Most annoying cliche in movies

[dlawnro]

Not so much a cliche, I guess, but the improper use of explosions. A couple examples:

Block of C4 placed near the wheel well of a car=giant fireball generating from inside the cab.
Car rolls over. It becomes a ticking time bomb.
Something explodes. It generates a massive fireball. However, the explosive was C4 or something else that doesn't make a fireball.

Honestly, I think Hollywood just loves gasoline explosions.

 

[T-Bone24]

Every romantic comedy ever:
1) Guy meets girl
2) Guy tells small lie to get girl to like him
3) Guy and girl fall in love; lie escalates
4) Girl finds out about lie; big fight and break up
5) Sad montage
6) Guy tells the girl how much he loves her at a dramatic moment in an usual place and they get back together

The gender roles can be reversed, and it works for almost any movie, including good ones like Wedding Crashers.

Shamwow, that's right. Romantic Comedies are always top heavy, comedy in the first half, then romance pops in at the end (poor choice of words).

 

[Sagiterios]

Its probably more of a trope than a cliche, but the humanoid alien. What are the chances that in the entirety of the cosmos, no alien race has evolved into a non bipedal creature with two arms and a head on top? I would like, just once, to see an actual alien. Give it 14 legs, an external skeleton, eyes on its tail, and four mouths with no distinguishable head. (And don't make it a mindless monster, make it intelligent, possibly even friendly). Aliens aren't us with a bigger head. They are bizarre, foreign. It is what the word alien actually means. It was forgivable in the age of cheesy sci-fi, but now that computer graphics are dominant its time for something new.

 

[Charisma]

Moral clarity is usually a pretty hard sell for me.

Also I tend not to give the time of day to any story with a two-dimensionally evil villain.

 

[elbowlick]

It was all a dream. You know the last hour and a half you just saw? Not only did it not happen in real life, but it didn't even happen in fiction. Bye!

Does that still happen? I thought humanity had outgrown that kind of rubbish.

1408 did that in 2007. It was also really obvious and painfully long.

OT: This has been said over and over but I'm gonna say it anyway: shoehorned love interests. It ruined The Warriors for me.

And from MajorKris' video: False Alarms and Stupid Villains

Oh and over-use of shakey cam.

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

Theres zombies... And nobody seems to understand whats going on...

Pointless swearing... Pointless Pot references...

Characters doing their thing while evil person lurks in the background... and character doesn't notice...

Kids movies automatically need a dance number that goes by either a somewhat current hiphop song or a song from the 60's/80's...

 

[MgR]

Seeing the Disney logo is the worst cliche, I find. It was fine in older movies, but now...

 

[Last Bullet]

The protagonist gets betrayed by someone, oh wow that's something new.

Just a thought here, what would happen if no movies had any chliche's at all??

I could be wrong but I think most -if not all- of Stanley Kubrick's and David Lynch's films have no cliches at all...

That Lynch guy is just weird. I watched a few five-minute or so clips from him a few days ago, and... I don't know. In case you like him, I won't go on, but I don't understand the big deal.

Let's see... Not sure if it's a true cliche or just way too common, but: In an action movie, the hero's buddy betrays him. The buddy goes over to the other team, and completely screws over the hero's group (without killing them). Then, when trying to take down the bad guys, the hero learns his buddy is actually still a good guy. Hoorah, they kick ass.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I think he means when one party member is injured and tells the others to continue without them. "Go on without me!"

For me, the fact all villains have the same motives. Kill all people except a select few, start a new, better race.

Since when?

For some reason, I wasn't alerted when you quoted me. And wasn't this thread about video games? must have got confused.
But yeah, I was thinking of video games. Wesker and pretty much and Final Fantasy villains. There probably is a few movie villains like that too, but I mainly watch comedies. Death Note too! Light wanted to be 'The God of a new world.' They made a movie out of that...

A movie cliché then, would probably be the boy likes girl, girl hates boy but doesn't leave him alone for some reason, then girl likes boy. Ugh!

 

[manythings]

I think he means when one party member is injured and tells the others to continue without them. "Go on without me!"

For me, the fact all villains have the same motives. Kill all people except a select few, start a new, better race.

Since when?

For some reason, I wasn't alerted when you quoted me. And wasn't this thread about video games? must have got confused.
But yeah, I was thinking of video games. Wesker and pretty much and Final Fantasy villains. There probably is a few movie villains like that too, but I mainly watch comedies. Death Note too! Light wanted to be 'The God of a new world.' They made a movie out of that...

A movie cliché then, would probably be the boy likes girl, girl hates boy but doesn't leave him alone for some reason, then girl likes boy. Ugh!

Ok I get you now and I totally agree with the video game statement.

 

[THE M3RCENARY]

OMG THE CAR WON'T START!!!!

 

[DustyDrB]

The protagonist gets betrayed by someone, oh wow that's something new.

Just a thought here, what would happen if no movies had any chliche's at all??

I could be wrong but I think most -if not all- of Stanley Kubrick's and David Lynch's films have no cliches at all...

The "Kubrick Stare"

I don't think it counts as a cliche, just something Stanley Kubrick himself did in a lot of movies. I want to say a lot of other directors have used it since, but I can't think of any example. Maybe it just seems like it should be a cliche because it's so effective.

Also, Jack Nicholson's eyebrows were MADE for the stare.

 

[Imat]

The protagonist gets betrayed by someone, oh wow that's something new.

Just a thought here, what would happen if no movies had any chliche's at all??

There would be no movies...