More stupid movie cliches

[skygazer]

Watching one last night in which this happened -

Two people enter the room where the dead relative/loved one of one of them is lying and the grief-stricken person tries to run to them only to be held back by the other person.

Why would people do this? Seriously. If someone I loved was lying there dead, I bloody well better be able to get to them. :wtf:

[billyskank]

1. I'd never thought of that before, but yeah it is stupid.

There are so many things about films that bother me, being such a pedant. Like the way nobody ever locks their car when they get out. ;)

:hi:

[skygazer]

2. And they always find a parking space right in front of where they're going

That always cracks me up.

Hi, billy. :hi:

:loveya:

[billyskank]

3. That's right!!

:rofl:

:loveya:

[sarge43]

24. My favorite car cliche: They're always clean.

Even the beaters and the POS in a New England setting (Dead Zone) don't have a speck of dirt or road salt on them.

[DS1]

4. I don't

I haven't locked my car in years. :shrug:

[billyskank]

5. Hmm well, I'd never given much thought to whether it;'s necessary or not

but I think most people do it anyway, just as a matter of course.

[SoxFan]

6. Grenades that do this...

[billyskank]

7. And send people flying.

[skygazer]

14. Yes, and vehicles that inevitably explode upon impact

[billyskank]

15. "It's going to blow!"

:rofl:

[billyskank]

8. Warming to the theme

Very powerful mainframe computers can nonetheless only put text on screen at the speed of a 1970s teleprinter... and make a noise when they do it.

[billyskank]

9. Or the more modern Hollywood foible

Computers which are anachronistically advanced, able to perform amazing searches and cross-references in an instant from god-knows-what data sources.

[alarimer]

16. The movie Deja Vu is a prime example.

They have some kind of weird time-travel thing where they can view everything like a video. It was utterly ridiculous.

[skygazer]

10. Good one

And computers at high security government or military installations that anyone can access. :rofl:

[billyskank]

11. Logins with a password that the hero guesses in three attempts.

:D

[DS1]

12. Billion dollar spy satellites which make morse code noises as they fly by

[billyskank]

13. "Can you clean that up?"

Computer technicians who are able to miraculously make sharp detailed images out of blurred, low-resolution pictures.

[Aristus]

17. Ha! I love that one.

Another favorite of mine is how drawing a gun from a holster automatically renders a cocking sound effect. And if the hero (or villain) is not taken seriously, he or she can cock it again, forcing compliance with his or her wishes.

Also, the sword that always makes a metallic 'zing' when it is brandished, even if it's just cutting through air.

[skygazer]

19. Which reminds me of the Pump Shotgun Cliche

When the person with said shotgun ratchets a round into the chamber about 3 times before ever actually shooting the thing. What a waste of ammo - but it is a satisfying sound.

[begin_within]

18. There's a whole web site on movie clichés

http://moviecliches.com

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. 'Don't be a fool, Tony! Don't do it!

The 10:12 has the new narrow-traction bogies! You wouldn't stand a chance!"

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. And how every time someone uses the alibi of using the restaurant car on the 7:58 stopping train

It just always happens to be on the one day of the year that Wisborough Junction is doing point maintenance and thus the train would have arrived six minutes too late to catch the 8:13 from Gillingham.

I'm sick and tired of movies that use that old cliche. And I'm fed up with being sick and tired.

[SoxFan]

21. New Yorkers always live in Manhattan

No one, not even a cop, cabbie, or teacher, lives in Queens or Staten Island, much less Hoboken.

[mokawanis]

22. The cops show up right after the hero solves the crime

The bad guy gets gunned down by the hero of the movie and then you hear sirens in the near distance and the squad cars roll in.

[billyskank]

25. Fifteen of them.

[Arkham House]

23. Bad guys always saying: "You have interfered with my plans for the last time, Mr Bond..."

...whenever you hear that, you know that guy's not gonna collect his Social Security, ya know...?

[MrScorpio]

26. Military personnel who wear their service dress uniforms for normal duty

If I had to sit around and wear that hot ass jacket all day, everyday, I would have killed somebody

[electricmonk]

27. My two annoyances

The unsupportive spouse. Doesn't matter if the hero is saving the world or stopping the worst serial killer in history the spouse always says, "You care more about your job than me. It's over between us." Or something along those lines.

The brat kid. The ones that get kidnapped by the villain or wander into the middle of the disaster area while the parent who also happens to be the chief investigator or expert frantically searches for them while also trying to save the day.

[Ava]

28. dark alley, strange noise, and zombies on the loose.. what do you do?

run away? no.. that would make too much sense.

no, no.. the thing to do is to wander down the alley to find where the noise is coming from :P

[billyskank]

29. Brains,

:D

[Ava]

32. mmmm... want brains

:P

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. When the bad guy is being chased, he always goes UP something

(the Statue of Liberty--as in Saboteur--or a water tower, for example) to try to escape.

You can fall or run through a plate glass window without getting even a scratch.

All movie heroes can outrun balls of flame that are roaring down tunnels.

Foreigners (and Native Americans) speak broken English to one another, even when no native English speakers are around to hear them.

Japan, China, and Korea are all basically the same country.