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/Lukostrelec17]

....Yeah....they should be dead....very very dead.

[u/Snoo10140 → u/Lukostrelec17]

A whale's throat's not even large enough to swallow a human 🥲

[u/butyourenice → u/Snoo10140]

That’s actually accounted for in the book. He gets stuck between the mouth and gullet, and the concern is that he’ll run out of air (he’s a scuba diver and has a tank) as the whale descends to, uh, its normal roaming depth. Interestingly there wasn’t much discussion of water pressure and being crushed if he managed to escape at depth, even though the chapters are labeled by remaining psi in the tank and the final escape is executed taking advantage of the pressurized air canister.

It is dumb, though.

[u/Niktwazny10 → u/butyourenice]

We all know that the only way to escape from a whale is repentence and not all of that other nonsense.

[u/YuKi11e → u/Niktwazny10]

A pepper shaker works as well