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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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QuestionableMouse · 08/04/2020 17:54

@springydaff

I see your suitcases and raise you empty paper cups. Just put something in them so they're not super light.

HPLikecraft · 08/04/2020 17:59

I can't believe no one's mentioned "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her" - by far the worst of the Richard Curtis Chamber of Horrors, and as has been mentioned above, there is a LOT of competition. I had to leave the room as I was cringing myself inside out.

ALongHardWinter · 08/04/2020 18:13

Any scene where people are eating and they don't actually eat anything on their plate. They just keep pushing it round the plate with their fork. It infuriates me.

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527040minutes · 08/04/2020 18:14

Harry Potter's eyes being mentioned repeatedly as being "just like your mother's". Yet Lily's are mentioned repeatedly as being green. Dan Radcliffe has blue eyes and couldn't manage the contacts so they're blue in the film. Really minor but drives me up the wall every time!

CaroleFuckinBaskin · 08/04/2020 18:20

I just watched the sex scene in Top Gun again on Youtube, it really is grim! Tom Cruise is trying so hard to simulate sex and make it realistic and it just just horrid! Poor Kelly McGillis!

Shodan · 08/04/2020 18:26

Mine are mostly generic things, common in a lot of films:

Teeth brushing. I don't need to see your gob wide open with foam sloshing around like a rabid dog. Nor do I want to hear spitting in the sink.

Any film where the hero is faced with an entire police force/military unit with guns. Strangely all the (supposedly) well trained marksmen/shooters miss their target every single time, but the hero manages a kill shot straight away.

When the heroine is fighting all the baddies but her hair is not tied... How is the hair not getting in front of her face and bothering her? This annoys me beyond belief Grin

Finally- Carrie screaming in SATC. Makes me want to hurl things at the tv.

MrsGrindah · 08/04/2020 18:29

@ALongHardWinter Big Bang Theory?

springydaff · 08/04/2020 18:31

Adverts? The aprimel 'baby' who is not drinking the bottle of aprimel but clamping its lips/teeth shut and refusing to drink it.

How much money do they spend on these adverts that they'll put out footage that most parents will see through?

hiddenmnetter · 08/04/2020 18:32

The end of Harry Potter where Harry grabs Voldemort's face and they fly around Hogwarts. So cringe, almost ruins the film! And then Voldemort disintegrates instead of dropping dead (that he dies like any other human is important, he was just a man!)

If we're allowed to rag on the HP movies we could be here a while...I am such a fan of the books and the movies are so loathsomely disappointing, so many scenes that fill me with rage (which I presume is disproportionate because so many love them)

vampirethriller · 08/04/2020 18:33

Pirates of the Caribbean: first film they go on and on about Orlando Bloom's character being the image of his father.
When we see his father the man looks like a well used chammy and absolutely nothing like Orlando Bloom.

The80sweregreat · 08/04/2020 18:41

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..

Redannie118 · 08/04/2020 18:48

Gremlins. They make a huge show about how even a single drop of water( as displayed by the science teacher) makes them multiply, then they spend the rest of movie showing the Mogwai running round in 3 feet of snow !!!!!!!!
That scene in The Holiday when Jack Black Says " Oh- accidental boob graze" while Kate Winslet giggles - VOM VOM VOM

Sammysquiz · 08/04/2020 18:49

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

Enrages me, because a) that really doesn’t make her an idiot and b) Carrie’s the bloody idiot for sleeping with Natasha’s husband Angry

thedogisinmychair · 08/04/2020 18:50

Anytime Mel Gibson opens his mouth in Braveheart. Just don't get me started on Braveheart. Wallace's story would make a fantastic film. This wasn't it.

MadisonAvenue · 08/04/2020 19:01

The scene in Home Alone 2 where Kevin realises that he’s at the wrong airport and looks at Midtown Manhattan just across the water.
Seeing the city from that side means he’d be at LaGuardia which is the closest major airport to the city and even then is 8 or 9 miles away.

MrsDoylesTeaBags · 08/04/2020 19:06

See this is why I struggle with mose films.

Have you seen Technique Critique series on YouTube? Its great. Specialists in different fields break down scenes in films and tv programmes and say how realistic they are.

BurneyFanny · 08/04/2020 19:34

An indie film I saw years ago had boy-girl conjoined twins. Just no.

ALongHardWinter · 08/04/2020 19:36

Mrs Grindah Exactly! Grin

wanderings · 08/04/2020 19:42

The last scene of the film of Roald Dahl's The Witches. It was given a happy ending (which looks as if it was tacked on at the last moment), very different from the bittersweet ending in the book. Apparently, Roald Dahl himself hated this so much, he stood outside cinemas with a megaphone (in his dying year), telling people not to see the film.

wanderings · 08/04/2020 19:45

@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?

womanfromvenus · 08/04/2020 19:54

In horror films when somebody is in a really dark room or house whilst there’s scary noises or whatever and they never switch all the lights on like most people would.

Or will venture into a cellar or scary woods alone.

gettingsquemish · 08/04/2020 19:55

Love Actually and Richard Curtis' overuse of the word pretty

From Juliet - I look quite pretty really.
From Mia - when asked about Christmas present, I don't know, something pretty.

From Harry to Mia - dancing; You're looking very pretty tonight

From Karen to Harry after party - Mia's very pretty.

ARRRGHHH

womanfromvenus · 08/04/2020 19:58

Also second everything about the HP films, very disappointing especially if you’re a fan of the books, most of the cast don’t really do the characters any justice.

I do wonder whether they’ll remake in the future? It would make a great Netflix series with a big enough budget- would be able to cram so much more from the books into it compared to films.

lucysnowe2 · 08/04/2020 20:01

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

God I hate that movie so much, esp the sex scene where he comes in 2 secs but that's ok because she came too? In fact, any sex scene where the woman has an orgasm five seconds after the guy gives her a quick peck and sticks his dick in her. eg French Lieutenant's Woman...

Any scene in HP where Hermione explains something she, as a muggle , shouldn't know anything about instead of Ron. Poor Ron was really hard done by in those movies.

Pelleas · 08/04/2020 20:04

@Mum2threepinkies Sid from Toy Story grows up to be a bin man (or 'trash collector' I suppose it would be in the USA). You see him collecting the bins in Toy Story 3 when the toys are frantically trying to get out of the bin bag.