Movie cliches you hate
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I hate how anything used as cover suddenly becomes bullet-proof.
I mean, since when can you sit behind a wooden door and have 4-6 guys, machine guns ablazing, pelt the door without more than a few wood splinters flying out just for effect.
Oh, and in horror movies, if there's ever a chance to shoot at the killer, they ALWAYS shoot his torso (while apparently trying to avoid hitting his heart). At the end of the movie they find out he's been wearing a bullet-proof vest...THEN they shoot him in the head. (ex. Scream movie)
EDIT: ok, maybe not so much the "killer wears vest" thing, but you get the idea.
I mean, since when can you sit behind a wooden door and have 4-6 guys, machine guns ablazing, pelt the door without more than a few wood splinters flying out just for effect.
Oh, and in horror movies, if there's ever a chance to shoot at the killer, they ALWAYS shoot his torso (while apparently trying to avoid hitting his heart). At the end of the movie they find out he's been wearing a bullet-proof vest...THEN they shoot him in the head. (ex. Scream movie)
EDIT: ok, maybe not so much the "killer wears vest" thing, but you get the idea.
Oh because all ww2 movies from other countries are about the 101st are they? Sure.Chaz D said:
Movie cliches? Well mine is related to movies. People who whine incessantly about American ww2 movies even though anything made in their country will be about that country.
The fact that every bomb timer hits 00:00, beeps loudly 3 times, THEN explodes.
Zero means boom.
Zero means boom.
how about this one... The Good Guy Always Wins, I dunno why, but that one has always bugged me. I mean c'mon, how many times can a hero wake from a coma and within twenty minutes of waking up kill all the bad guys and get the girl.
Heres my ending,
The good guy gets shot in the head yet somehow survives. he lies in a hospital bed recovering when a female nurse comes in to change his bandages. she goes about changing his bandages as usual. as she gets the last bandage off she shows him a picture of his love intrests dead body. he tries to struggle and realizes hes been restrained to the bed. The nurse walks over to the heart monitors and shuts them off, the walks back to her tray of bandages. pulls piano wire from her tray and proceesd to strangle the hero. The hero is now dead. The nurse places bandages over the piano wire marks and camly walks out of the room.
Meanwhile,
The villain walks out of his office and is given a package. The return address is his own headquarters, and the receiving address is his warehouse. he drops the box which glass vials inside break releasing chemicals that when combined explode. The villain pulls one of his guards on top of himself as the bomb goes off. After the explosion is over the villain crawls from under his guard and stands. Miraculously he is unharmed. As he stands in astonishment his, thought to be dead guard/shield, fires his revolver and with a single shot kills his boss, then dies a painful death from the horrendous burns he has received.
There, thats more like it. Everyones dead, no one wins, good movie, game over, No one saw the ending coming. Thats my kinda ending.
Heres my ending,
The good guy gets shot in the head yet somehow survives. he lies in a hospital bed recovering when a female nurse comes in to change his bandages. she goes about changing his bandages as usual. as she gets the last bandage off she shows him a picture of his love intrests dead body. he tries to struggle and realizes hes been restrained to the bed. The nurse walks over to the heart monitors and shuts them off, the walks back to her tray of bandages. pulls piano wire from her tray and proceesd to strangle the hero. The hero is now dead. The nurse places bandages over the piano wire marks and camly walks out of the room.
Meanwhile,
The villain walks out of his office and is given a package. The return address is his own headquarters, and the receiving address is his warehouse. he drops the box which glass vials inside break releasing chemicals that when combined explode. The villain pulls one of his guards on top of himself as the bomb goes off. After the explosion is over the villain crawls from under his guard and stands. Miraculously he is unharmed. As he stands in astonishment his, thought to be dead guard/shield, fires his revolver and with a single shot kills his boss, then dies a painful death from the horrendous burns he has received.
There, thats more like it. Everyones dead, no one wins, good movie, game over, No one saw the ending coming. Thats my kinda ending.
Why so serious?mattttherman3 said:
Anyways, it's racial stereotypes, I'm not black, but every guy who's darker then chocolate rain does not say yo and nigga all the time in real life.
You have just brightened my life.KBKarma said:I enjoy watching people's reaction to TVTropes. Really makes my day.E-mantheseeker said:
It has the name "Imperial Stormtrooper MarksmanShip Academy Graduate"RavingLibDem said:
What I hate moreso is Hashing of Physics [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCore] and making a lauging stalk [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/DieHard]of Safety Standards. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Terminator]
So true, I don't mind a movie without any race other than white people though. What does bug me is when they throw in a black or spanish person to say "yo" a couple times and get killed immediately, I don't care too much about it, but it's getting really old.Raziel_Likes_Souls said:
When the hero SHOULD DIE and doesn't. Great example: Die hard 4. The guy beats a fighter plane with a frigging truck and then, to kill the main villain, shoots THROUGH himself. WTF?!?! I don't care if you are Bruce Willis, you should be dead.
Good endings in general.
Good endings in general.
fighting or really any movie, main guy spends 4 rounds getting his arse beat in, only to magically turn it around and beat the snot out of the bad guy.
bad guy has hero in sticky predicament, but then leaves and assumes his trap will do the job instead of staying to make sure it will work.
bad guy has hero in sticky predicament, but then leaves and assumes his trap will do the job instead of staying to make sure it will work.
