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?

Newspaper reporters who are somehow allowed to work on one story for weeks and weeks and other than the occasional scene where the editor asks for the story, they don’t write anything else for the paper.

Plus they never take any notes.

Why would you even bother to watch the latter? At least with the former we didn't know it was going to be shit until we saw it

Top gun maverick annoys me - helmets are required!

When actors drink out of takeaway coffee cups that are clearly empty.

Drives me nuts, every time!

I despise The Holiday. And Love Actually is almost as bad. Andrew Lincoln comes onto his BEST MATE'S WIFE and we're supposed to find this romantic? I hate this scene and every other parody/homage to it (there have been many).

My biggest bugbear is always when the 50/60 something dashing male lead pulls the 20 something female lead.

I always want to scream. Your old enough to be her dad

Love Actually where Andrew Lincoln turns up with his cardboard signs for Keira Knightley, and thinks he’ll just take the chance that her husband won’t answer the door, or walk out and see what he’s up to. It makes me cringe so much!

The scene in Love Actually where Colin Firth is introduced to his housekeeper and the French lady tells the audience who Eusebio is and accuses him of speaking Turkish when he’s mixing Spanish/French/Italian is just cringe.

The bits in No TIme To Die were the young girl who is around 3 or 4 sits obediently with the villain, without asking for snacks.

also when bond drives her away from the house and the car isn’t full of crap and the frozen soundtrack isn’t playing on the stereo as soon as the engine starts. Totally unrealistic.

Something that irritates me is whenever someone is looking at some terribly grainy and blurry CCTV image or footage and asks the technician "zoom in on him would you?" And in seconds the techy person has zoomed in and miraculously presents a full HD crisp image of the perp.

Plus people drinking out of empty mugs or carrying a takeaway cup that clearly has nothing in it as they're waving it about when they walk around. Ridiculous.

Also anyone in a BBC or ITV crime/thriller usually lives in a massive house but is a regular person with a regular job and in the non-telly world would like a 3 bed terrace. I know this one isn't a movie or film but it bugs me no end.

And most of Independence Day but special mention for Will Smith punching the alien. Then the President fortuitously being able to pilot an alien spacecraft…

Know spooky spooky and trying to create a atmosphere but when people hear a noise and just go looking around in the dark..turn on the lights!!!

And a lot of fast and furious but feel they know it now 🤣 mad how went from street racing to flying cars of buildings

Any film or tv series that uses a character with diabetes for drama as they will always inject insulin for a character having a hypo rather than give them food (far less dramatic)

Stop. Teaching. People. To. Kill. Me!

Well duh, how would you know she was actually a woman if she didn't shave her armpits.
( you're right of course )
I think animal teeth are fine so I guess having a similar restricted diet would limit decay.
I am always amazed the way people are snogging and shagging on impulse in films. Maybe early 20's but otherwise the chance of me having lovely lingerie on and being bed ready is pretty much zero. Also snogging in the morning after a heavy night drinking with no morning breath

To be fair the president pilots a normal fighter jet and it's mentioned earlier in the movie that he was a pilot

Willl smith can somehow fly an alien aircraft

It’s a brilliant film don’t get me wrong but there is NO REASON for the entire family to oversleep in Home Alone 2. The first film they oversleep because there’s a power cut to the whole street so ALL the alarm clocks turn off (so that makes sense), but in the second film Mr Mcallister accidentally turns off his alarm clock at the wall - why did no one else have an alarm clock in that massive house?

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Also anyone in a BBC or ITV crime/thriller usually lives in a massive house but is a regular person with a regular job and in the non-telly world would like a 3 bed terrace. I know this one isn't a movie or film but it bugs me no end.

Yes. This is especially true of

main characters in psychological thrillers where usually the (evil) husband is working and the wife is not working (so single income household) but they live in some extraordinary ultra-modern mansion decorated with expensive modern art and white sofas and a very designer high spec garden.

and

police men.

And who goes up the stairs or into the creepy attic when they hear a noise and at least two of their friends are dead in the film already.
I'd have moved. Country.

Maybe Keira Knightley’s husband is a mumsnetter. They famously don’t answer the door!

All of Prometheus, but a special ranty mention for

1. Really big, really heavy thing about 200 metres high is toppling over where people are running. Instead of hanging a sharp left and getting the fuck out of the way of the thing, they just keep running in the hope that they can cover 200m in exactly the same time (under 10m per second/per second) it would have taken them to go about 20m. They deserved to be squished.
2. Her robotic laser section. Not only did she work out how to program it in a second for a procedure it had never done and ensure it did a bikini cut rather than a straight up the middle, she didn't think to include a bit of pain relief or anaesthetic for it. AND THEN, with all her abdominal muscles sliced through by the laser and only the skin being held together with a couple of industrial staples (because the magic robot surgeon machine seemed to be missing the 'and seal the subject back up again properly' fileset), she then leaps up to do the 200m dash to evade the giant falling thing, when in reality she'd have been squished for being stupid AND squished because she'd have absolutely no connection between the top part of her torso at the front and her legs, thanks to the complete severing and non repair of her abdominal muscles so would have been in a puddle of blood (still wearing her trousers), heaped up on the floor.

Ripley would not have given a fuck about that cat.

This is the hill I will die on.

Except in many of these stories the children aren't American at all, for example Anastasia where the grandmother is voiced by Angela Lansbury doing a terrible Russian accent, but Anastasia (who was a real person, very much Russian and not American) had a totally different accent.

Same with The Sword in the Stone - not technically based on a real person, but the legend of Kind Arthur (who is supposed to be English), and all the periphery characters have British accents, except the child Arthur himself who randomly has an American accent with no explanation at all.

I mean, why bother doing accent for the secondary characters but have the main character with an incorrect American accent - it doesn't make sense.

Inferno. In fairness to the scriptwriters, they had to base it on Dan Brown's stinker of a book. But they had a golden opportunity to take the not-bad story and present it without the godawful science. PCR machines do not work like that! They are not portable virus detectors that blink and go beep in the presence of airborne DNA. They are thermal cyclers that make copies of DNA if you give them the right reagents and leave them running for a few hours.

Up until the slave trade sugar was something only the extremely rich could afford. No sugar = no tooth decay.
People in the past still liked to have clean teeth, it feels nice. They used cloths and charcoal and salt to clean them.
Very, very few skeletons found pre 18th C had tooth decay.
In fact, this is one of my annoyances, poor people in historical dramas with rotten teeth. They couldn't afford tooth decay!!!