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?

Not a film, but the ITV series Vera. She dresses like a bag of rags - which I think is actually a good thing, not having a glammed up detective dripping in make up - yet she dyes her hair. Vera wouldn't give a shit about her greys showing.

Yet the fact that someone in their 70s still working as a detective doesn't bother me though!

In fairness in the anthem scene one of Captain’s officers warns him of the noise from the singing and he pauses in thought for a few moments before making a calculated risk and responding ‘let them sing’ as he sees it as the moral boosting for the crew. At that point he was unaware that the USS Dallas was tracking them and if he had known he probably would have told them to shut the fuck upski.

Don’t recall a officer’s meeting in a ‘hotel lobby sized’ room, I thought they met in the officers mess which was basically a cramped room with a table.

Yes I have seen that film a gazillion times.

Yes, but you can write Chinese in Pinyin as well.

In connection with the people who have 'Password' as their password etc.: There is a fascinating description somewhere of using human nature and bog standard thinking as part of the approach to crack the Enigma code (I think it is in the book by Sinclair McKay).

The code on the machines depended a lot upon resetting the code using 3 letters on the dials that would then be capable of encoding the rest. This should have been redone every 24 hours, but if the decoding teams got hold of something that indicated it might have been done at 6 in the morning (on board a freezing boat or generally before normal time for a bad wartime 'coffee'), and the code for the previous day had been deciphered, apparently they would try the same 3 letters in case the other side hadn't bothered or just reset using the same 3. And some of the time, that was what they'd done!

Any film where a man is driving a car flat out, then suddenly changes gear to go faster. Like he'd forgotten that he could change gear until that point. Usually happens in racing films like "Days of Thunder" with Tom Cruise.

I just need a password I can remember.

Depressing, and legally incorrect, but probably not unrealistic.

Annoyed me in The Notebook where blond blue eyed Ryan Gosling turns into brown eyed James Garner well known for being dark haired (although grey in film).

Not as bad though, as Legolas sometimes having blue eyes and sometimes dark brown when being played by the same actor.

Anmoyances this week - we watched Entrapment, and apart from the disparity in ages (which is at least somewhat acknowledged) between Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, I was put out by the 'looks like a 6 but would look good in a 4' - ok, so it's said first by an American but as they're in Scotland it's sort of lucky he evidently didn't buy a U.K. 4 and secondly women never look better in a dress that's a size too small. Also ridiculous that either a no-longer young man or a woman could hang by their hands from a swinging metal hawser. They wouldn't have had the strength and if they had their hands would surely have been shredded.

I think the female lead in the recent Dungeons and Dragons film had armpit hair! I was pleasantly surprised!

All of that film “This is 40”. It’s funny but this is not 40.

"Try to get some rest" - said in almost every drama & film. Your kids have been kidnapped, try to get some rest. There's a tornado coming, try to get some rest. I think it's just a way to end a scene but it makes me laugh & my husband & I give a little cheer.

I was a nurse many moons ago and something that still puzzles and sort of annoys me, though not as much as it used to, is that when a patient is on a ventilator, they NEVER seem to have a nurse "specialling" them. When I was training, in the Dark Ages, we all dreaded being on duty when someone was ventilated in case we were picked to special them, which means you stay by the patient's bedside, doing quarter-hourly (or even more frequent) observations, suction out the endo-tracheal tube frequently to prevent the patient drowning in their own sputum, and keep a close eye on the ECG for any heart arrhythmias. You couldn't leave the patient at all, not even for the loo! You had to ring their bell to get another nurse to stay with them if you needed the loo! I can't think of one film or programme where this has been shown, not ever! I don't know if specialling is still a nursing practice or not, but if someone is on a ventilator they're needs are high, they are very vulnerable! They surely can't be safe if all the nursing staff are somewhere other than their bedside! "Queen of the South" is great, but they did this; had Teresa sustain a brain injury and be unconscious on a vent but not being specialled! Also, there were visitors just bobbing in and out of her room all the time! I know not all hospitals are run like the old NHS ones of my time were, with fearsome Ward Sisters guarding the ward and patients like rottweilers, but the way patients are just left so vulnerable in film and TV just baffles me, and although I know it's not RL , it still vexes me!
Another one is the way that in American film and TV, they NEVER shut their curtains at night, yet in the daytime their houses always seem really dim; when they come home , there are table lamps dotted around the house/flat that are switched on when they come in and no thought for the electricity bill! Who goes out and leaves lamps on all day and over the gaff? It's not as if it's hard work to flick the light switch on when you go into a room, is it! Oh, and when they hear a noise, they go and look! If that was me, I'd lock myself in my room and ring 999,not go and investigate in the dark! SMH

All the Inspector Morse episodes where they teleport from a college at one end of Oxford to a park a mile away.

@Mainats that was on Silent Witness last night. Secure messaging systems are unlikely to have a word+number password requirement anyway.

Entertaining thread this.

having sampled a few pages, I'm surprised my no 1 grudge hasn't shown up yet: protagonists, often cops with safety training and plenty of backup to call on or even soldiers with an army behind them, who insist on going into the abandoned building/mine/dredger (in the last episode of True Detective)/whatever it is all by themselves. Nervously waving flashlights about, following clanking sounds... just get some backup, chump.

Happens in Stranger Things too, and horror films generally. WHY would anyone be that stupid? I just can't suspend disbelief.

Another bugbear, becoming more frequent: films made 'after true events'. What tf is this supposed to tell me? It means the makers claim the mantle of 'truth' to add to the emotional heft of their story, while also absolving themselves from actually sticking to the facts with the 'after'. Grrrrr.

@QuestionableMouse yes! That's the one - the woman (ex wife I think) manages to drag him one armed into the plane by herself while he's running at a speed fast enough to catch up with a plane that's going fast enough to take off 😂

A series a few years ago called Bonekickers about the exploits of a group of archaeologists, set in Bath. It was entertaining in its way but even the most junior members of the team appeared to live in enormous Georgian houses on eg the Royal Crescent.

Definitely not a career people go in to for the money, archaeology.

I’m glad there’s a couple who agree with me!!

Who spares the villain in Star Wars? I really can't remember.

And I don't think you can blame Dr Richard Kimble for doing everything he can to clear his name! He doesn't kill anyone.

I think your examples don't make sense.

We used to go to a Services club where the barman and many customers who were in the navy would 'converse' in morse code!

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The bit in Independence Day where Will Smiths wife is stuck in the tunnel and sees a fireball heading towards her in the rearview mirror. She runs and throws open the door to a maintenance room and jumps in just in time, along with her son and dog, as the fireball passes her. Despite making no effort to shut the door behind her she, her dog and her son are all fine as the fireball just goes past her, rather than filling room full of fresh oxygen she just went into.

Several films (and TV shows and books)
If you are a senior police officer, Detective Chief Inspector or Superintendent for example, you aren't at the front of an investigation.
You certainly are not doing house to house or interviewing witnesses and the like. You've got officers for that.

When the hero gets attached to some hideous device that will kill him slowly, only for the baddie to leave him alone, then he'll manage to escape.

If I wanted to make sure someone was dead I'd shoot them, or at least stay until you know theyre dead.

Anything where people walk through a door or round the corner into somewhere miles away is fun.

There's a few examples in Harry Potter (no, Gloucester cathedral cloisters dont connect to wherever it is), and there's a lovely one in the old Brideshead Revisited where they step between Castle Howard and the fernery at Tatton Park. My personal favourite is niche, a comedy set in a uni clinic (A Very Peculiar Practice) filmed at Birmingham university with everything in the wrong place.

Fights in films in general. That 'baddies' will stand around and only attack one at a time. That you can be seriously beaten up and not be in hospital for a long time. Or that you wouldn't have severe emotional trauma from being beaten up. That you can be bashed in the head and just get up and go about your day, That people can just go around beating people up and no one goes to prison.