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In reply to the discussion: Cliches in film you are sick of? [View all]Ocelot II
(115,683 posts)The woman who's running away from the bad guy and falls down just when it looks like she's about to get away from him. The woman always falls down.
The protagonist in a hurry who always can find a convenient place to park, or when they are trying to go somewhere in a hurry they don't have to hunt for their car keys.
But the car doesn't start when they are trying to get away from the bad guys - until the very last minute.
The hero cop is chasing the bad guy in a car and just as he's about to catch up, a truck or a bus blocks the intersection.
The brilliant but hopelessly nerdy tech person who tries to explain to the clueless detective how he decoded something or salvaged data on a hard drive.
The couple who goes to the mountains on a skiing vacation and they get snowed in with an apparently nice person who turns out to be a serial killer.
Power failures at crucial moments.
Fire escapes that are actually usable, accessible from windows that actually open.
The villain who captures the hero and explains every detail of his evil plot instead of just killing him as a normal villain would do.