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?

Oh if we're doing historical fiction, Gladiator in it's ridiculous bastard entirety. So bad. So, so bad.

Add to that Braveheart - total historical nonsense at every level.

All the same, love that film 😳

Thank goodness I'm not the only one! Hate musicals. People say 'but West Side story'. Yes, I hate that too. My idea of hell would be Mama Mia on a loop.

Aw that is romantic :)

Not a film, but I had to stop watching Stranger Things after seeing Nancy and Steve battered, thrown around a lab by various creatures and whatnot, then in the next scene they were in - not a mark on them! I can take all of the fantasy, any portal into any world, all kinds of ridiculousness, and I know kids bounce back, but these two were in a full on two minute fight (felt like five minutes at least, but can't have been), thrown across the room, slammed into walls and floors, hit and battered, and not even a graze or a little bruise, not even a slight twinge on moving. That was it for me, disappointingly. I could 100pc buy into all the supernatural stuff, but that was just ridiculous, and I couldn't go there any more.

The scene where Laura Linney is about to shag Karl but doesn't because she's a martyr to her brother makes me so frustrated. The storyline is like ooh this is what love is but no NO actually, love also includes having boundaries and making yourself happy too.

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Any musical. I just can’t suspend disbelief that people are chatting then they are suddenly singing. And no one bats an eyelid. Ridiculous!

You should go to see Something Rotten if it ever comes to the UK. It's a comedy musical in Shakespearean times where Nostradamus forsees the existence of musicals. These lyrics from the song A Musical are obviously written for you both (first link you can listen to the song being sung from the Broadway show).

For people who like musicals the song itself has lots of 'musical references' to well known musicals - see how many you can identify. There's a video of the composers somewhere on youtube where they go through them all.

Nick (Spoken): What the hell are musicals?

Nostradamus (Spoken):
It appears to be a play where the dialogue stops
And the plot is conveyed through song

Nick (Spoken): Through song?Nostradamus: Yes.

Nick: Wait, so an actor is saying his lines and out of nowhere he just starts singing?
Nostradamus: Yes.

Nick:
Well that is the
(Singing) Stupidest thing that I have ever heard
You're doing a play, got something to say
So you sing it?
It's absurd
Who on earth is going to sit there while an actor breaks into song
And what possible thought could the audience think
Other than "This is horribly wrong"

Nostradamus (Spoken): Remarkably? They won't think that

https://www.themusicallyrics.com/s/344-something-rotten-the-musical-lyrics/3536-a-musical-lyrics-something-rotten.html

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.

Just to clarify. I didn't mean to imply labour is easy - sorry if that was how it came over. My first was three days, back to back, Keilland forceps and a third degree tear so no walk in the park. I just couldn't bring myself to yell in front of strangers. Call me repressed......lol

Nobody ever locks or unlocks their cars.
Why is every light and lamp on in every house?

On the subject of phones.

In nearly every film where an American is required to repeat their phone number, the middle three digits are almost always '555'. You just listen ...

That’s so it never represents a real telephone number.

We went to a talk in Hereford by Professor Angela Gallop. Pathologist who has worked on many high profile cases. Someone asked her what she thought of Silent Witness. She rolled her eyes. The police have no money for any tests unless you are dealing with a massively serious incident. Then they'd have money for 2 tests max.

The scene in Titanic where the musicians are playing on the top deck amidst the mayhem. The violinist suggests they carry on as it will keep them warm!!! Hardly, in the temperature that night! They then start playing the can-can, at which point Jack and Rose dash past almost in time with the music, which just looks comical!

Twister. Jo and Bill would be dead. They just ... would.

For starters, you can't outrun a tornado that fast and wide that's travelling at speed.

And if you found yourself in the middle of it - you'd die. The pressure is so low inside those things that you wouldn't be able to breathe.

And if you did survive - that thing can relocate a HGV. You'd be hit by debris. Extremely heavy debris. And you'd die.

Dorothy Gale would have survived, though. Because hers was only a dream ...

I dont understand how our heroine will walk into her apartment, turn NO lights on and then go and have a shower in her pitch black apartment! Or maybe one lamp that achieves fuck all.

I dont know anyone who walks into their house on a dark night and doesnt put at least a couple of lights on while they get their coat off etc.

And is it law in the US that our heroine has to drink her glass of wine leaning back against the fridge door and sighing?!

When they live in huge houses with multiple bedrooms,they have a row and the husband ends up on the couch.

And the thing that really annoys me is when kids do as their told.
Not in anyway realistic 😂

@StarlightLady and @Figment1982

I believe I’ve found my tribe 🤣 I couldn’t watch Judge John Deed with his County Court Practice “Green Book” and not a criminal book in sight! Defendants giving evidence before complainants. Shudders!

@TheCadoganArms I LOVED Ali McBeal and all those legal dramas like Boston Legal etc etc They were so bonkers and so trying to avoid any semblance of adherence to legal rules and principles that I was happy to go along with it all. It’s the “serious” legal dramas that bug me. 😬

Rubbish!

I even know it in Swedish

døt - døt - døt - dåsh - dåsh - dåsh - døt - døt - døt

This. Grunting, shrieking, shoving it up arses. I don't want to hear it or see it . Especially when it's in a giant screen in a cinema full of other people

Can't find the post that referenced Mary Queen of Scots but it's tosh from start to finish (I loved it but it's total nonsense) so her not having the right accent is the least of it.
Trainspotting annoys me because the accents are so wrong, apart from Spud's. But I appreciate that if they were authentic, only Edinburgh folk would understand what's going on, which might make it a bit niche.

You never see anyone telling another person to turn the big light off either yet it's a conversation we have daily in our house.

Honestly I went on such a feminist rant at this point about it that DH had to get me a triple Baileys to calm down.

Well played! 😁

Horses are hardly ever sweaty, muddy or soaking wet from the rain. Even after a day's hunting!

And grooming always involves giving an already clean horse a quick flick over with a dandy brush, while the groomer remains immaculate, including their cream johds.

You would not have enjoyed Reign