What is your most hated cliche?

[Phoenixlight]

You mean this one?

Spoiler

Yeah that really annoys me, it can't be that difficult to create an original sound for your film.

 

[Serioli]

It has to be:-

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

The whole British stereotype for being evil.

No idea where that came from. *cough*

 

[are.you.the.god.its.me.vader]

This ends now..........no, this is just the beginning.

 

[Turkey Braveheart]

For some reason I don't think that counts, because you still know Darth Vader dies and becomes a good guy at the end of Return of the Jedi anyways. So good guys still won. Even then though, Obi-Wan owned Anakin anyways, so there's another win.

Taken alone, it definitely fits the idea of 'bad guys win'. The Jedi are all dead or in hiding, Anakin has fallen to the dark side and the Emperor rules the Galaxy.

As for Anakin getting chopped and burned, that didn't really do the good guys any good. It made me really happy, though.

 

[StarofAzura]

People complaining on popular games because they are popular.

Or books, or movies, or musicians.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

That aliens are automatically more advanced/awesome than us.

They would have to be... How else would we come into contact with them... Unless you mean Evolution where they come over on a meteorite.

I don't know, something like Avatar, but that I don't hate is pretty much it.

You know, maybe we come into contact with them first, or that we are equally as advanced, or that they live on the moon or something.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

That aliens are automatically more advanced/awesome than us.

They would have to be... How else would we come into contact with them... Unless you mean Evolution where they come over on a meteorite.

I don't know, something like Avatar, but that I don't hate is pretty much it.

You know, maybe we come into contact with them first, or that we are equally as advanced, or that they live on the moon or something.

Fair enough, but it would be very difficult to pull off. I can see why they always make them more advance.

Ah yes, I can see how it would be difficult, and I don't want it to dissappear completely, it's just a bit of a cliché now.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

That aliens are automatically more advanced/awesome than us.

They would have to be... How else would we come into contact with them... Unless you mean Evolution where they come over on a meteorite.

I don't know, something like Avatar, but that I don't hate is pretty much it.

You know, maybe we come into contact with them first, or that we are equally as advanced, or that they live on the moon or something.

Fair enough, but it would be very difficult to pull off. I can see why they always make them more advance.

Ah yes, I can see how it would be difficult, and I don't want it to dissappear completely, it's just a bit of a cliché now.

Just space seems to be the new thing Hollywood is milking. But yes I see your point it has been done a lot throughout cinema's history.

Yeah, I hope they don't think Avatar was only successful due to being in space, that would bring in a decade of samey spaceship bollocks.

 

[Shawshanker]

When the good guys win. Seriously it's a very overlooked cliché. Think of one instance where the bad guys ultimately win.

Just kidding.

The muscle-bound space marine.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

Space always seems to be a big selling topic. Alien - Avatar - Shit there were some really popular 50's and 60's ones... My mind can't think of all the hits... fuck.

Oh, I know, and I don't mind that, it's just I hope people don't only make space movies, I like space movies.

2001: A space oddissey has it in the title...

 

[XoXoButterflyXoXo]

I hate those stupid cliche bad guys who have a chance to kill the good guys and they don't but i absolutely wuv guys walking away from big explosions =D

 

[jam.on.the.toasts]

Probably that sound in films which occurs when someone falls off a really high place, I remember it being in star wars and a few other films.

I've heard that the reason that this is used so much is that firstly it's a common "stock sound" but also is used as a sort of in joke it was spread by a Ben Burtt, an up-and-coming sound-effects editor (and now a very successful one), heard it in lots of films, and now he and his friends make it a point to include this scream in every film they make. it's used in around 140 movies (from QI)


And the whole badguys win thing the problem is it is stupidly hard to write and pull off and still have a satisfying ending, THERE ARE EXAMPLES I'M SURE but off the top of my head I cant think of any.


I always hate the idea of good guys coming from the common folk or whatever and becoming king after overthrowing the previous evil king or whatever and then ruling well having no real experience I would like to see an aftermath where they cock up the kingdom worse than the evil king ever had.

 

[Litchhunter]

The concept that all WoW players have no life and are socialy doomed...ok, thats true for some players, if not alot, but really most of us arn't that bad.