If you could step into a movie and change one decision… which would it be?

Except all the Jurassic Parks

But then the movie wouldn’t be realistic. Leaders listening to scientists would never happen in the real world. 

I feel like more often than not the scientists play the role of “arrogant humans who think they can control everything” and the protagonist is some anti-intellectual down-to-earth person who may not know about all that there book learnin' but has WISDOM and STREET SMARTS and the message ends up being about showing respect for nature by… not trying to experiment or understand or harness it

Clark beeing powerless to save him from the heart attack is such a powerful moment of the character.. i get Snyder wanted to change the conflict to something else but he replaced it with a less interesting, and significantly dumber, dilemma. 

Especially when you factor in that getting underneath the overpass is the opposite of what everyone should be doing.

I saw a video a while back … man of steel would work a lot better if the scenes were in a different order.  The whole crux of the movie was the conflict between Clark wanting to do good, and Pa Kent wanting to protect Clark’s secret. But the opening scene is adult Clark and his manly chest muscles saving the workers on the oil rig. So the question at the crux of the film is answered before it’s even asked.  (Sure, it’s a Superman movie, obviously  his final answer is going to be heroism. But the movie still needs to guide us along his path to that decision.) They should have opened with the scene where Clark gets bullied by the bar d*****. Flash back to young Clark saving the bus, and his dad telling him “maybe don’t save people.” Add a few scenes of Clark obeying his dad: he sees someone else getting bullied, wants to help, but stays out of it… culminating with Pa Kent’s death.  This causes Clark to realize that Pa Kent was wrong. He meant well, but Clark needs to save people because he can’t live with the guilt.  Flash forward, back to the d***** at the bar. Clark is just taking the abuse, until the d***** threatens someone else. At which point Clark steps in, because that’s what heroes do. 

Switch out Palpatine for Snoke and it would make a shit ton more sense. And give the knights of ren some damn lightsabers for fucks sake

I would prefer if they’d just kept working on *Duel of the Fates.* It had promise. But I kinda wrapped the Force Awakens pretty sure they were already screwed. What are the stakes when the bad guys can just respawn, just like that?

I would not mind seeing a what-if where anakin sides with mace, kills palpatine, leaves the order and has a happy life raising 2 kids with padme.

I didnt even have a movie in mind until I read this comment. But yeah... do that please

Yes! This one needs a Boondock Saints sort of ending, where the vigilante remains at large, inspiring the masses.

She really only had one job.

Kangaroo Jack was a really wild movie

Or maybe Bootch could have done it in the first place

The story still works if you replace him by an AI agent. Hey, that could be the story of the next one! Hire me Hollywood, I too am a fraud!

Real issue was pushing the speed—the one they hit they spotted as soon as they could have, was just too late with the visibility and speed.

"Make sure to jump out and away from the ship. Those propellers can be a real b**** on the way down."

Thank you for actually answering OP's question and not just pointing out flaws in characters' logic like everyone else

Or tell him that Palpatine is the one who kills Padme in his visions and that she'll be safe if he dies. I know it isn't true, but Anakin wouldn't. The need to protect her is all that's driving him at that point so just gotta aim him in the right direction.

If OP is strictly referring to the aspect of changing a plot detail to see how interesting the butterfly effect on the story would be, I'd choose this simply because I do like to think about the alternate timeline where Anakin got to raise Luke and Leia with Padme (with them also growing up with Ahsoka, Obi-Wan-as the Jedi Knight & not as the hermit on Tatooine,etc. as additional extended family)

Leave Anakin on Tattooine.

We’d still have most of the prequel trilogy and then none of the original trilogy. That’s an improvement to you?

While we are at it with George Lucas, telling Jar Jar to shut the f*** up and just exploring Naboo alone.

The math: 4000%

She'd just go do it to someone else

f that movie spoil it.. what a joke

Then you end up with Office Space, but with Keanu Reeves in place of Ron Livingston. And the printer would probably have tentacles or something.

He takes it in the 4th movie...

Its a boner pill.

That's how you get *I Saw the TV Glow*.

What movie are you talking about? The Mist 2007

I'm a fan of the theory that the kid had to die for the mist to go away. The zealot women was kinda right about everything she said in the movie

Set that orange fckker on fire.

Or just catch him before heading into the sanctum and work out the details of the spell with him, Strange had it handled before Peter kept adding random thoughts.

Or just tell Tony to choose a different acronym in Civil War (or whichever movie that was).

Seriously, ride out highschool then move to New York. This is not a problem to kill yourself over.

Yeah, but then they would have sent more Nazis to retrieve it. And then more when those guys opened it too. Eventually, they'd have sent someone smart enough to not open it and the Nazis would have their doomsday weapon. I don't buy the whole "Indiana had no impact on the outcome". He had a huge impact by being the only one smart enough to understand what they were dealing with, ultimately denying the Nazis their prize.

To be fair, their parents named one of their sons King and the other Trash so no wonder they turned out that way

Help Katara and Sokka find food instead of hitting the iceberg will do it

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This! Or maybe even earlier.

Better to go back to Force Awakens and change one small detail: Finn does not get injured & incapacitated at the end. Instead, he is fine after the fight with Kylo and goes with Rey to Ahch-To In Last Jedi, Finn would then be able to train as a Jedi as well, though he would likely focus most of his efforts in lightsaber training, while Rey focuses on the Force This would also cut out the master codebreaker subplot in Canto Bight, which is fine because while I love the movie (I will die on that hill), that subplot is easily the weakest of the film; while keeping Poe’s plot & the Holdo maneuver (which was awesome and not a plot hole, another hill I’ll die on)

I think what irked me the most about it was it was clearly Disneys attempt to be inclusive but it instead came across as intensely tone deaf. I'm not gay but as someone with quite a few gay friends I'm pretty certain that when the gay community say they want more representation in media that means writing compelling characters that might happen to be gay, or at the least to have a narrative arc written that isn't disingenuous and is instead as well rounded and equally developed and fleshed out as a heterosexual story arc would be. Disney instead however were like "ok...get two women who mean absolutely nothing to the central story whatsoever to kiss for 2 seconds, that'll do right?"

You could cut to black after the opening text crawl. That would be an improvement.

The movies great because Little Bill and William Muney are both bad people doing some good things and some bad things.

In fairness to Matt, Famke's foreplay is often fatal.

Which film are you talking about here?

I have the same reaction in Peaky Blinders. If only Tommy Shelby was successful at assassinating Oswald Mosley. Maybe the real world would change too...

The upcoming sequel is going to take that as the canon ending, ignoring the one that we did get.

It’s just a symbolic rat. They’re harmless

Make it a period piece about a village terrorized by monsters. That is an actual good premise

F*** MARTHA!

I'm sure there will be A LOT of garbage coming out of things like that, you're quite right, but I expect there will be the odd really cool idea too. And the coolest and most successful of those ideas will get sued into the ground by the big corps for copyright infringement or something.

Funny you say that, it’s dumb stuff like that and the creative freedom that allows finely tuned writers/directors and actors to see something amongst it and use it. It was the nineties sitcoms and romcoms that gave us the movies we have today. All of that information on what not to do etc.