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Scenes in films which irrationally annoy you

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Toomuchtooyoung01 · 07/04/2020 20:50

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?!

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JudyCoolibar · 07/04/2020 23:41

Every time Kate Winslet keeps getting back on the bloody Titanic. It's not even as if there's any jeopardy in it, we know from the beginning that she survives.

The bit at the end of Independence Day when the human computer miraculously has exactly the right connection for the alien one.

All that snotty crying in Truly Madly Deeply.

A somewhat ancient version of "The Day of the Triffids" when they miraculously discover at the end of the film that they can resolve the entire problem of the triffids with sea water. What a cop-out.

Otherrooms · 07/04/2020 23:43

Love Actually in its entirety.

This.
Every scene.

Otherrooms · 07/04/2020 23:45

'The Holiday'
The bit in the video shop with Jack Black singing. Horrific.

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TheSandman · 07/04/2020 23:46

And in Shrek it makes me FURIOUS that she has to turn into an ogre. Would be much better if she stayed as a princess.

...but she was so much more sexy as an ogre!

Otherrooms · 07/04/2020 23:50

Here. My God it's the worst .
0.46 onwards.

TheSandman · 07/04/2020 23:52

That "He had it coming!" Tango song from Chicago.

anonymousLangFan · 07/04/2020 23:53

A somewhat ancient version of "The Day of the Triffids" when they miraculously discover at the end of the film that they can resolve the entire problem of the triffids with sea water. What a cop-out.

This goes double for "Signs". A good creepy film ruined totally by the ending scene of silly rubber suit aliens being chased away by a glass of water.

DiscoJanet · 07/04/2020 23:54

The scene in Sliding Doors when the main man (can't remember the actor but he's annoying anyway) is reciting the Monty Python Spanish Inquisition sketch and the whole table is wetting themselves laughing. I like monty python but the sketch really doesn't work second hand, especially recited by that annoying actor, and it ESPECIALLY wouldn't be that funny to people who weren't old enough to remember it first time round, it would have been made 20 years before the film was set and people in their 20s in the late 1990s would NOT have been into monty python. And fucking gwyneth Paltrow in the whole of that film, especially when she says "wanker".

Think part of it is American-made films set in UK, they literally think the only comedy for Brits is monty python.

YorkshirePud1 · 07/04/2020 23:55

I'm also still so annoyed about the ending in Harry Potter. The ending in the book was so much better why change it?

Not a film - but basically everything Pam does in the American Office. Ugh she really grates on me.

Any scene in a movie where someone is supposed to be driving but has clearly never driven in their life as keep jerking the steering wheel from side to side.

Most American actors trying to act drunk or high. Not sure why they're just so bad at it.

anonymousLangFan · 07/04/2020 23:57

Think part of it is American-made films set in UK, they literally think the only comedy for Brits is monty python.

hey now, could've been Benny Hill

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 07/04/2020 23:58

The Sandman - Maybe so, but ogre marries ogre is just ordinary; ogre marries princess is a celebration of otherness.

Blibbyblobby · 08/04/2020 00:00

Any film where a computer is searching and it flashes up files or images really fast. Maybe in 1997 you could maybe get away with it but it’s 2020, we all search stuff all the time. We know that’s not how it works. Imagine if Google showed a quick flash of every site it searched!

TheSandman · 08/04/2020 00:03

The Sandman - Maybe so, but ogre marries ogre is just ordinary; ogre marries princess is a celebration of otherness.

True but "You don't have to look like a Barbie Princess to be happy" is a more valuable lesson for kids to have.

springydaff · 08/04/2020 00:05

I expect it was written by Richard Curtis, Janet.

= unutterable tripe

anonymousLangFan · 08/04/2020 00:08

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.

TheSandman · 08/04/2020 00:12

Working Class characters having sex in cars - because????

And working class family sitting down to a meal in the kitchen will ALWAYS have a bottle of brown sauce or fucking Heinz tomato ketchup on the table because that's all we fucking eat according to twatty upper-middle class set decorators.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 08/04/2020 00:18

Sandman - sure that's a good message, but so is, 'Ogre gets girl because he's a nice chap' and, 'Girl gets guy despite having fearsome temper and a voice to explode bluetits '.

GreatDryingOut · 08/04/2020 00:22

I’ve two that are utter vom.

The end of Kingsman where the rescued Swedish princess promises sex ‘in the bum’ to Taron ‘Eggsie’ Egerton - the leer on his face put me off him for life

And Charlize Theron in Long Shot telling Seth Roger to lightly choke her during sex

These movies are all the LOLs until the porn fantasies get casually slung in. 🤮

YgritteSnow · 08/04/2020 00:30

The bit I hate is Julie W killing Bellatrix - face and voice just seem all wrong to me.

Same! I loved that scene and how she wrote it in the book and then Julie W just fumbled about nervously and only seemed to manage to kill B almost by accident. I wanted Molly to turn into the powerful witch that came out to protect her child. But no Hmm

Eminado · 08/04/2020 00:34

Mammyloveswine

*Love actually when Keira knightly watches the video that the best man shot and she goes "oh I actually look quite pretty"
.., fuck...off!

Irritates the life out of me!*

AGREE!!!!!! 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️

Deadringer · 08/04/2020 00:43

Remus that's funny because they are the 3 things i dislike most about Love Actually.
Keira f*cking 'i look quite pretty' Knightly
Rowan Atkinson, silly pointless scene imo,
High Grant's dancing, i almost turned inside out i was cringing so much.

MrsSnitchnose · 08/04/2020 00:46

The whole plot of the film Child 44, which bore very little resemblance to the brilliant book. Not improved by Tom Hardy with the worst attempt at a Russian accent I've ever heard! (still gorgeous though)

Smallnmighty · 08/04/2020 00:54

I just can't get past all the grandparents sharing a bed in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'...literally turns my stomach. I mean, imagine if that was YOUR parents snuggled up in a stinky, dirty bed with your in-laws.
No no no no no.

Feel sick just typing about it 🤮

theneighbourswindchime · 08/04/2020 00:56

Any horror film. TURN ON THE LIGHTS!!! why would you creep round your house in the dark if you knew someone / something wanted to kill you!!? Turn the lights on and RUN OUT THE FRONT DOOR fgs.

Everytime.

MrsSnitchnose · 08/04/2020 00:57

Oh and Keira Knightly in Pirates of the Carribean purely because the jammy cow got to snog Johnny Depp Envy

Any film which involves larges group of people bursting into song where they all know the words and dance moves. Rage inducing!