Movie Cliches you hate
 

I am so tired of the hiding on the cieling spot...how bout you?

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Really you can't see him?

The rousing speech that fixes everything

I check my ceilings whenever I enter a room and you would be shocked at how many times I encounter a bandit.

The romantic happy ending kiss to end the movie is so corny.

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.

"He's right behind me isn't he?"

Dennis Quaid

I love cliches. All of them.

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.

I love cliches tbh, but If I pick to one it would be

"We got company."

The girl who always goes to the awkward nerd.

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"Here we go again."

The gunfights where no one gets shot.

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

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 good guy never looks at his masterpiece of an explosion when he blows up something, he always leaves the scene, facing the camera.

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.

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.

The Empire Strikes Back

Ending's like Inception and the Wrestler. Just pick an ending and go with it.

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.

DaveBrawl is too simple to come to his own conclusion, he needs to be spoon fed....


Love you

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:

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.

That's what I thought. However since you also feel that way I am going to change my mind.

I control your mind

I MADE YOU READ THIS THREAD

GET OUT OF MY MIND!!!

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.

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.

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

Well people do love to complain.

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

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.

Also hate when 30 bad guys surround the good guy then proceed to attack him one-on-one

The post-battle pun can get annoying at times.

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.

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.

Will Ferrell is funny. THAT CLICHE IS UNTRUE AND OLD.

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?

^ 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.