Scenes in films which irrationally annoy you

[Toomuchtooyoung01]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (original version)
Every single time I've watched the scene where the golden ticket winners are touring the factory and enter the area where everything is edible, I get genuinely irritated that none of them actually get stuck in! None of them really try anything! They just dip their finger in something and keep walking! Surely you'd take full advantage and pig out? Or at least sample everything?!

The ‘best friend’ in TDWP where she gets a free handbag. Any scene with her in it. Ungrateful and a bit snarky. Not irrational dislike though ;

All the Bridget Jones films are wank. Yeah, sure, intelligent and good looking guys in their 30s and 40s definitely make fools out of themselves chasing a dozy immature bint.

I feel like the writers had never even seen Back to the Future

Thanks for the reminder. Back to the Future. Fun film. Enjoyed it immeasurably until I realised the deeply ingrained racism. Apparently Chuck Berry's 'sound' was in fact copied from some white teenager.

I know it says film, but there’s a scene in Succession where a character starts kissing a woman, they collapse onto the stairs (ouch!), he goes down on her for like 30 seconds WITHOUT taking her underwear off, then they start fucking instantly.

Thanks for remembering that foreplay exists, but F for execution.

Someone on MN once said how Richard Curtis hates women and it shows in his work - ever since reading this I have really spotted it! Female characters always awful or having awful things happen to them.

Also, Andie MacDowall must have been blackmailing someone or something with Four Weddings - how on Earth did o one say on day 3 or so "actually she's awful, we need to change actresses". No chemistry, no charisma, total inability to deliver a funny line.

SATC2, mostly all of it (though love the series and first movie) but especially when Charlotte (who doesn't have a job but does have a nanny) and Miranda (who has a nanny) sit drinking to how hard parenting is. Also when Charlotte gets upset because her kids put chocolatey hands on her white designer skirt - WTF were you thinking wearing that for baking, you thicko! I love that the nanny left her in the cupboard though

The ‘best friend’ in TDWP where she gets a free handbag. Any scene with her in it. Ungrateful and a bit snarky. Not irrational dislike though

Yes!! Her mates were happy to get thousand of dollars worth of freebies though but got all twatty when she had a chat with a Male work colleague. Her boyfriend was the worst as well, he couldn't wait a year for her to commit to her career and sulked about her working on his birthday. Dick

Apparently Chuck Berry's 'sound' was in fact copied from some white teenager.

It wasn't copied - it was a 'predestination paradox'. Marty was copying Chuck who was copying Marty who was copying Chuck and loop to infinity. Compare Marty's name itself - his parents were 'inspired' by their new 1950s friend, whose name had come from them in the first place.

@TheSandman - no - that's not what happens. Marty plays them Chuck Berry (which he learned in the 80s) and they think it's amazing because Chuck Berry isn't famous yet. He doesn't 'invent' his sound, he just tricks them into thinking it's his own - because time travel. Johnny B Goode came out in 1958 and that bit of the film is set in 1955. At least that's how I've always interpreted it.

And actually, I think he's playing them the Jimi Hendrix version - so there's another layer.

The notebook when they lie down in the road!

Has anyone mentioned About Time yet, which js the worst Curtis film?
Main character can go back in time without others knowing. First night with his girlfriend and sex is not great, he keeps reversing time again, again and again. So they have sex 3-4 times without her knowing what he did. And of course his performance improved every time as he uses his knowledge from the previous times

Oh and any film where it’s ‘funny’ to be attacked by a dog! Why are dangerous dogs added for comedy value!

It also irrationally annoys me that they didn’t train Marley in Marley and me properly so that’s why he’s a pain in the arse, I can’t watch it. And when they leave him in the garage during that storm .

Being greedy myself, any film where the actor/actors/actress/es leave a meal uneaten, drink undrunk. They immediately leave without any regret. I would take my plate with me!

That new Mary Poppins film was an absolute pile of shite. I'm sick of these "re-vamps" of classic films where they change it a bit but constantly hark back to the original. Either make something new or don't bother. Especially with Mary Poppins where Emily Blunt was actually supposed to still be her, but very clearly wasn't.

Also Friends! It's so so so bad. I've been re-watching on Netflix - Ross is a love-bombing, gaslighting, paranoid, jealous loser. Chandler is an immature, spiteful individual who constantly throws in Monica's face that she used to be fat as his get out of jail free card for any annoying/bad behaviour. Rachel is selfish, whiny, shallow and hypocritical - constantly putting whatever guy she is dating/chasing before the needs of her friends. Monica is the "cool wife" who seems totally fine with her husband's rather prevalent porn addiction (all those references mush have gone over my head as a child) and spends her life either cooking and cleaning or dressing up in sexy clothes to entice him to bed, like some sort of 50s sex housewife. Honestly awful. I can't believe I used to idolise them!

Knocked up- 1st of all she wouldn't sleep with him- no matter how drunk. Seriously I'm sure there's a scene where he buys rohypnol that got left on the cutting room floor.

Then they have a scene where they're at a restaurant with her sister and bil and the men are so rude and horrible about the women, who just sit there rolling their eyes. The very next scene they are having sex, no post meal discussion about what a dickhead he was, no apologies just straight to sex because seth Rogen is so irresistible apparently.

SwerfandTurf

Thank you - I finished watching Skyfall and thought "well, that's 90-odd minutes of my life I'm not getting back."

Listing buildings of historic interest. Writers just make up the process to suit their plot. This used to be my job and the number of times people got the wrong end of the stick. I actually had someone on the phone complaining that we hadn't saved a building by listing it, I explained the process and they said "but that's not the way it happened in Hustle."

Anything by Stephen Gatiss. The lines come out almost as if you can hear him saying "this is the line that will get me a knighthood."

Keep checking back on this thread to see if the Four Weddings class subplot has been explained. Does it revolve around Charlotte? I always thought she was a bit of a black sheep within the friendship group - easily my favourite character though! Wonderful actress with such a tragic end to life.

@TheSandman - no - that's not what happens. Marty plays them Chuck Berry (which he learned in the 80s) and they think it's amazing because Chuck Berry isn't famous yet. He doesn't 'invent' his sound, he just tricks them into thinking it's his own - because time travel. Johnny B Goode came out in 1958 and that bit of the film is set in 1955. At least that's how I've always interpreted it.

Marty starts playing. The band follow his lead. One of them goes off stage and phones someone."Chuck? Chuck? It's Marvin! Your cousin Marvin. You know that new sound you been looking for? Well listen to this..." Holds up the phone in the direction of the stage.

Later in the film (or the sequel, it's a couple of years since I've seen them) Marty gives a pep talk to the diner's black janitor giving him the whole 'fulfil your destiny' thing - prompting the guy to get into politics and become the mayor of the town as seen previously in the film. Way to go, Marty, you invented Rock and Roll and Started the Civil Rights Movement. What would black American history be without you?

That's my take.

I know it's only a fun film but those bits of retro whitwashing just leave a bit of a nasty taste in my mouth.

Yes, I hate that scene in TDWP where Andie passes on her freebies to her friends but they are not only ungrateful but throw her phone around, like 10 year olds, when it rings.

he just tricks them into thinking it's his own -

Actually he doesn't. He says, "it's an oldie... well.. it's an oldie where I come from."

Jonny B Goode is credited as being written by Chuck Berry. The film implies - even taking into account 'pre-destiny paradox' - that a black man took credit for something he didn't create while a white kid acknowledges that it was just something he picked up.

Springydaff can you explain the four weddings class sub plot please?

@AdriannaP well at least he learned and adapted his moves!

@BurneyFanny Now that's novelty, boy-girl conjoined twins! grin grin

Another "twins" trope that's often mentioned on the internet is that when the twins are non-identical on film or TV, they are ALWAYS boy and girl, never boy-boy or girl-girl. Does anyone know of any exceptions?

I may be wrong (I usually am) but isn't Twins about non-identical twins boy-boy??

Or I may simply have mis-understood you?

The point of pre-destination paradoxes in time travel films is that everyone's destiny is already set out - it's not determined either by their individual motivation or other people's prompts - it's just 'Fate' that a certain thing will happen.

In Back to The Future, with both Chuck Berry and Goldie Wilson, Marty was drawing on what had already happened in his timeline; this became a 'prompt' in the new timeline, the result being that neither Chuck's nor Goldie's success could claim a point of origin other than 'Fate'.

Monica is the "cool wife" who seems totally fine with her husband's rather prevalent porn addiction

I saw an episode of Friends a while back where Chandler was staying in hotel, and was watching porn on the TV in his room. Monica turns up unannounced to surprise him, and when Chandler hears a knock at the door, he quickly changes channels before answering.
Monica notices that Chandler is aroused, sees that a documentary about sharks is on the TV - and immediately leaps to the conclusion that Chandler has some sort of shark fetish. Most of the episode is about this misunderstanding.

FFS. Anyone with half a brain cell would think, “hmm, maybe Chandler changed channel before opening the door, after all he thought I was hours away at home”. Especially when they already know he watches porn.
Rather than “OMG! My husband thinks sharks are sexy!”