Stupid Contrived Survival Stories

[u/MammothPenguin69]

1. 12 Feet Deep - Two idiots decide they absolutely positively MUST go swimming in a pool after it's closed. An incredibly contrived sequence of events happens so they get stuck in a pool. So the movie can happen.

2. Frozen (not that one) - Three idiots decide they absolutely positively MUST get on a ski-lift after it's closed. To the point of bribing the operator who for some stupid reason doesn't say anything. Do the movie can happen. Also, Wolves are not that aggressive. They are typically shy and avoid humans.

3. 47 Meters Down- Arguably the most believable scenario on this list. It's still really stupid.

4. Fall- Two idiots decide to climb an abandoned radio tower without proper equipment that would make escaping their predicament trivially easy. Stop me if you've heard this one before

so the movie can happen.

[u/UnlamentedLord]

Nah, real life is dumber:

Guy watched 127 hours, decides to go check out the location alone without telling anyone, falls and breaks his leg, has to spend days crawling in the desert to seek help: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/utah-man-crawls-across-desert-after-breaking-leg-2308334.php

Guy decides to parachute onto the devil's tower as a publicity stunt, his plan to get back down is for a rope dropped out of an airplane to land on devils tower so he could use it to get down, rope misses, he spends a week on top having supplies air dropped to him(apparently it was a very special rope that couldn't be arranged quickly enough to try dropping him another rope) until a rescue could be organized:  https://www.nps.gov/deto/learn/historyculture/first-fifty-years-george-hopkins.htm

[u/_ButterCookie → u/UnlamentedLord]

if i saw “his escape plan was a rope dropped from a plane” in a movie i’d owe the writers an apology

[u/freakers → u/_ButterCookie]

OMG, they dropped the snakes instead of the rope!

aaaand...scene.

[u/Uraisamu → u/freakers]

But at least they got the snakes off of that plane finally.