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?

Oh, and swords making a metallic zing sound as they're whipped from the scabbard! If you kept your sword in a metal holder, withdrawing it would blunt the blade 🤦🏻‍♀️ Which is why scabbards are made of leather.

Carrie’s entire presence in Four Weddings and a Funeral. At the first wedding, Charles is the best man, yet has no idea who she is. Not that unlikely if she’s a friend of the bride, but why does Charles ask Kristin Scott Thomas - who is HIS friend - who she is? And how does she know?

Then she’s there again at wedding number two, which is the wedding of two people who hooked up at the first one - people she presumably doesn’t know from a bar of soap. Who invited her there? Then, when she gets married, she invites a bloke she snagged twice AND all his mates (who all go!) I’ve seen enough wedding threads on MN to know that half the time, even close friends don’t get plus ones. And THEN, she cancels her own honeymoon to attend the funeral of one of these people she barely knows!

And THEN, finally, she’s also at the wedding of the bloke she’s had two one night stands with!! Why is she always bloody there?!

The bit in The Notebook where Allie somehow recognises Noah and it’s all romantic and lovely. If only dementia worked like that

Then, when she gets married, she invites a bloke she snagged twice AND all his mates (who all go!)

“Snagged” 😁 I meant shagged!

OMG this annoyed me so much, especially when they make a big deal about her having pubic hair to match her eyebrows!

Not illogical, just improbable - bombs are always defused with just one second left!

Best film bomb scenario ever: the villain has evidently seen those sorts of movies, and prepared for it...

Outlander and crossing the fucking English channel (to get to France). I can't remember the exact quote but considering they're in Scotland at the time they'd have to travel for days if not weeks through enemy country to get there first.

I’ve noticed a lot in uk psychological tv dramas big families who all grew up together having a bizarre mix of accents but no backstory as to why. UK regional accents are so varied but no one bats an eyelid at one sister with a Yorkshire accent, the other with a cockney accent growing up together in their hometown in Kent.

Shows that are set in the UK but you can tell have had American writers who haven't done research. You'll have someone speaking in a "posh English accent" then they'll say "math" or "parking lot" etc. The same goes for the other way round but I don't see that quite as often.

Every single episode of New Amsterdam when they were meant to be in London, both with their portrayal of healthcare here compared to back in the US but how they thought a red phonebox and a black cab or whatever would convince us it was London despite the obviously American street signs around them.

Any time there's a soaring bald eagle and you hear the long screechy noise. That's not what a bald eagle sounds like.

Not a specific scene, but it always bothers me that so many characters have so much free time. Why are they not working, eating, then sleeping like the rest of us? Why do they have so much time for quirky adventures? And how can they afford that huge house with their minimal working hours!?

Any movies where people in a car aren't wearing seatbelts. And when they talk to each other and stare st each other when the driver should be watching the road.

It's a convention peculiar to that art form. It's not meant to be realistic!

Too many American films and TV progs to name where an ugly older guy has a really attractive younger wife (and he's not even rich).

I thought it was -

He was my father!

Pere et Mare...

It broke my heart when I was about 9.

That and the tea tray sliding... Best film ever! (In my 9 year old mind)

Films are fantasy. Not real life.

And when they're driving 2 hands on the wheel - up down , up down, like a child would on merry-go-round steering wheel.

I always think that watching call the midwife. But most the time it doesn't happen like that in real life. And there was no huge contractions at the start. I dropped off and collected my DD off at pre school in early labor. Both my babies I had to have my waters broken.

Movies/tv shows were immediately after giving birth the mum’s tummy is completely flat. Like deflating a balloon.

Also when they open their mouths to scream you can often see amalgam fillings.

Can we do TV too?

I was at my dad's, he had an episode of 'a touch of Frost' on, I've never watched it.

Part of the story was they found a note they thought was written in Chinese but it turned out to ba Vietnamese.

Now if you are not familiar with the languages you may not see a problem, but Vietnamese is written using the Roman alphabet ie the same letters we use.

According to google translate 'hello' in Vietnamese is Xin chào and in Chinese 你好. I know they will be different words but would anyone really think Xin chào is Chinese?

no phones in sight in hogwarts/most of hp movies. 90% of the miscommunications in hp would have been solved by them all having smart phones.

any medical scene.... especially defibrillation with paddles. NO ONE uses them anymore! we have stick on pads

The birth scene in The Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, where Morgan Freeman's character shoves his unwashed big man hand up a labouring woman's vagina and turns the baby to the correct position. The baby is born almost immediately and she survives and is grateful. Everyone is in awe of his womanly wisdom. The medieval mother is not at all perturbed by a bunch of men standing around looking at her lettuce, and one of them shoving his hand up there.

Harry Potter is set in the 90's though. The main characters are supposed to be born in the 70's.

In a lost/stranded situation (eg the show LOST)

the women are always groomed, no hairy legs, pits or tash or overgrown eyebrows.

It's breastfeeding that makes a difference: it provides good bacteria that prevent cavity causing bacteria in the mouth. Also jaw development is largely dependent on tongue posture, and breastfeeding causes the tongue to shift to a much more favourable position than sucking a bottle. However breastfeeding needs to take place for at least two years for orthodontic benefits, because it takes at least this long for the tongue to shift to its adult position.

Yet another mystery the ending failed to explain.