Dumb Movie Cliches (1 Viewer)

[WillG]

Everybody drinks the same brand of beverage.

All computers are Macs or a Unix system. P.C.s do not exist.

 

[Richard Kim]

And how about the timer on the bomb that conveniently tells the person trying to disarm it how much time is left before it blows.

Also, in martial arts fights, when a large group of thugs takes on the hero, they only attack one at a time, instead of all at once.

 

[JohnVB]

Sorta mentioned before, but here it is in short form:

Boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back again.

 

[Garrett Lundy]

I heard this was actually because Microsoft doesn't like having their product used on-screen (Until you pay them) while Apple really doesn't care if you do.


Also, if your going to kill an alien spaceship with your laptop..Do you really want the "Blaster" virus keeping you from saving the world.?

 

[Rex Bachmann]

WillG wrote (post #19):



And if you did you'd probably blow yourself up in the "building" process. The color serves a contrastive function.

 

[WillG]

Well then at least mix them up so that the Red Wire is where the Blue should be and vice versa. That way the good guys will never know for sure which is the right one to cut.

 

[WillG]

If the President/Senator/General is Right Leaning he will later be revealed as either:

A. The Villan
B. A Coward
C. A Complete Buffoon
D. All of the Above

 

[Rob P S]

Whenever someone rings a doorbell, the person on the other side opens the door immediately.

 

[Alphonse Brown]

The camera rotating clockwise around a character, as the character turns around counter-clockwise.

I thought it was a pretty cool technique when I first noticed Ridley Scott's use of it in "Gladiator". Since then, I've seen it in other films too and most recently in "Van Helsing".

 

[Matt Stone]

That reminds me of a Family Guy episode...

Brian: "Cut the blue wire!"
Meg: "What do you mean cut the blue wire?! They're all blue wires!"

 

[Ray H]

Bringing the previous comments about romantic comedies all together, a guy loses a girl due to some ignorant misunderstanding. She accepts a job offer or a goes off to college in a different state or foriegn country and before she gets on that train/plane, the guy realizes what a jackass he was or finally realizes this is the last chance he has to declare his love for her. He has to drive like crazy through all the traffic in order to catch the love of his life who will otherwise get on the train/plane and choo-choo/fly out of his life forever.

 

[KeithAP]

Any movie where kids are the primary characters, all the adults are idiots.

 

[WillG]

Helicopters that are completely silent until they appear on camera.

 

[Yousaf]

That's because Apple needs the advertising

 

[StephenA]

Firing guns and not having any recoil.

The bad guy and good guy have some kind of past together.

There's always a person that works for a bad guy that is within the group of good guys.

The old man or crazy man(or crazy old man) who warns everyone of impending doom and no one believes him. Bad things start happening and they find him him dead or he dies in front of them and they finally believe him.

The aliens are always the evil bad guys who want to invade the Earth and take over.

Foreigners are either really stupid or really smart.

 

[WillG]

Having super strength or powers is always a curse

 

[RobertR]

People who engage in a night of wild uninhibited passionate sex all night, then demurely wrap a sheet around themselves when they get up in the morning.

 

[Chad R]

It's also that the film industry uses Mac computers for most of their work.

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

Not a bad guy situation, but this comment did remind me of The Abyss.

 

[Stacey_B]

And this is all exactly why independent films make such good movies! (aka: Lost in Translation, Adaptation (Not indie? but still really good! For once in an ironic sort of way) )
Stacey