'Why does'......in films

[FamilyGuy]

Why do the lead couple never close the curtains on their bedroom window when they retire for the night?

Why do all teenage boys/girls have a tree growing so close to their bedroom window? Why doesn't it rip up the foundations of the house?

Why don't burglar's make more use of those enormous great dog flaps in American houses?

Where do you get those great candles that light up an entire room? (and then go out when you are in an enclosed space and really need them?)

How do the Waltons afford the petrol to run all those cars?

Why doesn't anyone ever nip off to the loo?

How come the heroine wakes up with her make up unblemished and her hair perfectly in place - whatever the time and wherever she is?

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Why does the dog always survive?

Remind me again how Old Yeller ends

 

[Easy 10]

Why is it whenever someone is diffusing a bomb, at the last second they always change their mind on which wire to snip ?

 

[brakespear]

Why can't bad guys shoot straight?

Taken from TV Tropes (I'd link through but I have some compassion - people got lost for days in there ):

This is a degree of Truth in Television, as by far most shots fired in firefights or combat are misses. Some sources report that in WWII, the average soldier needed to fire two hundred rounds for every hit scored on an enemy; numerous other examples are mentioned in the Real Life section of this page. So the fictional bad guys don't actually suffer from unrealistic inaccuracy; rather, the heroes' fictional performance would count as Improbable Aiming Skills in real life.

 

[Easy 10]

The "false relief" scene.

Whenever someone is creeping around a dark house going "hello ? hello ? Is anyone there ?" something always jumps out and STARTLES them (usually a cat). Then as they smile and breathe a sigh of relief, THATS when something lunges out of the shadows and gives them a chinese burn.

 

[Petunia]

Remind me again how Old Yeller ends

Beat me to it

 

[vegster]

I'm always amazed by actors who punch a 12 digit number in to a phone or computer first time without getting it wrong while being shot at.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

In Westerns, why is there never any horse shit in the Main Street?

NB . The dog died in a film called Hachi. It quite upset the Missus. Funny how we can watch unmoved the death of human characters, but feel for four legged ones......

 

[Mellotron]

Why does the dog always survive?

Not seen Old Yeller then...

Darn it, beaten to it.

Marley & Me then!

 

[Mellotron]

No one ever says hello or goodbye on the telephone. Height of rudeness.

 

[goldstone68]

Why does Superman wear his pants over his tights?, doesn't he have a dump for FFS !!

 

[vegster]

Geographical fact: All hotel rooms in Paris have a view of the Eiffel Tower.

 

[goldstone68]

Geographical fact : if you are up the Eiffel Tower you can see all the hotel rooms in Paris.

 

[el punal]

Because it's a film.

Much like the Internet where we are all 6 foot 4 well toned Adonis like creatures who wouldn't shag anything less than supermodel looking women.

Internet? Pah! I'm that in real life.

 

[Easy 10]

Women wearing glasses and with their hair up are pug-ugly and repulsive, and are systematically ignored and shunned by the male populace.

Until they remove their glasses and let their hair down, whereupon they suddenly transform into supermodels and have legions of men lusting after them.

 

[Sweeney Todd]

In police dramas, why, when detectives knock on someone’s door, are they always in?

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Why does Superman wear his pants over his tights?, doesn't he have a dump for FFS !!

And why does Donald Duck wear a towel when getting out of the shower. When the rest of the time he walks around with no pants on. The perverted Jimmy Saville wannabe.

 

[Petunia]

Not seen Old Yeller then...

I've still got it on video.......


Don't have anything to watch it on, but don't quite have the heart to get rid!!!

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Romcom films .... why?

 

[Puppet Master]

Why does one punch knock people out?

Why are futuristic systems/computers/contraptions voiced by an American female who reads out specifically everything the system is doing?