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?

All the birth scenes.
Water breaks with a massive shoe-wetting gush in ironic/funny/inappropriate moment- usually when the women is shouting at someone and showing her power (and the water breaking reduces everything to piffle).
Immediate rush to hospital, a few pushes, one scream and one quirky joke, and then beautifully wrapped clean burrito baby is whipped out.
Surveying the world curiously at 1 hour old, and then ALL the randoms visit and the woman is still perfectly put together and making tired yet proud faces.
Hurray, realism!

The classic ‘makeover’ scenes always grate on me.

A woman with hair tied up, glasses and minimal makeup and no one bats an eyelid at her, then when her hairs down, she’s wearing contacts and wearing a bit of lipgloss and everyone’s fawning over her 🙄

nobody says "bye" or even anything vaguely to that effect before putting down the phone after a call. This is in all films and all TV shows. Dh and I always fill in on their behalf now when we're watching together. If it happens a lot in a single film we have to get creative with new ways to say "bye" at the end of each call.

The exception to the 'walk away without locking the car' rule is if they are likely to have to run away from a villain/monster. In which case the car will be locked with a key kept on a keyring with an unreasonable number of other keys, and the car will ideally be parked so the lock lines up with a drain grating.

I don't find that as annoying as phone calls where the amount of time they're listening isn't nearly enough for the person to have said whatever it is they are meant to have done.

There’s always daylight in any morning scene when the characters are going to work. It’s as if everything is set between April and September. Someone will shout ‘It’s 7.30, I’m off now!’ and there’s always bright sunshine outside, even when it’s Christmas. They live in a different northern hemisphere than the one I do.

“the whole thing of Jude Laws tiny tiny kids calling him on a mobile phone - (how? why? where is the nanny?) and having Diaz thinking it was a gf.”

The main weirdness with that is that the girls seem to have their own separate mobile phones as first “Olivia” calls then “Sophie” or vice versa!

Plus there’s the limo driver who couldn’t possibly get up the lane on the way there but then picks her up from outside the cottage to go home!

It is the worst BUT it was the pressured norm at the time, and even now if they monitor baby, they don't like you moving around

Oh, and in addition.........When military bods are shown wearing berets which are at right angles to their head, not shaped, and shaped again to lie down by the ear. Makes an ex military woman shout at the telly!

I remember it, I also remember the film. It was quite a sweet story.

Lots here about Robin Hood locations, so I'll vary it a bit by giving you Richard III (Laurence Olivier version). The Battle of Bosworth field looks like no part of Leicestershire that I've ever been to, nor England for that matter - dry, yellow, grassy plain with mountains in the distance. I looked it up and it turned out to be Spain.

Films where someone with a physics PhD is suddenly also a medical doctor.

With one of mine the only position that was bearable was lying on my back. I so wanted to stand up, to kneel, to be on all fours but in every position I tried the baby was sending pains like electric shocks through me. So for me with that particular birth it was definitely the best position, well the only position. I also liked the idea of a water birth and tried that with one labour but every time I stepped into warm water my labour stopped. I'd get out and everythng would start happening, back in the water and it all stopped. Tried 3 times and then gave up.

Yes! Thank you! It really grated me in the first season that he called it a drive stick and I also thought at the time that it’s seemed strange given his age and country or origin. Having seen the second season and where he grew up and lived I’m even more annoyed - there’s no way he would not know how to drive a manual, let alone calling it a “drive stick”.

I know others have said about American phrases in supposedly English characters’ speech… There was a doctor who was supposed to be English and studying in Oxford. She had a cut glass RP accent but still implored Jackson Avery in Grey’s Anatomy to “do a girl a solid”

Never heard an English person of approx my age say that…

Never heard an English person of approx my age say that…

I’ve never anybody of any nationality or age say it at all.

What does it mean?

It means “do a girl a favour” - presumably “a solid favour”

I assume it is an Americanism!

Team America “we need a montage” song has ruined all movie montages for me because it’s so accurate.

Apocalyptic-type films where characters happily dive straight in to passionate sex without any care (and with perfectly smooth, hairless bodies despite lack of hot running water and hygiene supplies). No one is remotely concerned about contraception whereas in reality there’s no way I would be risking pregnancy while trying to survive hordes of zombies!

Also credit to the series the Last of Us - the only one I’ve seen where a female character thinks to stock up on tampons when she gets the opportunity!

@LaBelleSauvage123Try Thomas and the Magic Railroad if you really want illogical. DS2 is obsessed with it - I must have seen it 200 times and still can't follow the plot or parts of the dialogue.

Oh my goodness, that takes me back... My boys watched it so many times, and I still couldn't figure it out either. Truly, truly awful!

Don’t forget, there needs to be A Conflict or Misunderstanding. Her Big City Company wants to buy the Christmas tree farm and building a soulless housing complex or a factory. Or her boss/crush overhears her talking about something and believes she’s talking about him or selling company secrets.

Also, they always drink so much hot cocoa, and rarely alcohol.

and the obligatory scene where they go ice skating - one is a good skater and the other is wobbly and clings to the good skater.

That is exactly what our paper bags are here in Canada. We have a choice of paperbags for 25 cents or a flimsy cloth bag for 35 cents. If they were a decent strength and had handles they would charge us loonie ($1) for it. 😀

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My brother-in-law is this stupid.