Worst Movie or TV cliches *A couple movie spoilers*

[JonLP24]

Based on this:
A cliché "is a saying, expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect,

I got to say the loser sports team that gets better and ends up beating usually the best team in whatever league there in a dramatic last play of the game.

You might say this a copycat but really inspired this post was when I watched the movie Hardball yesterday with Keanu Reeves :puke: However it did have one dramatic surprise me but overall it was predictable and I think Ebert covered it well here.

As the coach, O'Neill(Reeves) mostly addresses the kids as a group, not individually. His dialogue consists of the announcement of plot points (he likes them, he doesn't, he's quitting, he's staying, he's taking them to a Cubs game, they have to believe in themselves). There is not, as nearly as I can remember, a single one-on-one scene in which he tells a kid anything specific about baseball strategy. For that matter, does he know anything about baseball? In many scenes he just lines them up and hectors them, and they look like kids patiently watching some crazy white guy work out his issues.
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Hardball/60021229?trkid=222336&strackid=3d1ba98150749e95_0_srl&lnkce=seRtLn&strkid=831664530_0_0

I really didn't watch the whole movie so I apologize to those DUers who watched the whole movie and thought it was great, but I was really waiting for Mr. 3000 to come on. Mr. 3000 is a different movie then what I'm talking about. That movie is about an over the hill retired player who finds out he is short of 3000 hits by 3 so he comes back in but he displays unselfishness in the last game of the season and falls short and becomes Mr. 2999

[Strong Atheist]

1. Recommended,

dammit! x(

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. To be fair to "The Bad News Bears" (spoilers for anyone who hasn't see a 30+ year old movie),

the Bears do lose in the big championship game. Which provides great fodder for a line by one of the players to tell the Yankees to "take your trophy and shove it up your ass" or something to that effect.

[JonLP24]

3. I wasn't referring to all sports movies

I enjoy many of them. What I'm thinking of is movies such as Necessary Roughness or Varsity Blues except Varsity Blues wasn't so much about a loser sports team but they still had the dramatic improbable game winning play.

[skygazer]

4. The whole man- rescues- woman- she- falls- into- his- arms thing

It happens with depressing predictability. It seems the only real motivation for a man to do anything heroic is to have the woman he loves (or doesn't know he loves, or is going to love) in dire peril.

Ho hum.

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

5. Characters dying and coming back...

I absolutely hate it when they pretend to kill a character off, but then they miraculously revive or reappear having escaped a situation lethal to non-TV human beings.

It really ruined the first Matrix movie for me (yeah, like having Keanu Reeves in it wasn't bad enough!). Up until the end I thought the movie was ok, not great, but I enjoyed myself. But now the only thing I seem to remember is Keanu dying in the end and the girl getting all weepy telling him "But I luuuuuuuurve you..." (for which IIRC there had not been a single indication during the movie, another pet peeve) and he revives. After that I was done with the whole franchise, and I highly doubt I missed much.

Or in season finales of TV series, where it looks like a character gets blown up or otherwise killed, and then in the beginning of the next season you find out they miraculously escaped at the last moment. It's really cheap drama. Either permanently kill a character, or come up with a better cliffhanger.

:rant: