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 might be because the actor or actress wouldn’t agree to be filmed nude!

Putting on a mans shirt to wander round in. Usually followed by someone entering the flat who fancied one of them.

GO TO THE POLICE if you find out secretly that someone is a murderer. DO NOT confront them asking for money in exchange for your silence. Agatha Christie novels and episodes of Columbo are particularly bad for this. This is a killer that kills people, you're obviously going to be body number 2!

I’m a big fan of perfectly normal people who accidentally murder someone and then decide to bury the body. Peculiar decision making process.

“Accidentally murder”..... is than an oxymoron? You know what I mean!

Soaps are also fond of the surprise pregnancy. After poor woman has miscarried then been told (by GP) she will never conceive again, months pass and she feels faint and collapses in the street. Taken to local hospital where they run some tests then say "You're not suffering from exhaustion - you're eight months pregnant and the baby was hidden under your ribs."

The next week she gives birth in the back of a taxi, or a burning building, flooded cellar, remote farm building, top of a cliff, etc.

Pregnant women with the perfect neat little bump and stick thin arms and legs and tiny boobs. Rachel in Friends is a good example of this (as opposed to Lisa Kudrow who was really pregnant and looks enormous in those yellow dungarees. Until they ruin it by her tummy having shrunk considerably after the season break, when she gives birth to full-term triplets.)

Oh, and the triplets’ birth not involving a C section.

Pregnant women with the perfect neat little bump and stick thin arms and legs and tiny boobs.

Yes! I looked like a cross between a fertility goddess statue and a beached manatee.

See also being able to just flump down in a chair, get up suddenly or get your tights on without a military operation.

The surrogate that Monica and Chandler adopted from didn't know she was having twins until she was in the delivery room. No scans?

Scans aren’t standard in the US (I don’t think?!) but you’d think an adopted baby would include some.

But while we are on the subject... Phoebe being a surrogate for her brother when she’d never had a baby before (thought surrogates had to have had a baby before). And then a few seasons on when Joey says he doesn’t know what “surrogacy” means. But the continuity in Friends is generally shocking. That’s a whole other thread in itself!!

@dayswithaY

The surrogate that Monica and Chandler adopted from didn't know she was having twins until she was in the delivery room. No scans?

She said the doctor told her he could hear two heart beats and she assumed one was hers. She wasn't very bright.

Moving house/quitting a job on a whim - no arrangements to sort everything out, just decide in the middle of a shift (usually working in a hospital), pack a suitcase and move cities to follow someone you've fallen in love with...

I’ve just watched someone on TV “wake up from a coma”. Months unconscious, and awake walking and talking after a gasp of air. But I suppose months of rehab don’t make for good watching.

In any film or TV show they get hold of some grainy surveillance footage and the techies manage to get perfect images of a tiny part of it. Plus when there is a sex scene the woman is always on top and keeps her bra on.

Soaps used to be bad for this one, I don't watch them now so can't say if they still do it.

With heavily pregnant women in winter, it doesn't matter when exactly they're due, because they'll be guaranteed to give birth on Christmas Day, usually when everyone else in the area is at some special event so they end up going into labour alone somewhere. They could only be around 7 months along but baby will be huge and healthy and the family will come back from carol singing or whatever they were doing to find the mum cradling the baby.

That made me laugh PENGUINS (sorry, can't do bolding). And when everyone comes back in to the house from the aforementioned caroling, they all pile in to the living room and mum is sitting there coyly with her finger to her lips, going shhhh, with the 'new' baby in her arms, wrapped in a white blanket.

Now, to be fair, I've never had a baby myself, but I'm pretty sure there's a bit more blood and drama than that!

I recently watched a film called The Turning and (like every other horror movie ever) couldn’t understand why the lead stayed around. The house was plainly haunted and the boy wanted to murder her and for the first half of the film she acted like it was totally normal. I wouldn’t even have taken my coat off - I’d have been gone pronto.

In horror films, why do they never switch the lights on when they go to investigate a noise? And in Nightmare on Elm Street - you see your friend's corpse ina body bag being dragged along the floor, so you get up and follow?! WTF?! I'd be off like a shot in the other direction!

Oh yes - and the scene in Friends where Ross tries to stop Rachel going to Paris. When he is talking to her, there are loads of people in the departure lounge behind her. When she is talking to him, there are only the 2 of them. Then it switches back again, and there are loads of people behind her again. Maybe they all went to the loo before final boarding...

I remember when Jenny gave birth to baby Adam in cold feet she actually got blood on her cheek when she cuddled him. It was quite revolutionary!

Oh, and the triplets’ birth not involving a C section.

I started watching This is Us after it was recommended on a MN thread and had to stop in the first episode as it irritated me so much that Mandy Moore was giving birth (also on her back screaming as pointed out up thread) to triplets in a pregnancy they keep referring to as high risk. No way, especially in the US! It would have been an elective c section a few weeks before due date!

It would have been an elective c section a few weeks before due date!

They were 6 weeks early and it was the 80s... maybe not possible?

Oh, I didn't know it was the 80s! Maybe I'll keep watching

@CarrieMoonbeams

That made me laugh PENGUINS (sorry, can't do bolding). And when everyone comes back in to the house from the aforementioned caroling, they all pile in to the living room and mum is sitting there coyly with her finger to her lips, going shhhh, with the 'new' baby in her arms, wrapped in a white blanket.

Now, to be fair, I've never had a baby myself, but I'm pretty sure there's a bit more blood and drama than that!

Ah of course, how could I forget the "shoosh" and the perfectly clean room afterwards. No sign of a placenta anywhere either of course.

Following on from ReeseWitherfork, all medical recoveries, really. They are at death's door for as long as the script requires it and the next moment they're back at work, not even flinching when they bend over or reach for something.

(to give you an idea of my intellectual levels during lockdown):

-Hello, inspector Parker, I hear you have just been let out of hospital with deep vein thrombosis and are unable to leave our island- so would you like to travel to a different island by speedboat and help us catch a murderer, seeing that you've got nothing else on at the moment?

-Thomas, you have given yourself blood poisoning by injecting filthy water into your veins in an attempt to cure your homosexuality, no wonder you look like an imperfectly galvanised corpse. My cure is to tell you to stop injecting dirty water- now get back to work!