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?

Any American film where breakfast is always " you want eggs?" Or eating and helps themselves to more food and then leaves it all. Bloody irritating and formulaic

@VikingLady I can't think which film this was in, but was it Hagman helping the birth? I can imagine he would be a soothing presence.

The beginning of Ted Lasso irks me, when they've just landed at Heathrow, need to get to Richmond which is 20 mins from Heathrow and Ted says "I just want to make a quick detour" and they end up at Tower Bridge.

Thats not a quick detour mate, in London traffic that's a 90 minute journey one way! 😤

Agree with hanging up without saying bye, also making plans without discussing the where/how/times. Just a ‘I’ll take you out for dinner. How’s Friday sound?” “Sure.” before parting ways.

@Bigbus

Also never resuscitating anyone! They just say ‘They’ve gone’ or give a sad little shake of their head - resuscitate them ffs!!!

That's actually a recurring example of what a lousy doctor Frank Burns is in MASH - he does the "Oh well" and takes his gloves off, and Hawkeye or BJ jump in to resuscitate the patient while they, and Potter, yell "You can't just give up!" etc.

For a hilarious look at these kinds of plot holes, check out 'Pitch Meeting ' on YouTube. There are spoilers, so start with a movie you've seen. I have nothing to do with the channel except for being a big fan.

Oh god it’s one of the worst films ever made.

The accents in How to Train Your Dragon. They all live on an isolated, tiny island but the young characters all have American accents and the older ones Scottish. How!?

Every. Single. Scene is cringe.

Yes and the computer always looks like it's running Windows 98.

Whenever DH and I watch those kinds of scenes with grainy footage, we always shout, 'ENHANCE!' The character inevitably requests it and the tech person always delivers.

The cup thing bothers me too! I get that they wouldn't want to have real liquid spilling on the costumes, but couldn't you put jelly or something in it so the weight was right?

@SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter
You've misunderstood that part. KW finds the invitation for him to attend the celebration from the writer's guild... it was always going to happen but he wasn't going to go. He lacked confidence and couldn't see the point. She helped him to decide to go is all.

When detectives manage to find witnesses to talk to at their place of work or just randomly in the park and conduct an interview with the said witness.....who Is always hostile and carries on boxing or swimming whilst answering questions.Very odd.

Ronda Rousey - ex-MMA was in Fast and Furious and Expendables films.

Anything with horses. Always whinneying and neighing (fake sounds added)! They are actually pretty quiet most of the time.

Historical stuff that appear to have been written by people with no interest in history whatsoever. If you don't want to portray the 18th century or 19th century, do modern rewrite (a la Clueless, Bride and Prejudice) and be done with it.

Agree with hanging up without saying bye, also making plans without discussing the where/how/times. Just a ‘I’ll take you out for dinner. How’s Friday sound?” “Sure.” before parting ways.

Related, but why does everyone always have everyone's number memorized when dialling from a non-smartphone? You never see anyone looking in an address book or notebook.

And because they fed their babies soft, solid foods for weaning, rather than purees, which apparently develops the jaw differently so teeth come in straighter.

Sorry, that sounds like a load of rubbish. Do BLW babies actually have different teeth? I haven't seen any signs of it. Also, people in traditional societies actually premasticate a lot of babies' food.

Or if they’re desperate to contact someone, they let the phone ring all of twice before hanging up in frustration. Does no one ever step away from their phone to stick the kettle on?

Also, characters who hate each other will always have one another’s numbers stored in their phones. Why?! Did they swap numbers just to text insults?

Police officers who have been given explicit instructions not to do something, investigate etc. going against orders and not being disciplined or even fired. If you can’t or don’t follow orders from a superior officer then you won’t last long in a police job. Especially when they are related to the victim or are the victim themselves. Doesn’t happen.

At birthday parties, weddings when no family members are involved, only the main cast members. So you get married but no one was invited other than a couple of people you just met and random strangers in the background.

@Kokeshi123 completely agree - the 'Wilhelm Neigh' does my head in.

Horses DO NOT communicate like that.

Also outrageous crimes against history in terms of tack - grakle nosebands, rigid blinders, fillis stirrup irons etc.

I also enjoy watching medical dramas with doctors and nurses and seeing their blood pressure rise with every scene.

That’s real. Canada too.

They do have proper plastic carrier bags if you want them, but most people choose paper bags because they are usually wheeling the trolley out to their car, so just have to lift the bag into the boot. So they don’t really need handles.

That thing we do here of struggling onto the bus with a full weeks shopping in 8 carrier bags cutting into our wrists? It isn’t really a thing there.

Really? In the first few episodes they mention the mothers needing to birth the placenta. One waiting father asks for it to put on his growing tomatoes.

My kind of thread! Thanks, everyone 😂 I spend far too much time spluttering indignantly at the screen and then calming myself with reminders that "It's just a movie" and "Suspend disbelief!"

I like science fiction. But, for fuck's sake, writers & producers, YOU INVENTED THIS 'UNIVERSE', SO STICK TO ITS RULES THAT YOU INVENTED! There are enormous websites devoted to sci-fi inconsistencies, but one that really got to me was a Star Trek story focused on a massive alien structure that had such intense gravity, it was warping space for parsecs around it. Our heroes took a shuttle craft to it, it landed normally instead of being sucked in at spaghettifying speed, then they hopped out and walked around the surface. They. Walked. With their little human legs 🤦🏻‍♀️

Women's hairless armpits and legs. You've heroically crawled through the jungle, scaled inhospitable mountains and been left for dead in a desert but, when help arrives six weeks later, your legs will be smooth and glossy. In recent films, your salon-shaped eyebrows will also be on good form.

Insta-birth and insta-sex.

Sticking with the "patriarchy's women" theme, women only talk to each other about men or male children - if they even talk to each other at all. It's 39 years since Sophie Bechdel pointed this out, yet improvements have been very marginal. I loved Good Girls and Ocean's 8 for totally beating this rule.

And why does nobody ever finish a meal??

Any genetics scene where they have a double helix on screen (too many to name).

Except for the one in the Wrath of Khan - perhaps that was the first? - which used state of the art vector graphics, got to love that one.
(Though it's a demonstration of how 'state of the art' tech ages any film).

My bugbear is people wearing glasses which when they catch the light are obviously completely flat not lenses.