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?

One thing I find very distracting is when someone is in bed but they have the lights on and the curtains open, even sometimes going to sleep like it. It’s all the more galling when it’s not even part of the storyline (ie a scary movie).

That you always cough and speak in a weak voice if you're about to die. No matter whether you've been shot, are dying from blood loss, childbirth or radiation, you will cough feebly before you die, like the wee girl Helen at Lowood School in Jane Eyre. But she had TB.

Pretty Woman… where to even begin 😂

Ferris Beuler - entitled nobhead. Can't be doing with him.

All police detectives are happily married with no drink/drug problems or ongoing trauma.Oh, hang on...

If there's a woman she will always do something very stupid and then somebody must save her. Especially if they have met only a minute before. Because love, you know

probably because so many women on film look a million times better than the average woman helps lol. Men will go that extra mile for good sex!

He was a wanker and a bad friend

A bang on the head will almost certainly result in amnesia, but another bang on the head will cure it and there will be no serious medical consequences from either injury.

“Falls down the well, her eyes go crossed; gets kicked in the head by a mule, eyes go back to normal!”

~ Cousin Randy, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

Are you absolutely certain you're not my DP?

There's a level of detail there that's making me suspicious....

Ugh. I had to stop watching when her stupid car broke down and he offered to call the tow truck for her. Every few minutes this professional, capable, independent woman came across a problem, instantly stops to look prettily worried and he swoops in to fix it. Like some kind of helicopter love interest. For the love of god,
let the woman get on with her fucking life, male scriptwriters!! She can call the damn AAA. All. By. Herself.

It was such a shame, because it was lovely to watch otherwise. Beautiful scenery.

In Back to the Future when Marty goes back to 1955, he buys a Pepsi with the money in his pocket-where did he get 50s money?

American coins and notes barely change between the 1930s and 1990s, so he’d probably be good.

And nobody ever has to look for a parking space, they just whizz into a kerb side space RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DOOR!

You can always get a booth in the Rovers.

Copying over huge amounts of information to a USB drive takes just seconds. There are never issues with the device not being recognised, it is never necessary to safely remove the drive, and having dragged & dropped an entire folder in one go that contains lots of files never results in corrupted data.

Only bad/unlikeable characters confess during torture and the information they provide is always accurate. Also, only bad/unlikeable characters are not immediately enamoured with Jessica Fletcher.

Good characters never confess during torture. Also, good characters always hold Jessica Fletcher as dearer and more important than anyone else in their life.

2 things that drive me mad:

1. In The Man in the Iron Mask the “good” LEonardo di Caprio takes the throne at the end. But .... we find out in the film that his father is D’Artagnan so he cannot be the heir to the throne. Yet no-one seems to notice.
2. The end of the Sound of Music, they’re escaping over the mountains - yes, great shot and great finale. But... if you start in Salzburg and walk over the mountain you either end up deeper in Austria or in Germany, and not just any part of Germany either but Berchtesgaden , with the Obersalzberg where Hitler had his summer home. It would have been heaving with Nazi troops. Frying pan into fire!

There is a scene where the Doc opens a brief-case marked 'US currency' (or something to that effect) and it has different sections for different years.

How the Doc got hold of it when he'd only recently invented the time machine is a mystery, but I suppose there might be a collectors market for old currency and he'd been buying it up in preparation for the Delorean being ready.

Well, the second in command to D'Artagnon orders the musketeers who were in the room to keep silent about what they heard. So, a few do know but ordered to keep silent because of what that would mean for the throne.
It seems to be sort of an open secret.

But that was after. The suit case of dated currency was in the 2nd movie.
In the first movie when Marty went back to 1955, it was an accident. He hadn't had any prep and D

*Doc hadnt given him any money or anything.

Obviously, once he found 1955 Doc then he'd have been given some money for the week whilst waiting for the lightning bolt but his first time in the cafe after accidentally going back, his coins would have been minted around the 1980s.

More BTTF madness - in III when Marty takes the Delorean back and the petrol tank breaks - surely the original Delorean is still hidden in 1885 with whatever petrol had been in it at the time - they could have used that one rather than nicking the train..

Also - the Doc was originally meant to meet the teacher, Miss Clayton, from the station. He bailed because he was trying to get the Delorean going - then she nearly falls down the ravine but they save her at the last minute.

Marty comments that she was meant to fall down the ravine, hence it's called Clayton ravine. But in the original timeline that Marty is from, the Doc would have met her as planned and she wouldn't have fallen. Marty had already read the Doc's letter so it can't have been that the timeline was still re-adjusting. There's no way it could ever have been called Clayton Ravine by the time Mary goes back to 1885.

But it was stored in the Delorean - Marty could have accessed it (off-screen) the first time.

his coins would have been minted around the 1980s.

Not necessarily - we still have coins in circulation in 2022 (1p and 2p) that are 50 years old.

What I get from James Bond is that the audience's excitement has nothing to do with not knowing what's going to happen.

When 007 is trapped in the villain's lair inside an erupting volcano suspended upside down over a pool of piranha with a timebomb strapped to his chest and a tarantula crawling up his trouser leg and a poisoned arrow speeding towards him and five uniformed SMERSH troopers on the gantry spraying him with fire from AK47s, there's not a single person in the audience - not one, however gullible - who thinks he might die. Everyone knows, for absolute certain, that he'll be back at the hotel in time for cocktails and a BJ.

So where's the suspense? Where's the jeopardy? Where's the excitement? There shouldn't be any, should there?

And yet, to people who like James Bond films, it is exciting. Even though the same thing happens, predictably and inevitably, every single time, it's a thrill.

The psychology of that is fascinating.

I think it's a problem-solving thing. The question isn't whether he'll get out of it, but how he'll get out of it. And the answer is, by using some device designed for getting out of that situation, which we know about because we saw Q give it to him an hour ago.

Just lucky that the situation in which he finds himself is precisely the one that he has a device for getting out of.

If the villains had just shot him in the head, he'd be right buggered.