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

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comedycentral · 25/10/2024 21:15

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?

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Ellmau · 27/10/2024 21:35

Anachronistic character names.

Gratedpotato · 27/10/2024 21:42

Mostly bad writing, where the dialogue sounds really unnatural.
Or, especially in american tv shows, when every point is so over explained so it sounds weird and repetitive, like they are making sure everyone has understood before they move on and that the audience is incapable of inferring anything.

Anicecumberlandsausage · 27/10/2024 21:44

Emily in Paris took me recently when she went to stay at her friend's family house near a skiing resort and she seemed to have way too many clothes to fit in her little suitcase. She did leave her hideous Christmas jumper behind though.

Bridgerton: Colin's hair. Luke Newton's wig has since been labelled Wigbert by fans. I saw the wig, not what was going on with the (thin) plot.

Lonely Planet: Laura Dern has sex with whatever Hemsworth brother is in the film and suddenly the writers block disappears. The Hemsworth brother is pretty though.

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Catsmere · 27/10/2024 23:53

The extremely 1970s Hollywood hairdos in M A S H. Nothing remotely like the US army in the 1950s (or any other time). I don't even mean the doctors (understandable with those characters) but the soldiers they tend to.

AffIt · 28/10/2024 02:08

As others have said, historically inaccurate tack or harness / riding styles always annoy me.

See also: historically or logically inaccurate representations of female body hair.

Yes, I know that people have always removed hair to a greater or lesser extent throughout history, but the odds of finding a razor on a desert island / abandoned city / alien planet are slim, so the baby-smooth armpits / bikini line make no sense.

sashh · 28/10/2024 07:28

MagpiePi · 27/10/2024 21:17

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.

Where are the child zombies? Surely children would be easy pickings.

Funderthighs · 28/10/2024 07:41

I was very distracted by the fact that in A Fault In Our Stars, Hazel Grace’s mum never once changed her duvet cover!

cakeorwine · 28/10/2024 07:45

There's a whole section on IMDB for some people on here- the goofs section. Especially those who are concerned about railway engines!!

I just get surprised by parking. Watching 24 when he was in London and it was amazing how easy it was for them to drive round London chasing terrorists. No parking issues, little traffic

Ellmau · 28/10/2024 07:45

AffIt · 28/10/2024 02:08

As others have said, historically inaccurate tack or harness / riding styles always annoy me.

See also: historically or logically inaccurate representations of female body hair.

Yes, I know that people have always removed hair to a greater or lesser extent throughout history, but the odds of finding a razor on a desert island / abandoned city / alien planet are slim, so the baby-smooth armpits / bikini line make no sense.

And as for the men's shaved chests....

cakeorwine · 28/10/2024 07:48

Mapletreelane · 26/10/2024 11:20

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!

Goldfinger bugs me

Blofeld gets in his plane and the car with gold in is flown to Switzerland.

James Bond has to get the ferry from Dover, drive through France (did they have big autoroutes then) and get to Switzerland.

And he still gets there in time to catch up with Blofeld who hasn't even taken the car to the factory yet. What was he doing?

Sethera · 28/10/2024 07:58

I get annoyed because, in films, TV and even books, an adult woman cannot vomit without it meaning she is pregnant. Bonus annoyance if she makes a 'must have been that prawn curry last night' type remark to her partner because she doesn't want him to know yet for some pointless reason.

mumisfull · 28/10/2024 09:29

XxSideshowAuntSallyx · 26/10/2024 16:09

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

You need to watch the Wrong Mans - their hostage definitely makes use of a plastic bag in that!

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