What's your favorite Idiot Plot moment in the movies...? (***Kinda Spoiler***)
...mine is the exquisite scene at the end of Mission Impossible II. Tom Cruise is invading the lair of the Bad Guys, he's exhausted, beaten up, burned...just a mess. The Chief Bad Guy sends his #2 to go find Our Hero, and bring him to Chief Bad Guy. Only a minute or two later, there's #2, dragging in Tom and dumping him at the feet of the CBG. Whereupon the CBG taunts Our Hero, and then kills him. And then he realizes something is wrong, and slowly pulls off a Tom Cruise mask. And hey, presto--it isn't Our Hero who's dead, it's #2, the CBG's dearest buddy! And all the while, the real Tom Cruise has been wearing a mask of #2, and escapes while the CBG is realizing his mistake. Now, my question is: just where did those "masks" come from? We see him right before this sequence, and he's in battered clothes, exhausted, a wreck. And yet, in what can be at most 60 seconds, he finds material for not own but *two* masks, which have to be perfect in details, and somehow overcome #2, and get the damned things on both of their heads, and get it done so right that CBG doesn't suspect for a second. I might add that #2 is at least three inches taller than Tom is. I'm not sure I've ever seen a more exquisite piece of sheer gonzo lunacy than this. Anyone else have suggestions...?
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...talk about "idiot plots"...
You're not alone. I do it all the time with the two Jeffs. Bridges and Daniels. 
They're on motorcycles on sand dunes at the end. Cruise stomps his foot down in the sand, his gun jumps up 3 feet into his hand and he wants the bad guy. I lived on the beach for two years. Sand is comfortable, but it doesn't have the qualities of a trampoline. 
