TV/Movie Clichés You Hate

[ANC]

Two that really piss me off:

Woman tells man "I'm late" in reference to her period.
Man replies with some reference to physically being somewhere on time.

"Quick, what's the number for 911?!!"

Blech...

Now have at it...

[biggestmexi]

Spider Pig. :tongue:

[yojimbo7248]

The cop or soldier who is just about to retire, talks about all of the great things he will do, how much his wife loves him, and what a wonderful few decades he has in front of him and then gets shot down. Usually there is a partner who seeks revenge.

[drjoek]

Turn on the fucking lights when you enter the house and are worried about an intruder.

[ANC]

The cop or soldier who is just about to retire, talks about all of the great things he will do, how much his wife loves him, and what a wonderful few decades he has in front of him and then gets shot down. Usually there is a partner who seeks revenge.

MENDOSA!!!!!!!!!
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[Chigworthy]

Ghosts. Fucking idiotic. You'd think in a nation that predominantly believes in a fluffy cloud-laden afterlife, that the same ghost movie would not be made over and over to some degree of success. This morning, The Messengers was on. I literally watched a few minutes and I already figured out the plot. Tell me if I'm wrong.

City girl acts out against dad after he replaces her tragically dead mom with some new broad and has a baby. Girl is good at heart, but does something forgivingly criminal. Family moves to country to escape the creeping evil of city life and find a creepy old house for dirt cheap. Small town is suffering at the hands of rich company man, who has somehow layed off a bunch of hayseeds in order to make more money. Company man also had something to do with the slaughter of innocent family that used to live in creepy house. Slaughter was so awful that a presumably innocent christian family has been turned into ghosts that need to get their story out by scaring the shit out of the new family by inexplicably crawling around on the ceiling. Luckily, girl is smarter than everyone and deciphers the mystery after piecing together ambiguous clues she finds in the town library/house basement/creepy shed/creepy attic. Supergirl finds out how to lay to rest the poor souls and get vengeance against the company man.

How'd I do? I didn't like the Pang brothers before they came to America, and they still stink.

[toolshed]

When a character is trying to open a jar of something (or perhaps urn of cremated ashes), and the lid is stuck. And I'm all a-twitter with anticipation, wondering what is gonna happen, and the tension builds. And wouldn't you know it, the lid comes open suddenly and the contents of said jar/urn are unceremoniously dumped onto said character.

:thumbdown:

[EliSnow]

Look at any tv show featuring a team of some sort (whether they are crimefighters, a group of doctors, vampire slayers). Chances are in the opening you'll see a shot of all of the members of the team walking towards the camera with the lead character in the middle).

[ecobag2]

Look at any tv show featuring a team of some sort (whether they are crimefighters, a group of doctors, vampire slayers). Chances are in the opening you'll see a shot of all of the members of the team walking towards the camera with the lead character in the middle).

There was a show in the late 80s I think that was one of the first to do that. Maybe it's around forever but I remember seeing them walking toward the camera with Runaway playing and thinking it was really slick - they had shotguns and gman trenchcoats.

I think it was called Crime Story. Show didn't last long.

[drjoek]

Ron has mentioned it on the air but It drives me nuts when they turn on the TV and the exact story they want to see is on. Also if someone will call and say turn on the Tv the story is just beginning. How would the caller know its on if it hasnt started yet?:wacko:

[CountryBob]

The damn airport cliche. Boy or Girl is leaving the relationship/town by airplane and the significant other rushes to the airport to stop their lover from flying away. They either catch them before they board or they think that they took the flight only to find that the other came to their sense and decided not to go. Cue sappy music and a huge sloppy kiss followed by crying. Blaggh

[ToiletCrusher]

The cop or soldier who is just about to retire, talks about all of the great things he will do, how much his wife loves him, and what a wonderful few decades he has in front of him and then gets shot down. Usually there is a partner who seeks revenge.

MENDOSA!!!!!!!!!
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Homer, that hat's been with the station twenty years! He had one day left till retirement.

[grlNIN]

This isn't a cliiche but i see it on a lot of shows (mainly Gilmore Girls, where i first noticed it).

Whenever it is cold or supposed to be Winter the characters are walking around in really tight, small open jackets with no scarves or gloves.

[ANC]

Homer, that hat's been with the station twenty years! He had one day left till retirement.

:lol:

[WhistlePig]

The damn airport cliche. Boy or Girl is leaving the relationship/town by airplane and the significant other rushes to the airport to stop their lover from flying away. They either catch them before they board or they think that they took the flight only to find that the other came to their sense and decided not to go. Cue sappy music and a huge sloppy kiss followed by crying. Blaggh

Same exact outcome, different setting: the wedding cliche. I especially hate when they have their big heartfelt discussion in front of the entire congregation.

[cougarjake13]

i dont know if its a cliche

but i hate that every episode in csi vegas is always dark, even in the day time


they go into a house and its dark and no one turns on a fucking light, they just use flashlights


it annoys the fucking shit out of me

[MacVittie]

Any movie involving any kids sports team is exactly the same... The Mighty Ducks, The Big Green, Little Giants, etc. etc.

[AnnoyedGrunt]

Any time a woman says her water broke and the guy assumes that she's talking about a beverage.

[Foster]

When a character is trying to open a jar of something (or perhaps urn of cremated ashes), and the lid is stuck. And I'm all a-twitter with anticipation, wondering what is gonna happen, and the tension builds. And wouldn't you know it, the lid comes open suddenly and the contents of said jar/urn are unceremoniously dumped onto said character.

:thumbdown:

that sounds funny; what movie was that in?

[Rob roccoli]

i dont know if its a cliche

but i hate that every episode in csi vegas is always dark, even in the day time


they go into a house and its dark and no one turns on a fucking light, they just use flashlights


it annoys the fucking shit out of me

I stopped watching that show because of the flashlights in the middle of the day. It's like a bad Polack joke. Fucking stupid.
My own cliche is the bad guys in movies or tv that just run their fucking mouths until the good guy figures it out and kills/subdues him.
Die Hard: "The next time to have a chance to kill someone, DON'T HESITATE."
"Thanks for the advice." BOOSHGA - BOOSHGA - BOOSHGA (right up the legs, through the table)

[PapaBear]

Any cop drama...

Cop: Do you mind if we check out your computer for information on the subject?

Business owner or Supervisor: Sure. Once you get a warrant.

Cop: No problem. We'll get the warrant and keep your customers out for a week while we go through the whole place with a fine toothed comb. Or... you could just let us get it done now, and be out of here.

Business owner or Supervisor: (stands aside)

[patsopinion]

live audience is the most over used horrifying thing ever invented
stop telling me when to laugh and make something worth laughing at

[hedges]

This cliche doesn't really piss me off but it's something I've noticed. It seems like in movies 90% of the time when someone smokes they use a Zippo lighter. The Bic is much more popular, but I think they use the Zippo in film because it is more aesthetically pleasing.

[hedges]

The obligatory car chase. They are usually uninteresting and overdone. After the French Connection and Bullit, I can't really remember one that stands out (except maybe Gone In 60 Seconds). There are too many of them. And it seems like they are inserted into movies for no reason except to bump up the action.

[jonyrotn]

Whenever a woman gets dumped, that night she MUST make a phonecall to another man-hating female in that stupid bathrobe the Goodwill wouldn't even take while eating out of an ice cream container with an over sized spoon..
Fuckin ay already..

[AnnoyedGrunt]

The guy shows up at the mall, park or wherever looking for the girl he's interested in. He sees her from behind, runs over and is shocked to find it's just a guy with long hair.

[GreatAmericanZero]

live audience is the most over used horrifying thing ever invented
stop telling me when to laugh and make something worth laughing at

if u ever want to piss off a girl, whenever she watches repeats of "Friends", after every "canned laughter" ask her "why was that funny?"

They use the laugh track after every sentence!




anyway, I'm watching Roadhouse and heres a cliche i noticed. A movie where the hero kills dozens of muscular, tough strong hench men...and then the main villian, whose usually some elderly out-of-shape actor somehow gives him a good fight

[MacVittie]

White boys/men dancing awkwardly. It's just not funny anymore.

[FezsAssistant]

Ghosts. Fucking idiotic. You'd think in a nation that predominantly believes in a fluffy cloud-laden afterlife, that the same ghost movie would not be made over and over to some degree of success. This morning, The Messengers was on. I literally watched a few minutes and I already figured out the plot. Tell me if I'm wrong.

City girl acts out against dad after he replaces her tragically dead mom with some new broad and has a baby. Girl is good at heart, but does something forgivingly criminal. Family moves to country to escape the creeping evil of city life and find a creepy old house for dirt cheap. Small town is suffering at the hands of rich company man, who has somehow layed off a bunch of hayseeds in order to make more money. Company man also had something to do with the slaughter of innocent family that used to live in creepy house. Slaughter was so awful that a presumably innocent christian family has been turned into ghosts that need to get their story out by scaring the shit out of the new family by inexplicably crawling around on the ceiling. Luckily, girl is smarter than everyone and deciphers the mystery after piecing together ambiguous clues she finds in the town library/house basement/creepy shed/creepy attic. Supergirl finds out how to lay to rest the poor souls and get vengeance against the company man.

How'd I do? I didn't like the Pang brothers before they came to America, and they still stink.

I think what some people see as 'ghosts' are really just old prototypes of Ron's smokepants that were discarded, then unearthed.

[FezsAssistant]

if u ever want to piss off a girl, whenever she watches repeats of "Friends", after every "canned laughter" ask her "why was that funny?"

They use the laugh track after every sentence!




anyway, I'm watching Roadhouse and heres a cliche i noticed. A movie where the hero kills dozens of muscular, tough strong hench men...and then the main villian, whose usually some elderly out-of-shape actor somehow gives him a good fight

haha. true (like Commando, too). and somehow in the process the hero literally dodges every single bullet fired at him.

[SuperKarateMonkeyDeathFez]

It still annoys me when shows and movies do the fake mini-twist where someone is telling the main character something, but they're doing it with a tone of voice that makes zero fucking sense based on what they're telling...like, the main character goes to see their boss and is expecting to be in trouble, so the boss starts everything sounding all pissed and threatening, then dramatic pause, then happily tells them great news instead. What the fuck!?!?! Who starts off telling someone something with the exact opposite inflection and volume and mannerisms than what you would expect based on the news? It's become such a cliche that shows now make fun of it.

[PapaBear]

Cowboys are nearly incapable of being killed without falling over a railing or out of a window.

[johnniewalker]

The special episode where a character leaves to find themself and the special episode when they return. When you sing goodbye Toby I thought they really meant it.

[jennysmurf]

How about the grizzled veteran cop teamed with the straight-outta-the-academy rookie? :flush:

[GreatAmericanZero]

White boys/men dancing awkwardly. It's just not funny anymore.

Thank you!

the worst combination is "fat suit" actor dancing awkwardly....how so many people loved Tom Cruise doing that in "Tropic Thunder" is beyond me

[JimBeam]

I hate when they team the different groups of teens together to forget their differences and overcome a common problem.

You have the tough inner-city black kid, the redneck or nerdy white guy, the smart Asian kid, etc ....

It came to mind yesterday when I, for some unknown reason, watched the last 20 minutes of Iron Eagle 4.

I hate when there's no college football on TV.

[Chigworthy]

How about corny street gangs that are multi cultural?

[Sinestro]

the hottest girl/boy in school goes out with the loser boy/girl as a joke and in the end they fall for them.

[AnnoyedGrunt]

It's based on truth but I'm sick of seeing jokes about stoners getting the munchies.

[Brad_Rush]

I don't know if this is the same as a cliche or not but any time in a comedy where there is an extended scene with joke sub-titles of what someone is saying they all have to throw in a scene where a character talks for a long amount of time and the corresponding subtitle is just one word. Maybe I thought this was funny the first time someone did it but now it irks me.

[patsopinion]

the triple or quadruple twist

i can handel a good twist
i can even take a few in one sitting


but when the movie is comprised of deception, dont enter the new twist as fact
it is okay to have an audience not know whats going
but dont register a twist or alternate back story as fact and then change that story
and then dont change that story

twists are not character development, plot development, or even essential to the story

its to make the story different but you need to have a quality piece in place in order to make it worth watching


movie that did this:
gone baby gone- multiple story lines introduced as fact rather than conjecture or the theories of casey afflec
good over all product but def took away from the experience

cant remember any others
because they all sucked

[ToiletCrusher]

In the tv show or movie when they actually mention that they hate those old cliches.

I hate that one

[Slumbag]

I hate the WACKY guy at the office with plaid shirt and striped pants. He acts zany so he's gotta dress that way.

The Cop/Doughnut thing is done, too.

[Yosammity]

This is what I like to call the "Puff the Magic Dragon" storyline cliche:

A happy-go-lucky (but kind of irresponsible) protagonist enters the life of a repressed character (or characters) and shows him/her/them how to enjoy life. Ultimately the happy-go-lucky guy finds himself depressed and down-and-out. The previously repressed character(s) now with a renewed joie de vivre rescue the protagonist from his misery.

It's amazing how many times this storyline had been used (and continues to be used) by Hollywood.

[patsopinion]

This is what I like to call the "Puff the Magic Dragon" storyline cliche:

A happy-go-lucky (but kind of irresponsible) protagonist enters the life of a repressed character (or characters) and shows him/her/them how to enjoy life. Ultimately the happy-go-lucky guy finds himself depressed and down-and-out. The previously repressed character(s) now with a renewed joie de vivre rescue the protagonist from his misery.

It's amazing how many times this storyline had been used (and continues to be used) by Hollywood.

sssshhhhh
they'll run out of kid movies to make

i was going to say this is why pixar was so different and actually made good movies
but in reality neamo is that story line almost word for word

i wouldnt consider wall-e or toy story 1 in that category though

[GreatAmericanZero]

with the "mismatch pairing" cliche, the worst is how they always bond through a song or teaching the ohter one how to dance

[Slumbag]

When a character is trying to open a jar of something (or perhaps urn of cremated ashes), and the lid is stuck. And I'm all a-twitter with anticipation, wondering what is gonna happen, and the tension builds. And wouldn't you know it, the lid comes open suddenly and the contents of said jar/urn are unceremoniously dumped onto said character.

:thumbdown:

Or when the man can't do it, but Ol' wifey comes on in and has no problem with it.

Also, the girls bonding by dancing to old soul music (I believe Ronnie B has brought this one up before).

[fezident]

Does every god damned chickflick HAVE to have a zany montage scene of somebody trying on clothes?!
Quick edits of her coming out of the dressing room over and over and over with a poppy song-of-the moment playing beneath it.
Another crucial ingredient: she is trying on these outfits for somebody who apparantly can not speak but, rather can only communicate through a series of overly-exaggerated facial expressions.

Oh, and at least one of the outfits HAS to be slutty and/or revealing. This is met with disapproval from her girlfriend OR her bestest guy friend who's always a homo (for the time being) but, the handyman on the ladder for an hour replacing a lightbulb sure did appreciate it!

F'ing chickflicks.
Snoooooooooze.

[TooLowBrow]

why are streets always wet?

[PapaBear]

why are streets always wet?
I think I read somewhere that it's a photography thing. I can't remember the exact details, but I think it involves allowing for better contrast or something.

EDIT: Doing a quick Google search I found an interesting source (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=30604) for the topic.

[SuperKarateMonkeyDeathFez]

Does every god damned chickflick HAVE to have a zany montage scene of somebody trying on clothes?!
Quick edits of her coming out of the dressing room over and over and over with a poppy song-of-the moment playing beneath it.
Another crucial ingredient: she is trying on these outfits for somebody who apparantly can not speak but, rather can only communicate through a series of overly-exaggerated facial expressions.

Oh, and at least one of the outfits HAS to be slutty and/or revealing. This is met with disapproval from her girlfriend OR her bestest guy friend who's always a homo (for the time being) but, the handyman on the ladder for an hour replacing a lightbulb sure did appreciate it!

F'ing chickflicks.
Snoooooooooze.

You can apply this to comedies featuring elderly characters. There's inevitably a montage of them trying to act young set to some really obvious and ironic music, like "Bad to the Bone" or "I'm too Sexy."

[JimBeam]

This just randomly popped into my head as I was thinking about this thread but how about handgrenades that take forever to explode ?

I mean I've never seen a real one go off but I doubt it takes as long as it appears in movies.

[cougarjake13]

Thank you!

the worst combination is "fat suit" actor dancing awkwardly....how so many people loved Tom Cruise doing that in "Tropic Thunder" is beyond me



for him i guess its b/c its out of character

[cougarjake13]

how bout how all villains and their henchmen are horrible shots but the hero is fucking dead on with one shot



and how when theres only one bullet left, they never miss

[fezident]

If you toss a gun.... it's all good.
Should you accidentally DROP a gun... it will shoot an innocent person in the stomach.

[GreatAmericanZero]

this is something i HATE in comedies

when you are watching a comedy and there are laughs for the first 2 acts, but then in the 3rd acts it turns into overlong action sequences with no jokes. So many comedies stop being funny in the final 1/3rd.

[Devo37]

If you toss a gun.... it's all good.
Should you accidentally DROP a gun... it will shoot an innocent person in the stomach.

accompanied by a 3 second clip of the gut-shot guy holding his stomach with a sad 'wtf?' look on his face.

[TooLowBrow]

this is something i HATE in comedies

when you are watching a comedy and there are laughs for the first 2 acts, but then in the 3rd acts it turns into overlong action sequences with no jokes. So many comedies stop being funny in the final 1/3rd.

or if its all jokes till 'the big race/contest/whatever'

like the john candy summer one where its all jokes then it turns into a boat racing movie

[GreatAmericanZero]

or if its all jokes till 'the big race/contest/whatever'

like the john candy summer one where its all jokes then it turns into a boat racing movie

also, its all jokes til he has to win back the love interest that you don't care if they get together in the first place

[Coach]

I hate when they team the different groups of teens together to forget their differences and overcome a common problem.

You have the tough inner-city black kid, the redneck or nerdy white guy, the smart Asian kid, etc ....

It came to mind yesterday when I, for some unknown reason, watched the last 20 minutes of Iron Eagle 4.

I hate when there's no college football on TV.
See the Capoiera movie with Marc DeCascos.....Watch Band of the Hand, an aweful mix of that and Miami Vice.

And what is with those movies where they are shutting Down/Taking over the Prep School and the students fight back?

[TooLowBrow]

has anyone seen the 'gang' in while she was out?

[tele7]

The final stand-off between the good guy and the bad guys:

1)The good guy cracks a small bad joke before his demise

2)The entire group starts up with increasing laughter

3)At the height of laughter, the good guy reaches for the hidden gun and blows them all away

[cougarjake13]

The final stand-off between the good guy and the bad guys:

1)The good guy cracks a small bad joke before his demise

2)The entire group starts up with increasing laughter

3)At the height of laughter, the good guy reaches for the hidden gun and blows them all away

die hard with a vengeance

[JimBeam]

I'm watching " Death Sentence " w/ Kevin Bacon and it has the " multicultural gang " as well as :

The scene where people are fighting over a gun/knife and one of them gets shot/stabbed.

The special added twist is when we're left to wonder, for a few seconds, which one it was.

[sailor]

head them off at the pass? i hate that cliché.


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[JimBeam]

I'm watching " Death Sentence " w/ Kevin Bacon and it has the " multicultural gang " as well as :

The scene where people are fighting over a gun/knife and one of them gets shot/stabbed.

The special added twist is when we're left to wonder, for a few seconds, which one it was.

Add another one to the list :

One person is running away from another and they have either a really big lead and it shrinks or they have a small lead and somehow the pursuer is magically further back after 1 turn.

[PapaBear]

It only takes one chop on the shoulder or one whack with a blunt object to instantly knock someone unconscious. And they stay out as long as is needed. Or, if they don't stay knocked out, they immediately are up on their feet after they wake up.

One exception to this is what they did with the agent on Conspiracy Theory. He kept faking being knocked out, and by the end of the movie he was a wreck.

[Coach]

Every fucking time in a slasher movie..they run to the car...the car is out of gas or on the fritz..the same car that they drove miles in to get to the place.
On the Flip side, an industrial machine that could be used to get away..is always used to Impale/trap the killer, usually with some tag line like "Fuck you Asshole"

[PapaBear]

Every bomb maker has a "signature". Yes. I know a lot of them do, but come on... All of them?

[Devo37]

Every bomb maker has a "signature". Yes. I know a lot of them do, but come on... All of them?

and don't forget, they always color-code their wiring so that the person defusing the bomb can figure out which color wire they should cut (along with a long pause and a close-up of the wire clipper right before they snip the correct wire with one second left on the timer).

[Devo37]

i hate the late in the movie heel turn. they usually do it for the 'shocking twist' value, but it usually means that the secret-heel character's actions for the first hour of the movie make absolutely no sense. it's just bad, lazy writing.

[ToiletCrusher]

any movie or show that ends as 'to be continued...'

[fezident]

If the show or movie is a feel-good musical, whenever the characters do a big production number with lots of joyus singing and dancing.... there's always ONE character that's not into it. (usually an old person.)
" These crazy kids on the subway with me just spontaneously burst into song?! Hmph! I will now show my disgust by shaking head "no!" and then burying nose in my novelty-sized newspaper. " (or sheet music.)

[Slumbag]

You can apply this to comedies featuring elderly characters. There's inevitably a montage of them trying to act young set to some really obvious and ironic music, like "Bad to the Bone" or "I'm too Sexy."

This can apply to unattractive people (usually fat people, or nerdy guys), and have them do something that is normally sexy, to the song "Milkshake".


Hardy fucking har.

[JimBeam]

In football movies when they try and teach a lesson to the loudmouth defender the pass protection seems to disappear and then they drill him in the nuts w/ the ball as he's blitzing.

Sometimes it's the tough, tomboy girl that does it to earn the respect of the team.

[Slumbag]

I hate in movies when there is a news reporter, and they are on the screen doing the news, and then break out a curse word. It really takes you out of the moment.
Like, the story is so outragous, the reporter can't help it and has to say "....and this is the last fucking time", or something like that.

[instrument]

From lost, do that again and I'll kill you, also the casual hitting someone in the head with something to simply knock em out.

[JimBeam]

Anytime an average even small female beats up a big strong dude.

It just doesn't happen.

[JimBeam]

Anytime a character walks into a bar and says, " Give me a beer. " and the bartender gives them something.

What there are no choices of beers or even bottle versus tap in that world ?

[fezident]

Whenever a older character coughs, it means they're about to die.

The scene usually unfolds like this:

A dude hasn't been home in a few years. He comes home... and he's catching up with his mother & father etc etc. Mom's lookin' old though.
It's after dinner and they're loading the dishwasher or whatever.
Mom is in the other room and lets out a loud, hoarse, cough.

The sibling will turn to the other sibling and say "Doctors give her 'bout 4 months."
This is usually followed with "they said the same thing last year. Tough old bird'll probably outlive all of us."


This scene can also be played out with a old cop who's "dying" but too gosh darn stubborn to quit the force.


Yaaaaaawn.

[MacVittie]

This is common in TV shows and commercials. I hate when someone working at a restaurant has a ridiculous uniform, like Eddie Winslow when he worked at Mighty Weenie in Family Matters.

[PapaBear]

Whenever a speeding car T-bones another car, the speeding car goes airborne.

[hedges]

The obligatory car chase. They are usually uninteresting and overdone. After the French Connection and Bullit, I can't really remember one that stands out (except maybe Gone In 60 Seconds). There are too many of them. And it seems like they are inserted into movies for no reason except to bump up the action.

And in these car chases people are always shooting guns at the car they are chasing. They may shoot out the back window, but they never hit the person driving or the other person in the front seat. It may not be easy to do, but you'd think it would happen sometime.

[MHasegawa]

the group walking foward in slow motion with the epic music behind it.

[JimBeam]

Shootouts, usually w/ police, where they shoot at fleeing cars or people.

Good luck getting cleared on charges if you shoot a fleeing suspect.

[KojiClutch]

"Here we go again." or "Not again."

[sailor]

The obligatory car chase. They are usually uninteresting and overdone. After the French Connection and Bullit, I can't really remember one that stands out (except maybe Gone In 60 Seconds). There are too many of them. And it seems like they are inserted into movies for no reason except to bump up the action.

the modern version of the italian job had a good chase scene with mini-coopers.

[Jughead]

Im Back!!:thumbdown:!http://www.saumilpatel.com/wp-content/files/Independence_Day.png

[Slumbag]

Im Back!!:thumbdown:!http://www.saumilpatel.com/wp-content/files/Independence_Day.png

Even from the same movie, the Will Smith "I GOTS TO GET ME ONE OF DESE"!!!!!!!!!

Patrice Oneal talked about it before. There's always a black dude saying some line like that.
Terrence Howard practically delivered the exact same line in Iron Man.

[boosterp]

It may have been said, but the police chase where most of the cops crash and the suspects get away. Not funny since the Blues Brothers.

[hedges]

the modern version of the italian job had a good chase scene with mini-coopers.

Yeah you're right a bunch of souped-up mini-coopers in European streets. It worked. But it seems like more often that not it doesn't work.

[Coach]

Any Sci Fi Space movie or Fighter Plane movie...one guy helps to save the day..but is injured/can't make it back.....yet usually ends up living......

[sailor]

Yeah you're right a bunch of souped-up mini-coopers in European streets. It worked. But it seems like more often that not it doesn't work.

definitely. or most fight scenes, especially lots of folks with swords. they bore me to tears.

[TonyStark]

It may have been said, but the police chase where most of the cops crash and the suspects get away. Not funny since the Blues Brothers.

Yeah, I agree, cops are trained drivers and take driving courses as well as having awesome cars with beastly engines under the hood. They don't relaly crash that much, let alone the crazy pileups and shit you see in a lot of action movies.

[JimBeam]

Taking the car chase premise further.

When bad guys are chasing good guys, all the the streets of some city, and they never pass a police car doing it's normal patrol.

[PapaBear]

In TV cop shows, when they're interrogating an innocent suspect who is a teen or low functioning adult... "Just admit it, and we'll let you go home."

[PapaBear]

When someone sneaks into an occupied house through a door or window, they always leave it slightly open. Then the person living there notices it, thinks it's strange, but then closes it and turns around to be confronted by the intruder.

[TooLowBrow]

When someone sneaks into an occupied house through a door or window, they always leave it slightly open. Then the person living there notices it, thinks it's strange, but then closes it and turns around to be confronted by the intruder.

but then the intruder slips on micro machines that kevin macallister left out and he falls down

and kevin goes 'are you thirsty for more?'

[Sinestro]

in fighting flicks like Karate Kid I, rocky and Never back down, the movie hero gets abused and picked on by the alleged bad guy prior to the BIG showdown fight at the end. and once the hero kicks the bad person's ass the bad person gains a mutual respect for the hero after getting their ass handed to them by the hero in front of everyone and they become buddies.

[fezident]

All vampires know Karate.

[Slumbag]

The "guy that can't figure out the condom" is really starting to grate me.


40 Year Old Virgin was probably the worst.
See, he was a virgin, so HOW THE HELL is he supposed to figure out how to put a condom on? He put it on his foot, and shit. Just awful.
Putting a condom on is literally the easiest thing in the world to do.

[Chigworthy]

The "guy that can't figure out the condom" is really starting to grate me.


40 Year Old Virgin was probably the worst.
See, he was a virgin, so HOW THE HELL is he supposed to figure out how to put a condom on. He put it on his foot, and shit. Just awful.
Putting a condom on is literally the easiest thing in the world to do.

Coincidentally the worst thing to do as well.

[Rockvillejoe]

Worst cliché? TV cops that wear their guns backwards on the opposite side so they can "cross draw".
Only in Hollywood. It's laughable. Or where they wear the gun almost in front if their stomach so everyone can see they are wearing a gun. It just makes me shake my head and chuckle.

[PapaBear]

TV cop shows always have the cops resent any help from the Feds, and even go out of their way to be hostile and uncooperative. This can't possibly be true, right?

[weekapaugjz]

TV cop shows always have the cops resent any help from the Feds, and even go out of their way to be hostile and uncooperative. This can't possibly be true, right?

i know local cops who hate it when the state police get involved in their "territory". i would imagine it being the same with the feds. being uncooperative, not sure about.

[PapaBear]

In this show I'm watching now (Criminal Minds), there is a serial killer, killing cops. The cops are pissed off that the FBI is there to "save the day". I can't believe they wouldn't want all the help they could get, in finding someone that is killing their own. It's like this in EVERY cop show that has Feds in it.

[weekapaugjz]

In this show I'm watching now (Criminal Minds), there is a serial killer, killing cops. The cops are pissed off that the FBI is there to "save the day". I can't believe they wouldn't want all the help they could get, in finding someone that is killing their own. It's like this in EVERY cop show that has Feds in it.

i have some advice for you. don't watch cop dramas. they all stink.

[Chigworthy]

There is a lot of inter-agency competition. I doubt that they would let it get in the way of an investigation like they always show on the shitty tv shows.

[TheMojoPin]

A site kind of along the lines of what this is about...or maybe not. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage)

Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite". In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them.

[JimBeam]

But I think a lot of the things we've discussed have been trite.

It's not just the local cops that are douchey to the Feds but they always seem to make the Feds act as if they are better than the local cops in a blue collar/white collar kinda way.

Ditto for sceanarios where city cops deal with State Troopers and act like they are bumpkins.

Actually many Troopers have gone through much more training and have access to better technology than city departments.

I'm sure there's always some kinda territorial issue even in real life but as was said I doubt it would prevent them from closing a case.

[SHANEFROMGA]

the good guys always win and theres a happy rap it all up ending.

[SHANEFROMGA]

The "guy that can't figure out the condom" is really starting to grate me.


40 Year Old Virgin was probably the worst.
See, he was a virgin, so HOW THE HELL is he supposed to figure out how to put a condom on? He put it on his foot, and shit. Just awful.
Putting a condom on is literally the easiest thing in the world to do.

easiest and hardest, hence my 2 kids.

[tele7]

Any scene involving a grocery bag always has a loaf of French bread and Celery sticking out of the top.

[JimBeam]

Not really a cliche but something that happens often in movies/TV that bothers me.

When somebody lights a cigarette and then takes like one puff and then throws it down or puts it out.

I just saw it in a movie where a guy was making a big deal about having to smoke and people made him go outside and then after taking one drag he throws it down.

Yeah I guess he really needed it.

[TripleSkeet]

the good guys always win and theres a happy rap it all up ending.

You must not watch Dexter.

[DiabloSammich]

I just noticed this last night, and realized it has become rampant throughout all levels of media.



Any pratfall or injury, followed by this comment from smarmy bystander....


"Oooh, that's gonna leave a mark."

[Slumbag]

I was watching Watchmen again the other night.

I get bothered when they need to find a password to log into a computer, and they figure it out in two guesses. In Watchmen, it was the most obvious thing in the world.

I can't remember other movies that do that, but it certainly bothers me.

[PapaBear]

I was watching Watchmen again the other night.

I get bothered when they need to find a password to log into a computer, and they figure it out in two guesses. In Watchmen, it was the most obvious thing in the world.

I can't remember other movies that do that, but it certainly bothers me.
Wait... He's fat. TRY BACON!

[PapaBear]

A person or family is struck by some tragedy, like a murder. The press camps outside their house. There's always a scene where a photographer tries to shoot a pic through the window, of the grieving family. Never in my life, have I seen a photo in the paper or on the news, of a grieving family member shot through their window.