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?

The matrix 2 where Neo stops the killer robots with the power of his mind. I am perfectly happy to suspend disbelief and accept that in the future we destroy the sky to stop robots getting solar power and they create an alternate 1990's to be powered by humans instead. But he was out of the matrix and still manages to mind warp them. It becomes magic amd doesn't fit with the universe rules that they created. Always annoyed me!

I remember when they cast Monica Bellucci for Spectre and men started complaining that she was too old to play a Bond girl. Daniel Craig was utterly unimpressed and pointed out that he was older than her!

I know it's a fantasy but irl no 20 year old would fancy these men!

I do this too. My kids complain I ruin the films as they hadn’t noticed the improbable stuff until I point it out! I try & keep my mouth shut now. 🤣

There's countless of them but what really gets me is if someone walks into their house and doesn't shut the door. If I don't see them do it, it distracts me for the rest of the scene thinking that someone else will walk in and burgle them.

It's really common as well!

DD did GCSE drama. In her assessed performance, all her group were supposedly drinking cups of tea, and DD not only lifted hers with weighty care, but automatically gave a little 'Ahh!' sound after the first sip.

That's my girl.

I'm the same, although admittedly never go near a court in my work so wouldn't really know these days.

However I remember watching Judge John Deed whilst completing my Graduate Diploma in Law and annoying my parents by continually stating 'well that would be overturned on appeal'.

Oh, and how people don't seem to be restrained by the needs of jobs/money. They can disappear from work or take to their bed for weeks and nobody calls to ask where they are. Or they can just quit and not bother looking for another job whilst they pursue whatever conspiracy theory the film is about.

I get irrationally jealous of them and it takes me out of it!

Removing the silencers from the guns in Dog Soldiers would have improved the performance of the guns. Leaving them on was useless, as the werewolves had superior hearing anyway and knew exactly where the men were.

Oooh have you seen the LegalEagle Youtube channel? I think you would like it. Amongst many other things there's a lot of videos where he takes apart legal scenes in movies and tv shows for accuracy.

Certainly unrealistic in Ireland.

My husband is a qualified radio ham. He took his morse code test as it made him a higher level. I'm qualified to a basic level but couldn't get my head round morse. I think the rules have changed since we qualified 40 years ago. I don't think they have to do morse now.

When I took my written exam we were in a room in the local FE college. Half the room were doing the amateur radio exam, half were doing hairdressing. I was put with the hairdressers as all the other women were and all the radio candidates were men.

Horses are my Thing and, my god, do films and TV get it wrong all the time.

The Crown kept going on about how Princess Anne was a showjumper...she was an eventer (very much not the same thing), who became European Champion. They also had the wrong breed of horse at almost every royal property - Welsh ponies at Balmoral etc.

Friends of friends supplied horses and riders for some scenes in Downton and then had to go around their friends apologising for the historical mistakes that the producers and director insisted on, like hunting clothes 40 years out of date and the wrong tack.

I can tell when its the actor vs. the stuntman/woman riding so I know when the actors are lying about 'doing all my own stunts' or batting on about what a great rider they are. And I notice when they've been put on a bombproof learner-driver type cob instead of the racehorse/charger/thoroughbred that the film or time period would suggest.

That's the thing isn't it, we are all different and every labour can be different. It isn't inaccurate just because it isn't how it was for us.

Ooh right?! It really grates! Not to mention Friesians being used for everything. No! Just because it's back and hairy doesn't mean it suite every time period from the dinos to the heat death of the sun!

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I reckon we're meant to think that middle class London folks using swear words is utterly hilarious. Same with '4 Weddings and all that fkkity fck stuff. Problem is, it's not.

Yeah I know what you mean. I watched 4 weddings again for the first time in yonks and it's a strange fillum alright. Very twee and full of plot holes in places, but top notch in others.

For example, there's no way a big lump like Gareth having a heart attack during a wedding speech wouldn't have caused a commotion, let alone them being dragged into a side roof without Matthew noticing. However, the poignant funeral scenes in Dartford and John Hannah's eulogy was acting of the highest order, seemed very "real".

I didn't think so, the mum survived and was grateful. Even male film directors would know that a C-section would kill the mum.

Mine is in Mary Queen of Scots where they had a scene with her meeting Elizabth 1. I found myself shouting at the TV that they never ever met each other. I was stupidly angry 😠

Depictions of asthma wind me right up.

For a start, it's still consistently used as a lazy trope to represent a geek instead of a life threatening lung condition which affects all sorts of people.

Asthma attacks are typically unrealistic and don't get me started on inhaler technique!

OMG the Friesians!

One sooooo funny horse thing was in a BBC series, where there was meant to be a carriage chase. The two carriages were never in the same shot---probably because both of them were being pulled by the same horse!

Or when there seems to be one very very white grey horse, which is ridden by whoever has a cinematic reason to be riding a white horse in that particular scene, even when their mortal enemy was seen in the previous scene, apparently riding the same white horse! Or greys in general, which are always inexplicably clean, even in the middle of evacuating a town in WWI, for example. Oh no, we have to evacuate because the Germans are coming! Quick, get out the tail shampoo!

There are a number of historical dramas/films I won't watch for such reasons.

Anything from a Phillipa Gregory book is automatically vetoed.

Oh and another!
Accent one.

All British dramas are terrible for this....any programme set in the countryside - especially any vaguely in the south west - and all the characters except perhaps the main has a broad, cod west-country accent.

Even those of us born & bred don't typically speak with such strong accents!

It's so lazy!!

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I can't remember any movies like these...examples?
Watched wolverine last night- he’d slain tons of people, then when it came to him actually killing the main evil man he was stopped, with his wife saying ‘ don’t be the Monster they think you are!!’

I was watching The Last of Us and there was a scene in a remote community where they had managed to work out how to charge up batteries so they could have electricity. Fair enough, meant they could have movie night (!). But in the outside scenes the street was festooned with strings of hundreds of lights criss crossing the street, sooooo ok, they made enough electricity to run the lights……. But then I started thinking, where the buggery were they getting hold of replacement light bulbs because they also had lights in the houses? Possibly the outside lights were really really really long lasting solar lights, in which case I would love to buy some. But the inside lights weren’t.

( memo to self, in the case of a zombie apocalypse, even if it is very sudden, don’t forget to pick up some antibiotics, bottled water, spare boots, toilet paper, tinned food, a decent tin opener and lightbulbs).

And why aren’t all their clothes patched and mended, shoes worn through, bedding and towels in rags…

People buying expensive drinks and then leaving without finishing them. No one does that in real life

Trainspotting is indeed set in Edinburgh, but one must ask why Ewan McGregor cannot pronounce "Saughton" if he is supposed to be from Edinburgh.
As a life long resident of that area, it annoys me every time I see the film.
I cannot understand why the voice coach or Irvine Welsh let that scene go ahead when they heard his awful pronunciation.