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?

Couple wakes up in the morning after a night of passion. They get jiggy again, But neither of them has had to go and have a wee.

This is a personal bugbear of mine.

Everybody, without exception, wakes up bursting for a piss.

Small thing but it really grated on me. Start of a Black Mirror episode, one directed by Jodie Foster about a panicky mum who has a chip put in her daughter's head to stop her seeing upsetting things. The kitchen scene has the mum lifting a child about age four into a high chair and either feeding her with a baby spoon or handing her baby cutlery. I thought oh okay this is about a pretty child with some kind of disability or delay. Nope child with regular development but clearly written by a man or young person who had never met children. Weird that Jodie Foster would not have picked up on it though.

But the event is literally called 'An Evening With Arthur Abbott' isn't it? They write suggesting it and he doesn't reply, so they surely wouldn't go ahead and plan it anyway? That would have been a bit crap for everyone if he hadn't shown up then!

That was based in truth though, the musicians did keep playing on deck as the ship went down, right until the end

Typical that women and children's comfort and safety were jettisoned to cater to the convenience of men (as most doctors were then).

You would be surprised at the number of people who use those kinds of passwords.

Yes the Titanic band playing as the ship sank is based on eye witness accounts. It’s where the phrase “and the band played on” is believed to have originated from.

James Cameron was (mostly) pretty fussy about being historically accurate - the scene of the old couple in bed as water rushed in is based on the account of Ida and Isadora Strauss, she refused to board a lifeboat without him and they were seen returning to their cabin.

One big faux pas though was First Officer Lightholler’s suicide, which was fabricated and Cameron had to apologise to his family.

Head violinist was found with his violin strapped to his body inside its case. The violin is in the Belfast museum. This would suggest that they did play while the boat began to sink but definitely not until the very end, because he wouldn't have had time to secure the violin in the case and strap it to his body.
This also lines up with what survivors said, that they remember hearing music in the early stages of the ship going down but not at the end.

There have been conflicting accounts for years but the consensus is that what you see in the Titanic movie is not that accurate.

his is a personal bugbear of mine.

Everybody, without exception, wakes up bursting for a piss.

DH and I have regular morning sessions before either of us get up to pee.

My first birth was also like something from a movie. My waters broke suddenly and all in one go. They didn't splash on the floor because they soaked into my trousers and the seat I was on though. Then the contractions hit me so hard it did make me scream from the pain. We had a rush to the hospital, got there, found out I was fully dilated and DD was born half an hour later. Screaming and being on my back for the whole short time I was there. The only difference is that I didn't have a flat stomach afterwards.

That reminds me of my first labour. Teenage me, no husbands allowed in those days in the local hospital, and all I could hear was screaming and moaning. Terrifying! Well a woman is wheeled past and her husband comes after her screaming "Save my wife not the baby." It was so horrific I remember it vividly over 50 years later.

Then I hear midwife come out and speak to the husband who is in the corridor and she tells him they are sending his wife home as she isn't in established labour.

About 40 minutes later than are back. He took her home on the back of his motorbike and by the time he got her home he had to turn round and bring her back.

She was on the same post natal ward as me, wafted round in a completely transparent nightie with no underwear and was a total drama queen.

I hope Elizabeth Corday was less of a pain.

@Ashard20

They included that because it happened. They knew they were getting off the ship, so they kept playing right to the end.

I'm not a pathologist but I did work in police admin. Often worked on murder incident rooms and have been invited to the big meeting with the pathologists as the DCI said as I had input all the interviews onto the computer I had as much knowledge about the case as anyone. It was very interesting.

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I’d always assumed “up to the end” meant they played up until it became too unstable, and that’s when they packed up.

I'm with you here.

I know what happens and don't want to watch people "at it". It also gives young impressionable people a totally false idea of the mechanics (as others have already pointed out - few if any women climax within 9 seconds).

Yes, I agree.
Did them musicians really play as the ship was going down? : r/titanic (reddit.com)

Here's some footage of interviews with survivors who say band did not play until the ship sank.

The majority of phone calls ending without a Goodbye!

On the other hand it was women and children first off on the Titanic wasn't it. I think I'd give birth on my back rather than be expected to kiss my wife and kids goodbye as I just accepted I was going to die.

That was the only shipwreck where that happened. It is why it is so famous. Generally in shipwrecks women and children nearly all died and young fit men survived.

That's how kids talk now to be fair. DS just says I need to go and cuts off. Or sometimes in a group call someone just disappears. I find it really weird but it's normal for them.

You mean like the US military where a hacker was able to get a load of information because the people who were supposed to care about making it secure had left a load of devices with their default passwords?

It wasn't the only time it happened. You could look up HMS Birkenhead as another example.

Away from the sea it was repeated in the release of Israeli hostages from Gaza. I don't think any man were released but some women and children were.

This one has probably been said loads of times already (sorry I haven't read all the posts) but that bit in Titanic where the ship is at 90 degrees to the ocean, people are falling to the death and bouncing off the propellers, Jack and Rose are hanging onto the railings and about to die and Rose says "Oh Jack.... This is where we first met!" I would probably have other things on my mind at this moment!

The second Inbetweeners film where Will is in Australia, collides with a woman and coincidentally they went to school together.

The whole of the film "The Core"

“Women and children first”, as a practice, didn’t originate with the Titanic. Prior to that it was known as the “Birkenhead drill” after its use during the sinking of the troopship Birkenhead in 1852. It was also recorded on earlier occasions.

Any film that features a horse seems to be accompanied by constant frantic whinnying. They don't do that! 🤣
Also in the series You. Everytime Joe Goldberg put his baseball cap on it seemed to render him practically invisible. And in regards to his humongous cage thing he seemed to set up everywhere. How did he do that on his own?? And how did no one notice it being moved about? How did he move it about??

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I have Look and Learn circa 1965 to thank for snippets of knowledge like this.