Page 17 | Scenes in films that are so illogical it really grates.

Yetmorebeanstocount · 2024-02-06T20:23:27+00:00

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?

feemcgee · 07/02/2024 12:05

Mrs Doubtfire, who clearly has a Scottish accent, is asked by Pierce Brosnan where in England she is from, and she doesn't correct him.

Letsnotargue · 07/02/2024 12:08

NeverDropYourMooncup · 06/02/2024 22:31

All of Prometheus, but a special ranty mention for

Really big, really heavy thing about 200 metres high is toppling over where people are running. Instead of hanging a sharp left and getting the fuck out of the way of the thing, they just keep running in the hope that they can cover 200m in exactly the same time (under 10m per second/per second) it would have taken them to go about 20m. They deserved to be squished.
Her robotic laser section. Not only did she work out how to program it in a second for a procedure it had never done and ensure it did a bikini cut rather than a straight up the middle, she didn't think to include a bit of pain relief or anaesthetic for it. AND THEN, with all her abdominal muscles sliced through by the laser and only the skin being held together with a couple of industrial staples (because the magic robot surgeon machine seemed to be missing the 'and seal the subject back up again properly' fileset), she then leaps up to do the 200m dash to evade the giant falling thing, when in reality she'd have been squished for being stupid AND squished because she'd have absolutely no connection between the top part of her torso at the front and her legs, thanks to the complete severing and non repair of her abdominal muscles so would have been in a puddle of blood (still wearing her trousers), heaped up on the floor.

Yes! And the bits where they decide to leave their weapons on the ship because it’s a scientific mission (rather than take them just in case) and when they ‘think’ the air in the cave bit might be breathable so they just take their masks off.

And the alien worm things were such a let down.

Stupid film.

SlightlyJaded · 07/02/2024 12:08

Anyone vomiting.

They are always endlessly coughing? I don't cough - I heave from the gut/wretch/gag/chunder but I don't cough.

LtMoose · 07/02/2024 12:09

Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 06/02/2024 21:23

I am still raging that the bearded lady in The Greatest Showman had her underarms waxed. On every level this infuriates me, if she had access to hair removal why not just remove the facial hair? But mostly it angers me because the concept of a woman having underarm hair is so taboo that the writers/ directors couldn't even fathom it, even when writing about this character. It would be almost acceptable if a small percentage of women were under represented but as we know all women have underarm hair and yet its inconceivable to see it on screen.

Oh my god I thought I was the only one who noticed this, I found it so jarring when I saw it.

Tamrastarr · 07/02/2024 12:09

@Livingtothefull Oh your comment did make me laugh. I actually watched Titanic on TV at the weekend and thought the same about Rose. She was a total spoiled brat! And you know she would've dumped Jack after a few months if she had allowed him onto her floating door and let him live.

WeRateSquirrels · 07/02/2024 12:14

moreshitandnofuckingredemption · 07/02/2024 09:43

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 🤔

This drove me nuts - couldn't focus on anything else while that was happening.

Popetthetreehugger · 07/02/2024 12:14

We are hooked on the worst tv show ever ! La Brea , sink hole opens … down you fall to 10,000 BC . God knows how far we are in … pos season 2 , and they are all in the same spotless clothes , swim threw under ground caves … spotless, you fall 20 feet , boulder on your leg … bear about to eat you …. Spotless. Stabbed ? Need an impromptu lumber punch ? Give it 10 min you’ll be as right as rain … and spotless 🤣

Jovacknockowitch · 07/02/2024 12:15

Any film involving a bomb - eg Speed. The bomb has always been given a series of warning lights and/or a sophisticated countdown display. No terrorist has or would ever bother with this.

viques · 07/02/2024 12:17

Couple wakes up in the morning after a night of passion. She is still wearing her bra. Everyone knows a bra is the first thing to come off.

Couple wakes up in the morning after a night of passion. They get jiggy again, But neither of them has had to go and have a wee.

Couple wakes up in the morning after a night of passion. But oh dear, one or both of them is late for work, never mind, they will put on the crumpled clothes they were wearing yesterday and discarded on the floor, run their fingers through their hair, and amazingly will be as well groomed and tidy as if they had spent an hour getting ready.

Either I am doing waking up after a night of passion all wrong, or they do things different in Hollywood.

LadyShimura · 07/02/2024 12:18

Oh, need to mention Showgirls.

Anyone who's seen it will know the pool sex scene. Like a salmon trying swim upstream.

DoggusDomesticus · 07/02/2024 12:19

TheCadoganArms · 07/02/2024 11:50

LOL. Tough audience. Yes she gets captured, but not benignly as she twats some henchmen with a frying pan first. She also knocks out the Nazi pilot, machine guns the truck full of more Nazis, punches Indy and tries to at least plot an escape by drinking Belloq under the table. For 1981 it was a step in the right direction before they regressed with Kate Capshaw in Temple who was just useless and annoying.

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Oh, for sure, I don't disagree with all that at all. But on showing the films to my youngest two a couple of years ago I was gobsmacked by the James Bond-like (don't get me started on those!) use of "the girl", which hadn't registered with me when I'd watched it in the past! Made me 🤬

TravellingSpoon · 07/02/2024 12:21

Watched the second episode of season 2 of Trigger Point last night.

Interview scene where the female police officer interviews the man they suspect of multiple terrorism offences and murders ON HER OWN.

Surely that wouldnt happen?

dollybird · 07/02/2024 12:22

Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 06/02/2024 21:23

I am still raging that the bearded lady in The Greatest Showman had her underarms waxed. On every level this infuriates me, if she had access to hair removal why not just remove the facial hair? But mostly it angers me because the concept of a woman having underarm hair is so taboo that the writers/ directors couldn't even fathom it, even when writing about this character. It would be almost acceptable if a small percentage of women were under represented but as we know all women have underarm hair and yet its inconceivable to see it on screen.

Flower in Ghosts US has underarm hair.

ItsAliveItsElectric · 07/02/2024 12:24

Like PP, Corrie. Everyone works on the street, which for a small street has an astounding number of businesses. If you're ever fired (more than likely from the knicker factory) you're reinstated the following day after someone has a word with the boss. Terraced houses are magical and can fit about 10 people living there with their own room....Eileen's house for example currently has Eileen, Sean, Dylan, Todd and Glenda living there. No one eats or makes "a brew" at home, they have to have it in the cafe or a hot pot in the Rovers. Similarly, everyone can afford to regularly eat at the Bistro which never seems to have a chef or produce any actual food since Robert left.
There is one hotel in the vicinity which is only used for clandestine meetings and you can be sure another character will "just happen" to be there the same night.

2012
No sooner than there is a murmuring that the world's crust is becoming unstable, the first crack appears in the earth. Minutes later the whole of California or wherever is falling into the abyss. All except John Cusack who manages to avoid roads collapsing, trains falling through the sky and a collapsing skyscraper he decides to drive under then come out the other end with the car unscathed! Then the bit where the little plane takes off with about 5 feet of runway to spare and is absolutely fine 😂

TigerJoy · 07/02/2024 12:25

Action films where the male characters are wearing sensible shoes and the women are in heels. Are we meant to believe serious,trained women in the police/ special forces/trained assassins etc would compromise their safety by wearing a kitten heel over some sensible boots?

Women in 18th-19thC period dramas going out with long, loose hair and no head coverings! No bonnet or hat or anything.

DoggusDomesticus · 07/02/2024 12:26

Re armpits in period dramas. I saw one with Felicity Jones in which she had on her sleeveless Victorian underwear and I noticed she had armpit hair! It was only momentarily visible and I doubt most viewers would have noticed so
I wondered if the actress herself was responsible for this.
Anyway, I was impressed.

TravellingSpoon · 07/02/2024 12:26

PrudeyTwoShoes · 07/02/2024 11:32

It's always annoyed me that Lumière from Beauty and The Beast is the only one with a French accent when the whole thing is set in France.

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Dont go and see the new Napolean film! The only people with actual accents are Russian and Belgian, who both sound french.

Similar the Mary Queen of Scots film. I know its set in Scotland and she is the Queen of Scotland but she spent most of her life in France.

Its like film makers think people are too thick to understand an accent.

dollybird · 07/02/2024 12:27

Sageyboots · 06/02/2024 21:48

Isn’t there a bit in Robin Hood prince of thieves when they arrive at Dover and he says something like “we’ll be in Nottingham by nightfall” (there might also be a plane flying over somewhere near this bit)

And Robin Hood is supposed to be English, but Kevin Costner asks Morgan Freeman 'why do you always walk in back of me', and generally doesn't sound English.

NoBinturongsHereMate · 07/02/2024 12:27

borderline53 · 07/02/2024 09:51

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.

Entertainment staff. During the day they run all the activities that you hear announced over the loudspeakers (you see Penny doing a trying-on-wigs makeover thing), then do shows in the evening.

MatchingBedding · 07/02/2024 12:30

Always having the exact right money in any shop or bar scene. Usually without having been asked for it. Now obviously they can just show you a machine and you can pay with a card or phone but a few years ago in Rita’s paper shop or the rovers you couldn’t.

herewegoagainy · 07/02/2024 12:32

@NoBinturongsHereMate Red Coats at Butlins used to do exactly that.

Pushmepullu · 07/02/2024 12:34

Silent Witness. There’s usually only 1 copper assigned to the case and they drag along pathologists to question witnesses. It doesn’t happen in real life. Ever!

Latenightreader · 07/02/2024 12:34

dollybird · 07/02/2024 12:27

And Robin Hood is supposed to be English, but Kevin Costner asks Morgan Freeman 'why do you always walk in back of me', and generally doesn't sound English.

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Not to mention the beautiful speedo tan lines when he’s swimming under the waterfall (we found Kevin Costner’s bright white bum hilarious - in our defence we were about eleven).

IcedPurple · 07/02/2024 12:34

viques · 07/02/2024 12:17

Couple wakes up in the morning after a night of passion. She is still wearing her bra. Everyone knows a bra is the first thing to come off.

Couple wakes up in the morning after a night of passion. They get jiggy again, But neither of them has had to go and have a wee.

Couple wakes up in the morning after a night of passion. But oh dear, one or both of them is late for work, never mind, they will put on the crumpled clothes they were wearing yesterday and discarded on the floor, run their fingers through their hair, and amazingly will be as well groomed and tidy as if they had spent an hour getting ready.

Either I am doing waking up after a night of passion all wrong, or they do things different in Hollywood.

Or one of them just swings their legs over the side of the bed and pulls on the jeans that were conveniently within arm's reach. Without putting on knickers. So manky!

MrsWhattery · 07/02/2024 12:35

Similar to the horses, it bugs me that dinosaurs (or godzilla thype things etc) ALWAYS do the exact same thing, which is a kind of angry trumpeting scream while straining their necks forward and up. Always. It's so boring!