Most common movie cliches - Page 3

HWBL · October 23rd, 2006, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by southernbelle

If it's a Mary-Kate and Ashley movie, they are being raised by a single father who frequently mentions how much they look like/remind him of their dead mother.

..... who was a chimpanzee who died as a result of medical testing at the University Lab. (they can never find actresses with similar chimplike features of the midget twins

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Goose · October 23rd, 2006, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by heather.rn

You hardly ever see people in movies sufring the net.

Anytime a character needs to find something on the internet, they automatically choose the first entry after searching, and it's the perfect hit.

HWBL · October 23rd, 2006, 02:36 PM

This one, especially in TV-movies and soaps but in the occasional theatrical release as well: though we live in the day and age of cell phones, and everybody is always on their cell throughout the episode and movie, when they really need to be reached or when they really need to call somebody (like from a place they're stranded at out in nowhereland) they forgot to bring their phone. I mean, it's not even out of order> that ONE time they really need it, THEY DON'T HAVE IT WITH THEM!!!!!

Lobelia · October 23rd, 2006, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Goose

Anytime a character needs to find something on the internet, they automatically choose the first entry after searching, and it's the perfect hit.

Yes Yes Yes Lord Yes.

Or, if they're trying to hack into someone's computer, they guess the password within one minute.

misswang · October 23rd, 2006, 03:05 PM

An overweight woman is never autopsied...overweight or ugly corpses in the morgue are always men.

**Tati** · October 23rd, 2006, 08:37 PM

All computer activities - especially hacking - are done via keyboard. There is no such thing as a mouse in movies.

DitaPage* · October 26th, 2006, 03:51 PM

Women wake up with their makeup on.

A*O · October 26th, 2006, 05:26 PM

Oh this thread has really annoyed me because very show I watch now has all these cliches in it and I'm thinking "HA! there's another one" instead of concentrating on the plot. I watched a murder mystery thing yesterday which seemed to be conducted ENTIRELY in the dark. Cops and crims stumbliing around in the gloom. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, TURN ON THE FUCKING LIGHTS!!!!!

sinnergirl · October 26th, 2006, 05:57 PM

In horror movies they always split up. "you go that way and i'll go this way". that would never happen IRL.

limey · October 26th, 2006, 05:59 PM

Then there's the one where the victim is lying on the floor getting strangled and is able to look around and see something to hit the attacker with. He/she spends the next 30 seconds looking over/reaching for the weapon and the attacker never notices it. Finally he gets hit over the head/stabbed and the attack is stopped. That one has always driven me crazy!

mtlebay · October 26th, 2006, 08:17 PM

Why are streets ALWAYS wet, even when it hasn't been raining? Is it to make the shot more glossy, etc???

Anyway, back to the point: when ethnic characters speak English with a heavy accent. It would seem more natural to me for them to speak in native tongue and then we read the subtitles, than for them 2 alone to speak their English w/ a heavy accent. It REALLY reminds me I'm just watching a movie/tv show.

sinnergirl · October 26th, 2006, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by limey

Then there's the one where the victim is lying on the floor getting strangled and is able to look around and see something to hit the attacker with. He/she spends the next 30 seconds looking over/reaching for the weapon and the attacker never notices it. Finally he gets hit over the head/stabbed and the attack is stopped. That one has always driven me crazy!

Oh thats a good one!

Lil · October 27th, 2006, 04:32 AM

When someone has finished using a computer, they turn it off by flicking the switch on the monitor (this drives my husband spare).

Nobody has trouble finding a parking space, and nobody ever locks their car.

Chilly Willy · October 27th, 2006, 10:14 AM

When the lonely hero enters a lonely bar at the oddest hour, there's always one super hot equally lonely woman ALONE at the bar.

Then their eyes meet, they pick up a conversation, blabla.

Never in my life have I seen a woman sitting at the bar all by herself.

Mel1973 · October 27th, 2006, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Chilly Willy

When the lonely hero enters a lonely bar at the oddest hour, there's always one super hot equally lonely woman ALONE at the bar.

Then their eyes meet, they pick up a conversation, blabla.

Never in my life have I seen a woman sitting at the bar all by herself.

That's because we don't sit there long, we're picked up almost immediately