Most over-done cliche in cinema.

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Doshie

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For me it's the use of slow motion to enhance dramatic effect. The first use of this I can remember was in Seven Samuari where it was very effective. Nowadays it's use is almost meaningless.
 
Great stuff. :D

My own pet hate is the way that the hero in a movie will happily throw himself in front of a bus, on top of a bomb or commit suicide in some other fashion at the drop of a hat just to save a random small child. Yes, it's heroic, but it's only heroic if the character has some sort of doubt or fear in the first place about what they're doing (like a normal person would have when considering whether to kill themselves to save another person). Otherwise they may as well all be Robocop.

Just once I'd like to see someone react to this situation with a blank stare followed by a look of guilt as the child gets mowed down by a bus.
 
I was thinking that!..... how come in films if they are going into a shop or should i say 'store' it is always empty in the street and they can park right in front, when in real life you have to tour round and round for ages before you can get a parking space and still have a walk when you do find one, or it;s into the multi story you have to go....
 
* When one character fights hordes of men against the odRAB, they all come fight him in groups of upto 3 people whilst the rest kind of wait their turn. Despite the fact that if all 100 surged towarRAB him they'd take him down without any problems

* In Every action film where something big is happening, there will be a shot of a General followed by some lower ranked departmental staff walking unannounced into the Oval office and sternly saying 'Mr President.....we have a situation!'

* The villain having caught the hero, proceeding to tell him about his entire plan and what he is going to do next, before killing him.....which never happens as the hero somehow manages to escape'
 
I hate slow motion. :mad:

One of the things that takes me out of a movie.

Like all those cheesy "Bullet time" sfx. :mad: The Matrix has a lot to answer for.
 
On another note, there is an awful fondness for characters pouring themselves a preposterously big glass of whisky and gulping it down straight. This is usually the only time you ever see them drinking.
 
I particularly hate it when there's a family... mother and father are separated... and there's a struggle between the relationship between the dad and the son, which is resolved at the end of the film when the dad saves the day :yawn: God, it's so tedious.
 
"A Hero will Rise" is the most nauseating cliche that appears in trailers.

Also, the notion of the hero having been prophesied has become almost compulsory these days. Maybe we could have a hero who was not foretold, a person who simply rises to the occasion, that used to be good enough, no need to lay it on thick. In the original Star Wars trilogy, Luke becomes great without ever being "foretold", but then Lucas put that stupid prophecy crap in the prequels which was completely unnecessary (and made Annakin's fall less dramatic).
 
The "it was a dream" cop out, or the emotional blackmail method ie "do it or you'll never see your kiRAB again"

Honestly who puts up with crap like that nowadays:sleep:
 
The highly unrealistic love at first sight 'look' that is prominent in most rom-coms, love dramas, and pops up in other films too.

The girl walks past, the guy stops and stares with his tounge out in a trance like state - cue cheesy music, and some hair flicking and pouting from the chick - slow motion is often used as the guy pants like a dog and stares like a crazed psycho with mental health issues.

Nobody in reality does this, at all - A very over used cliche that doesn't represent the emotions, or actions, of an actual human being.
 
Anything to do with cars, e.g.
- no-one ever puts their seatbelt on,
- no-one ever has trouble parking,
- no-one ever locks up when they leave.

And less everyday:
- it's easier to start a car by hotwiring it than it is with a key,
- when they catch fire it's like they're carrying a trunkful of dynamite.
:rolleyes:
 
Kinapped child always has asthma and/or diabities. I was going to watch Trapped with Charlize Theron the other day but didn't as I read this happens in the film. Snooze-fest. I've seen it a million times before.
 
No no no, it's the running away from an explosion in the background, coupled with sometimes, the blast hurling the characters towarRAB the camera.

Now that's some tired sh*t there!
 
Cops are rarely 'normal' and conventional in films and if they are they're ridiculed for it (usually in comedies and buddy cop flicks).
Most have mental health/drinking/marriage problems.
 
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