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?!

I hate driving scenes where the driver is having a conversation, and looking at the passenger instead of looking at the road. The passenger never seems bothered about this either.

And action films. The hero is always super good at hitting his target, yet usually escapes almost unscathed from gun fights, no matter how outnumbered the hero is.

Friends isn't a film, though, just a shitty telly series .

The fact that the ugly / not so hot lead guy can always get the good looking stunning woman

This is why I can never watch Adam Sandler movies. Are we meant to believe an average looking man who is too chubby to tuck his shirt into his trousers would get the likes of Brooklyn Decker, Jennifer Aniston, Selma Hayek, Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore tv going after him? as if!

In SATC when Carrie delights that Big’s wife (Natasha) is an “idiot” because she writes ‘your’ instead of ‘you’re

God yes, of course the idiot is the one obsessing over her exe's new wife, a woman who's doing nothing at all to her

As for the scene where she accosts Natasha after the affair to apologise, in the sluttiest dress you could imagine, shows Carrie in the worst possible light.

@pelleas

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.

So it's 'fate' or 'destiny' that black people take credit for things they didn't invent but white people magnanimously give credit to others?

I've never bought into the whole Worf, "There is the theory of the Möbius — a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop. Whatever has happened, will happen again." (Please tell me you now have Oribital on a loop in your head :) ) shtick because it makes the whole premise of the story pointless. Whatever the protagonist does its futile. There is no point. The story is already written. The outcome is never in doubt. So what is of interest in such tales are the moral and philosophical decisions the protagonists make (or are made to play out by the authors) as they get there.

The protagonist of the Spanish film Time Crimes just keeps making things more and more horrible for himself - and others - each time he tries to correct the mistakes he made in the last trip round in the time machine... because he is a deeply horrible flawed person.

The protagonist of Robert Heinlein's story '—All You Zombies—' manages to become his own mother and father after having gender reassignment, meeting a younger male version of herself, then going back in time to give birth to the baby she once was.

There's a lot of fun to be had with time loop stuff. Casually implying black people are thieves / un self-motivated while you are at it is the bit that leaves the off-taste here.

Carrie was a total bitch. Big an arsehole. They were suited to each other.

To be fair to Adam Sandler he is sweet in the ' wedding singer' ! About the only film I could see Drew Barrymore actually falling for him.
Mind you, her boyfriend I'm that is such a twat anyone would be an improvement I suppose.
Same with Seth Rogan in 'knocked up. ' The lead lady is beautiful but his just horrible.
The other way around and it wouldn't even be made!

The end of Con-Air when nobody walking down the Las Vegas strip hears the fuck-me great plane screeching along behind them and then that pesky rabbit thing that was lost earlier turns up in the storm drain right at their feet.... Nooooo!

On the subject of Richard Curtis, there is the opening scene in Notting Hill where Hugh Grant walks through what is supposed to be Notting Hill, which is entirely populated by white people, save for two black faces, one who hides and the other who runs away.

But the one that makes me scream: Catherine Zeta-Hyphen in Etrapment who grabs her gun, heads to the airport, then arrives in London with her banned firearm that is totally illegal, which I assume she smuggled through the Green Channel doing her best Don't You Know Who I Am, I'm Catherine Zeta-Hyphen, Out Of My Way, etc.

Any film that portrays princess Diana, they always get the hair so wrong.

The use of inhalers! Every time in any film or TV programme ever that someone has asthma, they go from gasping for air as if they were having a panic attack to absolutely fine after a casual spritz of a reliever into their mouth. No deep breathing, no holding their breath, no repetition of the dose while it takes effect...

I can't be the only asthmatic that this annoys!

I think it was @DiscoJanet who said this, could be wrong so apologies, but I was in my 20s in the late 90s and watched Monty Python.

The scene in The Holiday when CD drives to get some supplies and swigs from the bottle of wine whilst shopping. How's she going to get back to the cottage?
I didn't get the chemistry between KW and JBs characters.

About Time is one of my favourite films, and I just saw the bedroom scene as him trying to impress her. He was totally in love with her from the second they met.

The only good bit about Love Actually was Emma Thompson in the bedroom listening to Joni Mitchell. Breaks me every time. The rest of the film is just so annoying.

I also hate it when people don't say goodbye at the end of a phone call, and just hang up! The rudeness!

In Bridget Jones’ Diary, when they go away for the minibreak: the scene about anal sex. Not in the book, not cute, not funny...totally gross. Hate that bit and don’t understand why it’s in the film.

Despite it being one of my favourite Christmas films, I cringe everyone when Kiera knightly sees herself in her wedding video 🤢.

In fact, I struggle with the whole film 🙈.

*with her

@TheSandman

I do find it quite complicated trying to think in 'time loops' (I'm not, IRL, a believer in fate and predestination which perhaps makes it harder). But the way I have always read 'Back to the Future' is that (in the first film) there are two timelines -

1. Original timeline, Marty's family are losers, the mall is called 'Twin Pines Mall etc. In this timeline Marty knows that Goldie Wilson is mayor and he's learned to perform Chuck Berry's hit Johnny B. Goode. These things have already happened without Marty's intervention - we know this because Marty's intervention changes his family's status and a few other minor things; in this universe they are not yet changed. So his family has developed as losers in this timeline, Chuck has had his hit song and Goldie has become mayor without intervention from Marty.

1. Changed timeline - Marty's family successful, 'Lone Pine Mall' etc. Goldie is still mayor (we know this because it's referenced in the second film) and as far as we know Chuck Berry had still had his hit single. Marty had referred to Goldie's future and Chuck's own song had been played to him over the phone, but those things don't show as changed in the later movie. Because Marty could only have referred to them from his knowledge in (1) which we know is unchanged from the other markers, it's wrong to say that Chuck and Goldie lose the credit for these in (2) because the events in (2) couldn't have happened without (1).

@The80sweregreat

The fact that the ugly / not so hot lead guy can always get the good looking stunning woman but it's never the other way round..

Watch The Mirror Has 2 Faces, Barbra Streisand and Jeff Bridges in the lead roles....

Oh yes, the mirror has two faces film ! Although lots of people find Barbra Streisand attractive to be fair. She is fab in that film.

She and Robert Redford in The Way We Were......that was a bit different too.

I love the Hunger Games Trilogy films.

But no woman ever would choose Peeta when given the option of Gale. He’s just very unattractive. How on earth did he get that role?

Adam Sandler personifies ick.

Ben Stiller too, but with dark, controlling vibes.

@TheSecondMrsAshwell when you typed Stephen Gatiss, who did you mean?

@TinklyLittleLaugh I think filmPeeta's quite attractive. He's not really my type, but filmGale isn't either.

@Pelleas hmmmmmmmmmm....

I'll have to think about this.

The fact that the ugly / not so hot lead guy can always get the good looking stunning woman but it's never the other way round..

Harold and Maude

The bit in Love Actually (well, most of what's already been said, but also) when Hugh Grant tells the cabbie "Take me to Wandsworth. The dodgy end!"
As if the PM would, as if anyone would do that without an address, and most importantly, as yelled outby the entire audience when I saw it (in Wandsworth), that's not the dodgy end!