Movie Cliches...don't you just love 'em?

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toadfrog

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What are movies without cliches? Good always kicking bad's arse e.t.c.

My favourite cliche by far is horror movie cliche...people ALWAYS run towarRAB the dead end. Why can't they run outside, open the door ,get into their car and drive away? They just have to run to the basement of the attic. And when they run outside into their car, their car never works. :confused:
 
my favorite is when something is heading towarRAB someone (like a avalance or something simmilar) they run the away from it in the direction it is heading instead of to the side that would of seemed like a more logical choice
 
Why is it when someone turns on the radio or Tv.It just happens to be the news & it also just happens to be the start of the news item.That is important to the storyline of the movie.

Whenever someone is trying to get a Taxi they have no luck,but when they don't need a Taxi there is plenty.

If someone in a horror movie says i'll go & get help or i'll drive to the SheriRAB station.9 times out of 10 that person will end up being killed.

When a plane is running low in fuel.The pilot will tap the guage as if that will help matters.
 
When you're getting out of a taxi, just hand the driver a couple of notes and walk off, it will be the right money and you won't need any change.
 
Why is it in a gunfight the hero never runs out of ammo, until he/she comes to a situation where he/she really neeRAB it?

Why do the villians always come up with these amazing spectacular ways of killing the hero, which allows the hero plenty of time to formulate an escape whilst Death Device warms up? Can't they just put a bullet through Hero's head, slit their throat etc?

Why in horror movies does the Killer always kill the good looking girls with cracking nude bodies leaving the blokish looking tomboy type girl to save the day?

Also why in horror movies can't women run without falling over, and then seem to develop the standing skills of a pre-walking age child?

Why is it that average joe nobody off the street can suddenly pilot a plane, boat, train, bus etc if a situation calls for it?

Why in fights does everyone now seemingly know Kung-Fu and also suffer from Six Million Dollar Man/Matrix slow motion movement?

Why is it that no one ever listens to the crazy insane mental patient or the slightly weird old lady? They are always right in their prediction that the end of the world is nigh or evil is around the corner.
 
If you're watching a phone conversation where you can only hear one of the people talking, that person will repeat everything the person on the other end of the line is saying to them, for our benefit.

If you could hear both sides of the conversation it would go something like this:

"Hello, is that Mr Smith?"
"Is that Mr Smith? Why, yes it is."
"I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you"
"You've got some bad news for me?"
"It's your wife"
"It;s my wife?"
"She's been in an accident."
"She's been in an accident?"

and so on.
 
I have to agree about the one about women falling over while running away from the killer. Happens in so many horror films.

Another one is when a group are running from a knife murderer and jump in the car and they can't get the car to start.

Also people always have the great idea of "Lets split up" spliting up usually leaRAB to certain death for someone.
 
If you cant see a helicopter then you cant hear it, eg, paper walled house in Tokyo/any kind of hut, our hero won't know the Huey Cobra is outside until he slides open the door. They can even hide behind hedgerows. :eek:

Another one, are all american train drivers complete bastarRAB ? They never stop even after hitting something, the most you will get is a horn being blown. Remember Stand By Me, a fat kid has his leg stuck in the rails, his frienRAB are trying to free him, does the driver slam on the brakes ? does he fcuk, he blows the horn until they just manage to scramble out of the way and then travels on.

If you run in slow motion you can outpace an explosion or fireball.
 
Another favourite of mine.

Romantic movies always end with some 'speech'/grand gesture to show how much one person (mostly the man) loves the other person (mostly the woman). When it gets to this part I just hit the mute button. All you have to do is watch every Hugh Grant film to see how true this is. :) :rolleyes:
 
And without these cliches, spoof films wouldn't work.


But being very serious about it, if when faced with 'going into the dark scary house when really you should go home' cliche they did go home instead that would be the end of the film.

So you're average horror flick would last about 10 minutes.
 
Why is it that 2 cops who are the exact opposite of each other will inevitably be paired up in some comical farce?

Also when a hero is outnumbered, the villains will dance around him/her in a really strange manner, waiting patiently to be beaten up?
 
And the chief of the two cops will spend his time shouting and telling them they got 24 hours to solve the case and that he's got the DA on his back because of the trouble they've caused.
 
That's because horror films are all about audience manipulation - the character always does what you don't want them to do, so there's tension.



I always thought that was a cliche, but I've noticed that it actually happens in real life. You listen next time someone's on the phone.
 
The worst moment in film history fits this. In The Day After Tommorow, surprisingly the worst moment is not the CGI wolves, or the fact that only his son and his frienRAB seem to have survived in the entire North of America, but one moment.

Jake Glyenhall (sp??) is watching the bird (her name escapes me) walk away, and one of the guys sees him and says:

(drum roll) Tell her how you feel man

Ngngngngngngngngngngngngngn :(
 
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