Sammo

11th Jan 2025

Bad Boys for Life (2020)

Stupidity: Early in the movie, AMMO and its crew show remarkable prudence in their approach to the drug deal, and a point is made about them following procedure, planning accurately using technology and trying to minimize collateral damage. The sting at the club goes against all of that. At the end of the day, it just consisted of getting close to the target and pulling guns on him in the middle of a crowd of civilians, the exits of the place (the front door even) completely unguarded.

Sammo

8th Jan 2025

Bad Boys (1995)

Stupidity: The plan Fouchet enacts at the beginning of the movie is considered very clever by the captain, Mike, and everyone commenting on it. Fouchet emptied the entire police station (minus a single guard) by murdering a guy dressed as a cop and reporting the crime. It is said that the smartest part is that he did not kill a real cop so the whole force is not after him. The fun part is that he kills the fake cop and dumps him in the street, calling the police immediately after, himself, with the van they are using for the heist. Even assuming that his symbolic killing and massive heist right inside the police HQ don't draw the entire police force on him because of weird office politics he can't control, it's kind of amazing that his 'decoy' involved him having a head start of seconds from the police force he openly taunted, and that he can predict for unexplained reasons will be busy (but absolutely not looking for him) for 20 minutes.

Sammo

7th Jan 2025

Bad Boys (1995)

Stupidity: While certainly being a charismatic villain, Fouchet's actions throughout the movie seem to hardly make sense. He kills his henchman Eddie and the call girl he hired because he is afraid of the security of his drug deal being breached. However, he leaves two bodies behind and the whole 2 kilos of heroin in its original evidence room-taped package that directly connect this incident to the drug heist. Then, when he finally gets the location of the witness to his already obvious murders, he does not just put a bullet in her while she is at his mercy, but rather drags her around when she has absolutely zero value to him. He even tells Mike very kindly when exactly his drug deal is going to happen.

Sammo

7th Jan 2025

Bad Boys (1995)

Stupidity: A movie always needs extra conflict, but Julie's reasoning for walking out on Marcus and Mike is one of the dumbest. "If his wife can find us, I'm a LOT better off on my own." What sort of logic is that? She's the wife of his best friend. Of course she knows where he lives. (01:32:45)

Sammo

Stupidity: The movie takes creative liberties with the real story; it's understandable, for instance, that it would show Paige being directly on NXT rather than part of the Florida Championship Wrestling promotion first, and that she is the only real character from NXT depicted in the movie. However, the movie chooses also to omit the fact that Paige was NXT Champion when she faced AJ Lee. Not just that, but it alters entirely the dynamic of the actual match; she does not manage to utter a single word because of stage fright, something that movie-wise she seems to have never managed to overcome. Given the changes, the movie asks us to believe that WWE would make a champion out of a complete rookie who is a deer in the headlights in front of a crowd that ignores her and hasn't found her personality yet - she does so only after she wins. That doesn't make a lot of sense even by the movie's own logic.

Sammo

23rd Dec 2024

The Ritual Killer (2023)

Stupidity: The ending has a bit of a twist; apparently, octogenarian college professor Morgan Freeman somehow chased down and murdered offscreen 6'3" professional assassin Vernon Davis. That's not the toughest part to swallow, though; he also sent the two detectives (one of whom he is not even supposed to know of) via UPS 2-day delivery mail some body parts of his victim. We don't know which part Lavazzi gets (genitalia were mentioned earlier), but Boyd gets the eyes and decides to eat them. For starters, unrefrigerated 2-3 day old eyes would never look as pristine as the ones Boyd gets. Also, Morgan Freeman mentioned earlier in the movie that for the power of Muti to be effective, the body parts need to be taken from a victim that is alive, screaming, and eaten only mixed with herbs and other catalysts. So what the detective does doesn't make sense even in the movie lore.

Sammo

5th Dec 2024

Maggie Moore(s) (2023)

Stupidity: Makes for a funny one-time gag for the benefit of the audience, but it doesn't really make sense that Jay would walk into the hitman's place without knowing he was deaf. It's not exactly the kind of detail that Tommy T. would not mention. In fact, it's the only thing he told the police, apparently, since they, on the other hand, show up knowing he's deaf but do not know he's a big ginger dude and are therefore initially fooled by his squatter story.

Sammo

1st Dec 2024

Fracture (2007)

Stupidity: The protagonist knocks at every door, humiliates himself, losing any hope of getting his dream job, jumps through all sorts of hoops to get a court order to save Crawford's wife, but somehow, once he gets it, he has to drive through LA and physically get to the hospital room where euthanasia will be performed, because he couldn't be bothered to phone the hospital to tell them about the court order or talk to someone in the lobby.

Sammo

3rd Nov 2024

Matlock (1986)

The Professor - S1-E11

Stupidity: The gas station attendant can (at least hypothetically, he turns out to be wrong) recognise someone who did a hit-and-run a long distance away at night, but somehow he does not recognise in court the client of the station who was with him at the same time and interacted with him for a few minutes.

Sammo

3rd Nov 2024

Matlock (1986)

The Professor - S1-E11

Stupidity: As far-fetched as Matlock's stunts can be in most episodes, in this one you have one of the most egregious examples of something that would never stand. Here, The Witness confesses to murder under the direct threat of an attack dog that Matlock practically sic[s] on him, and nobody bats an eyelid about it. On top of that, the culprit and his associates are all legal scholars, as the episode itself more than once reminds the viewer.

Sammo

27th Oct 2024

Matlock (1986)

The Stripper - S1-E3

Stupidity: The whole plot resolution can happen merely because, on top of Matlock's unbelievable guess on how to trigger someone's dormant personality - apparently murder wasn't enough, but a joke is - the transvestite has two entirely separate voices, one of which is a dubbed-in female one. Not quite believable even for the times.

Sammo

Stupidity: Since we get frequent POV shots from their eyes, we see exactly what the creatures hunting Venom see. Even when the Codex disappears from their view, they can see distinctly Venom's shape, and they have no problem using their appendages and brute force against any and every creature. There are moments in the movie (such as the scene in Vegas) when the Xenophage just stops for no reason; even if the big blinking thing is gone, you can still see the shape it was attached to.

Sammo

Stupidity: When an explosion hits the courtroom, Arthur is the closest person to it, with nothing to protect him, but he is the first and only one to recover, and every bailiff (not to mention the police outside the courthouse) outside of explosion range is mysteriously knocked out and/or absent.

Sammo

13th Aug 2024

Trap (2024)

Stupidity: The behaviour of Lady Raven and Cooper in the bathroom scene does not make any sense. They both reached an obvious point of no return the moment she stole his phone, and he violently chases her. Cooper is never going to bounce back from his actions in the eye of his daughter, but he gives the singer about three and a half minutes of time (on screen, supposedly way longer) to do the most counter-intuitive actions possible, something she couldn't know she would be allowed to do, since obviously a beast of a firefighter like the maniac she is dealing with could, should, would have kicked that flimsy door open in no time. Nor could Cooper know that she wasn't just going to call the police on him right away after breaking or throwing away his phone. Which was all she needed to do.

Sammo

12th Nov 2023

The Marvels (2023)

Stupidity: The heroines guess the plan of the villain with a thought process that can only be explained by the fact that they read the movie script. There is no way for them to surmise that the attack on the Skrull base, perpetrated under subterfuge, was intended to "syphon away the atmosphere", and not just the usage of a really powerful weapon. Even assuming that Kamala's objection to this particular point ("they could have just invaded or used a bomb") is a logical explanation that would disqualify without a second thought the fact that a Kree warlord would use a terrifying and cost-free weapon that is also a symbol of Kree's culture just for its power, and so that it makes sense that the heroines just instantly commit to an alternative theory, there's still a leap of logic in assuming the exact next step for the Kree's quest on revitalizing their homeland (which incidentally involves randomly dumping out of the blue a gigantic quantity of salt water on a densely populated planet).

Sammo

Stupidity: During the final phases of the Turnabout Sisters case, trying to press Redd about him not being solely guilty of wiretapping will cause Edgeworth to state that "unidentified fingerprints several days old were found in the Fey and Co. Law Offices" and they'd "obviously" belong to Redd. That's an unnecessarily ridiculous non sequitur; being an office with several clients, it'd be astonishing if there were no "unidentified prints" at all.

Sammo

Stupidity: One of the major reveals and plot twists of the movie lies in the fact that a certain character is an accomplice of the medium. The reveal, though, does not explain at all how said individual managed to fool Poirot; the trick briefly shown involves a simple rope pull to open a door. Poirot was looking exactly for that kind of trick, paces around the room constantly on maximum alert, and examines the door itself later. Likewise, it does not explain where and how they could hide the stuffed animal.

Sammo

Stupidity: Despite being wanted by the law, quite possibly the most wanted man in the US for multiple murders, disrupting the most historic parade of the century, and with CIA agents on his tracks, Indy just gets on the commercial flight to Morocco the same evening without the slightest problem.

Sammo

Stupidity: The whole thing about the Klear energy source is that it is solid hydrogen. Claire as the governor of Connecticut supposedly signed off an entire power plant based on it. Yet not only she is mighty surprised about the fact that it has potentially flammable issues (but she herself brings up the Hindenburg), but also the whole meaning of Miles' machination down to the presence of the Mona Lisa, is to impress world leaders and 'unveil the future' showing that his home is powered by it. That does not make sense; if the energy source is so experimental that a single house powered by it is gonna be such a breathtaking reveal, there can't be a whole power plant in a major US state already signed off on that technology, that somehow involves literally piping the gas through homes.

Sammo

Stupidity: Of course, it's a movie with a heavy comedic tone and it's a rather cathartic scene, but still it's worth noting that Benoit Blanc had no way to know that making the whole HOUSE (full of glass shrapnel, too) explode wouldn't gravely injure or kill anyone. What a ruthless fellow.

Sammo

Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.

Suggested correction: The scene at point 2:06:02 suggests the opposite. Blanc knew the house would explode violently, hoped everyone would get injured, and sat watching it while helping himself and Derol to a cigar. Bron was guilty of two counts of first-degree murder. The remainder were accessories to the crime, having already pledged to perjure themselves. Their sentence would be death if it were not for their destruction of evidence. So, all Blanc needed was a sense of justice, not ruthlessness.

FleetCommand

Helen, the innocent sister of the original murder, is in the building too. I wouldn't want to say that he hoped *everyone* would get injured, just the bad guys but that's the point. It's simply a case of an absurd decision that puts to mortal risk everyone but has no negative consequences "because movie."

Sammo

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.