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* In ''[[Silent Running]]'', Lowell has spent eight years as the sole botanist taking care of one of the last living forests, preserved in a space station. He's implied to be the only person to still care about preserving nature and is the best man qualified to oversee the return of nature to Earth. Despite all this, towards the end of the film he suffers a crisis because he simply can't figure out why his forest is dying. In the climax, he suddenly remembers that {{spoiler|plants need ''sunlight''!}} Why did it take him that long to figure that out???
* ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'',
** During the Vulgaria plot
** And the townsfolk are perfectly happy to shout "No! It's a trap!" from their doors, but apparently can't be bothered to oh, say, ''pick up the children and/or drag them inside''?
*** Children are outlawed - picking up the children and taking them inside would have gotten them arrested, so taking no action beyond a verbal warning (itself possibly risky) is understandable.
** The Child Catcher himself does this in the climax - did he ''really'' think he could handle a veritable army of them on his own? Took him about
* The ''[[Big Bad]]'' in ''[[Gamer]]''. He's a tech genius and pretty media savvy, but makes two mistakes so laughable... First, the end reveals that {{spoiler|he has the ability to take control of the Hero at anytime, he neglects to do this anytime during the film when it would be most advantageous to do so... like taking control for a split-second while the hero is playing ''Slayers'', something he could easily do and make it look like a normal death in the game. Instead, he just hires a goon to kill him in game. Then he waits to usurp control of the hero until he is in the same room with him, and the hero has a weapon! Idiot ball indeed.}} Secondly, for someone so tech and media savvy to fall for the oldest trick in the book, having his villainous monologue broadcast to the world, is so pathetic that it doesn't bear a second thought.
* In the first ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' movie, while Grant and Ellie are holding back a velociraptor, a gun that was knocked out of Grant's hands and is just barely out of their reach. Lex is meanwhile hacking into the security system, and Tim, not doing anything else, decides to just stand off to the side cheering her on instead of picking up Grant's gun.
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