Biggest movie cliche you can think of?

[Nostalgia]

Depends on the thread. We haven't had one for a while, but any thread where fanboys go at it is well worth reading the whole thing because their arguments are usually so flawed its funny. The religious threads probably aren't, because theres an unusually large amount of ignorance found in those. It all depends really. You would never read all 80 pages of the Holiday Council for example...

Haven't had one in a while? March Mayhem was nothing but that! (Blizzard vs. Relic being the worst of them all)
But that's true. I admit that I read pages and pages of those threads, laughing at a lot of comments; but for some reason, after a while, it wasn't funny anymore. I ended up wanting to almost smash my head in sometimes after reading some poorly backed-up and inane reasons as to whatever they are arguing.

I don't know which is worse anymore. Fangirlism, or fanboyism.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Haven't had one in a while? March Mayhem was nothing but that! (Blizzard vs. Relic being the worst of them all)
But that's true. I admit that I read pages and pages of those threads, laughing at a lot of comments; but for some reason, after a while, it wasn't funny anymore. I ended up wanting to almost smash my head in sometimes after reading some poorly backed-up and inane reasons as to whatever they are arguing.

I don't know which is worse anymore. Fangirlism, or fanboyism.

Oh yeah I'd forgotten about MM and the fanboyism surrounding that. That went straight past me a lot of the time, then after they started handing out suspensions and bans all over the place I was quite thankful I stayed reasonably well away.

Now thats one for the ages... which is worse? I'm going to be thinking about that one all night...

 

[Syndef]

General:
1. Whenever someone leaves the supermarket, they're always holding a shopping bag with a loaf of bread sticking out.
2. There is always a "straight character".

In romance films:
1. Female drops stuff on floor. Male stoops over to help her pick stuff up, and their hands touch.
2. Male exhibits borderline creepy behavior (like careful observation) towards female, and female thinks he's sweet. (As in Twilight *shuddder* and Disturbia).

In action films:
1. A single man, either using stealth of explosives, kills several dozen other men.
2. They almost never show a direct view of someone shooting himself in the head.
3. There are times when a blade is preferable over a gun.

 

[Slate Paker]

evil henchmen cant shoot for shit, yet the good guys never miss

 

[Stryc9]

In the Matrix: Reloaded where Neo realizes that his powers to manipulate the matrix extends outside the Matrix... SO saw that coming forty-five minutes before it happened. Seriously, just because you can control objects in a computer does NOT mean that you suddenly become more powerful than anything else living OUTSIDE the computer. It is just a God-Mode from hell.

Well if you think about doesn't it sort of make sense? He was told at one point that there was someone who was born outside the Matrix that could make things as he saw fit inside the Matrix, he was simply the next incarnation of that person.

As for me, every old western ever made, every single f*cking one follows the exact same f*cking plot and they almost all suck.

-Evil guy is trying to grab land.
-Evil guy kill relative or best friend of main character.
-Main character rides into town and has confrontation with Evil Guy.
-Evil Guy's henchmen beat the crap out of Main Character and his 'posse'.
-Main Character and his Posse come up with plan in secret.
-Main Character kills\gets Evil Guy arrested.
-Main Character marries the town hot chick and lives happily ever after.

Seriously that is every western made from 1920 on until they made Unforgiven which is the best western ever.

 

[Nostalgia]

Oh yeah I'd forgotten about MM and the fanboyism surrounding that. That went straight past me a lot of the time, then after they started handing out suspensions and bans all over the place I was quite thankful I stayed reasonably well away.

Now thats one for the ages... which is worse? I'm going to be thinking about that one all night...

And you're smart for that. It earned me my first suspension. A lot of people were extremely sensitive over there. You REALLY had to watch what you said the more it reached the finals.
But holy shit Batman, off-topic!

(I smell a vs. thread coming)

 

[Inverse Skies]

And you're smart for that. It earned me my first suspension. A lot of people were extremely sensitive over there. You REALLY had to watch what you said the more it reached the finals.
But holy shit Batman, off-topic!

(I smell a vs. thread coming)

Nah, more lucky in that I missed the whole fact it was going on. I obviously live in my own little world even on this site.

Derailing threads is great! If you've ever gotten into a conversation with Max you'd know all about it lol. Hmmm... there might just be some sort of vs thread around the corner...

 

[frank220]

When a secondary character gets killed and everyone acts like Christ was just crucified.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

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.

Time Bandits. The Cube. HyperCube. Diary of the Dead. A Zed and Two Noughts. Fear and Loathing in Las Vega. Psycho. The Shining. Nightmare on Elm Street. Friday the Thirteenth...
Lots if you look hard.

 

[Aardvark Soup]

Look at the action movies segment of your video store and try to find one movie box that hasn't got an image of a guy holding a gun. I doubt you'll find one.

 

[Christemo]

a Comedy with a forced romantic subplot (example: Zack and Mirri make a porno)

a Comedy with a forced "but you really have to care about the world/people/your job/feelings" subplot (example: Bruce allmighty)

exactly. that sucks.

i like when they do it free-minded. like in Yes man and Ace Ventura.

 

[monalith]

final destination series

 

[imperialwar]

Phone numbers that all start out "555".

Um they do that so dumb asses dont call the number.
Bruce Almighty had a non 555 number and people called it. There were like 5 different US states that had that phone number as an active phone number. Funny part was one of the guys with that number was in fact a preist.
They then edited the film to have a 555 number

 

[zebrin]

Squeezing a cheesy love scene into every film.

^this /Thread.
That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this topic.

 

[T-Bone24]

The female companion falling in love with the male lead.

 

[Jimmyjames]

Um they do that so dumb asses dont call the number. Bruce Almighty had a non 555 number and people called it. There were like 5 different US states that had that phone number as an active phone number. Funny part was one of the guys with that number was in fact a preist.
They then edited the film to have a 555 number

Gee- you don't say? What are you going to tell me next, that 555-1212 ISN'T information? :-D Yeah, we all know that's why they use 555, that is by no means new information.

Doesn't make it any less cliche that it's the only prefix number that exists in movieland. Why don't they use 777, 999, etc?

The only good part of the movie "Last Action Hero" is when they make fun of that: "How could every telephone number start with '555'? That would mean that for the ENTIRE city of Los Angeles, there can be only 9999 different phone numbers!"

 

[Steeveeo]

Credits.

They are in EVERY FRIKKING MOVIE EVER. Overdone much?

The only good part of the movie "Last Action Hero" is when they make fun of that: "How could every telephone number start with '555'? That would mean that for the ENTIRE city of Los Angeles, there can be only 9999 different phone numbers!"

"That's why they have area codes."

 

[sokka14]

a Comedy with a forced romantic subplot (example: Zack and Mirri make a porno)

a Comedy with a forced "but you really have to care about the world/people/your job/feelings" subplot (example: Bruce allmighty)

agreed. i know it's a series, but scrubs is a perfect example of your second point. it even CONTRADICTS itself and we're still supposed to care/agree with what it says.

also, constant one-liners in actions i agree with. nothing brought this more to my attention than the mummy 3.

 

[Scarecrow38]

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

Both the biggest cliche and the best!

Mine would be: 'I have a bad feeling about this.'

 

[Inconsistently Inconsistent]

Having the protagonist survive at the end of the movie or trilogy.