Most annoying movie cliches

[Bodhisattva]

I mentioned one in Cloverfield -- horror movies with stupid main characters.

What others insult your intelligence? Some of my pet peeves ....

When military jets are involved they have to tailgate each other when dogfighting with missles. Who knew that missles had such a limited range?:rolleye2:

Bad guys who have to give a speech before trying to kill the good guy.

There's always time in a chase scene for the guy and chick to make out and/or profess their love for each other.

 

[NYBamaFan]

The only things that .... me off in movies are

* evil prevailing (I don't need to go to the movies to see that crap)
* victimization of children (some things should be out of bounds)

 

[XXL TideFan]

Almost every war movie has chapped my butt because of the inaccuracies. Saving Private Ryan and Windtalkers were a couple of notable exceptions.

TV shows also................I was just watching an episode of Bonanza and a store clerk was using a clipboard. A press board, stamped metal clip clipboard.

 

[derek4tide]

Southerners as raging inbreeding racists.

 

[XXL TideFan]

:iagree:

Southerners as raging inbreeding racists.

Whew............I had to read that one a couple of times. I kept seeing "Southerners are.." I was headed to Tampa to convince you otherwise.

 

[derek4tide]

:iagree:



Whew............I had to read that one a couple of times. I kept seeing "Southerners are.." I was headed to Tampa to convince you otherwise.

Now that is funny. I'm a member of the SCV.

 

[cbi1972]

Evil henchmen are the worst marksmen in the world, and their weaponry somehow holds an infinite amount of ammunition, none of which can penetrate sheetrock, car doors, or living room furniture.

 

[bamanut_aj]

Evil henchmen are the worst marksmen in the world, and their weaponry somehow holds an infinite amount of ammunition, none of which can penetrate sheetrock, car doors, or living room furniture.

LOL!

 

[Bodhisattva]

Evil henchmen are the worst marksmen in the world, and their weaponry somehow holds an infinite amount of ammunition, none of which can penetrate sheetrock, car doors, or living room furniture.

LOL! So, are you suggesting that I not take cover behind my upturned coffee table?

 

[BAMAFAN IN NY]

Evil henchmen are the worst marksmen in the world, and their weaponry somehow holds an infinite amount of ammunition, none of which can penetrate sheetrock, car doors, or living room furniture.

But those same bullets will cause the gas tank of every single car to EXPLODE if it even gets close to it

 

[Bodhisattva]

Along those same lines ....

Every fender bender involves a car going airborne ..... and exploding.

 

[DiamondDust]

When I took a screenwriting class at Alabama, all the other students and I would talk about a script we wanted to do: An action movie that is nothing but cliche after cliche. We had quite a few pages of material that I ended up turning into a spoof project called "Action Movie!" and then later "Empire City". As I turned it into comedy, I turned the cliches on their heads. For instance, the typical "high speed vehicle chase in a big city" turned into a "high speed tricycle chase in a big city".

 

[Bodhisattva]

Anytime a good guy gets shot, it's in the shoulder. But, that doesn't prevent him from still using his arm.:conf2:

 

[Bodhisattva]

When I took a screenwriting class at Alabama, all the other students and I would talk about a script we wanted to do: An action movie that is nothing but cliche after cliche. We had quite a few pages of material that I ended up turning into a spoof project called "Action Movie!" and then later "Empire City". As I turned it into comedy, I turned the cliches on their heads. For instance, the typical "high speed vehicle chase in a big city" turned into a "high speed tricycle chase in a big city".

Cool. Now that sounds like a fun assignment.

 

[XXL TideFan]

Along those same lines ....

Every fender bender involves a car going airborne ..... and exploding.

............and tires squealing on DIRT roads.

 

[specialkpntbl]

horror movies with stupid main characters.

along the same lines, but whey do they ALWAYS run upstairs from the bad guy??

 

[ATIDEGUY]

along the same lines, but whey do they ALWAYS run upstairs from the bad guy??

and they also ways look back when there running and it makes them fall down or they want an up close look to see if the bad guy is dead.

 

[Ldlane]

Southerners as raging inbreeding racists.

to add.....

Yet they always seem to bring "civilization" and "smarts" to big time city slickers!

 

[BamaCod]

............and tires squealing on DIRT roads.

YES!

 

[TexasBama]

Fire and sound in outer space (Armageddon was still entertaining, though).

The Halloween's and Friday the 13th's and Nightmare on Elm Street's, where, upon rocking Freddy or Jason or Michael Myers back on his heels, run screaming, continuing this for 30 minutes until the end of the movie, rather than beating him like a rented mule and reducing these 20 or so horrid films to about 30 minutes total of screen time.