Stupid movie clichés?

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In most american movie:
somebody upsets the hero(kidnaps/kils his family,friends,girlfriend)
he goes to the rescue
he gets kicked in the ass
he goes and trains
he gets a sidekick
he goes again to the rescue
he gats kicked (again)
the sidekick dies
he promises to avenge
he succeds in saving
 

FrankDux

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Champagnerocker post=18.68377.629227 said:
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.
This can still be done with some class, it was in the Matrix and that movie was awesome.
 

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puffbro1 post=18.68377.627242 said:
-Everyone in the horror movie will die, except for the good looking girl, and the guy she's closest too.
Oooh... There's a film called "fritt vilt" where the first one to be killed is the sexy blonde girl walking around only in her underwear. She gets a pickaxe buried in her spine. 4 more people die and the last plays dead and pushes the bad guy off a cliff.

Oh... and why do people always fly in kung-fu movies?
 

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Any and every scene where Good Guy infiltrates Evil Enemy's lair and is able to access exactly what he needs on the first computer console he comes across. Apparently Evil Empires don't password-protect anything.

Case in point: Sahara, when the hero is easily able to access the location of the Big Explosion of Doom. I expected to hear the computer say, "You have selected 'bomb'. Please wait while I access your selection."
 

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How about having 100 dudes shooting automatic rifles at the actor's direction and not one manages to actually hit the actor. And then the guns also have no recoil at all so they got 2 heavy machine guns in both hands shooting non-stop. Cliched and unrealistic.
 

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evil corporation x's army of henchmen with astronomically terrible aim. i'm surprised they can all fire in the same direction, much less not kill each other.

how if the good guy wants a fistfight, the baddies are happy to oblige, regardless of how many m-16s/ak47s/lemon cannons/raptor launchers are on hand.

how nightclubs have big fat stubby guys working the doors. they aren't strong or badass, they're just fat.

(this might be true, but) Command Radio operators are dumb. you ask for an airstrike, they send it somewhere wrong, or need you to go and stand on the place they have to bomb.
 

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I love the end of starwars 3, where the newly suited darth vader asks about padama? Pandamaymay? Pandabear? whatever her name is, and the emperor says that she was killed by him.

Cue raising of fists and the long drawn out NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Thats my favourite cliche in any movie.
 

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countrysteaksauce post=18.68377.631227 said:
How about having 100 dudes shooting automatic rifles at the actor's direction and not one manages to actually hit the actor. And then the guns also have no recoil at all so they got 2 heavy machine guns in both hands shooting non-stop. Cliched and unrealistic.
yeah! definetly. TWO PKM heavy machine guns?? no. just no.
 

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super_smash_jesus post=18.68377.631245 said:
I love the end of starwars 3, where the newly suited darth vader asks about padama? Pandamaymay? Pandabear? whatever her name is, and the emperor says that she was killed by him.

Cue raising of fists and the long drawn out NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Thats my favourite cliche in any movie.
lol u sure you don't mean "DO NOT WANT"?
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Do_not_want
 

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The main man or woman will find the other attractive, only to be shunned at every turn. At the end of the film, it somehow changes.

In horror films, there is always some close up of a woman screaming after seeing the evil entity/person/*Insert Bad Thing Here.*
 
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-Villains must appear in strictly ascending order by menace.
-"Seeing that your about to die anyway, allow me to explain my evil plans!"
-"No, don't kill him or you'll become just as bad as him!"
-"You aren't worthy to die by my hands."
-"STAY BACK OR I'LL SHOOT YOU! NO REALLY, I SWEAR, DON'T COME ANY CLOSER! SERIOUSLY!"
 

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The hero(es) escape from the exploding building seconds before it explodes. (See: any movie that has a building that has the hero(es) inside it and is about to explode)

The protagonist wants to try something that his friends/family, etc. do not approve of. At first, he fails miserably at it, with some serious consequences, but then he gets better at it and his family/friends approve. (see: October Sky)

-"Save the girl or stop the villain"
 

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Any and all romantic comedies.
Also, people going outside to investigate strange noises or whatever... you know the ones who are complete blank slates and are only there to beef up the body count in slashers.
 

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I hate the guy i think whos in Stargate Atlantis, well on one of the stargate who tries to be funny like Richard Dean Andersons character Jack O'Neill. O'Neill has actual funny quotes due to his moody personality.

The character i just looked up is Lt. Col Cameron Mitchell...

hes a douche.
 

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1. Action Movie Girls: Women are either borderline braindead and completely incapable of providing anything productive in a crisis, or are psychotic lesbians who are completely apathetic to any male characters until the end where they miraculously change sexual orientation and do the underpants waltz with the ruggedly handsome hero, Trinity for example.

2. Thiiiiiink Faaaaaaaasssst: In the majority of the films that are action/thriller the protagonists have uber skills and enourmous Space Brains, but are completely unable to percieve if something is a trap, or whats going to happen when they use their own name and ID papers at any checkpoint. Like hearing a noise in the next room, fully aware that a killer/alien is loose and deciding to investigate. Offering aid to a child surround by hundreds of dead commandos all ripped to shreds and assuming that whatever was able to butcher so many people so quickly wouldn't touch the child, that happens to be in a research lab/abandoned warehouse/doom fortress. The only film I can think of, off the top of my head, without this is the Bourne films.

3. Inverse Ninja Effect/Stormtrooper Marksmanship paradox: (Martial Skill / Number of bad guys present) / How significant non-evil character present is = ability to fight
 

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HeartagramMan post=18.68377.626929 said:
Big movie cliche?? how about in so many movies someone will yell out
"Stop! We'll head them of at the pass!!"
"I hate that cliche!"
Blazing Saddles FTW.
 

KungFuMaster

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"...And then the guns also have no recoil at all so they got 2 heavy machine guns in both hands shooting non-stop. Cliched and unrealistic."

Not entirely...while I was in the employ of U.S. Army I had the chance to 'Go Rambo' with a real M60 and managed it just fine...it was a lot of stupid fun.

P.S. I was firing blanks, no one got hurt.