Stupid Tv and movie cliches that you hate

[heyheysg]

Whenever I encounter something like that on screen it makes me want to shout: "Why don't you just shoot him you moron!"

A hero in a game can take down hundreds of troops and always leave the bad guys open even when they are armed to the teeth. Same for any gun-wielding authority figure. You just shot like 15 mooks on the way to the boss and you're letting him go through a corrupt justice system?

Another gripe, overpowered baddies, "Oh I happen to own an army superior to yours, I'm also your boss's best friend and I know everything about you and your family"

Not telling each other anything or misunderstandings that can be fixed in 2 sentences. Can be done properly if good, e.g foreign language, alien, separated without means of communication for example

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

I hate expositional dialogue that fixes things too neatly like "I'm so glad we invented that artificial gravity!"

 

[Disaster Button]

It seems all the bombs in action movies are made by the same people, they're always impossible to stop until about 1 second to detonation when they suddenly all develop a severe weakness of being able to be stopped.

 

[Whippoorwill]

I hate it whenever a body or injured person is found, there is always some child/woman there to stand stock still and scream their lungs out making no attempt to help the victim. It's ridiculous.

 

[Catchy Slogan]

I hate it when they just stand around and tell each other about all their strenghts and weaknesses, and then act all shocked when you find a way to beat them.

Oh, and in horror films when they don't even check that the guy/thing is dead, and bloody drop their weapons! I, mean c'mon! That's just stupid!

 

[legion431]

I hate the concept of MTV and I'm sure a lot of people do.

 

[Explosm]

Yeah i dont like the last second saves. they piss me off. If there was a bomb with a 2 minute timer and the hero saves it at at something like 1:29 then has a party 1:29 minutes earlier i would be happy. Instead of the sweaty 1 second detonation

 

[IamQ]

The misunderstanding that comes in every romantic comedy, that I never get why it's there, because you always know it'll be resolved in the end.

 

[ShroomMinus]

"Do you expect me to talk?!"
"No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die..."

 

[Layz92]

It seems all the bombs in action movies are made by the same people, they're always impossible to stop until about 1 second to detonation when they suddenly all develop a severe weakness of being able to be stopped.

Yeah i dont like the last second saves. they piss me off. If there was a bomb with a 2 minute timer and the hero saves it at at something like 1:29 then has a party 1:29 minutes earlier i would be happy. Instead of the sweaty 1 second detonation

How great would it be if a bomb stopped at one second then the characters realised they were looking in the wrong column and had an hour left to go after everyone freaking out about having 10 seconds to defuse.

You just shot like 15 mooks on the way to the boss and you're letting him go through a corrupt justice system?

Watch/read the punisher comics/graphic novels/latest movie


How bout the good guys winning? Am I the only one that gets tired of that? Seriously I wanted the bad guy from Law Abiding Citizen to win. Though the bad guys win in a couple of Rob Zombie movies. I want to see a movie where the main character is the bad guy trying to beat the good guys. And he wins in the end. Would be a refreshingly different movie.

 

[Shockolate]

I'm surprised no one has linked TV Tropes yet.

 

[Vrex360]

"Yes, we've vanquished/killed the evil monster/demon/killer... now we can all relax and go on with our... OH GOD EVEN AFTER BEING SHOT REPEATEDLY AND HAVING THE ANCIENT SPELL USED TO MAKE IT RETURN TO HELL, IT'S BACK ALIVE!!!!"

I really get sick of this one, just once I wouldn't mind a horror movie where the heroes live and the monster/demon/killer gets defeated. It's stopped being thrilling and now it's plain and predictable.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

When heros don't engage in a fight the show has been setting up for awhile, I want to see bad guys get shot damnit! If they come up with a reason for it and they only do it occasionally it's fine though.

I also hate when a badass action sequence is going on but it all occurs offscreen. The movie Ultraviolet was horribly guilty of this. At the end of the movie (this was directed by the guy who made Equilibrium, mind you) the hero walks into a lobby full of hundreds of baddies, and the audience is all prepared for the confrontation of biblical proportions, when the scene cuts to the head baddie doing something nefarious (it's a long and rather stupid story). The bad guy is interupted by an assistant, who shows him grainy security footage of the battle raging in the lobby. He gets pissed and orders them to kill the hero. Cut to a shot of the lobby covered in bodies and the Protagonist standing nonchalantly in the middle of the carnage.


God damn you, Kurt Wimmer.

 

[TheZapper]

It seems all the bombs in action movies are made by the same people, they're always impossible to stop until about 1 second to detonation when they suddenly all develop a severe weakness of being able to be stopped.

Yeah i dont like the last second saves. they piss me off. If there was a bomb with a 2 minute timer and the hero saves it at at something like 1:29 then has a party 1:29 minutes earlier i would be happy. Instead of the sweaty 1 second detonation

How great would it be if a bomb stopped at one second then the characters realised they were looking in the wrong column and had an hour left to go after everyone freaking out about having 10 seconds to defuse.

That would be brilliant. Then, when they have finished with a comfortable amount of time left they could all say 'Good job guys! Since we have so much time left let's go for a drink.' The rest of the film would consist of the characters in a bar talking about how easy that was.

 

[Femaref]

That would be brilliant. Then, when they have finished with a comfortable amount of time left they could all say 'Good job guys! Since we have so much time left let's go for a drink.' The rest of the film would consist of the characters in a bar talking about how easy that was.

Even better if the bomb actually of because nobody had an idea what to do.

 

[ethaninja]

I hate it when they just stand around and tell each other about all their strenghts and weaknesses, and then act all shocked when you find a way to beat them.

Oh, and in horror films when they don't even check that the guy/thing is dead, and bloody drop their weapons! I, mean c'mon! That's just stupid!

They might as well turn their backs, block their ears and close their eyes. Also in horror movies when they head UPSTAIRS of a haunted house. Or... then the house's doors lock... why don't they just smash the window? "Duurrrr, I can hide from a criminal/evil spook in my own house but I can't pick up a chair and smash a window.."

 

[ethaninja]

"Yes, we've vanquished/killed the evil monster/demon/killer... now we can all relax and go on with our... OH GOD EVEN AFTER BEING SHOT REPEATEDLY AND HAVING THE ANCIENT SPELL USED TO MAKE IT RETURN TO HELL, IT'S BACK ALIVE!!!!"

I really get sick of this one, just once I wouldn't mind a horror movie where the heroes live and the monster/demon/killer gets defeated. It's stopped being thrilling and now it's plain and predictable.

Or how at the very end of the movie, the evil monster/demon/killer jumps at the screen just as it fades to black or some shit.

Which remindes me.. Snakes on a Plane. At the very end when it fades to black, a snake jumps out at you. "OH NO A SNAKE!! There aren't a billion of them that weren't on the plane".

 

[Dok Zombie]

I'm surprised no one has linked TV Tropes yet.

It's not allowed... Bad things happen.

 

[MurderousToaster]

When people cock a weapon. Like in the Da Vinci Code movie, one guy cocks the same revolver about four times in the same damn scene.