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?

Anything involving alcohol, character drinks a bottle of vodka then is miraculously sober enough to save the day!

TV wise, Eastenders, how do so many people live in 1 house?? And where are all the children??

A few years ago there was a Masterchef winner who met his wife in a romcom scenario. His wives shopping bags split so he helped her get everything together. He was a pilot - in uniform!

When they pour orange juice in a glass and literally pour in a quarter of a glass

Agree with posters about Titanic. I went to see it with a group and we came out a bit non-plussed as it was being hyped at the time. I would have been far more interested in the actual characters on board not two fictional unrealistic ones. Effects were great for the time.

Someone upthread is saying survivors (very few) were in the water for some time before being picked up. The water was about -2, those still in the water died quickly and within minutes. Not that it matters

Another one for Love Actually
The unrealistic swearing. Who says "piss it"

The kids love story was awful

Why did Laura Linney not just put her phone on silent.

Not love actually but any film or tv show that has an actor doing a Scots accent. We can tell it's not real! (Except Johnny Lee miller in trainspotting)

In Dirty Dancing the amount of dancers that worked there. What was their actual role? never saw them actually doing anything to justify their employment.

Oh, I have another one: There's a scene in Vikings (which I have not watched bar this scene) where they're travelling to Uppsala by water. A magnificent, fjord-ish landscape with hills and valleys. However, Uppsala is smack in the middle of one of the flattest areas of Sweden. Granted, this is not illogical per se, but it's very hard to take seriously if you know.

I loved Gravity but I think there were some scientific issues. I’m no expert but this sets them out:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/10/21/heres-what-gravity-gets-right-and-wrong-about-space/

Some of it like the space stations being in orbit at different heights and getting out of the space suit so quickly aren’t necessarily such a big deal but letting go of george clooney when they’re both weightless, and just pointing her spaceship in the general direction of where she wants to go and not taking into account the forces in space are perhaps bigger issues.

i didn’t mind though.

i love space movies but i found the scene in Interstellar when he falls into the black hole and instead of being immediately crushed under the immense gravity, he finds himself looking at his daughters bookcase and making her watch move (or whatever it was he did to communicate with her)

Also in the film of phantom of the opera, about a hideously ugly man with a beautiful voice, they cast a good looking man who can’t sing.

The scene where he murders Piangi the opera singer who is due to go on stage with Christine and disguises himself as the deceased get close to Christine (in the play, this is by being covered by a big hood), Gerard Butler is wearing a small mask over his eye sockets and fooling absolutely no one that he is Piangi. Just why?

Thank you for that recommendation - I've just watched a couple of the videos and it's brilliant!

The Holiday where she decides to leave the house swap early and drives off without any thought for the dog

I love the film Broken Arrow but it always grates on me that quite early in the adventure, the female character says she just wants to go home and feed her dog, and she then goes on to spend a whole day defeating bad guys with never another mention of feeding the dog. I hope he was OK!

All of Gosford Park.

Indeed. At one point she was actually on a lifeboat but climbed off at the last minute rather than be parted from Jack - so wasting a space on a lifeboat which could have saved someone else.

What is really offensive is that Rose later berates the fact that lifeboats did not pick up many survivors and describes the people on the boats as 'waiting for an absolution which never came' - as if they should feel guilty about surviving?!! Again, these were real people who suffered an horrific ordeal and deserved far better than this.

People in (usually historical) films who get off their horse and just let go of the reins, leaving the horse to wander off and do its own thing. In reality, nobody would ever do this. Horses are expensive and very good at injuring themselves.

Three Musketeers, Robin Hood, Game of Thrones, Poldark, I'm looking at you (for starters).

@Crabble I remember a Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse sketch ages ago, about the improbability of an operatic plot disguise like a masque. The sketch involved one of them wearing a large yellow hat and the other saying "Cor, wouldn't have known you from Adam there, you had a hat on..." when they finally removed it!

Pretty sure this is because in many j stands they are not allowed to promote named brands, it would be seen as preferential advertising.

Can you imagine how pissed off one brand would be if their market rival was named on a huge soap watched by millions?

This is why advertisers particularly in America pay a fortune for "product placement" in shows. So a beloved character is seen wearing a particular watch or eating a particular brand of cereal. That's all paid for.

Wow that’s amazing. I once had what they call a ‘meet cute’. I came out of a department store at the same time as someone was coming in, we ended up in a tangle but instead of it being romantic he huffed, gave me a dirty look and stomped off. 🙁

Here’s my biggest issue.

main hero kills or seriously harms masses of goons, anyone who gets in his way gets pummelled…..except for the main bad guy who the hero suddenly feels empathy for, or wants to show he is the bigger person by not harming him, or suddenly realises that violence is not the answer etc etc. like what about everyone else he hurt??

or also main guy commits multiple crimes to clear his name, and somehow does not get charged or arrested for said crimes, because well he didn’t commit the original crime he was suspected of

Anything medical.
Anything forensic sciency.
Anything about dying.

It is. His ape mother gets stabbed by a tribesman at the beginning of the movie. His father is then taken to London after being caught in an African expedition and is imprisoned at the lab. He screams "he was my father" after they shoot the ape out of the tree.

Like you I loved this film when I was a kid, the musical score is amazing. Only thing that spoils it is Andie McDowell who cannot act her way of a paper bag. Glen Close actually had to re-dub her lines in post production as she was so awful.
The make up for the apes was done by Rick Baker and was brilliant for its day.

Back to Top Gun Maverick, which I actually love, but they're on a racing yacht, with no safety gear/life jacket on. I shout at the screen every time!

Not to mention bouncing off Norway and Denmark a couple of times as they got their bearings . . .

Gym-toned bodies, both male and female, in period dramas.

I recently saw something - can’t remember what - that featured the hero leaving the house at 6 am or thereabouts. In the middle of winter in the north of the USA, no leaves on the trees, but in full daylight. Annoyed me quite a lot.

looking at her lettuce

😂

Priceless!

I just looked it up and yes, I think so. It was Harper's wife/girlfriend and it was in a tent.

Very educational programme for a teen!

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