've seen firsthand in real life that that is not outside the realm of possibility.
In the End it was this Leaving Shelter Thing that saved the Minor Group.
Someone from NASA actually said that it would indeed make sense to send drillers into space rather than teaching astronauts how to drill. As long as there were a couple astronauts with them to get them into space and back (which obviously there were), in an emergency situation that would likely be the right move.
Driller and Astronauts working together.
Thanks. I came to say the same and you worded it better than i did.
I always crack up at the fact that Ben Affleck brought this up to Michael Bay, only for him to say STFU
The dumbest decision was to nuke the thing in the first place.
Which as i recall, there were astronauts on the crew in the first place, so the point is moot
I’m so glad they included The day after tomorrow. When I first saw the film I was saying “No don’t go outside you’ll die.”
Yup same me too.
On the bright side, it gave the survivors who stayed more room? 😅
Same here. I’m like, “Listen to his dad. He’s a science expert”. Stay inside, find something to burn. It’s common sense as well. Below 0 Freezing temperatures=death, walking on foot wondering outside for long is a death sentence. Chilling.
I'd like to augment the Independence Day one. Nuking the alien ship while knowing the shields are still up was a dumb decision. And another dumb decision in disaster movies was Stan in Volcano. He kept the subways running knowing full-well there was seismic activity going on. Still, his death managed to scare just about anyone who first watched it.
I'm wondering where 28 Days Later falls into this, sure it's kind of a zombie movie, but I think that loosely falls into the "disaster" category, more broadly. Because the hippy animal activists really pissed in the reservoir there. The guy was literally telling them, hey don't do that, the monkeys are infected.
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IMHO, the dumbest decision in Independence Day was performing the autopsy on an unconscious (read: NOT DEAD) alien from a confirmed hostile race without ANY ARMED SECURITY close at hand.
Or launching a counterattack with manned fighters instead of beginning with guided missiles.
Volcano did actually scare me when I was in my teens. I mean, it really does make sense that a volcano COULD form in the L.A. area, but it'd be highly unlikely
I remember feeling confusion when I saw the missiles in "Don't look up" going towards the meteor and the movie was just halfway. I thought maybe the missiles were going to malfunction halfway or were going to explode do to colliding with smaller asteroids. I sat in confusion wondering why the missiles were turning back to earth🤔then the explanation came🚮The anger and helplessness I felt in that moment was truly unprecedented because it dawned on me that the movie truly is showing how our governments and rich elite would truly act if something like this happened 🤧Greed is truly the worst part about humanity 💔
Not to mention greed is one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
@@SorenDaein yeah the ending of Don't Look Up shows just how deadly it can be, taken to its most extreme form.
Missed it on #10 guys. NASA brought "non-astronauts" to space all the time as payload specialists when specific expertise was required.
Exactly. Just like Howard Wolowitz.
Exactly. They were not trained to be astronauts, they were just trained to use space suits. The move is clear when they mention that it would take weeks to train astronauts in basic drilling techniques.
Exactly!!!!!!! And they were the BEST! Also in the beginning there were just as many astronauts as there were drillers, equally broken into 2 teams.
You're wrong on number 10. Claiming astronauts would be better because they're trained for it is the exact point the character Harry was making. Just as it takes years of training to be a proper astronaut it take years of training to learn to drill and how to use the equipment right. He points it out when they show him the copy of 'His' drill they made and it was put together wrong and he knows exactly what problems they're having. While there are lots of things the movie got wrong, some of it was correct with the ideas of how to solve the problem.
you say "lots of things the movie got wrong" in short EVERYTHING wrong
I wonder if it would've been better if it was a mixed team. drillers and astronauts.
Why not a 50/50 split?
And don't forget that the "qualified NASA pilot" overshot the landing zone by 25 miles!
There was more than one bonehead in "Outbreak". Henry Seward, who was putting the pet shop owner's blood through the centrifuge, made TWO stupid decisions-1) putting his hand into a moving centrifuge, getting the infected blood on him, and 2) going to a crowded movie theatre while obviously sick, hence getting everyone at the theatre sick
It's been proven again and again that you're wrong about armageddon. Learning how to drill is a very specialized subject that requires years of training. They didn't have years. It is far easier to teach drillers how to not die in space then it would be to teach astronauts how to drill. It's not like they were teaching the drill crew how to be astronauts. They were just teaching them how to survive.
im sorry but who proved that?
@@mercedesdrake9113 NASA
The astronauts and the drillers should be balanced in the movie.
If Armageddon had taught astronauts how to drill, it would be Deep Impact.
@@mercedesdrake9113 Anyone with a working brain bud, you don't have one.
Well it wouldn't be a disaster movie if someone didn't do something stupid and easily preventable, would it?
Jonas in Twister: "Hey! Wouldn't it be cool if we drove directly into the path of this tornado. I wont die a fiery death after my driver is decapitated or anything."
Oh man, Gene Hackman and Shelly Winters in the Poseiden Adventure is one of the best examples of filmmaking. Just brilliant.
think about leslie nielsen as the bad captain too...before he got into comedy 😺
The one thing about the Dante’s Peak entry is that grandma was based on a real person named Harry Truman who refused to evacuate a volcano. He and his residence were both vaporized by Mt St Helens, the volcano that inspired the movie (and was even the site of several filming sessions) in 1980
"After 2020, I will never criticize a disaster movie for having unrealistically stupid characters" - Wintermute01001
Good point.
The storylines of most movies in general require stupidity to some extent. Jurassic Park would have been over before it started if they made the logical and rational decision, which would have been to not make dinosaurs. There would have been no Harry Potter story if Voldemort had used a less than lethal spell to get Lily out of the way, as he then would have been able to kill baby Harry.
@@nrkgalt Voldemort would've been much more successful from the start if he used a gun
You could criticize that they aren't enough stupid characters, as in nobody was intentionally spreading a disease.
@@isipscognac Bang-iarmus!
“Leaving Shelter”… who should I listen to, the random security guard or the teenager whose father is a CLIMATOLOGIST?! I don’t care if he’s a teenager, I’m going to listen to the Climatologist’s son.
I've never watched the movie. How did they know the teen's father was a climatologist? Did he just tell them or did he have credentials? As we all know, anybody can claim to be anything.
@@normanwhite6677 because he told them. Sam: “The storm will kill anyone who goes outside.” (“Where are you getting this information?”) Sam: “My dad’s a Climatologist, he works for the Government.”
They would say go outside and I would be like nope. It’s cold out there!!
Most of these movies were absolutely improbable, though i did love armageddon. Outbreak on the other hand was quite probable and was one of the first films i watched when the covid pandemic began.
Seen Chernobyl? Thats a real spooky one with decisions that are waaay to far-fetched... wait...
You should of included Jonas from Twister getting too close to a F5 Tornado.
YOU, on the other hand, might want to consider going online and learning proper grammar and syntax. It's obvious you didn't learn them in middle school!
Yup.
Top 3 (In my opinion):
1. Not listening to the experts
2. Zombie Party
3. Recalling the rockets
Some of these decisions make people look like they want to die. Also, there's no beating the top spot cuz it has been in every disaster movie, and also shows you paying the price when you don't listen. Take notes on that in real life, always listen!
A word of caution though, make sure that the "expert" is the right one. As seen in Contagion, Jude Law's character masked himself to be an "expert" for personal gain.
Ikr
Ben Affleck actually asked Michael Bay that same question about it being smarter to teach astronauts to drill than teach drillers to be astronauts, but was shut down quickly
Michael Bay literally told him to STFU 🤣🤣
As for the Armageddon- actually its normal to have something called mission specialists. Theyre basically trained only to survive in space and arent astronauts persay
If Howard(Big Bang Theory) can be trained to go into space despite having no previous Military training, then it shouldn't be hard to train the drillers in Armageddon.
#1 applies to more than just Disaster movies. Action, Suspense, Horror (especially Horror)... there are plenty of movies in other genera's where things would have gone a lot better if someone listened.
Jaws for example. They could have shut down the beaches after the first victim, saved a lot of lives, but the Mayor wouldn't listen because it'd hurt tourist season.
Jaws should have been here, love that movie but the Mayor keeping the beaches open even though there’s a shark that likes eating people out there, nice one Larry 😂
In the original book it was because he owes money to the Mafia.
Interesting video thanks for sharing
"Calaberate and Listen",....lol Awesome man!....lol 👌
What happened as a result of the Number 6 pick is EXACTLY why you should ALWAYS take the stairs in ANY emergency situation. It's even brought up in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth in the final case. An ambassador brings up the safety measure when Detective Gumshoe mentions that in a panic that he tried the elevator during a fire at an embassy before remembering to take the stairs. Case is "Turnabout Ablaze".
10:26 to 10:49 - The Towering Inferno (1974) is my favorite film, and I agreed with it.
I used to work in a massive 10-story office complex and that movie is what convinced me to pull the fire alarm and evacuate thousands of people when I thought I smelled smoke by the elevator. Everyone wanted to know who was the idiot who made everybody walk down all those stairs into freezing weather. By the time everybody was out, there was a visible fire. It was electrical and had run up the wiring before bursting through a wall! When the investigators asked me why I had pulled the alarm, I told him they needed to see this movie.
A small scene in Temple of Doom always bugged me. Why did the 2 pilots sneak past a sleeping Indiana Jones and jump out? Why not throw him, the girl and the kid out and KEEP the plane??
In a lot of cases it's the "decision" that creates the story. Stephen King's "The Stand" would have lasted 5 minutes if the soldier had stayed on the base.
Well you gotta admit, there literally wouldn’t be a list if the writers decided to make their characters smart
I love these lists - they always make my day.
It wasn't a disaster movie as such, but one movie I saw involved a character making a dumb decision... and the person sitting next to me saw it almost immediately. Leading to:
HIM: But why didn't they just (do the smart thing)?
ME: You want the movie to end in ten minutes?
During the filming of Armageddon, someone asked Michael Bay if it would be easier to teach astronauts to drill than train drillers to be astronauts. He responded, "shut up."
It was Ben Affleck. And Michael Bay literally told him to STFU 😂😂
Jurrasic Park franchise. not giving Dennis Nedrey a Raise when your whole parks Motto was "NO EXPENSE SPARED"
I rewatched Outbreak at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic
Watch Contagion. That hits even closer to home
Rose jumping back on a sinking Titanic to be with Jack. I’m a tad shocked that idea didn’t make this list.
The movie Deep Impact took a more logical approach with a comet instead of an asteroid hitting the Earth but was out played by Armageddon in terms of box office. The reverse was said with Dante's Peak and Volcano because one was more believable than the other and also had a better story. If anything, that shows that as long as you captured the full attention of the people, even the idiotic is believable.
You're so right about all 4 movies. Though I saw deep impact(the mobie made me not want to be a astronaut)as a kid in the theater, Armageddon is the one I remember the most..Volcano had that scary scene in the subway but Dante peak wasn't as memorable IMO
I always think it’s interesting when people bring this up. I know it’s true and all but I’ve actually never seen Armageddon but deep impact is one of my all-time favorite movies
@@Promthanius there's a scene in Armageddon that shows the vehicles that are used to drill into the asteroid, not the space shuttle, that each are mounted with user guided gatling gun, a tech that the user doesn't have to be behind said gatling gun to aim it but use a remote handheld scope to aim it and it gets used when one of the characters gets space dementia. Look it up on RUclips and that will tell you what was viewed as the important aspects of the movie.
The Thing... A scientist probes the monster with a pencil then sticks the pencil on his lips thereby infecting himself!
About Armageddon Point, actually sending drillers instead astronauts WAS IN FACT the smarter decision, as teaching the correct drilling techniques would take to much time. A group of astronauts/military would accept the president decision of detonate the bomb prior of reaching its optimal deep for effect. Ask any military and you would get that time is essential.
"A good solution applied with vigor now is better that a perfect solution applied ten minutes later" George S. Patton.
The bone head smuggling a contagious animal in Outbreak is a dumb move bit probably the most relatable of them. It would definitely be so.ething like this to wipe us out
Mcdreamy! it was his fault.
"Trying to get ahead of the storm" Jonas Miller in Twister
Don't look up is mainly addressing how so many people were convinced not to look at the clear evidence in front of them. And to listen to those wanting to use them.
Please don't hate me,I didn't write the thing. :)
I’m on the 3rd movie on this list and it’s as if whoever wrote the script for this video didn’t watch two of three movies…they explained their reasoning in Armageddon and the outbreak in Outbreak was contained to one town…it didn’t spread across the country. Which was a major point in the movie.
"Don't Look Up" deserve its own Top 10 list on "Dumbest Decisions People Do In Real Life"
That movie was okay but trying save world and not listening is just one of the dumbest thing ever and greed cost people their lives
I love ID4 to bits, but it makes me laugh when Jeff Goldblum gets his laptop to link up with the alien computer to download the virus, but here on planet Earth we can't even get Macs and PCs to communicate.
Well remember David is suppose to be a super smart Einstein level genius so it makes sense he would be able to do something like that.
The security guard in The Towering Inferno opening the door to the room where the fire originated.
The chef in Contagion not washing his hands before greeting the Gwyneth Paltrow character.
The flight crew in Airplane ordering fish instead of steak, or lasagna.
Number 3, brilliant!!!!
All decisions made in 2012 except the ones made by Oliver platter (first movie where I thought the “bad guy” was the smartest and only sane guy)
Yeah he was making tough decisions but he was right
10:50 I am surprised to see the movie "The Cassandra Crossing." I liked it
In the video of Armageddon with the discussion, Ben Affleck talked about NASA's decision not making any sense.
#10 - It is quite clearly explained in Armageddon why they didn't teach astronauts how to drill. "There is an art to drilling." NASA even built Harry's drill design wrong. There were probably a limited number of seats on the shuttles so they only had so much room for extra astronauts. Did you even watch the movie?
# 1 - The "doubting Thomas" is the biggest of all disaster movie cliches', or tropes. People in authority always ignore the advice of the expert, who usually knows far more about the potential disaster than the people who get to make the decision about what to do. There have been plenty of real world examples of idiots ignoring experts.
What you mean paid by the governments experts you mean, yeah that got us somewhere didn't it. Sooner research myself thanks.
@@olliesmith2890 who they're paid by has no bearing on things, only the deliberately ignorant ignore experts because 'oh the government paid them so it must be a lie' Nor are you even remotely qualified to know what constitutes good or bad information (as evidenced by your automatically rejecting anything from experts simply because of their paycheck coming from the government).
@@shadizersilverhand2113 you're too reasonable for this sinful earth
Nice vid. Nope I cannot think of any off the top of my head right now.
Armageddon was an instant classic... I think the over all theme was that life is fragile and we need to become more self aware as a society..
Unfortunately for number 9 they wouldnt have had nearly enough food anyways to feed everyone so that situation was simply sol no matter what they did and for this also there were other people who had survived in other parts of the city so at least more people did survive
The problem with #10 is that if they just had astronauts or even just didn't have AJ, regardless of how everything else goes, they all die at the end. AJ's cavalier attitude allowed him to get the 2nd armadillo across the giant canyon. If he played it safe at the end to try and avoid what happened to Max, I think the drill head get lodged, and they wouldn't have time to dislodge it and finish.
The astronauts they would have sent up would have 8.5 months of training, compared to Harry's 30 years of experience plus whatever he learned from his father/grandfather.
I would have put 28 days later. The movie starts with one of the dumbest decisions made, releasing monkeys from a cage when told not to
See animal right activists, the scientist warned you about this, NOW YOU PUT HUMANITY ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION
Yes! Irwin Allen! The Master Of Disaster in the 1970's!!!👏👏👏
What do you think these movies would be like if better decisions were made?
Unrealistic.
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In World War Z, the other dumb decision is giving a weapon to the least trained person who is in charge of the whole mission. They give a gun to the guy trying to find out the zombie virus only for zombies to attack the plane, and the guy panicks, slips, and shoots himself in the head.
I love your videos.
The ID4 rooftop scene and hearing the LA Police telling them to get their asses down and the people not listening, I'm thinking "yeah that's legit." People would be there yelling fake news at the cops.
Good video
You mention Outbreak yet not mention Contagion? That movie more accurately depicts the pandemic. If only that stupid chef washed his hands properly after handling the raw pig....
The film 2012. ****NOT**** informing the general public that the end of the world was going to happen, and only letting only a select few buy their way on board.
Venom: thank you one person!!
@3:44 the first red flag was when the helicopter was blown up in all honesty. The kids going to get Grandma during the eruption in "Dante's Peak" AND the helicopter crash from the same movie should have been honorable mentions. #1 was too much of a cop-out, even though it was right
Have a problem with 10. The drillers were not asked to do anything but survive the flight and then run the machines that they are most qualified to run. They didn't need to fly either shuttle, or navigate, or problem solve. Everything that went sideways during flight would have happened anyway as everyone was strapped in. So, more astronauts would have meant that someone with the skills and experience to drive the rover would have been left trying to figure it out. The drillers needed to be there just like the movie set it up.
Many James Bond movies are potential disaster movies, but the disasters are averted by the villain's failure to stop Bond.
In The Towering Inferno, there's a scene of an attempted rescue by helicopter via the roof landing pad. Just as the chopper is moving to land (complicated by high winds surrounding the building) everyone is told to wait until the chopper has fully landed before approaching.
So of course two panicky women IMMEDIATELY break free of the group and try to rush the still-trying-to-land chopper. The pilots are forced to abort the landing so abruptly that the heavy winds cause it to crash and burn, cutting off this particular avenue of escape.
We all know disaster movie characters have to make dumb decisions. If they were smart, the movie would be over in five minutes
In Dante's Peak, they didnt listen to the scientists that their volcano was going to erupt and the struggling mayor doomed their small town. In Volcano, no one knew what a volcano even was or that magma was traveling through the subway system. Even the subway guy did nothing and his death was horrifying.
The Poseidon Adventure always amazes me at how stupid people can get. The greed of running an unsteady ship at full speed, the people saying the captain and his officers will call for help when they see the ship is upside down and the captain's cabin is under water.
Well lets face it, how many people in LA would really think a volcano had formed under the city. Extremely unlikely that to be fair.
Definitely would have included 'rush the fireman's basket' in _The Towering Inferno_ - As satisfying as it was to see Simmons take a 130-story swan dive, he took a lotta people with him XD
The first one (#20) was so hilariously true!!! I had never thought about that before.
Love disaster movies despite everything
Another dumb decision in the movie Earthquake: telling the guy smoking a cigarette to turn off the gas.
The dumbest decision in Earthquake was when Charleton Heston left Genevieve Bujold to try to rescue Ava Gardner!
I did not realize Leslie Nielsen's pre-Zucker Bros life included being the Captain of the Poseidon. And I _saw the movie._ He was a great character actor, and as such did not stand out. Shirley that changed!
Also in World War Z: leaving your ringer on when you're trying to be stealthy.
10:31 Not listening to the experts. Appears O.J. Simpson. He may be an expert but in murder! LOL
Stay For Eruption 🌋
"Dante's Peak" (1997)
They didn’t really do that though, the eruption began while they were holding a meeting to discuss a mandatory evacuation
@@jakealter5504 indeed
I'm surprised you didn't make a natural disaster cinematic universe
well in The Day After Tomorrow they had no food and no water -- so it kind of made sense for them to try and walk to an army base or somewhere
You could also have mentioned the elevator problem in the Towering Inferno because that was a disastrous one. Be it the one that stopped on the floor with the fire or the elevator going down and getting caught up in an explosion, dangling by the cable.
There was a Cracked or Mad magazine parody of the movie where the 'stopped on the fire level' elevator scene had it returning up with the charred remains and someone commenting 'well at least someone sent up a nice cooked meal' and someone else going 'that's the people that went down earlier!'
They posed this question to someone who actually did drilling and they said training the drillers to be astronauts would be easier.
It’s not a disaster movie but Llewelyn deciding to go back and give the man some water in No Country for Old Men. If he hadn’t gone, he never would’ve run into the cartel and Anton would have no idea who took the money
Alt Title: Natural Selection at its best xD
Every natural disaster movie starts with scientists being ignored by politicians. Sound familiar?
Aside from not listening to the experts part, group think, greed and blaming the others instead of owning up one's mistake are all common these disaster movies.
You can't disagree with number 1
In alien they ignored Ripley's warning not to break quarantine, oops!
Too be fair, I think you can make a non-disaster movie that is all about experts and their struggle to convince the powers that be to take the proper steps to avoid the disasters.
They did. It’s called “Don’t Look Up”…
Don't Look Up!
"Hey buddy don't shoot me!"
"But my bullets are 100k diamonds."
"Oh, well that changes EVERYTHING. Shoot away!"
*Unbuttons shirt*
It is pretty hypocritical to call one group of survivors who shelter in place stupid but to call another stupid for not!
Can you do top 10 actors who could play Dr_Doom in the MCU M
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irwin allen (the master of disaster) had a great bunch of movies in the 70s hokey sure dated maybe but damn they were still good for their time and worth a watch even now
"Not taking astronauts into space." They DID take astronauts into space. The drillers were not trained for operating the shuttle, and the astronauts were not trained for drilling. That is why they took a mixed crew.
"Wouldn't it make more sense to train astronauts to drill?" Sure, if you have 2 years to teach them all the ends and outs. The movie showed they did not have that much time.
The zombies did not coordinate they tried to climb over each other to get to the noise. The first ones were crushed by the weight of the following ones, but enough kept coming that some finally got over the wall.
WatchMojo- how many dumb decisions u want?
Marvel- YES