10 Movies Kickstarted By Utter STUPIDITY
These movies wouldn't exist without some all-timer idiocy.
Ideally most movies will have a setup that doesn't immediately have you questioning the internal logic of the entire story or, in the very least, groaning with contempt at how mind-meltingly idiotic the central characters are.
And while audiences will generally forgive a clunky, laboured opening if the rest of the movie justifies it, sometimes the instigating incident is so thunderously stupid that you can't stop thinking about it, perhaps even long after the end credits have rolled.
And that's totally true of these 10 films which, regardless of how entertaining some of them might be, are defined by a central character's head-scratching behaviour at the start.
The chaotic events in these movies wouldn't have happened without some serious negligence, dereliction of duty, and pure, plain idiocy.
In some instances it might actually be the intent of the filmmakers, to saddle audiences with a doofus protagonist, but in many cases the hero is actually supposed to be hyper-competent and capable, only to pull some nonsense like this.
Whether it derails the movie or not, these braindead opening moments left you with a ton of questions from the jump...
10. Eating A Snickers Bar In A Lab - Jurassic World Rebirth
Jurassic World Rebirth may not be the worst film in the series, but it does tout the stupidest inciting incident of the lot.
The movie opens in 2008, when InGen is operating a secret dinosaur research lab on the remote island of Île Saint-Hubert.
But all hell soon enough breaks loose, resulting in the mutant dino Distortus rex escaping confinement, all because one of the lab's scientists decided to eat a Snickers bar in the middle of his shift.
The scientist in question carelessly drops the bar's wrapper on the floor, where it gets sucked into a vent on one of the massive blast doors containing the Distortus rex, causing it to fail and somehow compromise the entire facility, allowing the Distortex rex to massacre the scientists and escape.
Even ignoring the groan-worthy product placement involved, it's just a resoundingly lame and ridiculous way to kick off a Jurassic Park movie, that the film's entire story was the result of something as random as an errant candy wrapper. Really?