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.

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In my youth (over 50 years ago!) unfastening a bra with one hand was a required dating skill. 😜

And everyone automatically knows how to hotwire a car. Or can work it out in a couple of minutes when being chased

On the same theme, never watch any movie ever with a car enthusiast.

The black taxi that takes "eggsy" home from his failed kingsman training, has a Yorkshire number plate.
And various other cars that shouldnt be in a movie because they weren't made until 2 years later than the movie is depicting. Or worse still, that car of that make and year would not have that exhaust/badge/be that colour/sound like that/have those tyres/etc and if its possible, even worse still is "you know Steve who owns the very last marque/make and it only comes out for special occasions, he definitely didnt lend his car to that show or movie so it must be a fake"

I mean I don't care, but movie makers seem to be pissing off wide swathes of society.

Was there a training manual for this back in the day? DH can do this too. He can get my bra off faster than I can!

All the women who manage to wake in the morning with perfect make-up and perfectly groomed hair. They tend to be with men who manage to wake up completely clean-shaven.

People who are being chased down a road by someone in a car. They co-operatively carry on running down the road where the car will inevitably catch up with them, rather than using manifold opportunities to divert off on a route where a car wouldn't be able to follow.

Or they run down the middle of the road in front of the car.

We can't talk about missing children in films and TV shows, without mentioning Tracy from Corrie.
She must have been upstairs for the best part of a decade.

Also this does grate on me and it's wildly illogical but why do women fold Phil Mitchell attractive.
Like seriously I can't wrap my head around it at all.

That is too, although an experienced partner will be able to tell if the other person is faking it, so a waste of effort really 🙄

Any film where someone thinks somebody or something is in their basement.
So what do they do? Go into it barefooted and without a weapon to hand. They then discover the lights are not working so obviously they carry on, in the dark to be met by their attacker.
On a similar note any film where people do not put the light on, or shoes. Who enters a dangerous situation in total darkness and barefoot?
And women in scimpy nightclothes. Who goes to bed alone in a satin chemise which rides up your arse crack. Good God so unrealistic.

My friend's wife was in Tenko. She gave herself an eating disorder trying to get and stay thin enough to be believable, so it's not always a good thing!

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Any film where someone thinks somebody or something is in their basement.
So what do they do? Go into it barefooted and without a weapon to hand. They then discover the lights are not working so obviously they carry on, in the dark to be met by their attacker.
On a similar note any film where people do not put the light on, or shoes. Who enters a dangerous situation in total darkness and barefoot?

To be fair, if you are in a panic situation you don't think about it. it once happened to me that i thought I saw a shadow moving on a baby monitor (in other words thought there was a stranger in the house) in the middle of the night, I just got up and ran like the wind to the room. Fortunately it was nothing but only later I realised that confronting a anticipated intruder barefoot in my nightware was really stupid but I think adrenaline and need for speed by passes logical thinking.

If there was someone in the house, by the time you've got your shoes on your child might be gone.

So sorry to read that. I absolutely loved 'Tenko' - it was from a time when the BBC could churn out wonderful drama based around untold stories with a real value that the world needed to hear. It had some excellent actors in it, too.

Goodness knows what's gone wrong since: I suspect it's to do with audiences having a lower attention span and a dislike of anything that doesn't move with a breakneck pace. I did like recent the BBC/HBO His Dark Materials series, though.

'Tenko's' editor was our holiday table companion once.

One frequent mistakes in films is to furnish homes with furniture just of that period, so something set in, say, 1935, would have all 1930s furniture. But look round your furnishings in your own homes. Does every piece of furniture come from the 2020s?

To be fair any intruder confronting a startled me in my nightie would probably be more scared than me. I think it is my hair taking on a life of it's own in the night that does it.

I loved Tenko but not worth making someone ill.

I do remember a series about a concentration camp, probably in the 60s or early 70s and there was lots of criticism about the actors not being thin enough. I thought who in their right mind is going to get that thin for a job? Although thinking about it I do remember an actor who got terrible thin to play an AIDS victim so maybe I underestimate their dedication.

That was Tom Hanks. Or he did it as well, at least. Christian Bale and Jake Gyllenhaal both got proper skinny for roles, too.

They're probably my old Year 11 class! When I lost my car keys they offered to 'get it going Miss' when I was calling my OH to go and get the pare keys from home.

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And everyone automatically knows how to hotwire a car. Or can work it out in a couple of minutes when being chased

see also picking a lock with just one hair grip or a paper clip.

The Titanic floating door scene IS stupid though.
Don't you think you'd try a bit more than once or twice to get on if the alternative is freezing to death in icy Atlantic waters? You'd definitely make more of an effort, get the other person to jump on at the same time etc, try a few things.
No, Jack just accepts that he can't get on.

My other one that I've just remembered is any sex scene involving Michael Douglas. He does this "now I am going to enter you, you lucky woman" face and does a massive pelvic thrust from about a foot away, and it is all aimed perfectly and there is no fumbling with hands etc. Seriously, it's the same in every love scene he does, notable performances being Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct. I wonder if it's his "go to" move with Catherine Zeta Jones.

Best is when, as they're all trying to help Sir who has locked his keys in his car, the positively ancient Miss (just turned 40 at the time, so clearly Grandmother material) wanders up and opens the vehicle as they're all going wittering on about what their Dad says.

'HOW DID YOU DO THAT, MISS?'

'Ford, innit <shrug>. Don't you have lessons to go to?'.

Aliens. Ripley has Newt and the Queen has given Ripley the nod to go but leave the eggs alone. Ripley let's loose with that flame thrower EVEN THOUGH the nuclear reactor is going to explode. The nuke is imminent, can't be stopped and the aliens don't understand nuclear physics.

My other one that I've just remembered is any sex scene involving Michael Douglas.

This may just be me, but the other problem is that for some reason I find he resembles Ernie Wise.

Since the explosion of the Titan sub and reading all about it and getting obsessed with under sea films... any film (of which there are a surprising amount) where there is dripping water indicating a breach.

This wouldn't happen at that depth as we know. It would just implode.

Underwater with Kristen Stewart is a serial offender in this.

why are the horses not talking to each other

Aaaaaw! Bless!

a mother slammed the front door in the face of her returning son who had survived, and refused to see him.

Very Spartan thinking. "With your shield or on it"