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!

Eastenders- yes to the houses. But also how they can afford to go out drinking in the pub every night

Oh and more eastenders. Do none of them having a washing machine? They all seem dependent on the launderette

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

Especially when they hold it by tucking their thumb through the handle and wrapping their fingers around it, if you ever try doing this you can hold it for about a second

@courseaction they have very strange priorities. I mean I don’t often watch it anymore - but very clearly they have dishwasher - but not washing machines!

People only seem to have miscarriages after falling down stairs

Ant then while presumably while still in A&E the doctor says ‘I’m sorry but it’s unlikely you’ll ever conceive again/carry a baby full term’

Unless the fall resulted in a hysterectomy it’s a bit of a jump to diagnose that

Plus if this happens in Corrie, that’ll be debunked when the character has a ONS with Steve McDonald

@sunnysidegold

Suitcases always look empty.

Everyone knows phone numbers off by heart (back in the day).

In the days of rotary dial phones, you did know a lot of phone numbers off by heart.

It's only since phones became programmable so numbers are dialled at the press of one button that this art has been lost.

I can still remember the phone numbers of some of my school friends in the 1980s, and the number of my grandparents (who died more than 20 years ago) including STD code. But I couldn't tell you my husband's mobile number!

@dollyknocker

Not a film, but Hannah Montana (lockdown and Disney+, dont judge me). How does nobody recognise her? She literally just puts a wig on that is pretty much the same as her actual hair only a bit lighter. AAAAARGH.

Ditto any superhero movie where they basically just cover their eyes with a mask. Or take their glasses off.

People struggle to recognise me when I straighten my mixed/Afro hair like I walked right up to a close friend and he was still searching the crowd for me and I was drilling around the front of the office at work with straight her and a colleague came in and spoke to me like I was a visitor, I'd worked there for months, was the only female employee and there was like 12 of us max.

It doesn't take much it seems

Being chased by a train and just running down the train line .

Being chased by anything that can eithe r only go one direction or has a huge turning circle and they don’t just run to one side....

So many American films show Brits either living in a mansion, or a really tiny, grotty flat. You rarely see the inside of an average suburban semi.

You don't see many typical American homes either on film/TV, too. That's why RoseAnne was "ground breaking". But it still didn't show people living in row condos.

That's interesting, lljk. American homes as shown in movies always seem to be very spacious, with even a 'shabby' apartment being much larger than a typical UK flat. I haven't seen enough American homes in real life to know whether that's accurate!

@MrsWhites actually another one with ghost that always bugged me.. the man threw him off the train - so why didn’t he just fall out of the bottom of it in the first place.

THE WHOLE OF YOU’VE GOT MAIL!!!!!

The whole thing!!! He’s AWFUL and it’s a romcom?! Wasted time watching this yesterday, she’s lovely and he is horrifying

Just about any film where the villain supposedly wants rid of the hero, but when he gets him in his clutches, rather than instantly shooting him in the head, he has to talk to him and spend time gloating over his secret laboratory or whatever, thus giving the hero a chance to escape.

Another one from me - when the police finally uncover the bad guy's lair (either behind a false wall or in a locked room) there's a 'shrine' with hundreds of pictures of the murder victim/s with a big cross scored over them. And sometimes a map with coloured pins in it, showing important but previously undiscovered locations.

I would love to know from any police officers on here whether that's ever happened.

I must say I too am old enough to still remember landline numbers from back before mobiles and we did memorise numbers then.

I can still remember grandparents numbers, friends from high schools numbers (prob as I called them daily!), my ex from just after high schools number (but then prob dialled that SEVERAL times a day! plus I can still remember their street address inc postcode - I had a nosey just recently at their old house as it was up for sale and someone told me and there was a virtual tour, it's really different now it was so weird looking at it while remembering how it used to be - I spent a good 3 years "visiting" that house almost daily for several hours plus stayed over loads) and every one of our home numbers from about the age of 10 (army brat we moved around a lot)

So that was definitely a thing.

Even now I can remember mobile numbers if they scan well.

I'm actually having trouble remembering my "new" mobile number (which I've had for almost a year!) because my old one was so so easy to remember and I had it almost a decade!

Detectives have CCTV can be zoomed in and cropped and the image is crystal clear.

Yep. Try that in real life and it looks like you're playing Minecraft or an 8 bit video game.

Ant then while presumably while still in A&E the doctor says ‘I’m sorry but it’s unlikely you’ll ever conceive again/carry a baby full term’

Exactly - without any input from the gynae specialists, tests and only about half an hour afterwards while the poor woman is still distraught.

Especially when they hold it by tucking their thumb through the handle and wrapping their fingers around it, if you ever try doing this you can hold it for about a second

I do hold my cup like this - but only after it's cooled down to a drinkable temperature. Otherwise it's the 'oooh, oooh, ooooh' put it down bloody fast.

or an 8 bit video game

Ooooo showing your age there

I still have fond memories of playing hungry Horace though

@Graphista - I remember Pong when it first came out!

Me too - didn't get it though friends had it

In star wars the Empire can blow up a planet but they don't have a machine that can tell that Han Solo is hiding under a floorboard in the Millennium Falcon

A lot of the annoying errors by actors in Hollywood films may be due to the fact that US actors are much less likely to have proper formal training than UK actors so they have never learned these basic skills. Training in UK drama schools is the best in the world.

Where they get out of bed after a night of passion and they're wearing their underwear.,

I think they are wearing underwear when getting out of bed or a bra during sex in order to adhere to certain age rating i.e. avoid nudity.