Scenes in films that are so illogical it really grates.

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Eat Pray Love.
The two women have just discussed eating, muffin-tops, body image, etc, and Julia Roberts says to enjoy the pizza and just buy bigger jeans.

So in the next scene they are buying jeans, but doing that stereotypical-joke thing of lying on the changing room floor trying to pull up the zip on too-tight jeans.
Why? - that totally defeats the object.

I guess the male writer/director thought it would be a fun scene, that is how he imagines women always shop for jeans.
It just makes no sense in the context of the film.

What scenes really annoy you?

True, but Emma Thompson redeems the film in five minutes of astonishing acting.

Labour scenes. Always about 6 characters running together through a hospital because someones waters suddenly broke. It made me really fear giving birth, I genuinely didn't know until I was pregnant that this is not what happens. I was upset that all my inlaws would be standing around watching.

Titanic. The water is so cold outside that people are freezing to death in minutes, yet Rose is merrily up to her neck in freezing water in the corridors for the last part of the film with barely a shudder.

I saw "Women Talking" last night. Brilliant film, but I was completely distracted by the women smoking in a hayloft. No one in a farming community would be that stupid

Not just the whole of Love Actually, but the Mrs Brown's Boys film.

Films written/directed/produced by men who have never seemingly met a woman before.

Also there was a Robert Redford film, filmed in the place I worked at the time, but also in other places, so in one scene they'd be in my work and then they'd turn a corner and be somewhere totally not in my work, and then open a door back into my work. No one else would have noticed but it did my head in.

Any hacking scene where the wiz can get into traffic lights, random security or pull up blueprints that allows them to 3D-render exactly where they need to visualise in minutes (too many to name).

Any genetics scene where they have a double helix on screen (too many to name).

Any (usually American) movie where every family has to have a 7 year old child genius who is capable of challenging all the adults in the family.

Ive yet to see a decent labour scene in a film.
considering many women give birth I find this so frustrating.
Labour is always incredibly quick. Always on their back. No stitches. What? I find the length of labour the most annoying.

Not a film but in ‘You’ when the main creepy guy managed to walk the whole of London in half an hour. Things like that. Poor research.

Any scene with a computer where someone guesses the password straight off, because it's their dog or something. (Who is that stupid?)

Any scene with a computer where most of the screen is taken up with a massive message saying something like "Copying files," or "Access denied."

One of the Sherlock Holmes films with RDJ. They go under parliament and come out a few steps later by Tower Bridge.

Nobody locks their pcs. Police, Mi5, CIA.

Any scene with a computer where someone guesses the password straight off, because it's their dog or something. (Who is that stupid?)

I was coming on to say the same thing.

I dont know if it happens as much nowadays, as I rarely watch the more up to date films.

Maybe not illogical but more improbable - so many Disney or kids movies where the parents are British/French/ Russian etc. complete with dodgy accents but the main child always has an American accent. Annoys the hell out of me.

Not going to try and remember the titles, but these are literally everywhere:

If we have a "sophisticated" character he/ she is often an architect, living in huge modernist home, walking round with rolls of paper or sitting stylishly near the drawing board not doing much - most architects I know are paid peanuts, live in flat shares in their 30s, work so much they have no time to date and literally no one draws by hand anymore.

People with low paid jobs (waitresses, freelance journalists, librarians, teachers) living by themselves in beautiful flats and massive houses in Central London, Manhattan or Paris.

Anything computer related, the Q “he hacked us” scene in skyfall makes me shout at the screen every single time about how stupid the writing is.

Just been watching the early episodes of Call the Midwife. At least one baby born every episode, and it wasn't until about series three that the writers discovered the existence of placentas.

This links to the previous posts about birth scenes but really any scenes to do with people in hospital where the whole cast of friends, distant relations, partners of friends etc all hang out in a quiet comfortable waiting room and then gather around the bedside of a private room as soon as the person has been treated. In real life guests are often limited so you couldn’t have a whole crowd at once, waiting facilities are often poor and very few people end up in a private room, plus in real life your best friend’s aunty’s milkman is unlikely to turn up at the hospital to wait for news. In real life nobody outside of immediate family is likely to descend on the hospital at first news of someone being admitted but in TV it’s always every single main character regardless of their relationship with the patient.

This, I was shocked when I was pregnant to know that it's usually hours after your water breaks you have a baby and that lying on your back is the worst possible position to give birth in. It really says something about the patriarchy that this is the norm that is portrayed.

Gravity. Pretty much all of it.

Film hackers comes to mind

Any film set in London where the characters travel in a completely illogical direction between two locations. Piccadilly Circus to Westminster? Well obviously you travel via Primrose Hill and Tower Bridge

Any sex scene where the woman orgasms pretty much instantly. Usually with zero foreplay.

Actual sex was a real disappointment... often still is 😆

But Gravity was ground-breaking in its portrayal of Kessler Syndrome, and a mainstream film putting out the idea that humanity is not destined to have a bright future out in space.

What was wrong with it? I don't know enough about space walking to know.