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 a film, but This Is Us. I binged watched the lot quite recently. The entire opening premise about Randall finding his father - it made no sense whatsoever how that could have been achieved. I kept hoping it would be explained, but it never was. There was a vague reference at the start to Randall hiring a PI, but (as the series pans out and shows) at the time he hired the PI, he had absolutely zero information for the PI to use, so how on earth could the father have been found?

What irritated me was the number of times Rose was on the verge of escaping and got back onto the sodding ship. It's not as if they were increasing the tension in any way, because we already knew from the outset that she had survived.

In my (very limited) experience, they fart a lot more than films would suggest. That can be pretty noisy (and noxious).

Every poker scene in film or tv has a player move which is just not allowed in the the rules of actual poker. Its even got a name called the Hollywood Bet.

Any romcom where the they meet their love interest by chance in public ie dropped their book in the street and a handsome stranger happened to reach for it at the same time as them and their eyes meet and they freeze…🙄 Or they miss their flight and have to wait for the next one where a tall dark stranger leaning against the wall with a wry smile is there in the waiting room eyeing her up.
Weve been sold a lie!!! Just never ever happens it’s extremely hard to meet people randomly in public without looking like a desperate creep 😂

I long for an adaptation of Oliver Twist where he actually sounds as if he has been brought up in a workhouse rather than having angelic looks and speaking RP…

Any medical drama where:

They are looking for kidney/ liver for transplantation and miraculously the donor organ is a match in the same hospital.

Try Pieces of a Woman for a realistic labour scene. Vanessa Kirby is astonishing.

Skylar/Skyler is a name of English and Dutch origin, and was taken to the US by Dutch settlers but was already in the UK. So… what’s the problem?

Why did Dale Cooper not simply stop the talent show? Why did he let it go ahead?! It doesn't make any sense. 30 years and I'm still not over it.

American films, when the characters are in cars, vans, trucks, absolutely NOBODY knows what a seatbelt is! I very rarely see anyone wearing one!

When the vehicle they're in is being driven in an erratic way, chasing/being chased whatever, the people, in real life would have been torn apart being flung through the windscreen or battered from being knocked about but the characters are sat there quite calmly!

Medical scenes and some idiot is smoking/vaping INSIDE the hospital! What hospital/medical facility would allow someone to puff away on a cigar inside a ward/room?!

This winds me up at the start of every Hey Duggee…

HA HA HA!

You'd be shocked at how many people actually do this irl lol not just their dogs name but literally something like Password123

Something small but still annoying - drinking out of clearly empty cups/mugs! 😁

I watched Ambulance last night. Eiza Gonzalez'character is a paramedic and has her hair tied up except for a huge piece of hair hanging across her eye. At one point she needs to do something where she really needs to concentrate and having her vision obscured is not a good idea but nope, looking hot and sexy is more important.

Also, I noticed this with watching The Lazarus Project but it happens a lot in films, there will be a SWAT team storming a building and the team will be in protective clothing with machine guns and helmets yet the main characters just wear a bullet proof vest, hold a hand gun and no helmet, surely that wouldn't happen irl.

London is Falling - which is clearly not filmed in London as the traffic lights and pedestrian crossings are wrong. Not to mention the fact that no one can speed through central London!

The character was supposed to be a posh English type. Skylar doesn’t fit. Jemima, Araminta, Camilla would. Skylar seems like the kind of name and American writer would think is upper class British, but isn’t

Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning - runaway steam train, no-one can access the driving bit to stop it, but then also there's no-one there to stoke the fire. And yet it never slows down, it just .... keeps .... on ..... running away
For about half the film 🤔

Anyone who actually sees a GP. Except fantasy and period dramas.

The start of Night at the Museum 2. The diorama figures, previously on display at a famous (real) museum are being packed away by being thrown into a box of sawdust. Definitely not conservation grade, and really bad object handling! Yes the shot was good, but my friend had to pause the dvd so I could have a rant… So many films involving museums or archives really.

The film of Elizabeth was unexpectedly hilarious. At one point someone leaves the Galilee chapel in Durham cathedral (can’t remember where is
t is supposed to be), rides for a long while, and then delivers a message in the chapter house. There was a huge wave of laughter when I saw it in the cinema in Durham.

Any car chase scene set in London where they are travelling at more than 7mph.

Mind blowing.

Anytime someone is running away from something or someone they will always trip up, always, even when there is nothing to trip on, they will still fall over.

Tbf that is 90% of MN dilemmas. If they’d just actually talk to their DH, MIL, whichever work colleague or friend they deem a CF/rude almost everything could likely be resolved happily in ten mins. Instead they start furious MN threads 😂

Great thread! One of mine is accents, which PP:s have mentioned. People speaking "fluent Russian" when any eejit can hear their thick accents and know they'd be dragged off as spies. So often. I also hate when they cast random foreigner as specific foreigner, so the supposedly Spanish foreigner has a Farsi accent. This is very very prevalent in Swedish films I can tell you, where accent work is nil and the broad brush of prejudice traditionally swept with wide strokes.