Stupid movie clichés?

[Crack_Duck]

YOU MADE A FUNNY!

 

[UPS Express]

Any movie with that guy from the transporter in it.

 

[HomeAliveIn45]

There's only one rule: there are no rules.

 

[Danny Ocean]

..the WHOLE NORTHERN HALF of the English continent..

*cough*
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Anyway, I've gotta say that the biggest cliche is the teenage girl in the second from front row getting up and walking all the damn way across their row to go to the loo.

Tripping at the most inopportune moment possible. I mean, seriously, LOOK WHERE YOU'RE GOING!

 

[SteinFaust]

when a bad guy has the good guy cornered and you hear a bang. the bad guy starts to bleed and crumbles, revealing the good guy's (often bloody and limping) friend standing behind the bad guy. this brings me to the physics of overpenetration (yes, yes, i know, HARHARHAR watev). the buddy would have killed both the bad guy and the good guy in one shot, but NOOO, solid chunks of lead stop moving if they're about to harm the Protagonist.

the girl going into "that room".

the woman yelling in the theater to tell said girl not to go into "that room".

someone following a bloody trail on the floor, only to find nothing, turn around and get strangled and pulled up into the rafters by some unseen assailant.

 

[Tread184]

Jason Statham is the king of being the very cliched protagonist in very cliched, over the top action movies. but they are so damn awesome =P

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Four words: "Go on without me!"

 

[Swenglish]

Setting: Huge, random war in the history of mankind. Two soldiers lie in a trench. One of them takes out a photo from his pocket.

Soldier 1: Hey, who's that?
Soldier 2: It's Michelle, I'm going to marry her when I get back, and finally meet our baby.
Soldier 1: Oh. That's sweet.
Soldier 3: Get down! The evil freedom-haters are here!
Soldier 1: Get ready to eat American Justice fools! (Fires machine-gun at enemy)
Soldier 2: Yeah! (Gets shot) I'm hit!
Soldier 1: Your going to be just fine/You're going to make it, hang in there old pal!
Soldier 2: I'm not going to make it... You... must... bring this... to Michelle... Tell her... I love her... Urgh... (Dies just in time for him to complete his sentence, gives random item to Soldier 1)

 

[SaintWaldo]

Every bar scene in every movie starts with a pool table and the characteristic klack-klack sound, then the camera swings over to the protagonist sitting at the bar.

Those scenes in which the bad guy points a gun at our hero, then BANG! But it was just a third person shooting bad guy from behind, making him fall to the ground like a paralyzed tree.

Those are the only actual identified cliches I could see. Everything else was a description of a specific sequence in a specific movie without pointing out the actual repeated cliche. Not that this isn't a good topic, I just think you could have spent more words on explaining the cliche, then giving the example. The 2 you identified do indeed grate on my nerves.

Adding to the pile, I'm fond of the hooker with a heart of gold trope.

 

[this_was_a_mistake]

guy falls in love with girl
girl's engaged to total douche
douche has an evil plan
douche goes to marry girl
guy goes to stop wedding
guy stops wedding
douche gets run out of town
girl marries guy instead

 

[sicDaniel]

Those are the only actual identified cliches I could see. Everything else was a description of a specific sequence in a specific movie without pointing out the actual repeated cliche. Not that this isn't a good topic, I just think you could have spent more words on explaining the cliche, then giving the example. The 2 you identified do indeed grate on my nerves.

Adding to the pile, I'm fond of the hooker with a heart of gold trope.

I was ranting about movies which are all about guy #1 has to kill guy#2, and throughout the story there are several occasions to do so, but they don´t do it for stupid reasons. For example, slasher horror, the teenage girl manages to knock the killer out, and instead of finishing him off, just runs away. In D-Wars these scenes make half the movie so maybe I ranted a bit too much.

 

[Highbrow]

*tickity tack tack tick tack tackity tack* I'm in.

Zoom. Enhance. Rotate. Enhance. Enhance. Enhance. Enhance. There!


EDIT: I forgot the monstrous crapnado of a movie Stay Alive, where the Malcom In The Middle kid clearly gets whacked by the monster (THEY SHOW HIS CORPSE), yet somehow he comes back to life for the conclusion.

 

[Alotak]

"Do you think its dead?" short answer 'no' long answer 'poke it and we will watch it naw your face off'

1: i heard somthing
2: its just the wind,
*snogging engages*
Camera pans away *killers weapon noise/hiss ect*
*Screams*
New scene cop examining the remains inside the car they weew kissing in.

 

[meatloaf231]

Children/adolescents being inexplicably awesome.

Movies like Agent Cody Banks, Catch That Kid, Spy Kids, etc. just piss me off. They are nothing but power fantasies for thems kid types, seeing as how every person they fight never seems to actually use the gun they are holding, the kids are somehow accomplished martial artists, skateboarders, and spies, the government, who has an entire army of highly trained marines, relies on these kids to stop the evil organization or whatever.

/run on sentence

It just makes no sense. The movies are all terribly acted and directed as well. The only reason people keep making them is because adolescents love seeing kids their age outsmarting/outdoing/being relied upon by/being important to guards/henchmen/governments/agencies respectively.

 

[Champagnerocker]

Rich Hall discussing Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise and his films

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_TZrJUVE2Q

When the alien spaceship / time machine / talking monkey first makes an appearance it will be in a deserted street and only witnessed by a drunken tramp, who then looks at his bottle of whisky in disbelief.

 

[OverlordSteve]

I hate the guys with the horrible attempts at snappy dialog.

 

[the protaginist]

film that needs to kill time uses this plot device, the two protagonists meet don't like each other immediately but band together out of necessity till usually the woman agrees to help the main hero. with five minutes they find similar interests within 5 minutes then both characters personalities completely change and they're all nice. three quarters of a way in their is a miss under standing and one of the characters leaves again and everything seems all hopeless and theirs a montage of both characters looking sad, until the main character has a talk with someone and goes to find the other main character usually with an opening line like "wait! listen I need you to do this" they band together again and defeat their enitial goal.

most RomComs have a similar plot but make it seem like more time passes and usually shove a wedding in at the end bingo bango 45m opening weekend at the box-office.

Movies?you mean Disney sitcoms.

 

[LilGherkin]

The first guy in the war movie to talk about how he can't wait to go home to his kids is gonna get killed.

Edit
Damn I didnt' notice Swinglish's post now I feel like a copycat, and I don't have anything new to say...

 

[Relgaro]

probably on most horror movies were, surely you think that the baddie killer is dead and the "Group" of usually teenagers run away, then when they are gone the baddie rises up again, unscaved.

 

[SaintWaldo]

I was ranting about movies which are all about guy #1 has to kill guy#2, and throughout the story there are several occasions to do so, but they don´t do it for stupid reasons. For example, slasher horror, the teenage girl manages to knock the killer out, and instead of finishing him off, just runs away. In D-Wars these scenes make half the movie so maybe I ranted a bit too much.

Gotcha, thanks. Still a great topic.