Cliches in books/movies/videogames that you're tired of
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I want the good guy to lose for once and I hate love interests. This isn't a cliche I suppose but when a movie is made about a book for errr people below the age of 20 and because it isn't as big as harry potter or twilight they ruin the movie namely Alex Rider and Percy Jackson. Could have been good but they just made it cartoonish.
Walking in slow motion I don't mind fighting to show off something impressive. The walking in slow motion drags on and is stupid it only works in Reservoir Dogs.
The gravel voiced asshole protagonist is getting pretty weary in gaming. I feel for all those poor new voice actors, gargling with salt water, smoking 5 packs a day just to get in with a chance.Kekkles said:
Eh. Oblivion - well, at least you weren't the hidden heir. That was Sean Bean. I think the bigger surprise here was that there was only ONE Imperial bastard.
I take far less issue with "Help me main protagonist, you're my only hope!" in games and films than I do with books 'cause well...you're not playing the game to be "Faceless Private #446578943" tasked with polishing the heroes boots whilst they do all the world saving or what not. But also because I don't generally expect games to impress me with their literary pretensions and brilliantly original storylines.
It's a plus when they're not bad, but it's not quite as annoying as the dearth of originality Concealed Heir du jour retaking his/her rightful place against massive odds versus Oppressive Tyrant #68946543 is in a fantasy novel represents.
Moreover, they could have made successful sequels off of those, but they blew the first movie, so they can't. You know what should happen? They should take the book that the bad movie was made off of, then make a better movie, then advertise it as "The Lightning Thief [for example], for real this time."Kwaku Avoke said:
I actually don't mind the 'Prophecy of the Chosen One' thing at times, if there's a twist. I've used it myself, with the catch being that the prophecy was incredibly vague, because there was no actual Chosen One. The Chosen One in the story was just a person who fulfilled the prophecy not because of destiny but because they figured they were the best person for the job. It could have been anyone, just happened to be them sort of thing.
When it's actually played straight though... Ugh. HATE.
And the same goes for Destined Couples That Always Break Up And Get Back Together Repeatedly. Most annoying 'romantic' cliché ever.
When it's actually played straight though... Ugh. HATE.
And the same goes for Destined Couples That Always Break Up And Get Back Together Repeatedly. Most annoying 'romantic' cliché ever.
I hate it in films, it's usualy at the end of the second act, where two people have a big falling out over a misunderstanding, so in the third act, they have to make up. It happens in Ratatouille, Music and Lyrics, How to Train Your Dragon, Bridget Jones' Diary: The Edge of Reason, and so many more, I hate it. You don't need this drama in every film, it's old, surely there are other things to do in a film, than this old cliche.
Magic/Destiny/Technobabble being the solution.
It's not that I don't think these things have their place, but they shouldn't solve any problems. It takes away the characters' responsibility to try and make things right themselves. It's especially grating in the fantasy novels where the villain knows about the prophecy/magic that will kill him, but does next to nothing to prepare for it.
Tolkien did this right: Sauron may well have known that dropping the Ring in Sammath Naur would destroy it, but never considered that anyone who got their hands on the most powerful artifact in the world would want to do so. His concern was that it would be used against him and he did everything with that in mind. In addition, he assumed that Aragorn, Lost King of Gondor, wielder of the Flame of the West, heir to Isildur, He Whose Hands Heal, and all-around master warrior and speechgiver had the ring. He was wrong.
It's not that I don't think these things have their place, but they shouldn't solve any problems. It takes away the characters' responsibility to try and make things right themselves. It's especially grating in the fantasy novels where the villain knows about the prophecy/magic that will kill him, but does next to nothing to prepare for it.
Tolkien did this right: Sauron may well have known that dropping the Ring in Sammath Naur would destroy it, but never considered that anyone who got their hands on the most powerful artifact in the world would want to do so. His concern was that it would be used against him and he did everything with that in mind. In addition, he assumed that Aragorn, Lost King of Gondor, wielder of the Flame of the West, heir to Isildur, He Whose Hands Heal, and all-around master warrior and speechgiver had the ring. He was wrong.
There is an incredibly strong monster/machine/whatever else and eveyone says that it's nearly impossible to destroy/kill it but with great effort the good guys manage to do that. Then later they start defeating them like those super strong beings are just some henchman and it's nothing spectacular anymore.
Or, when it turns out that the protagonist is actually the son of a king, so he's actually a prince and not just a peasant.
Or, when it turns out that the protagonist is actually the son of a king, so he's actually a prince and not just a peasant.
The corruption I speak of is the wartime plan of using two or three being replaced by the cold-war ambition of bringing about the nuclear genocide of the entire soviet union, never mind what that would do to the rest of the world.Lilani said:
Yes, the original plan was about as moral as the Genophage (and almost certainly is where that plot came from) but at the time it was held by many to be the only way. Some people still regard it as such, though that has been called into question in recent decades. With all the people pointing to the recent tsunami and going "serves you right" while sharing this view, I imagine the "we had to" opinion will soon be unacceptable in polite society anyway. Still, next to the way people wanted to use nuclear weapons during the cold war, the purpose of the Manhattan Project doesn't look so sinister.
Anything taking place in New York. That city has seen more human peril than all of humanities wars, squared. Sick of seeing that city.
The religious person always being treated as a villain, enough! Or whites making the Civil Rights movement...now the only white who helped the Movement were in the Eisenhower Administration!
When a piece of fiction throws in a random romantic interest where one is not needed.
Romance is great in its place; but when an action movie throws in a random kiss and suddenly everyone is in love it just sucks. It's cheap: either give us the whole story or leave it out, don't just fill a check box.
Romance is great in its place; but when an action movie throws in a random kiss and suddenly everyone is in love it just sucks. It's cheap: either give us the whole story or leave it out, don't just fill a check box.
Two things-
1. The whole no one had ever head the concept of the undead in that universe mainly the zombie film universe.
2. When someone start to clap which lead the rest of the people to clap aswell for no real good reasons. Example at one of the Harry Potter movie when Dumbledore announce that Hagrid had return and everyone claps. Ok sure it great to see him back but did every single pupils like him?
1. The whole no one had ever head the concept of the undead in that universe mainly the zombie film universe.
2. When someone start to clap which lead the rest of the people to clap aswell for no real good reasons. Example at one of the Harry Potter movie when Dumbledore announce that Hagrid had return and everyone claps. Ok sure it great to see him back but did every single pupils like him?
A few that didn't grate on me until the showed up in Mass Effect;
The 'space babe' cliche that seems to be played in every Sci-fi movie with an alien species. The Asari in Mass Effect drive me nuts. Seriously, an entire species made up of female styled beings who spend the first century or so of their lives as adults getting jobs as strippers and exotic dancers, then they only 'mate' with members of other species, not their own.
The 'pure evil' cliche, that the Batarians are, according to the writers in Bioware just about every single one you meet is an amoral mercenary, slave trader, drug dealer or pirate who's trying to kill you 9 times out of 10. They're such a lazy villian character that it's sickening.
Weak cliches that are pretty nauseating when they come from Bioware.
The 'space babe' cliche that seems to be played in every Sci-fi movie with an alien species. The Asari in Mass Effect drive me nuts. Seriously, an entire species made up of female styled beings who spend the first century or so of their lives as adults getting jobs as strippers and exotic dancers, then they only 'mate' with members of other species, not their own.
The 'pure evil' cliche, that the Batarians are, according to the writers in Bioware just about every single one you meet is an amoral mercenary, slave trader, drug dealer or pirate who's trying to kill you 9 times out of 10. They're such a lazy villian character that it's sickening.
Weak cliches that are pretty nauseating when they come from Bioware.