Things you've taken from films that weren't the point

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Elsa and Anna's parents were shockingly awful...

Any others?

I'm pretty sure that in The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown described him as looking like Harrison Ford. In case being an attractive, eligible university professor of something close enough to archeology didn't make it clear...

Mama Mia: as if friendship groups are a mix of American and British. Of course possible, but within this plot it is wholly implausible.

Not to mention getting married on a whim without having to register your intent to marry first.

Parking, especially in London, is easy.

There's always a perfect space ready for you, no slow drive around the car park with the only available spot next to a poorly parked 4 x 4.
In fact car parks don't exist because it's so easy to park in front of the house, shop, hospital, Downing Street.

100% this!

She rescues him right back!

I have learnt that when driving you should always move the wheel interestingly from side to side, especially on long straight roads.

The thing that always annoys me is if 2 characters meet and hate each other on sight.
That really means they love each other and they'll be together at the end of the film.

Even if the woman's capable of taking care of herself,she still needs a man to save her.

Come the zombie/alien/extreme weather apocalypse, all women and children in the US will die because they're too busy whining about their toys or asserting their feminist rights to follow basic survival instructions like Run! Hide! Sssh! Now!

(The next batch of these movies need women writers, directors, protagonists.)

That you can become an expert in anything, in a really really short time, if you have a montage. Sports especially.

This fact is hilariously parodied in Team America.

I do that to my son!

Oh dear.

I must know the wrong sort of academics.

Everydaydayisaschoolday · Today 05:44

Pretty in Pink came out when I was about the same age as Molly Ringwald's character. I was amazed that someone who was portrayed as poor had her own car AND a private landline in her bedroom

Same

In 'The 13th Warrior' Ahmad ibn Fadlan vomits after seeing some bodies that have been 'gnawed upon'. Can't think of any others, though.

This made me laugh 😂
It's so true! I always interrupt everyone else's enjoyment by complaining about this.

The parents in ET, they hid an alien in her house for days and they didn’t notice?!?

Me too. As if the focus on their specific area of study took up all their mental bandwidth.

Even Rocky had a montage!

You don't need to specify a time or place when arranging to meet someone. Just say shall we meet for dinner/drinks/whatever. The other person says yes and then they both go off happy.

Maybe I try to organise things too much but I need a time and place.

That you can maintain an eye contact conversation with your passenger while driving for several minutes and not cause a multi car pile up

I work in NHS ICU so when I see a character hit another one full-on in the face and all they have is a slight drip of blood on their lip, makes me laugh also when they bash somebody over the head and it knocks them out only for them to come round, hold their head and complain of a headache. If you hit somebody that hard you'd probably kill them.

Also, sex scenes where she's still got her bra on or she's wearing a nightie, and her hair is perfect. Yeah right !.

Run. To. The. Side.

Don't keep going straight when there is something chasing or falling on you in a straight line

No TV here, just DVD/streaming, it can be years before I see an actor recur.

So I'm beyond thrilled that Roxie (Grease) becomes First Lady (West Wing) — but a bit traumatised that Denny Duquette (Grey's Anatomy) turns out to be Negan (Walking Dead).

Trolls tries to promote being yourself but really everyone has to do whatever Poppy wants and all act they exact same

A lot of Disney parents are awful especially in the sequels -,Eric and Nala stand idly by while Simba and Ariel pretty much ruin their daughters lives and make them miserable
Bagheera in the jungle book gets an awful amount of hardship considering he was doing every one a favor and actually wanted Mowgli to be safe - Mowglis pack (the wolves) were just gonna cut him loose and let him fend for himself!

I could never get past the age difference of them. It always felt really icky that they end up together when he was a small boy when they first met.

Almost all instances of sex outside marriage result in pregnancy.

Pregnancies always reveal themselves by making the woman vomit in public. (I was genuinely surprised when I only had mild pregnancy nausea and didn’t vomit once).