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.

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@Isthisit2 Agggh, YES! My parents were Irish and I live in Ireland so a cod-Irish accent gives me ire as they say here, and, as there are so many excellent actors who are actually Irish, it's also a bit of an insult when they do that. Irish accents are actually quite difficult to do correctly as an adult- I used to pick up the accent within days as a child from playing with my cousins, but I am nowhere near as accurate when I do one now, even though I've lived here for years, surrounded with Irish accents! Foreign actors also seem to mix Dublin and the North into their accents! I've never once heard a foreign actor even try say, a Limerick or a Kerry accent for instance!

The road dodging where hero is dodging the criminals whilst driving in heavy traffic usually in an urban settings. In particular, the opposite way to single direction traffic at speed.

How fast drugging dealers can outrun police officers. Not putting much faith in the police.

If a house of a suspect has an unlocked front door. The police go in and turn on their torches, light switches people!

In the early days of bomb disposal during the Troubles in Norn Iron, the Army used a modified shotgun called a disruptor to disable massive car bombs. It worked by destroying the entire internals of the bomb trigger mechanism so quickly the bomb wouldn't detonate. Truth is often stranger than fiction.

No one ever makes a typo when they are typing on a computer, even when they are in a hurry with the villain on the way.

The person more likely to be able to do this sort of shit is the pissed off looking woman in her 50s who nobody suspects of knowing what to do with the multiple logins she's got from 30 years of being spoken to like crap, or of having the intelligence to know how valuable they could be to the right buyer.

Sex in pretty much any film. It's either in bed and they're both covered by the duvet with bare shoulders or they're doing it against the wall, always glamorous or with tousled hair. You never see them dressed in a faded Star trek t-shirt (her) and him in lounge bottoms when they've clearly not had a wash or done their teeth yet. Everyone wakes up looking fresh and ready to go, never looks like a troll.

Friends from College has some well-done bog standard sex. It also has the other kind, so be warned.

Also, I was dreading getting pregnant because of seeing vomiting scenes in films - I'm a bit emetophobic. But I had two babies and a late miscarriage without vomiting once or even the faintest touch of nausea. Only found out later that I was not at all unusual (this was decades ago when there was much less info about on pregnancy).

And why all the screaming scenes in labour? Nothing special about me but I managed without screaming in front of a load of strangers.

In fairness, I bellowed, screamed, roared and made all sorts of noises.

I also stripped totally naked. I was like a wild animal.

I think this is pretty believable. Loads of people use ‘password’ (+/- a number) or ‘12345’ which is why more organisations now specify what your password has to consist of. Many, many, many people also use the same/variants of the same password for multiple applications/websites etc.

See I don't mind Kate Capshaw's Willie Scott. There are women (and men) like that in the real world. The franchise also has strong and capable women like Marion and also badass evil women (no spoilers). And Willie went through A LOT during her time with Indy! Almost killed (several times), kidnapped, thrown out a plane, almost strangled by a snake, covered in horrific insects (the actress actually did those scenes), hung over a flame pit, almost eaten by alligators... Screaming seems a pretty normal response.

I think this is pretty believable. Loads of people use ‘password’ (+/- a number) or ‘12345’ which is why more organisations now specify what your password has to consist of. Many, many, many people also use the same/variants of the same password for multiple applications/websites etc.

Yeah, but it's rarely those simple common passwords, and often the computer is supposed to belong to someone who would actually care about making it secure and not actually be an idiot.

God yeah. On tv they always say to kids 'go along and play now' and they obediently toddle off. They also show babies going to sleep sweetly after being laid in their cots, erm like arse they do!

The ‘action disaster’ films where the train, plane, boat slides/ crashes for seemingly miles before they stop

Any legal drama where the judge’s robes, text books etc are for the wrong area of law - takes 5 minutes to google.

In the Name of the Father when the solicitor starts shouting in the Court of Appeal when there are barristers who would be addressing the Court.

I’m great fun at parties

Any funeral scenes where other characters are pallbearers. Someone will say something like, “I know it’s going to be hard, but let’s do dad/mum/Gran proud, yeah?” - and then they hoist the coffin up like it’s a bag of feathers. Errr… there’s an actual dead body in there! Where do props teams think the phrase “dead weight” comes from? I’m not saying they should obtain an actual corpse, but couldn’t they at least bung a few bricks in?

I remember watching Lisa Dingle’s funeral in Emmerdale with my now ex and he was rolling his eyes like mad. He said he’d carried his Gran’s coffin and it/she weighed a ton, and she was barely a third of the size of Lisa.

Are you me 😀?

On the subject of teeth (if no one else has said it) it was a post nuclear war film (Z for Zachariah?? Not the 2015 version this was height of cold war) where a girl born post war gives birth some 20 years later... it was all very edge of seat, but she opens her mouth to scream and displays a mouth full of mercury fillings!! Slam back to reality quickly...

When there’s SO MUCH food on the table and NO-ONE eats a single bite.

What really annoys me is when the male lead (good looking) engages in horrible behavior (abuse, stalking) but it's ok because he's attractive.

I vomited for 9 months straight, was hospitable due to it with both pregnancies. Vomited throughout labour and afterwards, until a doctor finally showed up with an injection for an anti-emetic.

Also did scream a little during labour, very badly torn the second time. So yeah, some people find pregnancy and labour make them sick and can be incredibly painful.

People in movies always go out and leave all their lights on! Or they come through the front door and the house is lit up like a beacon. Their energy bills must be through the roof.

Also, it drives me mad when people get horrible injuries and then in the next scene they're running about like nothing has happened. The Walking Dead has some fab ones - Rick getting shot in the stomach and Darryl's spurting artery spring to mind!
Plus people always get shot in the shoulder and act like it's nothing. A bullet to the shoulder is actually pretty serious.

You must have loved Alley McBeal with it's accurate portrayal of life as a lawyer which obviously largely consists of dating, get pissed in bars, collecting microskirts, doing no actual work before rolling into court and winging it with your Harvard brilliance.

I’m like that with Trainspotting. It moves from Glasgow to Edinburgh so much but supposed to be the one place

Trainspotting is set in Edinburgh.