We understand why these absurd overreactions happen. We really do. But that doesn't mean we can't make fun of the most ridiculous ones, like ...

If you write down every single action a movie character performs as part of the central plot of a film, you could probably add "... for no fucking reason" at the end of like 90 percent of them. As we've shown you before , sometimes characters will make completely illogical decisions that just don't make a lot of sense for anyone but the screenwriter who's trying to figure out how to get to the next scene.

5 Die Hard 2 -- John McClane Opens Fire on a Police Captain to Win an Argument

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In Die Hard 2, terrorists are holding Dulles International Airport hostage, and it's John McClane's job to kill them with explosions. Late in the film we find out that some of the characters aren't who we thought they were, because the first Die Hard movie had a clever plot twist and now all the others have to pretend they do, too.



"How do we top Alan Rickman? Butts."

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This time, the anti-terrorist military unit sent to stop the bad guys turns out to be made up of more bad guys -- the machine guns they had used to shoot each other were filled with blanks, to fool onlookers. McClane finds this out, storms into the airport police station and shows one of these incriminating guns to Captain Lorenzo (Dennis Franz) to secure his help.

The Overreaction:

And by "shows" we mean "fires the gun directly at him." In a room full of armed cops. On the day that terrorists took over the airport.



"Holy shit! Someone call the cops!"

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Yep, that should have been the end of the Die Hard franchise, right there. Sure, the gun was filled with blanks, but the cops around McClane didn't know that -- all they saw was some crazy guy shooting at their boss. If a single one of those cops had done their job (that is, placed a bullet on McClane's face), then who would have stopped the next four or so terrorist attacks/heists against America and Russia? Argyle the limo driver?