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Hit 50 bad movies with my crew and the pattern we found is wild
Our group in Austin finally watched our 50th 'so bad it's good' flick last weekend, and it was 'The Room' for the third time. The real shock was that 32 of those 50 movies had the exact same plot hole: a character suddenly knowing something they were never told. It makes picking the next one a fun game of spotting the nonsense. What's the most common bad movie trope you guys keep seeing?
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fiona98514h ago
Honestly, that plot hole thing is so real. My friends and I do a bad movie night too, and we started keeping a tally sheet for dumb stuff. The winner for us is the "magic phone call." You know, when someone calls and just instantly knows exactly where the main character is, even if they're in a random warehouse they never mentioned. It happens way more than you'd think. We've seen it in like 15 different movies now, and it never gets less funny. Makes you wonder if the script writers just forget people need to actually share information.
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xenaf5114h ago
Oh, the magic phone call is a classic. It's like they all share one brain cell. My personal favorite is when the car won't start at the worst possible time. Running from a monster? Car is dead. Trying to escape a bad guy? Just clicks. It's in every single low budget horror movie. You'd think people in scary towns would get their batteries checked.
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