If you could forever ban your most hated movie cliche's, which ones would yo!
Question: Here's mine.
1. Woman trips and falls while being chased by the murderer / psycho / monster.
2. Hero furiously taps the fuel gauge of an airplane with his finger, thinking that it must be a problem with the gauge, and that it couldn't POSSIBLY be that the plane really IS out of fuel.
3. Sudden, frightening appearance of a cat or other animal when you think the villain is going to appear, especially when the villain DOES appear a few seconds later.
4. The chatty villain who devises an unnecessarily complicated doom for the hero, instead of just whipping out a gun and shoothing him.
5. People that fly ten feet through the air after being shot.
6. Explosions that are WAY bigger than could possibly be supported by the size of the exploding agent.
7. Empty, abandoned factories that somehow still have steam and smoke emanating from broken pipes.
Answers: Here's mine.
1. Woman trips and falls while being chased by the murderer / psycho / monster.
2. Hero furiously taps the fuel gauge of an airplane with his finger, thinking that it must be a problem with the gauge, and that it couldn't POSSIBLY be that the plane really IS out of fuel.
3. Sudden, frightening appearance of a cat or other animal when you think the villain is going to appear, especially when the villain DOES appear a few seconds later.
4. The chatty villain who devises an unnecessarily complicated doom for the hero, instead of just whipping out a gun and shoothing him.
5. People that fly ten feet through the air after being shot.
6. Explosions that are WAY bigger than could possibly be supported by the size of the exploding agent.
7. Empty, abandoned factories that somehow still have steam and smoke emanating from broken pipes.
ARGH yes I would get rid of all those mentioned so far, and also the way action movie heroes can be shot and not really mind (especially bad if they manfully rip up some of their clothes to tourniquet an injured limb)
And how come the bad guys can never shoot properly, but the good guys hit their target most times?
Oh, and the girl love interest suddenly stops needing rescuing and develops the ability to manage heavy firearms/decode alien transmissions/speak Russian in order to justify her existence beyond eye candy.
And almost anything involving tearjerker deathbed scenes (the gulping for breath, stopped clocks, hollowed eye sockets, declarations of love, bystanding children and/or animals, hand suddenly going limp, eyes refocussing into the infinite). Especially in hospitals - where are these patients' resuscitation teams trying to save their lives?
Love the question but it has enraged me again to think about all this rubbish!
well you pretty much said them all, this doesn't fit but I would like to just get rid of the whole movie "The Village" I hate that movie with a passion, stupid fake monster.
everything from austin powers, people still think its funny, its not.
ooo, you forgot about the one about black people gets killed in like the first ten minutes of a scary movie lol
Other than that, I'd say that you've listed all of the top ones in my book.
Vehicles in high speed chase vehicles inevitably hit large piles of (obviously) empty boxes.
I'm really over the often repeated take in which a person (child or adult) is rescued from somewhere and they haven't eaten in a long time....And then the next scene is them and the people who rescued them sitting around a dinner table, silent, while that person eats like a pig. And they usually use their firngers.
(Found these ones on a site, but are some of my favourites)
1. Women will be worrying about their nails or dresses while people are trying to kill them.
2. Women always fight other movie women by pulling hair, falling to ground together, rolling over twice.
3. Women wear make-up to bed, and wake up with hair and face completely intact.
4. Women (and men less often) either make love with their underclothes on or have put them back on in the immediate aftermath.
5. After making love, they grab a sheet and wrap it around them so the other half doesn't see them naked.
A couple alone in the woods, making out, in the car they hear something so they GET OUT and go look for it.
People know something f*cked up is about to happen, but they still go into the abandon factory or graveyard.
Or when a couple randomly decides to have sex in a creepy place and both end up getting killed.
The worst one is when they split up.
Come on people theres six of you and one guy with a knife! MAN UP!
May I just add...
-The underdog team that really sucks and has no formal training just...miraculously wins in the end
-No matter how goofy or dorky the 'hero' is, he always gets the girl
-You have to kill the bad guy AT LEAST 50 times before he actually, finally, friggin' dies
-Cornfields.
(Who really gets out of the car and walks through a cornfield expecting to come out alive??)
1. The cheesy "be yourself" and "work as a team" lectures (Daddy Day Camp)
2. A kiss at the end between two characters who had no chemistry to begin with (Eight Below)
3. I get so sick of those aggrivating scenes in modern day horror films where you think there's like a killer behind a door or a corner and then a light gets turned on and it turns out to be a jacket or a broom (Boogeyman)
4. When the family stays in the house one more night even though they have been tourmented by ghosts (Poltergeist)
5. A good guy is in distress and just before the bad guy is about to kill the good guy, another good guy shows up out of nowhere and kills the bad guy (Firewall)
6. This isn't a common cliche, but it drove me nuts how stupid Jill from When a Stranger Calls was. She wouldn't stop answering the freakin' phone and when the front door starts to rattle with rage, you DON'T answer it!
7. When all of the good guys start betraying each other, but like an hour later its okay (Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3)
8. Unfunny slapsticks jokes which lack energy and heart (Christmas with the Kranks)
9. When mature adults start acting like 4 year old, immature, bad sports in a stupid kids movie (Deck the Halls)
Hmm...
1. If a person drives up on a motorcycle in full black leather clothing and a black helmet... looking tough... the person will take of the helmet and swing some long flowing hair, thus revealing it's *gasp* a woman!
2. Every chase scene ever filmed has the destruction of a fruit cart in it.
3. If a male and a female character absolutely HATE one another at the beginning of the movie, they will have sex and/or fall passionately in love by the end.
when the hero or heroine gets pissed off and suddenly becomes an action hero- suddenly they can shoot guns and fight better than the bad guy.
its not that easy.
**spoiler**
the hitchhiker remake did that.