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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 07:49 PM Original message |
Favorite movie cliches? |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. 555-xxxx phone numbers. |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 08:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. LOL! |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 02:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
52. I like to call that the Jenny effect |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 08:21 AM Response to Reply #52 |
61. After the song? |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 09:40 AM Response to Reply #61 |
74. But of course... |
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Monkey see Monkey Do (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 12:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
76. I remember when 'Bruce Almighty' came out |
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Chovexani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. The heroic dog-that-lives scene in cheesy disaster flicks |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 08:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Ah--a classic cliche! |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. car goes over cliff |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:11 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. I call that "APCA" - "As per Charlie's Angels" n/t |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 08:19 AM Response to Reply #4 |
60. I swear they blow up... |
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antigone382 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
6. The way the hero's 6-shooter always has like, thirty bullets... |
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Chovexani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 08:09 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. One of my favorite dumb action movie cliches |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Agreed-- |
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-..__... (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
8. Hero always finds the perfect parking spot. |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. LOL! |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. Every time a car leaves the road, it explodes |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 08:20 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. UNLESS it's essential that the car remain intact, because it has the hero, |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:03 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. ...won't even have a scratch on it |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
14. The scenes where several people explain something |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:08 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. LOL! |
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Devra (905 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 08:42 AM Response to Reply #17 |
66. and that they would continue talking about the same thing for that long |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
15. the "arsenal preparation" montage |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:10 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. OMG--LMAO! |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:13 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. "no one was there to help us!!!" |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 08:23 AM Response to Reply #15 |
62. There has been several spoofs of that... |
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fudge stripe cookays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-05 08:45 AM Response to Reply #62 |
81. Was that "Student Bodies?" |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
16. The dog with the shifty eyes that move back and forth |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:11 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. LIke Cujo? |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
21. The victim ALWAYS runs upstairs. Why do they DO that? |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:17 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. LOL! LOL! |
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ThoughtCriminal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
22. Do I cut the red wire? ... or the blue one? |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:23 PM Response to Reply #22 |
33. Apparently, film terrorists like those colors. |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
24. when the hero/heroine enters the house |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:19 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. What about leaving the door open? |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
25. Taking time out of the story to go to a cool jazz club |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:18 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. self-delete |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
28. Watching a battle in space, where you hear every sound, and |
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Heather Chandler (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
29. Teenage girls who run and trip in horror movies. |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:20 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Really :) and welcome to DU |
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Heather Chandler (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:24 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Nah, probably not. |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:21 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Oh, I know--like no one can run w/out falling in horror films |
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Heather Chandler (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:25 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. Yes, very stupid cliche. |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:29 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. It might help that they all didn't wear heels |
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fudge stripe cookays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-05 08:46 AM Response to Reply #29 |
82. Gah. Yah beat me. |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:26 PM Response to Original message |
36. Horror movie--people having sex--someone's going to die! |
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Nevernose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
37. "I'm too old for this shit!" n/t |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
39. The leader assembling his squad of "rebellious, loose cannon, hot... |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:46 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Yes--this one |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
40. Car chase scene |
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the_real_38 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
42. 'live fast, die young, and have a good-looking corpse' - |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
43. You're a loose cannon! You're off the case. Give me your gun and badge! |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 12:25 AM Response to Reply #43 |
46. Sooooo many movies with that sentence in their dialogue... |
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MrSandman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
44. Pulp Fiction... |
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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-05 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
45. The gas tank explodes when shot. |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
47. Sentries, German or otherwise, being deaf |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 12:50 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. Auto-destruct buttons |
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LaraMN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
49. Gratuitous product placement. |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 01:31 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Those can be annoying-- |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 01:50 AM Response to Reply #49 |
51. I noticed this in Close Contact of the Third Kind |
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Spirochete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 06:41 AM Response to Original message |
53. In any horror movie |
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Meatwad (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 06:42 AM Response to Original message |
54. How there's always a thunderstorm... |
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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 06:48 AM Response to Original message |
55. Guy wins over girl by singing lame song or reciting lame poetry.... |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 05:39 PM Response to Reply #55 |
77. This is a good one! |
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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-05 08:22 AM Response to Reply #77 |
80. oh not bad |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-05 09:01 AM Response to Reply #80 |
83. Well, of course I do! |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 07:33 AM Response to Original message |
56. Good guys never miss when they shoot, bad guys always do |
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Devra (905 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 07:36 AM Response to Original message |
57. movie chareters never wait for their change when they buy something |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 05:41 PM Response to Reply #57 |
78. So many seem to not even notice that one... |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
58. A lot of good ones on Roger Ebert's site... |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 05:47 PM Response to Reply #58 |
79. I love that Roger Ebert |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
59. The Convenient Newscast rule. |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 08:26 AM Response to Reply #59 |
63. Actually, that has been happening to me a whole lot lately. |
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Devra (905 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 08:40 AM Response to Reply #63 |
65. lets hope so |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 09:11 AM Response to Reply #59 |
71. How about turning off the TV and assuming they know the whole story |
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MissMillie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
64. "No, really, you guys go ahead....." |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 09:12 AM Response to Reply #64 |
72. the explosives expert "DON'T WAIT FOR ME!!!" |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 09:26 AM Response to Reply #64 |
73. I guess they need their... "Me time." |
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Catfight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
67. The obligatory French Bread in a paper sack from the grocery store. nt |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 09:03 AM Response to Reply #67 |
70. Ha! same time- you beat me by one post |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
68. FRENCH .... ....... ..... BREAD ......IN THE GROCERY BAG |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 09:01 AM Response to Reply #68 |
69. Hey, that's real life reflected in the Cinema, man. |
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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-05 09:29 AM Response to Reply #68 |
86. And carrots. |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-05 10:06 AM Response to Reply #68 |
87. And whoever is carrying the bag .... |
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mattomjoe (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-05 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
75. Horror movies have tons -- my favorite is someone opening a door to |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-05 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
84. Women letting loose, and indiscriminately dancing around |
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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-05 09:28 AM Response to Original message |
85. Front doors are never locked. |
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