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Movie Cliches - Which Ones Do You Really Dislike?

Tokyo Slim

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Originally Posted by bbaquiran
How about when they use huge 1" fonts for everything?

What do you mean?
 

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Crawling through airducts or crawling into an air vent. I know I'm suppose to suspend belief when I watch a movie but at least be somewhat realistic.
 

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Play video games by mashing the **** out of the controller.
"Hackers" in movies that just randomly tap the keyboard without ever using the mouse.

That's the only ones worth mentioning.
 

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Black guy always dying first in horror films.
 

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villians explaining their diabolical scheme while the hero/heroine is immobilized. i would love for the antaganist to kill the protaganist outright and be done with it. that would be a plot twist

theres a time bomb it has to be disarmed, omg which wire do i pull. i hate that ****.
 

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Being in a convertible car with the top down and accidentally going through a car wash

Auto chase ends at a pier, resulting in at least 3 cars going into the water

Men are carrying a large piece of glass/window across the street the same time an auto chase is going on

Chase torments cement worker who is finishing a drying sidewalk.

Man opens door, causing every structure behind the door to disintegrate. Door remains intact.

Man jumps off of bridge. The same moment a flatbed truck full of hay passes underneath, breaking his fall.

Dispassionate female computer voice announces minutes until destruction.

Totally hot chick is a Nuclear scientist
 

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Originally Posted by willpower
Men are carrying a large piece of glass/window across the street the same time an auto chase is going on

I think this is more in the area of quotation rather than trope.
 

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Originally Posted by tagutcow
I think this is more in the area of quotation rather than trope.
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man meets girl. hates girl. finds out she has a heart. Wins her heart. Miscommunication happens. Loses girl. Fights to win her back. Girls friends notice. All is well.

I find all scenes at clubs and bars to be dumb. Oh yea, lets ranodmly dance!
 

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My point is that the sheet of glass gag, instead of being merely a trope or cliche, is a deliberate reference that assumes the viewer's familiarity with the gag. It's certainly not because construction workers carrying a pane of glass across the street is an everyday occurance-- I don't think I've seen this happen once in real life.

I thought it began with a Chaplin or Keaton film, but tvtropes.com seems to suggest Keystone Kops as the origin.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SheetOfGlass

The movie cliche I dislike most is when hot teenagers are murdered after **********.

I saw this horror from the '80s called "Chopping Mall", which capitalized on the dual '80s fascinations with shopping malls and robots-- the ones in this movie bearing more than a passing resemblance to Number 5. A bunch of teenagers got locked in a mall, and of course the good-looking, sex-having ones are the first to be offed by the security robots. By the end of the movie, the group is winnowed down to a kid who looks like Conne, and a similarly geeky girl. Is this supposed to be a happy ending!?! All the Connes of the world survive!?! What ever happened to survival of the fittest?
 

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Originally Posted by tagutcow
My point is that the sheet of glass gag, instead of being merely a trope or cliche, is a deliberate reference that assumes the viewer's familiarity with the gag. It's certainly not because construction workers carrying a pane of glass across the street is an everyday occurance-- I don't think I've seen this happen once in real life.

I thought it began with a Chaplin or Keaton film, but tvtropes.com seems to suggest Keystone Kops as the origin.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SheetOfGlass


Gotcha. As would be - Chase torments cement worker who is finishing a drying sidewalk.
 

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When otherwise 'normal' folks (i.e., it hasn't been established that they are significantly sleep-deprived or whatever) just lie in bed motionless for two or three rings before picking up a tlelphone that rings at some ungodly hour of the night. (Sorry, but everyone I know who's had this experience tends to report bolting upright and grabbing madly for the phone on any occasion when this has happened to them.)
 

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People who die immediately upon being shot/stabbed.

Club/bar scenes where the crowd noise and music is just loud enough to be heard but quiet enough to talk over in a normal speaking voice.
 

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- Person is dying and goes on a litany right before revealing the name of the killer, bounty hunter, etc. - Person immediately sits up after a nightmare.
 

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