Stupid Tv and movie cliches that you hate

[Treblaine]

Stupid personal side plots in stories of international intrigue.

Like how 24 would often grind to a halt to exposit about Jack's relationship with his daughter. 24 would actually be a show worth watching if they killed off Jack and just followed events as they happen. I don't care if you can't relate to your daughter, it can wait a few hours if millions of people are soon going to be killed!!!

24 is a shit TV show now because it is stuck within the same old formula, it needs to get down to basics: i.e. 24 hours to "save the world".

How about they introduce a new reluctant hero, capable but un-confident and lacking motivation... but with 24-hour countdown to Armageddon they find the drive they need to succeed. "Cometh the hour cometh the man" so to speak.

 

[KeiraZodiac]

I hate the representation of teenagers in pretty much everything, my top two hated traits:

"He's the loooooooooove of my liiiiiiiiife!!!" - YOU'RE SEVENTEEN YOU STUPID WANKER!!! How the bloody hell do you know what love is - you're just suffering from 'being fingered for the first time' syndrome, shut up and get some presepctive. And you, Mr. Writer, stop making teenagers think that their lives are so much more epic than they really are - so Jimmy didn't ask you to the prom but you saw him talking in the corridor with Claire than Claire's friend twittered about Frank on the OH MY GOD SHUT THE HELL UP!!!

"I'm deep because I like to read books." Twilight's the main proprietor of this, but I've still seen it in too many of forms as well. Instead of giving the protagonist a personality, they just give them Catcher in the Rye - 'Look, they must be deep because they read!!!' No, no, no no no - no.

Also the line of dialogue "You know what to do."
This usually happens before a big old action scene, and I know it's put in to raise the tension, as the audience is left wondering what is going to happen. But for just ONCE I'd love the other guy to turn around and say "No, I have no idea what I'm meant to be doing, all you were doing in the car ride over here was cleaning your gun and listening to the Wicked soundtrack."

In this sub-section also is:
"Wait for the signal,"
"What's the signal?"
"Trust me - you'll know!"
...erm - no. We're about to enter a majorly hostile situation, how am I magically meant to know when I'm suppose to burst in with the calvary - do I wait for the gunfire, or was the gunfire just you fighting your way in? Do I wait for people to start screaming? Are people screaming even the signal? We only have one shot at this - DON'T BE SO VAGUE!!!

 

[BlueTomfoolery]

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

DAMN YOU!

I just googled it and now I can't get out! HELP!

 

[Indecizion]

The one that occurs mostly in horror films where they shoot the guy then dont check hes dead and drop their weapons in relief, and he gets back up BIG SURPRISE, next time shoot him once, then SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD ok DONE.

 

[maninahat]

I hate the representation of teenagers in pretty much everything, my top two hated traits:

"He's the loooooooooove of my liiiiiiiiife!!!" - YOU'RE SEVENTEEN YOU STUPID WANKER!!! How the bloody hell do you know what love is - you're just suffering from 'being fingered for the first time' syndrome, shut up and get some presepctive. And you, Mr. Writer, stop making teenagers think that their lives are so much more epic than they really are - so Jimmy didn't ask you to the prom but you saw him talking in the corridor with Claire than Claire's friend twittered about Frank on the OH MY GOD SHUT THE HELL UP!!!

"I'm deep because I like to read books." Twilight's the main proprietor of this, but I've still seen it in too many of forms as well. Instead of giving the protagonist a personality, they just give them Catcher in the Rye - 'Look, they must be deep because they read!!!' No, no, no no no - no.

Also the line of dialogue "You know what to do."
This usually happens before a big old action scene, and I know it's put in to raise the tension, as the audience is left wondering what is going to happen. But for just ONCE I'd love the other guy to turn around and say "No, I have no idea what I'm meant to be doing, all you were doing in the car ride over here was cleaning your gun and listening to the Wicked soundtrack."

In this sub-section also is:
"Wait for the signal,"
"What's the signal?"
"Trust me - you'll know!"
...erm - no. We're about to enter a majorly hostile situation, how am I magically meant to know when I'm suppose to burst in with the calvary - do I wait for the gunfire, or was the gunfire just you fighting your way in? Do I wait for people to start screaming? Are people screaming even the signal? We only have one shot at this - DON'T BE SO VAGUE!!!

Likewise, I hate the portrayal of young children in anything dramatic. Children are always such flat characters, devoid of personality. Remember those kids in Heavy Rain? They're 100% generic. They have nothing interesting or remarkable about them whatsoever. They only live to serve the plot.

 

[Shockolate]

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

DAMN YOU!

I just googled it and now I can't get out! HELP!

Step 1. Kill yourself before it's too late.
Step 2. ?????
Step 3. PROFIT!

Just kidding. If you killed yourself then TV Tropes will have one less victim. And I get paid on commissions. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!

 

[InvisibleSeal]

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.

Yeh I find that annoying too!

Also when the hero is fine going round killing everyone who is in their way to get to their goal, but gets a big moral dilemna killing the big bad guy. It's just kinda annoying because it's just a storyline choice to make them seem all goody goody, when it's blatently obvious they aren't really.

 

[Ultimathul]

im sick of when they show you the characters you know immedietly whos the bad guy. then they make him betray the good guys in some way and expect you to go "oh boy i did not see that coming"

 

[Soxafloppin]

When Hero spends the whole film trying to kill villian, Villian is then hanging of a cliff with Hero standing over him.

Hero saves Villians life by taking his hand. I HATE THAT.

 

[Hazzaslagga]

I always dislike how people (generally good guys and love intrests) with no/little trainning can somehow take on 1 or more trained warriors and win (often with inferior armour and stuff)

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

The whole "best friend turns bad guy" thing ya know

 

[Me55enger]

"come with me if you wanna live"

says the generically attractive women - not played by Summer Glau - straddling the motorbike as small shards of bullet shaped lead whisper through her hair; you're enemies everywhere as you lay there behind a wall, a wound in your lower leg.

"Screw you, you lousy excuse for a human being with no sense of self preservation, and I have to say, fashion. If I wanted saving I would jolly well go and save myself. Now get you and your leather coated arse out of my sight before the baddies decide to find me"

- would be a better way to answer this cliche

PS Also: Cliche - Fish. Good song

 

[TheGameXXVII]

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tormented_%282009_film%29

YOU RANG??!

 

[XJ-0461]

Kinda long winded explanation, so stay with me for this.

That thing in a US TV series where there's a sudden dramatic reveal/hero is captured/a vital clue is discovered/ whatever, and then there's a fade to black. Obviously this is to accomodate adverts, and I have no problem with that. What really bugs me is when the show starts playing again and it comes back in on exactly the same scene, usually with a few seconds of the same footage.

This annoys the hell out of me. Why can't such a technique be used as a change of scene more often?

 

[flamingjimmy]

What annoys me is how the main character as well as the baddie (in action films) are always awesome shots and pick off two hundred red shirts each yet when they fight each other they empty entire clips without hitting a thing.

 

[MONSTERheart]

Looks like we... found our killer.

YYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[heyheysg]

in moveis, where the goody is about to kill the baddie, the baddie has no weopans and is half dead and the goody throws away his gun, to fight him in fisticuffs then the bad guy call on the bunch of goons.

and another thing, at the begining of some moveis, the good guy has a sniper rifle has his sight lined up straight at the villens face, he says:
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRR i'll wait and see what he does next DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRR*baddei drives away and kills good guys family* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I loled,

Couple more things, people in authority, Generals, Colonels, Wardens, Police Chief, Lawyers, Judges are always assholes. They always betray justice and try to rip everyone off.

Number 2.

This will come with some shock, but hot women in real life situations. This is freaking ridiculous. Especially the supermodel hot FACTORY WORKER at the beginning of Hulk 2. My friend has a pet peeve about not being able to ever meet Kristen Stewart in an amusement park. Also survivors of Zombie apocalypses will also be hot, cue everyone in Terminator Salvation.

Sub rant, if they end up with an average looking joe, yeah, that's gonna happen.

Sub Sub rant, they are also almost always single, unless with the Hero

 

[Srdjan]

Good guy always win, mostly untrue...