10 Dumbest Things In The Worst Summer Movie Season Ever

6. The Only Likeable Character Dies - Into The Storm

The Scene: Veteran storm chaser Pete (Matt Walsh) sacrifices himself to secure the survival of the remaining characters, using his apparently impenetrable vehicle, the Titus, to seal them safely inside a storm drain. However, the Titus is eventually thrown into the air by the tornado, and after getting a gorgeous view of the sky above the mayhem, the Titus crashes back to Earth, killing Pete. Why It's Dumb: Into the Storm is not a good movie, there's no getting around that. It's formulaic, boring, and all the characters are irritating, hollow shells except for Walsh's likeable, storm-chasing nut, who is pretty much the only character in the entire movie to behave half-way realistically. To take the film's best character and then summarily kill him off in the final 10 minutes of the movie without much fanfare is a callously detached decision, robbing the film of any charm it might have had if, say, Pete somehow survived the crash and hobbled out of the wreck at the very end of the film. Instead, we get an end-film stinger that informs us the two hillbilly characters nobody cared about somehow survived the tornado. Great. In an overly-somber movie that was sorely in need of some classic Hollywood cheese, Pete coming back from the dead would have been a perfectly cathartic moment, but instead he makes his sacrifice and is then only mentioned again in brief passing, because apparently he doesn't really matter as long as the generically good-looking yet woefully bland protagonists survived.