the new - improved - most cliché/unrealistic things done in movies thread

[Rowsdower!]

As a non-american, I´m curious about certain things you see in American movies that you feel misrepresent you. For instance, all American sheriffs seem to be incompetent hillbillie bigots.

Actually, that one's pretty accurate. As someone who has dealt with a lot of small town cops, they tend to be lazy, arrogant a**holes who don't give a sh** about anything.

Anyway, one that always bugs me (usually you see this in TV shows, but occasionally in movies)... I love how you can have a LOUD conversation with someone (to the point where you're practically screaming at each other) about another person 10 feet away from you, or in the adjacent room, and they somehow can't hear a word you're saying.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Actually, that one's pretty accurate. As someone who has dealt with a lot of small town cops, they tend to be lazy, arrogant a**holes who don't give a sh** about anything.

That was one of the things that Richard Donner hated about Richard Lester's Superman II, the cliched image of the small town folk, sheriff included, as stupid hillbillies, as you see from the RD cut they removed most of that sequence.
The thing is, you will get a lot of cops who are grumpy, I imagine their jobs are not so enjoyable a lot of the time, no big deal. You have to take that into consideration when dealing with cops, they have to put up with some amount of crap day in day out, the common man who has no such pressures can easily sit back and judge them harshly, but they would be fools to think they can. The common man has it so easy he has no idea what it takes to be a cop. So i would perhaps try to have more respect for the people who are holding this whole gig together, cause you are just going to sound stupid and ignorant otherwise.

 

[ultimatefan]

Actually, that one's pretty accurate. As someone who has dealt with a lot of small town cops, they tend to be lazy, arrogant a**holes who don't give a sh** about anything.

Anyway, one that always bugs me (usually you see this in TV shows, but occasionally in movies)... I love how you can have a LOUD conversation with someone (to the point where you're practically screaming at each other) about another person 10 feet away from you, or in the adjacent room, and they somehow can't hear a word you're saying.

Or, if you whisper to each other, people in the same TABLE can´t hear it.

 

[Spider-Who?]

double post.

 

[Spider-Who?]

Actually, that one's pretty accurate. As someone who has dealt with a lot of small town cops, they tend to be lazy, arrogant a**holes who don't give a sh** about anything.

based on your post, I'm guessing your dealings with all these arrogant, lazy bigots ended with you in the back of their cruisers? Seems to me you just have a grudge.

I've lived in small towns the majority of my life. I would never consider any of the cops I've run into to be any of the adjectives you threw out. Yeah, a lot of cops can be grumpy/jerks based on the logic thebum posted; but to say "that's pretty accurate" is absolutely NOT accurate, and more ignorant and judgmental than anything else.

Anyway, one that always bugs me (usually you see this in TV shows, but occasionally in movies)... I love how you can have a LOUD conversation with someone (to the point where you're practically screaming at each other) about another person 10 feet away from you, or in the adjacent room, and they somehow can't hear a word you're saying.

In movies and tv, people are polite and don't drop any eaves.

 

[ultimatefan]

When the topic of the movie is a supernatural phenomen, nine out of ten times it turns out the phenomen is real and there isn´t a more reasonable explanation.

 

[Nemi]

The villian finally has the chance to kill the hero but instead goes on a very detailed rant about his genius plan.

 

[ultimatefan]

A guy disrupts a public event and makes a speech about his undying love to the girl, and no matter how big or important the event is, people not only don´t get pissed but cheer cuz, oh, love´s so beautiful..

 

[Handsome Rob]

The "I'm looking in one direction and shooting my gun in another." Or, even worse, the "I'm looking straight ahead with an emotionless look on my face while firing two guns with outstretched arms."

Case in point: the cook at the end of the Call of Duty: Black Ops commercial.

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[The Navigator]

The hero only runs out of ammo at the most dramatcally appropriate time. That, or he doesn't need to change clip at all.

Also, if you're a superhero, expect your girlfriend to get kidnapped, whether the villain figures out your secret identity or not.

Aliens travel trillions of lightyears to do one of two things:
-invade us for resources (which are probably paltry in comparison to the ones they used to reach this planet)
-teach us a lesson, like saving the whales.

 

[Alchemyst]

-Hero and villian in a desperate gun fight, both run out of ammo, dive towards the nearest guns only to land both at the same time, getting up and pointing directly at each other.

-hostile aliens

-during a gun fight, an enemy is on higher ground, standing next to something thats explosive.

 

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

The "I'm looking in one direction and shooting my gun in another." Or, even worse, the "I'm looking straight ahead with an emotionless look on my face while firing two guns with outstretched arms."

Case in point: the cook at the end of the Call of Duty: Black Ops commercial.

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Also, pointing the gun sideways before killing someone.

and of course no one and I mean NO ONE looking at explosions.

 

[Alchemyst]

-getting out of a building seconds before it explodes, resulting in a slow motion jump away from the building

 

[batman11]

Aliens travel trillions of lightyears to do one of two things:
-invade us for resources (which are probably paltry in comparison to the ones they used to reach this planet)
-teach us a lesson, like saving the whales.

Nice avvy.

Have you removed your YT account BTW? I know I never got back to you regarding your vids from way back when (I do feel bad about that, sorry... ), but I did indeed watch a few. Seeing your post made me go back to see if you had anything new, but everything seems to be gone. Was it willful termination, or were they taken down by the powers that be?

Oh, and on-topic, good post. Definitely some apparent cliches.

 

[El Payaso]

- Someone is pointing a gun against one of the main chyaracters. In the last second, someone else shoots the shooter.

- In his second movie most of superheroes decide to quit his powers/mission.

 

[Rez]

A guy and a girl who had just met suddenly jump on each other´s arms - not uncommonly after giving every sign of hating each other´s guts -, have passionate, clothes-ripping, furniture-breaking sex - even the most perverted woman I´ve ever met would NEVER ruin pretty clothes or mess up the whole bedroom for sex -, then they reach a mind-blowing, simultaneous orgasm in two minutes, never bother to use protection and don´t have problems with STDs or unwanted pregnancy afterwards.

I'm not Cassanova by any stretch, but almost every girl I've ever sexed has always resulted in clothes and enviorment destroyed.

 

[ultimatefan]

Also, pointing the gun sideways before killing someone.

and of course no one and I mean NO ONE looking at explosions.

Actually, I´ve heard that cops love that pointing sideways cliché, cuz a lot of dumb criminals actually do it cuz they see it in movies, but it makes it almost impossible to hit the target.

And yeah, awesome avvy Navigator.

 

[ultimatefan]

I'm not Cassanova by any stretch, but almost every girl I've ever sexed has always resulted in clothes and enviorment destroyed.

I dunno, I´ve been with girls who LOVE sex, do it several times at once, enjoy sexy lingerie and outfits, have multiple orgasms, get pretty loud during them, etc., but never willing to destroy clothes or furniture. I suppose because Brazillians have a lower income standard, it´s harder to replace the stuff. My chicks were always lower middle class/poor.

 

[Ipodman]

Stand by road and flag magical taxi

 

[ultimatefan]

Even in non-porn movies, women scream like porn stars during orgasm, which they reach in two minutes.

 

[The Navigator]

Nice avvy.

And yeah, awesome avvy Navigator.

Thanks.

During truck chases, the hero can always climb in through the passenger side door without the driver, with his sideview mirrors, noticing at all.

In superhero movies, the police make no real effort to track down the sudden influx of vigilantes very publicly taking the law into their own hands. There's really just one scene where they ineffectively shoot at the hero, who gets away, and they just shake their heads at their own failure.

Sci fi movies--
-Artificial gravity sans centrifuge. (okay, I realize almost everything in a space-based sci fi movie is unrealistic, but this is definitely the most common and often most breezed over)
-A large amount of projectile weaponry onboard a pressurized, sealed environment that's protecting the passengers from the vacuum of space. And most of the time, those are lasers.
-Alien-specific: flamethrowers in an oxygen-limited environment.
-Creatures from entirely different ecosystems just naturally integrate into other ones (notably Star Trek, Star Wars)
-Every planet has the same gravitational pull, regardless of size.

Period movies with protagonists "ahead of their time" in terms of thinking, philosophy, patriotic/national beliefs...by about several centuries.

 

[NickSox]

Even in non-porn movies, women scream like porn stars during orgasm, which they reach in two minutes.

Nothing like a realistic 20 minute sex scene to keep the pace of a movie going!

 

[Figs]

Probably already mentioned, but every time a car falls off a cliff or roof it blows up...just because.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Love interests for the sake of love interests.
Alot of movies like Kick Ass would be all the better without them.

 

[Rez]

I dunno, I´ve been with girls who LOVE sex, do it several times at once, enjoy sexy lingerie and outfits, have multiple orgasms, get pretty loud during them, etc., but never willing to destroy clothes or furniture. I suppose because Brazillians have a lower income standard, it´s harder to replace the stuff. My chicks were always lower middle class/poor.

Go outside your comfort zone then man! Thankfully my "type" has always been the carefree adventurous kind who seem primed to destroy pretty much anything. Only when I've gone and done something I'm not normally into(like a ****ty blonde who talked a good story) did I get a boring rag doll who just layed there. I've never been to Brazil sadly, but if it's anything like up in the northern US, try to bag tiny brunettes that are clearly very sexual but have been holding back and watch the magic HAPPEN. For me at least, it's always been the types of girls that command lots of attention and get stalked by wierdos and *****ebags, but never really let any of them score. They should have at least three or four "best friends" that are guys that have been desperately trying to get in her pants for years, and probably think they are in love.

Also, while it could be extremely trying for a relationship- a girl with bipolar disorder(actually being diagnosed bipolar, not just being a *****) is basically gaurenteed wild and violent sex.