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A character has the drop on their mortal enemy. Instead of finishing them off, they engage in a protracted discussion about what brought them to that point in time!
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)That can fire 30 or 40 times without reloading.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)Glamrock
(11,802 posts)One bullet one kill. Only James Bond could pull that off. He has a licence you know....
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)Glamrock
(11,802 posts)I never thought of that!
JDC
(10,133 posts)Ears would be ringing for days w/o protection.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)sakabatou
(42,174 posts)OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)there's the two-click rule. If it doesn't fire for exactly two trigger pulls, he or she throws the gun on the ground.
Apparently it's in the instruction manual...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)If a man and a woman are running away together, the woman will fall down and the man will have to pick her up.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)True Dough
(17,320 posts)while saving my own hide. I tell ya...
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Just let her run on her own or drop back to fend off the villain to let her get away.
mythology
(9,527 posts)Here is the appropriate rule when being chased:
You dont have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)As if the silly woman has no idea what to do.
True Dough
(17,320 posts)in either a movie or a TV show. If it happens early on and it just seems too far fetched, which it usually does, I just give up on it right away.
lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency, for example.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)every time "our hero" is captured by the bad guys (who have shown no hesitation in the past about offing anyone that gets in their way)... our hero is strapped to some sort of killing machine or chained up or whatever and the head bad guy orders that he be killed... and then leaves with some,most, or all of his henchmen.
Thus allowing our hero to escape and meet the head bad guy later in the picture.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)mucifer
(23,565 posts)lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?"
Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!"
FSogol
(45,526 posts)1. Monsters last rarrrrr. You've killed the monster, but suddenly he gets up one more time! Rarrrr.
2. Everyone claps for the hero at the end.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)NotBob: "As you know, Bob, we've been at war with the martians our whole lives, and that's why we can't go outside."
Bob: "Yes, of course I know that!"
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsYouKnow
TV Phone Etiquette
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTelephoneEtiquette
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)They never say anything like, "Sorry, gotta go now," or "Nice talking to you" or any other final remarks. They just walk away.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)Each page equals a minute of screentime and chit-chat like "Hello xxx", "Talk to you later", "how are you?", and "I'm fine, how are you?" is considered wasteful and dull UNLESS it's advancing the story.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)And I never thought about it, until I noticed it one day. Now I can't help but thinking that the person on the other end of the phone is like, "Hello? Hello?"
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)unless they're extremely rude. They could at least smile, nod or wave.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)Perhaps one character can say "talk to you later" as they're hanging up, just so they don't come off as rude, but that's it. Too much of that "hi/bye" dialogue gets old fast. Movies, even dramas, are exaggerated reality - the mundane has no place in them.
"The Room" (the Citizen Kane of bad movies) is loaded with "hi/bye" dialogue. So much so that YouTubers have compiled some of it:
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)instead of just shooting his adversary, which is what would really happen.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)LonePirate
(13,431 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)the bomb again! 🤬
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)hunter
(38,326 posts)It's a brilliant movie, it got a lot of cliches just right.
Never give up! Never surrender!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And the more recent cliché of the somebody turning and walking away moments before his bomb explodes behind him. Yeah, you're really badass. We get it. The first time, it was kind of cool. The 450th time? Not so much. Can directors think of nothing on their own, they have to crib from each other all the time?
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)spicysista
(1,663 posts)The grunt/roar/yell of a person that's about to attack. So, I'm going to announce the moment I'm going to pounce on someone... I think not!
Also, I really hate the hiss/growl before a vampire bites....totally unnecessary. Here's a fun spoof by Key and Peele:
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)No, this does not make me a Nazi.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)kmla
(4,047 posts)As someone in the industry, I can most definitely state that a suspended ceiling system will not support the weight of a full grown adult. It just won't.
And all ductwork is not big enough to crawl through. In fact, most standard ducts are about 12" x 18" or less by the time they get to an office or lab area. And they usually have dampers, turning vanes, and other stuff in them that would preclude traveling through them. Dust free, of course. Because there is no dust in movies.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)And the giant, wall-sized computer monitors.
And the cars that blow up or flip over in any traffic incident.
And tires squealing on a dirt road.
Atman
(31,464 posts)Everyone's got one!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)What's that show, "Criminal Minds," I think. The computer whiz looks up what a person of interest had for breakfast that morning, in about three seconds.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)with big letters - like when they look up something in a database like CODIS the computer flashes and beeps and displays MATCH in huge red letters. I don't know any database that does that.
hunter
(38,326 posts)I 'm frequently irritated by the reflection on my cell phone. A see-through screen would be even worse.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)Cars blowing up due to virtually any collision, and on top of that, the explosion is instantaneous. I saw a bad accident that ended up with the car engulfed in flames because the gas tank popped. But, it didn't explode, and the fire didn't even start until the first responders were already there. Paramedic and cop put it out with an extinguisher, but they kept everybody way back until FD got there to soak the pavement.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)there is no steam.
Oh! And activating one sprinkler head sets off the entire fss!
blaze
(6,373 posts)That one gets me too!
blaze
(6,373 posts)As a commercial HVAC tech for 20 yrs, this one always bugs me.
I was excited when the little mini-laptops came out because they were light enough for me to set on top of a ceiling tile.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,444 posts)I guess to make sure we heard it the first time?
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)dbackjon
(6,578 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)in case you missed the first 14 explosions
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)sarge43
(28,945 posts)Our Hero's slo mo walk away from The Explosion. No flying debris in his direction, no blast effective ruffling his hair or clothing, his ear drums intact. In short, protected by the green screen barrier.
Atman
(31,464 posts)Followed by hanging up the phone without saying "good-bye."
Midwestern Democrat
(806 posts)then puts it out.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)in the middle of a fight. Really? has anyone done that EVER?
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)and immediately afterwards he might have a faint bruise on his cheek but no cut lip, swelling, scraped knuckles or bloody nose that anybody would be expected to have. He's his usual handsome, almost completely unscathed self.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)instead of collapsing in an awkward heap, which is what would actually happen.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)sarge43
(28,945 posts)they flip instead of being reduced to ground round.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)The most obvious one of all: Going into the basement during a night time thunderstorm after the criminal homicidal maniac has excaped from the Criminally Homicidally Insane Asylum.
The Popular Cheerleader Prom Queen who falls for the pathetic picked-on dweeb.
The Hero Dog who runs off following a series of spoken commands and Saves the Day!
The desperate hero or heroine who bets their last crumbs on an unlikely outcome and Wins Big Time!
The guy who's released after years in prison and immediately gets into a car and starts driving around.
The guy who's released after years in prison and immediately gets some gorgeous and helpful woman in his life with no effort at all.
The fighting hero who falls through multiple stories of barriers and then gets up and continues the battle.
The big explosion where an entire wall of windows blasts into the protagonists and they're thrown to the ground, but then they get up and they're not shredded by thousands of razor-sharp glass shards.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)and picks himself up and walks away without a single scratch.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)looking neat and clean instead of pale, beaten up and awful, and attached to catheters.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)mucifer
(23,565 posts)blood coming out of the side of their mouth from organ failure. Nope, they just look pretty then they die.
For the healthier ones in the hospital half the time the oxygen cannula is on wrong.
For tv shows once a year they get shot wounds but never have any long term chronic pain or limp or anything from it.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)Oh, and the lower and more rumbly, the more menacing/morally ambiguous the crew of said space ship.
Remember the omnipresent rumbling on board the Death Star? Very low, very rumbly!
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)...and behold the Battlestar Galactica...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)they are still wearing their underwear.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)ms liberty
(8,596 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)Kaleva
(36,342 posts)becca da bakkah
(426 posts)...seen her naked, so who cares anyway? And now you've got a stray sheet that will either have to be washed, or the bed will have to be remade. Annoying as fuck!
Xolodno
(6,401 posts)...doesn't have ANY body fluid stains.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)There were 2 sex scenes where Laura Dern was on top and both times she's wearing a bra. I get that actresses don't like doing nude scenes, especially when they aren't in their 20s anymore. But if they aren't going to get nude put them on the bottom and artfully arrange arms so you can't see anything. You might wear a nightgown while having sex, but no one strips down to a bra. Bras are the first thing that comes off because they're UNCOMFORTABLE.
Also, while nudity has gotten more equal in the last few years, there's still a lot more female nudity than male, especially full frontal. Kudos to the actors willing to let use see their junk. It's about time.
patricia92243
(12,601 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)but when the bad guy shows up, they drop their cane and start bouncing off the walls, doing gymnastics, backflips, cartwheels, etc.
I'm looking at you, Yoda!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)without fumbling for his keys. And, person in a desperate hurry to do something important can always find a parking spot.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)dbackjon
(6,578 posts)Keys stay in pocket the entire time.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)No excuse for them.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)alone because of the Great Tragedy, but he's persuaded to come out of retirement one last time by nefarious agents who intend to make him the Fall Guy, but he finds out and turns the tables on them, making off with all the loot he knows how to siphon into his pocket.
Then, somehow, he never gets into trouble for the scores of people he's killed, or the destructive car chases where he's plowed through the poor vegetable stand guy's business, or the other mayhem he's committed.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)Can't be done.
And another vote to people going through glass windows and not getting so much as a scratch. Likewise not possible.
Not turning on lights in the house or room or trailer or whatever when searching for an evil something. Also, the way lights only illuminate a very small space immediately next to the light. Even a dim bulb will light up a larger space.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)hibbing
(10,109 posts)The fruit cart getting knocked over in a chase scene. Oddly, I have lived in a city all my life and have never seen one of those rolling fruit carts. I think they use the same one from movie to movie.
Peace
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)in my city or any other. But it's tough to knock over a taco truck.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)mind. I guess Spielberg wanted an anti-Marion Ravenwood for the sequel, but did she gave to be that whiny and weak?
sarge43
(28,945 posts)betsuni
(25,618 posts)Her white shirt never gets dirty. It must have been a magical shirt.
sdfernando
(4,941 posts)James Bond always wins the fight.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)I'm sick of that movie trope.
The computer whiz who can break into anything or find out anything in a few seconds by typing furiously. Doesn't anybody use a mouse?
Wolf
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)Midwestern Democrat
(806 posts)after the hard landing as if the car's completely unaffected - when in reality the car was completely totaled after the stunt driver made that jump.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)and never hit anything. The good guys get one bad guy per bullet.
Women whose only conversations are those where they discuss their love interests.
Grrrr.......
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Yes, I'm talking about Sex and the City.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)betsuni
(25,618 posts)Watched one the other day and every shot fired by the white guys brought down at least one Indian. They just fold over, can't miss.
Kaleva
(36,342 posts)Kaleva
(36,342 posts)All that mysterious natural lighting makes the use of flashlights and torches rather superfluous.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)causes a vehicle to explode. Ramming it has the same effect.
If all else fails, lighting a trail of leaking gas will do the trick.
edbermac
(15,947 posts)And he can walk into any bar in the world and everyone recognizes him.
Ah, Mr Bond! The usual, a vodka martini, shaken not stirred?
Edit: People shoot Superman and he just stands there letting the bullets bounce off his chest. Then they throw the gun at him and he ducks.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)She always works for a fashion magazine, works at a fashion company or own a cute little bakery. Just once, I want to see a female lead who is an engineer, veterinarian, pilot or anything of the other thousands of jobs out there.
Movies with tons of white guys in their 30s and 40s, one gorgeous white woman in her 20s and no asians, blacks or hispanics.
People in their 20s with way more experience, skills and education than would be physically possible. For instance, a 25 year old martial arts expert who speaks 7 languages, has two PhDs and is Vice President of their company.
Nurse always being portrayed as dumb, incompetent or lazy.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)She is also a size zero with a fancy wardrobe and a shoe obsession. Even though she has a job, she has plenty of time off during the day to do things like have long lunches with friends to talk about their relationships. She is always either trying to get a guy, keep a guy or get over a guy and find a new guy. She also has a gay best friend (always male) and a less attractive female friend who are always there to discuss everything about her relationships. The gay man works in the performing arts and knows all about fashion. The female best friend is desperate for a man but cannot find one because she is a size 6 which is fat in the movie world. In the real world, the female friend would be considered very pretty. Of course, these people don't have a love life or seemingly any life of their own.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)The gay best friend is usually black -- ya know, Size 0 is all about progressiveness and inclusion
(I don't think I need the sarcasm icon here)
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)on The Mindy Project and how many people said she was FAT because she's not a size 2.
Mendocino
(7,505 posts)you know he's going to die. A relative of the dino fodder character or the nameless henchman.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Nobody needs to go to the toilet.
How do they wipe their asses when taking a shit in the middle of nowhere?
For example, the series Lost. They are stuck on an island and:
Nobody needs to wash their hair.
Nobody needs to shave.
Nobody gets sunburn.
Nobody needs "female hygiene products".
raccoon
(31,119 posts)This is an oldie, not sure if it happens in movies any more.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)He was raised by great apes who do not have body shame, let alone the concept of clothing.
And how and why does he shave?
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)and had to be decent. That's why he shaves, I forget what with. Also, though Tarzan talks like a tard, he can read and write.
Wolf
sarge43
(28,945 posts)However, point taken.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)Either pay for a realy phone number or don't display it. This just yells at you, "This is a MOVIE!!!"
jayschool2013
(2,313 posts)shouting questions at some poor public official.
Some shout. Most don't.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)Then makes a 500 rappel.
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)The kids on Friends are a good example. Getting a three bedroom apartment in Manhattan like the one depicted in the series with a balcony would cost thousands. All of Jerry Seinfeld's buddies could never afford the places they live in. Kramer is unemployed yet he lives in an apartment that would cost well over a thousand a month.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)and there's no evidence in their home that there's a dog there (unless the movie is actually about the dog). No dog dishes, toys, leashes, fur or chewed-up items. They walk the dog in one scene and you never see the dog again, even in other scenes taking place in the house.
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)Really, this is in tons of movies, so qualifies as a cliche. And it's disgusting. Screenwriters apparently love it for the gritty "reality".
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)On a planet of billions of people, I highly doubt that there's only one person with the skills/talents to do the job.
VOX
(22,976 posts)The protagonist can be in a bar, look up at a screen, and bingo! Something's on that's desperate and needs fixing or fleeing, right away!
jrandom421
(1,005 posts)Where the wild-eyed loner disrespected "genius" or the "brilliant" kid always knows more and has "newer" information than the respected scientists and engineers who have been working on or with a project for years, and somehow saves the day.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Pretty much every post sex scene has the woman lying in bed with a blanket completely covering her breasts. Makes no sense. If you got naked and screwed, why would you be worried about your partner seeing your breasts afterwards? It's like they instantly go back to being an uptight prude once the sex is done. Are there people out there that actually do this?
pnwest
(3,266 posts)I dont want anything accidentally brushing across them! Seriously!
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Iggo
(47,565 posts)Empty coffee cups.
Lack of airbags.
Exposition.
(Not really what you're asking for, but those things really bother me.)
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)And VW Beetles.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)I forget in what movie I first saw it (maybe a good trivia question for here) but it seemed like every second movie after some actor was face to face with some opponent and suddenly butts his head. Never tried it. Seems like hitting a hammer with a nail.
liberaltrucker
(9,130 posts)Snellius
(6,881 posts)I suppose it's some kind of crossroad. But wouldn't that take longer, assuming who you're chasing would take the fastest route?
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)brettdale
(12,384 posts)Hero is good looking.
bad person is ugly
fat person is lazy
short person is aggressive
woman are 20 years younger than their partners.
You know the white person is cool, because his best buddy is a funny black guy.
5 year old kids are played by eight year olds.
10 year old kids are play by 16 year olds.
16 year old kids are played by 27 year olds.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)and he's out cold for the rest of the scene.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)Squinch
(51,004 posts)game, misses the birthday, etc.
It is a plot device used all the time to show how busy and important the hero is, and we know it's OK because either the wife is fine with it, or she isn't in which case it doubles as a plot device to show the wife is a shrew.
What it really shows is that the protagonist is a narcissistic asshole.
underpants
(182,878 posts)Not really a peeve but it's definitely a constant
sarge43
(28,945 posts)It's always loose, never in a package. Our Leads bump into each other, spaghetti spills all over the NYC sidewalk. Leads have a 'cute' moment of confusion and banter. Then ... wait for it... they put the sketti back in the bag!
I have this dream that perky girl lead dies the next day of a disease that even the CDC won't go near.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)pnwest
(3,266 posts)oversleeps in the morning and jumps out of bed, throws on last nights clothes and runs in to work. No shower, no brushing teeth - NO one goes to work smelling like that!
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,337 posts)Xolodno
(6,401 posts)...if you hit someone that hard and it made that sound....their dead. Plain and simple.
But nope. Not only does the villian throw a punch and make the sound, the hero returns the punch with slightly variation of the sound...and they keep doing this for awhile.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)You can tell by the bend of the elbow that there is nothing in the luggage.
I know that they have to do a dozen rin throughs but the final shot should be like the bags our wives pack, overfilled and heavy