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?

All the films where the dog is meant to look ferocious and is barking and snarling - but doing so with happy body language, a loose waggy tail and relaxed face, clearly looking at a handler just off camera. Not scary at all - playful!

Also any storyline that hinges on a misunderstanding because the lead characters don't spend two minutes talking. Drives me mad that we have a whole film about angst that a short chat could have avoided.

Anyone but ET

We watched And Then There Were None recently - made in the 1970s - where the guests arrive in the middle of a desert with smallish suitcases (obviously empty, but that's a different bugbear) and that evening are wearing full dinner jackets and evening dresses (all well pressed), not to mention their other changes of outfits. I want a suitcase like that!

My brother still has his Yorkshire accent, we left Yorkshire when he was 11 and then he moved to Cornwall in his teens.

I moved around quite a lot and have a sort of nondescript northern accent.

My cousins who also moved from Yorkshire and lived with us for a time have Lancashire accents.

@LimberlostLark's post reminded me that often if you see an animal in films you often simultaneously hear it - dogs always bark, horses neigh, cats meow, etc - yes animals make those noises, but most of the time they are silent.

Sorry @Beginningless . You must leave this forum immediately and be forced to sit through Company, Les Miserable and Follies back-to-back
There is no forgiveness
Although 'juke-box musicals' are NOT musicalsxand the people who write them/star in them/promote them and/or go to them, should be banished to Siberia
And as for going to watch a hologram of a group singing....

This^^
I have a friend who was born in Ireland, moved to Canada age 6 and then to the uk at 18.
She has a very Irish accent still 60 years later.

@lightand I've been watching Reacher on Amazon prime and they had to guess a password and did the ' you have 3 trays and then it's wiped'. Tried two and then it was last ditch and it was main guys name because he looked up to him.
I said to my husband ' lucky it was Reacher1234' 🤣

Not film but tv.
Martin in Corrie worked in every dept of the local hospital. Anyone admitted who may have liked a bit of privacy would be seen by Martin who seemingly had no gdpr training!

Oh this annoyed me too. And how many men in Northern Ireland can’t drive manual cars? Really?

Any film thats filmed in the dark!!! And text messages and notes that I can hardly read even with my strong t v glasses on.

Idk. I grew up in a farming community. A lot of our neighbours had a cigarette permanently glued to their lip regardless of where they were or what they were doing!

Not so, Bond defused the nuclear bomb in Goldfinger with 007 left on the clock.😉

I saw a Julia Robert’s film where she was running away from the baddies in really high heels and by the end no hair out of place or makeup smudged. Really unrealistic.

Fight scenes between a man/men and a woman where the woman (inevitably) floors the man. who is usually much larger than she is. I mean I wish that was the case, but in reality she would be in trouble

Sex and the City 2 where the vapid quartet are so completely lacking any kind of self awareness regarding how utterly privledged they all are. For a nanosecond when in Dubai when Carrie realises that her personal hotel assistant is paid peanuts and has not seen his family in months you think she might have a Damascine moment and reevaluate her life priorities in the face of someone with real problems. But no. She chooses to remain a whiney aloof vacuous rich cunt.

This thread has really cheered me up this morning and given me a laugh

Boris Johnson did one during his election campaign. Puke.

Completely off topic, but where did you find the film @Mothership4two ? I was looking for that film over Christmas and couldn't find it online. (It's the Attenborough one, yes?)

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.

Aahahahahahahahhhh 😅😅😅

Holy pseudoscience, Batman!

It’s quite specific but in Saltburn when the mum is talking about her modelling days in London hanging out with all the Britpop stars when Common People came out. The film is set in 2006 which means that only would have been 11 years previously, when she would have had two kids at school, been married to a baronet or whatever with a stately home and been well into her thirties - I mean, maybe it could have worked but the
inference was clearly “back when I was really young”. Niggled me and it’s my Roman Empire at the moment. Just want to check in with Emerald Fennell about whether she cocked up the Maths or what.

Leaving the house and not closing the bloody door behind them

Her lettuce 😂
This was the worst scene in the worst shite film.

Well that’s authentic if the family live in America, or if the child goes to international school.

Angelina Jolie as an action hero. She has zero muscle. She would barely be able to run more than 20 feet without passing out.

The Holiday where they decide to swap houses the next day! So they have to get organised, packed, buy flights, connections to and from the airport while also discussing with each other how their houses work/where to pick up keys within a few hours. No wonder Kate forgot to arrange someone to look after the poor dog.