Top 10 Smartest Decisions In Action Movies
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Top 10 Smartest Decisions In Action Movies
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Fighting can only get action heroes so far, sometimes they need to outsmart the bad guys! WatchMojo presents the Top 10 Smartest Decisions in Action Films! But what will take the top spot on our list? Tricking the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, fighting the Xenomorph Queen with a powerloader in Aliens, or heading back to the Citadel in Mad Max: Fury Road? Watch to find out!
#10. Attaching the Explosive Charge to the Villain
#9. Placing Weapons in the Escape Route
#8. Counting Down the Pen Grenade
#7. Closing Their Eyes When the Ark Is Opened
#6. Taping a Gun to His Back
#5. Using Mud as Camouflage
#4. Capturing the Bus Cam for a ReRun
#3, #2, #1?
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Top 10 Japanese monsters
I loved Janelle from t2
More of smartest choices plz
WatchMojo.com the Arnold Schwarzenegger (Predator war cry) scene sparked and idea - top 10 most Alpha (or badass) scenes in action movies
I'm 12
James Bond is 1 of the smartest heroes 2 have ever lived.
How the hell do you tape a gun the your back ?? Is he double jointed or something? It's impossible
Dressed up as stormtroopers and say I can't see a thing in this helmet.
Number 1:
The T-1000 inadvertently revealed that it had tried to reacquire John at home, Instead of immediately attack Sarah.
It revealed it's current location and that Sarah was still alive.
Iron Man.... Tony Stark using the "Icing Problem" to immobilize Obadiah.... Smartest move ever made in the MCU.
Why is calling a dog the wrong name smart?
John picked up on the Dogs being upset about something, so suspected foul play. The T-800 takes the phone then gives the T-1000 the wrong information in order to expose it.
It exposed the T-1000's exact current location and exposed him as having killed Janelle & Todd already(John was considering going back for his things). It crucially revealed he had yet to pay Sarah Connor a visit in the Mental ward. The T-800 had most likely expected the T-1000 to have gone straight after Sarah instead as she was it's second major target. But this revealed it had instead tried to immediately reacquire John, believing he might go home to get his stuff.
John's next move therefore was to go save his mom who he and the T-800 now knew was still alive.
Indie is obviously well read to tie the ark of the covenant with god smiting the people of Israel (saul's army) when they disobeyed. As the smiting bit is mentioned in the bible and the ark being escorted by angels to earth at the time of saul's appointment as king is mentioned in the Quran.
Reserving the time to reload your gun every once in a while and not telling 'why you did it' to person you're about to kill get you pretty far. Partaking target practice as the villain's minion helps a lot as well.
Equilibrium changing personalized handguns
Am I the only person that saw a connection between aliens and T2 through not so obvious Janelle Goldstein? Just needed Titanic for good measure!
It's Jenette, not Janelle. That was the character's name. And also check out Near Dark, the great vampire movie that took 3 of the cast members from Aliens to make movie gold a year later. Diamondback is just as badass as Vasquez in her own way.
John Wick is immortal
9:35 That's Gregory from the Hilltop in Walking Dead.
In Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark when the government agents show up at the university, Indy takes a large tome."Good God..." "Yes, that's what Hebrews thought too...". In the artwork that shows the rays "What is that coming out of the ark. "Truth, the power of God, who knows..." it can be noticed the the ark bearers are in fact wearing blindfolds...
7:08 is one of the great movie quotes of all time. Kids these days who want a strong female protagonist need to watch the first two Alien movies, and the first two Terminator movies.
What about a scene were Robocop gets into a hostage situation he fires his gun through a woman's dress into the bad guy. Now that's smart.
Die Hard 2: John McLane is losing a fight on the wing of an airplane full of terrorists, who are trying to take off. He delays the takeoff by disabling the same wing with his coat. Meanwhile, his wife Holly is on one of the many planes circling the airport with no means to land and the planes are running low on fuel. McLane manages to open the fuel access on the terrorists' escape plane just before getting kicked off the wing, then he lights the stream of fuel, destroying the plane full of terrorists in mid-air *and* creating an instant runway light for the circling passenger planes to land. But, no, Die Hard 1 & 2 are *not* a Christmas movies, because the plots could have taken place at any time of the year.
I wanna say the mud in predator isn’t that smart but more like obvious after him getting lucky
Directive 4 on Robocop. Removed Robocops “superhuman” strength and reduced him to ensuring he had absolute proof to capture his criminals. And what about that “Dick, Your FIRED!!!”, “Thank you” boom boom boom.
Smartest decision was when Rorschach mailed his journal to the press before confronting Ozymandias in The Watchmen. Also, if you haven't seen The Watchmen, that is a poor decision.
John Wick From Fortnite yay!!! 2:25
Danny going back through his tracks to fool his dad in The Shining.
#5 should've been #1.
Jontron: Clock Tower
Jon Uses Ham To Kill Scissorman
Ripley is the best and her one liner unbeatable
It has a special internet browsing history in the ark
T-800: Your foster parents are dead
John: Like I ever gave a shit about them...
Goldeneye is still my favorite BOND movie
How about taping a gun to the toilet and coming out shooting ?
Aw... you didn't show what the T-1000 did to the foster father. I mean, there must have been milk everywhere!
#3...BADASS!!!!
sexy female characters in horror movies will most likely die
•they trip over air
•there boobs weight them down (it’s true)
•they scream about everything which would lead the killer to them
•they always try to flirt with the killer
•THEY ALWAYS RUN UPSTAIRS
Ian nearly died, but at least the kids were safe.
"Get away from her you b***h!"
Smartest decision switching to Geico before high adrenaline high speed chase with explosions and gunfire.... Saved so much money!
so starlord is in both smarterst and dumbest decisions in movies... one is honorable mention, the other should be the first one tho..
My favorite is “Dick... you’re FIRED!!” (RoboCop, 1987)
How about killing the son in the Mist? Turned out the crazy cult lady was right.
I actually clicked on this video to check if they included that ship ramming from The Last Jedi cause if they did, *May They Have Mercy* :/
There's supposedly a deleted scene in Empire Strikes back where the rebels are retreating from Hoth, one of the rebels rips a do not open sticker off of a door. A storm trooper opens the door and is grabbed by a Tampa. Another storm trooper shuts the door and hears the first one being eaten.
Safe - the girl's decision to shoot the bad guy instead of letting Statham fight him.
Alien: "Dang, Ripley in her yellow mech suit!! Im foiled, foiled I tell you!!...oh woe is meeeee!!"
Probably not entirely high on the list, but in Star Trek: First Contact, Worf repairs his ripped space suit using a cable from a borg drone while fighting on the outside of the Enterprise's hull.
JC4? Really? Well .. bad for you :)
#1 lists are subjective
#2 this list sucks
#3 Indiana Jones and the last crusade Holy Grail?
#4 Star wars use the force luke?
#5 Jurrasic park, Stand still, it can't see you.
#6 The Godfather eleminate dirty cop
#7 Ben Hur chariot race
#8 The sandlot - kid faking drowning
lists suck dude, move on
Bogus. T-Rex had binocular vision even better than an eagle's.
More honorable mentions:
- check the pulse (pacific rim)
- keep an extra memory of jarvis (avengers: age of ultron)
- drop the fuse out of the boat (batman: the dark knight)
- keep secret about your evil plan (watchmen)
Sorry my english
8:32 in that case i think the villain that was really dumb
8:42 dammed malcom, i would replace that with the kitchen scene
9:12 oh yeah
You could say tho that the dumbest decision was Indy wasting his time with the Nazi's at all since they would have died anyway
Always think twice before act i always say!
Predator is a horror film.
edit: alien too.
Nice
Nice
I think number 1 is indiana Jones just shooting the guy with the sword
You talk as if these characters are real ...thank the screen writers .
As much as I love Predator, I don't consider using mud as camouflage a smarter than avarage decision, since Arni discovered it's effect accidently.
[SPOILER] Bruce Willis in the Death Wish remake worked it out so he could legitimately kill the bad guys in the end. He purchased guns legally and waited for the bad guys to break into his home before finishing them off. It was legit home defence in the eyes of the law.
*Always shoot twice*
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The smartest decision is when PFC Jenette Vasquez becomes John Connor's foster mother.
Thought it was cool that James Cameron, John Mctiernan, and Martian Campbell each had 2 of their movies on this list
#1 is clever. I forgot about that.
"Get away from her you B*TCH!"
Chew on that Rey! That is what a female lead role is all about.
This video should be all the times when the hero actually kills the villain.
4:04
Let's go beit shemesh;-);-);-);-);-)
4:37 - John Cena or Thomas Haden Church, Please Let Me know
Olvidate de esas baleadas!
*Your Foster Parents is dead*
Seriously try it with your parents ask about the dog with the wrong name! If they agree with you with the wrong name don't go home is T-1000
Anyone else think of Fortnite when they said john wick?
*24/7 the thunder will roll*
Actually, he had a 50/50 chance of it going boom or not. Best to play the safe side.
Too bad Ripley wasn't smart enough to think to check the motion sensors before leaving the dropship and re-entering the main hold aboard the Sulaco. Observation courtesy of how It Should have Happened.
I wish It had Hannibal Lecters escape
Is no one gonna mention that in infinity war tony observed everyone's power and came up with a plan on how to defeat Thanos...
I saw a movie once where instead of fighting the ghost the hero ran away to get the police and stood outside and let the cops do their job , in my opinion that was the smartest move ever
Eddie Murphy: "Wow, baby, this is beautiful. We got a chandelier hanging up here, kids outside playing, it's a beautiful neighborhood, I really love-this is beaut-"
Eddie with demonic voice: "Get out!"
Eddie: "Too bad we can't stay."
@Anubhav Sinhq Actually, the smartest thing possible for him to do would have just been to run away and put the whole thing out of his mind since he wasn't one of the people the monster was going after. The only reason it attacked him at all was just because he was in the house where it was all going on.
@General Coma yup the police failed but he was alive at the end of it, and that was because of his decision to flee and go the police station and bring the cops with him, so he did the smartest thing possible.
@Anubhav Sinhq Except if you remember, the cops failed horribly at stopping the monster. Plus, in reality the police never respond in time to actually help people,just to clean up the mess afterwards.
Remember: When you only have seconds to spare, the cops are just minutes away.
@nik 227 yup lights out.. haha I was laughing at that scene but then realised damn that man is smart.
The top 5 should've been...
1) Ripley (you might be a badass, but you will never be "Ellen Ripley fighting an alien horror in a mech-suit" badass)
2) Taken (there were ridiculous parts, but that was the best thing she could do, and props to her character for being able to do it)
3) T2 (really a classic move...but the movie was just so good anyway)
4) Predator (good awareness, good use of the environment)
5) Die Hard (never show your cards...)
Nuking the site from orbit was a good decision too.
Actually the Terminator screwed up. He should have played along and told the T-1000 that he (John Conner) would be home for dinner late that night. The T-1000 would have stayed at the house and John and the Terminator would have a head start to pick up Sarah Conner without interference.
No. The T-1000 would have figured out he was lied to pretty quickly no matter what they did.. What the T-800 did was just to allow John to check if Janelle and Tod were alive and to see if the T-1000 hadn't gone straight to Sarah first. Lucky for them he didn't.
T-1000 already knew the T-800 was already with John and was advising John what to do and say. His next move was to immediately check the Dog tag then immediately go to the Mental Hospital.
T-800 immediately hanging up was the right thing to do. The longer they were on the phone the greater the possibility the T-1000 figuring out their exact current location and direction either from distinctive background noise, phone ID(or calling the phone company for the location of last call), John slipping up or passersby.
@Marcos Nonato It's not really a deleted scene since it's in the Unrated Cut.
@Marcos Nonato He did that b/c the T-800 abruptly hung up on him.
There's a deleted scene where after, the T-1000 kills the dog and check its nametag. So..
It's also possible that the T1000 picked up on the fact that it was a Machine Imitating Johns voice and the T800 knew that if it wasn't Johns Mom that the T1000 would realize that. Hence him hanging up right after getting the T1000 to say the wrong name for the dog.
Bad Ass idea! Loved it!
The smartest decision was in payback,when the bomb rigged to mel Gibson's house phone was used to kill the big bad in the end.
Honorable Mentions for the Top 10 Jojo fight comebacks.
Us arresting tekashi 69
@Rameerol Syarizal Done!
Take 'em away, Mr FBI Man
Epic
Choosing the katana in Pulp Fiction.
everyone knows that all of these pale in comparison to the smartest move ever!
"splitting up to cover more ground!"
You do more damage that way...
Speaking to Eywa for help before the battle - Avatar.
But Avatar is more Sci-Fi, anyway.
Jurassic Park is more of Sci-Fi.
Suck on that, Ellis.
You guys aren't trying very hard, are you.
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Have they done a Dumbest Decisions in Action Movies? Cause No. 1 might have to be chasing after the Predator in order to "have me some fun"
Now that I think about it, instead of T800 hanging up the phone, the smarter thing to do would have been to give the T1000 a fake location. Saying stuff like...
"You wouldn't believe me, but some guy tried to kill me, and another guy showed up and saved me. So now, we're heading to North to Canada. Not sure where though. I'll let you know when things cool down." Then hang up. This has the dual effect to send the T1000 the wrong way, (they were headed to Sarah's prison, which was in California), but vague enough to be realistic. At the same time, T1000 knows John is telling the truth, since T1000 is the one who chased him in the afternoon.
@Malky24 You have it wrong. T800 said that he would try to acquire John from his foster parent's house, not Sarah's prison. What's more, T1000 only searched for Sarah, because T800 hung up the phone in such way that T1000 knew he was made. If "John" made it sound genuine, then T1000 would have just killed the foster parents and searched somewhere in Canada (instead of staying in the States).
Consider this: John (from the future) never reconnected with Sarah. As far as the kid John was concerned, Sarah was some crazy woman, and he left her there for good. Both T800 and 1000 knew that. The only reason John even went to Sarah was because T800's existence proved that Sarah was telling the truth. The movie even indicates that.
The T1000 knew John would always return for his mother. Once it knew he wasn't coming back to his foster parent's home it was never going to go anywhere else but to Sarah Connor's prison, Arnie even says so in the movie. He knew what it was going to do because he was programmed the same way, it was just a case of getting to the prison before the T1000.
Hmm. Many of these "smartest decisions" was actually co-incidental. Specifically, Arnold discovering Predator unable to see through mud was purely co-incident (numerous science facts indicate that Infrared should be able to see through a thin layer of wet mud, and certainly dry mud -- and if the mud was too thick, it would crack if Arnold moved).
And fighting the alien queen with the power loader wasn't very smart, since it was a military ship, there should have been plenty of guns around. Hell, there were plenty of guns in the smaller ships. Having said that, Ripley coming out with her power loader and saying, "Get away from her, you bitch" was one of the most awesome and satisfying moments of cinema history.
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Days Of Thunder: Cole's fake out on Rowdy.
I'm surprise you didn't mention A Fistful of Dollars (1964) when Clint Eastwood's character the Man with No Name used A metal plate as Body Armor under his Sarape.
pervy sage also in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; when he tells Tuco the wrong grave and also gives him the unloaded gun in the duel
Keanu Reeves stole the idea from an classic Hon Kong acrion movie !
Jean Reno: Knock three times and enter...
*EPIC FACEPALM*
Did they really just call the "power loader" "cargo loader"... for crying out loud, WM...