Film cliches!

tcaporale
tcaporale Posts: 1,577
edited January 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
People were talking about these at another forum I post on and one in particular I thought was very true:

The good guy gets into a fight with a bunch of villains, but luckily they only take him on one at a time while the rest just circle menacingly around. After he's taken a hell of a beating with little or no signs of distress, he then winces when the leading lady dabs gently at his wounds with a damp cloth.

Another one:

A woman looks in her bathroom cabinet mirror, opens it, takes something out, closes it - GASP! A figure is now visible behind her in the mirror!
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  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    How about the ever-present montage, Rocky IV style? It's a cool way of cramming weeks of timeline in a movie into 60 seconds, all to the music of some cheesy 80's song. Karate Kid too. I love how some (South Park particularly) always pokes fun at this.
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  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    I like in war movies where some guy pulls out a picture of his girl back home - he's dead.
  • youngster
    youngster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Like that flick Cloverfield. The whole movie they can hear the monster from miles away tearing shit up. but then, miraculously, in a moment of silence the guy turns around and the monster is there. What? Did the monster tiptoe up to this guy and try to scare him? Jurassic Park is another example of this.
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    I like when a duo splits up. One always goes on to great success while the other guy falls in a rut. But of course, something will come up that will make the successful guy have to seek out the guy in the rut, apologize to him, and reunite against a force that would be too much for successful guy to take on alone
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  • Leathe?ma?
    Leathe?ma? Яussia Posts: 354
    tcaporale wrote:
    People were talking about these at another forum I post on and one in particular I thought was very true:

    The good guy gets into a fight with a bunch of villains, but luckily they only take him on one at a time while the rest just circle menacingly around. After he's taken a hell of a beating with little or no signs of distress, he then winces when the leading lady dabs gently at his wounds with a damp cloth.

    Another one:

    A woman looks in her bathroom cabinet mirror, opens it, takes something out, closes it - GASP! A figure is now visible behind her in the mirror!

    soo true!
    also, when a good guy fights with bad ones, they prefer not to shoot him, even if they all have guns, but have a melee fight. And if they decided to shoot of course they would miss him from any range..

    the greatest cliche for me is the Big Bad Guy saying to a hero "Ok, before I kill you I'll tell you something.." and then he tells all his plans instead of simple killing.. then he turns his back.. you know the rest :lol:
  • CJMST3K
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    "Retirony"

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  • mookeywrench
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    guy meets girl....girl initially is uninterested in guy...guy and girl do activity together...guy and girl fall for eachother... guy screws up...girl gets hurts and hates guy...guy does something incredibly over the top for girl...guy and girl fall back in love forever...the end.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    i'm getting to old for this shit
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
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    1.evil white people invade innocent natives, one white guy changes sides, then becomes the saviour of the hopeless natives and repels the evil whities.

    2.Michelle Rodriguez in every role she's ever played.

    3. the corporate guy is ALWAYS evil.
  • FenwayFaithful
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    MrSmith wrote:
    1.evil white people invade innocent natives, one white guy changes sides, then becomes the saviour of the hopeless natives and repels the evil whities.

    2.Michelle Rodriguez in every role she's ever played.

    3. the corporate guy is ALWAYS evil.
    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • tcaporale
    tcaporale Posts: 1,577
    Some more:

    When the villain has captured the good guy, he will never just kill him there and then, he will first give a detailed breakdown of his master plan, complete with Powerpoint presentation and handouts, before leaving him in a room very slowly filling up with water or poison gas, with a parting shot of "Such a pity you have to die - we could have achieved so much together".

    Man and woman are at loggerheads the whole time, it escalates into a shouting match, she goes to slap him, he siezes her wrist, they glare at each other - then start passionately kissing.

    A tense situation builds up, the character is afraid something bad is going to happen, then it happens and they somehow escape only to die seconds later while they're relaxing because of a second truly unexpected attack. It seems this is the cornerstone of modern horror.

    Person A resolves to tell Person B something really devastating - usually that he/she is dumping him/her. A says "I've got something to tell you - " only to be interrupted by B who excitedly tells the other person something really positive that includes a phrase like "This is just the new start I needed!" followed by "Anyway, what was it you wanted to say?" to which a shifty A says "Oh - never mind, it was nothing" at which point B completely loses interest / totally forgets A had something to say.
  • Who Princess
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    tcaporale wrote:
    People were talking about these at another forum I post on and one in particular I thought was very true:

    The good guy gets into a fight with a bunch of villains, but luckily they only take him on one at a time while the rest just circle menacingly around. After he's taken a hell of a beating with little or no signs of distress, he then winces when the leading lady dabs gently at his wounds with a damp cloth.
    Similar to this, the bad guy beats the crap out of the good guy and the good guy struggles to get back up, saying "Is that the best you can do?"
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  • SomethingCreative
    SomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,415
    Tough guys don't look at explosions:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo
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  • tcaporale
    tcaporale Posts: 1,577
    This made me laugh:

    A slight diversion, but film trailers are also exasperating in their clichedness. And I'm not talking so much about the gravel-voiced "In a world where..." or "It was a time of..." or "One man. One woman. Together, they..." etc etc etc. I mean the whole structure of trailers - they are practically identical. You get the ramp-up of edits, with a backdrop of frenzied drums, exaggerated music 'stings' and wooshing crashes, which all then stop - pause - voiceover delivers supposedly killer line: "And he's got only 24 hours to SAVE THE ENTIRE WORLD" - cue renewed explosion of insane music and head-spinning fast edits - title caption, end. The only diference you sometimes get is after the pause and killer line, you sometimes have a slower series of edits with mini-blackout fades between them, with slower slushier music, if it's a more 'emotional' film, in which case you will get a montage of crying people being comforted.

    Oh, and if the film has the obligatory scene of someone dancing to a soundtrack song, it will be jump-cut into the trailer.

    I mean, it's a trailer, I know we're not expecting High Art, but for fuck's sake do something to not make all films look the same! (Then again, maybe all films are the same...)
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    MrSmith wrote:
    1.evil white people invade innocent natives, one white guy changes sides, then becomes the saviour of the hopeless natives and repels the evil whities.

    2.Michelle Rodriguez in every role she's ever played.

    3. the corporate guy is ALWAYS evil.
    I take it you didn't like Avatar
    :lol:
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  • PatrickBateman
    PatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    someone holding on to something for dear life and just as they lose their grip a hand comes out from nowhere to keep them from falling
    If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    Main character "kills" the bad guy early in the movie, leaving him for dead on the ground. The next time he/she looks back, the body is gone... for they are still alive!!!!
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  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    usually after a scene of high emotion, the actor, closes the door, starts crying and lets their body, slowly, fall to the ground

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