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?

I’m not sure if you’re joking or not. The line “it’ll keep us warm” was a tongue in cheek joke. Like, when terrible things are happening and there is nothing you can do, some people make a lighthearted little
joke. That line was a joke. It wasn’t meant to be taken seriously? I don’t understand why you’ve taken it as if it was meant to be serious so therefore you think it was stupid… he said it as a joke. How odd of you.

They have surgeons doing everything. Meeting ambulances, running and staffing A&E, ditto the free minor ailments clinic, ditto the clinic in the fire station, organ transport, ambulance ridealongs for the most spurious reasons, writing quarterly accounting reports and handling the budget for the entire hospital, grant approvals, procurement, complaints handling, their own research projects, student admissions, manning stands at university careers fairs, fixing the air conditioning ... they apparently employ no admin staff.

Re the horses,
Many years ago I took my new DH to the stables that's I'd worked at a few years before we had met.
As we walked on to the yard a few heads popped over the doors ,perfectly normal, a few kicked their doors again perfectly normal. We walked over to the indoor school this had a big room next to it that you could sit in and watch the lessons going on so we sat for about 10 minutes and my dh said why are they not talking to each other? I said they are concentrating and listening to the instructor.
This seemed to satisfy him
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We went outside to the padock that had about 10 horses grazing in it .
He asked again why they are not talking to each other.
I was puzzled to say the least , he asked again but more clearly why are the horses not talking to each other .
I don't know what I found the daftest, the fact that he thought horses chatted to each other in the field or the reason the were not talking to each other in the school was because they were concentrating and listing to the instructor!

I think he watched a few to many westerns 😄

Surely the whole point of Oliver Twist is that he doesn't look like a street kid because he takes after his mother - with enables his rich grandfather to find and adopt him?? You have a point about the RP accent tho

Now people mention love actually - when keira knightly kisses her husbands best friend as a ‘pity kiss’ - that is just not ok!!! No way would they be deemed ‘cute’ in real life. Proper grates on me haha

99% of all films - people go to bed without closing the curtains. TV programmes too.

It’s ridiculous. And irritating as I can’t not see that.

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 ...

This one was deliberate so that they didn't accidentally use a real number.

There used to be no 555 code in the USA so that number was always fake. I think that's no longe rthe case, but the practice remains.

What?

Lisa Dingle is dead?

When did this happen?

<hasn't watched for about 12 years . . . >

I forgave him everything because he was always threatening to punch the Home Secretary's lights out in the Corridors Of Power when they tried to stop him taking cases the government had a vested interest in.

It pee'd me off that all the women had men's names, though - George, Jo, Sam - even his clerk was "Coop"

However, I loved the rather camp forensic pathologist - he needed his own series.

Long ago I gave up A level chemistry because the first term was organic chemistry, and seemed to consist of mixing and distilling two colourless liquids to make a third colourless liquid.

And rats and mice always squeak!

Even worse when they're in hiding, but sitting in front of the window in full sight, curtains wide open 🙄😅

@Livingtothefull of course it was FO Murdoch, not Lightholler 😳

And the chief detective always gets taken off the case by some meddling jobsworth.

Only to be reinstated when it's discovered how brilliant they are.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a police drama where this does not happen.

Greys could have its own thread.
All of the above
Apparent lack of incident reporting
No maintenance (flood episode)
Massively sub scale maternity department with half an obs and gyne consultant (because also paeds).

They all stop work for lunch
Rarely work nights
Make up surgery on the fly
And yet every doctor is world renowned
Loads of other batshittery

I effing love that programme though

The lad who threw the map away in the Blair Witch Project - why?

He had a bit of a breakdown I think. Driven to the edge by what was happening .

Just watched The Water Horse (I think) with kids, set in Scotland, am I ridiculous to be annoyed when the central character finds Caribbean shells in the rockpools on a Scottish shore but unfazed by the “kelpie/loch ness monster” hatching out of an egg he also finds 😂😂😂

I love Greys too but them all stopping for a leisurely lunch together, or the interns taking breaks en masse round the back of the bins or wherever it is drives me mad!
I forgive them for the meetings and finance because don’t they somehow jointly own the hospital?
It’s ER for millennials 😂

If you'd stuck with it you could have reached the stage in which you mix and distil two colourless liquids to make a third colourless liquid and a smell.

This sounds like like 50 Shades of Grey but without all the banging.

I forgive them for the meetings and finance because don’t they somehow jointly own the hospital?

Most of the board is indeed made up of surgeons who own the hospital, after the plane crash buyout that simultaneously bankrupted and saved it.

But the selection of chief is independent of share ownership. And indeed it was Owen as chief being too busy surgeoning to do due diligence on plane charter company maintenance records that led to the plane crash in the first place. So the chief of surgery being also the entire admin department and head of the whole hospital predates the ownership reason.

I saw this on a repeat of QI recently (Stephen Fry so a fair few years ago). I think they said the "women and children first!" line has only been known to be used twice in (British) ship sinkings. One was the Titanic and the other was the Birkenhead as mentioned above, where the captain held a gun to the crew to enforce it.

There was a lot of shame at the time for the men who survived the Titanic sinking and I have heard of a case where a mother slammed the front door in the face of her returning son who had survived, and refused to see him.

thank you
I thought it was completely ridiculous that anyone could imagine that line could be interpreted literally - it was midnight in the north atlantic, there was literally nothing other than building a large fire that would have kept them properly warm, albeit some sort of movement (i.e. playing an instrument) would have kept them warmer than the alternatives - doing nothing or jumping into the water. It was clearly meant as lighthearted quip to denote courage in the face of death.

Same with the band playing on - I never assumed that meant they were literally playing even as water came up to their chest, just that they played for a significant amount of time between the iceberg hitting and the ship going down, which they indisputably did. Again - a generalisation to evoke courage and a sense of pathos, not a literal statement.

Lisa Dingle is dead?

I hope so - otherwise it was really harsh of them to bury her 😳

If we are doing Greys Anatomy, Judge John Deed etc then in the TV shows, I'd add Silk (barrister one with Maxine Peak). This is full of grave crimes against reality but a superb one was the case when the Rupert Penry Jones character goes to investigate evidence real time live in the middle of the trial and retrieves something from a cistern and takes it back to court and it saves the day.

There is so much wrong with that it's like a masterclass in how to write bullshit including a barrister leaving their QC alone in the court in the middle of a trial to run around on a wild goose chase of uncertain outcome , investigating (conflict anyone) and the total failure of chain of evidence to ensure the retrieved item could be demonstrated to be uncontaminated.