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 suppose we are to assume that they text each other re the venue.

@NoBinturongsHereMate this is excellent knowledge, thankyou!

How in films people who’ve just met or barely know each other later then have each other’s phone numbers.

I love Supernatural, it’s one of my guilty pleasures (hmmmm, Jensen Ackles) but I did always laugh at the way people seemed to nonchalantly deal with the horrific deaths of their loved ones. If your significant other had been torn to shreds in front of you by some demonic creature I’m pretty sure you’d be a) sobbing uncontrollably or b) catatonic or c) heavily sedated in a secure hospital. Not sitting at the kitchen table 24 hours later casually drinking a coffee whilst chatting with the 2 suspiciously young (and attractive) “FBI” agents who’ve turned up at your door.

In a few good men Tom cruise is initially used as the character who knows nothing but has to have everything explained to him. He says he has no trial experience. By the end hes the guru telling his other two colleagues all about strategy and plans.

Ooh, you've just reminded me of Wilderness (series on Amazon). So many plot holes it was like a swiss cheese! Spoilers ahead...

• Husband's lover wants them to run away together. The two couples are staying in a hotel in the woods and the lovers would obviously need to drive away to escape. However, she suggests they meet in the woods in the middle of the night, rather than say the car park - are they going to escape across the mountains in the dark, or what?
• Why had the OW and her partner come on holiday to the same hotel anyway? Never explained.
• Wife pushes the OW off a cliff at the tryst location, after mistaking him for her husband. Husband is about 6'2" and OW is petite. Even in the dark, with the OW wearing the husband's jacket, this mistake is massively improbable.
• Wife had other woman's phone number. Why?
• The police question everyone who was in the restaurant the night the OW went missing, and no one mentions the wife and her husband having a big row.
• The OW's fall is assumed to be an accident. Some time later the police decide it was a murder. Why? No evidence for this at all.

There were many other holes I'm sure, that's just for starters!

Great! There are so many good ones on there.

You are correct I'm sure of it

@TheCadoganArms Robert de Niro in Ronan asking Sean Bean what colour is the boat house in Heer-Fod.

That quote is repeated a LOT in our house (market town in the shire). We watched the film at least 20 years ago. 😂

Super 8 was a train wreck from the train wreck onwards. Just goes to show how a good movie is greater than the sum of its parts. Took itself way too seriously as well.

It's been so long since I saw it that I can't remember how he does it but I'm guessing it's the whole sock v sauch thing?

You've also just reminded me of my ongoing disagreement with my husband of the proper way to pronounce Balgreen!

Our GPS is baffled by the pronunciation of Kilmarnock, bizarrely.

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Robert de Niro in Ronan asking Sean Bean what colour is the boat house in Heer-Fod.

That quote is repeated a LOT in our house (market town in the shire). We watched the film at least 20 years ago.
^^
https://www.quora.com/Is-the-boathouse-at-Hereford-brick-brown-wooden-or-blue-Which-color-is-the-boathouse

Even worse.
He pronounces it SAW-TON.

Saughton should be pronounced Soch (as in loch) ton, or even sok-ton if you're saying it lazily and fast.

But NEVER SAW-TON.
Hang your head in shame Ewan.

I live in Leeds and it used to infuriate me watching A Touch of Frost!!! That was exactly how they'd do it on there! The thing is, the roads the scene began on were long enough to cover the whole scene, without having to switch between different areas!!! My biggest bugbear about that series!!!

In the recent tv series After the Flood the very pregnant main character carries on working as a police officer (fair enough) but that involves standing in a roaring torrent to rescue a baby, chasing around after suspects and being involved in skirmishes and finally a car crash after which she takes off her pants and deliverers her own baby.
I enjoyed the film but it did strain credibility.

Sadly that’s actually a fairly realistic assessment of human nature. 😕

Someone else has mentioned Midsomer Murders. I have a scheme: become an absentee landlord there! Properties have to be extraordinarily cheap there, because no one that moves to the area has a terribly long life expectancy. So one could buy up those houses, rent them out, and if the tentants get murdered, it might even be possible to get up to all sorts of shenanigans like double-renting out the same property for a month or two, or doing who-knows-what with the deposits!

Saw - ton? 😬 oh wow.

OMG don't start me on Russian speaking actors )) its hilarious when someone clearly not familiar with the language is saying some random Russian words trying to sound scary or whatever - and sometimes they don't even bother with using actual Russian and just say any old gibberish which is even more hilarious. I actually get surprised is someone speaks literal Russian that makes sense and goes with the story (even if its accented) or, even more shocking, if they have a Russian actor playing the Russian.

Yes they do this in Greys anatomy all the time

TBF blokes that are farmers are very well used to birthing animals. If push came to shove and no NHS my dad would have been a million times better than mum because he had years of experience calving and piglets. My mum had had one baby and cooked decent breakfasts for my dad had been up all night with birthing animals.
So not bothered by men at birth in the right context.

Grease. Where Sandy and Danny's car flies off into the sunset at the end. Crowds waving below.

I mean .. .wtf?

I think someone mentioned it already - all the films where old and not very good looking guy somehow has a young and very pretty love interest.

I used to get very confused with all the Disney films: pretty princess always has a gorgeous tall mum and a short fat ugly dad. Even as a kid I always wondered why princesses (and princes) never take after a dad. Or was it some kind of a family disease where lovely tall prince gets fat and ugly when he gets older?...

@MoonWoman69 did you see the scene in Happy Valley where James Norton escaped from the ‘courthouse’ via a nearby newsagent and cycled immediately down Vicar Lane(I think…)? Some creative licence there 😊

Wasn't it 'father'?
I've not read the book but apparently the film follows it well