Top 10 Times the Crazy Guy Was Right in Film
Top 10 Times the Crazy Guy Was Right in Film
Top 10 Times Actors Refused to Film Specific Movie Scenes
There was reason in their madness. Welcome to Watchmojo.com, and today we're counting down our picks for the Top 10 Times the Crazy Guy was Right in Film. For this list, we're looking at characters thought to be crazy, who actually have it right all along. Since this is often only shown in the endings of some movies, beware: spoilers ahead.
#10: Marty Mikalski
“The Cabin in the Woods” (2012) Marty’s paranoid muttering about mysterious “puppeteers” might seem like the ramblings of someone who just smoked way too much. But it turns out he was right on the money. So too was his warning against reciting an incantation found in the cellar - although to be fair, anyone could have told the characters that. The puppeteers in this case are men in suits and lab coats manipulating the mental states of Marty’s friends, and worse. Much worse. Surviving against all odds, Marty discovers that there's a lot more to the cabin than meets the eye.
#9: Detective Walenski
How Detective Pikachu Is Canon With The Anime
“Dark City” (1998) When Detective Eddie Walenski starts drawing spirals on the walls and saying his wife’s a Stranger, his colleagues think the pressures of the job have driven him mad. Things come to a head when he announces that there’s only one way out - and jumps in front of a train. As the others soon learn, he was more or less right: there is no real way out of the city, which is actually a space habitat where extraterrestrial parasites experiment on humans by manipulating their memories. Should have seen that one coming.
#8: Charlie Frost
Top 10 Crazy Charlie Sheen Moments
“2012” (2009) Yep, it wouldn’t be a Roland Emmerich movie without at least one crazy guy that was right. Most of the time, the diatribes of fringe-science conspiracy theorists living in the wilderness should probably be taken with a grain of salt. But wild-haired, fast-talking Charlie Frost is another story. On the talk radio show he runs from Yellowstone National Park, he claims that the Mayan Calendar predicts global disaster, and accuses the government of a massive cover-up. As the Earth’s crust crumbles, Frost perishes, but his prescient warning allows science fiction writer Jackson Curtis to save himself and his family.
#7: Randle McMurphy
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” (1975) Randle McMurphy thinks life in a mental hospital is going to be easy compared to the prison farm he came from. But he doesn’t anticipate Nurse Ratched. Ratched cows the other patients using passive-aggression, humiliation, and shock therapy. But McMurphy, who has only pretended to be crazy, quickly sees through her game. In the power struggle that ensues, the fun-loving and rebellious McMurphy shows the patients her true colors, and a little about themselves on the way, even inspiring one of them to ultimately escape.
#6: William Cage
Top 10 Plays By William Shakespeare
“Edge of Tomorrow” (2014) Imagine “Groundhog Day,” but with bloodthirsty alien invaders. That’s the situation that public affairs officer Major William Cage finds himself in when he kills one of the alien Alphas. Stuck in a time loop, he’s forced to relive the same day over and over again. And it’s not a particularly good day. Naturally, no one believes him . . . until he convinces Sergeant Rita Vrataski, who went through the same thing. Using information gained in the loops, Cage is able to recruit his fellow soldiers on a mission to end the war.
#5: Howard Stambler
Star Wars Han Solo Film HIRES Ron Howard, FIRES Lord & Miller – The CineFiles Ep. 26
“10 Cloverfield Lane” (2016) There’s something fishy about survivalist and conspiracy theorist Howard Stambler. It could be his underground bunker, or his claim that no one can leave because of chemical or nuclear fallout. Or it could be the signs that he’s kept someone in his bunker before. As the movie’s protagonist, Michelle, soon learns, Howard is lying about a lot of things. But in a double-twist, we learn he was right about a massive chemical attack: aliens have taken over the Earth, and are using a poison gas to eradicate human life.
#4: Michael Burry
Top 10 Michael B. Jordan Performances
“The Big Short” (2015) In the late 2000s, the US subprime mortgage crisis crashed the financial market. People lost their savings, their homes, their jobs… But a few outsiders saw it coming. When hedge fund manager Michael Burry, played here by Christian Bale, predicted the collapse of the housing market bubble, he began buying up credit default swaps - a risky bet that went completely against the grain. His mentor thought he’d lost the plot, and some clients panicked and withdrew their investments. But when Burry’s prediction came true, he made millions for himself and his investors.
#3: Sarah Connor
Twilight Breaking Dawn Premiere: Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Sarah Clarke
“Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (1991) After trying to blow up a computer factory, Sarah Connor is diagnosed with acute schizoaffective disorder and locked up in a maximum-security prison for the insane. She was trying to prevent a future robopocalypse and nuclear war that will one day wipe out billions. Psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman, who insists that she suffers delusions of persecution, finds her story about a machine sent back in time to kill her pretty funny - until both Terminators show up and wreak havoc. Of course, the audience knows that she’s right all along. But there’s something particularly satisfying about the look on Silberman’s face.
#2: Truman Burbank
“The Truman Show” (1998) Ever feel like someone’s watching? Or like people around you aren’t being entirely sincere? For thirty years, Truman Burbank has lived a perfect life in the sunny town of Seahaven. But something isn’t quite right. As cracks begin to show in his reality, he ignores reassurances from his wife, best friend, and even a powerful, disembodied voice in the sky that tells him to turn back. He was of course right to be suspicious. It’s not paranoia if you really are the star of your own reality TV show. Before we unveil our top pick, here are a couple honorable mentions. Honey Mustard “Sausage Party” (2016) L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies “Rear Window” (1954)
#1: Russell Casse
Top 10 Kurt Russell Performances
“Independence Day” (1996) David Levinson might’ve predicted when the aliens were going to strike, but long before the flying saucers surfaced, Russell Casse already knew we weren’t alone in the universe. Once a Vietnam War pilot, Casse is now a laughing stock thanks to his insistence that he was abducted and experimented on by aliens. His children are embarrassed of his stories and his alcoholism, which he uses to mask the trauma of abduction and the death of his wife. To most folk, he’s just another kook who believes in aliens. But people stop laughing when aliens invade and Casse destroys one of their ships, sacrificing his own life and spouting these immortal words: "Hello boys, I'm back!"
