Movie Cliches

[Darth Groovy]

I wanted to get them all in one thread. I dearly love movies, but there are always patterns.

 

Ever notice in a horror movie, the protagonist always looses the keys, or the car will not start when being persued by the main spook?

 

Ever notice that in horror, or event movies, the African American is always the comic relief?

 

Ever notice in action movies, the cops always arive when the action is over?

 

Another horror movie classic, especially in slasher flicks, the first couple that have sex, are the first to get hacked in two?

 

Post all movie cliches you have see here, let us have fun with this!

[Boba Rhett]

When the hero is knocked out, he won't get a concussion or brain damage.

 

The hero will always get shot in the shoulder, yet will be able to use his arm.

 

If you lose a hand, it causes the stump of your arm to grow by six inches.

 

Medieval peasants always have filthy faces, tangled hair, ragged clothing - and perfect, gleaming white teeth.

 

In a swordfight, you can always parry behind your back, and you must always find a set of stairs to fight on so that the loser can roll down them and die at the bottom.

 

Minorities such as Native Americans or Asians will always have some sort of mystical knowledge or inate fighting skill. For example, the Native American always knows the course of events to come from some sign in nature, and Asians are all born with Martial Arts skills they can use to battle the bad guys.

 

After fleeing a monster, you will want to call for help from a public phone within ten feet of where you last saw the monster.

 

People speaking on the phone never introduce themselves, and never ever say "good-bye" at the end of a conversation.

[Darth Eggplant]

there are billions of people

and just as many cell phones

and yet even in modern films like the matrix

telephone numbers always start 555

[Darth Groovy]

In horror movies, you always loose your keys, but even once you find them, the car will never start....

[HertogJan]

Originally posted by Darth Eggplant

there are billions of people

and just as many cell phones

and yet even in modern films like the matrix

telephone numbers always start 555

 

Haha yes, that allways annoys me :mad:

 

Oh and when the bad guy gets knocked dowen for the first time, he's never dead, and will come back for the hero when he is celebrating with his girl...

[BawBag™]

The worst is when el hero is getting the snot pounded out of him by the main baddie and then at the end has a miraculous comeback and saves the day.

Or the weepie, when the beautiful girl thinks the love of her life has left town/city/country for ever but is really standing behind her.....

*She turns round, they see each other, hug, kiss - BawBag turns T.V. off*

[C Shutt]

Originally posted by Boba Rhett

Minorities such as Native Americans or Asians will always have some sort of mystical knowledge or inate fighting skill.

 

Black people have magic powers too, if it's a Steven King movie.

[Darth Groovy]

Up until Spiderman, all heros must wear some sort of black leather costume.

 

All bad guys much engage in some rediculous monologe, allowing ample time for the good guy to think of a strategy to defeat him.

 

Putting a bullet to the head of a hero is always too good for any movie villian.

 

The villian always dies in the middle of a gloat.

[boinga1]

The bad guys always capture the hero, thwn gloat and let him win (basically ditto the above).

 

Oh, and in James Bind films, the hero always meets hot girls.

[Darth Groovy]

The hero must never get engaged or married early in the film, or the girl get's killed, and the hero becomes a raging lunatic vigilante.

[obi]

In horror movies, the bad guy always is a mirror image of the hero. Always.

[BCanr2d2]

In any movie, where the goodies are trying to escape the baddies, the baddies will always ask "Did you wreck/attach/etc to their form of transport?" Always answered with a yes, and within seconds of capture will escape by activating whatever was wrecked...

[Clemme w/Stick]

The SW movies.

Let me explain what I mean.

Ep1: A Lightsaber fight, something big gets blown up.

Ep2: A Lightsaber fight, Anakin looses arm, Ani and Padme gets married and look out on the Naboo nature.

Ep3: Prolly something along the lines of Ep6.

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Ep4: Lightsaber fight, something big gets blown up.

Ep5: Lightsaber fight, Luke looses hand, Luke and Leia looks out on the Rendevouz point.

Ep6: Lightsaber fight, something big gets blown up.

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See what I mean, the endings of all the SW movies resemble each other in some way. I think thats one of the things that make the prequals bad. Anyways any1 else noticed this?

 

@Groovy, yea, I know what ya mean. Thats why I dont watch horror flicks . They are simply just too predictable.

 

-Clemme

[|GG|Carl]

All bond films are like this:

Bond goes to a place,searching for the bad guy, some other bad guys starts hunting him. bond finds a russian girl.

the girl doesn't like bond.

Bond finds the bad guy.

The bad guy tells bond he's going to blow up the world(or whatever). He tells bond exactly how he's going to do that(often with a satellite or something). then bond kills the bad guy and saves the world right before it's going to blow up.

Then the girl starts to like bond. She says:

- Oh bond! and kisses him.

[Thrackan Solo]

Especially the Jason films, they always burn him but he always comes back in some strange stupid way. Its okk the first 2 times but it gets unbelievable after 10 TIMES!!!!

[|GG|Carl]

Also, in the starwars movies, the guys with green lightsabers always win the lightsaber fights.

 

Ep1:Obi takes qui-gons green lightsaber and kills Maul

Ep2:Yoda scares away dooku with his green lightsaber

Ep3:?

Ep4:no green lightsabers in this movie, but there are no big lightsaber fights either

Ep5:no green lightsabers here either

Ep6:Luke has a green lightsaber, and he defeats palpatine and vader (with some help from vader)

[jokemaster]

Also, in slasher flicks, the bad guy is always still alive after you beat him the first time, you have to beat him again so he's dead, and then you die in the sequel to make room for the next hero.

The slasher gets revived in some stupid way (see Jason and Freddy flicks)

[Nitro]

In the the final fight scene, the good guy will dominate, then get his ass handed to him, and when all seems lost, rally and demolish the competition.

[legameboy]

No matter what the hero will always win.

[Nitro]

*cough*ArlingtonRoad*cough*

[[RAA]-=Chi3f=-]

1) A cigarette case/lighter in the shirt pocket will always block the bullet.

 

2) Warp or hyper-drive will always fail at critical moments.

 

3) Any apartment in Paris will have a view of the Eiffel Tower.

 

4) In any type of sport movie, a player on the field can look up into a crowd of 1 billion and immediately spot their loved one.

 

5) Alien spacecraft the size of Australia can be taken out with one well-placed sidewinder missile (ID4)

 

6) Movie character never make typing mistakes.

 

7) All computers are connected. You can access the information on the villain's desktop computer, even if it's turned off.

 

8) When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.

 

9) When you throw a knife, the blade will always be the first thing to hit the target

 

10) The bad guy usually kills his henchman for failing, yet don't seem to run out of loyal henchmen.

 

11) A good person will always die in the presence of friends.

 

12) Any machine gun nest can be approached from behind without dificulty, but not until half the unit has been wiped out.

13) Dogs always know who's bad, and bark at them. Good boy!

 

14) Asteroids travel through space making a noise like a powerful but subdued engine.

 

15) Laser beams are easily visible in space.

 

16) Radiation causes mutation not to your future children, but to you, there and then. Mutation is never immediately fatal, but first either makes you into a formless blob, or a functional creature with animal-like features. X-men in a nutshell

 

17) Interbreeding is genetically possible with any person or creature from anywhere in the universe.

 

18) The police will never question the hero, even if he kills lots of bad guys

 

19) Pastries are always in plain pink boxes.

 

20) Stripping to the waist makes the hero invulnerable.

[•-BLaCKouT-•]

I can't remember where I read this now, or the exact percentage but you get the idea:

Something like 85% of all movies feature the line "Let's get out of here" or a direct derivative.

Yet how many times do you hear it in real life?

 

B.

[defalc]

1) Both the hero and the villan have unlimited bullets in their guns.

 

2) If you're hacking into a computer, you can see exactly where the data is heading via a miraculous image of the world satellite network.

 

3) The bad guys NEVER hack the good guys.

 

4) The grand master plan is something complex, like "Realign the mystical rubix cube at the precise moment of the solar equinox whilst simultaneously hotwiring a car and whistling the Happy Days tune'; and it is NEVER a simple case of 'hit the button'.

 

5) Bad guys feel that whilst they wish the hero to die from means other than a bullet to the head, they can't be bothered to stick around and watch, allowing the hero to escape.

 

6) Getting hit in the face and tasting blood/losing teeth is something to be laughed at.

 

7) The cool car is always blown up. And anyone watching thinks the main character/s were in there when they in fact bailed out at the last minute in a slow-mo roll.

 

8) When a character sacrifices him/herself, the death is in slow-motion, switching between about 3 camera angles and ending with a close-up of their face.

 

9) If someone runs out onto the street in anger/shock, they'll get hit by a car. It will be white. They will roll halfway up the windshield and the car will break, sending them to the ground. They will have only a small trickle of blood down their forehead.

 

10) Continuing from above: if the person who got hit by the car makes it to the hospital, they'll die exactly after revealling something pivital (let it be the secret plans or that they were secretly in love with blah).

[Lunatic Jedi]

1. Any heating duct in any building anywhere is invariably wide enough for human transport.

 

2. Despite the above "fact," no villain will ever suspect that the hero might be hiding in the ducts.

 

3. Lipstick will never come off for any reason, ever, even if the wearer has been submerged in salt water.

 

4. In a fight against multiple enemies, each foe goes down after only one blow, while the hero will never be affected by his injuries.

 

5. Even though they're armed and their boss isn't, no henchman will ever kill his/her cruel leader.

 

6. If there is ever a legend of a haunting in the area in which the hero is, it will always occur on the very day when the hero happens to be there (e.g. Every year on June 12, the ghost of the insane postman haunts these woods! I wouldn't go out on a night like this!)

[Nitro]

Originally posted by -=Chi3f=-

9) When you throw a knife, the blade will always be the first thing to hit the target

 

That's actually a skill. Anyone can do it with a lot of practice, and a properly weighted knife.