Stupid things movie characters do for the sake of the plot

ugh YES this drives me crazy too - like you just knocked them out with a lamp or whatever, maybe grab that lamp and make sure there not getting back up?? also hate when they drop the gun after shooting the bad guy once, like buddy that's not how death works in real life, double tap that situation and call it a day

>Why not just keep hitting and finish the b******? Just my favourite example of a character doing the *smart thing* from 24: ["I want you to shoot him again."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl-j0pf71H0&t=152s)

"Let's split up." Why?!?

This isn’t movie but I binged the show “24” and it was very annoying how characters would often make bad decisions just to create more plot for filler. It would have been a much greater show if it had been “13.”

When the hero gets knocked down, waiting for them to get back up, I hated seeing this in John Wick 3.

Sometimes these things bother me, but movies aren't supposed to be documentaries (obviously). They are more like dreams, or half-dreams. If a movie uses a little dream logic, I'm OK with that. It depends on the tone of the movie. And if the behavior is character-consistent: What *really, really, really* pisses me off is (like you are saying) when a character does something for the sake of the plot that is completely inconsistent with everything we've been told that character is about. E.g., Millburn in *Prometheus*, Batman handing over the keys to Miranda in *Rises*, Owen in *Jurassic World* being a cautious person and then suddenly not (like Millburn). Han Solo becoming a keystone cop in ROTJ.

Star Lord hitting Thanos when they basically had him beat. Some folks have a big problem with that, but I give it a pass because that's actually in character for him. But yeah, stupid. 

Just as they are going to land the finishing blow they let the villain talk for minutes and then get flanked and beaten up until another plot device appears.

Got 2  1. Need to run across town to check on how so-and-so is doing instead of dealing with the crisis at hand.  2. Now is not the time to stop and confess you love and have a heart to heart talk. 

They tell the villain, who they are alone (and unarmed) with, that they know what they did and are going to report them. I always ask myself "why would they do that" and quickly answer myself "so the movie is longer than 10 minutes."

Tons of that. It takes me right outta the movie - and if that movie can't reel me back in or explain the dumb MacGuffin, I'm out. In TV it's even worse. Watching The Capture on Peacock (A BBC show) and one thing after the other breaks the reality of their world.

Today I saw a movie named "Don't tell my Fiancee" or something. Dude's ex Psycho girlfriend get access to his fiancee by posing as a wedding planner, when he meet them he realise it but doesn't do anything, Later on the Fiancee after having been attack manage to ambush the Psycho and stun her by hitting her with a hammer, they then go downstairs to call the cop and not restrain thr Psycho and wait. Psycho then on the last scene watching the wedding from inside of the church.

For the specific case you mentioned, I saw an episode of 911, where Jennifer Love Hewitt is taken by her abusive and dangerous ex husband. During an escape, she shoots or clobbers him, and I was annoyed because I knew he'd get up and... Nope. She just keeps hitting him until he's gone. I was so impressed. My peeve is when characters take an action they'd never take, and all problems from that point onward are a result of that action. "Don't take off the amulet or bad things will happen" "Surely they didn't mean while I was sleeping" Bad things happen for multiple episodes or seasons...

This has never bothered me. I just want the plot to progress.  🤷‍♂️