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 loathe Pretty Woman. She's a prostitute. Why so blasé about the whole business of paying for sex, like it's normal? Why glamorous it?

The scene in Harry Potter when Ginny bends down to tie Harry's shoelace. I cringe SO much 😬

@lucysnowe2 totally agree that Ron is hard done by in the HP films, the first film annoys me when Hermione has to rescue him from the Devils Snare plant when he won’t relax because that doesn’t happen at all in the book, they try and make him look quite idiotic compared to Harry when it’s not the case in the books.

I really don't think that's what the film was implying @TheSandman - how do we know the unseen Chuck Berry in the alternate timeline doesn't at some point say "here's something my relative told me about: this crazy white teenager at the Under the Sea dance was playing this song" or whatever? And had Marty not dropped in at that precise moment in 1955, Chuck still would have written the song that Marty would have learned to play in the 1980s anyway. Just as Marty would still have existed originally in the first timeline if he hadn't got his parents together in the alternate one.

As an aside, I used to quite fancy George McFly as well as Marty - and the actor who plays him is quite an eccentric- i found this out through some wikipedia rabbit hole, late one night. And it's not actually him upside down in BTTF2 - they made a weird animatronic mask of his head and stuck it on another actor! Ah, the 80s.

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

Totally agree! There’s never a film about a guy who gets a makeover, removes his glasses and suddenly he’s gorgeous. Men never make any effort whilst the women have to go on diets, get contacts, makeup and a haircut to get the guy in films

Christopher Reeve does exactly that as Superman! Off with the specs , and....wow!

I really don't think that's what the film was implying @TheSandman - how do we know the unseen Chuck Berry in the alternate timeline doesn't at some point say "here's something my relative told me about: this crazy white teenager at the Under the Sea dance was playing this song" or whatever? And had Marty not dropped in at that precise moment in 1955, Chuck still would have written the song that Marty would have learned to play in the 1980s anyway. Just as Marty would still have existed originally in the first timeline if he hadn't got his parents together in the alternate one.

Been thinking about this - and the two time lines Pelleas posited. Sorry, but when it comes down to it, the get-outs and work rounds are are all too complex. This is a Hollywood film directed by someone whose previous credits included Romancing the Stone and who went on to make that crowd-pleasing piece of pap Forrest Gump. It's real mainstream, "what you see is what you get" movie making. There are no subtexts here. I'm pretty sure they didn't think they were being patronising when they wrote those moments. The Chuck Berry one is, on the surface, a neat little gag and the encouraging the future mayor Goldie bit tells us about the decency of Marty's character and fills in the audience about the racist assumptions of the time. I can see why both of them were there in the script but they just jar. They're duff moments in an otherwise above average smarts piece of Hollywood film making.

Don't get me wrong I like the films - Lea Thompson is hot as hell (I mean she even managed to make Howard the Duck bearable! Despite being nothing like the Beverly I remember from the comics.) But those two moments.... nah!

Possibly an embarrassing admission, but I have copies of the Back to the Future novels . I had a look at the Marty on stage scenes and interestingly, Chuck Berry isn't mentioned at all - the book describes 'vintage rock music' and then goes on to name some of the other more modern acts Marty pastiches. Perhaps they thought better of it between film and novelisation. The Goldie scene is included pretty much as it appears in the film.

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?

I thought he was alright quite boyish though which is not my thing. He's definitely the best actor out of the 3. I was wondering why Jennifer Lawrence and the second best Hemsworth got more work, I guess cause they're prettier.

I also think young Barbra Streisand was super gorgeous, maybe I'm just weird.

Possibly an embarrassing admission, but I have copies of the Back to the Future novels

Why embarrassing? Not something to be embarrassed about at all - mind you, whether you should be reassured about this by someone who owns Space Precinct novels and owns the Galactica 1980 DVD is another thing.

Gale blew her sister up at the end of the books though, or it was his idea that they used with the bombs. I always hated that ending.

Every Harry Potter film in its entirety. They are all so bad.

In the Hunger Games book, Peeta was by far the best choice for Katniss, even well before Gale’s choices contributed to the tragic event near the end.

I like the actor who played him in the films, but he didn’t look right for the part physically.

As regards About Time, I love it for the father son relationship. His relationship with Rachel McAdams though is a bit creepy. He has a redo for every significant moment in their lives, how much of their relationship is actually of her choosing. DH says he can only change the details and the rest will happen as its meant to be. He points at the failed attempts at romance with Margot Robbie at both ends of the summer as proof of this, but I don't buy it.

The HP films have the biggest problem to deal with in that DR, nice bloke that he is, is about as good an actor as the mug of tea sitting next to me.
I know JK and everyone gushes on about how they knew he was The One the minute they saw him, but don't tell me they didn't then watch through their fingers for 7 years going "shit, what did we do?"
The one scene in all the film's where I thought he was good was when Aragog died.

• "Is it raining?" I hate that bit of FWAAF so so so much.
• All of the Harry/Ginny bits in the HP films (especially that god-awful effing subservient tying of the shoe laces ). Also Gary Oldman and David Thewlis playing men in their early-mid 30s. Oh and Voldemort's death. And the Elder Wand. And the epilogue. All absolutely dire AND NOT HOW IT IS IN THE BOOKS.
• The 2005 P&P. It looks very nice but Darcy and Elizabeth were terribly miscast and Matthew Macfadyen looked permanently startled. Also the bit where she's walking around in her nightie at the end. Just, why???

I know JK and everyone gushes on about how they knew he was The One the minute they saw him, but don't tell me they didn't then watch through their fingers for 7 years going "shit, what did we do?"

I have suffered through all the HP movies, all of which, I thought were utter pants - though given the source material I'm not surprised.

I don't think Mr Radcliffe did a bad job in trying to bring what was essentially a paper cutout of a character to life.

But to get back on topic: Harry Potter movies. Owls don't make big ugly flapping noises when they fly around like they do in the HP films. They are silent hunters. But the sound editors always chose to cut in the frantic flappings of asthmatic pigeons over the top of every shot of them in flight. In real life owls in the HP universe would starve to death. (Unless all mice in the HP universe are deaf, he added overthinkingly - in the manner of JKR.)

Christ! I can see the headlines now:
"Desperate for publicity author JK Rowling confirms fan theory! All Muggle mice are deaf! confirmed the author from her hidden subterranean base somewhere in the Caribbean. "And they're probably gay as well."'

No! Muggle mice are not deaf! They are merely extremely shrewd creatures offering up cunning facsimiles of themselves to said noisy owls so that they can observe and track the owls' behaviour. Do you not remember your Hitchhiker's Guide?

I feel like I'm repeating a lot but every scene with Carrie in four weddings and a funeral. Such a good film let down massively by such a wanker of a character.

All of the Harry and Ginny scenes in HP which lacked any connection at all.

The part in SATC2 when Carrie (another bloody Carrie) interrupts Miranda and Charlotte having a heart to heart about their kids to complain about her kissing her ex!!!!!!! Getting cross thinking about it

The part in SATC2 when Carrie (another bloody Carrie) interrupts Miranda and Charlotte having a heart to heart about their kids to complain about her kissing her ex!!!!!!! Getting cross thinking about it

Although isn’t that the heart to heart where Charlotte is going on about how hard and exhausting it is to be a rich SAHM to 2 kids with a FULL-TIME NANNY, all said whilst on an extravagant luxury child-free holiday with friends. So don’t know who was being worse really!

Not a specific scene but I HATE when characters are in the shower and get their hair wet without washing it. Who does that?! Also when a huge breakfast spread has been made (pancakes, waffles, the works) and the character takes a sip of coffee and runs out the door to go to work. So irritating.
I also hate the food poisoning Bridesmaids scene, I honestly don’t understand why people find others shitting themselves funny. I love the film but have to leave the room at that part because it’s so awful

Also someone said already but people keeping bras on during sex scenes - who does that?! I understand if the actress doesn’t want to do nudity but can’t they just film in a way that her breasts aren’t shown? It’s infuriating. I can’t fathom why you would have actual full on sex with someone you weren’t prepared to let look at/touch your chest 😂

Film producers sometimes manipulate things to suit what the public believe is right, even when it isn't, such as the owls flapping.

In Titanic, the Statue of Liberty is shown as being green, even though it wasn't green in 1912 (she changed colour gradually over the years, as copper does). Apparently keeping her green in the film was deliberate, because everyone thinks the statue is green, and would be writing in with "it's green, not brown!".

It's on at the moment and just reminded me - but the bit in willy wonka and the chocolate factory where Charlie and grandpa joe steal fizzy lifting pop. I'm pretty sure it doesn't happen in the book? And it's a clear breach of the rules which makes him as bad as all the other horrid kids surely....!!!!