Movies/media with retarded characters - A tiring cliche

[AN/ALR56]

You know the cliche I'm talking about, the only way a plot of event can happen is for the cast to somehow lost all their senses and do something incredibly retarded.

Prometheus, King Kong:Skull island, any cheapo terror movie with a teen cast, etc.

I can't watch them anymore, it completely removes any emotional attachment and the immersion is completely broken for me.
I instead start laughing, which is what I think it wasn't the real intention of the movie producers.

Spoiler

in King Kong's skull island, Samuel jackson's character (a spec ops Vietnam officer) decides to attack a 100 m tall monkey with all his choppers (and the only way out of the island) armed with the lightest of the lightest of weapons (its a science expedition for fucks sakes), naturally it ends with literally everyone (100 people+) and all the choppers destroyed while Samuel Jackson miraculously survives to have a autistic stare down with king long in the middle of a slow motion helicopter crash around him, I shut the movie off at this point.

Spoiler

Prometheus: you can travel across stars but you never learned it's a bad idea to touch alien shit without gloves or a spacesuit

I think recent movie successes like the Martian, interstellar, and Dunkirk have proven you don't need to force your characters to be temporarily insane to force a continuation of the plot or add a problem that the characters need to overcome.

 

[NIGGO KILLA]

In the film, Riding the Bus with my Sister we get a rare opportunity to see how Rosie O'Donald behaves in real life

its more of a documentary

 

[The Valeyard]

In Star Wars the Empire didn't shoot down the escape pod that had C-3PO and R2-D2 on board.

In Suicide Squad the U.S. government recruits a team of criminals, and a supernatural entity that betrays them.

 

[AnOminous]

I thought this was going to be about I Am Sam or movies with actual retards in them.

 

[Positron]

The Ghostbustesses.

I thought this was going to be about I Am Sam or movies with actual exceptional individuals in them.

Still The Ghostbustesses.

 

[Crisseh]

The Fred movie, how this dude became popular is the same demographic that loved Honey Boo Boo.

 

[AnOminous]

The Fred movie, how this dude became popular is the same demographic that loved Honey Boo Boo.

This guy was shit even on YouTube where he started. I have no idea what made anyone think this would be a good movie.

 

[AN/ALR56]

I'm not discussing mentally ill people who do acting work.

I meant characters that are supposed to have some semblance of intelligence or basic knowledge suddenly becoming retards.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Interstellar had some moments of incredible stupidity. Sure, let's check the planet closest to the black hole first, it's sure to harbor life sustaining conditions!

In Star Wars the Empire didn't shoot down the escape pod that had C-3PO and R2-D2 on board.

To be fair the Empire didn't know the escape pod had droids on board. They detected no life signals on the pod and assumed it was empty, an accidental launch in the chaos.

 

[The Valeyard]

To be fair the Empire didn't know the escape pod had droids on board. They detected no life signals on the pod and assumed it was empty, an accidental launch in the chaos.

I know, but knowing that droids are something that exists in-universe, it should have been destroyed as a precautionary measure.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

I know, but knowing that droids are something that exists in-universe, it should have been destroyed as a precautionary measure.

Spoiler: Autism

But at the same time droids are slaves. It's rare to see a droid acting independently or without a master nearby, so it probably didn't occur to the guy giving orders that two droids could be alone on that escape pod. I mean, we see an entire slave ship of droids on the planet. They're bigger than Jawas and probably outnumber them, so the droids could theoretically rebel and escape the slave ship, but they don't because they're programmed to be subservient.

R2D2 and possibly that bounty hunter droid we see in Empire are the only droids in the original trilogy capable of thinking for themselves so we can assume droids like them are an anomaly. Even when the Empire goes looking for the droids the first place they hit up is the slave ship. They assume a droid wouldn't be able to fend for itself out in the open and would have been picked up by slavers at the first opportunity.

I agree that it would have been a lot smarter for the commander to destroy the pod. "Better safe than sorry" and all that. Still, I don't think his decision was without reason.