Top 10 Unbelievably Dumb Decisions in Sci-Fi Movies
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- Top 10 Unbelievably Dumb Decisions in Sci-Fi Movies
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Science fiction can be intellectual and require a lot of thought and research, yet these characters made incredibly stupid decisions in the movies. WatchMojo presents the Top 10 Stupidest Decisions in Science Fiction Movies. But what will take the top spot? Putting the Death Star exhaust port in such an accessible place, taking captured dinosaurs to america in the Jurassic Park sequel, or trusing robots with our military needs in the Terminator franchise? Watch to find out!
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00:50 #10. Training Drillers to Become Astronauts from “Armageddon” (1998)
02:10 #9. Bringing the Sports Almanac Back in Time from “Back to the Future Part II” (1989)
03:29 #8. Falling in Love with a Humanoid Robot from “ex_machina” (2015)
04:41 #7. Testing the Drug ALZ113 from “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” (2011)
05:40 #6. Running Straight Ahead from “Prometheus” (2012)
06:32 #5. Not Quarantining Kane from “Alien” (1979)
07:35 #4. Kissing the Infected from “28 Weeks Later” (2007)
09:01 #3, #2, #1 ????
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Um the exhaust port was put in the death star for a reason.
I know people always complain about it but never think about their arguments; the fact it is needed. you don't block a muffler to a car so something a lot bigger would need one if not several ports. heck they might have more then one but that one was the smallest due to the fact it leads to the reactor sending no doubt a lot of exhaust. plus it was defended with turrets and the highly unlikely chance needed to actually hit the damn thing while flying a space fighter.
And everyone that doesn't know that is just going to have to wait for you to explain.
What the fuck are you waiting for?
Gumby's Imperial Media Then I'd be spoiling Rogue One.
if the exhaust port was not straight to the core it would have done the job and made it impossible for missiles to make it to the center
should have made it a zig-zag
Jonathan Seitz Exactly what I was going to say
The following nitpick of this video is a rogue one spoiler:
The Empire didn't purposefully put the exhaust port on the exhaust port on the Death Star, Galan Erso built it into the battle station in secret, without Krennic/Tarkin/Vader/The Emperor even knowing about it
Drew Fingeret and that's the main reason why this is a fanboy movie. It just exist to explain a plot hole from an good, yet insanely overrated franchise..... and nothing else. The characters were so dull that their deaths means nothing to the next entries, go and watch the red letter media review.
I would disagree, honestly. Were some of the characters a little dull, sure, but they were at least performed well and interlaced with excellent action scenes, which in my opinion can be represented in the whole Star Wars saga (with a few exceptions, *cough* Hayden Christensen *cough*) Also the movie doesn't exist to explain the plothole of the exhaust port, it exists to tell the story of the Death Star plans being stolen, therefore changing and reforming the story of A New Hope (especially the opening)
Thank you, someone else who believes there should be a spoiler alert on this video
I'm going to say Rogue One wasn't bad. It wasn't as great as the original three, but it was a HELL OF A LOT better than episode 7.
Before December 16, 2016: "Man, the designer of the Death Star was a freaking idiot for doing that!"
After December 16, 2016: "Man, the designer of the Death Star was a freaking genius for doing that!"
Just saying....
Well, history is being rewritten all the time.
People have been defending the existence of the exhaust port for years. Rouge 1 just brought the simple fact that exhaust systems are put on machines for a reason to the attention of people who don't know anything about machines.
@@nobodyimportant2470 to be fair, it's not like a) a moon sized spaceship probably needs an exhaust port like a meter wide, it'd either need to be MUCH bigger or probably unnecessary, b) even if they did have one, they didn't need it to be a 100% unrestricted access in a straight line to the outside, from the core, put some turns in there, a couple of grates or some shit, it's far more likely it'd be meant as a weakness to exploit than even a legit necessity or c) people just don't like to think sometimes beloved movies have stupid fucking parts to them.
Exactly!!!! this video needs a reboot XD
It should have been Dark Forces
I'll tell one of the dumbest decisions made, putting a fully loaded ED-209 robot into a board meeting for a demonstration in 'Robocop'. One poor bastard regretted the day he got out of bed to go to work that day I can tell you that.
gutz1981 worst decision in sci fi was not giving dredd an oscar
Or maybe the whole buy in large plot of wal-e
Yep, I remembered that scene.
Very true.
number 1 isn't really a dumb decision anymore though
Louw Jansen yea, guess this video was made before Rogue One
Mark well to be fair they can't use it for example due to it being in the movie theaters and using actual footage or explanation of it would be breaking copyright and reveal spoils which is strictly prohibited.
Its still a dumb decision on the part of the writers. In this case Lucas' original story. Fixing it years later doesn't negate how dumb it was originally.
13:05
never was, something that size obviously requires a port for all of the exhaust it produces. It does literally blow up PLANETS, after all.
#1 doesn't count, it's an intentional design flaw. Keyword being intentional. This was revealed in Rogue One.
THEY SAID IT'S EXPLAINED IN ROGUE ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dude, SPOILERS!
It is in fact a dumb decision, they make note of it in the video that Rogue One was devoted to fixing that dumb decision, but it doesn't negate the fact that, when the original movie came out, it was still a dumb decision. Fixing it 40 years later by making it "intentional" within the story of the films...was because people noted how dumb it was over the last 40 years...over and over again.
Rogue One adds another flaw though, not spotting it when you know the designer was a traitor.
Matthew Messerly actually, it wasn't a traitor. he didn't want to work with them anymore. plus they had the plans from the bug aliens in Ep. 2. he knew if he didn't help build it then it would be unstoppable
How about running away from T-Rex with high heels from Jurassic World? But somehow, she survived that.
margareth michelina her heels were made of Nokia phones
bigQraz her ankles sure weren't though.
***** destroy the joke
Alright, she was running away from it AFTER the break-out, and if you're talking about the near-end, she could've taken off her heels as she was expecting to get chased, but people forget (somehow they even forget that) and so she didn't have the time to take them off.
Rogue one took out number one
shiprek2011 ikr
well they acknowledged that in the ending.
Specially the video was released after the premiere of rouge one.
No, it does not. Rogue One explained about the chain reaction of the reactor destruction, but the design of the exhaust shaft is still stupid. They built a mega destroyer weapon with a shitty design that gives a huge access to its own doom after its defensive shield is down.
Rouge One was a Disney solution. Disney spoonfeeds their audience with plausable solutions, becuase they can't think for them selves!
Has nobody at WatchMojo seen Rogue One?
Did you not watch the end of the video?
Apparently they have not.
this video was released before rogue one came out
Edit: didn't look at the release date but still it was explained
No it was'nt Rogue One is already out
Warren G This video was published after Rogue One Came out.
Remove the last one, its been explained.
Cerino Gold No it hasn't. All Rogue One told us is who designed it and why he designed the port to be there. After all, the designer isn't the builder. Logic would suggest that someone else during the inspection and construction phases, at least, would have tracked that exhaust port and seen a flaw in it. It's not as if the guy from Rogue One put that port in there himself with his own 2 hands.
He basically did, he was in charge of construction. He tampered with the design which is why the flaw is there. If you actually listen to the things they say you can cleaely understand. Even my cousin who isn't a big Star Wars fan understood by just paying attention.
Also he didn't design it, if you watched the prequels you'd know.
And he was the builder
Cerino Gold lol I did pay attention man. I get it. Now if you pay attention to what I'm trying to say, I'm saying that if you compare the construction process of the real world and the Star Wars universe, you don't give ONE person all the power to design and construct something like that. This is the Empire we are talking about and regardless of them being futuristic Nazi's essentially, they should be smart enough to put things through a process for checks and balances. If they had done that we do in the real world then someone should have spotted the mistake.
Number 5 is wrong.
Not quarantining Kane was a decision made by the synthetic Science Officer, Ashe.
He was onboard the Nostromo because the Company wanted him there to procure the lifeform they knew was on LV426.
He was programmed to circumvent any efforts by the crew to interfere with that plan.
Recall the scene where Ripley finds out about Special Order 937...For Science Officer's Eyes Only".
"Priority One. Insure return of organism for analysis. All other considerations secondary. Crew expendable."
The crew had nothing to do with breaking quarantine.
Exactly....
yep, not putting Kane in stasis is a major plot point, Ash makes the decision to not quarantine Kane because his mission is to return an alien and the crew is expendable, so he wants to see what happens. At one point Parker asks then shouts "how come you guys don't just freeze him?" Dallas states he leaves the decisions to Ash, Ash even stops Parker from attacking the newly hatched alien
UncleJackOnline Exactly. Parker has the right idea. The little sucker was at its most vulnerable when it was emerging from Kane.
It still would have been a handful but that was their only chance to kill it.
But then Ashe knew that or suspected it.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who actually understood what was on the screen :D
Matthew Bradley if anything, this one is another example of the " Not trusting robots" mistake
Someone didn't watch Rogue One
Jyn Erso only had to do one job....ONE JOB!!!!
Frank Furters someone didn't watch the entire video
Frank Furters but what about the second deathstar and the death planet from awakens
the second death star is made with the same plans, so with the same flaw
The second death star plans eliminated the flaw. Problem was that it wasn't finished so it had an exposed superstructure that allowed the rebels to fly through the inner maintenance tunnels. This was confirmed when Lando said, "We won't get another chance at this admiral."
The exhaust port was implemented by Galen Erso on purpose, as shown in Rogue One. It's not a dumb decision.
Real dumb decision was Director Krennic's choice of who to be lead designer.
Watch Mojo hold this L. Obviously you haven't seen Rogue One
And you obviously didn't watch the full video
Zachary Richardson I did... Mentioning Death star was stupid as it was intentionally made for a chain reaction therefore explaining why it's destruction was so easy. The movie alone explained why it was.
of course they saw rogue one. otherwise they wouldn't have put the reference to it towards the end of their number 1 pick
Awe c'mon! Star Wars isn't science fiction! It already happened a long time ago.
And in a galaxy far far away!
Star Wars is a fucking syfy franchise ok.
Abram Sullivan it was a joke. learn how to spell it’s literally in the title of the video
Abram Sullivan science fiction is about the future, Star Wars is in the past. Does that SPELL it out for you better?
@@mpaulm It don't Matter if its past or present or future. If its madeup its Science fiction.
lol I can just *hear* Jeremy saying 'Oooooooh these guys went to the Prometheus school of running away from things'
You could probably make an entire list just from Star Wars.
Part of me thinks Rogue One was made just to stop the jokes about the Death Star vent.
Does it really do it any justice though? Jokes on the Empire for not having anyone supervising the 7 fucking engineers and Gaelen.
You could also argue that at a certain point finding out about the problem wouldn't matter. Let's say he was only able to hide the flaw from people until the initial construction phase and that it was like 10% complete; at that point you've already spent more money and resources on it than you could reasonably justify. Assuming he designed the death star to such minute portions that moving it would lead to every other level being messed up somehow would lead to a HUGE cost for redesigns as more than likely they've gotten some sort of modular building going on to save time. Basically what I'm saying is that in order to save time they were building multiple pieces of the death star simultaneously in space so that they could be connected while in space. If construction goes too far with that flaw in place there's no fiscally responsible way to stop the flaw from existing. NOW let's talk about what happens WHEN they find it. What would YOU do if you knew that 1 of possibly thousands of exhaust ports had this flaw? You don't KNOW that the rebels have the information that this flaw could blow up the death star nor do you think they could get close enough to it in order to even attack it. The best thing to do would be tossing in an extra gun or two near the port and calling it a day. Worst case scenario if you choose that route? A one in a million chance that someone manages to shoot a proton torpedo down the hole, that is protected by guns, and TIE fighters, and THE DEATH STAR.
Solid Snake,
What a novel concept... too bad this video didn't pick up on it, and already mention that... oh wait...
The reason the Death Star exhaust port is on the list is because for 39 YEARS it was UNEXPLAINED or treated as an oversight by the Empire in star wars fiction. The guy even says "It is rayshielded so you will need to use Proton torpedoes," which means that the Empire at least thought about protecting it from BLASTER FIRE, but a Proton torpedo can penetrate a rayshield.
cinemasins "prometheus school of running away from things"
Watch Mojo clearly didn't watch Rogue One
I was going to comment that but all you had to do was keep watching
Nit Picker there's millions of comments like yours.
Nit Picker clearly didn't watch this video.
The last one really doesn't count, though...
I don't blame you. Not having the exhaust port on Death Star is like having a laptop without the cooling fans. That was actually a smart idea because you need to remove the byproduct from the reactors.
they could of put walls in the trench or something to shorten it
Jim Findley it was intentionally put there so it shouldnt be on this list
Teo Laurich
i know but i was only suggesting what could of been done to fix the design flaw
Dude, it was stated to be intentional nearly 30 years later. If it wasn't, then the premise wouldn't exist.
#5 wasn't a dumb decision, it was Ash who let the alien on board. He was under orders to sacrifice the crew, who had been deemed expendable. There's not much Ripley could have done when there was secretly a traitor in their midst.
I remember this film vividly from when I saw it in the theater when it was released. The pairing of the goth and gritty tone of the story along with the goth and gritty soundtrack, which is still one of the best soundtrack/movie pairings in cinematic history, has allowed this movie to live on in my mind far longer than it should. It's a pull and a calling to a much younger self and to a much darker part of life.
Am I the only one who never had a problem with the exhaust port before Rogue One came out?
Eagleskywalker87 Nope, I didn't either. The odds of successfully hitting the exhaust port were incredibly small. If Luke Skywalker hadn't joined the rebellion, the attack on the Death Star would have failed.
Couldn't put that better myself!
pretty much. Obviously they didnt design the deathstar with such a glaring weakness so there had to be an explanation and rogue one gave it.
I am the same way, it was a combo of an actually normal, logical feature, not seen as an actual weakness because of the Empire's hubris, and Rogue One actually only explained that the reactor was made weak, which provided the oportunity to destroy it through normal, logical features like an exhaust port.
A "normal and logical" spacecraft wouldn't have "normal and logical" atmospheric machine features. You can have exhaust in the atmosphere because of things like air molecules that allow the exhaust to radiate through them to reach an equilibrium with the rest of the molecules.
Space, however, doesn't have that luxury. There simply aren't enough particles in space for exhaust to radiate through in a traditional sense. So an "Exhaust port" is asinine.
It would be like trying to empty out a bottle of water... while you're underwater. It just doesn't work.
1? it hat to have a exhaust. For a Machine that big it was a very eficent thing. No one could have thought about "space magic". a tornado going straight and suddenly down. Thats the problem, the Space Magic!! Not the exhaust.
ipodgenex robot chicken or something, isn't it?
Oliver Olvera Dorkly, actually.
You're forgetting the fact that it's a machine that's IN SPACE.
If it was on a planet, then an exhaust port would be efficient. But exhaust ports don't work the same way in space as they do in atmosphere.
Watch mojo: Let's put Star Wars at number one even though we have seen the new one!
Me: Are you kidding me
Do you even know what exhaust is and does?
Yeah, you're wasting vast amounts of heat energy wich could otherwise be convertet into electric energy to power some defence systems, make a second shot possible or powering the death star itself.
Even if you use the exhaust to power something , it still has to go somewhere. Ex : a car turbo doesn't get rid of the muffler.
And why do they need to get it out of the death star? why doesn't they just cool it down and use it again? Shouldn't be that hard to find a solution for it if they can build lasers and a station as big as a little moon.
Maya Natsume Propulsion most likely, and it doesn't make sense that the torpedo was sucked in when exhaust pushes air out. Also, the amount of energy used, even if it can be recycled, would require at least some exhaust, especially with a planet destroying weapon on it.
None of the other planet destroying weapons in Star Wars needed an exhaust port like that, and it's been explained that all the blaster weapons in the story, use a type of charged gas. So isn't it already ejecting it's waste, out the front of the weapon?
ok so exhaust pipe was sabotage. Why didn't anyone notice? Whole death star crew didn't notice?
Galen said the flaw was so small, nobody would notice
mk6rfc1 so Galen outsmarted everyone who built, maintained/operated, and hide-the Death Star was built in secret and people who can do that should be able to find a small hole-the Death Star?
Well he hid it so it could only be seen in the plans and made steps so that the rebels would get it
Ok.
mk6rfc1. 👌 Ok
The dumb decision in Star Wars would be not destroying the escape pod without life forms when it was pretty obvious the plans were on it
The Prometheus One... "Just turn left or right, anything," as giant chunks of debris are falling a few feet away from them. Silly WatchMojo
The Alien one isn't fair because Ash is the one who lets the group (with infected Kane) into the ship. We all know that Ash is an android and has orders to bring back any alien life forms they encounter at all costs... even at the cost of the lives of the crew. Once Captain Dallas is back on the ship, the Warrant Officer (Ripley) is no longer in charge. There is zero flaw in how that sequence went. Ripley was the sane one, in the end, as we all know... she was just overruled and didn't have the power to do anything about it after Dallas was back on the ship.
The real question is why didn't the Death Star have a shield around it?
if they could put a shield around the entirety of Scarif then why not?
good question because it doesn't have a giant shield generator
just put the shield generator in the death star lol
nah the emperor decided to replace that shield generator with a mall for all his shopping needs on the go!
Purefoldnz the second one had a generator. And the power of a generator on a power draining super weapon would cause it to go dark. It should have either been zigzaged or bared off with laser grids, sure, but taking in the force of the heat and the radiation, the torpedo should have detonated WAY earlier.
This list is a bit wrong. In 'Alien' Ripley did her best to keep and infected Kane out of the ship, it was the robot science officer Ash who under company orders let the crew back on board with the intention to get the crew infected and return what was to be the ultimate weapon the company wanted. The "dumb decision" was part of the plot itself.
In "Alien" it was no mistake or a dump decision... The Android Ash let the guy in, because it was his mission/order to get one of these Aliens!
He did not care about the lives of the crew.
The Death Star's exhaust port was put there deliberately with the specific intention of being a fatal flaw in its structure.
in all of the movies, take away the dumb decisions and you take away the plot of the movies, for example, in back 2 the future, if he didn't buy the almanac and biff didn't steal the time machine, the movie would have ended after 30 minutes and been pretty boring
Interesting thought. I don't blame Dr. Brown for getting upset with Marty for buying the almanac from the future.
Buying the sport almanac was a great idea. How could you know that biff was going to steal it? That was just bad luck
It was one of those "It seemed like a good idea at the time" situations.
The Number 6 pick was what earned Vickers the "Dull Machete for lamest kill" in the "Prometheus" Kill Count. Even the host of that show had a problem with that boneheaded move.
Pilot: Shoots the torpedo down the exhaust shaft
Me (what I’m tempted to shout): The ESDS or Emergency Self Destruct System has been initiated. All Reactor Safeguards have been deactivated, please evacuate this facility immediately as it will self destruct in T-2 Minutes.
#5 Ash deliberately undermined Ripley to allow the organism onto the ship. It wasn't a mistake on the part of the crew, it was sabotage on the instructions of the company.
The alien one was wrong as well. Ash let Kane skip quarantine on purpose.
When you make a top ten video but you're number one pick is made obsolete by movie that came out a couple of days before so you have to acknowledge it or your video won't make sense, but you end up just sounding like you have to defend your number one pick.
An exhaust port is extremely necessary when you have a weapon that large. Seriously it's a miracle they were able to get it that small
Everybody watch and listen at 13:06 of the video before bringing up Rogue One.
Have they not watched Rogue One yet?
DryAssChicken watch until the end
dragonlord well they're wrong no matter what cause rogue one wasn't made to cover up/explain why there was an exhaust port that led to a reactor core but to show the journey of how the rebels got the Death Star plans
BLACKCURRANT Studios tbh the whole exhaust port argument is null and void since the shot is Is literally possible without the force
dragonlord yeah i agree but I guess many people wouldn't normally think that they'd just hear the problem and harp on it
BLACKCURRANT Studios I mean a exhaust port literally pushes air outwards the torpedo without the force would have been pushed out
If WatchMojo did another Top 10 Dumbest Decisions in Sci Fi Movies, I think the following could be added.
-Luring Calvin to the Escape Pod (Life)
-Star Lord punching Thanos in rage (Avengers Infinity War)
-Holdo keeping Poe in the dark (Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi)
-Cobb not telling people what happens when they die in a dream before the dream infiltration (Inception)
-Not guarding the crazy terrorist while he's in a coma (Face Off)
-Having ED-209 loaded with live ammo during demonstration (RoboCop 1987)
-Wade/Parzival telling Samantha/Art3mis his real name (Ready Player One)
to be fair at least, when star wars came out the idea wasn't "hey let's put a weak spot on our battle station" it was "hey let's vent our radiation from the reactor so we don't all die" now I'm sure there was a better way they could have done it but it was still a teeny tiny hole that they shielded and it required a force sensitive piolet (that they thought were all dead) to make the shot, so it really wasn't THAT dumb. It was more like they didn't think of every single possible outcome when making the plans and let's be honest who does that
Brendan Colquitt Yeah, the Empire's only real mistake was overconfidence. The rebels were incredibly lucky.
#1... but what about Rogue One?
WatchMojo go watch Rogue One and see why the plothole shouldn't be on the list
How about District 9. Not going to a hospital when you come in contact with alien goo that immediately makes you sick.
Ex Machina - To be fair, there were subtle hints that Ava had actual feelings. She Kills her creator because he was a threat to her, but she doesn't kill Caleb, even though it would be the most logical course of action for an unfeeling machine. As she's leaving, she pauses to look at the bodies of Nathan and Kyoko, then as she gets on the elevator, she glances back in Caleb's direction. She most likely figured that after killing Nathan, Caleb couldn't be trusted to keep her secret.
The fact that she was a machine wasn't so much to blame as was the fact that she was treated like a thing and her creator was planning to essentially kill her, combined with the fact that she saw him using other androids for his own pleasure. Even a human would be bitter in those circumstances. Maybe things would have turned out better if Ava had been treated as a person rather than an experiment. I mean, if you're striving for true artificial intelligence, you shouldn't be surprised if it reacts the way a human would in the same situation. Now, I'm not saying that every AI should be given full rights, but maybe don't make it obvious that you view them as disposable.
The explanation given in Rogue One is perfectly acceptable. No need to criticize it.
someone didn't watch rogue one
The first one shouldn't count even before rogue one. To work the torpedoes had to make a 90 degree turn and then had to travel in an absolutely straight line for the distance of the radius of the death star. Literally an impossible shot for anyone but a force user and those were thought to basically be myths at the time.
If you watched the alien movie, Ash disregards the quarantine not because of a dumb choice, but because he was ordered by the company to bring back the specimen.
Rogue one explains #1
**cough cough rouge one cough cough**
It wasn't just buying the almanac. They left the keys in the damn car! Bad idea in any year
Did the guy from 28 weeks even know his wife was infected ? I remember Scarlet only revealing Alice's infection to her superior and Don wasn't even there, at that time.
At least the exhaust port was intended. The second and third Death Stars still having the same freakin' issue is even dumber.
LazerVader The Death Star II did not have the same flaw. It was merely incomplete, which allowed the Rebels to fly into the unfinished superstructure. The Empire also built an energy shield to protect it while it was under construction.
Starkiller Base is a superlaser weapon built into an actual planet, not an artificial space station like the Death Star, and had a different defense mechanism. Han, Chewie and Finn had to sneak in and destroy the shield on the planets surface, otherwise the Resistances X-Wings wouldn't have even dented it.
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It's me from the future
Number one doesn't count
that gave me a good laugh when you mentioned the exhaust port in "Star Wars: A New Hope"
The exaust port was a dumb thing in 1977, but Rogue one fixed it and gave a reason for the exaust port being there in the first place.
aw yes, the Prometheus school of running away. Good times.
Number one has been explained now with Rouge one
The irony of both "28 Days Later" and "28 Weeks Later" is that it's love that ultimately dooms the world.
When did it happen in days
It's actually amazing that the Deathstar only has one tiny thermal exhaust port being the size it is, and in space. Without it, the whole system, and the people inside would overheat.
Sorry, but if the android is Alicia Vikander, then the mistake is _not_ falling in love 😛
Not shooting down the escape pod in A New Hope was even dumber
Matt Jamison Yes, that was a legitimate dumb choice by the Empire. That guy who let the droids escape was an absolute moron.
The exhaust port was not a mistake, it was a necessity. A vehicle the size of the Death Star simply had to have a heat venting system of some kind. The Empire also did have a defense mechanism installed, the exhaust port was protected with ray shields and turbo lasers.
Without Luke Skywalker's help I doubt the Rebels would have managed to destroy it in time.
To be fair, it wasn't shot down cause there was "no lifeforms" since Imperial scanners don't register droids. Plus the Empire's mission was to RETRIEVE the Death Star plans. Couldn't take the chance of blowing the plans up with the escape pod.
The dumbest decision was by WatchMojo putting #1 in this list, since it shouldn't even be here. Did you people not see Rogue One? It turns out the exhaust port was an intentionally designed that way. It was sabotage by the Death Star's head engineer.
Um, the exhaust port made perfect sense. The Death Star is a giant machine and all machines need to let out it's excess energy at some point. Thus, exhaust ports. I mean, sure, they could have put a bunch of smaller exhaust ports so it'd be too hard to shoot a missile into, but the many holes would also sacrifice the overall integrity of the Death Star. Besides, it's not like it was easy to find and get to the exhaust port. First off, the only reason the Jedi found out about the exhaust port was because they sent in a team to go in and grab the plans for the Death Star. If it weren't for that team, the exhaust port likely would have never been found. Plus, it was heavily guarded by not only machines, but also Storm Troopers and even Darth Vader himself.
Actually the exhaust port was put on purpose
Watchmojo hasn't seen rogue one
Or any of the fan theories that logically explain why having a way to vent the thermal exhaust would be a good idea. Those have been around since Star Wars became popular.
You've not seen the end of the video.
Absolutely, the exhaust port and the reactor defects(an explosive charge on the reactor would cause it to overload and explode in a cascade) were both part of Erso's hidden sabotage of the death star. It was the best decision ever made in a Sci-Fi movie.
Buc Whovian the second tragic thing is how many votes up he has and how many you have..... so many people are trigger happy when it comes to comments..... pffff
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I have no idea what any of that means.
Why is Armageddon so difficult to understand. They explain it in the movie. It would have taken more time then they had to train the astronauts how to drill, plus they had no experience in improv in case something goes wrong (as it did with the experienced drillers). However, they didn't need to teach the drillers how to be astronauts, they just had to teach them how to survive and move in space and on the asteroid. They had experienced pilots to navigate, fly, and do all the necessary things to get the drillers to the asteroid safely so they could do their thing.
For BTTF, Doc said in #1 he could see the results of the last 25 World Series and maybe place a few bets. He must have changed his mind at some point (to allow the conflict of the movie to occur), therefore he admonished Marty for trying to do the same in #2. If Doc puts the almanac in the moving trash, Biff can't get at it, but they were distracted by the police finding Jennifer. Yes, leaving the Delorean unlocked and unattended was stupid, but they couldn't have predicted Biff would realize they were time travelers, pick up the discarded almanac, steal the Delorean, figure out how to work it, and give the book to his younger self.
Finally, in Alien, not a dumb decision at all. Ash was specifically programmed to let the specimen on board in order to deliver it to the Company, regardless of whether the crew was killed or not. If Dallas or Ripley had made the decision, then it would've been dumb, but Ash was making a calm and calculated decision to let the creature on the ship.
sdmagician76 You made some very good points, and I agree with all of them, except for the Armageddon one. Training to be an astronaut is a lot more difficult and time consuming than learning how to use a drill.
I get that may be the case, but just looking at the events that take place, because they landed on a more metallic surface than expected, the very experienced and competent drillers first stripped a drill bit, then blew a transmission, then caused an explosion that made the first drill (and operator) to get blasted into space. Luckily, Affleck showed up in the second drill and then almost blew the transmission of that one, but knew by feel that it wouldn't blow. If the drillers (with years and maybe decades of experience) almost failed, imagine how bad the operation would have gone if the astronauts (with a max of two weeks to prepare) would have gone. Remember, the drillers were not training to be astronauts, they were training to survive in space. They were not responsible for anything on the mission except drilling that hole. They had real astronauts on the mission that would take care of flying the ships and all other space aspects of the mission.
Yes, on first glance (and probably in real life as well) it would have been more practical to teach the astronauts to drill. But after watching the events in the movie, do we really think the astronauts, with just two weeks of preparation with the drills, could have performed anywhere near the quality of the experienced drillers, who only just managed to succeed after much failure?
The Exhaust Port was placed there by Galen Erso in Rogue One. So that someone could destroy it.
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We now have an explanation for the Death Star weakness from Star Wars Rogue One. It was deliberately put there by the designer who was forced to build it for the Empire
#8 Little note. Zora from Bladerunner is not a robot. She's a bioengineered human.
For Inception though, conversely it could be a clever and cunning decision of not telling the team so as to avoid the chances that they might back off
I'm assuming watchmojo hasn't seen rogue one yet...
I was thinking the same thing.
Umm #1 wasnt a dumb decision. That flaw was purposely built into the deathstar to destroy it later, and it worked!
A GOOD ONE THAT WAS OVERLOOKED:
The subway scene in the first Matrix movie. The payphone is ringing to bring them out of the Matrix, and they stand there and chat instead of picking it up. So the hobo gets possessed by an agent and shoots the phone.
5:40 and that sparkled the meme "The Prometheus-school-of-running-away-from-things"
Star WARS Rogue One explains it.
Heres comes the anoying rogue one fanboys.
Creating a human/alien hybrid in Splice, and then raising it as your own... Yeah that's not going to end well.
#2 Signs Invading a planet that is 75% water when its like acid to you.
I would say that this list is outdated, but it never was up to date, as it was published after rogue one, and not using any information from the movie, even though it cites it as giving a reason why the port was there. go see the movie and correctly make a list.
Joey M they put that in cause it took 40 years to explain why it was there
And because the 2nd and 3rd ones have very similar, if not the same flaw.
The second one was not flawed, it just wasn't finished.
I haven't gotten around to seeing Roghe One, but it was intentional
Matthew Trzcinski,
You apparently haven't gotten around to seeing the rest of this video either.
Can you do top 10 sporting celebs that changed careers Into other sports?
Top 10 longest video games to complete?
10 worst years of celeb deaths?
Top 10 longest films ever?
Top 10 celebs who sound like each other?
That's all I have for now lol
The Jedi assigning Anakin to guard Padme, and then to spy on Palpatine.
Again perfect timing WatchMojo!
R.I.P Carrie Fisher, best princess of the galaxy:(
Someone clearly hasn't seen Rogue One, and then editted the video to make a reference to Rogue One to also retcon their mistake.
Lovi Poekimo this comment was a mistake
It was so meta, right ? ;)
Shane Wells I bet you hear "you're a mistake" from your mom a lot, huh?
Lovi Poekimo i bet you hear "you have too much free time" from your customers when your working corners
They are saying the idea was so stupid that Rogue One had to be made to address it.
1) It turns out that was Galen Erso's way of subtly sabotaging the Death Star.
2) They subsequently fixed that problem on the second one.
That spaceship run could of made more sense if it was a whole ship and the fear was that dodging left or right would mean a 50% chance of getting squished for picking the wrong side.
I'm one with the force, the force is with me
when all the Star Wars fans attack watch mojo for THEIR DUMB DECISION of putting the death star's exhaust port flaw 😂😂👌👍 Good stuff Star wars fans!
The problem with Back to the Future 2 is that there was no reason for Marty to travel to the future in the first place. Doc just needed to tell him "don't drive like an idiot".
Even with the Rogue One retcon, it doesn't even make sense to have an exhaust port. Surely they could use waste thermal energy for something when you have a ship as large as a small moon. Also, even if they couldn't, the Death Star is in space, which means it would have to be constantly shooting particles into space to dispel the heat from the reactor.
Either way, the exhaust port is a total waste.