Everybody makes mistakes, and this is never truer than in movies, where a little bit of stupidity is often necessary as a device to drive the plot. Sometimes, however, characters make decisions so monumentally bad that we simply can't give them – and by extension their creators – a free pass.
Star Wars Episodes I-III are a veritable treasure trove of poor decision-making. Here are the nine dumbest decisions in the Star Wars prequels.
Jedi can run really fast, hold their breath for ages and escape just about any locked room with a lightsaber… so why would the Trade Federation try to kill them with poison gas? Why not just open the door and shoot them in the back of the head with lasers, rig the protocol droid to explode, or lower the force field windows and let the vacuum of space do the rest? Hell, how about all three? Nope, poison gas.
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