Movie/TV show cliches

[lilhermiejobo]

I hate horror movies with a passion. They piss me off. I cant wait for the characters to die and get it over with.

*example 1: "oh no I'm being chased by someone who wishes to cause me bodily harm for reasons I'm unaware of. I shall run now. *RUNS*.......*TRIPS OVER THE WIND AND FALLS*.
*example 2: "oh no I'm being chased by someone who wishes to cause me bodily harm for reasons I'm unaware of. I shall hide in this totally empty condemned building/house/shack/whatever because it seems like the safest option.
*example 3: Saw movies. Just stop already. We get it. Your life sucks and you want to kill people. Neat.
*example 4: A freak accidental death somehow causes a regular person to become immortal and murder everyone.

Now, on the other hand, I really enjoyed grindhouse deathproof. grindhouse planet terror was hilarious as well. i love me some good comedy.

 

[spioraid]

That's pretty much why I'm digging ABC's Castle so much. Nathan Fillion puts a great twist on an otherwise crappy cop show.

 

[paladin shredder]

here's a classic movie cliche:

the person who scores the winning point in a sports game at the very last second, of course in slooooooooooow motion.

 

[53Crëw]

Cars always exploding when they crash.

 

[Uladyne]

Why do phone calls in movies always seem to be one sided converstions? "Yea this is Jack...We need those guns at the werehouse on friday...I have a little surprise in store for that motherfucker...Yea he's going down..." And they always hang up on the other person! "...We're going to need you there by noon." *Click*. What if the other person had something really important to say before they were so rudely cut off? Is it not normal to make sure the conversation is over and exhausted to the full before hanging up?

 

[Notuern]

I'm sick of....

People NEVER reloading weapons.
Killers that walk slow yet end up there faster than anyone else for some reason??
No one ever has to eat/drink/use a bathroom/ ??
Where's all the "normal" looking people. Everyone is always super ugly or just disgustingly attractive.
MOAR FAT PEOPLE/.
When fights break out and no one breaks a hand? Or the ole "neck snap" assassination. BULLSHIT
I FCKING LOVE EXPLOSIONS.
When people roll outta bed with perfect hair.
The entire "teen" movie idea. Just no more. Please.
Everyone has a nice house?
When they REDO CLASSIC FUCKING MOVIES *COUGH EVERY HORROR REMAKE EVER ZOMBIE COUGH*
HAPPY ENDINGS
Why can't the bad guy win for fucking once???????

I fucking HATE movies.

You would probably like the movie "Lilja 4 Ever".
Its a Swedish movie about a girl from Estonia, that gets tricked to come with this nice guy to Sweden, only to be used as a prostitute(Trafficking.), and lets just say that this movie is the fuckin' opposite of every other movie out there.. even though its a drama, i thought it kicked major ass(Dont like dramas otherwise.).

 

[SocialNumb]

They always show credits before and after the movie.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

You would probably like the movie "Lilja 4 Ever".
Its a Swedish movie about a girl from Estonia, that gets tricked to come with this nice guy to Sweden, only to be used as a prostitute(Trafficking.), and lets just say that this movie is the fuckin' opposite of every other movie out there.. even though its a drama, i thought it kicked major ass(Dont like dramas otherwise.).

Sounds good to me.

Swedish prostitution ring for a win.

 

[STINNETT]

My two most hated movie cliches are Ben Stiller and Nicholas Cage.

 

[Metaltastic]

My two most hated movie cliches are Ben Stiller and Nicholas Cage.

Hahahaha, I dunno, I think Ben Stiller is pretty funny - Dodgeball is freakin' hysterical

 

[Joematthews]

Theres only so much ben stiller I can take before I want to kill everything I see. Up to that point though I think he is reasonably funny.

Joe

 

[STINNETT]

Yeah, he's funny sometimes, but after I've had my fill - absolutely nothing he does is funny. I just don't want to look at him.

Oh, and Nicholas cage ruins everything except Raising Arizona.

 

[abyssofdreams]

Oh, and Nicholas cage ruins everything except Raising Arizona.

Disagree. The Rock, Matchstick Men and Face/Off where very solid movies without him ruining them. And I'm sure there's more

 

[slashvanyoung]

Disagree. The Rock, Matchstick Men and Face/Off where very solid movies without him ruining them. And I'm sure there's more

I liked "Matchstick Men" and "Gone In Sixty Seconds" was somewhat okay, but I never understood why everyone got a boner over "The Rock".

That flick is one of the most cliché-ridden POS ever... The scene when they're talking about the alien landing in Roswell makes me cringe every time.

Not a Cage fan here...

 

[abyssofdreams]

I'm not a Cage fan either, just sayin that he doesn't necessarily ruin movies just because he's in them. And The Rock was cheesy but in a good, very entertaining way. It didn't take itself too serious which is always a plus in my book.

 

[AudioGeekZine]

Whenever someone walks up to a podium to speak the mic will feedback.

 

[Metaltastic]

Whenever someone walks up to a podium to speak the mic will feedback.

Ha! Damn, good call dude

 

[GarethSE]

Yes, that is the most classic.
I like how it was handled in "The watchmen" movie...

NONONONONONONO
READ THE FUCKING BOOK YOU FUCKING FUCK BECAUSE ZACK SNYDER FUCKING FUCKED THE FUCKING MOVIE UP BECAUSE HE'S A FUCKING FUCK


FUCK

 

[GarethSE]

Also, Metalhead, watch Adaptation and you'll change your opinion of Nicholas Cage to an extent, Lord of War too probably.

I can't really add anything in terms of hated clichés though. I tend to end up watching movies that either created the cliché in the first place (and thus are original rather than clichéd) or are more boundary pushing, more willing to slap the audience with a wet fish and say "fuck you, this is our movie, we'll do what we fucking want whether you like it or not" blah blah blah.
Basically I'm an artfag and I love it.

However what I will add is stuff that your average joe says about movies that makes my blood boil..
"There's too much talking, where's the action?"
"It's too long."
"It doesn't make sense" (a direct reference to when I lent Pulp Fiction to a friend and he got confused because he doesn't understand the concept of chronology being thrown out the window in a movie, he couldn't put two and two together and asked why John Travolta's character came back to life.)
"It sucks" (without adding any REASONS WHY :X)

These were all basically said by the same person. I one day asked him to list some favourite actors and he said "Jim Carrey"
so since then me and my bud have been trying to get him into good films
we started him off at what we thought would be the shallow end and jonny lent him Fight Club, which he thought sucked. So we were like.. :|:|:| because me and jonny are total fight club fanboys, so pulp fiction next and he didn't like that either, which is pretty much sacrilege.
I lent him Se7en and I wasn't expecting him to like it, but he liked the nastier parts of it, hated the wordy parts haha

i dont know if jonnys lent him anymore films but ive basically given up. i might just lend him apocalypse now redux and forbid him to turn it off half way. maybe make him some "herbal" tea... haha

 

[Keregioz]

NONONONONONONO
READ THE FUCKING BOOK YOU FUCKING FUCK BECAUSE ZACK SNYDER FUCKING FUCKED THE FUCKING MOVIE UP BECAUSE HE'S A FUCKING FUCK


FUCK

Haha... I will read the book and I'm sure it will be awesome, but still In my opinion the watchmen along with the dark knight were the best movies I've seen for quite some time.