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?

In Titanic we are shown Rose looking at paintings by Picasso, in particular Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, which goes down with the ship - except that you can stroll into MOMA in New York and view it. This particular thing (amongst many, many things) in the movie really annoys me.

There's always a parking spot right in front of the building/restaurant/courthouse they need to go to. All children are good as good and do what they are told (unless it's about the kids, even then). Women give birth and he next day wearing their own old clothes looking as good as they did before.
Waking up in full makeup!
Also after rigorous live making they get up, pull in their clothes and walk out and get in with their day. Or they wake up in the morning, throw on whatever clothes NEVER GO TO THE TOILET.
Medical dramas where regular doctors look at the MRI while it's being done and instantly diagnose the issue. My DD has had six and it's never done by a doctor.
Also always wonder how women in those 'on the run' off in the wild deal with their periods...

Also why does everyone seem to live a lot of their lives outdoors. As soon as they leave their house there’s always loads of others about wanting to stop and chat. Just doesn’t happen.

Also people find phones of their whomever and they are never locked! Instantly start scrolling!

The truth often hurts.

In Jurassic World when Claire Dearing manages to run in stilettos.

I could be projecting there though as I can barely stand in them.

Not a film, and I haven't read the whole thread so may have been mentioned already, but houses in soaps that are small yet seem to have multiple people living there quite comfortably with no mention of not having enough bedrooms. In Emmerdale I know Kim Tate has a mansion but surely there isn't a bedroom for Kim & Will, Dawn & Billy, Gabby, Thomas, Clemmie, Lucas and then one for Nicky the nanny when he was there! Given the house only has 2 downstairs rooms that they ever show. And don't get me started on the tiny cottages in the village with a similar number of folk living in them!

Oh and any car chase scene where the windscreen/door etc gets shot at. Just shoot the bloody tyres 😡

Any American tv or film drama where the mum or dad, working or non working is calmly preparing a cooked breakfast of some sort for their kids before school, fully dressed, in make up and having a conversation about the day ahead.

As opposed to endlessly saying the same old hurry up, shoes, teeth, pe kit, have you got your lunch shite.

Every so often you get a reasonable portrayal of a normal family start to the day but it's always British. My kid brother once told us when he was little that he wanted to live in America because a yellow bus would pick him up from the end of the [very short] driveway every day. We were a 5 min walk from school and it probably would have

Haven't read the full thread so someone else might have said... but there isn't a Surrey village so isolated that the cab driver won't go to the (unfeasibly large) cottage, but the cottage dweller (in pre WFH times) can still commute into London all week.

And I don't know what imaginary part of Surrey has had snow like that over Xmas in the last 20 years...

Beepy computers.

Any computer in any film or TV program makes beepy computer noises when being used.

Looking at a map? Beepy noises.

Typing a sentence? Beepy noises.

Access denied? Beepy noises.

The VERY FIRST THING anyone does when they get a computer is turn the beepy noises OFF.

In all the soaps the characters all seem to have jobs in the immediate vicinity.

People always go to talk to one another in person, when a phone call would suffice.

Happily, even in major cities like Paris or London, everyone lives and works within a short walking distance of each other.

"Is that white or red?"

I am loving this reacher series, cannot wait for season three to come out, but still, I too thought it was ridiculous with the password thing.
And they were all nonchalant about it too. Like oh yes itll definitely be reacher1234. It never even occurred to them (all very clever people) that it could equally have been R€@cH£r/$□♤

The car chases, my life they are unbelievable. Fast X is just silly now.
Hardly anyone eats in TV or movies. Tables full of food, but everyone sits down ready to eat and then some drama happens and they all rush off or the food is ruined somehow.

Crime scene things, like CSI. I regularly shout 'turn the bloody lights on " or "open the sodding curtains you great wazzock" then you'll be able to see" then the same people apparently looking for clues in a dimmer than dim room without any protective measures. Like that long blonde hair you found on the pillow could easily be yours, dumbass.

And then the scripts to virtually all TV shows and often movies, it's the same. Me and DP can often finish a sentence before the actor does.
Its tripe, utter hogwash and most TV writers should be ashamed of themselves.

I've just about given up watching TV, because its reruns of everything. And I don't mean literally re running some old show, I mean remaking entire series, films etc with newer actors. What's the point? Anyone my age has seen the original, if I live to 90 I'll be seeing re run 4. Make some new stuff for gods sake.

I always liked Raiders as the female lead was a capable woman and Indy's equal rather then the useless clumsy scream queen you got in Temple of Doom.

Yep, Albert square would so be full of people working in the City IRL!

Most of Saltburn.
only truly stirring scene was when they struggled to shut the curtains as the body went past and the sister was over pouring her red wine.

@borntobequiet Not a period drama as such, but I noticed this in What's Love Got To Do With It - Angela Basset is amazing but she has a very 90s gym-toned muscular figure, and it just looked so odd when she was wearing 50s full skirts and 60s mini dresses

Not quite, alas.
She's still the captured female that needs to be rescued by a man, and is referred to as "the girl" throughout like she's an object, and despite the fact that's she's a grown woman who ran her own bar, sorted out troublemakers and could drink anyone under the table.

Lots of people are that stupid.

Yes and apparently 17-year-old Rose is so exceptionally insightful and sensitive that she can recognise Picasso's genius whilst other characters believe he'll never amount to anything. And she intuits that the ship is in trouble well before others.

But on the other hand - and among the worst of the 'many, many things' to be annoyed by in Titanic - Rose's complaint 'to me it was a slave ship taking me to the US in chains'. Is that not just tooth-grindingly offensive - Rose comparing her situation to that of actual slaves who made forced transatlantic crossings only decades before? So: not all that insightful and sensitive then.

Everyone knows Morse code. I have never met anyone IRL who knows it.

My mum hated CSI: Miami for this very reason.

Clearly never heard of "Cross Contamination."

Not really a scene, but you rarely see someone locking their car. Whether manually or with the button! They just close the door and walk away.