10 Movie Heroes Who Might As Well Have Stayed At Home

10. The Inglourious Basterds Almost Ruined A Perfectly Good Plot

In 2009, Quentin Tarantino released his World War 2 masterpiece - Inglourious Basterds. Towards the end of the movie, the Basterds received information that Hitler and his pals would be attending a screening of Nazi propaganda flick Nation's Pride in a small cinema in the heart of Paris. Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) and co then formed a half-baked plan to unleash hell on the Nazi cinephiles by arming themselves to the teeth and making Swiss cheese out of as many fascists as they could.

Why Aldo shouldn't have bothered: Little did they know, the owners of the French cinema - Shoshanna and Marcel - had devised their own brilliant plan to lock the Nazis in the auditorium and burn the place to the ground, giving them all a slow and painful death. To make it even more awesome, they had cut the film to include their very own "F*** you" message to Hitler and the Nazi officers.

The consequence: Raine's presence at the cinema almost ruined Marcel and Shoshanna's plan when Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) realised who The Basterds were. Luckily, Landa stepped aside and let chaos ensue when he saw an opportunity to profit from the Third Reich's downfall.