Biggest movie cliche you can think of?

[Yokai]

1. Pissed-off guy who doesn't go along with the plan and things the protagonist is a stupid asshole has a change of heart and sacrifices his life willingly to save the hero.
2. "It's quiet...too quiet."
3. The heroine seeing some horrifying creature skitter down a hole in the blink of an eye and following it in there. Her only armament being a flashlight.
4. Let's not forget the black guy, who dies first.

I could go on and on. There are simply so many.

 

[secretsantaone]

The grotesque, creepy villain doesn't die, even when you:

Burn him to cinders.
Dump him in a vat of acid which should dissolve him completely.
Cut his head off.
Not only cut his head off, completely dismember him and spread the parts everywhere.
Drop him in the ocean encased completely in cement.
Take away his chainsaw.
Anything and everything.
*Ominous music plays.*

OMG, There he is again, just because someone got a babysitting job.

*Sighs with boredom*

Ever seen club dread?

 

[B.cereus]

Deux Ex Machinima. Please for goodness sake stop making movies were humanity is brought to the brink of destruction and suddenly wins at the last minute.

I was just going to say that! Yeah, they really need to stop doing that cliche, it's bad/lazy writing.

 

[Shaenightbird]

The grotesque, creepy villain doesn't die, even when you:

Burn him to cinders.
Dump him in a vat of acid which should dissolve him completely.
Cut his head off.
Not only cut his head off, completely dismember him and spread the parts everywhere.
Drop him in the ocean encased completely in cement.
Take away his chainsaw.
Anything and everything.
*Ominous music plays.*

OMG, There he is again, just because someone got a babysitting job.

*Sighs with boredom*

Ever seen club dread?

Not yet, I'll have to check it out.

 

[Futurehead]

A very weak bridge hanging over a massive drop, it creaks and rocks like hell when a character tries to cross it. I suppose there is some variation, in some movies the bridge holds out, in some it doesn't and leaves them hanging on.

 

[s-l-u-g]

I'm not sure if its a cliche or not but I like the one where anyone who has just had sex in a horror movie must die.

Thats a rule, not a cliche

 

[neuromasser]

When bad guy(s) put main character in a situation which he can survive, like tying him too a bomb with a timer etc. Just kill him already!

 

[Aloran]

Where the obvious plot twist is so obvious you can see it practically as soon as the movie begins.

When the bad guy loses/ suddenly gains morals because of a speech given by the good guy. I mean what the funk? "THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD- I'LL ELOQUATE YOU TO DEATH" concept just doesn't work...

On another topic:
Have any of you seen Into The Wild?
very little love interest
the main character doesn't survive

it's not an action film though
just thought I'd put it out there...

 

[abysk]

The bad guys have terrible aim. Really think about it. This isnt as obvious but how can the lone "hero" go against 20 "evil" guys all equiped with full automatics and come out unharmed? The law of averages should force at least one bullet through the freak's heart. There is an exception however. If the hero is black not a single bullet will miss. For every two examples you can think of to counter this there are twenty to prove me right. I'm not racist, hollywood is.

 

[Kellerb]

its his destiny, apparantly...

 

[Spacelord]

Car chase.


Edit: Also: "There's a psycho killer on the loose. We should split up, so he can pick us off one by one."

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

I'd say one liners.
In actions movies.
Delivered by Bruce willis.

I believe the "Yippy Kay Yay ************" was the epitome of badassery.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

Either Bond making out with a girl at the end of the film, the perfect couple going out at the end of a rom-com, or an adventurer (or group) accidentally going over the edge of a waterfall whilst going down a river.

 

[TopHatTim]

I'd say one liners.
In actions movies.
Delivered by Bruce willis.

/thread

 

[Hatredcopter]

The entire subliminal "America is BAD" messages.

 

[DarthHK]

I want to see a movie where evil triumphs.

Yes. No sequels either, just the good guys dead and the bad guys getting whatever they wanted and everyone else being totally miserable.

Didn't the Watchmen have an ending like that? Because you know the bad guy's plans didn't get stopped.

Technically, Ozymandias wasn't really a "bad" guy. He had good intentions, but went about them the wrong way, because the way he saw it, no other way worked. So he took out a few cities for the greater good of the whole of humanity, getting the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to hold hands and sing Kumbaya together around an anti-Dr. Manhattan campfire. In my opinion nobody really "won." Half of the heroes died and the remaining three went into exile, while Ozymandias was left pondering the consequences of his actions.

On-topic: I really despise the whole "hero always survives explosion that was close enough to singe the hairs on the back of his neck while that little voice in the back of your head screams 'BULLSHIT!'" And poorly-executed romance sub-plots. If the girl didn't have a heart made of butter it could work.

 

[GnomeThief]

Enemy soldiers that can't shoot their weapons to hit the broad side of a barn. The heroes can stand there picking them off all the way across the room but the enemy's lasers/bullets/arrows fly all over the place and never hit anything.

 

[Dangernick42]

'It was all a dream after all'

 

[ssgt splatter]

Sex in all horror movies. Friday the 13th/Nightmare on Elm St/Freddy vs. Jason.