Dumb Things Everyone Just Ignored In These 2017 Movies

Were the movie written logically, Spider-Man: Homecoming's ferry scene would never have happened, and Peter wouldn't have gotten his suit taken away. In reality, both of those unfortunate events only occurred because genius tech inventor Tony Stark wasn't smart enough to send a quick reply to his protégé.

To elaborate, let's go back to the awkward argument between Iron Man and Spidey. Peter says "None of this would've happened if you'd just listened to me," to which Tony responds "I did listen, kid. Who do you think called the FBI?" Well, jeez, Tony, wouldn't that have been a nice thing to have mentioned to Peter beforehand? Honestly, young Peter Parker wasn't acting insubordinate and churlish when he boarded that ferry. He was simply doing his heroic duty because he thought no one else was going to. After all, with great power comes great responsibility (not that the movie ever mentions this).

All of the movie's troubles following the ferry scene, from Peter being stuck with his janky old suit to having to fight the Vulture solo, are a direct result of Tony's inability to respond to messages in a timely manner. A simple "Yeah, kid, I got your message, and the FBI are en route, so sit this one out" would've saved everyone a lot of headaches. Unfortunately, the world's most notoriously irresponsible billionaire playboy philanthropist just couldn't be arsed to do such a simple task.

Toward the final third of John Wick: Chapter 2, John breaks some rules and scores a seven-million-dollar bounty on his head. Thanks to this bounty, all of the assassins in New York City (of which there happen to be a preposterous amount) rear their heads and try to take a stab at killing Wick. He kills them all.

What doesn't make sense here is that in the previous movie, there was a two-million-dollar bounty on Wick's head and not one random assassin perked up at the offer. Similarly, when the offer got doubled to four-million, only one ultra-desperate assassin tried to take on Wick (and lost). This lack of challenge stems from the fact that Wick's got a reputation for being the Baba Yaga, otherwise known as any foe's worst nightmare.

Therefore, Chapter 2's dumb moment comes from the fact that no assassin was willing to challenge Wick for two million, only one was willing to try for four, yet everyone and their grandmother gave it a shot for seven million. A three-to-five-million dollar bounty increase is not enough of a payday bump to warrant suicide by fighting the man who single-handedly dismantled the Russian mob in the last movie. It just doesn't add up.

For such a great movie, War for the Planet of the Apes sure stumbles harshly when detailing how the apes managed to outmaneuver man at the film's climax: From within the confines of a maximum security penitentiary that has guards patrolling 24/7, a hundred or so apes are able to sneak away via a convenient hole in the dirt floor of their cell. Not one guard notices the rapid depopulation of said cell. And, as if that weren't preposterous enough, the movie then sends all the young chimps (who were held in a separate area) monkey-barring across electrical wires, right above guards' heads. Not one guard's peripheral vision detects the massive silhouettes created by this simian conga line?

Even though all of this happens at night, an entire internment camp's worth of chimps aren't just going to slink away within a few hours and manage said feat completely unnoticed. Even with talking apes, it became hard to suspend disbelief here.

Just like Wonder Woman, Justice League is riddled with dumb moments, the likes of which were overlooked in favor of discussing CGI mustaches and directorial drama. However, just because virtually no one talked about these flawed moments, doesn't mean they weren't there. 

At the very end of Justice League, we see Superman has revived his Clark Kent alter-ego now that he's back from the dead. While returning from the grave might not be a big deal for Kal-El, the human side of the equation begs to differ: How can Kent just magically come back to life after his (very public) funeral? He worked for the Daily Planet, for crying out loud. We're expected to believe none of his coworkers (many of whom are investigative journalists) either heard about his death or aren't disturbed by the fact that he's magically alive again (and during the exact same window of time that Superman chose to resurface yet)?

While we have to assume the revival of Clark Kent happened solely so that Supes could do the classic "tear off the shirt to reveal the Superman logo" gimmick at the end of the film, that cute little Easter egg completely obliterates the last thread of logic Justice League was clinging to.

While this dumb thing didn't have much impact on Skull Island's plot as a whole (as virtually none of the dumb moments in this movie did), it still stands as a great piece of evidence when trying to determine how much thought went into the execution of this film's plot.

Here's the scoop: A team of researchers and a few military personnel are tasked with infiltrating Skull Island, which is surrounded by a permanent storm (that, in and of itself, is scientifically impossible and illogical). To pass through this natural hazard, they bring a massive destroyer ship ... and then abandon it in favor of a few open-doored helicopters. Yes, they fly through a deadly thunderstorm in a couple of tin cans instead of using their massive, ultra-armored boat. Sure, there might've been some sharp rocks near the shore, but a slightly torn-up warship is still leaps and bounds safer than some dainty, door-less helicopters going up against hurricane winds.

At the film's outset, super-soldier cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi is created to do the bidding of the sinister Hanka Robotics corporation. When she stops following orders, Hanka Robotics demands she be shut down and replaced. To accomplish this, the company's goons trap Major Kusanagi in a Hanka deactivation facility. Said facility is insinuated to be a maximum security fortress, hence why the company feels confident they can terminate their most volatile and dangerous employees/products (like Major) there.

Well, as it turns out, the facility isn't very secure at all. All it takes for Major to bust out of there is a light scuffle with a few guards and then some lazily written off-screen action, which culminates in her driving off into the figurative sunset atop a stolen motorcycle. It's nonsense. 

First of all, Major could barely handle a few guys with tasers earlier in the movie, yet at this point she's somehow equipped to take on an entire max-security stronghold by herself? Had the movie played by its own rules, she would've been killed before she escaped from her deactivation bed. And the building itself would have been thick with defense capabilities. This whole set piece, and the sequence within it, seems rather poorly thought out.

The latter half of Logan is all about Logan's journey to Eden, a safe haven right along the border of the United States and Canada. Logan's acting as an escort to Laura, a young girl who needs to cross the border in order to escape the Reavers, a nefarious group hellbent on killing young mutants such as herself. However, Logan never explains why Canada is the answer. Why can't the Reavers just follow Laura across the border? What's stopping them? Are they allergic to maple syrup? That'd be more of an explanation than the movie provides.

Everything to do with Eden is flawed, from a writing standpoint. First of all, the "super-safe," "super-secret" Eden's coordinates are shared via an X-Men comic (so meta). The Reavers are privy to all kinds of government and mutant secrets, yet they can't crack a code ripped directly from a comic book that's being haphazardly circulated by a bunch of children (such as Laura) and their caretakers (such as Logan and Laura's previous guardian) via notes, speech and long-distance communications? The hyper-dangerous Reavers can't intercept those coordinates? And, back on the topic of Canada, even though some fans theorize Canada's safer than the U.S. in Logan's universe because it directly protects mutant citizens, even if that theory were true, what's some sparse government protection going to do against the Reavers? They have a small army, for crying out loud.

Simply put, Logan's Eden endgame isn't terribly well thought out.

In continuing every sci-fi horror movie's trend of sending the least qualified people out for extremely dangerous jobs, Alien: Covenant stars a team of colonists who aren't wise enough to wear helmets while traipsing around on an uncharted planet. Again, these are colonists, individuals whose job it is to explore new regions and set up safe settlements for their people. These same folks, who clearly know a thing or two about exploring the unknown, don't have the wits about them to put on helmets before exploring a mysterious planet that showed multiple signs of being sketchy before they'd even landed on it.

As you might've guessed, this lack of helmets results in all kinds of bad stuff going down. Facehuggers launch out of alien eggs to give those bare-faced colonists a smooch, airborne toxins fly around and slip into people's ears, you name it. These sorts of events are what end up dooming everyone in Covenant, and it all could've been avoided if they'd put something on their darn heads before going on their adventure.