Things in movies that don’t make sense...

[MrsWhites]

I was watching Ghost last night, Sam can’t touch/pick up anything but he can sit on a chair?? Took up far too much of my time today thinking about that!

When someone moves out in a soap with just a half full holdall.

@dexterslockedintheshedagain

Also, if zombies eat meat, do they ever poop?!

Also how do they keep lurching around aimlessly then have the energy for warp speed when they finally sense fresh meat after not having eaten for months?

If they have to eat they must also be capable of starving.

Dead bodies all over the place following either supernatural or alien films. Do the local police not investigate? Do the survivors tell the police is was due to some supernatural or alien creature, why aren't they arrested or put in a mental hospitals

Do zombies menstruate -- why not?

I was reading an apocalypse book last night where the author keeps counting down in minutes or seconds since she last did . The book was full of plot holes anyway, but I wondered when they ran out of sanitary wear or where the (large group) family body waste went to. Didn't even mention running out of loo roll, sheesh! How much water would you have to store to have drinking water for 5 adults for 3 years -- whaddya reckon?

1 litre x 1000 days x 5. A mere 5 cubic metres. but who knows how the toilet worked for 5 people for 3 years...

Lack of people wearing glasses. I also mutter a lot about how the pretty girl is disguised by glasses. Might mumble a bit when the science bod wears glasses. Or the librarian. Or the plain, quiet friend.
Just not lead actors. Unless it is sunglasses.

@IfNotNow12

Bridget Jones's flat is Ladbroke Grove I think. It's the 90's! You could buy a small flat in a slightly scruffy area of zone 2 on a publishing assistant salary. I had a similar level job in the late 90s and could have bought a small one bed, I remember the prices ( didn't, wish I had!)

She lived above the Globe Pub in Borough Markets. Now admittedly it's not as famous then as it was now, but even then that's a flash address. Also i don't think a flat actually exists above it, maybe a flat for staff.

Also she worked in the West end but used to walk over Tower Bridge to get to work. That's quite a walk and really adds some time to the commute

Airports in films. No security you can go to the gate without a passport, ticket or boarding pass and stop someone getting on a plane.
It happened loads of times in Friends - ie Ross stopping Rachel going to London.

in America you could back then. I had the pleasure of spending 12 hours in LAX in the late 90s and as long as you could get through a fairly relaxed security you could go anywhere, didn't need a ticket. Lots of people harassing you to to join their cult, like in the movie Airplane

Not just films but on the news too - all state school classes have a maximum of 12 kids in them. In lovely, clean, bright classrooms with modern, well kept furniture.
This is also true of films made especially for training teachers and used in staff meetings or Inset days. We always just rolled our eyes and asked 'so who's got the rest of the class then?' .

In Suits how they are conducting major litigation and it’s a slim file with about 10 pages in it. How about 8 boxes of overfilled lever arch folders?

No-one ever gets an STI despite never using a condom for sex.

Whenever someone is cooking in their kitchen, they always slice something green on the board and lots of bright and yellow peppers are lying around. Just how many does one dinner require? Or, if they cook on the hob it's tomato sauce babbling in the pot which they try with a wooden spoon.

How many really really beautiful women constantly sleep with very average/old blokes.

they always slice something green on the board and lots of bright and yellow peppers are lying around. Just how many does one dinner require?

If 4 people are sitting at a table for dinner, the dishes in the middle hold enough to feed an army. I also seem to remember Bree in Desperate Housewives constantly producing desserts and cakes that would be big enough for the whole street.

An American couple living in a big house have a fight and husband banished to sleep on the couch that night, despite their being maybe 2 or 3 spare bedrooms?

Oh and the worrying amount of serial killers living in Hollyoaks

Grease. Sandy and Danny fall in love during the summer and they are heartbroken she has to go back to Australia. Why didn't she get in touch with him before school started to tell him she was still there?

Answering the door and saying “you’d better come in then” and rolling your eyes. No one would ever be so rude in real life but it’s the standard response to detectives calling round on tv

The tv series mistresses where one of the characters has a new baby and is sleep deprived so gets dressed up to the nines leaves sleeping dh in bed and picks up random men in bars and has sex with them. A man must have written that. No way on gods earth would a new mother waste any sleeping time in such a way

Someone rushes in " says I'm late", takes a bite of someones toast or a piece of bacon then rushes out.xx

@allofthetings

How many really really beautiful women constantly sleep with very average/old blokes.

I was thinking this. The not hot guy gets the hot girl but can't thing of anywhere where the hot bloke gets the plain cubby girl unless she takes off her glasses, puts on a dress and reveals she was always slim and beautiful

Not sure if this has been mentioned but it always annoys me in a movie when a couple have sex last thing at night and turn light off after etc to sleep. But then in the morning when waking up they suddenly have pjs on

I can’t name a specific movie / TV show, but it happens: Bad guy has set a timer for a bomb to go off in one minute. Good guy and bad guy are fighting and the good guy is trying to get to the device to shut off the timer. The camera flits back and forth between the countdown on the bomb so you know how much time is left, and the fighting. But the fight sequences take waaaaay longer than a minute: After about 30 seconds of fighting, the camera pans to the countdown, which states 45 seconds left until detonation. Then fighting goes on for another minute and the camera pans back to the countdown: now 28 seconds left until detonation. Then another minute of fighting, and now 15 seconds left until detonation.

If they’re going to do that, then just start the countdown at three minutes, FGS.

Woman comes in from a very long day in her high profile job/crime investigation/running the country, she’s knackered. She goes in to see her husband/kids sleeping, walks around the house, sits on sofa - ALL WITHOUT TAKING OFF HER HEELS. Surely this has never ever happened. Apart from being madly uncomfortable they’re just damn noisy.

So much to love on this thread.

Answering the door and saying “you’d better come in then” and rolling your eyes. No one would ever be so rude in real life but it’s the standard response to detectives calling round on tv

Absolutely this. I re-watched "Law and Order" and "CSI." Many of the people the detectives talk to, whether they're witnesses being interviewed at home or work, or suspects in the interrogation room, are nasty, rude, and sarcastic. Who in RL talks to law enforcement like that?

I just watched Tenet last night and while it wasn't bad, I didn't have a clue what was going on at any point in the film

this was almost exactly how my mum explained it to me!

I absolutely LOVE Medium for the realness of the home and the relationships. Husband likes watching films on Hallmark channel which are about the exact opposite - single mother (widow, obvs) living in a massive humongous house with one perfect child, never doing anything except preparing the aforementioned peppers and bubbling tomato sauce. I honestly don't know how he can bear watching them, they're so bad.

I can suspend my disbelief for some things, but Hollywood films in particular seem to have a pathological avoidance of anything remotely close to real life.