Movie cliches you really hate

I really hate them as well, and any "typically English" costume drama.But I expect that a lot of Americans in particular find them very quaint. :rolleyes:

Another awful cliche.....so many extra terrestrials who speak word perfect English! Give me a break already! :D
 
Plain and simple: remakes.

What is a remake but something we've seen already, a cliche in itself?

And they rarely remake bad films, whats the point? They always remake a well-known or good film, which inevitably means many people have seen it already. And worse yet, they tend to be almost a carbon copy of the original, (maybe set in a different country, but all the same "moments" are there)

Psycho
La Cage Aux Folles (Birdcage)
Wicker Man
Omen
Hitcher

whats next Godfather? Titanic?
 
So many movie cliches have been spoofed but they still come up time and time again.

Scream should have put to bed all the horror movie cliches and ditto with Austin Powers and the super spy / super villain cliches. Airplane! should have killed off the disaster movie, too.

But still we get people wandering around scary houses with torches low on batteries, car chases always end up on pavements, knocking over crates and market stalls, bad guys shoot 500 bullets at the hero and miss but the hero fires one bullet (from a gun which seems to have an infinite supply of bullets) and kills the bad guy, photographs on computers always get sharper when you zoom in on them...etc, etc.
 
I hate in movies where etc Bewitched with Nicole Kidman and when she supposed to be turning back the time on the clock in the restaurant while she is i think having breakfast with her father and you can obviously tell members of crew are behind the wall turning back the time on the clock, so osbvious and a bit cheap and tacky i think, however i still do love this movie and thats the only complaint i have with this movie.

The Parent Trap (original) they might of done this in the remake. But i think near the middle of this movie the two girls trick there mom and dad into staying and going camping, you can tell they use a stunt double, but not much only the back of the hair and the height, one of the girl you see her face and full body, the other girl she is facing to the other girl and you can tell its just a stunt, where they say its the actress throughout the whole movie and they edit her making it look like real twins, but sometimes it is just stunt double only when you can just see the one girl and then the other girl is not facing the camera thats when its a stunt double. (I hope this makes sense, sorry if it does not please let me know).

The Exorcist - The possession scenes are so fake and need remaking because its so obvious its all make-up effects, and sometimes you can see tubes sticking out of her ear or her mouth, there is a scene i think where Regan has a tube in her mouth which can been seen and thats what makes the pea soup come out, i think this is called "lazy film making".

I hate in most movies with special effects, for example. i hate it when there is some big either chase scene and lets say they are supposed to be at the same location and time during the chase scene but you can tell sometimes by looking at the weather and the weather sometimes changes between shots making it so obvious that the actors just stand there acting either in shock or upset or whatever and making us believe they are there but you can always tell they are really not there making the movie feel cheap and lame. Thats the only thing i have against special effects.

Independence Day is similar with will smith about the weather cliches, theres a scene where he is walking with this dead alien and throughout the scene the sky has clouRAB, next shot no clouRAB making the scene a complete and utter waste of money and time and filming where they could of at least made more of an effort and maybe they could of just filmed during the same hour and day? it just makes the movie more confusing and not real and lazy.
 
The good guy always misses the bad guy by seconRAB

Heroes who are beaten to a pulp, shot, stabbed (take your pick) but still get up & run after the villain & never suffer concussion or brain damage.

Flawless make-up on heroines even though they've been dragged through swamps, sweated in jungles, got caught outside in rain, thunder & lightning storms, got locked in dirty rooms, caves, attics, cellars, tended to bleeding victims or had to run to save themselves.
 
It makes me cringe when they do that. I watched Greenfingers on channel 5 the other night and Helen Mirren says to Clive Owen 'have you always had greenfingers?' and then 'Raw' says 'only when he picks his nose' shameful!
 
I can't believe nobody has mentioned where the hero's lover, father or significant other gets killed (which of course you could see coming a mile away) and the hero screams, "NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"

Now that one makes my fillings ache!
 
Anything predictable really.

Things like "Stay here, I'll be right back", which is shortly followed by a gruesome death.

Or seemingly invincible people. After they've been beaten to within an inch of their life, left for dead, suddenly they have the strength of 300 men. Superhero movies can get away with it I think, but any other film or TV show just can't, it looks stupid.
 
The girlfriend/heroine is always a Doctor or Lawyer or something really intelligent & "professional" & of course beautiful & rich too - but acts like a nincompoop!
They can never be "normal" you know a Secretary, Receptionist, Care Assistant, Shop Assistant, Check Out Operative, Telephonist, Mechanic, Bus Driver, etc etc ....
 
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