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?

Never say "goodbye" before putting the phone down.

Big. When Susan finds out she's actually been shagging a 13 year old boy trapped in Tom Hank's body. Does she recoil in horror? Gag? Scream? No no, just smiles wistfully and waves him off back home.

That a slap, a swear and a hearty shake will bring you back from absolute death, but 4 doctors and 400000 volts won't

That not one single lesson or class is attended, by any character, in pitch perfect. Your future: it's all about those hobby groups!

That a slap, a swear and a hearty shake will bring you back from absolute death, but 4 doctors and 400000 volts won't

It's probably as effective. CPR only works in 10% of cases. Unlike in the movies!

If the man I'd been shagging told me that he lied about my identity in order to kidnap me from hospital when I was suffering from amnesia, take me back to his house, make me look after his foul kids and be a live in servant for months (?) all in retribution for some shoddy carpentry work that I had criticised, then I would NOT be jumping off a boat for him.
It had to be sexual fraud at least!

Sorry Tom Hanks but you are not my Robert Langdon... in my eyes he was more of a Kevin Costner/Harrison Ford hot professor type... I'm still disappointed!

' Ratatouille '...Remy, remembers to wash his front paws before doing his chef stuff, but what about the rest of him? He's a rat, for goodness sake! He's been in bins and sewers. He's carrying salmonella, listeria etc.....and he walking all over the kitchen worktops having only washed his front paws!😱🙈

Families leave the house in the morning for work and school without cleaning up breakfast and by the time they return, the kitchen is miraculously clean. Yet no-one seems to have a cleaner.

That the problem with breeding dinosaurs to wipeout the locals during war (thus leave the infrastructure untouched) is that it is mean to said dinosaurs, not the horror of murdering people by having monsters hunt and rip them apart.

That no one should really care when a nanny gets killed because she's only the help.

That boys attempting to cheat on their girlfriends (who are of course totally besotted with said boys) at the first available opportunity is completely normal and acceptable.

That regardless of how technologically (even specifically medically) advanced a society is, women must always go through excruciating pain during childbirth. My father actually pointed this out to me as being because certain major religions have the belief that childbirth is a punishment for women, which is why the pain and suffering is always maintained in Hollywood (and similar) fiction.

American sixth-formers seem to drive themselves to school in their own cars.

True in many cases.

In America, lacrosse is a super-butch, rufty-tufty game played by men wearing body armour and helmets, not a game associated with posh girls wearing PE kit.

Football?

If you develop a cough, you’re toast.

American homes in general seem to be badly lit. I like a bit of mood lighting but sometimes you just need a main bloody light!

The Richard Gere character is Pretty Woman is a horrible creep (or maybe that is the point).

That in the movies you can have a missionary position shag without getting the sex knot in the back of your hair.

Too right. It ruined the whole movie for me. I used to work as a counsellor and therapist with adolescents and met so many young people damaged by people like her.

Pretty in Pink came out when I was about the same age as Molly Ringwald's character. I was amazed that someone who was portrayed as poor had her own car AND a private landline in her bedroom.

I might if it was a 1980s Kurt Russell.

If you are travelling to Mars you should have a back up system to filter water that is as good as the original not one that only produces half the water.

But if you do find yourself in space with rationed water then you could drink urine. No it will not be pleasant but better than nothing.

You are a bunch of scientists who have trained for years for this journey, surely this is something you should have discussed / planned for?

In America, lacrosse is a super-butch, rufty-tufty game played by men wearing body armour and helmets, not a game associated with posh girls wearing PE kit

It is that in North America!! Look up the national league, its like ice hockey, but not quite as popular, its really fun to watch!

Whenever anyone hacks their hair off or dyes it because they’re on the run it always still looks good.

That people with academic degrees are hopeless at anything else.

When the reality is that if you are intelligent.....well ..you are intelligent and it is therefore easy for you to learn things. All kinds of things. Most academics that I know are good cooks, good at DiY, good parents, good at whatever hobby they do, good drivers, good with people, good at handling their finances ...etc

That "fish are friends, not food".

That when faced with a dark cellar, maybe go for help or wait till morning or call the police rather than exploring on your own with just a candle/ oil lamp that will go out after the first 5 mins

No, lacrosse

In the first of the new Jurassic park films it annoys me endlessly how Bryce Dallas’s character’s blouse looks like it’s been washed with something dark and is a sort of grubby off white. Obviously it’s the actual shade of the blouse but it really bothers me.