Scenes in films which irrationally annoy you

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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?!

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....!!!!

But that's the whole point of the movie!

From Wikipedia (my bold): "As the tour ends, Charlie and Joe, the only two remaining, ask about the other kids, and Wonka assures them that they will be restored to normal. Wonka then retreats to his office without awarding them the promised lifetime supply of chocolate. Grandpa Joe and Charlie enter his office to ask about this, and Wonka angrily informs them that by "stealing" Fizzy Lifting Drinks, they have violated the contract, thereby forfeiting their prize. Joe suggests to Charlie that he give Slugworth the Gobstopper in revenge, but Charlie returns the candy to Wonka. Wonka declares Charlie the winner, and reveals that "Slugworth" was his employee Mr. Wilkinson; the offer to buy the Gobstopper was a morality test that only Charlie passed. The trio enter the "Wonkavator", a multi-directional glass elevator that flies out of the factory. Soaring over the city, Wonka reveals he created the contest to find someone worthy enough to assume control of his factory, and Wonka gives it to Charlie and his family."

@TheSandman so why did Charlie not end up with some hideous deformation like the others? I'm pretty sure the whole fizzy lifting thing never happened in the book. Charlie won because he was the only one who didn't break the rules. Can't even remember if slughorn was part of the book either.

You're right, Serial. My guess is that whoever scripted the film thought the idea of Charlie being obedient wasn't exciting enough, so replaced it as a test with the gobstopper/spy plot - plus this gave them the 'exciting' sequence where Charlie was floating around with his grandpa. Roald Dahl disowned the film because he was, rightly in my opinion, disgusted by this change. The whole point, as you say, was that Charlie was a nice, selfless child, not greedy or reckless like the others.

Slugworth was mentioned as a one of Wonka's former rivals in the book, when Grandpa Joe was telling Charlie about the history of the Wonka factory, but he didn't appear as a character. The book suggested that Wonka had effectively choked off his rivals when he took on the Oompa Loompas to staff his factory, because none of them acted as spies.

Owls don't make big ugly flapping noises when they fly around

And spaceships don't go wooooosh as they fly past because space is a vacuum. 'In space, no one can hear you scream' is quite literally true.

@serialnamechanger27 With Charlie and the chocolate factory:

In the book, Wonka's main rival is "Flickelgruber", but Slugworth is mentioned as one of "the other rotten chocolate makers". The whole subplot of Slugworth asking the winning children to give him a Gobstopper is not in the book, neither is the contract, or Wonka yelling at Charlie in his office. After the elevator has flown through the roof, they have a look at the other children going home, now drastically altered.

Re: the fizzy lifting drinks: they are described in the book, but nobody drinks them. There's a whole chapter in the book where they rush past various rooms, including the lickable wallpaper, cows that give chocolate milk, hot ice creams for cold days, and so on. "Why can't we see them?" Veruca wailed. "Why do we have to keep rushing past these lovely rooms?"

There are some brilliant descriptions in the book, which didn't appear in the film. Wonka on "hair toffee": "I've got it too strong, it works too well. I tried it on an Oompa-Loompa, and immediately a huge black beard started shooting out of his chin, and soon it was trailing all over the floor in a thick hairy carpet, and it was growing faster than we could cut it! In the end we had to use a lawn-mower to keep it in check! But I'll get it right soon, and when I do, there will be no excuse for little boys and girls going around with bald heads!"

Any film where the CSI or equivalent zooms into the picture of someone's face and reads text in the reflection in that person's eye.
That reminds me of the moment that I started going off CSI - they had an episode where they were looking through some CCTV footage of the inside of a shop. They zoomed in on a reflection of the murder victim in a mirror, then zoomed in on the victims eyes, in which the murderer was clearly reflected!!

And spaceships don't go wooooosh as they fly past because space is a vacuum. 'In space, no one can hear you scream' is quite literally true.

And the London Symphony orchestra doesn't follow people around playing leitmotif. But this thread is: "Scenes in films which irrationally annoy you". I know there is no sound in space just as I know horses don't always signal their immediate appearance on screen with that whinny they always seem to do. And that flies only buzz when the hero is about to discover something/one very dead just off screen, or that shallow fords make galloping horses go in slow motion. I know all these things. Doesn't stop me being irrationally irritated by them every time they heave into view.

Those noisy owls annoy the tits off me. Somehow I've rationalised spaceship whooshes as part of the non-diegetic soundtrack just as I've managed to get over the fact that, no matter how far away from an explosion you are in a film, light and sound travel at the same speed - so you both see and hear the thing at the same time. Bang! (Sometimes light manages to travel faster than light - as in one of the recent Star Wars films where a gigantic explosion was observed as happening simultaneously by other characters in parallel action - even though it was happening light years away! Makes No Sense! - but the owls are diegetic. And they annoy me. Annoy annoy annoy.

Sandman. You've just given me a whole new set of things to be annoyed about now! I hadn't even thought about the space explosions like that! 🤯

On the subject of CSI style movies - where they ask the 'tech' to enhance the cctv footage and get a perfectly enlarged non-pixelated clear, high definition image from which to determine the culprit's identify. Gives me the rage.

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