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?

How is it pronounced? I say monay.

@willWillSmithsmith - well usually as monay rather than moanay IFSWIM.

The Hunt for Red October: The Russian officers have a little impromptu catch-up in their submarine which looks like a hotel lobby. There's absolutely no room in a submarine.

And then they sing the Soviet anthem. You are supposed to be very quiet aboard a submarine, in order to maintain the stealth that makes the concept of a submarine valuable over a regular ship, and also to be able to hear the enemy. You just DON'T the anthem of your country that is at war with the other country you are trying to hide from.

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Or hot drinks allegedly, but with no steam coming off them.

Or no visible breath when they are in a cold snowy/icy landscape.

That said, we were watching something recently that was set indoors but you could see the actors' breaths but I can't remember what is was!

I watched The Holiday over xmas. Hadn't seen it before.

Let me tell you, the average drunk British bloke looking to crash somewhere after a night at the pub is NOT Jude Law being a charming and sensitive lover. He comes right in and goes all seducey despite the fact he'd be pissing like a horse and stinking of peanuts. Let alone being able to sustain any bedroom action.

city of angels (spoiler alert). So frustrating. Nicholas Cage gives up his eternal heavenly life as an angel to become a mere human just to be with Meg Ryan. And what does the stupid cow do 5 mins after he makes this decision? Ride a bike without a helmet WITH HER EYES CLOSED on a main road and dies.

I also hate that in filmland, no woman ever vomits without being pregnant. And no woman is ever pregnant without vomiting.

Ooh, the dreaded "entail" that pops up in every other period drama to explain why the feisty heroine can't inherit her father's land (to be fair most of them are based on books rather than being solely a TV invention).

Except that entails were of course completely breakable to the extent that in the mid 19th century they created a law specifically to break them more easily and then one to make them illegal in the 1920s.

So while slightly more defensible for Mr Bennett Lord Grantham has no excuse...breaking the entail would have been a 5 second call to his solicitor and then he could have left Downton to mary/edith/the local dogs trust albeit the title would still have to go to the random 3rd cousin..
Strangely Matthew who is actually a solicitor himself also doesn't seem aware of this..

Ironically (in my view) it's actually a much stronger storyline if they could break the entail but didn't want to because they wanted to keep the money with the title and the family surname. But that would involve your male lead being seen as a sexist baddie rather than an anachronistic idiot that is unaware of basic property law!

Thanks @LuciaPillson - I thought I had been told it was a hawk but I wasn't sure.

I went to Alaska in 2013 to visit a friend and there were bald eagles everywhere but obviously not a single screech to be heard. My friend's husband told me about the hawk thing when we were standing right beside a captive eagle (she sadly had to be after an injury). They sound more like "normal" bird type chirps and their noisier calls sound like seagulls. Not quite so impressive to be used on screen I guess.

Where I live we have paper bags ( with handles!) and carrots with leaves (sometimes).

Also - I just saw Wonka. Mix of US/UK accents, lots of talking about chocolate. Or chawklut. Or chockolut. Or choclit. Or chocklate.

In the songs, the people with UK accents sometimes pronounce chocolate the US way, sometimes not - it's maddening and distracted me for the whole thing!

The monster who always politely waits for the poor victim to finish turning around very slowly.

People that are about to kiss for the first time and their mouths are slowly getting closer...I mean, once you reached a certain proximity with someone else's mouth, surely nothing else can happen, why the hesitation?

Computers making beeping sounds when someone types or clicks, two black, overlapping circles when someone looks through binoculars, and people changing up a gear to go faster in manual cars (you can tell not many Americans drive manuals!).

The one that really annoys me is though is people not saying ‘bye when they end a phone call and just hanging up!

I often think why doesn’t at least one person in the legions of cast and crew that work on film sets say, ‘hang on a minute, that’s absolute nonsense!’????

Yes....from personal experience the whole point of people is to get admissible evidence i.e.
meeting somewhere quiet
Them agreeing to talk to you (i.e. not just ambushing them or getting them so worked up they walk off!)
taking a statement from them
Most importantly GETTING THEM TO SIGN THE STATEMENT!

Otherwise "x told me the murderer was y but he didn't sign anything and has now disappeared" is hearsay only and rarely admissible in criminal court.

King Arthur wouldn't have spoken English!

I hate sex scenes, not being prudish about it but I just wonder what is the point of them. We all know what the act of intercourse involves so why do we need to see ever more realistic/daring attempts to protray it for our entertainment. I'd be happy to see a return of the good old days of waves crashing on the shore or trains entering tunnels. Do director's feel the need to shock, if so it can't work as we all know what's involved. Maybe they should show the sex act itself I mean why pretend, just give us the real thing. Or does that become pornography?
Perhaps Mary Whitehouse was right after all

Oh and a group of bad guys very politely waiting their turn to beat the protagonist up so they have a chance to fight them off rather than just rushing him/her at once and holding him/her down!

And cars being sufficient shelter from bullets!

As I pointed out earlier, no actual bomb in history is fitted with display telling you when it will go off anyway.

Ooop, Supposed to be a Reply to the Prince of Thief's post!
They get to Nottingham via Hadrians Wall as well, quite the detour!

That's not quite true. I've just watched the first 4 eps of series 1 and at one point the midwife tells the doctor the placenta has delivered and is complete. I was quite impressed.

Any film that has a childbirth scene - screaming women, totally not how it is at all and then suddenly a 6 week old clean baby appears 😂

Totally agree about no-one saying bye (or the current trend bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye ).
Also agree about manual cars - it has to be a joke in the Fast and Furious Films that every car is manual and has 7000 gears.

Every action movie ever, where the baddies are ALL terrible shots and fail to kill the goodie despite multiple rounds of ammunition, multiple opportunities, multiple weapons. And yet, the goodie fells them all with a single, perfect shot, first time from a broken ancient pistol with one remaining bullet (normally when hanging upside down in a car traveling at 100mph, half blinded, broken arm, weary and debilitated). So ridiculous.

I'm baffled why you find this so distasteful. If someone was off on holiday and said 'No work for me' or a group of female friends posted 'Ladies'Night' would you feel the same? Sometimes couples post 'date night' or 'just the 2 of us'. It doesn't mean they dislike who isn't there. It's just a descriptor.

I live in Cardiff. Pretty much every ambulance scene of episode of 'Casualty' is like that for me!