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While many of my pet annoyances have already been mentioned, there is one that doesn't seem to have been given the light of day, the Idiot Plot as formally defined by Siskel & Ebert.
The Idiot Plot refers to plots where the action and suspense can't proceed unless the characters chose to make the one decision at each and every juncture that is the worst, only only bad, choice. If they, even once, made the better, often only intelligent, choice there would be no story.
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