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!

Also the tea and coffee that isn't actually there. It is so obvious they are drinking cold water or nothing at all.

Following on from the excessive amounts of food on the table, there's also the massive baskets of muffins to welcome new neighbours.

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?
I always wondered about this; OK, so there weren't many phones in the 50's, but surely you'd get someone's address?

Everyone knows how to address all ranks of the police correctly.

'Oh good evening detective inspector! Do you need to ask me more questions about the school fete?'

Round here it would be AW HIYA MISTER

Haha such a good point @MorrisZapp - and also the PP who said people are completely bored/dismissive when police ask them questions about a grisly murder.

Children being allowed to change plans at the last second - usually going out somewhere when dinner is on the table (often “it’s your favourite!”) - with a simple “sorry mum/dad”. My mum would have given me an absolute earful for even trying that shit with her, after she’d gone to the bother of cooking.

@cheesecrack

Anything to do with pregnancy or childbirth is always wrong in films.

Always rushed in to hospital after waters break. Always on her back screaming.

I don’t know anyone in RL that had that type of birth.

I did.

No signs of labour at home, still a couple of weeks until due date, waters burst suddenly (although not in the movie type way where they stand legs apart and you see water trickling and dripping to the floor, I was wearing jeans) and was immediately hit by strong contractions. We rushed into hospital (5 minute drive away) and they barely had time to get me to the delivery room, throw a gown on me and get me on the bed as DD arrived half an hour after getting there, and yes I was on my back screaming (back labour and no time for most pain relief). It was quite a shock afterwards with how quickly everything had gone.

She was a normal small newborn size though, not one of the perfectly clean 3-month-old sized babies that movies and TV always have.

The people who dash into the kitchen and let everyone know they are late for work etc. Whereby they'll grab a handy piece of buttered toast, cram it in their mouth and dash off without a hair out of place.

@MorrisZapp

Everyone knows how to address all ranks of the police correctly.

'Oh good evening detective inspector! Do you need to ask me more questions about the school fete?'

Round here it would be AW HIYA MISTER

Especially in Inspector Morse, where there was often some attractive English Rose type smouldering at him across an antiquarian bookshop and saying ‘This is not the Bodleian, you know, Chief Inspector!’

My eight year old would say ‘There’s a peeler at the door!’

My DC would say “Crikey! It’s the Rozzers!” But that’s because he’s watched way too much James May.

In defence of Gravity upthread, Sandy B isn’t a highly trained astronaut, she’s a scientific specialist who’s received a bare minimum crash course in astronauting so she can go up and fix a specific science thing. That’s why she behaves more like you or I would instead of Tom Hanks in Apollo 13.

I don’t think bootstrap or self-destroying paradox plots in time travel movies, like Kyle Reese being John Connor’s father or the Terminator destroying itself in T2 are a problem - it’s how the genre operates, and either you live with it or you watch something else.

But I lose patience when the writer hasn’t properly thought through the time travel plot, or when people introduce time travel into a world on a whim without explaining why our heroes can’t just use it to fix absolutely everything (Looking at you, Prisoner of Azkaban).

Superman has a perception filter on his glasses so people actually see a weedy dweeb (totally not a geek, on no, not me). Everyone else? Yeah. Pretty obvious. You'd be all 'Hang on a minute! I'm sure that's Brian from accounts. Look, his teeth are the same. And that wonky nostril he's got'. I'd forever being memory wiped.

He also parts his hair the otherside for Superman.

In LOTR why didn't the eagles that Gandalf calls just pick Frodo up in The Shire, fly to Mordor, drop him off at Mount Doom so he could drop the ring in and then fly back?! Would have saved so much hassle! Admittedly not as good a story - but it just doesn't make sense!

Also, in Harry Potter, before we discover that Ron's pet rat, Scabbers, is actually Peter Pettigrew, why didn't Fred and George Weasley ever wonder why Ron always appeared with a bloke called Peter Pettigrew on the Marauder's Map? It even says he shared a bed with Scabbers - why wouldn't the twins question that?!

I don’t think bootstrap or self-destroying paradox plots in time travel movies, like Kyle Reese being John Connor’s father or the Terminator destroying itself in T2 are a problem - it’s how the genre operates, and either you live with it or you watch something else.

But I lose patience when the writer hasn’t properly thought through the time travel plot, or when people introduce time travel into a world on a whim without explaining why our heroes can’t just use it to fix absolutely everything (Looking at you, Prisoner of Azkaban).

Agreed. Though I have read ingenious, zealously-argued fan threads arguing for why time-turners can't prevent Dumbledore and Sirius's deaths and solve everything in a plot-snuffing jiffy which would have meant someone could have nipped along and prevented the entire series by preventing the conception of Tom Riddle or something,

Edward Cullen, being a vampire, is technically dead, right? He has no heartbeat and no pulse... so how is he able to ejaculate and get Bella pregnant?

Titanic is the world's looooooooooongest movie , and they couldn't have a tiny scene where they try and share that plank, but it sinks,so Jack gives it up for her???
He tries to get on with her but it tips up. There’s a deleted scene on YouTube where another man wants to get on too and Jack threatens to kill him, saying there’s only just enough room for Rose.

why didn't Fred and George Weasley ever wonder why Ron always appeared with a bloke called Peter Pettigrew on the Marauder's Map? It even says he shared a bed with Scabbers - why wouldn't the twins question that?!

Maybe they just... didn’t like to intrude?

@AngeloMysterioso

Edward Cullen, being a vampire, is technically dead, right? He has no heartbeat and no pulse... so how is he able to ejaculate and get Bella pregnant?

Yeah that one for me. Until Wolfie feel in love with Resme or whatever her name is, I anyways wondered if the baby was secretly his...

@Ranunculi

Titanic is the world's looooooooooongest movie , and they couldn't have a tiny scene where they try and share that plank, but it sinks,so Jack gives it up for her??? He tries to get on with her but it tips up. There’s a deleted scene on YouTube where another man wants to get on too and Jack threatens to kill him, saying there’s only just enough room for Rose.

Should have used a smaller door.... Even Wolf in Futureman connected in the size of the door

Yes and the scene where he jumps into Oda Maes body- that means Demi and Whoopi would have been snogging!
Also: the hug with the over the shoulder look! All films do this- two characters hug but one looks over the others shoulder with a really concerned look. Also they always have scenes preparing meals but never eat them, there are never queues in any shops, they never use the toilet etc

@olderthanyouthink

crumpet I grew up in an area of London that get used for a weird amount of filming in cars driving, so distracting when they've clearly cut it together in a weird order because you can't possibly have passed those landmarks (parks, shops, etc) in that order

Coding or "hacking" in any movie is complete BS, neither I nor the other dev I've worked with type that much or that quickly! It's more clicking than typing and a lot of copy-pasting We don't set malicious to be red and "good" code to be green. There's zero syntax highlighting (different colours for key words or variable names) in their text editors and are they using notepad????

I love how in Person of Interest, all hacks, including the creation of a godlike AI, are easily accomplished by setting an install of Debian Linux to run in a terminal.

Imagine what would happen if they upgraded their package.json.

Started watching The Americans. Interesting show but it's bugging me that as soon as the teenage children are asleep then you can go out all night and do all the spy action stuff you want, including having fights in your garage, and children will never wake until it's time to get up for school

@Cruddles

Started watching The Americans. Interesting show but it's bugging me that as soon as the teenage children are asleep then you can go out all night and do all the spy action stuff you want, including having fights in your garage, and children will never wake until it's time to get up for school

I haven't seen it, but surely 'as soon as the teenagers are asleep and then...'

just shows that they have never lived with teens? In our house, we go to bed and they are still up

@ReeseWitherfork

The Cher / Paul Rudd step sibling romance thing still bothers me in Clueless.

I’m very deep on a very emotional level, me.

Yes! I rewatched this recently and don't think I realised it as a child. Super effed up! Also the age gap? She's 16 and he's a QUALIFIED LAWYER!!

It takes ages to qualify think it takes longer in states so he will be 25 minimum 😮

How say Michael Myers doesn't move that fast but still manages to catch people.

Josh in Clueless isn’t a qualified lawyer, I’m 99% sure he’s a law student because there are loads of college references about him. Cher talks about his music being what college people listen to and I think Tai says she’s been asking him the difference between high school girls and college girls. I think he’s just helping out on the case like Cher is - extra pair of hands/gain experience.