To think they’re better off dead?

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The main characters in action films?.... As the film goes on they spend most of their time being chased from the bad guys who end up killing everyone in their path to get to them.

Surely the main character is better off just handing themselves in... it would save many innocent lives.

I always feel sorry for the other drivers/pedestrians who get caught up in car chases (E.g. Bond), and cops who are just going about their job then get shot whilst Tom Cruise runs away!

AIBU??

The final season of Sons of Anarchy was like this for me. I’d have run so far away from that situation it was crazy. What were they thinking?

Also why anyone would live in somewhere like Brookside Close, Albert Square it Coronation Street is beyond me. They all have abnormally high crime rates.

Random bad guy death scene in Austin Powers:

Absolutely.

I always think about the two people burning books at the top of a building in The Day After Tomorrow.

What's the point? How long will the books last? Wheres the food, drink, people, world when it melts and they can emerge?Where's the toilet all the time they are stuck there?

I worry about them and it infuriates me that they went through that whole hellish film to get stuck burning books to stay alive.

Do not get me started on War of the Worlds. I'd have just poisoned myself and my kids. Scary and disgusting, I've never rewatched it but the images stay with me.

I love the Die Hard films but worry about the people around him. But hey, I would give my right arm to be able to crash a helicopter with a car.

And everyone knows not to listen to Captain Kirk when he orders you to join the away team to go down to the planet when you are wearing a red shirt. Or if he orders you to check the anomaly on deck whatever. If you ever put on a red shirt then ring in sick.

Just like if you are the black friend, do not go anywhere with your death escaping mate. You are going to die.

And stormtroopers, I always cheered when they died until I understood that they were enslaved children stolen from planets literally child soldiers, now I feel sad when they die. Why did they need to tell us this? Finn ruined my wanton love of stormtroopers being killed.

My daughter last week told me that Iggle Piggle goes to sleep at the end of the show alone and they do that voice over as it's his final sleep. He dies.

Makka Pakka is lusting after Upsy Daisy as he is in love with her but his ocd won't allow him to do anything and so he's alone and so lonely. Iggle Piggle at least gets his last shag before he sails away into the night but Makka Pakka never will. Truly sad. Upsy Daisy is a good time girl who really likes to blow her skirt up and show her knickers.

The Haa Hoos sounds like slang for a certain female body part. The Tittingers similar. There is so much wrong with the night garden, I always found it unsettling.

The thing is though that if the goodie simply hands themselves over to the baddies and gets murdered, makes for a really short movie.

@fairenuff I take umbrage at your statement "And we all know the hero is going to survive despite 200 people trying to kill him,"

Everyone knows if the main character is Sean Bean he'll end up dead!!!!

When I watch car chases and they randomly hit parked cars I can't help thinking some poor innocent person is going to come back and find his/her car written off and somehow have to fill in an insurance claim form for it.

At least in action movies people actually get killed.
In my day it was the A Team . All that shooting, car chases, blowing things up ( having made a Sherman Tank from an old orange crate and a set of pram wheels with lots of sparky welding of course ) with random people being blown through the air for large distances . And yet no one ever died ! Anazing !

@flirtygirl
Don't forget Macca Pakka and the episode with the Tiddle . Most worrying !

I can’t stand when it could all be solved by a little communication. Husband is being pulled into a dark world by his boss, wife feels he’s having an affair and has her head turned by teenage gardener. A little “how was work” “Dave has moved on from wanting a bigger office to building weapons” would prevent a whole lot of nonsense.

And why have films not accepted google exists. People fighting the odds to find the expert who lives off grid to explain the thing. I bet google knows the thing.

We also know what happens to American college kids when they visit the local haunted house, abandoned psychiatric hospital or have a run in with some hillbillies. They are all going to be horribly murdered. What not just have a massive slaughterfest right at the beginning and save everyone’s time?

I agree that In the Night Garden is one big orgy waiting to happen - think there was also an episode where Upsy Daisy "kissed everything in the Night Garden" 🤨

DH's particular bugbear is the stupid amount of food wastage you get. Like everyone shows up to a restaurant, plates are piled high, the main characters have some kind of argument, and then everyone leaves without taking a single bite (or paying). Or the amount of food that simply gets dropped in the street uneaten for dramatic effect (usually an ice cream)

My personal action film niggle is that the hero can quite happily get seven shades of shit kicked out of him by a mob, or take several rounds of bullets to the head, but will wince and cry out in pain when someone (invariably an attractive woman) tends to his wounds afterwards...

Bond IRL. Hello evil killing machine psychopath, the names Bond. Bond gets shot in the face. Cue credits.

The stupidity in horror films gets me. Stuff waiting for the police. Let's run into the woods.

When I see these films, I always think how unrealistic they are. How often do you hear about car chases through major cities, with shop windows being smashed and fruit stalls being knocked over (which always happens) in real life?

I watched the series 24 and it used to irk me - the drama was the consequences of 24hrs of crap decisions!

Watched John Wick with DS last weekend - a perfect example, OP, of about seventy people dying because of one toe-rag son of a mobster who fancied having John Wick's car for himself.

If the mobster father had just turned the son in at the start...

I like it in Austin Powers - when the wife of a guard finds out he's been killed by Austin Powers. A minor role but it's interesting to see the 'response' in that.

"People never think how this affects the family of a henchman"

YANBU, they try so hard to keep one person alive yet killing god knows how many innocent people along the way. I hate it.

I don't watch many bond films but I've seen the beginning of the same one (possibly skyfall?) twice and so much happens to him in the space of 5 min its ridiculous that he came out alive.
Not only do this heroes always escape death, they never seem to have any lasting injuries ( attractive woman might to tend to their superficial wounds and even then they are usually recovered by the next scene) None of them have that stage of a bruise where is goes yellowish green...or brown ...or massive scabs, or include a trip to minor injuries to have the stitches taken out of their bullet/stab wound!

lways think about the two people burning books at the top of a building in The Day After Tomorrow

What's the point? How long will the books last? Wheres the food, drink, people, world when it melts and they can emerge?Where's the toilet all the time they are stuck there

I worry about them and it infuriates me that they went through that whole hellish film to get stuck burning books to stay alive

Do not get me started on War of the Worlds. I'd have just poisoned myself and my kids. Scary and disgusting, I've never rewatched it but the images stay with me

Well you'd be no good in a survival crisis. Would you be the person who people would have to reassure that we would get through it - or would people think, excellent, she's given up, more resources for us?

Cars crashing into market stalls upset me. The poor vendors. All that effort on presentation, just to see their fruit and veg rolling off down the road

And why do people always climb to the top of a tall building? You know one if them is going to be pushed off.

k1233 I love Sean Bean in Ronin (“nearly ‘ad a bit of raspberry jam thurr!”) and (spoiler alert) he survives!

Incidentally although a great film the mad car chases through the underpasses with their exploding cars and lorries fall firmly into this category. I do believe there’s even a fruit stall crash.

*TwentyViginti

Cars crashing into market stalls upset me. The poor vendors. All that effort on presentation, just to see their fruit and veg rolling off down the road*

It's always fruit and veg isnt it? You never see them driving through an antiques market with loads of old vases being smashed, or rugs flying about all over the place.