Movie Cliches that need to die, part 2.

They erased the last thread, for whatever reason, just when I thought of another one.

- After a couple's "roll in the hay", the morning after scene where the girl, eyes closed, reaches for her love, only to find that he's not there.

Two guys are at gunpoint when one of them pulls the trigger and it's empty. I always thought the slide would look like this:

The main hero barely beating an opponent. I mean seriously, why can't a hero just once soundly beat the **** out of the villian.

Edit: Even more then that is when one person says "Is such and such as great as you'd hoped?" and the other person responds "No.... it's even better." Ugh!!!!

The main hero barely beating an opponent. I mean seriously, why can't a hero just once soundly beat the **** out of the villian.

Edit: Even more then that is when people say "Is such and such as great as you'd hoped?" and the other person responds "No.... it's even better." Ugh!!!!

Vaasman

The problem is that if the main character could do that, the movie would be short don't you think.

Villian is encountered. Hero kicks his ass in a second. Everyone goes home.

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The main hero barely beating an opponent. I mean seriously, why can't a hero just once soundly beat the **** out of the villian.

Edit: Even more then that is when people say "Is such and such as great as you'd hoped?" and the other person responds "No.... it's even better." Ugh!!!!

kayn83

The problem is that if the main character could do that, the movie would be short don't you think.

Villian is encountered. Hero kicks his ass in a second. Everyone goes home.

What's with the sex-scenes where they're finished and the guy rolls over and the chick's still wearing a bra. That's becoming more and more common in movies and television. I always pitty the guy "Well what would be the fun in that?". I always thought the blanket covering the chest move made more sense...

And there's a strange amount of female-oriented action movies where some skinny broad runs around with elite-special training and she can tackle men twice her size. If they're going to use a female actress to star in an action movie, they should be creative enough where she's actually a *woman* instead of being a "Man in disguise" she actually comes up with creative solutionss to defeat her stronger opponents and compensate for her weakness rather than stand toe-to-toe with 13 elite male-commando's...

Hero's need to start dying. I want to see a series of movies where the consistent character is actually the villain, he is the one who barely get's away in the end and the heroes are often getting slaughtered in attempts to kill the villain. Allowing later sequels to introduce new heroes, but keeping the same villain(s). I think that'd be a nice twist.. (I'm not talking horror movies here, i know it's happened in those in movies past, i'm talking action, or sci-fi, or something along those lines).

Ammunition isnt as big a problem as it use to be, more and more am i seeing characters in television and movies actually reload or out-right run out of ammo. So that's a nice change.

may the force be with you

just as someone is about to get killed, there is a gun-shot, but its someone behind the villian (an acquantance of the person in peril) who fires the shot and kills the villianskullkrusher13

Iron Man, multiple times.

In war movies:

Grizzled war veteran who shows disdain for his new compatriots but ends up teaching them all a valuable lesson through his personal sacrifice.
Token black guy.
Token southen racist guy who is racist towards Token Black Guy, until he gains new respect for others after he is saved by Token Black Guy.
Soft-Spoken Rancher.
Uber-Christian Guy Who Carries his Bible in One Hand and a *insert weapon name here* In The Other.
Rich Guy Who Went To War Because He Has Daddy Issues.

For examples of all these stereotypes, watch five minutes of Flyboys.

EDIT: Also, when Villians, upon capturing the Good Guy, proceed to speechify. I would forever honor the film that just has the bad guy walk up to a captured good guy, take out a gun and without saying a word, shoots him.

Two guys are at gunpoint when one of them pulls the trigger and it's empty. I always thought the slide would look like this:

kingdre

Exactly. My first thought.

Not to mention the long speech given by the bad guy when he has the hero cornered. Don't bad guys know that it only gives the hero time to think and/or have his sidekick appear to thwart the bad guy??

Standoffs, both the hero and the villain have a gun to each other's head, yet instead of killing their enemy they decide to chat.qetuo6

If in that situation, i would just pull the trigger. Chances are the other guy isn't going to be fast enough to pull the trigger in the meantime.

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[QUOTE="qetuo6"]Standoffs, both the hero and the villain have a gun to each other's head, yet instead of killing their enemy they decide to chat.dreDREb13

If in that situation, i would just pull the trigger. Chances are the other guy isn't going to be fast enough to pull the trigger in the meantime.

Chances are shooting him would cause him to squeeze the trigger. Muscles tense and twitch before death.

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[QUOTE="qetuo6"]Standoffs, both the hero and the villain have a gun to each other's head, yet instead of killing their enemy they decide to chat.dreDREb13

If in that situation, i would just pull the trigger. Chances are the other guy isn't going to be fast enough to pull the trigger in the meantime.

Drewbie Doobie! We gotta play Halo sometime and talk about business. Or our lack thereof. Anyway, I hate the lame love scene dialogue in Star Wars movies, as well in many other movies. No one ever really talks like that.

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[QUOTE="qetuo6"]Standoffs, both the hero and the villain have a gun to each other's head, yet instead of killing their enemy they decide to chat.Rhazakna

If in that situation, i would just pull the trigger. Chances are the other guy isn't going to be fast enough to pull the trigger in the meantime.

Chances are shooting him would cause him to squeeze the trigger. Muscles tense and twitch before death.

That's what I thought but then I figured the other guy probably wouldn't make a fist when shot in the head. I'm thinking by the position the other guy was holding the gun, the hand would just go limp (due to the weight of the gun).

Cars not starting the first time. Happens constantly in both horror, suspense, and action movies.

Also, when someone hears a noise and investigates, and a tense few moments follow, a cat jumps out. Standard for sci-fi as well as horror.

People never do quick beat downs anymore it always takes forever. Seriously, hand to hand fights don't last very long especially if someone is skilled. They are only long if both fighters can never hit eachother.

But nowdays its only exceptable in comedies for somone to end a fight with a few hits. Why can't one guy just beat the crap out of someone without all the back and forth, I mean the good guy and the bad guy just keep taking hits. It should just be like, you win....you win! The end.

Also I did not know this until I watched the die hard4 unrated commentary, but in pg-13 movies you are not aloud to use an accurate sound of a neck snap...

They almost never use the toilets in the movies. Not very a problem for movies, but for long TV show, it's not really realistic.Etherninty

[QUOTE="Etherninty"]They almost never use the toilets in the movies. Not very a problem for movies, but for long TV show, it's not really realistic.Zaeryn

That *is* a whole Genre of porn.

:P

People jumping through glass windows and not getting a scratch on them, that has to die.ithilgore2006

Die Hard uses glass in a more realistic way, when glass is shot above Bruce Willis it falls on his and cuts him and he has to walk on it to escape. The next scene shows him pulling glass out of his feet.

The main hero barely beating an opponent. I mean seriously, why can't a hero just once soundly beat the **** out of the villian.

Edit: Even more then that is when one person says "Is such and such as great as you'd hoped?" and the other person responds "No.... it's even better." Ugh!!!!

Vaasman

[QUOTE="Etherninty"]They almost never use the toilets in the movies. Not very a problem for movies, but for long TV show, it's not really realistic.Zaeryn

When the hero has jsut came in guns blazing killing most of the villans hench men but get caught and gets carried to the villan. the villan then proceeds to tell the hero his entire plan and all its flaws but then says but your to late to do anything about it. villan walks off leaving the hero to kill the guards and stop the villan. jsut shoot him in the Freakin head.htotheo

"Whatever you do, DON'T LOOK DOWN!"

If I hear that one more time... :|

[QUOTE="ithilgore2006"]People jumping through glass windows and not getting a scratch on them, that has to die.Film-Guy

Die Hard uses glass in a more realistic way, when glass is shot above Bruce Willis it falls on his and cuts him and he has to walk on it to escape. The next scene shows him pulling glass out of his feet.

Hero's need to start dying. I want to see a series of movies where the consistent character is actually the villain, he is the one who barely get's away in the end and the heroes are often getting slaughtered in attempts to kill the villain. Allowing later sequels to introduce new heroes, but keeping the same villain(s). I think that'd be a nice twist.. (I'm not talking horror movies here, i know it's happened in those in movies past, i'm talking action, or sci-fi, or something along those lines).Tolwan

Before I begin: Nice sig ---OkeyDokey--- :wink:

Ok, now back to the topic at hand:

1. This is for 24 only, but it really bugs me how they never eat...I mean come on!

2. One Man Army. That needs to stop...I dont care who you are, there is no way you are taking down an island of well armed and trained gunmen unless you are dealing with....

3. Badguys that couldnt shoot the ground even if they tried.

4. Absurd technology. I understand if its a scifi/futuristic/fantasy movie, but come on! Im thinking of bones and the computer they have that is lightyears ahead of anything out today.

5. Overfunded city services. Anyone ever notice how in every CSI their precincts are all decked out in the latest Alienware gaming rigs for no apparent reason?

6. Beautiful and Deadly. Why is it that the only hot women in movies are either there for the hero to have sex with, or sum crazy psycho assassin woman? have you seen the women who go for armed combat? im not saying they are ugly, but they sure as hell aint sum skinny super model woman!

7. hot tom-boy police detective partner. Ok, my first gripe is that if the main character is a male cop, his partner is always female! And she isnt even one of those regular females, she is always sum sexy tomboy girl with daddy issues and sum penis envy issues.

8. 1 handed shot gun....nothin kills me more than seeing sum scrawny girl/guy shooting a NON-sawed off shotgun with one hand like its a beretta or sumthing.

9. "Deus Ex White Boy." Thats what my mom calls it :P Its those movies where the world is collapsing and they only person that can save it is sum random white kid from conneticut. Think "Forbidden Kingdom." or those "Yankee in King Aurthur's Court." or that one with Stifler...are you telling me that with all the better trained martial artists, they still need to rely on sum random kid who knows jack-crap about the subject?

10. Time travel assassinations. Anyone ever find it odd that when ever sumone goes back in time to kill sumone, the oppossing force always comes at the exact same time? Do they broadcast on the news "hey, we are gonna kill sarah o'connor at this time period! dont u dare follow us!" Why not just send many driods to many different time periods and kill her or her parents or grand parents?

11. Epiphanies. Ok, one of my favorite shows is the most guilty of this. House. He always has the most random of epiphanies. I know he is a complete and utter genious but sumtimes they really push thier luck. He'll see a kid taking a crap and that will sumhow give him the idea that patient has cancer :| Life is also guilty of this "epiphany" issue.

10. Time travel assassinations. Anyone ever find it odd that when ever sumone goes back in time to kill sumone, the oppossing force always comes at the exact same time? Do they broadcast on the news "hey, we are gonna kill sarah o'connor at this time period! dont u dare follow us!" Why not just send many driods to many different time periods and kill her or her parents or grand parents?

II_Seraphim_II

Hey leave Termintor alone, it's great! :D

No but really, those scenes where the government has this room full of computers where they are searching for someone via satelite cameras and they try to make it look excitening, like in Enemie of the State or the Bourne movies. And they always have like a power struggle going "hey I'm incharge here!", "Not anymore you're not!".

The main hero barely beating an opponent. I mean seriously, why can't a hero just once soundly beat the **** out of the villian.

Edit: Even more then that is when one person says "Is such and such as great as you'd hoped?" and the other person responds "No.... it's even better." Ugh!!!!

Vaasman

Should I cut the blue wire, or the red wire?

Also, women getting stabbed in the shower. Psycho accidentally started it.