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?

Luke refuses to fight darth Vader, but happily killed stormtroopers.

im not saying Kimble wasn’t right, im saying he wasn’t charged or even questioned about any of the subsequent crimes he committed to clear his name.

Animal noises. Wrong species, wrong part of the world.

They always use the call of the Pacific tree frog in any film that needs the sound of one. It is the only frog in the world that goes 'ribbit' and was first used because they were conveniently available in Hollywood. The thing is, it is native to the west coast of the USA and nowhere else. Hear a 'ribbit' in anything set anywhere else and it is WRONG!! Drives me crackers.

They also seem to use the bird call of the kookaburra in a lot of 'jungle' scenes too, and that bird is only native to Australia.

Came to mention the orgasm thing. I know it's not unrealistic for everyone but apparently only 30% of women very regularly orgasm through penetration and another 30% never do so (with presumably the remaining 40% doing so sometimes).

I cannot orgasm solely from penetration and when I first started having sex I assumed something was wrong with me. Movies/TV talk as if it's a given and, (premature ejaculation aside) women will orgasm from being jackhammered repeatedly for long enough. The only times that doesn't happen in movies is when the sex is very bad.

However according to statistics, there's 70% of women at least somewhat regularly not doing so. For me at least it doesn't mean the sex is bad. In fact it still feels very pleasurable and it's my preferred thing to do - it just doesn't result in orgasm. They're almost just two very separate things for me.

In movies there's always talk about "getting to the good part" or asking if they're "close" yet.

Again I know for some people it's like that but I'd love to see a scene where they participate in foreplay for the women to reach orgasm but still have perfectly good penetrative sex as well.

I think it would be quite beneficial to grow up seeing sex represented as something where different things feel good to different people and it's totally normal to communicate and explain what works without any hurt feelings.

Thriller and horror films where people search around in the dark and never think to just put the lights on. Just flick a switch!

@Blubbled Yep that does my head in too. 30 years working ICU, there is always 1:1 nursing and you have to get another nurse to watch your patient if you need to go the loo, stock room, break etc.
Yet all these ICU patients without anyone with them. The vents not switched on (and never alarming, when in reality they alarm almost constantly) and infusion pumps not switched don or labelled.

Given that the most common password is "123456" with around 4% of passwords set to that, and given that "qwerty" and "password" are not far behind, I would suggest a lot of people are that stupid.

I love musicals-and actually frequently sing my way through the day 😂. However it does annoy me that in Les Miserables, Cosette has a beautiful RP English accent while being brought up by the common and cockney/franglais Thenardiers! This also applies to the lead in Oliver who was brought up in a workhouse-perhaps it is just about understandable in Matilda, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

The reason the first 3 series of Call the Midwife were so good is because they followed the memoirs very closely. I stopped watching once they'd run of out of source material, there were left with saccharine unimaginative storylines instead of the social history & realism of the first few.

The writer was also closely consulted for at least the 1st series before she died.

You must read the books if you haven't, they're brilliant

Re animal species in the wrong place, the raccoons in England in 1001 Dalmatians was a good 'un.

I haven't read the entire thread so I'm sure these have all been mentioned but I can't resist - I spend a lot of time annoying my DH by pointing out everything that is stupid/wrong in films:

Not calling the police/not calling for backup. Call the fucking police! Do it now!

This is a gross one but a man/woman goes down on a woman and then bobs up through the covers, face entirely clean and kisses her. That is not what happens in real life.

Female characters who don't have friends. Usually this is written by a man. I know in real life some women don't have friends but it's very unusual for a woman not to have anyone they talk to/check in with. It's a lazy way of isolating a character so they can't get help or support.

A total lack of nurses in a hospital situation, which leaves the doctors doing everything, including moving patients.

Doctors shouting out orders randomly - that would be chaos and lead to all sorts of mistakes.

Mobile phones conveniently not working/going missing as a lazy way to move the plot along

As others have said, characters barely eating and characters 'drinking' out of empty cups. Put a weight in the bottom of the cup at least! Related to this is when someone pours a coffee and they put the tiniest bit of liquid in the cup.

Another one mentioned by someone else that really pisses me off- the huge house with no spare bedrooms. Why???

That one made me wonder if the character wasn't originally meant to be Irish, because there is a jarring line (I think a PP might have mentioned) about "driving stick" as well. Not only is that not a phrase someone from NI/ROI would ever use, it seems very unlikely that an Irish person wouldn't have learned to drive in a manual car.

Families of murder victims who are defensive and unhelpful when the police come to talk to them. Obviously put in as red herrings. Of course they would be grieving but you would naturally want to give as much info as possible to help catch the murderer. The police officers never seem to question it, but I would think well THAT'S a major red flag we need to look into them!

On another note: my local greengrocer sells carrots with the green parts of it still attached (as well as the other kind).

Sorry to state the obvious, but that was his father! And the Emperor Palpatine tells him hate has made Luke powerful and to kill his father and take his place with the Emperor, as Luke had gone towards the Dark Side. Why would Luke kill Vader when it would complete his transformation to the Dark Side?!

The film ends with Kimble taken away by the police, we don't know that he won't be charged or questioned!

ER did quite good births. Carol Hathaway's birth was so real my mother couldn't watch it and Elizabeth Corday comes to the hospital convinced she's about the pop and gets sent home! Very realistic.

There's a very funny scene in Elementary (which is a fantastic show, highly recommend it) where they find a bomb in their house. SPOILER - Sherlock pulls a wire and Joan is horrified. His reply is (something along the lines of) - 'Bombers don't tend to create feats of engineering, they make simple things that go bang.'

Maybe that’s how they rock in Miami 🤔🤫

They did this in Notting Hill too! They were driving hurriedly to get Hugh Grant to Julia Roberts and driving past all of these famous London landmarks which are actually nowhere near each other and all out of sync. It messes with your head when you know where they are and suddenly, magically, they are right across London and then somewhere else again! 😫

Loved the film though! 😁

It is. But what is more usual is that in some American film someone is supposed to be from Spain but is speaking Mexican Spanish. I just cringe. Or a scene I watched the other day which is supposed to portray Madrid and it is some Mexican pueblo obviously, where every building is two stories high...yeah right.

Not specific to any one movie but the way kids in most have zero impact on the parents lives. I’m rewatching poldark and several times demelza and poldark literally run out of the house where their small kids are to head off on to the cliffs or London… and their kids are always sleeping or never around , like zero impact on their lives . Or the way parents are always like “run off kids “ and the kids just do it without kicking off or ever crying etc…

Thought of another one. Silent Witness! Who knew that a pathologists work is so exciting and crime deducing. And that it is diverse as bodies in the wood and terrorists in the desert. And they always solve them! Mazing.

Re the languages thing , just saw wonka and why oh why get an actress who isn’t Irish to pretend to be with an awful accent ..(wonkas mother ). Why not just use a real Irish person. Like juile roberts in Micheal Collins , shocking accent ..

@reesewithoutaspoon I've been out of nursing for donkey's years now, so I am relieved to know that patients on vents still get specialled, and that I'm not the only one vexed by this! It makes you wonder, why do they not consult nurses when filming hospital scenes?
They filmed one series of a BBC drama called "Angels", in the early 80s, which was about nurses, at the hospital I got my first Staff Nurse's job at. It seemed they didn't consult nurses for accuracy in that programme either and TBH the filming was a bit of a nuisance around the place!

Nodding my head at lots of these but have to say that people did remove armpit hair in 'the olden days' though.

Hollywood films mainly with English-speaking characters where the more than one language speaking characters talk to each other in English rather than reverting to their other language.

ER did births pretty well, but I struggle to forgive Elizabeth Corday catching a GNER train from Kings Cross to Heathrow - it even says “route of the Flying Scotsman” on the carriage she boards! There is also a scene with her father on a rooftop in central London with Tower Bridge looming increasingly large in the background.