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?

Yes, I remember this, used to love it. Hope Lange as Mrs Muir and Edward Mulhare as the Captain. I saw this before I even knew there was a film.

I so agree!! And I really like your username!😹

Hang on didnt azeem ask for needle and cotton?
Suggesting something had to be sewn up and also say something like, ivevseen it done on horses? Also suggesting a section?

Is it even possible to turn a baby around, or aren't they born breech? To turn a baby around, does that require a whole hand up there?

I've had two pregnancies , both pretty unremarkable so I've no idea.

People on films and telly land all do their packing into suitcases in the lounge, not the bedroom.

Crime scenes where the main cop walks in, in outdoor clothes, touches everything, drops hair and skin cells sll over it , then makes way for the fully-suited forensics teams.

And pretty much anything related to technology and hacking.

And sex standing up when fully clothed usually with woman in a pencil skirt. Virtually impossible (I've tried 😂😂).

And post-sex they just get up out of bed and there's no Danny-dribbling, just putting on yesterday's undies and dahling straight to the office/crime scene/police station. Yuk.

And sex at work (esp medical dramas) where they've been kn a sweaty 13 hour shift and just leap into an on all room and shag,including oral sex . Stinky.

Then, without washing bits or hands, go straight back to treating patients

Babies can be turned externally!

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/health-information/ecv-for-turning-your-breech-baby

All the opening scenes where you can't hear what the actors muffled voices are saying. Fashionably muffled scenes are the worst.

Slightly off topic but good to rant

When someone has been trapped, or held hostage or similar in a room for days, but they haven't needed to use the toilet or wet/soiled themself. Even worse when they are tied up.

I haven’t seen the TV version, but the novel ‘The Doll Factory’ deals with this brilliantly.

Horror films where dead people appear to be able to communicate but only in bizarre, stunted and illogical ways. Gothika was a prime example (apparently so annoying it's bugged me for 21 years!). Girl gets killed. Killer has killed other girls in same shed. Dead girl manages to control keyboard of police officer... Types "not alone". Ffs, you can type! Explain who killed you, where/when/how/who else. What's the point of some weird cryptic message?! Watching Ghosts recently made the only possible sense of this, but still... So stupid.

I hate how in shooting scenes, the 'bad guys' shoot without ever hitting anyone, but then the hero pops out from behind a barrel and takes down 5 guys with 5 shots.

Another one.. the train movie with Denzel Washington where the train tips up onto one rail while going around a corner. That would not ever happen.

😂😂😂
That’s only Bilbo, but what about Bombur, Balin and the other dwarfs, hm?! 😜

They sell them almost everywhere. I buy them from Tesco.

And it’s always a white woman with a black best friend, never the other way around.

do a girl a solid????

I assume it means take a shit?

The entire medical staff on Grey’s Anatomy are constantly getting “accidentally” pregnant. You are doctors! As a minimum I expect you to understand what contraception is for.

Isn't it even dangerous / damaging to give birth lying on your back? I once had to relay the advice of a midwife to some expectant mums, in their language, that NOOO, they must NOT do this. Going completely against the traditional way in their country (there's the patriarchy again).

No! It means do them a favour!

My bugbear is modern make-up and hair in historical settings, so female characters look like they’re heading off to a 21st century fancy dress party in medieval / Elizabethan / Victorian costume. For most of history long flowing hair and no head covering out in public would have been unthinkable for women.

i also remember an Agatha Christie adaptation featuring a youngish man who had lost the use of his legs in the war. And his chest was waxed. I guess at least that’s bringing some gender equality to unrealistic body hair removal!

Women planning an abortion almost never actually go through with it. They go as far as booking an appointment and turning up at the abortion clinic, only to walk out at the last minute.

Thanks for sharing. I just read the transcript and liked this bit:

“I always love it when filmmakers are like, “Why is it a thing that the woman is nude? It’s natural. It’s just a human body.” I’m like, “You know why.”
John: Absolutely.
Craig: You know. Go ahead and take your dick out at a press conference and see how natural it is. It’s not.”

Verb rather than noun. He doesn't call the gear lever 'a drive stick', but says he doesn't know how to do the action of 'driving stick' (that is, driving a manual car).

But I agree that is highly unlikely in both practical and linguistic terms.

As well as not getting any gravity assist in that position, it compresses some essential nerves and blood vessels - so makes labour considerably more difficult.

Haha both my labours were quick. Probably a couple of hours at the most. 45 minutes from arrival at the hospital. Both times my waters went and I called up and was told to take some paracetamol and come ring back if I felt contractions getting closer. I asked if I could go in to be checked anyway. They agreed and I delivered before my mum had parked the car and returned to the ward. Second time was similar but I got there and was told I wasn’t in labour and they put me in a side room with a tens machine for the pain when I refused to go home. Came to check on me after half an hour and I was ready to push. I had tried to warn them second time but they wouldn’t listen!! If it wasn’t for my wonky cervix they’d have been quicker but did have to be helped with an episiotomy. So there were also stitches. Both times were too quick for any decent pain relief as well.

Being normal.

I was in a film, as an extra, and in the opening sequence this little boy is running through the streets trying to get to the fair. He runs past people who are walking slowly. I’m one of those people, only he runs past me three times! No one else would notice because your attention is on the boy, but it was bleeding obvious to me!

I will give Grey’s Anatomy credit for this one. Cristina had an abortion in a very Cristina way.

Then a lot of coverage of the mobile abortion clinic and the abortion training programme.