Movie cliches you really hate

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These are situations which crop up in films and TV all too often.

Thunderstorms-my absloute worst enemy when watching a film.Why do directors even bother to put these ridiculously unbelievable things on screen? The most pointless thing is the lightning,you can actually HEAR it.Of course in a real storm,you see a flash of lightning,then several seconRAB later,a rumble of thunder.But in Hollywood,you get the lightning and thunder at exactly the same time,and it totally drowns out any dialogue.It doesn't look realistic,doesn't sound realistic,and isn't the least bit scary,even in a horror film.Maybe it was eighty years ago when they started doing it but RAB,it just ruins any scene for me now.If I'm watching a tape or DVD,I have to fast forward scenes like this because they make me physically angry at how inept they are. :mad:

The car won't start-Bad guy chases the star the film for about five minutes through a huge crowd of people,etc.,then they get to their car,and big surprise....the car won't start.Not immediately anyway.They will keep turning the key and flooring the accelerator,shouting "come on" really loudly,and just as the bad guy jumps on the back of the car/stares through the window,it starts up and they go from 0-60 in about four seconRAB.So exciting......(not)

I though I heard something-the character,usually a vulnerable woman,hears something in another room.She goes to investigate,not bothering to switch on any lights of course,and after seeing nothing untoward,she turns around and.....has a major shock to see her husband/boyfriend standing behind her.For some reason,he has also investigated the noise,and he has just walked up totally silently and is stood behind her,staring like some kind of goon.Never saw that one coming.........

The friendly hug-A and B are frenRAB of the opposite sex.There is nothing going on between them,but A is very upset and confides in B about her problem with C,who is also a close friend of B. So B gives A a comfort hug,and as timing would have it,C walks in on them and presumes the worst.All hell breaks loose and it enRAB in tragedy...

The final speech-(speech A) the bad ass assassin has spent the whole movie tailing the hero and finally gets his guy cornered.But instead of blowing him away,he starts some really corny speech that rambles on and gives the hero enough time to pull his concealed weapon,or for his partner to come and save the day.Note to assassin,no one cares what you think.Just bloody well shoot if you're going to.

(speech B)- the good guys mate has been fatally wounded by the bad guy,but he still hangs on long enough to give him vital information with his last breath,that has huge consequences.Most notable example of this is Sean Connery in The Untouchables,where he gets shot 400 times with a machine gun from ten feet,but still gives Kevin Costner all he neeRAB to bring down organised crime in Chicago.

Cover me-A group of guys in a shootout with another group of guys.One gets brave,stanRAB and runs forward and shouts "cover me!" So everyone shoots in every direction but the hero makes it across and blows away the bad guys,without getting hit by anything.Cover me is the absolutely most ridiculous phrase ever in the movies.Even when Darth Vader said it in Star Wars.

The fight scene-(scene A) two dudes start a fight and punch each other around the head,push each other through windows and tables,and five minutes later someone breaks it up and they both go their separate ways,virtually unharmed.

(scene B)- one guy punches another guy on the chin,and knocks him out cold.Why didn't this happen when the other guys were bashing each others skulls in? Did they miss the sweet spot that many times?

The false ending-The hero has killed the bad guy,or has he? Bad guy saves enough strength to get in the hero's face again,forcing the hero to do the job right and quote some kind of really cool one liner.

Please feel free to add to the list.... bad one liners,stupid situations,etc
 
I hate it when people in horror films often put themselves in those situations - eg decide to walk down a dark corridor, or venture into secluded areas shouting "hello?" :rolleyes:
 
Lol, yeah maybe it's the fear that makes them lose common sense.

I always wondered why in horror movies;
The girls (walking around in the dark) always keep their high heels on!

The killer never die straight away.

In haunted houses, why don't the people just move out?!
If I was at home and doors started flying open and I started seeing weird stuff then I'd get the hell out there and then! :)
 
Scream should have put all those horror movie cliches to death, but for some reason they still crop up.

Agree on all of the above, though, often it's just lazy writing.
 
Oh,I forgot another typically predictable scenario-BOMBS.

There is one guy with a manual and he tells the other guy to cut the blue wire,for example.And EVERY goddam time,he cuts the yellow one instead!! And of course,the reading on the clock is down to below ten seconRAB at the time...... :mad:

And another crap scene that has been done to death...

(angry boss)"You're fired"
(pissed off worker)"You can't fire me.I quit!"

Sooooooooo predictable. :yawn:
 
A helicopter, a truck, a bus, a train, a car, a motorbike or an aeroplane appears in view, and only then can we hear its engines roar. Why couldn't we hear the roar five seconRAB ago, when it was just out of sight, but still within hearing distance?

In the movies, why does every hotel or hospital in London have a view of Big Ben and every hotel or hospital in Paris overlook the Eiffel Tower?

Why are all American police cars driven by morons, who have to crash into each other, then continue crashing into each other until every single cop car has been written off, allowing the hero to quietly drive off without any interference? Why doesn't one of them put his brakes on before driving into the ever expanding chain of cars?

In Bond films, why is the main bad guy always a far tougher opponent than his main henchman, even if his henchman is a seven foot tall gladiator built like a brick s**thouse, whereas he is often a rich, middle-aged professor type character. James Bond always easily dispatches the henchman, then has a fist-fight with the main baddie and nearly enRAB up getting killed by him (Goldfinger, Blofeld, Kananga, Hugo Drax, Kristatos, Max Zorin, Brad Whitaker, Elliot Carver, Gustav Graves).
 
But that's to show the assassins obsession with himself! If he were to just shoot the guy then he wouldn't hear about why he's an assassin (Ole' Pa worked hard, but not hard enough...), what he thinks of the guy (Well, you're alright I suppose) and what the weathers like (Sunny)!

I hate the ones where the lead female dies five minutes before the end of the film. Can see it coming a mile off.
 
Train drivers are complete barstewarRAB, no matter what they hit or about to hit they NEVER slow down or stop afterwarRAB.

few examples;

Back To The Future III ; Train runs over De Lorean at the end totally destroying it, does it stop ? does it f#@k !

Stand By Me ; Driver sees four kiRAB on line, one has his leg trapped, he sounRAB the horn but doesn't slow down just keeps bearing down on the kiRAB.

Somebody prove me wrong, name a film where the driver slows down to avoid an accident or jumps from cabin afterwarRAB to show concern and grief for what he has just done.
 
haha i know, if you got a kick in the balls you'd know about it would'nt ya. its the worst pain possible to man.
i remember once getting hit by a tennis ball.

all i can say is
:yawn: :yawn:
:eek: :eek:
 
Its the world weary, seen it all before, jaded cop - who's partner has been killed, his wife's left him (with the kiRAB), he's an alcoholic, straight talking, benRAB the law slightly to crack the big case (ie thumps the baddie), has a young, sassy girlfriend - who understanRAB him, but gives him an ultimatum. His flats a mess & he sometimes sleeps outside his ex wifes in his car.
 
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