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?

This will be a problem if they ever decide to remake the books. The existence of the internet and smartphones renders a huge amount of the plot and magic superfluous. However Harry was born in 1980 so they were at school in the 90s and it was fitting for that period.

This will be a problem if they ever decide to remake the books.

They are remaking the books - for television. Here's hoping that, this time, the young actors can actually act.

https://thedirect.com/article/harry-potter-reboot-release-cast

I didn't know that! I guess they will keep the time period the same rather than set it in the present. Thanks!

I always thought that in the Walking Dead. Zombies have taken over yet all the women have great eyebrows.

Yes! And that one character (blonde woman - lawyer?) with the lip filler. Who's topping up your lips love?

I was thinking this at Christmas.
Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol' was from a family as poor as church mice, but had the poshest clipped little accent: 😂

There was a series in the 70s called Survivors set after the complete breakdown of society in the UK, but the women in it had full make up and styled hair and everyone wore obviously ironed clothes. It was quite good though.

Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.

Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman walk from Dover to Nottingham in a day.

It doesn't grate me but on the theme of unrealistic fast and furious movies cos honestly most people would have died 😆 or broken their bones. There is Jo way you can fly through the air across a huge freeway and land on another car without hurting yourself really badly

In all the series of 24, Jack Bauer never ever, in real time, has a poo.

Seconding other comments:

Labour/birth is often ridiculous. Often a woman has one contraction, clutches her side and says "the baby's coming!" and it is.

Female (hetro) sex scenes - man inserts penis and 30 seconds later 'bingo!'

City car chases with little or no holds ups due to traffic/traffic jams (unless they are used so the cars can drive on the pavement or through pedestrian areas cue lots of shots of people jumping out of the way).

In any film - if a woman is shown being sick, she is pregnant. It's never food poisoning or a bug, it always means she is pregnant.

Sleeping with the Enemy. Why on earth would you take the time to cut your hair and flush your wedding rings down the toilet in the house of your abuser.

Not one film in particular, but when the newbie in the office gets sent out to buy coffee for everyone. And they skip back in holding a tray of 6 cups and not a one has a drop split from it. I know if I buy even one, then a glide walk, as sure as shit, even then some is going to spill out the top.

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.

And then, when the tests have come back, they don't move them to a ward, they seem to spend their entire hospital stay in Casualty. I think the only people ever in a ward, are those waiting for a transplant. Because most of the time there is always just someone else in the hospital that has a spare part going that the person in the bed next to them needs.

It drives me nuts. Although I still continue to watch.....

Also in The Walking Dead, the grass lawns never over grow, and the cars are spotless.

And nobody loses weight. Hairstyles generally don't change. No issues having monthly periods.

I always scoff at the end of The Secret Life of Pets where the young girl finds a rabbit in the street and takes it home, and the mother is completely fine with this. Tch!
The rest of the film is completely realistic, though. 😀

TV - in pubs, they'll ask for 'a pint of bitter, lager' etc. Er, which one? You ask for it by name: 'A pint of John Smith's and a pint of Fosters please'.

Women sick/injured/dying in a hospital bed with sticking up boobs. Obviously the actresses are going to wear bras, but I alway notice as boobs would naturally flatten - unless false (I'm guessing?)

No one ever locks their car door when they leave it.

Ooh and people drive around with their windows wound down night or day

For me it’s the car chase scenes. The way they speed through sub urban inner city streets, crashing through market vendors stalls of neatly piled fruit and wares without any repercussions. The way their cars maintain the ability to drive at speed despite extensive damage and even fling themselves down narrow steep steps without any problems. The way they have this whole elaborate car chase through crowds of people and even the supposedly good guys don’t stop to think about how many people’s lives they’re putting at risk to save their own back.

I know it’s a blood movie and entertainment. But the more elaborate the car scenes at the more it grates me as I get older. Speeding kills. Dangerous and unrealistic driving scenes are just stupid.

Yes, I watched an episode of Vera last night where two main characters who are brothers talk about growing up on the farm togther in Scotland. Except one has an Edinburgh accent and one a Glasgow / west coats accent.

Also see Shetland. If you are going to cast main characters who have totally the wrong accent, at least give them a back story that explains this.

Any scene with a computer where someone guesses the password straight off, because it's their dog or something. (Who is that stupid?)

Me. I am that stupid. 🙄

What's your dog called @Mainats ?