Cliches and Tropes In Movies That Really Annoy You

[ToastiestZombie]

So what are some of the most annoying cliches in movies for you?

Personally I'd say one of the most annoying is when a character goes to a restaurant/cafe, orders a full plate of food and then due to the plot calling them they walk out without eating it and sometimes without even paying. I know it's really small but if you put the effort into making a plate of food for the actors to use at least show them eating it or just have the plot call them after they've finished.

So yeah, what are some cliches and tropes that you really hate? Doesn't matter if they're big or small, you just have to hate them.

 

[Zontar]

The "One person smart enough to run away trips on their own legs" and "no matter how fast you run, the slow walking villain always catches up to you" tropes from horror movies.

 

[mistahzig1]

Cars that fly in the air when hitting other cars or blow up like they were made of dynamite. Oohhh, and the stormtrooper shooting skills of all villains.


and the top for me if the protagonists who hunt for treasure and NEVER end up with the fricking money in the end in order to make the viewers believe that ending a better human being is enough

 

[Barbas]

Deus Ex Machina. I doesn't seem like it should be that hard to have a short scene setting up such an important plot point earlier in the film. Its use suggests lazy writing and/or bad planning.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Let see-

A minor character being killed off and she/ he is only [inset days] fromretirement. Why should I cared if he or she would of retire soon?

Some guy mention his plan on what he will do once the event is over but then he get killed off. Again is this supposed to make me care that a suddent character development is bestored upon him but then get killed thus he will never get what he wanted?

Split up in a horror movie. This is has been done way too many times.

 

[JoJo]

Shoehorned romance. Don't get me wrong, I really dig a good romance that adds something to the plot, but it some movies in just seems like the male and female leads have to get together at a suspiciously inconvenient point in the plot because...?

 

[ToastiestZombie]

So what are some of the most annoying cliches in movies for you?

Personally I'd say one of the most annoying is when a character goes to a restaurant/cafe, orders a full plate of food and then due to the plot calling them they walk out without eating it and sometimes without even paying. I know it's really small but if you put the effort into making a plate of food for the actors to use at least show them eating it or just have the plot call them after they've finished.

So yeah, what are some cliches and tropes that you really hate? Doesn't matter if they're big or small, you just have to hate them.

This is just a stupid complaint. You think the cast or crew won't bother eating it when they've finished the scene?

It's not that the food's not getting eaten in real life, it's the fact that seemingly every single restaurant scene features no eating of food. It would be like having a scene set in a dance club where the characters are only there to have a conversation relevant to a plot then leave. Go watch the Star Wars Prequels to understand what I mean.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Shoehorned romance. Don't get me wrong, I really dig a good romance that adds something to the plot, but it some movies in just seems like the male and female leads have to get together at a suspiciously inconvenient point in the plot because...?

Yeah.

Even if it's not an inconvenient moment, the idea that for it to be a happy ending, the man and woman have to be together. Especially when this involves one overlooking serious flaws on the part of the other, instead of running the hell away.

 

[Jamieson 90]

Putting kids in dangerous situations when you just know they will be saved anyway. It doesn't add tension it just bores me.

The "Oh let's split up even though there's safety in numbers and there's this monster/evil thing/person after us," yeah that makes sense.

Or the classy let's do a close up/zoom in on someone/something in a horror movie before a lame jump scare. Never fails to get a bored reaction out of me.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Tropes:

Always Chaotic Evil- I dunno, I guess the notion that a race is predisposed to being evil rubs me the wrong way.

If You Kill Him, You Will be Just Like him- The notion that a hero doesn't want to be as bad as the villains they fight, which is understandable... though I think it would save them a lot of trouble in the future.

Karma Houdini- the concept that villains are never punished for their actions, which seriously ticks me off.

 

[JoJo]

Putting kids in dangerous situations when you just know they will be saved anyway. It doesn't add tension it just bores me.

Oh yeah, I forgot that one, in fact expand that to keeping any character you know they won't kill off or severely injure in 'danger' for too long. Especially the 'make it look like the hero died but actually he's alive' cliche in the type of work when it's obvious the character won't actually die.

 

[twistedmic]

This is more for T.V. shows than movies, but the whole Belligerent Sexual Tension (i.e. they fight and argue because they secretly love each other) annoys the hell out of me. It strikes me as cheap and lazy writing. Nine times out of ten Belligerent Sexual Tension is the only character development in the romance part of the story/show. The two characters that are destined to get together meet, and almost immediately start arguing and sniping at each other until halfway through the season/book/movie they suddenly stop arguing and star making out. The two can be argue viciously and mercilessly two seconds earlier and then they are over-the-moon in love and completely content and calm.
And it happens so often that you know how a relationship is going to work out within minutes. For example in the Young Justice cartoon I knew Wally and Artemis were going to end up together before there first scene together was even over because they were already arguing and insulting each other.

 

[NemotheElvenPanda]

Romance. Every lead gets the guy/girl, or there's some annoying romance subplot. It's different when the romance is plot-relevant, but in most cases it's just.....there. I don't even care if it's a same-sex relationship anymore. People don't develop deep relationships when your space ship is being attacked by aliens.

 

[Zhukov]

Just Fucking Shoot Them

Has a couple of variations. One is when characters are in some kind of combat scenario and pass up perfectly good opportunities to kill/incapacitate their opponent. God damn it man, stop quizzing the villain about his nefarious plan while he stands on his evil balcony, just take a bloody shot at him, he's right there in plain sight.

Happens a lot in video games actually. Like in the latest Starcraft Sarah Kerrigan just stands there and watches while Mensk's (however you spell his name) doom device rises out of the floor and he picks up the trigger. Damn it woman, you're perfectly capable of dashing across the room and tearing has arm off, so fucking do it!

The other variation is when one character has their enemy at their mercy and doesn't finish them off right there and then. Granted, there's often good reasons for it, but there also often isn't. It's especially irritating when it's the villain who has been shown to have no moral objections to killing a problem.

 

[Raikas]

Those mistaken assumption storylines - they're in pretty much every crap romantic comedy, plus some supposed serious movies like American Beauty, and they're just so overdone. And usually poorly done, since most of the time there's no effort to convince the audience that there's some reason the characters didn't just clarify whatever it is that they decide is happening.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

The trophy wife. Saying romance is an annoying cliche isn't gonna surprise anyone here but I actually don't mind it if the hero gets the girl. Now if that girl's whole point is just to be the prize at the end... That's less interesting by a wide margin.

Give your female lead things to do! Make her interesting and not easily obtainable! Above all don't just drop the "I love you" at the end out of nowhere, let's see them grow together on screen!

I know the cutting room floor is merciless but if you need more screen time to fit fighting the alien conspiracy and all the exposition involved; maybe just end it with a hint of romance instead of "BAM, marrying you off screen!". If you have to cut all the romantic tension leading up to 'getting the girl', that relationship might not be whats critical to the story.

 

[SKBPinkie]

The trophy wife. Saying romance is an annoying cliche isn't gonna surprise anyone here but I actually don't mind it if the hero gets the girl. Now if that girl's whole point is just to be the prize at the end... That's less interesting by a wide margin.

Give your female lead things to do! Make her interesting and not easily obtainable! Above all don't just drop the "I love you" at the end out of nowhere, let's see them grow together on screen!

I know the cutting room floor is merciless but if you need more screen time to fit fighting the alien conspiracy and all the exposition involved; maybe just end it with a hint of romance instead of "BAM, marrying you off screen!". If you have to cut all the romantic tension leading up to 'getting the girl', that relationship might not be whats critical to the story.

Was gonna post exactly this.

Seems like if a character is the protagonist's love interest, she is the definition of bland and uninteresting. Yeah, she looks great, but FFS, at least make her human, if not interesting.

 

[Auron225]

Personally I'd say one of the most annoying is when a character goes to a restaurant/cafe, orders a full plate of food and then due to the plot calling them they walk out without eating it and sometimes without even paying. I know it's really small but if you put the effort into making a plate of food for the actors to use at least show them eating it or just have the plot call them after they've finished.

I just thought of a reason why this happens so often. I mean, it's still annoying but maybe also understandable now.

If each scene takes several shots to get right, then the cast don't want to have to keep eating a never-ending omelette or an infinite amount of chips. I hear of actors/actresses being turned off particular kinds of food for life after an unearthly amount of takes to shoot adverts & such. It's still unrealistic though that they'd order food and not eat it.

This of course doesn't excuse the never paying for anything though. I've also seen that far too often.

 

[WaltherFeng]

Computer passwords

Sherlock series from BBC is one of the worst offenders in recent memory. No, Sherlock, commanders of military bases do not have a name of a person as their password. Proper passwords are undeductable string of randomly picked letters, symbols and numbers.