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?

Not to mention that Julia Roberts seems to be about 8' 5" tall and weighing 3st 8 anyway.

Hardly "muffin"., let alone "muffin top".

Everything in Fool Me Once…no British person has guns like that. And they kept using American phrases for things.

robin of sherwood, at Dover, we’ll be in Nottingham by nightfall, via Hadrian wall. Oh yeah.

watched a film that was filmed in my area, the whole cinema was very distracted by roads that were south of the town suddenly turning into roads 10 miles north.

Lovers throwing off their winter clothes without diving straight under the bed covers, in any film set in Britain before about 1970.

It was freezing! Few houses had central heating. Even a roaring fire only keeps one side of you warm. They’d be a mass of goose pimples. The wildest passion could not defeat that damp bone-chilling cold.

People didn’t freeze to death in minutes. And survivors did make contact with the water during the sinking and after. It was pretty true (apart from the fictional storylines).

A few swimmers reached a lifeboat after the ship went down and were rescued. Some people who made it onto lifeboats from
the ship has been in contact with the sea water filling the titanic. A couple of life boats returned to the area to look for survivors and pulled some living people from the water (some later died from hypothermia) whilst the majority had died from the cold. But the returning life boats didn’t go back after just minutes, they went back after some time had passed.

How has this never occurred to me before hahaha

When the boss/CEO is soooo important to the conglomerate/empire but always has a spotless desk with just one tiny MacBook to work on. Usually switched off.

I realise you can do that, a friend is learning Japanese and they call it 'romaji' .

If I saw something written in the roman alphabet my first thought would not be, 'Chinese'.

@magicmole

Probably. I know in 'Dances with Wolves' they had a language expert for the Lakota language, Doris Leader Charge. She was shocked on her first day that none of the actors spoke Lakota.

It was probably a good thing as they all learned from one person.

I'm not sure about Spanish but in the second series of Money Heist one of the characters is a Porteño and has his accent mocked.

Both of these posts are very interesting - especially the "soft, solid foods" one.

I suppose the occasional tooth may have got broken, but otherwise decay wouldn't happen.

I have read that Inuit women in the traditional societies literally wore their teeth down to gum level chewing seal/walrus hides until they were soft enough to make clothing from.

Edited to add: In the Middle Ages etc I think people used soot to clean teeth.

But it’s not “Hadrian’s wall” in the film. It’s just a nice location in the countryside walking along a wall. They haven’t walked almost to the top of England in the movie. It’s just a location which looked good. Like in World War Z when all the zombie’s run across George Square in Glasgow. It’s not George Square in the film, it’s “random square in New York.” We all know it’s George square but no one is saying “how are they sitting in traffic in New York and now they’re suddenly in Glasgow” because it’s just a location which looks good but isn’t playing that location in the film itself.

Yes the Richard Attenborough one. There were several famous names in it. I recorded it off the Talking Pictures channel (TPTV) that show old films and TV shows. I keep an eye on that channel because they do get some absolute blasts from the past. They will send a weekly email with details of what they have coming up and some stuff they show is available online for a limited period - And Then There Were None has finished though. They also want people to email in ideas. It is a tiny company compared to all the others. They are on Virgin 445 | Freeview 82 | Sky channel 328 | Freesat 306 | Youview 8.

https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/

@instaram in the shopping basket, you can see she is buying a corkscrew with a cork attached which shows how she opened the wine bottle.

My main issue with this film is that they can both afford last minute flights on Christmas Eve and get seats!!

Rather a bitchy comment, no?

Not a film, but those scenes in Broadchurch where relatives of the murder victim had to search around to find prosecution counsel. What was the CPS doing? And they claimed to have a legal adviser.

This is what made me cry at the movie. I didn't give a crap about Jack and Rose but when they portrayed the real stories with some of the families, the old couple and the band etc., that's what set me off because so many people really died on it and it must have been terrifying.

This wasn't a film, but Silent Witness last night . A pregnant woman was trying to access her murdered husband's computer . Tried a password which was what they were going to call their son , No good . Try if it's a girl , someone suggested . Bang , straight in ! Laughable .

Talking of which - the way in Silent Witness the entire senior staff abandon anything else they're doing to go interviewing suspects, chasing baddies, and generally taking full part in the police investigation. Judging by their individual lifestyles, the lab is clearly changing full whack for its services but none of the police they encounter seem at all bothered about how they can justify paying forensic experts for non-scientific work.

This reminds me of Good Will Hunting, where the posh English girlfriend - played by Minnie Driver - is called Skylar.

With the mention of Saltburn, I just can't believe that all that stuff happened with Oliver and the whole family and not once did anyone suspect anything about the new guy who's been around before all these tragedies happened, especially by the end with Elspeth and the inheritance. I know many years had passed but I still feel there would have been a hell of an investigation there.

watched a film that was filmed in my area, the whole cinema was very distracted by roads that were south of the town suddenly turning into roads 10 miles north.

I had recently while watching Fury, an American WW2 film. It was set in northern France but not far in I started to recognise some of the locations and views as being not far from where I live in the UK.

Ha ha this made me laugh because my dad still draws all his plans by hand! But I agree, he is probably the only one in the country who still does. The bonus is you can frame your hand drawn plans at the end and they look quite good in your new extension / house!

Also all histoical dramas featuring well nourished, good looking tanned actors with perfect teeth (so all of them).

I don't have underarm hair. I had a few wispy bits as a teenager but they disappeared. If you saw me at the gym or swimming pool it might infuriate you but not all women have underarm hair.

I guess the bearded lady wouldn't have had a job if she'd removed the beard.

Most legal dramas as they usually get the rules of evidence and procedure wrong, which distracts me from the storyline (former lawyer 😂).

My old boss had his hand drawn plans framed. They do look really good don't they. I wonder you dad did them.

I take exception to that comment!

It is THE worst film ever made!

I soooo looked forward to it (Alan Rickman - who wouldn't?) and even the wonderful AR couldn't redeem the pile of steaming sh!te it was.