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?

Haven’t RTFT, but one thing that always annoys me is police dramas, where the offices in police stations never seem to have proper lighting and are all in darkness, with each desk only lit by a dim table lamp. How the heck are they supposed to solve anything when they can’t see what they’re looking at? And how am I supposed to see what’s going on? The number of times I’ve shouted at the screen “fgs put the big light on!”

Has anyone mentioned winter scenes filmed at the height of summer yet? Trees in full leaf covered in what is obviously fake snow. OK they may not have the budget to film somewhere snowy but at least time it with autumn.----

One of the historical dramas a few years ago had a lovely country house, adorned with beautiful wisteria throughout what was meant to be many months.

It was a TV period drama, with so much irritatingly ‘wrong’ dialogue. In particular a minor male aristocrat saying, ‘…if she fell pregnant…’.
If anything, he’d have said, ‘If she were to have a child/baby…’.

Script writers/editors are too often clueless.

I remember getting slightly irritated while watching a drama based in 1940s Britain where a counter clerk repeatedly asked customers to fill “out” a form.

I thought exactly this till a few months ago I walked through the delivery room doors, my waters broke I dropped to the floor and started pushing 😂 all over in 20 minutes!

Anything with forensic recovery in crime scenes as that’s what I trained in. The CSI’s are fully covered head to foot, can only see eyes then the DCI and his Sgt walk through the full scene without any PPE on. Seriously

And films that show men who are capable of undoing a woman’s bra! In your dreams!

Any scene where a woman falls/swims in water and comes out with her makeup still intact with a couple of droplets of water for effect, hair is wet but combed through and miraculously by the next scene, the clothes will be dry and uncreased and her hair will have fallen naturally into beachy waves.

Added to this, any woman who is some sort of spy or chasing criminals type who has her hair down at all times. HOW WOULD IT NOT GET IN THE WAY?

Oh yeah, all the glamorous doctors with long swishy hair and perfect makeup too!

What sort of men do you date?

I’m dating at the moment, been with quite a few men this past year or two. They’ve all managed to get my bra undone, mostly with one hand. Quite often before clothes have even come off. What man can’t undo a bra?

i took a break from dating for several years, but even in my younger dating and relationship years… bras were not a challenge for men.

[Edit - meant to quote the post about anachronistic language, not wisteria]

ln the first season of Bridgerton, every dance was called a waltz. Not one of them was actually a waltz - and would have caused a scandal if they had been.

The reason Oliver Twist is well-spoken with good manners and morals is because that is how Dickens wrote him. He believed that being a ‘gentleman’ was innate. A boy born in a workhouse who came from gentry would act like someone of that higher class despite no exposure to that class. It’s tosh, but genuinely what Dickens believed.

And one of the many reasons I mainly avoid Dickens!

You and me both!

Yes! This bugs me too! And in those crime dramas when they go into dark rooms with stupid little torches “put the effing light on!”

Another Friday Night Dinner one, there’s one episode in which the lighting or the type of camera they’ve used is different to usual and it look like everything’s been lit up by flood lights, it looks so unnatural and it ruins it because it’s so distracting.

The thing that always makes me laugh in crime dramas is when the detective shouts across the road to the suspect giving him a head start running off down the road. I asked me husband, retired detective, if he'd ever thought of giving a suspect a warning like this and he said he didn't as he didn't like running after them that much.

They always choose beautiful people who are unkempt. Much easier, than ugly people who actually make an effort.

Police dramas and legal dramas, particularly US shows have a particular way of communicating in a group that really annoys me. Everyone says 1 statement and then after a short pause another person interjects with a single statement etc etc. Criminal Minds was the worst offender for this, so much that it put me off watching the show.

Also the presumption that people in serious jobs must have serious faces and only serious conversations. Surely everyone talks about trivial stuff, they yawn and moan about a bad nights sleep or discuss getting the groceries on the way home. I remember Pulp Fiction, the guys with guns (can't remember were they hit men or gang members) were chatting about McDonalds v Burger king before a murder and it became such a iconic scene at the time. Maybe allowing actors a little bit of improv between scripted parts would help this fake talking manner.

I wish my wisteria would last that long!

Something I’ve seen lots of times (and in something I’m currently watching) is lots of surreptitious nodding between people plotting something. Nothing is said but they subtly nod to someone, who then nods to someone else and so it goes on, everyone knowing exactly what each nod means.

I remember when they gave Dexter a kid 🤣 Spot of serial killing between dinner and bath-time. The nanny basically raising the child. Didn’t work.

I think it also depends on the size of the woman's chest. I'm fairly big and can barely get my OWN bra undone with two hands 🤣🤣🤣

Delivering a shock to an asystole (flatline) rhythm in any medical drama always sends me !

Mrs Maisel, I'm looking at you. OK she was mostly living with her parents, so they did childcare, but she was out constantly performing in clubs late at night, and her parents didn't object to the childcare, or even wonder where she was.