Movie cliches that p**s you off

[analogue]

Are there any movie cliches that really piss you off?

I got a few

Stupid villians - There's always that scene where the villian has the hero right where he/she wants him/here. They could could kill them right there but instead the villian talks to him/her. Just kill them!

Star Wars parodies - Yeah Star Wars is cool and all but the parodies are getting way out of hand. Give it a rest allready!

[Lucilla]

when the wedding of the protagonist is stopped by the love of his/her life :lol: Like that happens in real life all the time.

[Pace,MioDolceCuore]

That women are freighty b*tches who spent the predominant parts of their lives screaming in fear about xyz. Mouse, spider, etc.

[Pace,MioDolceCuore]

when the wedding of the protagonist is stopped by his/her love of his/her life :lol: Like that happens in real life all the time.

Hahah, yeah. :rofl:

[Word Smith Sr]

When a character goes "noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" like it's gonna prevent something bad from happening. Sometimes it is funny, but sometimes i feel like saying "shut your big mouth !!!!!".

[teli-mj]

In scary movies the characters always have to check where the weird sound is coming from. Man, just run for your life. I would.
In love movies i can't stand when they make promises for eternal love. Yeah, right. I bet in real life they would have broken up in three weeks.

[schizophrenic]

cat scares - used in so many movies, ridiculous, how many times can movies show a cat jumping out of a cabinet etc

pretending to be attacked or electrocuted when touching something - so lame and predictable

women falling down while running - almost every single horror film uses this

sex scenes/nude scenes in horror movies - almost every horror movie has one or more

the use of jerks, nerds, token black guy, slut female & the perfect nice guy/girl - so many movies use this formula, especially horror movies

[Word Smith Sr]

In scary movies the characters always have to check where the weird sound is coming from. Man, just run for your life. I would.
In love movies i can't stand when they make promises for eternal love. Yeah, right. I bet in real life they would have broken up in three weeks.

Haha very nice post thx. :)

About characters checking where the sound is coming from, well haha, i have no precise examples of what you are referring to in mind, but i think they might do that to run in the right direction lol. :)

[teli-mj]

Haha very nice post thx. :)

About characters checking where the sound is coming from, well haha, i have no precise examples of what you are referring to in mind, but i think they might do that to run in the right direction lol. :)

They definitely should. :D

[BottleOfSmoke]

When the world is falling apart, literally, and two characters are resolving their personal problems instead of saving their asses :lol:

[Lucilla]

another cliche that really p** me off is when they play these corny songs when some of the characters go shopping or try on new clothes :doh: :lol:

[Daryll748]

ah what makes me explode is the always HAPPY END even in Thrillers... Gee, when all is lost, I mean all is LOST and don't try to 'forge' it...
Like in "The arrival" : The 'protagonist had to be 'swallowed' by a tornado kinda thang and still he hung on for dear life and the only thing he got were 'ripped clothes'
Come on, be reasonable, hey...

oh and a NEW one if characters die and they come back to life... ARGH, that blows my top...
Like in "Snowwhite", its NOT FAIR that the Prince gives her the kiss of life...
"When you're dead, you're dead, period... " I screamed. You should have seen my mum's face...

[Severus Snape]

The heroes always winning. Most often, the hero is a real jerk, and the villain deserved to win the day.

[Strange Blues]

That women are freighty b*tches who spent the predominant parts of their lives screaming in fear about xyz. Mouse, spider, etc.

I second that.

Most comic sidekicks are not funny but hugely annoying instead. Most of them seem to serve no purpose whatsoever, other than maybe trying to make the film seem more contemporary by telling stupid jokes. :doh: One of my favorite scenes involving a so-called comic sidekick was in the film Last Action Hero where this 12-year-old boy is taken into an action film, and in the film he finds himself in a dangerous car chase. The kid is certain that he's going to survive because he's the hero, until he realizes that he's actually the comic sidekick and therefore it doesn't matter what happens to him, and as a consequence the boy ends up in the trash can. I liked how everything went wrong for the kid the moment he realized that he's not the hero, but the disposable sidekick. :rofl:

[TheEternalMoonwalker]

College students seem to be really stupid in every horror movie. I'm amazed by that.

[MJTKOP-NYTRAM]

Romantic comedies,, it's always the same thing!
A perfect, beautiful girl that is having a relationship with an insensitive jock, while the nerd always watches from the side. :doh:

[Severus Snape]

College students seem to be really stupid in every horror movie. I'm amazed by that.

^I'm not. I find that to be one of the most true-to-life things the horror film genre has managed to portray in its motion pictures.


Romantic comedies,, it's always the same thing!
The beautiful, perfect girl is in a relationship with an insensitive jock, while the nerd watches from the side. :doh:

Yeah, the idiot girl is usually presented as being "beautiful and perfect", and, of course, she chooses an idiot guy who is also "beautiful and perfect"--on the outside, but an insensitive jerk on the inside.

Intelligence is almost always presented as unattractive [with a higher female to male ration in the correlation between intelligence and ugliness], whether the subject be male or female. There's another movie cliche which annoys the Hell out of me. No wonder we have so many stupid people attempting to emulate even stupider fictional people. :doh:

[LaNixie]

-The overuse of "adorable (but seriously dangerous) kids" in horror movies... I mean yeah, it is proven that a kid monster is more disturbing than an adult monster, but come on!

-When the bad guys shoot hundreds of bullets towards the good guys without hitting and then the hero kills a villain with single, perfectly aimed a bullet... -.-

-When people stop to talk when they should be running. "OMG are you ok?!" "OMG yes I am, are you?!" "OMG I think so" "OMG we should be running" "OMG let's do that" (... I hope I made my point)

[Word Smith Sr]

College students seem to be really stupid in every horror movie. I'm amazed by that.

Haha !!!! :D

[Galactus123]

Hero walks away in slow motion when something explodes behind him.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2010/8/5/1281000751840/Wolverine-006.jpg

[SamChip1988]

In most Zombie or Virus movies one of the good guys practically always end up getting infected, tries to hide it and then when it's revealed that they're infected they heroically go on a suicidal rampage kamikaze mission to help the remaining unaffected... I swear it seems to happen in nearly everyone I've seen lol

[Word Smith Sr]

The hot ladies in the movie never pop out of the tv/computer screen to sit and watch the movie with me. :(

[PoP]

Kids using crap words like "s#^%" and "f@^%", happy things like clowns, dolls and even kids become blood thirsty killers. I mean what kind of filmmakers make such god awful movies like this?

[Severus Snape]

Kids using crap words like "s#^%" and "f@^%", happy things like clowns, dolls and even kids become blood thirsty killers. I mean what kind of filmmakers make such god awful movies like this?

You mean like these?

This scene is not from a film, but from a TV show, but anyway:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fez8Q9pp2mU/TBT0WM5Jl1I/AAAAAAAAAbQ/cTf-aFgB4ZM/s400/Kid+Lucy.png

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/3045626532_2f08d02d95.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RtsQbuqzQB8/TcKSE1ocvhI/AAAAAAAAAgI/b3WRHNtls8c/s320/chucky_by_toothless422-d31h4dw.jpg

I dunno, I like them. :D

[Word Smith Sr]

Kids using crap words like "s#^%" and "f@^%", happy things like clowns, dolls and even kids become blood thirsty killers. I mean what kind of filmmakers make such god awful movies like this?

Well Pop, as far as clowns are concerned lol, i got three words for ya buddy: John Wayne Gacy. According to wikipedia:


John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer also known as the Killer Clown who committed the rape and murder of 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Twenty-six of Gacy's victims were buried in the crawlspace of his home, three others elsewhere on his property and four victims were discarded in a nearby river.
Gacy became known as the "Killer Clown" due to his charitable services at fundraising events, parades and children's parties where he would dress as "Pogo the Clown," a character he devised himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy

Sorry if i shocked anybody. Some people are just sick and, as a consequence, inspire the movie industry i guess.

[Severus Snape]

^Ah! Good old Pogo the Clown. A film was made regarding his crimes:

<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CW5Ed113rUU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I don't think anyone would find it new/shocking/surprising. The guy and his crimes are pretty well known, especially in the U.S.

[Word Smith Sr]

^^^ Damn, i quoted your post by mistake lol, i was actually quoting Pop's post, lemme modify this. Thx for the youtube video Mikie, i heard about this movie a long time ago but have not watched it. It is a little too sick for me. The trailer alone is sick. The guy who plays John looks like him so much. Did they let him out to shoot the movie ?

You are so right when you say "especially in the USA". The list of serial killers over the years there goes on and on. Do not get me wrong, i am not saying every single American citizen is a serial killer.

[Severus Snape]

I like to read and watch documentaries about serial killers. Dahmer is one I highly recommend. My prof. and I discussed John Wayne Gacy, lol, after he jokingly compared one of our classmates to him because he liked to paint. :lol: Just for the record, said guy didn't take offence to that, as he knew it was in jest. (Gacy liked to paint: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=475 )

We ended up discussing this film, which that student did see, because he's a huge movie guy. He said it was pretty good, so I want to see it. Just sayin, without meaning to derail the thread any further, lol. Sorry! ^^;

[morsmordre]

College students seem to be really stupid in every horror movie. I'm amazed by that.

THIS!! So annoying. And it seems like it's always a girl who does something ridiculously stupid.. like walking into a deserted house to find her friend or something.


-The overuse of "adorable (but seriously dangerous) kids" in horror movies... I mean yeah, it is proven that a kid monster is more disturbing than an adult monster, but come on!

The use of kids and animals in horrors really gets on my nerves now. I mean when it was first done (or well, when I first saw horrors with children in them) it freaked me out, but now it's just old. I jsut watched "Insidious" and the whole "it's your son that's haunted" line was just so not scary at all. Paranormal Activity 2 comes to mind also with the use of babies and animals to make it scarier.


I like to read and watch documentaries about serial killers. Dahmer is one I highly recommend. My prof. and I discussed John Wayne Gacy, lol, after he jokingly compared one of our classmates to him because he liked to paint. :lol: Just for the record, said guy didn't take offence to that, as he knew it was in jest. (Gacy liked to paint: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=475 )

My housemates and I like reading about serial killers too (sounds weird but it's really interesting) and we spent an entire night procrastinating and wikipedia-ing serial killers. Gacy was one of the first ones we came across.. sick guy. :no:

[SamChip1988]

My housemates and I like reading about serial killers too (sounds weird but it's really interesting)

Can't agree more. I'm fascinated with 'em myself. Aileen Wuornos is who interests me the most; not just because she was a woman but because although I don't condone her murdering people I can feel sympathy for her because of the situations she got in to and the way her life was - to me it seems like a confluence of circumstances conspired to make her become a killer as if she had little choice but to be anything else.

Another cliche I find funny/weird is that in any high tension situation (a maniac murderer is on the loose or a bomb is going to go off if not deactivated ect.) there's always time for two of the characters to go to bed together!! I can't think of any worse of a turn off than the thought of been killed or blown up lol

[Word Smith Sr]

I love this conversation about serial killers and thought about starting a thread about them but i dunno if the staff would be ok with that. If someone thinks it would be ok please start a thread.

[PoP]

You mean like these?

This scene is not from a film, but from a TV show, but anyway:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fez8Q9pp2mU/TBT0WM5Jl1I/AAAAAAAAAbQ/cTf-aFgB4ZM/s400/Kid+Lucy.png

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/3045626532_2f08d02d95.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RtsQbuqzQB8/TcKSE1ocvhI/AAAAAAAAAgI/b3WRHNtls8c/s320/chucky_by_toothless422-d31h4dw.jpg

I dunno, I like them. :D

The first pic, I recognized this, that's "Elfen Lied", I never saw that anime, I'm not sure that counts because it's animation since I love animations. Yeah something like that, I just don't like the idea of clowns and dolls being killers.


Well Pop, as far as clowns are concerned lol, i got three words for ya buddy: John Wayne Gacy. According to wikipedia:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy

Sorry if i shocked anybody. Some people are just sick and, as a consequence, inspire the movie industry i guess.

Yeah I may have heard about that. That guy is sick I tell ya. He's SICK!!!

[Severus Snape]

The first pic, I recognized this, that's "Elfen Lied", I never saw that anime, I'm not sure that counts because it's animation since I love animations. Yeah something like that, I just don't like the idea of clowns and dolls being killers.


Yes, that is correct. It is "Elfen Lied." I highly recommend the series, by the way. If you can tolerate animated violence, the story is worth viewing.

As for a thread dedicated to serial killer research, I'd be totally game for that. I'll PM one of the admins and see if it's ok with them first, though. It may need some sort of warning, or something, so kiddies don't get in. IMO they see worse things at school, but we ought to follow proper netiquette and ask the staff first.

[PoP]

You mean like these?

This scene is not from a film, but from a TV show, but anyway:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fez8Q9pp2mU/TBT0WM5Jl1I/AAAAAAAAAbQ/cTf-aFgB4ZM/s400/Kid+Lucy.png

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/3045626532_2f08d02d95.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RtsQbuqzQB8/TcKSE1ocvhI/AAAAAAAAAgI/b3WRHNtls8c/s320/chucky_by_toothless422-d31h4dw.jpg

I dunno, I like them. :D


Yes, that is correct. It is "Elfen Lied." I highly recommend the series, by the way. If you can tolerate animated violence, the story is worth viewing.

As for a thread dedicated to serial killer research, I'd be totally game for that. I'll PM one of the admins and see if it's ok with them first, though. It may need some sort of warning, or something, so kiddies don't get in. IMO they see worse things at school, but we ought to follow proper netiquette and ask the staff first.

Are you saying I can check out "Elfen Lied"? Animated violence doesn't bother me much, here's a funny, well not really funny, one time I was in my room, I heard a bump, it was my little brother, he collapsed seeing a either an scene or AMV of "Elfen Lied", he said he fainted. When I first saw Dragonball Z, I thought it was to violent at first, but I loved it, animated violence, even from anime has never bothered me.

I think it's a good idea for the warning, because we don't want kids to get a fear of all this.

[Severus Snape]

Yes, if you can somehow get a hold of it. Unfortunately for you, the YouTube user who uploaded it on April of this year's channel was taken down, so it is no longer on YouTube, as far as I know. However, if you have friends or contacts who own the series, I uphold my initial recommendation.

Anyway, thread has been derailed enough. My apologies to all.

[Darth Sidious]

the gay guy always being the smartest, wittiest,funnniest, etc

[MJBT]

Single person admires wants to fall in love finds someone they go out fall for each other,
in the middle of being together something goes wrong and they split up for the rest of
the film the now single agin person begins to regret the break and wants to get back
togther mainly because the fear of being alone, the person they were once together has
moved on and at the last moment the single personburst in on the the person they've fallen
for and they get back together before the credits roll.


PASS THE BUCKET

[PoP]

Yes, if you can somehow get a hold of it. Unfortunately for you, the YouTube user who uploaded it on April of this year's channel was taken down, so it is no longer on YouTube, as far as I know. However, if you have friends or contacts who own the series, I uphold my initial recommendation.

Anyway, thread has been derailed enough. My apologies to all.

No need, my brother did see it though. I hate when YouTube does that taking down what I wanna see or planning to see. I don't I know anybody who has it, besides I don't have a YouTube account.

[CaptainEoLove85]

Single person admires wants to fall in love finds someone they go out fall for each other,
in the middle of being together something goes wrong and they split up for the rest of
the film the now single agin person begins to regret the break and wants to get back
togther mainly because the fear of being alone, the person they were once together has
moved on and at the last moment the single personburst in on the the person they've fallen
for and they get back together before the credits roll.


PASS THE BUCKET

This. It's like the plot to every modern romantic (comedy) movie. That's why I have no interest in the genre anymore. It's the same story every time.

[Severus Snape]

the gay guy always being the smartest, wittiest,funnniest, etc

Yeah, and the straight girl always being the prettiest/most liked female protagonist. There's a movie cliche which totally p---es me off. I totally forgot about that one. Thanks for reminding me!

[MJBT]

This. It's like the plot to every modern romantic (comedy) movie. That's why I have no interest in the genre anymore. It's the same story every time.

The only film in the genre I can watch is 500 Days Of Summer

[Severus Snape]

Can we name entire genres as film cliches which piss us off? If so, I nominate "romantic comedies," which are neither romantic nor amusing.

[SamChip1988]

I'll PM one of the admins and see if it's ok with them first, though. It may need some sort of warning, or something, so kiddies don't get in. IMO they see worse things at school, but we ought to follow proper netiquette and ask the staff first.

Sorry to de-rail the thread again but any word back on if such a thread would be ok? :)

[MJnVA]

Squealing tires on a dirt road. What??

[Word Smith Sr]

IMO they see worse things at school.

Priceless/classic statement haha !!!! :)

[SamChip1988]

Objects that are in no way flammable bursting in to flames when shot at :/

[MJnVA]

Endless amounts of bullets......No reloads.

[Severus Snape]

Endless amounts of bullets......No reloads.

lol, your comment reminded me of this: :P

[warning: brief nudity, about maybe two seconds of it, at the beginning, followed by endless bullets! >D]

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[Magic_MJ_Music]

Everytime Mel Gibson gets killed in the end of Braveheart.. Can't he just live for once :( :D

[Hachi]

Girl meets guy, girl hates guy, something tragic happens in girls life guy there to help girl realizes that maybe he isn't so bad after all, girl and guy fall in love, ICK!

[Lucilla]

^ or the guy is a ladies man and the good girl changes him at the end :lol:

[Rudolf]

When something is gonna explode then heroes are running away in slowmotion at last seconds and falling down. And camera is usually in front of them, so you can see behind them how the thing explodes and how they are falling down in slowmotion.
It doesn't bug me much, but it's usually in every action movie.

[CaptainEoLove85]

Thought of another...one character has some extraordinary experience, and is trying to tell their friend about it, whom of course doesn't believe them and thinks they're lying or joking.

[Ben]

-In any group of people including a black guy, you know he wont make it until the end.
- The girl and the guy hate each other, but will end up magically in love at the end
- There's a huge explosion, but miraculously, the hero appears, with only a few cuts and bruises, just enough to look sexy
- useless females who scream every 10 seconds, and watch the hero fight the villain with a horrified look, which doesnt help much; move your a** sister!!

[WinterArtwork]

the black guy always dying in the movies

the stereotypical gay best friend in movies (particularly Romantic comedies)

shoehorned romance (I'm looking at you Thor)

the two best looking people ALWAYS surviving lol

overweight people dying in goofy/clumsy ways

[WinterArtwork]

- The girl and the guy hate each other, but will end up magically in love at the end

it's so lame because you can see it coming from a mile away

[analogue]

If Jaws was made today we'd have Chief Brody as a handsome 25-30 year old with abs and would be always walking around with his shirt off. Matt Hooper would be a women and Chief Brody's love interest and Quint would be a black guy.

[dangerous2000watts]

The main male character never dies

[helena22]

Some (should I say, many?) female characters always have some deep-rooted issues when they choose to be single and don't wanna get married.
They don't go gaga over their imaginary wedding dress and honeymoon, as they "should" and that is depicted as a problem :doh:
{Well, in real life, I haven't seen women getting overly excited about wedding stuff or the idea of marriage itself.}

The kind of women fall into one or more than one category below:

- They are workaholics and dangerously driven.
- They have unresolved "daddy issues".
- Their EQ is low.
- They're selfish, plain and simple.
- They're immature.
- (Yall fill in the blank.)

They eventually realize they weren't living right or something was missing in their life and they decide to or get married in the end. Or at least, they start thinking positively of marriage.
In the process that leads up to the finale, they're constantly told, directly and/or indirectly, "Straighten up and fly right!". It can be from a person or a certain situation.

I'm like, why they have to tell me "Things will eventually turn out right", IN THIS WAY?
As much as liberal and free-spirited Hollywood might seem, deep down, it's very conventional and proper when it comes to the message its movies try to deliver.

[Smile]

-In any group of people including a black guy, you know he wont make it until the end.
- The girl and the guy hate each other, but will end up magically in love at the end
- There's a huge explosion, but miraculously, the hero appears, with only a few cuts and bruises, just enough to look sexy
- useless females who scream every 10 seconds, and watch the hero fight the villain with a horrified look, which doesnt help much; move your a** sister!!


+ 1 for me

[helena22]

Haha some of you are cracking me up! :rofl: I LOVE this thread - thanks to T/S :D


Let me give you broader examples this time.

* stereotypical portrayal of particular races or ethnicities
--- I'm sure specific examples of this can easily fill up several pages of this thread

* too much beautifying of characters, studio set, costumes&items, etc.
--- in other words, pursuing visual pleasure at the cost of realism

[Rudolf]

"Who am I kidding" line.