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?

What grates for me is in something like Midsummer Murders; Inspector Barnaby is interviewing the Lord or Lady of the Manor, about a particularly gory murder and they'll say to him 'Well, if you'll excuse me, Inspector, I have a very busy morning" and just sweep out mid interview. No! There's been murder; you help the police with their enquires.

You can skip time, but the audiences' perception of the urgency or a series of scenes taking place over several days and a series of scenes taking place over a single day is different.

Dramatic unity, innit.

Nothing like the dramatic incongruity of the spatial impossibilities! And in this particular film I don't remember any great dramatic need for a sense of urgency at this point in the film. Skipping forward a day isn't illogical and doesn't make anyone go WTF?

ahhhh. There's a film called American Assassin with a whole section filmed in 'Morocco' aka a road in Croydon DIRECTLY outside the cinema I happened to be watching it in. Weird, slightly cool but definitely throws you out of the film.

Of course, The Hobbit is fantasy, I know that.

They, the dwarfs/ hobbit/ wizard walk for days and weeks and months, but they don’t lose any weight. 🤔😅That is so odd.

Yes! I'm always thinking about the toilet thing, hahah!

American sitcoms where every other line brings varyingly amounts of taped laughter depending how unfunny what was said. So nauseating so predictable. I cant change channel quick enough

That apparently no women can run away in a chase scene, without falling over…..

And then instead of just getting up and continuing to run, they crawl backwards away from the killer.

I work in IT support. We've worked hard over the years to enforce password security. I've seen it all, from "password" as a password, to everyone in the company's passwords stored in an unencrypted excel file that every member of staff has access to. Even 5 years ago someone using their dog's name as a password was a very common occurrence!

"the 'Wilhelm Neigh' does my head in."😆

I love this, I'd never heard of "The Wilhelm Neigh" before, I knew that horses are mostly quiet in real life but I think that's an amazing description, "The Wilhelm Scream" is one of my favourite facepalms so thank you for enhancing my film vocab 😆

There's a funny Youtube video with all the Wilhelm screams from the last few decades with a funny soundtrack too, if anyone is interested

But this can and does happen, especially when there has been a long wait or build up in sexual tension between two people so nit illogical at all

Hospital scenes . There’s never anyone around. Clinics and A and e are always empty

@NeverAHarvester totally ruined Tenet for me. It was filmed in my hometown and the entire car chase scene I was screaming at the screen that the road they started on never goes where they ended up.

And never wear their footwear out (I know hobbits don't wear any: they never get footsore/blister/cuts)

@Loudhousefun incredibly rare. Although plenty of women fake it.

Still catching up on 33 pages of the thread but wondering if anyone else mentioned that in every American police/medical drama officers, nurses and doctors all rent penthouse-style or converted loft apartments. I want to know how much these essential workers earn in the US.

The location ones don't bother me. Film makers want to film interesting/attractive routes, not logistically accurate ones.

Password override? Y/N

Anywhere off the beaten track where random people speak word perfect English.

People getting out of cars and leaving windows open and seemingly not having the keys in their hands

No-one ever waits more than 10 seconds for food to be served in restaurants.

Women waking up with full make up on, with the duvet perfectly straight and the pillows uncreased

Two men in a pub who order 2 pints, drink a few mouthfuls then leave while there’s still three quarters left in the glasses. No man in the world is going to do that! 🤣

And they never go to the toilet 🤣🤣🤣

Not films but Kirsty and Phil walking through houses in their shoes, and the Grand Designs bloke in a brand new sparkling house in his shoes..... what are you doing ???

Love this thread

Sorry to tell you this, but not everyone is obsessed with removing shoes indoors. Some of us don’t even take our shoes off in our own houses.

It would be utterly ridiculous to see Kirstie, Phil and Kev going about in their socks.

You don't take your shoes off in your own house 😯

Obviously, the cameraman wouldn't be doing full body shots. But you're right, some people are happy to walk pavement deposits, indoors. 💩