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!

@SassenachWitch

Why didn’t Rose move over? Plenty of room for Jack to hop on!

I know this one: they didn’t know that help was so close. So Jack decided that Rose was the one who should be on that door.

When people are being chased in high rise buildings they always always head for the roof. Genius. Go for the street and you have a far better chance of getting away

Also I always thought it was weird in American movies and tv shows where all the friends and family would pitch up to the hospital and wait for a baby to be born. Turns out they actually do that in America. I can't imagine anything worse frankly. I begrudged staying awake to have my own child, like hell am I hanging around a waiting room while someone else has one!

They always drive right up to the door of wherever they're going, hop out the car and dash in. No looking for a car park or parking space for ages, or paying for parking

In Games of Thrones, the characters are able to get from one place to another really quickly, despite it being hundreds of miles away and they are on a horse or foot.

Suitcases always look empty.

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

Braveheart: The fight with the English when Murran got killed, her funeral seemed to be the same day and they were all clean... then that night they were all covered in the blood as in the fighty blood before the funeral and the old man still had the fucking arrow stuck in his chest - the fuck? Ruined it for me. I also heard there was a car in the background somewhere in it... didnt see it though.

And people do go to the loo in the films... Mrs Doubtfire!

They always handle hot drinks where it’s blatantly obvious that nothing is in the cup. All actors should be taught this skill in drama school 😜

I hate it when a character flushes the toilet, changes a nappy or empties the bin - BECAUSE THEY NEVER WASH THEIR HANDS AFTERWARDS.

And every pregnancy reveals itself by causing sudden, violent vomiting in public.

Horses' hooves. Look and listen - they never synchronise the actual movement of the horses with the sounds.

And the sheer number of nocturnal thunderstorms - never during the day.

Handbags always look pristine and brand new and bloody empty.

Cups of coffee/tea are rarely steaming hot and barely half full or maybe empty because you cannot see any liquid.

Not just movies, but TV too, mum makes this enormous breakfast that could easily feed 20 people and must have taken hours. Family member comes down, says I'm not hungry and goes to work/school without eating any of it, or maybe just having a piece of toast. Mum doesn't say anything.

Is there any possibility that they were talking about Fahrenheit?

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The whole Kyle Reese is John Connor's father thing makes no sense at all.

Why are so many murderers drawn to Midsomer and Oxford and yet it goes unremarked and even seen as desirable.to live in these places littered with corpses.

In US based film/tv people on low: medium income live in lavish size houses.

How in 40 years has no woman remarked that Ian Beale is an utter minger?

How their magazines seem to contain endless ammo. They should sell the secret to defence companies. cough Tin Star cough

@formerbabe

I can never understand the end of Titanic when she throws the necklace in the water

I always thought she was throwing it in as a gift to Jack...I could be totally wrong

I have to stop myself from screeching at the TV " don't chuck away your grandkids inheritance!!! Noooo!!! "

How did Jurassic Park get insurance cover to open and operate the first time - never mind the ones after?

It’s a while ago now, but l was always puzzled why Shirley Valentine flew to Mykonos and then took a ferry to the same island!

She worked it out going back though and took a coach straight to the airport.

Person moves to a foreign country and can't speak the language at all. One month later, they are speaking fluently including highly technical language.

I wish it was that easy.

Films set in cities where you cannot travel from A to B without passing EVERY landmark.

eg a 5 minute journey in London has to go over Tower Bridge, past Buckingham Palace, the Eye and Big Ben. or in Paris every journey involves the Champs Elysees (at night of course) and the Eiffel Tower.

Any film or tv series where the specialist doctors are doing all kinds of other peoples work like drawing blood, lab work, radiology et cetera. In reality they sit behind their desk and wait for the results if the other professions to come in. They don't do it themselves.

Actors definitely ARE taught how to make an empty cup seem like a hot cup of coffee, how to carry a bag or suitcase and make it appear full etc... or they did at the drama school I was at! Just lots of actors are shit at it I guess!

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????

Related to the landmarks comments, it always annoys me when two characters appear to move across London in seconds. Unexpected old friend shows up inside (have you ever tried to get into a central London office without an appointment and visitors badge?!) a character's office. They look knowingly at each other then in the next scene they are in Kew gardens or Hampstead Heath but just starting their conversation. WHAT THE HELL DID YOU TALK ABOUT DURING THE 40-60 MINUTE JOURNEY?! DID YOU APPERATE?!