History TooDumbToLive / Film

* ''{{Film/Equilibrium}}''. Is it ideal to continue to piss off one of your First Class Grammaton Clerics who you have just informed was an UnwittingPawn in your scheme to infiltrate the Resistance? Is there really a need to be surprised that one of your highly trained Clerics has wiped out your guards? Is there even a need to be surprised at his anger with the injustice and pain you have constantly caused him when he was already a very deadly target and of very volatile character in the first place? Cut the pathetic bullshit. He's going TranquilFury on ALL your asses.

* The AnimalWrongsGroup at the beginning of ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''. After being explicitly told that a monkey is infected with a contagious disease, one of them frees it anyway.
** The US Army in ''Film/TwentyEightWeeksLater''. They allow unsupervised access to an asymptomatic infected, who consequently infects someone. Then they evacuate another one to Europe where the whole thing starts all over again.
*** The initial mistake wasn't allowing unsupervised access, it was giving a civilian access to 'ALL' areas of the military installation, even the top secret areas--including the place where the asymptomatic woman was.
*** Even so, they lacked the most basic security measures, such as placing guards around an individual who carries the most dangerous pathogen known to humankind. Nevermind how children were able to sneak past the perimeter and outside of the safe zone as if they were sneaking out of a high school during a lunch break...
* ''100Feet''. A woman is being haunted by the vengeful ghost of her abusive husband. He's shown her that he can move anything in the house anytime he wants, so what does she do? She throws her wedding ring in the garbage disposal, then decides to fish it out with her hands. After narrowly avoiding losing her hand, she invites the neighbor boy over for some fun...

* The group of film students from ''GraveEncounters2'' makes the decision to break into an abandoned mental asylum in the middle of the night not in spite of the fact that it might be dangerous, but ''because'' they believe that it killed a group of people horribly. The results are somewhat predictable.
* The main characters of ''Film/SistersOfDeath''. They respond to anonymous invites to an isolated location (one of whom hitchhikes to get there, despite the fact that they were all sent enough money to afford transport), allow two strange men to drive them to their destination (in an SUV with all the windows covered), and when their host reveals that he wants to kill one of them (the one who arranged his daughter's death seven years earlier), they continually separate and isolate themselves. And continue to do so even after [[TenLittleMurderVictims they start getting picked off.]]
* Sky, Macon, and Alexander from Film/MurderParty.

* ''Film/KingKong'': Capturing a giant ape who's smitten with a female human and bringing him back to civilization? [[SarcasmMode That's a GREAT idea!]] [[TemptingFate What's the worst that could happen?]] Oh... right...

** The entire human race falls into this at the end. After the Army restored order, someone had the baffling idea to round up the Zombies and use them as a source of cheap labour and entertainment, instead of destroying them! And if that's not bad enough, while they ''do'' take the precaution of putting restraints on them to keep them under control, they completely forget to '''muzzle''' them! Because it's not like Zombies are well known for infecting people by ''biting'', [[SarcasmMode right?]]

* In ''Southern Comfort'', the main characters are in the National Guard on a training mission in a swamp, miles from civilization. They see one of the inhabitants from a distance and decide to mess with him... by pointing their rifle (loaded with blanks) at him and "opening fire." [[SarcasmMode Shockingly]], the locals have their own rifles, not loaded with blanks. Natural selection ensues.

* In General list every ''single'' horror or slasher film and expect a majority of the characters to be this.

* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'': Tina does this not once, not twice, not even three times, but ''four times'' within the inevitable scene of her death. Making the mistake of investigating a strange noise: One. Closing the door behind her when she goes outside which gives her ''a few seconds less time to run inside and shut the door'' before she would be brutally attacked by Freddy: Two. Wearing flimsy pyjamas and not taking any form of protection in case there's a serial killer outside: Three. ''Giving herself even less time to escape Freddy by actually listening to him to stop and watch him cut off his fingers instead of being absolutely terrified at a dream demon with enough logic to understand that it's completely pointless to stop when it's obvious he's trying to kill her: Four''. Tina spent this time practically playing CuriosityKilledTheCast extremely straight.
** Let's not forget what Nancy does in school. What a good idea to ''follow'' your dead friend's bloody corpse in a body bag who appears outside your classroom. Nancy: that doesn't happen in reality. You're dreaming, and you know what kind of being exists in your dreams that you fully know is actually trying to brutally massacre you and your friends. Don't even think about restraining yourself when you call out your friend's name, because that corpse happens to have enough power to invade your dreams and isn't being controlled by someone you never want to meet unless you have a death wish. Continue to follow the corpse down the stairs into the basement and end up trapping yourself with the killer, run into a dead end in a boiler room and almost get yourself killed.

* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'': As much of a {{Tearjerker}} Nancy's death was, it should have been obvious to her that after her father was killed by the possessed skeleton of Freddy Krueger, having knowledge that Freddy has the [[DeadPersonImpersonation ability to impersonate her loved ones]] and that she's still dreaming, that it was a trap she practically waltzed right into. It also might have been obvious to know how easy it was to escape the hallway of mirrors, because you know how much Freddy loves to manipulate his victims.

* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': Uh....let's just say harming Simon was a ''suicidal idea'' on the Reaver's end. [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend River doesn't take too well too this, and hands ass to them.]]

* ''Film/Serenity'': Uh....let's just say harming Simon was a ''suicidal idea'' on the Reaver's end. [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend River doesn't take too well too this, and hands ass to them.]]

* ''Serenity'': Uh....let's just say harming Simon was a ''suicidal idea'' on the Reaver's end. [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend River doesn't take too well too this, and hands ass to them.]]

* ''Film/Serenity'': Uh....let's just say harming Simon was a ''suicidal idea'' on the Reaver's end. [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend River doesn't take too well too this, and hands ass to them.]]

* ''Film/Serenity'': Uh....let's just say harming Simon was a ''suicidal idea'' on the Reaver's end. [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend River doesn't take too well too this, and hands ass to them.]]

* The ''Film/Horrible Bosses'' films: All three of the protagonists, but especially Dale and Kurt. Each of them makes at least two stupid mistakes in the first film; in the second movie, this is downplayed by Nick, but still played ''very'' straight by Dale and Kurt.

** Then came the movie ''Pet Sematary Two'' (yes, there was a second movie), which was more of the same, but with most roles reversed either gender-wise or species-wise, plus a much higher body count, reanimated or not and a MUCH higher "creepy" factor in that the plot dared to bring up the utterly stay-up-all-night-thinking-about-it scientific side of the undead people/animals, courtesy of Dr. Chase Matthews the veterinarian: first the kids Jeff and Drew buried Zowie the dog after he was shotgunned by Drew's abusive stepfather Gus, and upon Zowie's return didn't really feel like there was anything wrong when the dog acted nasty -- Zowie was probably just irritable from being away from home for a bit. More burials took place, including Gus himself and Jeff's actress mother Renee, who is taken from her grave much like Gage in the first book/movie. Interestingly, the undead Gus even does some of the burying, effectively enlisting Clyde the bully (who he killed while undead) as his henchman.

* Toward the end of ''RedDawn1984'', the Wolverines are watching as a convoy full of food conveniently drops some right near where they are. They're hungry, they grab the food...and then they ''sit around in the open eating,'' despite being tops on the Soviets' "Better Dead" list. Cue helicopters... Fifteen minutes could have had them and the food safely hidden and invisible to anybody in the sky, but did they care?

And when another Kaiju is shown to have a very corrosive acid, and '''[[GameBreakingPower WINGS]]''', it's essentially proven that the walls are not only useless, but a complete waste of time to build. Consider how many Jaegers could have been built with the resources and labour taken to wall the entire coastline of the Pacific Ocean. Then consider that even if they couldn't go through it, they could go around, being shown to be entirely capable of moving on land even early on. And the complete lack of any [[{{BFG}} active defences]] which allowed Mutavore nearly an hour of whaling on the Sydney wall to get through.

* Frollo of Disney's ''[[Disney/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame}} The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', while cunning, acts on this trope, as he climbs up the gargoyle, considering he is stood up straight on the over-hanging gargoyle, with no support, all the while his body weight causing the gargoyle to crack.

** Katniss, safely hidden in a tree, watches a Tribute learn a cardinal rule about stealth in hostile territory the hard way: under no circumstances do you ''make a camp fire'': [[EpicFail you'll be too easy for the enemy to spot]].

** Hundreds of people are sheltering in the public library, and decide that rather than listening to the son of the smartest climatologist in the country (who just had an extended conversation with his father), they're going to go and do the exact opposite. They all freeze to death. Had they bothered listening, they would've been uncomfortable, but they would've survived.

** All the criminals, and arguably most of the citizens. The titular superhero Hancock is a JerkAss FlyingBrick who can and will use his powers to frighten, humiliate, or possibly mutilate anyone who remotely displeases him. He's also [[NighInvulnerability immune to harm]]. Despite this everyone save Ray, the main character and the only one with any common sense either insult him, try to provoke him, or [[ShootingSuperman shoot him]]; despite the fact it should be obvious he will cause them [[DisproportionateRetribution serious harm in return]].

* From ''Film/JudgeDredd,'' the rookie Street Judge that dies in the beginning. Isn't one part of police training to not run off alone into an unsecured building? In his first attempt to [[LeeroyJenkins run blindly into combat]], he actually cites a training exercise at the academy as giving him grounds to do so, before Hershey admonishes, "This is NOT a training exercise." Later on, after watching Dredd clear out a room of perps, he walks up to a room filled with enemies, loudly declares [[SuicidalOverconfidence "These guys are mine!"]], kicks the door in and is filled with bullets almost instantly. Being TooDumbToLive is apparently a trend amongst rookie judges, as the guy died a week into his job and Dredd notes that most rookies ast about four days.

* All of the artists and Alexander from " Film/MurderParty ".

* All of the artists and Alexander from "Film/MurderParty".

* All of the artists and Alexander from "Film/MurderParty". [[spoilers: Especially Sky and Macon. While Macon did not kill himself when he set his mask on fire trying to smoke through it. Not smart trying to smoke in a highly flammable rubber mask. And Sky for not paying attention where she fell. She probably wasn't allergic to inorganic raisins either. Paul and Lexi managed to avoid getting killed by their own stupidity, but that did not save them from dying either. Alexander didn't need to take the sodium pentathol and give away the fact that he was planning to kill them all. Also, he should have not have brought his dog around all of those stimulants in the first place. Zycho was also not killed by stupidity, but killed none the less, and the same with Bill.]]

* [[BigBad Rene Belloq]] in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArc''. One would think that before "testing" something like the Arc of the Covenant, he would have actually done some ''research'' on it, and ''Literature/TheBible'' clearly says (Samuel 6:19, King James version), ''And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.'' Indy apparently knew about this passage, and tells Marion to close her eyes and not open them under any condition, but Belloq foolishly looks in it, and well, what happens to him and the Nazis is ''not'' pretty.

* In the English cop movie Blitz, there is a particularly simple individual by the name of Radnor who fancies himself as a police informant after realizing that a guy who boasts of shooting a police dog 'for practice' is now killing police officers. Lacking the evidence needed to convince the police, he starts his own investigation. His idea of inconspicuous clothing while observing the killer's residence amounts to a purple, green & white jump suit. When he discovers the car in which the killer is hiding weapons & trophies, he breaks into it and ''personally handles'' the murder weapon before putting it back. The police aren't interested in his evidence (not at the 50,000 pound asking price) so he goes to a member of the press who is not much smarter. When he shows the journalist the car, the killer observes them. They retire to a pub to 'talk business' & when the journalist produces the 50 grand in an envelope, Radnor insists it is not 50 grand, and goes into the toilets to count it. Guess who followed them to the pub? Radnor is in the toilets counting, when the killer breezes past him, perhaps to check the latter stalls for potential witnesses. Does he take this opportunity to run for the door or scream for help? No, he just becomes terrified and starts pleading with the killer that "I haven't told him your name yet". He meets his end in a toilet bowel.
** Particularly glaring about this part is that they're in a public pub that has at least a dozen people in it at the time. Added to this is the simple fact that the killer is not some huge, muscular badass, and the door to the witness-filled pub is only a dozen steps away and definitely not soundproof. If Radnor had done ''anything'' besides be reduced to a whimpering simp by a man who weighs less than he does, he would have been able to alert everyone else and might have not only survived but caught the killer and been a hero.
** The killer has his own TDTL moment at the end of the film. Trying to kill the officer leading the investigation, he follows him to a parking station while wearing a police uniform he stole from one of his victims, but instead he is ambushed by the officer and his 'buddy' cop. He gets a thorough beating then laughingly claims he is going to sue them for all they are worth. Then one officer points out they have in their possession his gun, which has previously been used to shoot at ''people in uniform''. Guess what happens?