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??

Hilarious
Give up and die and the (often boring) film could be over in 15 mins.

@TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross ah but the first John Wick film started with him seeking revenge as they’d killed his dog, left to him by his late wife.

He was reeeeeallly pissed off. The car was stolen in John Wick 2 so he was even more pissed off by then!

I agree if his dad had handed him over a lot fewer henchmen would have been messily killed!

I bloody love the John Wick films. So daft but so entertaining.

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.
Ditto retiring to Midsomer

Sidge - nope, the car was stolen in the first film and the puppy was killed.

The mobster kid took it to the mobster garage to get its VIN filed off but it turned out that the guy who ran the garage was more scared of pissing off John Wick than he was of mobster dad

I feel sorry for James Bond as he obviously struggles with infertility issues. All those hundreds of women he had sex with and not one little 007 to be seen.

I was always mystified that in cowboy films the hero gets into a terrible fight with half the town in a saloon. Chairs thrown at him and generally beaten up and he never murmurs. Yet when the heroine gently dabs at his cuts and bruises he flinches. and yells

Bond has a daughter in the new film! It’s a fertility miracle!

We watched A Quiet Place. Good film but I spent most of it thinking "why do you want to stay alive and live like this??".

it's the lack of sleep/rest that gets me.
I'm exhausted just thinking about it

It's the way the heroes are always too cool to flinch at an explosion 30 metres behind them and all they get is a gash above the eyebrow and some sexily smeared soot on their faces. There's always some ridiculous line at the end like, I've gotta get a new job, while the maiden is swooning over him, desperate for a sooty snog. I often think the psychological scars from the aftermath of going through all that would be too much. I wonder what the mental health stats are for retired heroes?!

@Tiktokcringeydance omg I was just about to write that. And there's often a watermelon that bursts! Terrible waste!

Also as well as being able to withstand being shot at/stabbed/plunged into icy water/explosions etc with no more than a gash above the eyebrow, whatever vehicle they use as a get away is always indestructible too.
Ok so I know they sometimes have a fancy car with built in gadgetry but sometimes you see them hop into any old truck or banger and yet it goes on for miles, down cobbled streets , through aforementioned market stalls, jumps over railway lines, sometimes with burst tyres and remains apparently road worthy!😂

Do the fruit and veg stall owners receive compensation after the hero drives through their stall?

I'd kind of assume that anyone who seriously thought this was a person with no imagination, no understanding of fiction, no sense of adventure and a lack if ability to suspend disbelief.

@lazylinguist

I'd kind of assume that anyone who seriously thought this was a person with no imagination, no understanding of fiction, no sense of adventure and a lack if ability to suspend disbelief.

I would imagine that everyone was just joking

Do the fruit and veg stall owners receive compensation after the hero drives through their stall?
😂😂
Where theres blame theres a claim!!

I wonder how much the heroes car insurance is...?

@GCHWho

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. Ditto retiring to Midsomer

Or Saint Marie!

This is how I react to Action films although I'm not a medical professional.

I like action films, I just can't take them seriously. Has anyone who's seen Skyscraper seen Rampage? So bad its amazing.

Zombie / end of the world films make me so anxious my only saving grace is I'm very short sighted and have no co-ordination so I'd die very quickly!

I'd kind of assume that anyone who seriously thought this was a person with no imagination, no understanding of fiction, no sense of adventure and a lack if ability to suspend disbelief

I kind of assume you have no sense of humour

I've just realised for me it's not action films it's medical dramas.

Everytime I see a ITU scene with an ECG flatlining and those paddles come out I want to scream what are you doing. A) paddles aren't used anymore B) you don't shock someone in a flat line C) most witnessed cardiac arrests start with arrhythmias that would send all the monitors beeping and you would already be shocking them.

Don't get me started on Holby city I mean how many wards do their staff work on they must be knackered.

“I feel sorry for James Bond as he obviously struggles with infertility issues. All those hundreds of women he had sex with and not one little 007 to be seen. “

That made me giggle.

My kids are too old to have watched ‘In the night Garden’. Feel I’ve missed out. Actually, I did watch one episode, with a friend with younger children Who said the best way to watch it is with subtitles. Very entertaining.

@Gatehouse77

We watched A Quiet Place. Good film but I spent most of it thinking "why do you want to stay alive and live like this??".

I always think this with dystopian dramas. My DH was watching a new adaption of War of the Worlds the other day and I wondered why people were trying so hard to stay alive. It was grim.

In one of the Austin Powers films, there's a scene where he kills a henchman, and it cuts to his wife and child being told of his death. Maybe they should do this in all action films. Or they should show people having to deal with the headache of claiming on their insurance because a car went through their shop front. Or taking Jason Bourne to court because he caused them emotional distress.

Omg I thought I was weird for thinking this. Especially in apocalypse or horror films. Why bother? Just lie down and let the zombies eat you ffs.

In John Wick, for example, if all the baddies just went for him at the same time rather than queuing up and taking turns, they would overpower him in less than 5 minutes. Same for every Jackie Chan film. Only 1 person goes for him at a time and funnily enough because he's Jackie Chan he can handle 1 baddie.

Those films where people battle against all odds to survive some kind of apocalypse - I always think what is the bloody point?

Ha ha yep, I just watched In To The Night on Netflix, a Belgian show where every person, animal and plant (except the cast) die in a sun related catastrophy. I loved the show but whats the point!

I once read a "tip" on here, if a nuclear bomb gets dropped near you, run towards the mushroom cloud, not away from it, as you wouldn't want to survive. So true!

I often think this in horror movies. By the time you get to the end you usually get the lone heroine who's trapped, injured, watched everyone she cares about be brutally murdered, and is still fighting. But then my chosen strategy for a zombie apocalypse is "Jim's parents", so I think I'm projecting a little.

But the one that bugs me by far is when multiple people die to protect a single person. Understandable when that person is the "one true hero" who we all know is going to save the day/the world. But sometimes you get an innocent or helpless person that the bad guys are after, and you get people queuing up to protect them, buy them time etc, and end up dying in the process - but the helpless person is important or has been personified, whereas the dead characters are nameless red shirts, so it's a happy ending?
I know it's supposed to be noble, and showing the selflessness of those with power lying down their lives to protect someone helpless, so it probably makes me an awful person - but when you're supposed to celebrate the one person successfully getting away, I can't help but think of the 10/40/300 who died and their families, and think "if you'd let the bad guy have them, it's clearly the wrong choice but there would have been a lot less bloodshed".