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?

It's relatively recent research, but chewing tougher foods from the beginning leads to stronger jaw muscles which makes the jaw develop differently (better). It will be larger and more robust with more space, so less crowding. You get very few overjets or overbites in archaeological assemblages.

I know!! But it fits the description of what OP asked perfectly. Completely illogical and really grates. I mean imagine I did that to my DH today, started singing to him to pass me the salt. No logic there whatsoever and I can’t watch one without getting irritated by that

I laughed at the other musical- lover responses to my post too, I know mine is an unpopular opinion.

Don't mention "A Touch of Frost" to me!

There's always the inevitable scene where Ole Man Frost chases some fit, 20-ish lad round the roughest of housing estates, leaping over balconies and down steps like a young gazelle, and finally after 200 miles of running through narrow passages etc the young lad collapses, exhausted and barely able to breathe, and Frost grabs him, takes a single deep breath to recover, and says "You're nicked" (and he still has his hat on).

Plus - can you imagine what it would be like to work with an A-hole like Frost?

Mr Frost - you are not a cute, quirky, dedicated officer who is determined to see justice done. You are a total pain in the arse, leaving all the necessary paperwork to some other poor bugger, breaking all the rules of PACE so the cases would get thrown out anyway, and helping yourself to other people's food and drink from the fridge.

It was Mullet who deserved that medal for putting up with you.

Also Oliver Twist. Workhouse foundling who sounded posher than Jenny Bond - and she sounded posher than the Queen.

So long as sci-fi movies at least try to be accurate and take advice from NASA/JPL etc then I am not going to get in a twist over some minor use of artistic license for dramatic effect or to help carry the plot. I really enjoyed Interstellar and The Martian. The latter was criticised for things like the dust storm at the beginning of the film (storms of such intensity do not exist on Mars), growing potatoes (Martian soil is too toxic) and the scene when Watney fixes a crack in his visor with duct tape. What I don’t like are films that are ‘based on true events’ that then go on to basically take every historical liberty and pretty much ignore any actual facts.(yes Braveheart, U571, Memphis Belle, King Arthur, Pearl Harbour, Alexander…I’m looking at you)

Are you asking for a friend Mothership?

I was watching Reacher, too and also cringed at that.

Plus . . . he lives on the road, walks everywhere, has one set of clothes, gets a shower and shave in 11 minutes, doesn't carry more than a few dollars in his pocket - when does he get his chest waxed?

And what does he do when all that strong black coffee he drinks gives him the sh1ts?

(Mind - this present one is a damn sight better than that midget, Tom Cruise.)

I've been catching up with "three little birds"

I'm certain I heard a girl order chablis, in a pub in Dudley in the 50's.

In 'The Piano', Ada sends a love note written on a piano key to the Keitel character, though earlier in the film, it's established he can't read, and she knows that.

As a lot of people have mentioned labour depicted in films, here is my story. When my water's broke with my first baby it was just a gentle trickle that went on all day, just slightly wetting myself. I totally ignored it as I thought waters breaking was a big splash all in one go, just like the films!. Told my mum hours later and she told me to get to the hospital. I was in labour and my baby was early, but because there was now little fluid they couldn't delay my labour as there was a threat of infection. Everything turned out fine, but if I had known that not all waters break in one go, I would've gone to the hospital much sooner!

That is one of the most ridiculous and hilarious things I've ever seen.

You have my ideal life! Reading books, drinking coffee surrounded by loving animals. I want to be you!

Ha. I know cyber security being my job. I watched black hat which had one of the hens worth brothers on a boat covered with models

when in reality you’re in a windowless rooms with servers 😂😂😂😂

You wouldn’t believe how many people have password. As their password. Or 1234.

I would say a good 75% of people.

The hate for Love Actually is a joy to behold. Truly one of the worst films ever.

I reckon we're meant to think that middle class London folks using swear words is utterly hilarious. Same with '4 Weddings and all that fkkity fck stuff. Problem is, it's not.

She's good but it's not astonishing and it doesn't redeem the film. Women always say they love that scene because this is what they dread the most.

Yes, the Emma Thomson story is the best of a bad lot, but that's not saying much.

And as with all the other story lines, it was based on misogynistic cliches. Why not have her character contemplating an affair with a hot young office junior? And her husband sitting sadly at home?

James Bond/ Raiders of the lost Ark type films where the female lead finds herself in the castle of a random Arab sheik/ baddie/ Nazi commander. There's always a evening dress type dinner. She gets given a dress she's never seen before. She never needs to shave her armpits or worry that the bra /knickers she's wearing already dont work with the dress. I know it's a film and it's not remotely trying to be real but it really annoys me.

Some teeny weeny young police woman who chases a huge young male suspect. Not only can she run faster she has no problem bringing him down.

Any fight scene involving a man & woman with the woman coming off the better.

Women screaming in orgasmic ecstasy as soon as a man waves his willy generally in their direction.

Sex with no foreplay…ouch!

Can’t remember the bond film but he slides down the bits between the escalators on the tube. Miraculously the things they put up to stop people doing that have disappeared

Vanessa Kirby is one of the best actresses out there. The film itself wasn't great but she elevates everything she is in.

I've never given birth so can't judge the 'realism'. But on TV, birth scenes are either excruciating and extended, with lots of screaming and writhing, or a couple of pushes and the baby appears, all shiny and clean and looking at least 3 months old.

And the woman will always go into labour at the most dramatic moment possible.

Yes, same with Passengers. People criiticised it for the asteroid hit scene and others and I'm like give me a break, it's called suspension of belief and it's the future.

This was standard when I started drinking because typically the pub would only have one of each type (generally, that brewery's own products).
Same as when you go into Costa, you order a latte, not a "Costa latte", etc.
I agree it makes no sense nowadays when the pub has 20 different bitters or lagers to choose from.

I can't remember any movies like these...examples?