*FUN FACT* When Mark Hamil says "I can't see a thing in these helmets!" It's actually an improv due to the Stormtrooper helmet props not having proper eyeholes!

@samkresil6011

5 жыл бұрын

So that WAS Mark Hamill actually saying that. He normally says ANYTHING.

@DrJekyll38

4 жыл бұрын

No wonder Stormtroopers could never hit anyone!

Star Trek II, Wrath of Khan. Using your opponent’s inexperience in 3D combat.

#1 Maintaining the High Ground

@nesrenutkan5213

6 жыл бұрын

Maki Roll :D :D :D :D Its over Anakin I have the high ground

@sunsteel_guardian5967

6 жыл бұрын

ITS OVER ANAKIN, I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND!

@m.bjacobsen8960

6 жыл бұрын

Did you ever hear the tragedy of dark Plagueis the wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic, he could save others from death, but not himself.

@themajesticspider-man6116

6 жыл бұрын

good gaming channel "You underestimate my power!" "Don't try it!" *Tries *Fails and gets limbs cut off lol

@dragoninthewest1

6 жыл бұрын

good gaming channel Darth Maul had The High Ground

#3 The mud camouflage wouldn't work for a thermal detector (visually it could work). Your body heat would just warm up the mud and would still be discernible with a thermal sensor.

@Myth-zd6ko

3 жыл бұрын

Looks cool though. And coolness grants "suspension of disbeliefs-points"

Here are some more: - Jurassic Park: Alan Grant utilizing the T-Rex's poor vision when it attacks the cars. - Aliens: Ripley using the cargo lifter to throw the alien queen out of the airlock. - Rogue One: Rebels temporarily disabling a star destroyer with ion torpedoes, then using it as a battering ram against another one. - Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket's prison escape plan. - Serenity: Firefly crew lures the Reaver fleet to clash with the Alliance fleet to keep both of their enemies busy. - Empire Strikes Back: Millennium Falcon hiding in plain sight, then using garbage to mask it's escape from the star destroyers. - The Incredibles (animated yes, but I think it still counts): Mr. Incredible uses the first robot's own strength against it. Later, a random henchman shows non-typical "henchman-smartness" when fighting against violet. She's invisible and hiding in water, so he quickly throws sand in the water to reveal her position. Characters also use imaginative ways to utilize their super powers on various occasions individually or together.

The T-800 shouldn't have hung up the phone immediately, he should have finished the conversation. By hanging up so suddenly the T-1000 realized he'd been tricked.

The fact you had to say "Basically everything" I think should move the martian to #1, but other than that I agree.

@williamdaliege1016

6 жыл бұрын

I did not see 'The Martian.' How did he grow food in sterile Martian soil?

@darkstar5081

6 жыл бұрын

Tomas Rojas you're right, I loved the Martian. It was my favourite movie of 2015 and he managed to survive on mars for like three years. I mean he grew potatoes with his own SHIT FOR GODS SAKE

@darkstar5081

6 жыл бұрын

William Daliege he mixed in his own shit to make it fertile. What he did was he mixed rehydrated faeces with Martian soil and hydrated it with hydrogen from the hydrazine in the MDV which he got by burning it. He hydrated the Martian soil and grew potatoes in it. I think that deserves number one. Edit: when getting the water, he ran the hydrazine through an iridium catalyst

@ManUtdVen

6 жыл бұрын

in the book he also had an earth soil sample he used to prime the martian soil

@VNEF

6 жыл бұрын

There are lots of things they throw away from book's logic to make it fit into movie. Samples of soil from Earth is one of them. Because bacterias' death was the reason he could not grow potatoes anymore after failure. Another example is the book's genius way he dealt with rover, that been replaced with images of him starving... meh.

Serenity - using their friends' bodies tied to the ship to fly unnoticed through Reaver territory

In predator, the mud was an accident, though. Keeping it on is just common sense at that point.

@lisaluk

4 жыл бұрын

Stefan Schultz also in my opinion, it doesn’t really belong on the list. In reality mud does not cover enough of you body temperature to disguise you. Mythbusters did an episode with heat sensor security measures and debunked mud as a useful method.

Stormtrooper disguise is badass, and practical.

What about the blood test from the thing

@mojok7070

6 жыл бұрын

Emio Good one

@batgurrl

6 жыл бұрын

Emio yes that's a good one

@Harrieta1337

6 жыл бұрын

too bad watch mojo sucks on star wars too much

@jakel7820

6 жыл бұрын

Perfect example of better decisions than the ones they picked.

@Rodan4777625350

6 жыл бұрын

Emio The thing is more a horror movie. I believe the must have a list already with smartest decisions in horror movies.

Options: edge of tomorrow when cage threw the bomb into the alpha when he only had one life then using the blood of the alien to revive him again. Minority report when anderton kidnapped one of the precogs to guide him to the hotel room because he knew the precog would known when the cops would make their next move. Also, when he got his eyes replaced so he could go through security undetected. Jurassic park when the girl made a reflection of herself to fool the velociraptor in the kitchen scene.

@stateofopportunity1286

5 жыл бұрын

I love when Anderton eats the rotten sandwich. Lol.

RoboCop "You're fired!"... a way to circumvent protoocols that forbidden Murphy from attacking his firm's top personnel...

I’m surprised that testing their blood with a flamethrower in The Thing was not at least in the top five let alone at all

@UteChewb

4 жыл бұрын

@@009skylab, The Thing is science fiction. The original story "Who Goes There?" is pure scifi and published as such, the Carpenter movie is a pretty faithful version of the story.

If you do a "Top 10 Dumbest Decisions in Sci-Fi Movies", numbers #3 to #1 would all go to "Alien: Covenant".

@daletownsblount5655

6 жыл бұрын

Magellan they do have one but it’s the original alien that’s on there

@Matkatamiba

6 жыл бұрын

What about the Prometheus School of running away from things?

@WaightZer

6 жыл бұрын

It will be promoted to university.

@JackPool-lq8ux

6 жыл бұрын

The entire list would be scenes in Michael Bay movies. Like TMNT, the Transformers movies, Battleship and everything in Armageddon.

@shibbi972

6 жыл бұрын

Top 1 dumbest decision in sci fi movie goes to Life

The Martian most definitely has to be on here

@adavidtoremember

6 жыл бұрын

Well considering The Martian is the thumbnail yeah it's a safe bet

Ripley's real genius is in not opening the pod bay doors in the first place. In Serenity using the Reavers as interference was pretty genius.

Interstellar, Saving Private Ryan, The Martian and the Bourne films - the US government has spent a buttload of money trying to find Matt Damon.

@catjudo1

5 жыл бұрын

There was an article a few years ago that gave a rough calculation of how much was fictionally spent to rescue Matt Damon from his movies. It came to over $900 BILLION US DOLLARS! And that's not even counting the upkeep of the zoo! Here, I found it for you... www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/it-would-cost-900bn-of-real-money-to-rescue-matt-damon-in-all-his-movies-a6789146.html

@abramsullivan7764

3 жыл бұрын

Saving Private Ryan is a war movie

Wow, wearing disguises? Right, Star Wars invented that. It's never been done before.

@Joe-hi1zw

6 жыл бұрын

John Startop Did anyone say it did? Cmon stop tryna point out mistakes.

@jakel7820

6 жыл бұрын

a guy he is saying it isnt a smart decision it is just a regular decision.

@mieroth

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that one made me facepalm.

@nicholsjoshua15

6 жыл бұрын

It's not about originality; it's about smart decisions.

@user-rr9ng9bo9l

6 жыл бұрын

in sci-fi movie?

Here's a good one: Using your Reflection to Fool a Raptor - Jurassic Park

@DrJekyll38

4 жыл бұрын

But did the kids plan that?

Ripley's courage facing the Alien: Hyperventilating and singing in near-panic while donning a space suit. My courage facing the Alien: Already dead from sheer terror, lying in a puddle of urine.

where is elizabeth shawn doing a caesarean on herself in prometheus?

@JT-gq8wv

5 жыл бұрын

Well said.

What about "Event Horizon", when the rescue ship crew views the recording of the horrors the EV crew suffered, their Captain had just two words to say "We're leaving". That line got cheers from the audience.

No 1. Killing his family in The Mist

@ninovalencia135

6 жыл бұрын

Pienimusta i thought The Mist was horror *then the army came* Me:You gotta be kidding me

@02844564

6 жыл бұрын

I Hated that ending so much. it was so stupid.

@sheldon9051

6 жыл бұрын

Pienimusta lmfaoo

@mojok7070

6 жыл бұрын

It was a slap in the face.

@shibbi972

6 жыл бұрын

that ending was epic a happy ending doesnt make a good movie

How dare you not even mention Star Trek! Spock sacrificing himself to save the ship, Kirk outsmarting Khan by hacking into his ship, Kirk winning the Koberashi Maru test. I could go on all day!

*"Its over Anakin, i have the high ground."*

So convenient those 2 stormtroopers had the same sizes as Luke and Han.

In Alien when they want to bring the Alien on the ship, Ripley says, "No." Very unusual and smart for a 'Horror' movie. :)

Maybe interstellar and the Martian are crossover films 😂😂😂

@JohnV2016

6 жыл бұрын

M u mean Matt Damon?

@iliketrains0pwned

6 жыл бұрын

Moral of the story: don't let Matt Damon join the Astronaut core.

@micah4029

6 жыл бұрын

The Syfy series "The Expanse" takes place in the same universe as "The Martian", just a few centuries removed.

@KiplingKat7

5 жыл бұрын

I saw Interstellar after The Martian, so Matt Damon was a shocking fake out in Interstellar for me.

@maxmusic5380

5 жыл бұрын

Kathiravan Ganesh No it’s produced by Alcon Entertainment (Warner Bros) and is based on the Expanse novels

*sees the Xenomorph jump-scaring Ripley* GOD, I hate those things. Why, yes I HAVE played Alien: Isolation.The Martian was nothing but one long sequence of how to do a smart Sci-Fi character right.

@DenverStarkey

6 жыл бұрын

yet even the martian was filled with science inacruacies just to make a movie. for example , the martian atmosphere is like 1-2% the density of earth's. no way in hell even a 700 mph martian wind storm would be able to blow over a rocket ship (but wind on mars never gets that fast because of the low pressure). pressure wise a martian windstorm doing 700 mph would feel like earths air moving at a slow 5mph. it wouldn't knock over an ant hill let alone a rocket ship.

@donlapham1265

5 жыл бұрын

Denver Starkey The author admitted that he knew this but had to roll with it, otherwise the story couldn’t happen.

I see what you did there watchmojo.com, you put Star Wars earlier in the list so I wouldn't think that Star Wars was number one. Star Wars is always number one with you guys. You got me.

I love rewatching The Martian and Interstellar the most

I'd thought the 10 best decisions would have come from "the martian"

Macready Testing the blood of every person in The Thing

At 0:08 “I have the high ground”

+Watchmojo+ I straight out LOVE it when intelligent and creative things are put into movies, especially in science-fiction movies! PS: Thanks for making this awesome video. :) 👍👍

The one thing that always bothered me about Alien is that ending. When it sneaks on the ship with Ripley does it decide to take a nap while she put on the suit and everything? Or was it just plot armor thinking it wasn't seen by Ripley? Why it didn't just attack her right away.

@notsampletext3740

6 жыл бұрын

While I agree it’s a gray area, the alien’s number one goal is survival at that point. If he hadn’t “napped” then Ripley wouldn’t have evacuated and thus they would’ve both died in the explosion. In my opinion, it works from this POV.

@Mark-qz8fu

6 жыл бұрын

The alien followed Ripley and her cat onto the shuttle because that’s what a predatory organism does when a herd of its prey migrates. It just follows casually with no rush. If you drop two mice into a snake’s cage, the snake might eat one, but will always save the other till later, not even looking at it as long as it doesn't get hungry again because the mouse simply doesn't mean a threat to the snake. I think the alien was simply resting, saving Ripley and her cat for later, biding its time until another herd of human food comes along, from wherever herds of humans come from in this little metal universe. Then the alien got gassed, and it decided (correctly) Ripley probably had something to do with it and identified her as a possible threat.

@boom0451

6 жыл бұрын

Márk Mezei Shout out to muthafucking Jones 🐱

@jarink1

6 жыл бұрын

Because if it did attack right away, they wouldn't have gotten those shots of Sigourney Weaver in her panties. Young boys will forever be grateful for the Alien taking that nap.

@keithrichards8526

6 жыл бұрын

Jim Rinkenberger It's iconic imagery. Space chicks in panties fighting deadly aliens. Sounds like a B movie plot. Definitely not complaining about them setting a trend of space underwear scenes.

#1 gets better if you know the whole story via the novelization. Galen basically trolled Krennic by being all "Hey, there's this problem with the Death Star where it'll overheat, so is it okay if we make a ventilation shaft" and kept bugging him about the specifics until Krennic got so annoyed that he went "Alright, do whatever will work. Just get it done. IDC anymore." Bureaucracy at its finest.

"The Martian" should be #1 for the very reason given: Basically Everything. Where the other movies mentioned made the list because of a single decision, Mark Watney had to make _multiple_ decisions throughout the movie to save is life. Essentially, the entire movie was one "smart decision" after another and for that reason deserves to be #1.

Congrats WatchMojo for 16m subscribe🎉 .Love u channel 😍

- Han Solo putting Luke in a Tauntaun to stay warm. - Han navigating through an Asteroid field to lose the fighter pilots. - Han sticking to a Star Destroyer to keep them off the Empire's radar. - Luke selling his land speeder to pay Han for a trip to Alderaan - Obi Wan taking the high ground ;) - Everything ever done by R2-D2 could have been used for the Star Wars place

Dave Bowman... Space Odyssey David Bowie... Space Oddity holy shit

Ripley blowing the Alien out of the god damn airlock was fairly smart. Ripley suiting up in the power loader in Aliens was ingenious.

OMG I understand the phone call now from T2!

@KT926

6 жыл бұрын

I didn't when I was young but now I'm grown up I do, if it really was Janelle she would have corrected him by saying "Don't you mean Max?"

Speaking to Eywa before the battle with the humans - Avatar and killing President Coin at President Snow`s execution - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2.

Alien will forever remain the movie that started it all in the sci-fi horror genre. That movie was absolutely horrifying when it first came out.

@kirkdarling4120

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, the movie Frankenstein started the sci-fi horror movie genre. And the novel started the sci-fi genre.

@Atratvs

5 жыл бұрын

That's true, but not proofing him wrong;)

Congratulations on 16 million👍

@ninovalencia135

6 жыл бұрын

Rezaul Huq you mean 16 million?

@4urezaul

6 жыл бұрын

Maki Roll :D :D :D :D yup, sorry😔

#10 - the soundtrack that accompanied this scene was amazing

This is less a list about smart decisions, and more about solving problems. How do you get Luke Skywalker to rescue the Princess? You have to get him to her. How do you do that? A disguise. Don't get me wrong- this is brilliant writing. I don't know what's so great about some of these other mentions. They aren't smart decisions. It's logical to the narrative.

Surprised Clint Eastwoods' Space cowboys wasn't on here.

the genius of the Death Star plot was that the weakness was neither subtle nor secret. Galen straight up told them what could happen but by the time he brought up the downside to having a vent he'd annoyed everyone with so much red tape and bureaucracy that Krennick said "Oh my god just do it if it means I stop getting CC'ed on a hundred damn R&D emails a day!" It's fucking genius

What about "I've come to bargain"

@Rodan4777625350

6 жыл бұрын

SmokeDimi It would had been smarter from dormmammu if he started to torture Strange without killing him.

@NickPiers

6 жыл бұрын

Not sci-fi.

@masterpenguin8472

6 жыл бұрын

Superhero films don't count.

@samkresil6011

5 жыл бұрын

Speaking to Eywa before the battle with the humans - Avatar and killing President Coin at President Snow`s execution - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2.

Thank you, watchmojo. :)

When the hero makes a switch and gives the bad guys something other than what they were expecting. Like Starlord giving Rondu a toy when Rondu thought he was getting an Infinity Stone. Snake Plissken in both Escape movies. You get the idea

"that doesn't smell like mud." "you don't smell like mud."

I love love LOVE The Martian. Its literally brilliant.

Its damn hard to believe that "2001 A Space Odyssey" came out in 1968, mind blowing. That's still today one the best space movies of all times.

@maxmusic5380

5 жыл бұрын

Ardent Dfender Yep made by a genius 🙌🏽

How do you not give Serenity an Honorable Mention for no sound in the vacuum of space (the only sounds being the concussions within the crafts)?

Inception is honestly the most trippiest movie I’ve ever seen

#1 Being the Senate

'and this is not incense' from Serenity, when Inara Serra replaced the candles in the church in advance by a flashbomb, knowing that her guard would loose a fight against an assassin. In this film they had to make several smart decisions because they crew of the serenity always had been outnumbered and outgunned.

I like INTERSTELLAR and the honorable mention of THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK and I love THE MARTIAN!

Interstellar best movie ever

@Benergi

6 жыл бұрын

Michael cornbread up to the final 25 mins it’s a 10/10 movie. Felt s but aimless and inconsistent imo - super smart movie until it starts talking about love transcending time and space

@BobSmith-dk8nw

6 жыл бұрын

Yes. The end is just stupid. .

I love all them in this list

7:18 talking about Alien but showing The Rouge One footage... nice

Doctor stranges Bargain scene was pretty genius

The empire: we created the most powerful weapon in the universe Also the empire: let's not review the weapon's schematics, recheck the plans, back up the data at off-site locations, have people examine the backed up data for vulnerabilities and fix them, or basically just have the rest of the imperial fleet surround the Death Star until the vulnerability is found or fixed or the rebels are destroyed.

Using mud as camouflage in Predator wasn't a decision...he discovered it accidentally when crawling out of the river. Also, his war cry is actually "Get to the choppaaa!"

The one thing I've never understood about 2001: A Space Odyssey is why the airlock door had a manual opener but the pod bay doors did not. Something happens that cuts power to the pod bay, say a rogue meteorite or something... Bowman and Poole would have to go through the airlock, open the pod bay doors from the inside, go back through the airlock, then pilot the pods back into the bay? That seems like a serious design oversight to me.

Holding your breath in space is not a good idea! Your lungs expand and explode... This is one of the first things a diver learns. :)

The one thing I (quietly) said in the theatre during The Martian was that he was so wasteful with his ketchup. Then.. He says, "...and I am officially out of ketchup."

Back to the future should have been either number one or two. Back to the future was genius because if they hadn’t remembered the lightning storm, Marty would have been stuck in 1955. The stakes were high since if they missed it, they would have to wait aimlessly for another lightning storm to show up, but they wouldn’t even know where the lightning would strike for it to hit the De’Lorean. Also, if everything Mark Warner did was the best decision, shouldn’t he be number one?

Rouge One is better than all the star wars movies except Empire.

"Edge of Tomorrow"- basically a sci-fi version of "Groundhog Day"

I love The Martian SO MUCH! It's an amazing survival story.

#7.5 not doing a DNA scan to check princesses identify, Vader knew Padme used doubles. "Um Lord Vader, you're not going to believe this......congratulations !"

Kudos for the Member Berries reference, not everyone will get that one.

it was nice to know the Death Star's weakness was deliberate. Even if the rest of the movie was predictable as hell.

@Blade-hf9po

6 жыл бұрын

Once I realized where in the timeline the movie was set, I knew everything that would happen. I knew the main characters would all die. I even knew the ending once Darth Vader showed up the 1st time. So yes, predictable as hell.

@bigdoubleu117

6 жыл бұрын

Rogue One didn't need to happen as it was quickly explained in Episode 4 in one sentence, that the plans were stolen here's this weakness let's go blow it up.

@kirkdarling4120

6 жыл бұрын

And we also know how WWII ended...yet there have been many quite entertaining movies about WWII, and nearly all of them have been since the war ended.

nice video

The Martian was an interesting movie. Forced isolation, save for essentially facebook messenger.

Let's get a R.I.P in the chat for Chewbacca

Congrats on 16 million subs

I don't think the mud trick in Predator would have worked. The thin layer of mud would have quickly come to thermal equilibrium with Arnold's body temperature, and radiated just as strongly in the infrared. Bummer. Still a great flick.

GOD I LOVE INCEPTION ❤️

4:25 Got to love '70s movies. How when someone gets shot they just fly anywhere but where they sould.

I'm a simple man, I see Interstellar and I click

@honeymaghuyop7856

6 жыл бұрын

Alejo Hergert Isn't the thumbnail, "The Martian"?

@Bleidwox

6 жыл бұрын

Honey Maghuyop I meant that i knew interstellar would be here, I just said it totally wrong. My mistake

@honeymaghuyop7856

6 жыл бұрын

Oh, okay haha... Fellow Interstellar fan here :)

@Bleidwox

6 жыл бұрын

I've literally shown it to every friend of mine, and everyone thanks me to date, it's starting to grow up as a religion

@honeymaghuyop7856

6 жыл бұрын

Same here! Everytime a friend asks for a sci fi movie recommendation, this is the first movie that comes to mind. They all loved it.

I'd say in Jurassic World, releasing the t.rex. "We need more teeth."

Well played.

Sam Rockwell's escape in Moon.

Interstellar

@darkknightbatman8269

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Venns inception

@usernamesarestupid5679

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Venns personally I thought interstellar was boring

@KissMeEureka

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think it was a smart decisions. But, it's necessary.

@vb2388

6 жыл бұрын

jacfim s personally I think Interstellar is one of the best scifi films ever made

@gaurimore1568

6 жыл бұрын

I second that statement!

The blood test from "The thing"? Not even an honorable mention?

Really giving Rogue One a lot of credit...

I agree with everything!!!

2:45 I think the T-1000 knew that it was talking to another machine.

I have an objection to #1, as Galen Urso isn't required to defeat the Death Star in A New Hope. If they didn't have the plans, they had an alternative. Just program a ship nav computer to lightspeed into the Death Star. Boom.

What about The Martian completely ripping off Red Planet... that was pretty smart.

filling plot holes never looked this smart rogue one

@ARCtrooperblueleader

6 жыл бұрын

Truly.

@Pookie2112

6 жыл бұрын

but rogue one is my favorite star wars because its an actual war film not space wizards

@floppydisksareop

6 жыл бұрын

blind asian guy running to huge switch in the middle of the battlefield while getting shot at, pulling the switch and almost making it back while an entire battalion is shooting at him? no space wizardry there...

@codypatton2859

5 жыл бұрын

@@floppydisksareop Exactly, they even outright tell you he's Force Sensitive in any explanatory material describing him.

@codypatton2859

5 жыл бұрын

@@Pookie2112 What you said is so wrong.

If there's ever another Top 10 of this topic, one of the picks should be "Gaining the high ground" from Revenge of the Sith.

I don't think Bowman's motives in 2001 were as described by this video. He was blown out of the pod because he had no means of depressurizing it other than, literally, blowing the door off. If he could have depressurized it he could have just lined up the doors, opened them and stepped from one vessel to the other. Either way, it worked.

0:13 Ah yes, the high ground. A very useful decision