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?

Oh this made me laugh 😂 it’s my 2 year olds favourite film and it’s played repeatedly here. My DH once called her a sexy pig! But yes you are so right! The sexy pig gear did work on her husband!

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A few years back I took my kids to see some awful superhero film, I think it was Spiderman with Superman or something. Godawful but I was so annoyed at the terrible carnage their fighting was causing. Thousand of innocent people would have died and a whole city was getting decimated. I know it was only a stupid and bad film but the cavalier attitude towards total human carnage really bloody annoyed me,

Met 'the twins' and 'the girls', worried I may not be man enough for 'the beasts'.

The holiday as well as being the dullest film ever also taught me how full of double standards society is- Cameron Diaz punches her lover in the face and it’s comedy apparently but if a male character did that in the film there would be uproar

That whole family were awful. But particularly Uncle Frank.

I had Sam Neil in my head. I’ve stopped watching films where I’ve read the book, now. It’s never a good experience.

The victim of the Monster/supernatural killing entity/psycho ALWAYS chooses a girl with matching underwear. Ergo, I am completely safe from violent death.

All scientists are experts in all science, fields everywhere. It’s all the same stuff, right?

Any woman who has more than a sentence to say is going to be shagged, sacked or whacked. In heels. Women always wear absurd heels, unless they are ‘going to a run’ or have just left the gym.

Everyone had a nice open, non mud bath, not-too-hilly- running path for running through a beautiful forest. Ours are always a thousand miles away, an industrial estate or uphill in both directions.

Everyone knows everyone in an average size town. They all know who’s in local government positions. Wtaf? I only know SOME of my immediate neighbours and my MP. I’ve no clue who the county judge is or whatever.

Pretty sure that in sleeping with the enemy she didn’t flush her wedding ring at home and did a pretty slick job of escaping. He ran into someone in her swimming class that roused his suspicions and he staked out her mother and rumbled her via another coincidence. or something. It was a really good book, I must read it again.

Women in historical films never seem to have body hair either. Epilators must have been big in medieval times.

Any disaster movie ( 2012, The Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow etc. ), at the end when all the world is destroyed, there is basically nothing left, hundreds of thousands people are dead and you probably stepped on their body parts ( also you don’t see any bodies in these films ).
You’ve just seen aliens, King Kong, dinosaurs, f… talking apes!! And at the end it’s all smiles and giggles and hugs like nothing just happened.

SIR ARE YOU NOT TRAUMATISED

Lots of these are great but I now feel weird as I keep my bra/top on during sex 95% of the time! I can’t be the only one?!

I hate how the ‘orphan Tulip’ in Storks has spent 18 years own living solely with birds.

Oh AND…..

the whole stupid disaster plot could generally be avoided if only the Old White Man would just give the younger lead ALL THE INFORMATION about themselves, the situation and the villain, rather than patronisingly and arrogantly keeping it to themselves until the end when it’s too fucking late.

Also, should a woman be intelligent, sexy, independent and holding down a great job, she MUST immediately be put in her place by the general disaster and discover that none of that shit really matters, all she really needs is to go around simpering after the male lead in her heels and hook up with him at the end, ditching all the good stuff. She can’t POSSIBLY go back to rocking her best life being single. She must Be Changed.

If a woman isn’t all of those things, she isn’t the marrying kind and has to live in a trainer park and just gets shagged, shot or shit on. Grrr.

At least in frozen, no one had to get married.

Not a film but whenever I see the Aviva ad it just makes me think not to go on long drives because you look like crap at the end of it.

Wizards can’t magic away short sightedness (Harry Potter and the eternal spectacles).

This was the first thing I noticed! He’s no helmet on!!!

Whenever a female character is considered accomplished by the male protagonist [for example in car mechanics or racing, chess, martial arts, archaeology] she almost always explains that she learned that particular skill from her father or brother/s - therefore setting her up as not a normal run-of-the-mill female character in need of protection from the male protagonist. I always think why can't it be her mother or sister who is the expert on Egyptology or martial arts?

Shawshank Redemption. Absolutely amazing film, possibly the best I've ever seen.

But....
The scene where they are hollowing out the wall to create an escape route - how come it opened inwards??

And FFS make sure they're well and truly dead.

The holiday as well as being the dullest film ever also taught me how full of double standards society is- Cameron Diaz punches her lover in the face and it’s comedy apparently but if a male character did that in the film there would be uproar

British soaps are bad for this

Have to say I cover up my breasts after sex because the 'escape to the armpits' look doesn't feel very sexy. Because I've seen too many movies.

@ArcheryAnnie Ah, that sounds worth a watch.

The best thing to do when trying to hide from someone, often in a life or death situation, is to have a chat with the people you are hiding with.

Women respond to emergency/surprising situations with 'hysterical' screaming and no useful decision-making - I cannot watch Jurassic Park ever again.

If it's Korean drama - a woman must be abducted and must be rescued by her love interest (often because he is a stalker has kindly put a tracker on her without her knowledge); men stop blades with their bare hand, sometimes by having the blade impale them, but apparently have no issues with pain/flexibility/strength in that hand immediately after, and certainly no concerns about nerve damage.

And the man's shirt has always miraculously grown in size so as to accommodate the woman's naughty bits. It is particularly amusing in pairings where the man's upper body is obviously narrower and shorter than the woman's - he would be drowning in that shirt.

Also how did they manage to put the Rita Hayworth poster back up.

In supernatural horror films people can have the most terrifying experiences that would reduce any normal human to a useless gibbering wreck in need of a stiff brandy and a long lie down - but a minute or two later they are acting like nothing happened.

The Greatest Showman. The Bearded Lady is ostracised because of her facial hair, but she still manages to shave her armpits. The inconsistency annoyed me for the entire film.