Do you ever get so distracted by something in a movie that it distracts you from the plot?

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While watching Jurassic World, I can't get past how the main character, Claire, runs around the park in massive high heels, doing all that she does. It distracts me too much! If someone injures themselves and carries on, the injury and lack of treatment occupy my thoughts to the point where I'm unable to follow the storyline. Does this happen to you too when you watch movies?

I saw an interview with the actor who played Raj and he said because they have to do so many takes, they never actually eat the food, they just have to play with it. I really notice that now!

What bugs me is unlikey things happening for the sake of plot convenience. I'm currently rewatching Desperate Housewives, and I'm noticing this a lot.

For example (for anyone who is familiar with Desperate Housewives), in the later seasons, Lynette conceals her pregnancy from Carlos and Gabby because Carlos refused to give another person at their work a promotion because they were pregnant, so when they find out Lynette has been keeping her pregnancy a secret for so long, they all fall out. Then Lynette sacrifices her own health (and unborn babies) by pushing Gabby's child of the way of an aeroplane crashing in the middle of their street. Lo and behold, Lynette becomes a hero, and they're all friends again.

Just annoys me 🤣

In The Holiday I remember thinking that even with a huge suitcase, no way could Cameron Diaz have brought about 15 different coats!

I get distracted by the plates used on set and shout out “Royal Albert!” or “Le Creuset!” at non-dramatic moments.

And Toby McGuire (sp?) in Spider-Man 2 hadn’t learned his lines very well. He kept saying “Thuh” office, “thuh” umbrella instead of “thee”. Maybe it was a New York accent but it got on my nerves once I heard it…

Renee Zellwegger's stupid English accent in Bridget Jones films

I am driven to distraction by bad/inaccurate accents and dialects. British actors pretending to be American, American actors pretending to be British, etc. Very few are ever convincing. Regional dialects are just as bad. Someone may be the same nationality but that doesn’t mean they’ve mastered every regional accent.

Anachronisms, especially WRT language. I watched a film recently that was meant to take place in Scotland in the early 20th century. They all kept saying “O.K.” Completely inaccurate.

When babies onscreen are clearly looking at their mother offscreen and not reacting at all to the person holding them.

When someone lights up a cigarette, takes one drag and immediately stubs it out. No smoker ever does that! Carrie Bradshaw in SATC was especially bad for this.

Tbf it is usually called out in the “urgh he’s a creepy stalker” sense, not the “she’s a lying cheater getting off on the idea of two men lusting after her” sense.

The “oh, do I look pretty? Little old me?” line is cringy and fake as fuck though. If I was Egg that would have given me the ick instantly.

Suitcases that are obviously completely empty as the actor walks with them almost swinging!

My suitcases are always rammed to capacity so the idea of even lifting them off the floor gives me a back ache 😂. That could just be me though....

1. Who cleans up mess after a fight when somewhere is trashed? Do they have insurance? Why are pictures always askance?
2. When people have to leave the house in a hurry, they always are ready, looking half decent whereas it takes me half an hour at least, of faffing?

obvious plastic surgery or frozen faces. It’s so distracting, I had to give up on Ocean’s Eight because I couldn’t believe the change in Sandra Bullock’s beautiful face. However, Courtney Cox and Christa Millar in Cougar Town transfixed me because it must be so hard to do comedy when you can’t change expression!

I always think this! Also don’t get the sex when waking up, morning breath and I’m always desperate for a wee in the morning.

Thinking about that, the getting up, throwing clothes on and going straight out in the morning, again I think when do they have a wee or brush their teeth!!

Messed up directions in cities I know completely distracts me. I love the film 28 days later, but the brilliant opening sequence is ruined because I spend the whole time thinking there’s no way he could’ve walked from Bank to Westminster in that time, hang on how did he pop up in Piccadilly that walk would’ve taken all day etc etc. Annoying and distracts from the zombies.

Those high heels in Jurassic Park also really distracted me.

One thing that annoys me is the fashion for people being interviewed/informed of something and they keep doing what they were doing when the police/whoever arrived. Bill you brother in law died horribly in a hot air balloon sabotage and we are wondering if anyone had any grief with him. Bill continues tinkering with the engine, walks over to the table, wipes his hand on an oil rag, comes back and tinkers again before saying I don't know and then moving over to the desk to do a light bit of office work while the cops are describing his brother in laws injuries.

I think it was Law and Order or maybe the West Wing that started this. I watched an episode of Law and Order recently. A man died horribly of ricin poisoning in front of his wife and young child. When the cops went to interview the wife about possible suspects, she continued packing her son's bag, folding stuff, yelling upstairs at her son. Like who the fuck does anything other than sit down and ask the cops so who do you think killed my husband.

I genuinely never noticed she had a mole, perhaps because most people don’t pay attention to these normal things on peoples skin..

and you’re right, she’s absolutely stunning, and I think it’s a shallow comment by a PP!!

People in the Queen Vic buy bottled beer, take one swig then leave - all the freakin time!!

1. how can they afford it?
2. who leaves a beer - who?

😂 I don’t generally watch Eastenders but there was a comedy sketch show a while back taking the piss out of it, where the character would go to the bar and ask for ‘a pint of non-specific please Peggy’ owing to the fact people walk in and ask for ‘a pint’ I can’t remember what show it was though!

Mum and I used to spend a lot of time saying That's A Familiar Face when we were watching British telly (we're Australian but rarely watched anything else) and getting caught up trying to remember where we'd seen them. There are actors we forever know by the first role we saw them in. "Oh look, it's Titanic!" - David Ryall in The Knowledge.

Nearly as bad as Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman walking from Dover to Nottingham via Hadrian's Wall in a day 🙄

The Harry Potter movies are amazing in every aspect except for ... the diabolical acting by the child actors. I cringe with almost every line. They are so wooden! Luna and Neville are ok but the main trio are all appalling.

It's such a shame as the adult actors, props, sets, costumes etc are all incredible.

The Office Ladies podcast talks about this too, highly recommend by the way if you like the US office.

Perhaps she was a CF and robbed some of Kate's.

Until they open their mouth to scream and there are a load of amalgam fillings. Although with CGI and white fillings this is on the decrease.

Victorian street urchins with shiny hair and new boots. Also historical drama where there is no litter, horse poo or other rubbish on the road. Victorian factories and/or mines where all employees appear to be over 20.😮

Tudor dresses with zips.

Eye brows. A woman has been in an asylum, locked in a cellar or on a desert island but they have perfectly manicured eyebrows.

And in books too.

I started reading one which was 10 years after a boy had disappeared and his mum walks in to the kitchen to see him sitting there.

Her reaction? Oh I'm picking your brother up from a friends, get in the car.

She doesn't call the police, she doesn't call the family younger brother is at and say can you keep him over night or can you bring him back home.

I don't think she actually asked where he had been.

I stopped reading at that point.

Another one, post apocalyptic France, but they manage to drive from Brittany to Paris for dinner and then drive back in the same evening.

Not movies but TV: women in American shows wearing bras in the sex scenes; in season 2 of Mindhunter I got completely distracted by every single background being dominated by the yellow items being used to highlight the look they'd chosen. Stopped following the story, just played 'spot the yellow'.

I was like that with Nicole Kidman in Lioness.
Her face looks so different now, it (strangely) makes her look like a bad actress.
She's like a parody of a good actress, trying very hard to be a good actress.

I'm not explaining it very well!

Gates McFadden (Beverley Crusher in Picard) has also had a lot of work done, but it doesn't look great.
It was actually very distracting.