Movie Cliches

[Space Prawn]

We all know that when the good guy goes toe-to-toe with the Villain's personal army of whup-ass fighters, they practically queue up to be killed (this is commonly called the Storm Trooper Effect). What other movie cliches of action, fantasy, sci-fi, horror, etc. are there?

[Cjw]

Well ever since the matrix came out,every joe has seemed to rip off the bullet time thingy..

[renatzu]

They are everywhere
war- hypodermic needle with truth syrum
airplane war- wrench one character uses on his friend because he thinks the girl loves his friend and one of them has to take up a dangerous plane
sports- The main character listening to his big moment on the radio while lying injured

[PieKaos]

Good over evil.

Boy meets girl, falls in love with girl, makes massive mistake, girl hates boy, boy makes up for it with one last act of heroism, boy gets girl, happily ever after.

Murphy's Law in ANY movie

[nutnoodle]

Originally posted by PieKaos
Good over evil.

Boy meets girl, falls in love with girl, makes massive mistake, girl hates boy, boy makes up for it with one last act of heroism, boy gets girl, happily ever after.

Murphy's Law in ANY movie

Yeah that's true.. happened in just about every teen movie ever written...

[prodigy69]

never under any circumstance invite your girlfriend/boyfriend over when your baby-sitting your clown suit, sharp knife wielding lil brother/sister.

[Carly]

A happy ending. (Am I missing the ones that don't have one?)

And... when they wait too long and they never end up killing whoever they're trying to kill. Just shoot them and get it over with!

[Dibbie]

There was an old Top Tip in Viz comic a few years back that said something along the lines of:

Space Captains, if you are in danger always do the last thing you would think of first (even if it means endangering your ship) because it will always work without any major problems - J P Pickard, Space

I think that's about right.

[AngryPaul]

If you knock down a serial killer after a long battle, dont look away, cos they will get and vanish, NO matter how dead they should be!

[Space Prawn]

In space, noise is louder because there is no air to get in the way.
The effect of a weapon is inversly proportional to its size.
Divine hyper-evolved super beings only appear to offer advice, not actually help the situation in any way.
The villain's daughter/female servant can be persuaded to change sides with some good hero lovin'.
'Reverse the polarity' is the solution to every problem.
All robots want to a) be more human or b) destroy humanity.

[Boyinabox]

the only robots that go against humanity are armed head to (umm) wheel in weapons. The domestic ones don't bother.

"america won the war"

The whole world looks up to america (independance day: brit soldier: I was waiting for the americans to think of something!)

When it looks like a hero has fallen of a cliff everyone will mourn and then he will climb up from where he managed to grab hold of while falling.

I am your father


Nuff said

[Magpie]

It's quiet here.......
too quiet if you get what I mean


"let's split up we'll cover more ground"


a couple of my favirote horror cliches.


and for every fantasy, you meet a stranger in the pub with a quest/magic weapon/ information you need

[Shazzy]

when a goody is tryin to get away from a baddy, the car/motorcycle/bus/speedboat/plane whatever, never starts the first couple shots, only when the villains are just behind em

[junior]

i hate it when there is a fight scene in a movie - 1 against about 20, and its always 1 on 1 while the others dance around threateningly waiting for their turn

[junior]

when there is a fight scene in a movie, where its like 100 on 1, where its always 1 on 1 while the other 99 dance around threateningly waiting for their turn to fight

[B33TZ]

"OK, we're a group of teens trapped in a big spooky house on a cliffside and theres a thunderstorm outside....Lets all split up"

That only ever works in Scooby Doo!

For everyone else...DOOM!!! Mwahahahahahaha!

[junior]

thats been used already, read before you post

[spongmonkey]

1.> the guy in red in star trek. man u do NOT want to be that guy.
2.> the 'dancing ewok ending'. (I realise im already appearing geeky by mentioning both Star wars and Star Trek in the same post. But they both are related to this). The 'dancing Ewok ending' is something which always ruins a great movie and has become common language in my house. It comes at the end of return of the Jedi after a kick ass space sequence (despite limited technology) all of the 'heros' and armies meet up on a crappy little moon with some furry midgets and have a happy dancing party. Its sickening, ridiculously cheesey and unecessary. It's now been adopted by many film makers, so watch out for the old dancing ewok ending people.

[djnrrd]

Whenever your movie take place in Paris, from any window you will be able to see the Eiffel Tower.

Whenever you turn on the television there will always be a news report that is pertinent to you.

[Greg]

What's in most movies these days...

.Guns
.Titties
.Explosions
.Love type shit

What did I miss.

[Generic Student]

Often the hero character will be an expert in their field. However, expert or not expert, there will always be an everest. There is always something that neither they nor anyone else can tame/defeat/etc.... and the chances are that towards the end of the movie they will, but following massive injury and probably unconsiousness.

[Shazzy]

if the main character is a cop, they will ALWAYS get fired/suspended/put on another case/transferred before they solve the case by going behind the chief's back.

[Space Prawn]

These only really apply to Manga or Anime.

- All heros bleed light.
- Animal/human crossbreeds are usually only distinguishable from normal people due to ears and a tail.
- The above are ALWAYS female.
- Bikinis are the most effective item of clothing for repelling the effects of snow/wind/fire/bullets/more fire.
- When a character gets a nosebleed, it means they're really turned on.
- Tactical geniuses never are.
- Whole armies of intergalactic space demons, who live for war and kill for fun, can be persuaded from obliterating Earth by an example of love between two characters or a passionate poem.
- Whole armies of intergalactic space demons are usually related to ants and or bees in some perculiar twist of evolution.

For Star Trek:

- hyper-evolved superior races all wear suspiciously Roman clothes, walk among suspiciously Roman architecture, and despite being hyper-evolved always seem to enjoy in a fight to the death, often involving Kirk/Spock/Bones (never, ever Scottie).
- Alien races only differ from humans by facial appendages.
- Any problem will only arise once, be solved in a spectacularly tense way using any combination of the Tractor Beam, the Internal Thrusters, the Plasma Injectors, the Dilithium Crystals, the Heisenberg Compensator or the Warp Drive and will never happen again.
- Captain Kirk always preaches JFK-era America-friendly pap about rights and freedom ten minutes before the end of the ephisode. The race which practices 1984 BigBrother-style politics will spend the next ten minutes promising to change thier society.

[spongmonkey]

People need 2 keep this thread alive. I love this movie cliche shit cos it only adds to my excessive cynisism. only problem is i cant spell it.

[l33t k1w1]

What you need for a Teen Slasher:

* Jock
* Nerd
* Token Black Guy who ALWAYS dies first
* Slut
* Shy heroine who is always the last one standing

More Star Trek cliches:

* Every Alien race speaks English (Mike Okuda joked its possible by Universal Translators being installed in every TV).
* Kirk/Riker getting the alien girl.
* The Prime Directive "forbids all spaceships and members of Starfleet to interfere with the normal development of any culture or society". Yet it is always broken, usually because of the third point.
* The Picard Manevuer.

[Rogue]

* one good guy defeating a throng of over 30 bad guys with no help.

everytime i see a scene like that it annoys me.

[BigEgg]

Somebody said in an earlier post that there is always a happy ending, would you class the ending of 'Leon' as happy?

Now for cliche related stuff,

If its a Mel Gibson directed movie then it is going to annoy the hot piss out of someone (English, more English or Jews)

[Space Prawn]

Overused character and setting devices:

- Alien races that find our women attractive, while we find theirs to be repulsive.
- Alien races who differ from us only in skin color and/or facial features.
- Extra breasts on the alien women.
- Aliens that are incomprehensible to humans but understand humans perfectly.
- Alien species depicted as having no ethnic, religious, cultural, philosophical or political variance, especially:
- Wise mystics
- Stoic warriors
- Pastoral innocents
- Cowardly sneaks
- Amazon babes
- Alien species with personality traits or cultural mores that are treated as invariable laws of nature.
- Alien races whose names all have lots of hard consonants.
- Lots of apostrophes are packed into alien words and phrases for no apparent reason.
- Humans of future have no ethnic, religious, cultural, philosophical or political variance.
- Cities of future are depicted as though sanitation workers have been on strike from now until then.
- The entire story setting is dominated by huge impersonal business conglomerates.
- Planets with the same exact climate planet-wide (planets without atmosphere excepted).
- Super-intelligent AI's that speak, behave, and act in a manner indistinguishable from the human characters.
- The incredibly competent man-of-action with more skills/degrees than you can shake a blaster at.
- The incredibly competent woman-of-action with large breasts, no sexual inhibitions, and more skills/degrees than you can shake a blaster at.
- Shadowy malevolent Pentagon officials.
- Each and every character has a tainted history.
- A society consists of:
- A handful of ultra-powerful ultra-rich;
- Criminal lords who control everything not controlled by the ultra-rich;
- Police whose only principle of operation is maintenance of the status quo;
- Hordes of poor people starving in the streets;
- Absolutely no middle class whatsoever.
- Nonetheless, the society manages to remain at a high technological level.
- Societies where all technology has been destroyed except automobiles and their equivalents, which are still running yet there are no mechanics, workshops, or gas stations.
- Beings of pure energy.
- A society in which everyone is required to die on his or her Nth birthday.
- Aliens that speak human languages without error, having taken no pains to learn how.
- An alien tongue is translated into perfect English, except for gratuitious use of alien units of time and distance.
- Disembodied brains living in tanks.
Sentient artificial intelligences that wish to eliminate the human race.
- Sentient artificial intelligences that select a human figure to holographically represent themselves.
- Computers with voice synthesizers either use a sensuous female contralto, a threatening male baritone, or a nasally tinny neutral voice.
- Bad guys who miss everything they shoot at.
- Beginning warriors who hit everything they shoot at.
- Characters who are always ready for intimate relations.
- All genetically superior humans have an innate drive to rule, conquer, or kill everyone else.
- Alien vampires that feed on brainwaves/life-force/exotic biochemicals/psychic energies that can only be obtained from sentient life forms.
- Post-cataclysmic societies that treat items of the lost technology as holy relics.
- Alien monsters that find humans edible, tasty, and non-toxic.
- The evil duplicate of the hero, sidekick, universe, etc.
- The grammatical differences between the languages used by humans and aliens are cited as conclusive proof of radically different ways of thinking.

You can tell, I was bored :)

[Mexican Pie]

Take note that... uuhh...

America always wins in sporting events! Might Ducks (I dunno which one... stuff them all!). America wins against Greenland... Greenland doesn't even ahve as much money as America! Little shits cheat their way into winning, while the people who actually desedrved to win were the Greenies! BASTARD (Sporting) AMERICANS AND THEIR NEW AGE STEROIDS!!!

[eXtremer]

If someone says: ''If my calculations are correct,...'', they are 100% correct. Every time.