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 mean I don't have a musical instrument I just use my mouth! I think captain vontrapp had a little whistle but I may be wrong

Oh I thought that too. I always thought I would be very good at murder, the number of crime programmes/films I've seen.
If you're being chased by a plane or helicopter don't run into the most open land possible when there is a wood available.

Women never wear tights. Although they do but when it comes to the sex scene, they miraculously become holdups!

If Uncle Frank in Home Alone had spoken to my son like that, I'd have been wearing his bollocks as a pair of earrings.

Never go for an early morning walk, especially with a dog, near a river, you're almost sure to find a body in TV dramas.

@hangrylady yes! Uncle Frank is horrible to Kevin

Also the poor kids in the orphanage that watched that family adopt a mouse over them.

Die hard has 4 Christmas songs in it
Christmas is mentioned 18 times
It's set at a Christmas party
Die hard is definitely a Christmas film!

It is more Christmassy than home alone, but no-one ever says that isn't a Christmas film.

Nomistake - agree, but he changed for her in the end as well

School buses in the US (Calif) - they do drop the DCs outside their homes AND traffic is not allowed to overtake stationary bus so no one gets run over.
Downsides is there aren't enough buses to get every child home at the same time - so school years are staggered start and finish times - so if you have more than one child you coudl have them starting 8.00, 9.00, 10 am and finishing similarly so you could be taking them to the bus stop several times a day.

Elegantpuma - I thought exactly the same!

Great thread

Very blond men can be very sexy (Harry Potter).

At the end of the Da Vinci Code, everyone was cheering because the guy flew the nuclear bomb up into the sky in a helicopter, so it went off "safely" in the sky. I walked out fuming about the massive worldwide environmental damage.

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

This sort of was the point. I remember reading an interview with one of the makers of Frozen who talked about one of the innovative things they did was to have the parents mean well but get everything completely wrong (previously Disney had bad parents but they were also evil) and part of the resolution of the film was Elsa learning to disregard the bad instructions her parents had given her.

And some even get a baby out sitting completely upright!!

I like to think that the hijacking and brutal violence are just a metaphor for spending Christmas with the extended family. 🤣

How every woman on screen always screams for ages while giving birth. Not at all like contractions that come and go and nobody ever moans and moohs like a cow. They also never get induced but their water just breaks at the supermarket.

Frozen is not a Christmas movie. It’s not even a winter movie. It takes place in July and a huge part of the plot is that people were unprepared for the icy weather at that time of year.

Never get on a boat that claims to be unsinkable.

Your one night stand will turn out to be the love of your life if you cook breakfast and put wildflowers in a jar on the table (An Officer and a Gentleman)

Everyone always seemed happy when Jessica Lansbury came to their town. I'd either run away or chase her off, because wherever she went, someone was sure to die.

If you’ve got a homicidal madman chasing you, don’t run up bloody stairs.

That when you think someone's been murdered or there is a burglar in your house you should never turn a light on ever!
I spend many an hour shouting at the tv turn the flipping light on you doofus. (Probably explains me being single)

Bartenders are the wisest people in the world.

It takes ages to dry a glass with a tea-towel.

The best thing to do when you’re home alone and you hear a noise in the cellar, is to go down there and investigate, preferably in your nightie.