Movie cliches that you find hilarious . . . or annoying.

[Sacman]

In star wars especially the fact that the empire(or goverment or what ever is being over thrown) has more resources, supplies, military leaders, soldiers, better weapons, and oh yeah control over the entire galaxy(or country or world or whatever) and still they lose just because there evil and while im on the subject of star wars, what the hell is the point of the storm trooper armor I mean if small rocks, spears and bows and arrows can kill them than what the hell is the point of wearing the stuff all it does is basically give them no peripheral vision...

Edit: oh yeah and for alot of movies can you say DEUS EX MACHINA...

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

when lightning strikes and thunder sounds AT THE EXACT TIME!!!

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Action movies where one guy with one gun can seamlessly dodge bullets fired by multiple enemies from multiple guns. Happens all the time.

Equilibrium.

At least that had a reason why people could do what they do. Most action movies don't though.

 

[Flos]

A cop can only ever solve the crime/get his bad guy after he's kicked off the force/retired.

Always.

 

[weirdaljedifan2]

The Wilhelm Scream. Every time I here it, I laugh my ass off.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Piss off you cellists!

 

[Timotei]

I hate that stupid school of thought that the one woman who happens to survive is the most beautiful of them all.

 

[Zaksav91]

When a building or something blows up RIGHT AFTER the main characters escape. Causing that slow-mo to initialize.

How in some war movies the enemy seems to be terrible shots.

How some evil characters leave the good characters to die, but later they come back and kill them.

In horror movies the silence followed by the sudden BANG of music.

Oh and cliffhangers to movies that really don't need a sequel. (District 9)

 

[Noamuth]

The Wilhelm Scream. Every time I here it, I laugh my ass off.

That's what it is called! Always forget. Man, every time I hear it, it either makes me laugh or rage. Goddamnit.

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

The people who are less characterized or who you don't like always die off in horror films before anyone else... It isn't always a bad thing, but it just makes it predictable when someone dies. That and, another thing in horror films is, there is always going to be something going on with the final guy and girl by the end. ALWAYS.

 

[Cab00se206]

"Helicopters can sneak up on people. They won't hear the deafening roar of a helicopter's engine until it is literally above their heads."

 

[Woem]

i hate how in horror movies people always make the black guy die first

Or that the black guy is the bad guy.

Also: Sarevok in Baldur's Gate. That's racist!

 

[Woem]

"Helicopters can sneak up on people. They won't hear the deafening roar of a helicopter's engine until it is literally above their heads."

Blue Thunder had a super silent stealth mode!

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Disaster movies where all problems are solved with the strategic placement of Nuclear Bombs. See: Armageddon, The Core (ARRRHG!!), and Sunshine.

I mean *Minor Spoilers* Armageddon: They have to dig a 800m (or such) hole in an asteroid THE SIZE OF TEXAS! You blow up a bomb on the border of Texas and it doesn't blow the state in half.

The Core: Again no where near enough energy to move the Earth with tiny explosives

Sunshine: I don't know what the problem was in that movie that they tried to fix by throwing some Plutonium into the Sun. I can't think of any way that would help anything possible problem in the slightest way (also notice how they stand on a mile of plutonium, and don't die).

I fully expect there to be a Hollywood blockbuster movie where they save the Earth from a Black Hole by shooting missiles at it. Well at least we have the totally scientifically accurate 2012 movie to look forward to.

 

[s001911]

as mentioned above, unlimited ammo guns.

The invincible protagonist, he is wearing the remnants of a shirt but absorbs 10 odd bullets but throws a rock at a shock troopers, full faced helmeted, head and renders him unconscious

oh and everything will explode, especially when there is a bunch of nameless goons chilling around it.

 

[runetek]

Funny:Any horror film when a character falls or trips over something.

 

[Spitfire175]

The '7 bullet revolver' or 'triple barrel shotgun' are both pretty major continuity errors.

I believe the 2000 bullet submachineguns or the 1000 bullet assault rifles beat those.

 

[Inco]

Disaster movies where all problems are solved with the strategic placement of Nuclear Bombs. See: Armageddon, The Core (ARRRHG!!), and Sunshine.

Add 10.5 to that.
I was watching it in science a few years back.
A devastating series of earthquakes occur, so what do the main character summarise as the best course of action? Nuke it. Seriously? They are going to nuke themselves to stop an earthquake.
Funniest joke of the year, almost.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Disaster movies where all problems are solved with the strategic placement of Nuclear Bombs. See: Armageddon, The Core (ARRRHG!!), and Sunshine.

Add 10.5 to that.
I was watching it in science a few years back.
A devastating series of earthquakes occur, so what do the main character summarise as the best course of action? Nuke it. Seriously? They are going to nuke themselves to stop an earthquake.
Funniest joke of the year, almost.

The fun part is that to actually fix these various things with Nukes they need bigger Nukes. I would think this would be something Action Movie writers would like.

Taken from "Insultingly bad Movie Physics"

The solid iron inner core normally has a rotational kinetic energy equivalent to about 340 200-megaton bombs. The liquid metal (primarily iron) outer core surrounding the inner core has a normal rotational kinetic energy equivalent to roughly 32,000 200-megaton bombs. Assuming only the inner core had to be restarted and that 100% of each bomb's energy could be converted to rotational kinetic energy, the movie's heroes are at least 335 bombs short of the required amount.