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 know!!! I even shouted, "What the bloody hell?"!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Mad isn't it?!

Never watch a film that features trains with a trainspotter, sorry, ‘rail enthusiast’ (looking at you DH 😏). They will give you chapter and verse on the wrongness of the locomotive and the endless continuity errors.

In the eurovision film where they drive about Edinburgh completely wrong then at the top of George V Bridge they see the the hydro which is in fucking glasgow!

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

While we’re on that one, can I add that American child actors in those kinds of films only seem to have one way of talking. It’s a kind of artificially bright, polished manner of speech with too many full sentences, too many clear enunciations and too much up-and down, delivered with the sort of grin that makes you feel like slapping the precocious brat’s face.

The young Harry Potter actors may have been imperfect but only Emma Watson came close to this level of irritation.

Can I contribute the gangster’s moll/internationally renowned neonatal cardiothoracic surgeon from Sons of Anarchy?

Despite being a world renowned neonatal cardiothoracic surgeon, she works in a tiny cottage hospital which probably doesn’t even have a SCBU, let alone a NICU. No neonatologists, no paediatric cardiologists, no fetal medicine specialists, no other cardiothoracic surgeons, no wider MDT.

How are there so many neonates needing cardiac surgery in that particular county, that she can sustain a viable service out there? Lack of patients might explain why she doesn’t seem to do any resident call though.

In reality, a quaternary specialty like that would only exist in a massive teaching hospital covering a population of tens of millions, and she’d need to work as part of a wider multidisciplinary team if she wanted her patients to do well post-op.

Hermione was meant to be smug and annoying in the first film wasn’t she? I thought she captured the essence of teacher’s pet know it all very well, actually.

Very true.😄

Police stopping their car halfway down the street, getting out, yelling “police” at villain, who runs away. Why don’t they wait and get closer?

Driving scenes when the driver and passenger have a conversation, looking at each other. I’m yelling “watch the road”!

Eastenders, everyone has everyone’s phone number. 14 year old who just moved there 5 minutes ago, scrolls through phone and you see Phil…

Any scene that involves making a cup of tea and then passing it to someone. IT'S NOT EVEN HALF FULL! And it's not hot either..!

What about Silent Witness or Witless Silence?
No need for a police force when the pathologists solve all the crimes plus act as victim support people.
How do all the ordinary post mortems get carried out when the staff are running around solving crimes.

Speed 2. A massive ship is crashing through the pier and into the town, making a significant amount of noise and (by the time it reaches the near end of the pier) moving at no more than a brisk walking pace. Yet people carry on shopping, sitting at café tables, and gazing gormlessly out of windows failing to notice the collapsing buldings and shriek of grinding metal until it is about 15 feet away.

Dirk Gently tv series involving young adult female who is filthy and ragged but when tied up with her arms above her head has perfectly shaved armpits. At some point they visit a hotel and she sits in a bath (under a shower?) for hours because she has never seen one before. She is definitely not shaving.

Every episode of Silent Witness when she slices into dead bodies of every state and vintage With Her Mouth Open!!! Just NO!

Any police programme where the interview is conducted in semi darkness. You need industrial stength sunglasses in a police interview room.

Also any maverick cop show when cases are in reality solved by teamwork and laborious plodding attention to detail. Not some idiot prancing off on his own and breaking all the rules thereby ensuring the evidence is worthless.

And ... judges banging gavels on their desks. Not in Blighty, they don't! I once had a barrister hold forth on the aforementioned for 5 minutes straight, so now it's in.

That was me - I like your plan! Brilliant!

@TeaGinandFags

Not some idiot prancing off on his own and breaking all the rules thereby ensuring the evidence is worthless.

Reminds me of the pilot episode of New Tricks where Gerry Standing provokes Gaynor Wringer into spitting at him, wipes it off with his handkerchief and gets a DNA sample from it, proving she was the murderer. I'm not British so don't know the law, but surely that would be inadmissible evidence?

OMG that made me so angry. That scene totally ruined the whole film. No one could be that stupid!

There was (not sure if it is the same now) much more room on Soviet subs than British and American subs. The Kursk had a sauna a gym and a swimming pool.

Well a pool, you could probably do 2 breast stroke strokes in it.

Check out the TV room with carpet and rocking chairs.

http://en.people.cn/n/2015/0701/c98649-8913866-6.html

@Emotionalsupportviper

I'm glad I have only seen one episode.

Does anyone remember Dempsey and Makepeace? You could tell there was going to be a chase by what Glynis Barber was wearing at the start of the episone. Trousers and flat shoes - chase

But it's an undetectable sub, if they didnt sing, they wouldn't be noticed?
And they needed to be noticed for them to defect?

It's a while since I've seen it, but that was my takeaway.

I worked at a heritage railway for a decade and it spoilt a lot of films involving locomotives for me!

From Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.

The bit where he lands back in U.K. after fighting the crusades and claims to be a few miles from Sherwood Forest when he's clearly in some kind of very hilly countryside in Cumbria/Northumberland/Wales etc. Pisses me off every time.

And don't get me started on Kevin Costner's accent...

It's Sycamore Gap.

Whilst we are on the subject of passwords, the worst example I can remember is when Lucas in Spooks was looking at someone typing in a password in order to memorise it.

I was expecting to see him watch the fingers with his spy skills and remember the keys that were touched.

but no, unlike every computer for decades and decades, this super secret MI5 laptop had the password appear in the box without the usual asterisks instead of letters.

AAARGH!

Jesus. It isn’t Hadrian’s wall in the film universe. They aren’t walking along Hadrian’s wall. They are walking along a random wall on Robin’s land near to his castle. In the film world, it isn’t Hadrian’s wall. It’s just a filming location which looks good, gave them the terrain they wanted for the scene and the tree they needed for the boy running from the guards etc.

I cannot believe the number of people who cannot understand this and keep repeating it.

In world war z, they’re in “New York” but they’re sitting on a road beside George Square in Glasgow. The zombies attack and go running all over George Square and then through some other part of New York. Because, in the film, it’s not George Square. It’s just a nice filming location but it’s “somewhere in New York.” The zombies didn’t suddenly transport from Glasgow to American in a few paces, it’s just a filming location.

Filming locations do not always represent the actual location they are in real life. The scene at Hadrian’s wall is not at Hadrian’s wall. It’s just part of his route walking from Dover to his castle, made for a nice location with good scenery.

Im genuinely astounded that people don’t understand this.

@Itslegitimatesalvage

It isn't Hadrian's Wall in any universe.

Sorry it is Hadrian's wall but that bit is known as Sycamore gap.