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 agree about the bras, so weirdly prudish; and underwear for both sexes, during and after sex. Ludicrous.
And either they are managing to have passionate sex with their drawers on, or worse, they put them back on afterwards, unwashed, and sleep in them.
And then just pull on trousers in the morning and go straight on with their day. Ugh.

I get really uncomfortable at them leaving doors open, especially in winter.

DH is a TV aerial and double yellow lines spotter in period dramas, which I find quite distracting.

It's always obvious when someone or something is suddenly going to appear, because they leave space at the side of the shot beforehand.

When the woman in glasses suddenly stops wearing them, so she can be beautiful. But there’s no mention of her having got contact lenses & now her eyes apparently work perfectly. It’s a miracle.

I'm watching Official Secrets this morning, and I'm fairly happy that Keira Knightley is getting paler, more distressed, and more anxious-looking as her predicament intensifies. Perhaps more realistic as it's based on a true story.

When characters are.driving in a car and the driver is either wriggling the wheel side to side so in real life the car would be veering from side to side, or the driver is always turning their head to talk to the passenger and not keeping eyes in the road at all. Gives me the rage as should be so easy to replicate safe driving!

When a character is on a mad international chase and never seems to drink water or eat or even charge their phone. For example River Cartwright in Slow Horses went to France, ended up in a village, hiked to a remote cottage, was held captive, escaped back to UK and London and another chase and not a rucksack, phone charger or bottle of water in sight. Although I can forgive him as Slow Horses is so good!

You’re right @Mapletreelane. In addition to not needing food or drink; I can’t recall anybody ever needing a wee. In fact I don’t think film or tv characters urinate ever. Must be hell on the kidneys. Do they fart I wonder? 🧐 Apologies for lowering the tone but I don’t think they’re human!

If they do crash, they usually walk away completely unscathed and ready to continue their quest!

I've just re-watched Eureka and liked the fact that Holly needed to pee from time to time.

Oops, I stand corrected, hooray for Holly and her functioning bladder!

But did it still function after her - change in status? we were not told.

When someone gets kidnapped what happens when they need the loo? You never see them being taken to the loo.

Yes to this and also horsey voice overs - lots of neighing and snorting, when in reality, horses are generally silent.

I was so distracted when they killed the dog in the first John Wick film that I noped right out and refused to watch anymore of them....even though Keanu Reeves is dreamy and godlike.

oh, also people ordering food then leaving when it gets to the table. I lose any interest in the plot coz Im fixated on the food!!LOL

I'd have wet myself within an hour!

Hair left open- not in a pony, bun, plaited, clip, or any other hairstyle.

Loose.

And whenever they go to one of the flats, they get a plastic bottle of water out of the fridge, open it, and never drink from it.

If there are zombies with ragged clothes, they all manage to keep some kind of trousers covering their genitals, and the women zombies always have a top that still covers their breasts.

the 1970s Incredible Hulk always split his shirt open when he started bulging with green rage but his trousers remained intact above the knee.

I can't cope with one of the James Bond films where Daniel Craig is JB, it might be skyfall (to be fair they are probably all like it) He ought to have died at least 4 times within the first 10 min the amount of things that happen to him! And then I can't be bothered to invest because he's not actually a real human!

When I was told that Alan Ladd in Shane was 5 ft 5 inches and all the camera angles were positioned to make him look taller; I found myself looking for times where the camera angles didn't work and he looked his true height.

There's a lot of drink driving in 'The Gilmore Girls' too. Lorelei and her daughter go for dinner at Lorelei's parents' house every Friday night. She always accepts the offer of an alcoholic drink and never says, "Just a water/soft drink for me because I'm driving".

I get distracted by anachronisms.

American actors playing a English person and having a really dodgy accent

Films filmed in the wrong season. For instance it's Christmas but all the leaves are on the trees or people are at the beach in swimwear but it's obvious it's fucking freezing. Really flipping bugs me

So many things:
Dates / ages that don't work, like Rose in Titanic
Empty cups / mugs - how hard would it be to put some water in!
No one ever makes arrangements, they just say yes I'll go for dinner with you later or whatever
People putting their pants back on straight after sex without cleaning themselves or going to the loo.

Those giant brown paper bags in American films annoy me too. No handles. So impractical.