The original post: /r/movies by /u/porcupineschool on 2024-04-29 19:28:47.

An Idiot Plot is a story where the entire thing would be resolved easily, or never even happen, if the characters were not idiots. There’s a pretty good Wikipedia page about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot_plot

But the page only contains two examples, a 1935 film called Top Hat, and a Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode.

There MUST be more and better examples of this. What are other movies where the whole plot would fall apart if the characters simply talked or reasoned like normal people?