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?

Detective dramas.

People invite the police into their homes to answer questions but then carry on cooking/gardening/flower arranging, or whatever they were doing.

If the police wanted to talk to me I would want to stop and actually listen.

Also, eating on screen. Either just play with cutlery or take one bite only.

Ghost! After all that larking about with wet clay their hands were very clean when the sex scene started and I can't think they both washed their hands! I recall saying to my now late OH that he, OH, wouldn't be allowed to put his hands down there covered in wet clay but I might make an exception for Patrick!

Parking spaces. They can always rock up and park right outside where they want to, and never see them scrabbling round for change or having to download the right app as the modern equivalent!

On the armpit hair thing, in the new Dungeons and Dragons film, Holga has armpit hair. It was one of the things I liked. After all, why would a warrior woman bother with that when there is fighting to be done?

I did think that was part of the joke.

Not to mention that the Pathologists start actively investigating the crimes (on their own, late at night etc etc). Why?

Do not get me started on the inaccuracies of interview under caution!

This is very London specific but DH, a Londoner born and bred, gets irrationally irritated when a character in Harlesden or Stonebridge Park walks round the corner and is suddenly in Dalston. He can identify both locations.
And these are almost always British productions. (Looking at you, Luther.)

The Day After Tomorrow: they are in the library in New York and to keep warm … burn all the books. All the fecking books and not one of the wooden chairs/benches/tables that would actually burn for some time and give out proper warmth.
Just all the lovely, antique books.

If it were up to me they should have been left to freeze to death for being so fucking stupid.

Any action film where there’s a handful of super-cops, army guys etc who can go up against half an army with automatic weapons but they are so incredibly skilled that not one of them catches a stray bullet, unless it’s the tiniest graze.

Also that the side of a bus can withstand heavy gun fire without a single bullet penetrating while the protagonist hides inside. And normal cars that can be shot at from behind for miles and just keep driving like normal.

This thread has made me proper laugh though 😄😄
Thanks, OP!

In the Thomas Crown Affair when he pops a massive picture on a canvas into an A4 size briefcase 😆

Ironically in the Russel Crowe remake they make the same geographical mistake but in opposite when they show them all riding through the Dovedale in Derbyshire to the south coast in an afternoon.

Hahaha, what’s that series where a programmer in Seattle can know people’s innermost thoughts because they burst into song and dance JUST for her. Secret like!
That’ll be your next binge-watching 😂😂

It was ok for a bit, but my god how grating it got towards the end. Will have to google the title now

Every single scene in both Trigger Point seasons!!!

Happy Valley, the villain ran out of the Magistrates' Court building on Le Mans Crescent in Bolton, next shot he's coming up a different road from the opposite direction, ran into a shop, exited through the rear and was in Leeds!

That's if she hadn't got pregnant from him. Unmarried pregnancy was social death at that time, and no reliable contraceptives - so very few options for her. If she had got pregnant then her later life would have played out very differently rather than the 'full life' depicted which involved her riding planes & elephants etc. Luckily she didn't. Another stroke of luck for lucky Rose.

The Tourist season 1, guy wakes up with amnesia after a car crash in Australia and also with what is clearly a NornIron accent and nobody says, hey, it sounds like you're Irish, mate. (Giving them a bit of leeway if they can't tell it's specifically Northern Irish but it is clearly Irish anyway.)

Re giving birth.....why do they always scream and shout when pushing!? You keep your gob shut and put it all into pushing! I always think "You are just wasting all that energy love!" when I see it.

In fairness to CTM regarding birthing on their back, it is pretty historically accurate. That position for birthing became usual when doctors invaded the birthing room and it was more convenient for them to examine mothers. Even now, a lot of care givers seem to prefer that position regardless of what is best for the mother. My great grandmother down right refused to have a doctor anywhere near her when she birthed my great uncles, even after it became clear that it was surprise twins (1930) because she didnt want to be stuck on her back and bossed around by a man!

Female detectives trying to find baddies in deserted buildings wearing high heels that can be heard a mile away. Get a pair of trainers!

I screamed the hospital down when I was giving birth!

I don't mind locations playing other locations, just as actors play characters other than themselves. But it has to be realistic casting.

If you're making a period drama set in London it might make sense to shoot in Manchester, which has preserved more of its Victorian architecture. But a Glasgow-set scene with yellow postboxes and traffic driving on the right is like casting Idris Elba as Elizabeth I.

I went through a phase with lots of health/family stuff going on and I kept forgetting passwords and getting annoyed about it. I started resetting them all as "I can't bloody remember" It was soothing but I did soon get a grip and did more reasonable stuff.

Playing “Spot Victoria Baths” is a good TV game. Bonus points if it’s not supposed to be in Manchester.

The staffing issue in Dirty Danciing that didn't make sense was Johnny being able to take weeks off his day duties - including the private dance lessons that were an extra charge, not included in the camp fee - to hang out with Baby all day. Never mind fraternising with the guests, he'd be fired for not bringing in any lesson fees.