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!

How many people in real life have sex on their kitchen worktops? It always happens in films.

Or at least without 'argh. Hang on a mo. I've sat on some crumbs. I bloody hope that's mayonnaise. Did you turn the oven off?' etc

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

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.

Having sex with your bra on. Yeah, right.

No one ever needs a visa to move to another country, either.

@ADrabLittleCrab

Actually the whole glass slipper thing in the Cinderella story...how come her slipper fits no other foot in the land? If my shoe fell off, it'd fit anyone around a 5.5 probably up to a 6.5.

I’ve always thought the fairy godmother left a wee bit of magic in the shoes to make sure they only fit Cinderella.

@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!)

I thought I was next to Borough Market. Either way I'm not convinced she'd have managed on her salary. Even if things were so much cheaper then (sob)

In the film it's on Bedale Street by Borough Market, an insanely expensive area. I have an idea it's somewhere else in the books, but not sure.

Not rtft but don't get me started on "animals United", geographic nonsense.

Also, in "the kid who would be king", there is a full moon the night before a solar eclipse. No. Just no.

@SassenachWitch

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

If you rewatch it he does try to get on and it sinks under them when he does

*Not movie but tv

How come on the likes of Eastenders or Corrie it doesn't matter how down and out you are you can always afford the pub, you can sit in the pub at any time of the day and no one blinks an eye particularly if you should be working and better yet where do the kids be when everyone else is in the pub? Do they have secret babysitters?*
And thy say "see you in the caff at lunch-time". Is that midday, 1pm or 2pm? Not everyone goes for lunch at the same time.

Action movies where the hero gets beaten nearly unconscious (while the villain remains fresh as a daisy), then gets up and wins the fight. Why not just hit the villain that hard to begin with?

@forgetthehousework and all the villains stand in a circle waiting for thier go to fight with the hero rather than what would happen in real life of everyone just piling in!!!

In every American film they show the outside of a Massive property nd then offer the guest the sofa? Who’s in all the bedrooms?

@Steviethetv

I can never understand the end of Titanic when she throws the necklace in the water. It really annoys me and now I actually have to turn it off

Me too. Why didn't she give it to her granddaughter?!

Prison break - We watch 4 seasons of Michael being an absolute genius. In the 4th series they're working to beat the Company and get Scylla, they finally have it and then Michael hands it over to Self who is supposedly working for the police and going to hand it over. Except that Self is on his own when he takes Scylla and screws them over. Why didnt Michael make sure of this like he did with everything else.

@doadeer

That people get on their beds in their shoes!! Surely people don't do this???

My dp does and it drives me fucking nuts.

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

From a materialistic stand point I always wince when she does this but I always took it as symbolic of her holding on to whole not caring about material goods thing that she got from her relationship with Jack. All of the modern day characters were obsessed with knowing where the necklace was and she chose to tell them that long story instead. It was supposed to show that she was still the same firecracker she was and hadn't forgotten her time with him and what it meant to her.

That's how I always saw it.

In some films they never eat ....

Happily staying in creepy rented shacks in the middle of nowhere then investigating disturbing noises alone.

Pulling into petrol stations in Deliverance country then getting gobby with the locals.

Action movies where the hero gets beaten nearly unconscious (while the villain remains fresh as a daisy), then gets up and wins the fight. Why not just hit the villain that hard to begin with?

To add to this, people being knocked unconscious repeatedly yet not suffering brain damage.

There was a great thread on Reddit recently about how difficult it is to render someone unconscious without killing or brain damaging them (which is why anaesthesiologists have so many years of training), and movies always portray this incorrectly.

Yes to the sofa sleeping!! Massive American houses but when the couple fight one of them finds themselves in the tiny sofa in a study!!! I point it out all the time, much to everyone else's annoyance.

When children are playing in the living room and someone arrives to talk to their parent. The parent then tells the children to go play in their room and they just get up and leave with no fuss.

Same for bedtimes. Parent says 'time for bed' and up they go and fall asleep. No asking for another story or saying they're hungry/ thirsty/ scared/ not tired.

Yes! Go and play...

My children would spend ages whining about what was happening and then listening at the door being annoying.

Nobody ever has a passcode or thumbprint on their phone. So when they leave the room someone grabs it and instantly scrolls through all their messages to look for clues. Ditto when people sneak into their study to check the computer, they make a few attempts at a password then look around the room, see a photo of their pet and bingo! They guess the correct password is the pet's name. What happens if the password is set by Google and it's ajwxr!8Rz? You'd never guess that!

Why do people come down for breakfast washed, dressed, fully made up with blowdried hair, wearing shoes and sit down at the table which is perfectly set with fresh fruit, juice and coffee like it's a restaurant when its just their own home. Who ever does this on their way to work? Does no one stagger downstairs in their dressing gown to put the kettle on?

In American films - why do they only ever use brown paper bags without handles to carry their shopping which they have to hug to their chests. They are the worst method of carrying shopping ever. Why do Americans get Chinese food in pristine white card boxes when we get foil containers. And Americans only seem to have pure white eggs never speckled brown ones.

In the Prisoner of Azkaban I don't understand the time travelling bit. It's my favourite HP film but I still don't understand.
The premise is that harry has to go back in time to create his patronus in order to change the future. But IT'S ALREADY HAPPENED as he witnessed it himself. So he isn't actually changing/ needing to change anything.

There is something similar that bugs me in the film Source Code. I think it's that in one of the versions he manages to apprehend the bomber but the same thing happens anyway (can't remember exactly - will need to watch again).

In crime dramas when the detective is interviewing someone and the penny starts to drop about what has really happened and instead of getting all the details, detective immediately gets up and hurtles off.

Yes to being in bed with a bra on. Surely if you were shagging for the first time the chap would want to make sure he got a good look at all your worldly goods!

People only seem to have miscarriages after falling down stairs.

In Gone Girl (also the book) the antagonist manages to get pregnant from her husband's semen sample which had been stored when having fertility investigations. This seems so unlikely as surely that would be taken just to look at sperm levels and not retained. Even if it was, it seems unlikely it would have been frozen in conditions to preserve it as a "live" sample. They weren't at the stage of having any treatment.

Characters in soaps who visit the local caff for a cup of tea on a daily basis. Surely their house is about twenty seconds away where you could have a brew for free instead of spending two quid on one every five minutes?!

There is something similar that bugs me in the film Source Code. I think it's that in one of the versions he manages to apprehend the bomber but the same thing happens anyway

I will bring this up every time Source Code is mentioned but wtf happens to the original guy when Jake gets his happy ever after? He saves the day and gets to stay inside the fella on the train and walks off into the sunset with the his new gf. But what about the guy whose body he just stole? That is the biggest problem with Source Code 😂