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?

did you see the scene in Happy Valley where James Norton escaped from the ‘courthouse’ via a nearby newsagent and cycled immediately down Vicar Lane(I think…)? Some creative licence there

The Courthouse was on Le Mans Crescent in Bolton, often seen where elegant buildings and cobbles are needed, he then ran up the side of the Post Office as was, into the newsagent then out of the rear, into Leeds!

Thank goodness, I thought I just had a very mucky mind as that's what I thought too!

Women who go to bed still in make-up and and wake up in the morning with still perfect make-up. And hair. No tooth-brushing.

In New York City police shows, the perp is chased into an alley with a fence at one end. He tries to climb the fence and the copy pull sim down and take him into custody..

Also in NYC police shows, the Assistant DA is always a female who looks like she has been hired from a modelling agency. Ditto female police officers, unless they're in a position of authority, in which case they are allowed to look like a real woman, i.e. the occasional wrinkle and maybe just a bit of flab.

Same here. It played on Australian telly in the 70s.

Not to mention children sleeping in til DAYLIGHT on Christmas day! Particularly noticeable in adverts!

@SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter .my kids have always slept in on Christmas day. I have to wake them up 🤣

See, this was one of the many reasons ‘Tenko’ was brilliant. Hairy armpits everywhere, and you can almost smell the grime. Visceral. They wouldn’t make anything like that now, and I doubt you would find many actresses willing to look like that on screen. We have indeed gone backwards.

Not all men have hairy chests, though.

Recently Paris Jackson was seen sporting under arm hair and the outrage that was being spouted on Instagram was unbelievable. I noticed a lot of men in particular were commenting negatively about it. Guess we need to be hairless and pretty at all times 🙄

Bride Wars - near the end of the film they insert a montage of photos that seems irrelevant and is just weird, like they ran out of money to finish it or something.

This, especially the house situation.
Also when women carry handbags that are clearly empty. Anything could be put inside to make it realistic but no, they carry it empty.

Food is never eaten. It sits in front of them untouched while they talk for ages. Or food isn’t even seen in an entire film, as if the people in it don’t ever eat.

The tea/coffee thing is so baffling because it's such a small thing to get right and it really takes you out of the programme.

I also laugh when another person enters right on cue just as the people on screen have finished their conversation or one person leaves. If only people had such perfect internal timing in real life, you wouldn't need to arrange a time with anyone, you could just turn up.

Oceans 8; pretty much all of it, but the scene where they have all piled into a transit van, all wearing black, just to test out their hidden microphones. Then they all jump out, and Sandra Bullock gets changed for the Met Gala into a glam evening outfit in a manky Central Park public toilet, when she has just left a perfectly good house to get changed in.

This! When the couple have a row and the husband goes to sleep on the couch rather than one of the million other rooms.

In the LOTR the point that you lose weight on a gruelling hike is definitely mentioned. Frodo looks at himself in the mirror before setting off from Bag End and thinks his reflection is looking a bit flabby and some walking will do him good. And later on in the journey Pippin says Frodo is looking twice the hobbit he was and Frodo quips that that's odd considering there's a good deal less of him. So yes, SOME sort of effort should have been made! I do believe there is some grumbling on the same subject in The Hobbit but not as explicit maybe.

My personal bugbear, but this is a little OT, is that those films manage to make the epic journeys of the books seem like they can be done in a day's horse riding. Which takes you out of the story somewhat. Such poor storytelling. (Not my only issue with the films, but I'll stop there.)

Speaking of NY alleys (above) - apparently there are no alleys in NY. I've long wondered how hard it is for New Yorkers to suspend their disbelief when they see alley chases in NY locations?

But that isn't illogical in the context of the film/show, just jarring if you know. Like Hadrian's wall or Trinity library or fjords around Uppsala.

Nobody ever locks their car either. Also, all those scenes where the cop shouts 'Stop!' metres before reaching the baddie, giving him a massive lead as he runs away.

And I hate those sex scenes where the man throws the woman down on a table or up against a wall - she'd be exclaiming with pain at the very least. Pity the poor actress.

Also, those scenes where the computer expert is asked to 'enhance' grainy CCTV footage and he enlarges and zooms in - this always makes it worse, not better.

Well of course no one locks their cars in films. That's so that when someone needs to 'borrow' a car in a hurry they can do so easily.

I thought that was why the woman often made strange noises while it was happening 😂! All l know is l don’t orgasm like that!

Also Friday Night Dinner.
Bugs me every time. There's always the same golden brown loaf of bread on the table at every meal, yet nobody ever touches it. Ever.
And they eat about 1 potato each (well, that's what they put on their plates anyway). And once dinner is over they are all full after having consumed 1 baby carrot and a pea.

Lol I watched a documentary about the series and they talked about the eating scenes. They spent such a long time filming those that if they weren't careful they'd be stuffed - one of the girlfriends started off eating the potatoes and then had to continue eating them all day 😆

The loaf is challah and pretty central to it being Friday night dinner

When the woman puts a necklace on in 2 seconds, fastening it at the back. I struggle to fasten in minutes. Also when a woman in film/tv turns up at work with a neatly plaited hairstyle at the back. Yet lives alone.

It's probably been said already - the scene in 'The Day After Tomorrow' where the evil cold/frost thing is pursuing the protagonists up the corridor and is miraculously held back by a couple of wooden doors and a bit of a fire. When that scene played in the cinema I was in, everyone started laughing. Not the effect the director was after, I think.

Not an example of an illogical scene, but I was driving this morning & wondered what would happen if I drove like they used to in older movies, constantly turning the steering wheel from side to side.
Y'know how you play cars when you're a kid?
It's so amusing in a nostalgic way.