10 Worst Movie Decisions With Unbelievable Consequences
1. Erasing Everybody - The Quiet Earth
Protagonist Zac Hobson made the awful decision to not speak out when realising that an experimental project he was part of was likely destined to cause catastrophic results. He was working as part of ‘Project Flashlight’, an endeavour to create a global energy grid, but allowed everything to go ahead despite what he knew of the risks.
So guilt ridden was he with the decision to stay quiet that he attempted to overdose on pills, only for that exact attempt to die to end up being what saved him. When Project Flashlight was enacted, most people on earth simply disappeared. It appears that only those who were at the moment of death when Flashlight was booted up survived.
Had he spoken out, chances are that some extra research would’ve been done that would’ve prevented Flashlight from being carried out as-is, ultimately meaning that the mass disappearance of the world’s population could’ve been avoided.
In an attempt to right his wrong, Hobson makes one more bad decision at the end of the film where he tries to destroy the plant Flashlight was enacted from to stop it from happening again. Blowing himself up along with the lab, he awakes to find himself transported to another planet all alone.
So really he’s actually in an even worse situation than before. Oops.