Worst Movie Cliches.

[VenomVsSpidey]

Good one. I remember a movie from a few years back where Tara Reid was playing a scientist. Give me a break.

- The token gay character who has a plethora of romantic advice to give, yet seems to have no lovelife of his own.

nat'l lampoons dorm daze made a great example of this. good stuff.

 

[gwynplaine]

Bump.

Because I saw one recently in Thor: TDW (They actually do it twice in the film I think)
Villain lifting someone by the throat with their feet leaving the ground and hanging off. A little tired of this onet: (Vader might have been the 1st in the original SW)

 

[Schlosser85]

- The token gay character who has a plethora of romantic advice to give, yet seems to have no lovelife of his own.

Yup. Because to some women, a token gay BFF is like a fashion accessary or status symbol like a shiny new purse, but audiences only like him as long as he's stereotypically campy to the point of being an object of comic relief and has no love life for them to feel threatened by.

Speaking of other cliches, every supervillain anymore has to let himself get captured so he can continue his master scheme from the inside, and then escape when he feels like it to display his supervillain evil genius (The Dark Knight, Skyfall, The Avengers, you could even say the prologue of The Dark Knight Rises).

 

[gwynplaine]

Yup. Because to some women, a token gay BFF is like a fashion accessary or status symbol like a shiny new purse, but audiences only like him as long as he's stereotypically campy to the point of being an object of comic relief and has no love life for them to feel threatened by.

Speaking of other cliches, every supervillain anymore has to let himself get captured so he can continue his master scheme from the inside, and then escape when he feels like it to display his supervillain evil genius (The Dark Knight, Skyfall, The Avengers, you could even say the prologue of The Dark Knight Rises).

Haha! Good onet:

 

[redhawk23]

Yup. Because to some women, a token gay BFF is like a fashion accessary or status symbol like a shiny new purse, but audiences only like him as long as he's stereotypically campy to the point of being an object of comic relief and has no love life for them to feel threatened by.

Speaking of other cliches, every supervillain anymore has to let himself get captured so he can continue his master scheme from the inside, and then escape when he feels like it to display his supervillain evil genius (The Dark Knight, Skyfall, The Avengers, you could even say the prologue of The Dark Knight Rises).

And then there is Wallace Wells from Scott Pilgrim who gets all the dudes.

No one can resist.

 

[redhawk23]

Probably one of the greatest videos ever.

J.J. Abrams keyboard solo FTW.

I was confused but then I watched the video. I'm still confused but at least your statement makes sense.

 

[Darkness Falls]

- villains being so incredibly ahead of everyone else that they can pinpoint exact locations for things to happen etc

- villains being captured so they can do their stuff from the inside

- in romantic movies the antagonist has no character besides "hi, i'm the dickish ******* guy preventing the people you want to see together from hooking up in the movie"

 

[redhawk23]

 

[jmc]

When ever someone is about to speak into a microphone there's always feedback.

 

[Wolfwood]

Did Hannibal escape after they took him out of the glass prison? Otherwise, it's a solid point.

 

[Rylvan]

Bad guys with poor aim/magic bullets that never hit the good guys.

Bombs being defused with only 1 second left on the timer.

 

[warhorse78]

Ugly broke guy always gets the beautiful rich girl (while vice versa never seems to happen)

 

[Warhammer]

I noticed this when watching Ransom the other day. Breaking through glass legitimately cut people up. I hate when people smash through glass and aren't sliced up.

 

[Darkness Falls]

the liar revealed cliche/misunderstanding between friends cliche

 

[redhawk23]

Did Hannibal escape after they took him out of the glass prison? Otherwise, it's a solid point.

Yeah Hannibal didn't escape until they put him in the giant bird cage looking thing, but that seems to be the root of the iconography. Silence of the Lambs and X2 aside, though, all of those movies are from the past 2 years.

 

[MrMaooz]

I noticed this when watching Ransom the other day. Breaking through glass legitimately cut people up. I hate when people smash through glass and aren't sliced up.

I don't mind it, but yeah, most people don't get any cuts while going through glass in movies.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Horror movie characters being completely ******ed.

That, thank you
And the super powerful almost unbeatable and hard to kill mass murderer

 

[DarkSovereignty]

That's why I loved the end of death proof. Seeing the "badass" killer bite off way more than he can chew and get straight up curb stomped.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I don't mind it, but yeah, most people don't get any cuts while going through glass in movies.

I like that about Die Hard. Glass really messes McClane up.

 

[samsnee]

I watched White House Down recently. While I enjoyed it, I did laugh every time a character fell through glass and didnt get a single cut.

 

[gwynplaine]

Also every time the hero escapes a hail of bullets from a machine gun generally, leaving a trail of bullet holes on the wall right behind him. And of course also the guns with unlimited supplies of ammo.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Main protagonist gets hit so many times, and is mostly the punching of the antagonist in final battle
Then, 3 or 4 hits later after the tables turn, protagonist stands over the fallen body of the antagonist, TRIUMPHANT

 

[Rowsdower!]

The scene at the end of the movie where there is a big dramatic explosion that the hero MIGHT have gotten caught in, but then he just comes calmly walking out of it. It was a good scene in Cloak & Dagger, but that was in the friggin' 1980s. I couldn't believe they put it in Fast & Furious 6.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Expecting anything innovative or clever from a fast & furious movie will guarantee you disappointment on a grand scale

 

[AnneFan]

That Sean Bean's character dies.