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 confess I did this on one of my first driving lessons on a dual carriageway as I thought that was what you were meant to do, as it was seen so often on TV!

My driving instructor was just like "er... what are you doing??"

So cringe!

You should read "Redshirts" by John Scalzi! www.fantasticfiction.com/s/john-scalzi/redshirts.htm

Had you never been in a car before?

Did you not notice that everytime you're a passenger in a car, the driver just goes straight and follows the centre of the road? You must have realised it was a bit odd that you were zigzaging in the lane when you've never sat in a car doing that.

Why in Lord of the Ring didn’t they just get the massive eagle to fly them all the way there and back, would have saved them a lot of hassle and I wouldn’t have lost nearly 4 hours of my life to this awful film!

Yes, that's what the bible says. However, nobody insists to faithfully follow the bible when it states that the punishment for men is toiling the soil in pain and sweat to be able to eat.

Not a big fan of the bible and religion.

Sorry, my comment above was in response to this childbirth post.

Yes - and even more embarrassingly, I was so desperate to drive I'd had my parents talk me through exactly what they were doing as they were driving - i.e. explaining how to use the clutch, etc, etc.

I wasn't wobbling the wheel badly enough to be zigzagging, but just moving it a little like they do in the films! As I say - totally cringe!

I can only put it down to being a slightly overwhelmed 17 year old due to being taken on a dual carriageway on my 3rd driving lesson!

I feel I need to point out I ended up passing my test first time and have been driving for over 25 years now without a single accident or penalty, so I turned out OK!

Because the Eagles were very powerful beings and Sauron would have sensed them.

My pet peeve is when people don't close their front door. I'll spend the rest of the scene knowing the door is open and wanting them to either close it, or wondering if someone is going to come through it and scare them, or if the open door is significant and some sort of fun hijinks will ensue even though that never happens, the scene just always ends with the door still open.

I hate it so much.

Also pretty much every film and TV show where police are interviewing a suspect and their solicitor just sits and lets his or her client get abused by them. Why are you even there? CSI is the worst for this.

I also hate the bit in Legally Blonde where the Good Lawyer Guy helps to win the case by outing a man on the stand all because he noticed Elle's shoes - cue stereotypical camp flouncing. The rest of the cross-examination is great to be fair but I can't stand how homophobic that bit is.

Fifty Shades of Grey is more or less Beauty and the Beast- even down to the live in help.

@PipeScatter - I did that when I first drove too!

Women always become 'accidentally' pregnant after one single episode of unwise sex, usually with someone they can't stand, and who may well be married to someone else.

And they always suddenly go into labour at the most dramatic moment imaginable. On the plus side, it usually only takes a few pushes and the baby is out.

As a woman who delivered 36 hours after my waters broke, the cascade of waters, 3 contractions and a push really annoys me!

OMG I thought I was the only one who thought that.

Women always become 'accidentally' pregnant after one single episode of unwise sex, usually with someone they can't stand, and who may well be married to someone else

I dunno, this seems to happen all the time on MN…

Wow @Naan32 that's such a good point about childbirth. Fuck sake.

Oh and I'm another one who initially thought you had to move the steering wheel from side to side. I'm blaming parents who "play cars" like this with their kids!

From movies I've learnt that most people are men. Women only really need to be there if they're using their vagina either for sex or birthing.

And of course the baby is always spotlessly clean and at least 3 months old.

Likewise any man with an interest in gaming. All gamers/ are portrayed as glasses wearing loners, sat in their "Mom's" basement in stained vest and undercrackers.

Daphne from Neighbours taught me that you can give birth in your tights.

Also when the police come to ask questions they never stop what they're doing.
Mowing the lawn,sword fighting, parachuting.You get my drift🤣.
Who would do that

Never get in a helicopter if you're trying to escape anywhere.

I am surprised people who do work for henchmen / assassins such as designing a new gun or secret lair and who get paid for it don't have some kind of 'insurance policy' so in the event of their sudden and mysterious death (e.g. helicopter blowing up, accidentally getting eaten by a shark) then a copy of their plans gets sent to the Government or the internet or something.

You would have thought such henchmen would have realised that they often get eliminated after they complete their work as loose ends are tied up.

I was genuinely shocked when I discovered that’s who the greatest showman was about - being a fan of Victoriana in my youth I knew PT Barnum was a massive wrong ‘un - such a weird choice for a film

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

I am at risk then, because all of my underwear matches.

Well . . . by "matches" I mean it's all washed out grey . . .