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?

No salad vegetables involved, sadly. 🙁

I agree! I thought there was someone in our garden one night (I was out getting the cat in) I shouted ‘who’s there?’ and grabbed a broom and jabbed it in the bush I thought he was hiding in. It was actually a couple of loved up hedgehogs getting it on. Phew!

Never ending magazines/clips of ammuntion.

Also, nobody ever aims their weapon when in a big gun fight - it lasts 20 bloody minutes coz you're shooting from the hip. Trying using the sights and the person you were shooting at would have been dead in seconds.

Also Band of Brothers - they never do up their helmet straps so pointless wearing them.

Typecasting?

And don't get me started on Kevin Costner's accent...

Sit besideme, dear. Deep calming breaths and herbal tea - that's what you need. Worked wonders for my blood pressure.

Every episode of Silent Witness when she slices into dead bodies of every state and vintage With Her Mouth Open!!! Just NO!

Oh God, yes!

Any body more than an hour old is an assault on the olfactory region. More than a couple of days and you have to slather yourself in Vick's just to get into the room.

I know that pathologists get used to it, but you can taste it FFS!

😂

Films like Love Actually where single personal assistants live in glorious apartments that in real life would cost an arm and a leg.

I was watching Trigger Point recently and trying to work out how much Met officers earn in real life and whether that salary would really stretch to a brand new Land Rover and a glass fronted house overlooking the city. No, it wouldn't. 😂

This! And also when two strangers meet and have quicky sex...and I'm thinking 'they haven't used a condom'. 😂

And oh whenever anyone is about to give a speech in a movie, they step up to the mic and there is always a little squeal of feedback.

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And oh whenever anyone is about to give a speech in a movie, they step up to the mic and there is always a little squeal of feedback.

I had never noticed this but now it's been pointed out I know you are right but I have a new thing to annoy me that I never noticed before! thanks for that. :)

""And then in any medical drama, (Chicago Med in particular), anyone who comes in, even for a sore toe, is going to end up in defib, after they have run all the tests with names using every letter of the alphabet. But then they never need to wait for the results, as they just get done in what seems like minutes. "" @isthismylifenow

I have a vague recollection that one of the surgeons dabbles in pretty much everything from complicated neurosurgery to heart transplants. 😂

""Not a film, but This Is Us. I binged watched the lot quite recently. The entire opening premise about Randall finding his father - it made no sense whatsoever how that could have been achieved."" @Mymilkshakebringsallthepapstomycar

The series where they tried to incorporate Covid into the script drove me nuts! The script was like 'oh, I've tested negative and I know you have too, so it's ok if I come into your house'. It just felt really forced.

Plus, I was watching it for escapism from reality and didn't really want to be reminded. 😬

Very good point! people who are supposed to be elite fighters/crack shots, can't hit a barn door with a blunderbuss!

Also, nobody ever aims their weapon when in a big gun fight - it lasts 20 bloody minutes coz you're shooting from the hip. Trying using the sights and the person you were shooting at would have been dead in seconds.

Also using a handgun/pistol single handed. That's not how you shoot a handgun because of the recoil you need to use two hands to shoot accurately.

The fact that the Fast and Furious went from robbing tv/video combis to The Rock deflecting nuclear missiles with his bare hands 😂

That sentence was a meme.

Yes and a bloody true and hilarious one at that 😂

I remember watching a medical drama once where a patient had text book symptoms of diabetes, such as excessive thirst, peeing lots, fatigue etc and it took way longer than it should have done for the doctors to work out what was wrong! I was shouting at the television 'he's got diabetes, you idiots!' 🙄

Reminds me of Bridge on the River Kwai. William Holden looked so unlike any POW, even if the commandant of the camp was based on some of the less inhumane Japanese officers! (Reading the long list of errors, factual and filming muckups, for that film is quite entertaining.)

Reminds me of when I worked preparing animal remains for a museum. Worst ever was a baby dolphin that had washed up, seriously decayed. Marine mammals smell dreadful even freshly dead, but this ... I had to wear a gas mask to work on it. (Just to add to the joy, this was in an Australian summer under a tin roof - top floor of a 19th century building.)

That's what said earlier and really hope theyre making it all as over the top as possible for the laughs and ridiculousness..
..or not who knows 🤣 space car..flying car...car with parschute whatever else.

the straps were left undone because if you were near enough to a explosive blast it could take your head off, instead of just losing the helmet.

Or a plane/tank enthusiast. I have one.

Has anyone mentioned Where Eagles Dare? You know, the one with the cable car going up to the castle after our heroes have been in the nearby inn, all set in Germany? The castle's in one Austrian town, the bar's in another & the cable car is in a third. Love love love the film, though.

I’ve got loads of these:

Any UK-set police dramas, where the station is always an ultra-modern building with tasteful interiors and loads of glass everywhere. Anyone familiar with the police estate will know that stations range from Victorian to new, but the vast majority are actually quite old and usually rather shabby (my old police HQ was a grade II listed country house with strip lights, rattling sash windows and paint peeling off the walls).

Series set in the 1960s and 1970s where almost every house in the background has uPVC windows and doors. There’s often random bits of plastic foliage attempting to disguise satellite dishes too. Life on Mars, I’m looking at you.

In the original Scream, Tatum gets crushed to death by a garage door but everyone else - including her brother, best friend and boyfriend - seem to just shrug it off, with hardly any grief expressed.

Stirrups in Gladiator.

In TV’s Pride and Prejudice, no one puts any food in their mouths, but there is a lot of cutting and pointless moving of foodstuffs around the plate going on. It’s also plainly obvious that most of the actresses can’t play a piano, and move their arms about way too much. Also, Lizzie appears to be wearing Chanel red lipstick throughout (it was the nineties).

Christmas specials where trees are in full foliage. Hello, Gavin and Stacey, but a long list of guilty parties on this one.

I've thought of another one - series 1 of Spiral (French cop whodunnit). They have a prime suspect who is investigated all the way through. It is never really clear why they think it's him but you suspend belief and go with it. Then plot twist, in the final episode they check his social media and OMG he was somewhere else (Caribbean or similar), so it cant have been him! If they had been thorough from the get go, they could have excluded him in episode 1 in about 5 minutes.

Sky fall

M ‘once a top field agent’ and the old ‘super best ever groundsman’ wandering off across the moor at night (that the old gamekeeper/groundsman knows like the back of his hand) with a homicidal maniac following them…..so they use a TORCH?!

then James Bond goes after them and merrily falls into some huge ice filled lake….on a Scottish moor