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

[DoDoDoooooo]

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

Any others?

Loads of American shows have a breakfast scene where a massive breakfast with every kind of food available will have been prepared - the character it’s meant for will say they’re not hungry and just grab a coffee and go

EAT THE DELICIOUS BREAKFAST

They never lock their door but when its something important to the plot the door is magically locked

im looking at you Friends

Condoning beastiality to boot

Yes PRETTY WOMAN FFS re ignoring of sumptuous breakfasts

Ha ha watched this yesterday and agree

Omg yes. Also as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (if you can tolerate Costner’s blatant American accent.. you couldn’t at least TRIED Kev!!).

Also as the lovely ghost Jamie in the lesser known Truly Madly Deeply.

Less so as Snape

That a ten year old child can master the art of professional-standard drumming in a matter of weeks with no prior experience whatsoever (Love Actually)

That you can go from no dancing experience to professional dancer in 3 weeks as if you have years experience if the guy teaching you is very handsome. [Dirty Dancing]

What?! Although I loooove Cobre Kai and yes, Daniel.is annoying and smug in this- I didnt think he was in the original film? He was totally bullied by Laurence surely? What have I missed?!

Yes and also, that school Christmas concerts take place on Christmas Eve and not weeks before.

Yes PRETTY WOMAN FFS re ignoring of sumptuous breakfasts

in fairness this was richard gere and julia roberts in their prime, they probably weren't allowed to eat. Same with many actors on us films, that's why they have to skip the big breakfasts.

It's ok and romantoc to be a stalker if you look like Meg Ryan -Sleepless in Seattle.

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

Her mum looked about 85 and she was in her 20s. Also why would she have being stupid enough to use her real name at swimming?

IIRC in the film she flushed her wedding ring, in the book she didn't. In the book as well I think her mum was physically disabled rather than really old.

She definitely flushed her ring at home because evil husband fishes it out when he sees something glinting at the bottom. Take it with you/bury it in the sand/hurl it in the sea - so many options, don't flush the damn thing!

I didn’t think she did in the book. I’m not sure she did use her real name, either. I haven’t read it since it came out though, so I could be wrong. I remember it one was of the first experiences I had where I’d read the book first, and I was surprised they changed it so much. It was such a good story.

I’ve ordered the book to read next week. An actual physical book, as I couldn’t find it e-published anywhere.

Lurking

Wasn’t her Mum blind? She dressed as a man to visit (and borrowed her new squeeze’s name) and her mum had to feel her face to know it was her? Or was that something else? My memory is not what it was!

And the Shire. And Rivendell….

There are spoof versions of Lord of the Rings on YouTube showing just that.

It's been a while since I've seen any, so I'm half-remembering, but I think Gandalf says something like "Imagine if we'd had to walk all the way!" Cue lots of laughter from Frodo.

Could Sauron, or any of the watchers, have spotted them before they managed to dispose of the ring, quite possibly. Would the eagle have been able to outfly the Nazgûl? Who knows!

Explanation for the eagles: nerdist.com/article/heres-why-the-eagles-didnt-take-the-one-ring-to-mordor/

It helps to read more than The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy in order to understand the world building and the rules within that universe. But I don't blame anyone for not doing it. Those other books are pretty turgid.

I recall crying out You stupid woman! when she dropped it in the loo and didn't even look to see if it had gone.

@Eeksteek Wasn’t her Mum blind? She dressed as a man to visit (and borrowed her new squeeze’s name) and her mum had to feel her face to know it was her? Or was that something else? My memory is not what it was!

Yes that was definitely Sleeping With The Enemy, watched it recently 🙂
Her mum was blind and yes she did dress up as a man so she could go visit her in disguise.
Turns out it was wise to disguise as she narrowly missed bumping into him at the water fountain as he'd tracked her mum down and was paying her a "visit" at the same time

My theories were based on the eagle agreement to bear more burdens!

I did laugh at this on the theories about the eagles link: "Yes, the eagles do help sometimes but it's up to them."

Though it is true that it couldn't have just been dropped in from height. I suspect there would have been the usual struggle/disagreement about throwing it in with dire consequences. Either Frodo losing more than just a finger this time, or a new Dark Lord in the form of Gandalf!