Irregular choice shoes
In the film she had an inordinate amount of these shoes. Her family were financially in trouble. These shoes go from about 60 to 300 quid a pair. Total plothole and really annoyed me.
shareMaybe she made them.
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Didn't she mention she bought them on Ebay?
Can.You.Hear.Me?
Hell yes!
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Even on ebay they are expensive. As I say 60 quid plus.
shareHow is that a plothole? It's not like you have to keep making payments on shoes once you buy them.
shareShe had about 30/40 pairs of them costing on average (from ebay) 60 quid up to 300 some are 400 quid. If they were so hard up how could she afford to buy all those shoes on minimum wage whilst supporting a family. To me it was a plothole as they focused on them a lot.
shareWell given that I have never even heard of these designer shoes, I wasn't taken out of the movie at all. To me, as an American, she could have made these super cute, quirk shoes. She was into clothing, had study fashion at some point, and she could have saved money and bought a pair at a time when she had the money. I don't know if the UK has layaway, but she could have gone that route. They could have been knock-offs. They knock-off Louboutans (red bottoms) here like mad. Who knows? Her man Pat seemed to have had some dough, maybe he gave her an allowance.
shareIt would cost a fortune just to make them lol. You need equipment to make shoes, not to mention skills. She hadnt studied fashion, she wanred to study fashion. I have no problem with her having one or two pairs but she has the entire summer range. It's barmy.
And the pair with the red soles were louboutans.
Glad that was funny to you. Ever heard of Payless? Yes, you definitely need equipment to make shoes, but they don't have to cost a fortune. Besides, I looked up these shoes on Amazon after writing this post, and I saw a couple pairs there for 120 bucks with free shipping and free return. Gee whiz, I've always heard it's expensive to live in the UK, but gee whiz you guys act as if you pay a gazillion US dollars for everything. I've spent 120 bucks on sneakers before...not that big of a deal.
Btw. It was an overall good movie. I'm sorry that these shoes may have taken you out of the movie and ruined your suspension of disbelief; however, it's a movie. Unless it's a biography, isn't that what it is designed to do? Suspend disbelief? So she had some pricey shoes, how does that distract from the fact that she entered a disabled man's life and made it enjoyable, made him forego the pain he was experiencing on a constant basis when she was around with her quirky looks and sense of humor, if only for a little while? I loved the story, I loved the movie. It was touching, and a pair of pricey shoes aren't going to make or break a film's intent for me.
Nope we don't have "payless" in the UK. Yes the equipment costs a fortune. Irregular choice shoes are unique, they use a multitude of materials to make them and you need skills to make them not forgetting the material costs.
As I said you can get pairs from 70 to 300 quid (and upwards on limited edition)
I've spent 250 quid on Frye boots, and I own 2 paid of irregular choice but I had to save for them. Doesn't mean I own 40 pairs of them as she did, and I didn't have to give a lot of my wages to my family to keep them afloat.
The movie was average at best it was like something written by Nicholas Sparks. I only watched it as a)it was free and b) I believe in the right to choose which was highlighted more poignantly by Terry Pratchett in a documentary on the BBC.
Really? The shoes were a plothole? lol
"I don't give a tuppenny fck about your moral conundrum, you meat headed sh*t sack."
It was just another annoying part of a very annoying film.
Don't use expensive shoes like irregular choice or ruby shoo if a character is poor.
Plothole def:
In fiction, a plot hole, plothole or plot error is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot. Such inconsistencies include such things as illogical or impossible events, and statements or events that contradict earlier events in the storyline.
I know what a plot hole is. Frankly her having a lot of expensive shoes is not a plot hole. It doesn't affect the story whatsoever.
"I don't give a tuppenny fck about your moral conundrum, you meat headed sh*t sack."
Well to me it does affect it....
shareI can't believe how many threads that poster is complaining in about the shoes. I said exactly the same thing in another thread - it doesn't detract from the movie. But no, let's concentrate on the shoes instead! Because that is what's most important!
I think you'll find ANOTHER poster started the OTHER thread. I was agreeing with them.
You'll find this thread was started AGES ago and the other one is more recent.