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 Cinderella - if he was so in love with her, why didn't he recognise her face?

Foot fetish?

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

At a works Christmas do in about 1986 someone suddenly turned round at said, "Sashh, wow it is you* He'd just asked a work colleague who I was.

I'd swapped my glasses for contacts and put on a dress instead of trousers. This was someone I sat next to at work.

Not just the horses. See Midsomer Murders for foxes crying and owls hooting every time it gets dark.

Yes, I can see it's night time. I don't need an owl hooting to tell me (and round here the owls can get started mid afternoon, so it's meaningless).

Dogs also have to bark every time a dog is shown. Almost as if we don't know it's a dog unless it barks.

The times in big action movies - we've got 45 minutes to solve this problem and find X or they die - then follows huge amounts of travel across the city, lots of conversations, helicopter rides etc. I get they're driving fast but it is just so unrealistic! That really annoys me.

When people meet someone intentionally (think going for coffee) and then within a minute they go "anyway I must go to meet X or do x" - you've just met this person for coffee!

@FairNotFair

Virtually everything in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, but particularly the travelling bit: one minute he's at the White Cliffs of Dover, saying "Tonight we shall sup in my father's house!" (or words that effect) to Morgan Freeman; then he's up on Hadrian's Wall; then (finally) he's at Nottingham, having travelled an additional 400 miles for no discernible reason. In a single day.

This is one of my favourites I never get tired of this film, mainly because of Kevin Costner, but also because of how terrible it is.

Nobody ever uses condoms! ‘I’ve just met you and the chemistry is so overwhelming we will have sex on the kitchen worktop, but let’s not even consider protection’.

There are so many things in detective series which real-life police officers point out as unrealistic, but the main ones seem to be the Inspector barging into crime scenes disturbing evidence, and then doing his/her own door-to-door enquiries!

And I know why they do this, because endless conversations in living rooms or interview rooms would be boring, but the person they talk to is always cutting the hedge, washing the car or tinkering in the garage, or they're at work. After five minutes they always say, something like, 'I couldn't stand Roderick Smythe, Inspector. That's hardly a secret. But I didn't kill him. Now, if you don't mind, I have a lot to get on with...'

Also Cinderella - if he was so in love with her, why didn't he recognise her face? Glamour spell, otherwise the wicked steps would have recognised her.

Airports in films. No security you can go to the gate without a passport, ticket or boarding pass and stop someone getting on a plane.
It happened loads of times in Friends - ie Ross stopping Rachel going to London.

@spookmeout

Airports in films. No security you can go to the gate without a passport, ticket or boarding pass and stop someone getting on a plane. It happened loads of times in Friends - ie Ross stopping Rachel going to London.

And the airports always look tiny! I know they're on a budget, but those low ceilings and cramped waiting-rooms look more like they're waiting to see the dentist.

It's often a problem on 'Friends' - yes, their apartments are massive for New York (rationalised in the script) but a lot of the other places they go to (e.g. the theatres Joey appears in, the TV studio where he does his soap acting, Chandler and Rachel's work offices) look incredibly small. Plus the unconvincing street scenes. I can't remember a single time 'Friends' went outdoors, apart from the London episodes and the beach.

Also Cinderella - if he was so in love with her, why didn't he recognise her face

Well he doesn't seem like a prince amongst men (pun intended) but presumably this was because he sent people out to look for her, rather than going himself?

Also people wouldn't have noticed her before the glam up due to snobbery.

In sex scenes, when it's all over, do they never argue over who sleeps in the wet patch, or who's getting up to get the loo roll?

Also, if zombies eat meat, do they ever poop?!

Airports in films. No security you can go to the gate without a passport, ticket or boarding pass and stop someone getting on a plane.
It happened loads of times in Friends - ie Ross stopping Rachel going to London.

American airports, or at least some of them, used to be like this before 9/11, though. I certainly remember flying out of Logan in the early 1990s and being accompanied by friends right to the gate -- I think that security happened after the gate? But my memories of that part are fairly vague. My memory also is that internal flights had far less security.

@aSofaNearYou

Also Cinderella - if he was so in love with her, why didn't he recognise her face

Well he doesn't seem like a prince amongst men (pun intended) but presumably this was because he sent people out to look for her, rather than going himself?

Also people wouldn't have noticed her before the glam up due to snobbery.

Let me throw in here the (now largely discredited) theory that Charles Perrault, who first wrote down a French version of Cinderella, misheard 'pantoufles de vair' (squirrel fur slippers) as pantoufles de verre (glass slippers), which has been read as a sexual metaphor -- the fur slipper representing Cinderella's genitalia, into which a body part has to be inserted to see if it 'fits' the fussy prince. (Knock yourself out by adding in the sexual/hymen-breaking connotations of the bloodshed of the stepsisters cutting off their toes and heels to fit in the slipper...)

@dexterslockedintheshedagain

Also, if zombies eat meat, do they ever poop?!

I feel you need to come onto my thread about them having sex

Everyone sleeps with the curtains on and often with a lamp turned on too!

Let me throw in here the (now largely discredited) theory that Charles Perrault, who first wrote down a French version of Cinderella, misheard 'pantoufles de vair' (squirrel fur slippers) as pantoufles de verre (glass slippers), which has been read as a sexual metaphor -- the fur slipper representing Cinderella's genitalia, into which a body part has to be inserted to see if it 'fits' the fussy prince. (Knock yourself out by adding in the sexual/hymen-breaking connotations of the bloodshed of the stepsisters cutting off their toes and heels to fit in the slipper

Interesting theory! I'd heard the fur part but not the analysis.

At the end of the day Cinderella is a fairytale so it doesn't really bother me that it doesn't make as such, they're full of heavy symbolism rather than any sense of realism. It doesn't make sense for a wolf to eat a grandma and dress up as her either!

It does annoy me when people don't recognise superheroes though. Within the supposedly real world setting those characters have no excuse.

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

YES exactly why this film annoys the crap out of me. Are we meant to believe this was his divine reward for saving everyone else? If he saved everyone, the man would've lived.

Human memory is not a camera and very few people have such perfect recall they’d be able to perfectly visualise the face of someone they met briefly decades ago

I am one of those people. A super recogniser

'Pick you up at 8' - YOU DINT KNOW WHERE I LIVE

Silent Witness. Where she keeps rocking up to murders in heels so high that I'm surprised she can walk. And then solving said murders by interviewing people - when she should be in the lab up to her elbows in body parts. It's not your job, Nicky, love.

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Silent Witness. Where she keeps rocking up to murders in heels so high that I'm surprised she can walk.

There's a series, I forget the name, which has an American female coroner who wears flimsy dresses that obviously have no pockets. She carries no bag. She travels around to different sites to interview people and look at bodies - where does she keep her keys?

@Zaphodsotherhead

Silent Witness. Where she keeps rocking up to murders in heels so high that I'm surprised she can walk. And then solving said murders by interviewing people - when she should be in the lab up to her elbows in body parts. It's not your job, Nicky, love.

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Just had a mad all night sex sesh, wakes up late, breathes dog breathe on each other, gets dressed (no washing your sweaty bits and pits), no teeth brushing or hair brushing - cuts to scene of said smelly person in a swanky office looking immaculate. Really!

Women waking up with make up on (and not smeared all over face and pillow).