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 saw one, I forget the name, but it was a postapcalyptic thriller and people were living in groups underground and struggling to grow food. But the women hadn't run out of mascara .

Blinded by the light - film set in Luton. There are some shots where they are in part of Luton, and then five minutes later in another part. They would never have got from A to B in that time.

However, the general feel of the film , set in eighties Luton is pretty good.

Do you know, this had never even occurred to me but you're absolutely right. Of course she would have had underarm hair!!

And they always contain carrots with the leafy green bits still attached! I’ve never seen a carrot with the green bit still attached in a shop in my life.

I sit and pick holes in nearly every film I watch. It drives people crazy 😂

Any supposedly historically accurate film when all the characters have perfect teeth.

L shaped duvets in any bedroom scene that expose the bloke from the waist up and the women from the neck down

Independence Day when Jeff Goldblum just plugs his Windows 98 laptop into the motherships computer which by amazing coincidence also has a Windows operating system despite coming from the other side of the galaxy.

Any supposedly historically accurate film when all the characters have perfect teeth.

They Shall Not Grow Old - the teeth, my word, the teeth. I don't think the soldiers had a good set of teeth between them, even though many of them were only teenagers. (The bum cleaning was an eye opener too, though I suppose if I'd given it any thought I'd have realised the problem...)

I've watched several films where a character will live in some gorgeous detached mahoosive house then an unexpected character arrives and they've got nowhere for them to sleep so they end up on the sofa. So far fetched a house that size would definately have more than 3 bedrooms. Really annoys me

Isn’t there a bit in Robin Hood prince of thieves when they arrive at Dover and he says something like “we’ll be in Nottingham by nightfall” (there might also be a plane flying over somewhere near this bit)

This was my issue with Breaking Bad. How Jessie could do so many drugs and take so many beatings but have perfect teeth!

I wish my children would cop the fuck on to your last point. "I'm being a horse/cat/dog/baby and so you know I am I'll whinny/meow/bark/cry incessantly for the next five minutes till you lose your mind."

Er.

My contribution is car chases where they go the wrong way and manage to weave through the traffic without incident. I suspect they keep these in films because they're so fun to choreograph.

In the very good mini series John Adams with Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney they actually have discoloured teeth which for 1770s America made sense.

@InstaRam mentioned The Holiday. For me it's the scene where Cameron Diaz drives to the shop, and then acts drunk on a quarter, if that, of a bottle of wine, walking around the shop, but she has to drive back to the house doesn't she? Why did no one call the police?

And how did they work put where to live when they all met at NYE? Or was that still to be decided and they just decided to spend time together when they can?

Apparently prehistoric hunter gatherers had better teeth than we do because they ate no sugar or flour.

The first Paddington film did a good spoof of this trope. The Brown family are taking a black cab from Paddington station to their house in west London (looks like Notting Hill or west Ken). So of course there's a montage of them driving across Tower bridge, past Parliament, St Paul's, etc, all over town. Music plays.

At the end, Mr Brown (Hugh Bonneville) gets out and says indignantly to the cab driver (Matt Lucas), "What kind of a route d'you call that?!"

Matt Lucas shrugs, takes the fistful of notes and says apologetically "The bear wanted to see the sights..."

I misread the thread title as scones and just came on to say "jam first".

And Hadrians wall features in their very quick journey as well

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"Pieces of a woman" has a pretty realistic birth scene. It has a pretty horrific outcome but the birth scene itself was really moving! The whole movie was in fact, but it isn't for everyone.

No one ever locks their car. And no one in an action movie ever needs to eat, sleep, or go to the toilet. Plus they can instantly be in another country far away. And why do even severely injured detectives ALWAYS bloody insist on discharging themselves from hospital the minute they come round from their concussion/operation? Rip out the drip, stick the leather jacket on and off they trot.

Grease! How come Sandy and Danny never had a conversation about where they lived / where they went to school? The whole surprise at meeting again is implausible.

And why were the school kids adults in their 20/30’s?

And because they fed their babies soft, solid foods for weaning, rather than purees, which apparently develops the jaw differently so teeth come in straighter.
FWIW my grandparents grew up very poor, in rural India in the 1930s, without access to dental care or toothbrushes, and had very straight, white teeth until they died. They scrubbed their teeth with cooled ashes from the fire. Maybe people in the 1700s did similar? 🤷🏽‍♀️

Any Richard Curtis film where all the characters seem to be quirky upper middle class types who bumble through life working in eclectic low paid jobs which somehow allows them to live in massive Georgian houses in leafy well-heeled neighbourhoods.

The bit where batman and superman stop trying to kill each other because both their mums are called Martha....