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30 Movies That Could’ve Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit

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In order to enjoy a film, you need two things. A big bag of popcorn (with salt or caramel, your choice) and willingly suspending your disbelief for a couple of hours. That way, you can kick back, relax, and enjoy the show without illogical things making you irritated every few minutes.

However, quite a lot of movies and TV shows could end before the end of the first act if some of the characters were a bit smarter or relied on common sense. That’s what redditor RedstonekPL showed us with their viral thread where they asked people to share what movies could be resolved in 10 minutes if the main characters weren’t such fools.

Scroll down for Bored Panda's insightful interview with the author of the thread about why filmmakers make some characters very foolish, upvote your fave pics, and let us know in the comments if you know of any other films that would end quickly if the characters were a tad more rational. Oh, and a small note of warning: you might not be able to enjoy some of these movies on repeat viewings afterward.

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#1

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit The Little Mermaid.

Ariel: Daddy I love him!

King Triton: You don’t even know him!

Ariel: Good point.

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Final score:

105points

postboredom 4 years ago

this could have worked for 50 shades too and twilight too and every single movie which is like them too..

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#2

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit "50 Shades of Gray."

Ana - "You're an abusive stalker with serious emotional trauma. Seek help."

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Final score:

103points

Hubertus Touché 4 years ago

He: 'You wanna spanky spanky?' She: 'No!'

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#3

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit The ring

Girl 1: “Hey do you wanna watch the tape that kills you in 7 days”

Girl 2: “No thanks”

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Final score:

102points

Richard Brown 4 years ago

Picks up tape. Puts it in VCR. Records favourite program over it. The end.

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Redditor RedstonekPL, whose real name is Timothy, told us all about what inspired them to create the thread and why some characters act really dumb.

“Pretty often in movies, the main character (or main characters) does something dumb. When that happens, I think to myself, ‘Man, if only they were a little bit smarter this would be a lot shorter.’ I wanted to spark some discussion about it on the internet, see other people's opinions and examples, and r/AskReddit is the best place for questions like that.”

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According to Timothy, asking a question on the sub is like a lottery: you never know when your thread might go viral. “You can get nothing, get a lot, and anything in between. Although questions like this usually are more popular in the community, people there like to discuss stuff,” he said, adding that the awards he got were a total surprise to him.

#4

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Sleeping Beauty

"Honey, we should invite Maleficent to our daughter's christening. I know she's the Mistress of All Evil, but it'd probably end up worse for us if we don't invite her."

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Final score:

99points

Miss Cris 4 years ago

Na... it was only an excuse. She'd do it anyway arguing that there wssn't enough chocolate to her or that champagne was served before to another fairy.

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#5

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit All the crew had to do was listen to Ripley and not break quarantine

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Final score:

95points

Blakkur Sverrir 4 years ago

Not break quarantine. .. good luck with that

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#6

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Literally not picking Anakin to be Padme bodyguard when the sexual tension between them is thicker than Jabba.

Final score:

91points

Hans 4 years ago

The force was too strong in some body regions...

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Timothy pondered that filmmakers make some characters intentionally foolish for a variety of reasons. “In my opinion, there are 3 types of foolish characters. Some characters are foolish because without them the movie wouldn't exist. Some characters' foolishness is a part of their personality. And some characters sometimes do stupid things once or twice to make the viewer laugh.”

He continued: “There are some movies where not being dumb wouldn't be boring, but there are some films, where one or two foolish actions are required to even start it. A good example for the former is a stereotypical horror film where some characters enter some kind of an abandoned house and then read out loud some kind of ancient curse or whatever from a book with a note saying, "Do not open," and then get attacked.”

#7

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Twilight. "Stop staring at me you vitamin D deficient creep" DONE

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Final score:

91points

Flisey 4 years ago

I have one daughter that loved these movies and another who hates sparkly vampires

32points

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#8

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Well, if Voldemort had conjured a shotgun to kill Harry Potter, not even a mother's love would have saved him from that. But noooo, he had to be all melodramatic and Avada Kedavra the little Chosen One...

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Final score:

85points

Shelp 4 years ago

I mean, every time he had used the Avada Kedavra until then has perfectly worked, so...

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#9

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit "Huh. I can't see the indominus rex. Let me just take a look at the GPS tracking device. Oh. It's in the cage but invisible. Better not open any doors or go inside."

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Final score:

83points

Richard Brown 4 years ago

Walks perimeter checking for footprints made by a 10 tonne dinosaur. Sees none "It's still in there"

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The redditor said that another stereotypical example of this would be a horror movie where the characters get warned by the locals not to enter an abandoned, haunted house, but they do it anyway. If the characters didn’t do this, there would be no need for the movie in the first place.

Bored Panda also wanted to learn more about Timothy’s viewing preferences. “To be honest, I'm a person who would rather watch a TV series rather than a movie. When I do watch one, it's a comedy, so being stupid is basically required.”

They added: “I just want to tell everyone, that y'all should watch anything you want, don't let anyone insult you for what you watch.”

#10

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit "Don't swim to the drop-off, nemo"

"ok dad"

CREDITS

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Final score:

79points

postboredom 4 years ago

This one is off-the-hook (well not a fisherman's hook)

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#11

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory: The kid finds the golden ticket and sells it to another rich, spoiled kid. Easy millions, they are not poor anymore and he wouldn't have a trauma because of the dying kids in the factory

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Final score:

76points

postboredom 4 years ago

by the way, i love the word scrumdidilyumptious. Thats what im gonna call chocolate ice cream now

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#12

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit If Mr. and Mrs. Bueller were anything like my parents, the movie would have been called “Ferris Bueller’s Day at School”

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Final score:

67points

Some Cool Guy 4 years ago

Charlie Sheen's best part. He pulled off smooth druggy so well somehow.

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RedstonekPL’s thread got over 73.5k upvotes, more than 23k comments, and got 112 awards (which had us thinking whether Christmas has come early since everyone’s in such a giving mood).

If everyone were perfect and behaved rationally, movies would end very quickly because problems would get solved or avoided almost immediately. However, this would make for incredibly boring movies.

In fact, you could argue that the essence of any film (or any story, to be honest) is that there are challenges and issues to overcome and that things don’t go according to plan.

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#13

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Elrond should have just stabbed Isildur the instant he said, "no"

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Final score:

66points

Elea Bell 4 years ago

Elrond, having lived through one Kinslaying, wasn't gonna start another.

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#14

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Lion King- “don’t listen to Scar, Simba. He wants to be king through any means necessary. And nobody goes to that gorge to practice their roars.”

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Final score:

63points

Dragonfruit'nrollerskates 4 years ago

"I just can't wait to be King" is basically "can't wait for Dad to die," so I mean the whole movie would've gone that route eventually

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#15

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Tangled, if Mother Gothel had simply given Rapunzel a different birthday in the first place, she never would have thought the lanterns were "for her"

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Final score:

63points

Shelp 4 years ago

Or she could just have kept with the right birthday (it's always easier not to lie as to remember a lie), and said that the lanterns were there because of some sort of unrelated patriotic public holiday or whatever

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Science fiction author James Blish coined and film critic Roger Ebert popularized the term ‘idiot plot’ where everything could be resolved in the blink of an eye if the characters weren’t, well, ‘idiots.’

Idiot plots don’t allow thinking, asking the right questions, or behaving like a normal human being, otherwise, the plot would fall apart. No plot. No movie. No big blockbuster and millions of dollars in revenue.

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However, keep in mind that far from everyone behaves rationally all the time in real life: we don’t magically solve all of our problems even though we could. If we suddenly found out that we’re the protagonists in our own movies, is there something that we’d do differently? Would our movies end in 10 minutes or 10 hours?

#16

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Batman Begins

The Waynes shouldn't have left through the side exit of the theater. Just call Alfred and wait out front.

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Final score:

61points

Naima Ivansdóttir 4 years ago

aaaaaaaaaand batman ends.

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#17

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Aladdin. If Jafar would have just paid Aladdin what he promised him instead of betraying him at the cave, he would have had the lamp and become king be mighty powerful. Aladdin just wanted his money in return for the lamp.

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Final score:

59points

postboredom 4 years ago

but he wouldnt meet jasmine, then he wouldnt sing a whole new world and he wouldnt get a true happily-ever-after..

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#18

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Frozen.

The parents completely isolated Elsa from the world, leaving her with insecurity and anxiety. They also seemingly neglected Anna as her behavior was never in check, which is why she continuously butted her way into Elsa's space when she CLEARLY needed some time alone to clear her head. Maybe if they two actually talked instead of Anna's near assault on Elsa, something could've been worked out that didn't include running away and getting hypothermia in a semi-frozen river.

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Final score:

55points

Jaded Queen 4 years ago

U mean they should have let it all go. Let it go. The cold never bothers me anyway

33points

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#19

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Cars.

If Lighting McQueen listened to his crew and changed his tires as ordered, he could have won the race.

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Final score:

51points

postboredom 4 years ago

But he is speed. Speed makes you nuts. why else would he do that?

16points

#20

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Not a movie, but breaking bad would have worked out much better for Walt if he had just swallowed his pride and allowed his old friend to pay for his cancer treatment.

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Final score:

51points

Laetitia Astolfi 4 years ago

Or if he lived in a country with proper healthcare where he wouldn't have had to pay in the first place...

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#21

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit The Matrix. If Neo had just taken the blue pill and lived out his miserable days like the rest of us

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Final score:

51points

Joeshar 4 years ago

Maybe that happened hundreds of times. Buy this is the story of a guy who has chosen the red pill.

40points

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#22

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit School of rock - Mrs Mullins: Can I see your ID mr Sheebly? Dewey: Uh sorry I don’t have it Mrs Mullins: Sorry you won’t be able to teach the kids unless you have proof you’re a teacher/who you are! CREDITS

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Final score:

50points

Kelsey Montgomery 4 years ago

I thought it was Shneebly

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#23

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Star Wars Episode 1. Not exactly 10 minutes, but, Padme could have bought Anakin's mom and he would have probably never turned to the Dark Side.

Republic credits may not be worth much on Tatooine, but im sure one of her jewel encrusted headdresses is.

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Final score:

50points

Jaded Queen 4 years ago

But but the headdress is preciousss. Let the dark side in

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#24

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit The Visit:

Kids: "We're going to visit our grandparents."

Mom: "I don't want you to go, but if you feel like you really want to go, I'll drive you to their house."

Mom: "Hey, y'all ain't my parents. I'm calling the police."

The end.

Final score:

50points

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François Carré 4 years ago

I actually found the whole plot of this movie pretty stupid. And in the end the kid still finds the guts to throw a funny rap song about the creepy old man who spread his own s**t on his face before trying to kill him. Come on.

6points

#25

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Back to the Future. The man stored plutonium in his garage. Anyone willing to do that should be throwing off red flags like candy at a parade.

Marty: "I'm sorry Crazy Old Man with tons of potentially dangerous and toxic crap in your garage, you want me to do what? At 1am? On a school night? Yeah, no can do, got a test tomorrow."

Headline the next morning: "Local Crazy Person Gunned Down By Terrorists at Hill Valley Mall. Police Reportedly Not Surprised As He Was Really Crazy and Into Weird Stuff."

Marty: "Well huh, glad I didn't go to the mall."

The end.

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Final score:

47points

Mark 4 years ago

"The man stored plutonium in his garage" did he? Remember him getting it out of a case in the parking lot but don't remember him keeping it in his garage although I suppose it was unlikely he kept it in the fridge :)

14points

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#26

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Gremlins, if the idiot had only followed the rules!

Final score:

46points

Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 4 years ago

You can just buy the furby that give the kids same kind of nightmare without all the mess.

22points

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#27

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Forget movies, How I Met Your Mother took 9 years, a 5 min story....

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Final score:

42points

JuJu 4 years ago

And I'm still angry about the end.

44points

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#28

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit The Blair Witch Project, just walk downstream

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Final score:

42points

Richard Brown 4 years ago

"Wanna go look for a witch in some creepy woods or stay at home in the warm and play xbox/playstation?" "Let's stay at home. I'll put the kettle on"

31points

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#29

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Emperor’s New Groove

Yzma originally says that she could just turn him into a flea, put that flea in a box, put that box into another box, and eventually send it to herself so she could smash it with a hammer.

Then she says to save on postage, she’ll just use poison which ends up not being poison. Even if she went with the original plan he’d be a flea, and, for all intents and purposes, out of the picture pretty instantly. Yzma screwed herself trying to save like a quarter.

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Final score:

41points

JuJu 4 years ago

Wrong lever!

20points

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#30

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Avatar the Last Airbender movie. It could have been 0 mins long if M. Night Shyamalan had been smart.

Final score:

36points

Jayne Kyra 4 years ago

Look into this nice light and repeat after me: "There is no The Last Airbender movie."

39points

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#31

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Inside out. In the scene where Sadness and Joy meet the two workers in the long term, they send the gum commercial memory through the wall (the little flap that opens if you push a memory through it)and up to headquarters. Idk why they didn’t think of sending the core memories through that instead.

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Final score:

18points

Shelp 4 years ago

That plot hole always bugged me as well

9points

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#32

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Robert: Ned come with me to king's landing

Ned: No.

Final score:

17points

CatWoman312 4 years ago

Caitlin Stark: Bran don’t climb the wall Bran: yes mother. Roll credits

5points

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#33

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Home alone - yeah sick just forget about one of your kids.

Home alone 2 - congratulations on learning from your mistakes and managing to get your kid to the airport this time...and he’s gone.

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Final score:

16points

Richard Brown 4 years ago

Family has Christmas at home. The end.

19points

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#34

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit UP! The dude should have sold! The property was worth a whole bunch and it would have been worthwhile to even just pick up and move the house if he was so attached to it, which as evidenced by the movie was a solution he would have been perfectly ok with.

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Final score:

16points

PattonPawter 4 years ago

Well he and Ellie basically built that house together. It’s the only reminder of Ellie he has, it’s like refusing to get rid of something because it reminds you of your friend who moved away.

2points

#35

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit No Country For Old Men

Never go back to the scene of the crime.

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Final score:

15points

#36

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit 28 days later.

How about we don't let the diseased rage monkey out of the cage?

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Final score:

15points

rspanther 4 years ago

Peta would let it free no matter if they knew it was diseased.

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#37

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Reservoir Dogs:

"I dunno, Joe. This heist seems kinda risky and dangerous."

"Yeah, I'm not actually sure everyone in this crew is on the up and up. IT'S OFF!"

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Final score:

15points

Some Cool Guy 4 years ago

I haven't heard "Stuck in the middle with you" the same way ever since.

8points

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#38

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Gone with the Wind.

If Ashley had just told Scarlett in plain English that he loved Melanie then Scarlett would have given up chasing him. Instead he would say things like, she’s like me, we’re blood (they were cousins), we understand each other, etc. Scarlett misinterpreted that to mean he didn’t ‘love’ her, but was marrying her for other reasons.

It wasn’t until the end that after Melanie died that Scarlett realized Ashley loved Melly and not her. She wasted years of her life on something that could have been cleared up with a simple phrase.

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Final score:

15points

lara 4 years ago

Ashley was just hedging his bets.

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#39

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit IT

"they float, Georgie, and when you're down here with me, you'll float, too!"

Nah! float yourself. Bye

Credits

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Final score:

15points

Richard Brown 4 years ago

It's just a paper boat. I'll get my brother to make me a new one. We are close and he will understand creepy sewer clown. Bye

15points

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#40

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Not the main character but : Dont reopen the beach for the holiday weekend in Jaws

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Final score:

14points

Marissa Taylor 4 years ago

welcome to beach 2020 folks :B

13points

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#41

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Frozen

Anna: Why do you shut me out?

Elsa: Enough, Anna.

Anna: Okay we are gonna discuss it later in private.

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Final score:

14points

#42

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Star Wars - After discovering that Anakin could be very powerful with the force, but had a lot of fear and attachment issues over his mother. The council sends Obi-Wan back to Tatooine to buy his mother out of slavery and relocate her to Corrsscant in a safe neighbor hood.
Anakin now knows that even without him in the picture his mother will live a safe and happy life and can detach from her much more easily than leaving her alone on a savage world, and even if he isn't able to fully detach from her he never has the impetus to slaughter the sand people and kick start his descent to the darkside.
It's not a sure plan, but certainly one that would produce a version of Anakin who ends up resenting the jedi just a little less. Maybe even enough to no slaughter younglings in the future.

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Final score:

14points

Richard Brown 4 years ago

Obi-Wan looks at Anakin, smiles, and walks away not saying a word. He does not know he is strong with the force and no else has noticed and never will

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#43

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Harry Potter, if Voldemort had just yeeted baby Harry against a wall

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Final score:

14points

Monday 4 years ago

This doesn't really makes sense. Voldy had no way of knowing the killing curse wouldn't work. However he could have simply conjured a gun and shot the little bugger when he was VoldyQuirrel and his problems would have been solved.

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#44

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. If they had just paid attention in class all year and written their damn essay, we wouldn’t have had one of the greatest movies of all time.

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Final score:

14points

Squee 4 years ago

Tru dat

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#45

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit The Purge.

Just stay in the secure, fortified house.

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Final score:

14points

Monday 4 years ago

Or just go abroad. If you can afford that awesome security system you can afford an international flight.

9points

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#46

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Alice in Wonderland = if she had just stopped following the goddamn rabbit

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Final score:

14points

postboredom 4 years ago

if she hadnt seen the goddamn rabbit in the first place

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#47

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Just portkey Harry to the graveyard right off the bat, you fool.

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Final score:

13points

postboredom 4 years ago

pettigrew was too pettigrew for that

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#48

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit The Martian

All six astronauts are fools, as are all the planners at NASA. If it were even remotely possible that the Lander could be toppled in a Martian windstorm, the first order of business upon landing would have been to tie it down, secure against such a threat.

Final score:

13points

Mark 4 years ago

It doesn't matter, it still exceeds the maximum tilt angle at one point and doesn't fall over anyway.

5points

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#49

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Meet the Parents

Ben Stiller be like, "Could everyone settle down and give me a chance to explain?"

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Final score:

13points

Richard Brown 4 years ago

Red Flag! Bye!

5points

#50

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Evil Dead films.

"Whoa, creepy book, should we read from it?"

"Nah."

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Final score:

13points

Richard Brown 4 years ago

Realistically, How would anyone in the group know how to pronounce the ancient Sumerian text? "What does it say Ash?" "Klattooo Berratta Neckt***cough cough cough***" "You don't know do you?" "Not a bloody clue"

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#51

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit The Hunger Games. Could have avoided a whole series of the older sister would have let the younger one go. She dies anyway.

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Final score:

13points

Anxious Pansexual Nightmare 4 years ago

That’s unfair. Katniss couldn’t have known, and it was heroic, and... I’m getting over-protective of a book again aren’t I?

15points

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#52

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Fatal Attraction. If he hadn’t slept with her, the movie would have ended after the office meeting.

AtomHeartMother84 Report

Final score:

12points

rspanther 4 years ago

Keep it in your pants.

9points

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#53

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Over the Hedge. RJ decided to be a dum-dum and steal all of the bear's food. Like what did he think would happen even if he didn't accidentally wake him up the bear would still have woken up a week later and probably would've known it was RJ

Final score:

11points

#54

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit John Wick.

If Theon would have just killed John (considering they screwed hun up pretty bad), not only would we not have gotten three movies, but Theon would be known as the person who killed Baba Yaga.

Being the son of a crime lord AND world wide recognition for killing the most famous assassin on the planet would make the Tarasov family untouchable.

OkayestHistorian Report

Final score:

11points

Joeshar 4 years ago

You're the son a famous mob and do not know who is the best assassin in the business then stole his car and killed his dog. You deserve to die.

16points

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#55

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Jumanji next level. Bro Spencer you idiot.

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Final score:

11points

Anxious Pansexual Nightmare 4 years ago

Half the things on this list are like, learn communication skills

12points

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#56

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit The Hangover movies.. don't roofie your friends.

nancy10499 Report

Final score:

11points

Jaded Queen 4 years ago

U should. It's fun as we saw

6points

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#57

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Jeepers Creepers.

All the kid had to do was keep on driving instead of investigating.

mama_llama44 Report

Final score:

11points

#58

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Jurassic Park if Hammond actually spared no expense.

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Final score:

10points

Monday 4 years ago

Yup...pay your staff well and they're far less likely to betray you

5points

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#59

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Not the main character, but Star Wars.

The Empire grabs Leia's ship and the droids escape in a capsule.

"There's no life forms. Hold your fire. No, wait. Droids exist in this universe and could be carrying those plans Vader wants. Let's pull that ship in or dispatch some TIE Fighters to intercept it or something.

A short time later

"Sir, we pulled apart those droids. The golden one was useless, but the astromech had the plans."

Vader: "Excellent. You will be rewarded for this."

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Final score:

10points

Richard Brown 4 years ago

*Shoots capsule* Storm trooper: I'm getting better at this. I didn't miss... god I'm bored

6points

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#60

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Rent

"Hey, mom, Mark here. I'm sorry, it didn't work out, I'm being evicted, can I go home again?"

Credits

OmenBard Report

Final score:

10points

#61

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Thor 1. Thor, don't go fight the ice people. You also made Loki into a bad guy.

EtherBoo Report

Final score:

10points

Monday 4 years ago

Could also be one for Odin. Just tell your son he's adopted, but that doesn't matter cause you love him just as much as his brother. That way he won't have trust issues later...

6points

#62

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit She’s the man. Sorry, you’re very clearly a girl dressed as a boy. Do you even go here? CREDITS

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Final score:

10points

postboredom 4 years ago

i know right?? she didnt look like a boy at ALL

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#63

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Dude where's my car. Just actually attempt to look for the car. You're a stoner, you know you lose stuff

reddituser98571 Report

Final score:

10points

Shelp 4 years ago

I didn't knew of that movie, but it looks really 1990s/2000s cringy

11points

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#64

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Get Out. His friend Rod tells him never to go to a white girls parents house. Warns him multiple times while he's there to leave.

MissMonster Report

Final score:

9points

Monday 4 years ago

I dunno, this guy made some pretty smart choices for the most part. My only issue with him was that after he found the pics he still went back to the girl to get her to leave with him instead of just running.

10points

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#65

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Taken, but not the main character. Don't let your teenage daughters go to a foreign city by themselves. Movie, over.

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Final score:

9points

Monday 4 years ago

They didn't know they were going to be alone though. They were supposed to be with the dead girl's adult cousins...but yeah maybe speak with the cousins before allowing the trip.

5points

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#66

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Jack should have just let Rose jump off.

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Final score:

9points

Naima Ivansdóttir 4 years ago

i don't think it would prevent the shipwreck though

12points

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#67

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Labyrinth.

At the start our protagonist meets a bug and ask where to go, not where to get to the castle. The bug said to the right, and when she left the bug said, if you go to the left you will end up in the troll castle.

Final score:

8points

Mantas Kačerauskas

Jaded Queen 4 years ago

She lookrd pretty

4points

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#68

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Brandt: "Here's your rug back, Lebowski." Lebowski: "I'm The Dude, man." Bowling, weed, Bob Dylan, roll credits.

MattHatter999 Report

Final score:

8points

#69

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Batman: the dark knight.

if the bank manager with the shotgun had some training and been a better shot, he could have iced the joker and boom, roll credits.

SystemicAdmin Report

Final score:

8points

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#70

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Moana the god damn ocean could've defeated the thing and restored the heart

ipsychowolf02 Report

Final score:

8points

Jaded Queen 4 years ago

God. This movie is straight up hole. It's not even a plot. The least they could have done is give some kind of story that it is needs to be restored by a human or the perpetrator (Maui). Por example. I donot understand people who think it's has a story or better than frozen

4points

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#71

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Uncut Gems. Auction the damn opal, pay off your debt, divorce your wife after passover, DONE

lilycamilly Report

Final score:

8points

#72

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn.

"They're not responding to our hails."

"Ok, raise shields."

Enterprise easily wins battle

Final score:

8points

MrTree1779 4 years ago

Terrell and Chekov see the energy reading on the dyno-scanner, and decide that it doesn't match what they want. They decide to keep searching for a suitable planet. Khan and Co. remain on the planet. Movie over.

4points

#73

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Short Circuit.

You build 11 million dollar robots armed with a deadly laser but you don't prepare for the possibility that they might be captured and reprogrammed by the enemy or possibly your own competition?

TheWolfEmperor82 Report

Final score:

8points

#74

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit The main antagonist in Suicide Squad is a member of the team, Enchantress, who turned out to be evil and gains power thanks to some magic MacGuffin that the lady running the team uses to control her. Literally the entire plot of Suicide Squad wouldn't have happened if they didn't bother assembling the suicide squad.

CanyonSlim Report

Final score:

7points

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#75

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit I mean, Dorothy should have asked a few more questions about the ruby slippers.

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Final score:

7points

#76

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Avengers infinity war. As soon as Maw and Cull landed in new York Dr Strange could have used the time stone repeatedly to his advantage.

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Final score:

6points

Nela Rothenbach 4 years ago

Wouldn't he just create a new timeline but his timeline would still be messed up?

4points

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#77

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Remember when Starlord got mad and started smacking Thanos in the face? We could’ve skipped Endgame tbh

klovamolus Report

Final score:

6points

postboredom 4 years ago

and-and widow wouldnt have sacrificed herself...*wails like a banshee*

5points

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#78

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit The Incredibles, had Mr. Incredible just rolled with incrediboy for a little bit

rl231661 Report

Final score:

6points

Monday 4 years ago

I feel like if incrediboy had better parents/role models he probably wouldn't have been as upset with his hero blowing him off. Mr Incredible not wanting to take a powerless kid to a crime scene seems like a good thing.

6points

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#79

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Star Wars The Last Jedi, if Hux had just ordered the dreadnaught to fire on any Capital ships in range the whole movie would have been over bad guys won.

Final score:

6points

Mark 4 years ago

And we wouldn't have had to sit through over two hours of drivel!

2points

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#80

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Toy Story. Don’t be such a prick Woody

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Final score:

6points

#81

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit The Lorax. Brother could've lived in blissful ignorance, but sometimes a kid's gotta listen to his d*ck over his brain.

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Final score:

5points

#82

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit [Darth Sidous looks into Space, Bathroom Mirror (it's very spooky)] Darth Sidous: Alright Palp, it's go time. Just call Rey on the Space Phone and tell her where you are. Don't send assassins, that might not get her to come here. Don't send Darth whats his face to kill her, that might end terribly. When she gets here, just tell her you killed her parents. Don't say you want to possess her. Don't say you want her to kill you. You got this, just tell here where you are, and let her kill you. She already wants to do that. You got this, don't f*ck it up.

Final score:

4points

Mantas Kačerauskas

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#83

30 Movies That Could've Ended In 10 Minutes If The Characters Had Just Used Their Brains For A Bit Avengers Endgame. If that rat touched the buttons in a different order then Scott wouldn't have come back.

epicnonja Report

Final score:

3points

lara 4 years ago

What are they all looking at?

7points

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Jonas Grinevičius

Storytelling, journalism, and art are a core part of who I am. I've been writing and drawing ever since I could walk—there is nothing else I'd rather do. My formal education, however, is focused on politics, philosophy, and economics because I've always been curious about the gap between the ideal and the real. At work, I'm a Senior Writer and I cover a broad range of topics that I'm passionate about: from psychology and changes in work culture to healthy living, relationships, and design. In my spare time, I'm an avid hiker and reader, enjoy writing short stories, and love to doodle. I thrive when I'm outdoors, going on small adventures in nature. However, you can also find me enjoying a big mug of coffee with a good book (or ten) and entertaining friends with fantasy tabletop games and sci-fi movies.

Storytelling, journalism, and art are a core part of who I am. I've been writing and drawing ever since I could walk—there is nothing else I'd rather do. My formal education, however, is focused on politics, philosophy, and economics because I've always been curious about the gap between the ideal and the real. At work, I'm a Senior Writer and I cover a broad range of topics that I'm passionate about: from psychology and changes in work culture to healthy living, relationships, and design. In my spare time, I'm an avid hiker and reader, enjoy writing short stories, and love to doodle. I thrive when I'm outdoors, going on small adventures in nature. However, you can also find me enjoying a big mug of coffee with a good book (or ten) and entertaining friends with fantasy tabletop games and sci-fi movies.

Mantas Kačerauskas

As a Visual Editor at Bored Panda, I indulge in the joy of curating delightful content, from adorable pet photos to hilarious memes, all while nurturing my wanderlust and continuously seeking new adventures and interests—sometimes thrilling, sometimes daunting, but always exciting!

As a Visual Editor at Bored Panda, I indulge in the joy of curating delightful content, from adorable pet photos to hilarious memes, all while nurturing my wanderlust and continuously seeking new adventures and interests—sometimes thrilling, sometimes daunting, but always exciting!

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Gene Perry 4 years ago

Big Bang Theory ... when Leonard meets Sheldon to sublet a room, realizes the Sheldon is a nutjob, leaves and finds another apartment w/o a roommate.

7points

earringnut 4 years ago

It takes place in LA... So he finds another way to find an apartment w/ a roommate.

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Blarrg 4 years ago

Just wanted to thank everyone for not mentioning the hyper-cliched "Just have the giant eagles fly you straight to Mount Doom instead of walking there."

4points

Marnie 4 years ago

You thanked too soon. Someone did say it.

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William Teach 4 years ago

Not a movie, but, Game of Thrones, where everyone tells Jon Snow that there's a reason for that big freaking wall, namely, stopping the white walkers, which had worked for thousands of years, so, stop trying to build an army, stop trying to capture one, just let the wall do its job.

2points

Monday 4 years ago

Or if Ned's wife (I forgot her name) had just asked Ned to give Jon the Stark name like she was going to if he survived his sickness and hadn't changed her mind about it. He would never have gone to the wall in the first place. He would have lived blissfully as Jon Stark.

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Gene Perry 4 years ago

Big Bang Theory ... when Leonard meets Sheldon to sublet a room, realizes the Sheldon is a nutjob, leaves and finds another apartment w/o a roommate.

7points

earringnut 4 years ago

It takes place in LA... So he finds another way to find an apartment w/ a roommate.

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Blarrg 4 years ago

Just wanted to thank everyone for not mentioning the hyper-cliched "Just have the giant eagles fly you straight to Mount Doom instead of walking there."

4points

Marnie 4 years ago

You thanked too soon. Someone did say it.

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William Teach 4 years ago

Not a movie, but, Game of Thrones, where everyone tells Jon Snow that there's a reason for that big freaking wall, namely, stopping the white walkers, which had worked for thousands of years, so, stop trying to build an army, stop trying to capture one, just let the wall do its job.

2points

Monday 4 years ago

Or if Ned's wife (I forgot her name) had just asked Ned to give Jon the Stark name like she was going to if he survived his sickness and hadn't changed her mind about it. He would never have gone to the wall in the first place. He would have lived blissfully as Jon Stark.

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