Well Couldn't They Have Just Done That?

[Eagle Est1986]

I just want to add another one actually... Jurassic Park 3. If Ellie in the end was able to easily send the navy and the army to the Island in the end, couldn't they have just done that to rescue the kid from the beginning?

Well they had next to no money and the government had alrady told them it was their own fault, so they wouldn't do anything.
Ellie just happened to know someone high up and called in a favour.

A better idea would have been to simply have never brought the large, carnivorous dinosaurs back to life.

 

[Shycte]

I just want to add another one actually... Jurassic Park 3. If Ellie in the end was able to easily send the navy and the army to the Island in the end, couldn't they have just done that to rescue the kid from the beginning?

Well they had next to no money and the government had alrady told them it was their own fault, so they wouldn't do anything.
Ellie just happened to know someone high up and called in a favour.

A better idea would have been to simply have never brought the large, carnivorous dinosaurs back to life.

But it wasn't ment for them to come back to live. They thought that they made sure that they couldn't breath.

Not much of a succes....

 

[Florion]

Lord of the Rings - go look up the "How It Should Have Ended" video on Youtube.

"Well, that was incredibly easy."
"Can you imagine if we had walked the entire way?"
"Hahaha! One o' us might 'ave died or something!"
(they go flying off into the sunset)

 

[Zacharine]

I have to mention the Wheel of Time series.

had Moiraine, a main character, said something beyond 'you can't understand' or avoided pretty much any and all topics during the first two books when the youngsters-to-be-heroes asked questions, about 60% of the story would have been utterly pointless and would have ended in a 'happily ever after' by book six.

"Yes Rand, you can do magic. Now let's work on those misconceptions and fears you have, instead of me brushing you off and you go on, on an angsty attempt to deny it all and run away from your problems, that ends with you killing nobles, saving nations and starting several wars (by accident and intent) before you begin to accept that you are not a sheepherder and the one you called 'father' in fact adopted you but still loves you more than life itself and that it's perfectly alright. Oh and Perrin? Yes, I know you can talk to the wolves like gazillion men before you before my order hunted them to extinction. The wolves in fact hate the Dark more than I do and are loyal allies to you. Don't worry so much. Mat? Your curiosity will kill you one day, So I'll just do us all a favour and answer your question, before you get the bright idea to run into another realm and unwittingly bargain your life away in an effort to get some answers and more than two words out of me."

 

[fix-the-spade]

In Metal Gear 3, why does snake not simply kill Ocelot, Volgin, The Boss and others when he is sat there watching them and armed with an SVD rifle. If I can hit targets first with it from that distance why not him? Could have saved the world a lot of trouble there.

Brilliantly subverted though with The End.

Ramirez in Deadspace Downfall, should've run, instead wanted to "Hold them off" Died in 2 seconds, monsters never came to get the main protaganist, Fool.

In his defense he was being driven insane by that point. Like he said (whilst waving a laser chainsaw about) "I want to hurt you!"

 

[iggyus]

I will have to agree with Fallout 3, when I first saw that ending and that Fawkes cant do it instead because it is supposedly "my destiny" I was like *facepalm*

 

[Catchy Slogan]

Transformers 2, sadly.

Why didn't they just use that fraction of the cube to bring Optimus back in the first place? Instead of ruining one of my favourite characters and trekking half way around the freakin' globe to get something that esentially does the same thing.

And that giant transformer could have decimated every city on the planet leaving the human race pretty much screwed, helpless and unable to stop them.

Micheal Freaking Bay needs to go crawl in a whole and... *incoherant angry mutterings*

/rant.

Sorry. It's killing my brain just thinking about it.

EDIT: I also want to add to this list most James Bond villains.

 

[DuplicateValue]

oblivion- why leave the amulet of kings at a church? keep it in the castle, THEN find martin. the castle would be a much safer place against a prince of destruction than a fucking church

The sewers lead directly into the Imperial palace. If someone REALLY wanted to break in and steal it, it wouldn't have been that hard with a big enough force (which they had).

The priory was a better idea because of the unlikelyhood that anyone would suspect that it was being kept there.

yet they found it

Hey, I never said it was a good idea.

I just said it was better than yours. =]

 

[DuplicateValue]

Lord of the Rings- Elrond should have thrown Isuldor into Mt Doom. Problem solved.

The ARMY OF MEN waiting outside probably wouldn't have taken too well to their king being murdered, would they?
Especially since said king had just defeated the most powerful evil being in the world, effectively bringing peace to the land.

But, you know, whatever. =]

 

[DuplicateValue]

Lord of the Rings

I control an Invincible Ghost army that can kill anything. But I will let them free and decide to take on the most feared creature in the world and his army with my depleted forces. Dick.

He had promised to release them, and they were very likely to revolt against him if he didn't keep to his promise, killing all those who he loved, etc.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Lord of the Rings- Elrond should have thrown Isuldor into Mt Doom. Problem solved.

The ARMY OF MEN waiting outside probably wouldn't have taken too well to their king being murdered, would they?
Especially since said king had just defeated the most powerful evil being in the world, effectively bringing peace to the land.

But, you know, whatever. =]

He could have just said that he slipped while looking over the edge. But yeah, I've always wondered why Elrond didn't make a bigger deal about it, being all wise and shit.

 

[Iskenator67]

I'd have to say during the ending in Scarface. All he had to do was turn around. I don't care how coked up you are even 3 year olds know how to turn around.

 

[eelel]

oblivion- why leave the amulet of kings at a church? keep it in the castle, THEN find martin. the castle would be a much safer place against a prince of destruction than a fucking church

This was the one that I was going to say. that is just plain stupid.

 

[cobra_ky]

Terminator: send a T-800 back to 1862 and kill john connor's great grandfather.

The Matrix: don't use humans for energy. use cows or something.

X-men 3:

Spoiler: i saved the most infuriating for last

DON'T FUCKING MURDER JEAN GREY. you have the darts with the mutant antidote in it. you have the goddamn kid whose only fkn power is depowering other mutants. finally, you're wolverine. just punch her in the face and knock her out. use one of the many, many possible methods at hand to subdue her without killing her. god what a stupid ending to a stupid movie.

/rant

 

[grimsprice]

Lord of the Rings

I control an Invincible Ghost army that can kill anything. But I will let them free and decide to take on the most feared creature in the world and his army with my depleted forces. Dick.

He had promised to release them, and they were very likely to revolt against him if he didn't keep to his promise, killing all those who he loved, etc.

If you actually pay attention to the dialogue their oath was to protect the kingdom of men at its time of need. Sauron had a fucking massive army that was poised to steamroll them after the first fucking massive army failed. Saurons army is the threat, ghosts only killed half the army = ghosts killed half the threat. Stupid ghosts didn't keep their end of the bargain.

OT: I'd have to say the mice from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy (movie). Arthur gave them a good question ... how many roads must a man walk down? And then he was like oooooooh ooooooh im in love with Tricia ..... oooooh, which was bunk and wasn't in the book.... and then the mice totally forgot about the good question and were like whats all this is she the one tripe? We don't want to be happy we want to be famous. What happened to the good question he just gave you?!?!?!? Don't take his brain take the first question stupid mice.

 

[Jedoro]

Lord of the Rings- Elrond should have thrown Isuldor into Mt Doom. Problem solved.

THIS IS MIDDLE EARTH! [Spartankick]

Isildur falls into the lava, along with the ring.[/Spartankick]

 

[Macgyvercas]

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince:

When Harry and Dumbledore went to get the Horcrux from the cave, why didn't they bring firearms to fight the Inferi?

 

[RagnorakTres]

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince:

When Harry and Dumbledore went to get the Horcrux from the cave, why didn't they bring firearms to fight the Inferi?

I can just imagine that. Dumbledore pumps the shotgun one-handed and blows out a smoke ring after blowing them all away. "***** please."

Harry has a chaingun. "Cry some more!"

Far more epic than either book or movie.

OT: Force Unleashed.
WHY.
THE FUCK.
CAN'T I KILL.
THE FUCKING EMPEROR.
Seriously, the dude's been hunting Jedi and repressing the galaxy and nearly completes both of the Sith's main objectives by the time the fourth book rolls around. Why the hell can't I fucking KILL him and save all of you a lot of trouble later on? WHY?

And don't give me shit about character development and "Jedi don't kill," there is no such thing as character development for the sake of drama in the real world (which that is, to them) and every rule has an exception. If you're facing down the LORD OF FUCKING EVIL, I don't care how pacifist you are, you KILL THE BASTARD!

Sorry, it just pissed me off.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

I think every single horror movie belongs in this thread.