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Savio
08-08-2010, 03:59 PM
I am so tired of the hiding on the cieling spot...how bout you?

http://poptimal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/vampirediaries56859.jpg

Really you can't see him?

Inadequacy
08-08-2010, 04:25 PM
The rousing speech that fixes everything

thedamndest
08-08-2010, 04:27 PM
I check my ceilings whenever I enter a room and you would be shocked at how many times I encounter a bandit.

dronepool
08-08-2010, 04:36 PM
The romantic happy ending kiss to end the movie is so corny.

thedamndest
08-08-2010, 04:39 PM
This isn't a cliche really but I hate when I hear the exact same joke in a movie that has been used in something else (most likely Simpsons). I can't think of examples right now but I know it has happened.

Inadequacy
08-08-2010, 07:51 PM
"He's right behind me isn't he?"

Skippord
08-08-2010, 07:52 PM
Dennis Quaid

Lock Jaw
08-08-2010, 07:56 PM
I love cliches. All of them.

Nowhere Man
08-08-2010, 08:41 PM
Any time a villain is beating up the hero, and he's about to finish him off, and he says "Time to die!" Invariably, something always happens and the villain gets killed immediately after.

McLegend
08-08-2010, 08:44 PM
I love cliches tbh, but If I pick to one it would be

"We got company."

El Fangel
08-08-2010, 08:49 PM
The girl who always goes to the awkward nerd.

Inadequacy
08-08-2010, 10:40 PM
I love cliches tbh, but If I pick to one it would be

"We got company."

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rated rjo
08-09-2010, 12:43 AM
"Here we go again."

The gunfights where no one gets shot.

There's more but I'm blanking at the moment.

Snowden
08-09-2010, 12:46 AM
The action hero winning in the end. Honestly, I want to watch an action movie where the bad guy wins, just once. Would be one helluva kick in the nuts.

The Fugitive
08-09-2010, 02:42 AM
The good guy never looks at his masterpiece of an explosion when he blows up something, he always leaves the scene, facing the camera.

Sixx
08-09-2010, 09:06 AM
Horror movies. Usually the victim that is running from the monster/murderer gets a few shots with a baseball bat/lamp/candlestick or whatever and instead of finishing him, or at least making sure he doesn't get up for quite some time, she/he locks her/himself in a bathroom or some other ridiculous place, there is no other way out of.

Savio
08-09-2010, 09:26 AM
I also hate characters who are "good guys" who's only purpose is to make things more difficult on the other good guys by being either inept or annoying or something like that.

Nowhere Man
08-09-2010, 12:57 PM
I also hate characters who are "good guys" who's only purpose is to make things more difficult on the other good guys by being either inept or annoying or something like that.

Dear God yes. it's even worse in video games; if I have to play one more game where my character has go "go rogue" or "defy the wishes of the Council" or whatever because the Council are a bunch of high-and-mighty douches whose entire gameplan for every world-ending threat is 'wait and see until it's too late,' I'm going to throw up.

Jeritron
08-09-2010, 01:01 PM
The action hero winning in the end. Honestly, I want to watch an action movie where the bad guy wins, just once. Would be one helluva kick in the nuts.

The Empire Strikes Back

DaveBrawl
08-09-2010, 01:18 PM
Ending's like Inception and the Wrestler. Just pick an ending and go with it.

Supreme Olajuwon
08-09-2010, 01:29 PM
Haven't seen Inception, but the ending to the Wrestler was perfect.

Although you're not the first person I've heard complain about it.

Hanso Amore
08-09-2010, 01:58 PM
DaveBrawl is too simple to come to his own conclusion, he needs to be spoon fed....


Love you

DaveBrawl
08-09-2010, 02:04 PM
I didn't mind it for the Wrestler, in fact it was pretty cool the way it was done. But it didn't sit right with me for Inception or any of the other two or three movies I've seen recently that did it. It just seems to be a growing trend, and one I'm not fond of most of the time.




And Hanso, you can say whatever you want about me, but you are a Bills fan, and that is worse than anything I can say to you. :kiss:

Hanso Amore
08-09-2010, 02:21 PM
The way I feel about Inception is this: IF you are going to keep people guessing for 2+ hours, you should have a clearly defined ending.

DaveBrawl
08-09-2010, 02:23 PM
That's what I thought. However since you also feel that way I am going to change my mind.

Hanso Amore
08-09-2010, 05:39 PM
I control your mind

I MADE YOU READ THIS THREAD

DaveBrawl
08-09-2010, 06:33 PM
GET OUT OF MY MIND!!!

Jeritron
08-09-2010, 06:54 PM
I don't think endings that are left open for interpretation are anything new or cliche. Even though I do agree that sometimes it's done as a copout without really having a real answer.

DaveBrawl
08-09-2010, 07:16 PM
They likely aren't new so much as they're new to me I guess.

It's probably not cliche either, but it's something I hate...


Fine Jerry you have shamed me out of this topic. I'll leave...but only because of you. Not Hanso.

Jeritron
08-09-2010, 08:19 PM
Inception's ending accomplishes the same thing as the ending to Blade Runner. Maybe in 20 years Christopher Nolan will come out and give an answer and everyone will complain they liked it better when they didn't know for sure

DaveBrawl
08-09-2010, 10:24 PM
Well people do love to complain.

Jeritron
08-09-2010, 11:12 PM
I like when I can actually subscribe to the idea that there is a real answer to the open ending, and you can formulate an opinion based on the infromation given.
It's when it's a copout that I can see the complaints

The Mask
08-10-2010, 03:14 AM
yeah open endings boil my piss. if i wanted to make up my own story i'd sit at home and daydream about a post-apocolypse world where i'm living in a penthouse with the only two other survivors: mila kunis and angelina jolie, and it's my job to repopulate the world. so fucking what if i have 6 fingered grandchildren. i'm fucking angelina jolie and mila kunis.

film ends with my spastic lineage licking generations of dust and nuclear fallout off windows.

sets up perfectly for a sequel of inbred nuclear mutants developing superpowers in a post apocolypse world too.

Savio
08-10-2010, 11:37 AM
Also hate when 30 bad guys surround the good guy then proceed to attack him one-on-one

Corporate CockSnogger
08-10-2010, 12:06 PM
The post-battle pun can get annoying at times.

Corporate CockSnogger
08-10-2010, 12:12 PM
Also, not a movie cliche but more of a movie trailer cliche - when the background music cuts out to allow for a one-liner joke.

Jeritron
08-10-2010, 03:13 PM
You could make an entire list of cliches just for movies set in New York City. Every crowd pleaser type movie set in NYC always has the "crazy thing happens and in NY it seems normal" joke.

St. Jimmy
08-10-2010, 03:48 PM
Will Ferrell is funny. THAT CLICHE IS UNTRUE AND OLD.

loopydate
08-10-2010, 04:55 PM
The action hero winning in the end. Honestly, I want to watch an action movie where the bad guy wins, just once. Would be one helluva kick in the nuts.

This.

Also would like - just once - for one of the 3,000 henchmen to actually kill the hero. Can you imagine James Bond in one of his 1% chance of survival gunfights and then he's shot and killed, the camera pans over, and one of the henchmen has an "Oh, shit! I just shot James Bond!" look on his face?

Nowhere Man
08-10-2010, 06:43 PM
Also would like - just once - for one of the 3,000 henchmen to actually kill the hero. Can you imagine James Bond in one of his 1% chance of survival gunfights and then he's shot and killed, the camera pans over, and one of the henchmen has an "Oh, shit! I just shot James Bond!" look on his face?

^ This.

Especially if it's a Matrix-style gun-fu movie, where the bad guys are all wearing body armor and have machine guns, and the hero comes in with just a pair of pistols or a katana. Just once, just once I want to see Mr. Badass just get shot into chunky salsa.

Swiss Ultimate
08-11-2010, 11:41 AM
I hate that black people tend to die more than white people in horror films.

The Jayman
08-11-2010, 12:15 PM
I hate that black people tend to die more than white people in horror films.

that and the killer always gets thwarted by the only chick who doesn't have sex

Jeritron
08-11-2010, 12:17 PM
The cliches, or rules if you will, are what make slasher films slasher films, and what makes them good.

The Jayman
08-11-2010, 12:28 PM
I know but couldn't the whore at least get the credit for once

Sixx
08-11-2010, 01:06 PM
I hate that black people tend to die more than white people in horror films.

I hope that's sarcastic, as this is bullshit.

DAMN iNATOR
08-12-2010, 06:35 PM
I am so tired of the hiding on the cieling spot...how bout you?

http://poptimal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/vampirediaries56859.jpg

Really you can't see him?

If it were Cena, she wouldn't be able to.

DAMN iNATOR
08-12-2010, 06:38 PM
I didn't mind it for the Wrestler, in fact it was pretty cool the way it was done. But it didn't sit right with me for Inception or any of the other two or three movies I've seen recently that did it. It just seems to be a growing trend, and one I'm not fond of most of the time.




And Hanso, you can say whatever you want about me, but you are a Bills fan, and that is worse than anything I can say to you. :kiss:

I forget, did "Ram" just do some sort of flying move off the top rope at the end or did he actually use his "patented" Ram Jam?

DrA
08-12-2010, 06:40 PM
I think he did Ram Jam because everyone in the arena was chanting Ram Jam.

DaveBrawl
08-12-2010, 07:18 PM
Ram Jam

The Jayman
08-13-2010, 02:23 PM
sounds like something out of a porno

owenbrown
08-16-2010, 03:56 AM
Horror movies. Usually the victim that is running from the monster/murderer gets a few shots with a baseball bat/lamp/candlestick or whatever and instead of finishing him, or at least making sure he doesn't get up for quite some time, she/he locks her/himself in a bathroom or some other ridiculous place, there is no other way out of.

or when the victim runs and makes it to their vehicle and all of a sudden it doesn't fucking start

Jeritron
08-16-2010, 04:50 AM
Coroners eating on the job is a hilarious one

The Jayman
08-16-2010, 03:08 PM
or how the police never believe anyone that there is a killer until it is too late