Pathetic film & TV clichés

[Kevin Hodge]

Originally Posted by Munkeh

How the outcast who gets bullied at her school and laughed at in public is always a new haircut and a pair of shiny shoes away from being the prom queen.

i agree, but she must also take off her glasses for this transformation

[Peasie]

Originally Posted by seth brundle

i agree, but she must also take off her glasses for this transformation

You mean like this

[RattyLady]

^ holy cow!

Guy Pearce will always be 'Mike from Neighbours' to my mind

[Medea]

Originally Posted by Poltergeist

No one in TV or film ever says goodbye when they finish a telephone conversation.

Sometimes they don't say hello either. I've noticed in soaps they often skip the "hi" and just start talking to people.

Few people watch tv either, or surf the net in their spare time (talking about soaps here mainly). It's never raining in the street/square.

Retired cops/detectives/etc coming out of retirement one... last... time (and being miles better than the dumb cops/detectives/etc who replaced them).

The loner who turns out to just need a change to prove that he's a hero (usually someone living "off grid" or in a cabin somewhere who has been "burnt" in life). He usually starts off refusing to help but just can't help himself.

[Mr Ploppy]

Bit of an obscure one, but I remember many years ago (must be 20 or so, as I haven't watched it in that many years) when the general election was announced, Eastenders inserted some very obviously hasty footage into the next few weeks episodes. Familiar characters going to the polling booth, campaign posters slapped up, megaphones, big rosettes abound, etc etc.
Even interior footage you could hear in the background a tannoy blaring out as if it was a mobile campaigning wagon outside the house.
YES WE GET IT !!! There's an election and you are trying to be topical. But of course they overdid it to a very cheesy amount

[Sphinx]

The way that cool guys never look at explosions! They always just stride away from it lol

[xTKsaucex]

I heard LOST ended being ' It was all a dream ' - even my primary school teacher taught me the cliché of ending stories on a dream.

A gunho army commander is usually outdone in tactics and thinking when judging the consequences of their actions by a person who isn't even militarily trained. Usually a smart ass scientist.

[Sphinx]

Also the stupid one liners they say before shooting someone... giving the victim ample time to either shoot them first or get away.

"Dodge this!"

[Detox]

When people say -
"It sure is Bob... it sure is"

You've already said it sure is once! Stop saying it twice you idiot!

[xTKsaucex]

Originally Posted by Beck

Also the stupid one liners they say before shooting someone... giving the victim ample time to either shoot them first or get away.

"Dodge this!"

There's a scene in Matrix where Trinity says that with a gun on the agents temple. To be honest, its just bad ass.

When Cops use their car doors as shields. Proven they don't stop bullets.

A fuel canister EXPLODES when shot - bollux.

James Bond has yet to be diagnosed with a single STI

Cheesy death lines. Watching We Were Soldiers - guy goes when shot "It was an honour to die for my country" - no offence mate, but you'd be more like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH," gurgle, blood out of mouth, death

[Mr Ploppy]

Originally Posted by xTKsaucex

When Cops use their car doors as shields. Proven they don't stop bullets.

It may be ok in recent films as some police depts fit kevlar linings in the doors now.

[xTKsaucex]

Originally Posted by Dragnet

It may be ok in recent films as some police depts fit kevlar linings in the doors now.

Glad to hear. :

another "Ya, I am a Russian" : 9/10 times a Soviet Sympathiser who wants world war 3

[mattty]

Originally Posted by xTKsaucex

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James Bond has yet to be diagnosed with a single STI

If we're on to the subject of Bond - how come he knows how to drive/sail/fly every single vehicle he happens to stumble across (and why do the bad guys leave them unlocked)?

[indiegirl1980]

You can be loved exactly the way you are.
There is someone out there for everyone
Everyone looks good even when they've been rained on (see Julia Roberts in Notting Hill)
It's what's on the inside that counts.
Every single young person can afford a fabulous funky flat in an expensive area, even if they only work in a coffee shop Friends). I remember that one of the flats was inheirited by Monica from hers and Ross's grandmother, but even so, the rent and the cost of living in New York would've been beyond them all in the early years, surely?

Most of my gripes are to do with love and romance actually.

[indiegirl1980]

Originally Posted by CaveGirl

It still happens but not as much as in the old days but the black character always dies first.

Sex is never messy , never crap and always "perfectly timed" while afterwards you walk around with a massive duvet covering your body.

Ugly men who also have crap personalities always end up with stunning women or women who are much younger.

Man and woman hate each other , man and woman end up in love. Yawn

Everyone lives happily ever after!

And no-one's hair ever gets messed up, and afterwards the woman always puts her bra back on...

[mattty]

Bombs that have a handy digital numeric countdown display to let you know exactly how long the hero has to cut the correct wire

[Neil]

Originally Posted by xTKsaucex

James Bond has yet to be diagnosed with a single STI

But to be fair, considering how many times he dodges death wouldn't that be the least of his worries. It's like those formula one drivers in the 70's who would be quite liberal with their sexual health behaviour given they were essentially playing russian roulette with every race and risk taking was their raison d'etre. Besides, he's a secret agent, the job description hints he is good at keeping things under wraps.

How nobody pays for anything. How there is always parking space right infront of the building the character is about to enter, inspite it's in the city centre.

[Livvle]

Originally Posted by xTKsaucex

James Bond has yet to be diagnosed with a single STI

hehe! =D

The barman is always cleaning a glass with a dirty cloth the first time you see him.

When someone is stood on the other side of the road, a bus then goes by and the person has misteriously vanished. OooooOOOh

The 'she's the one' guys give in movies. You know how THIS film is going to end.

the fact that a character will turn on a TV/Radio just at the right tim to hear an 'important bulletin' grr.

No matter how bizarre something is, there's always SOMEONE who seems to have a degree in the subject! (EG: Ginger snaps, a warewolf turns up and... tadaaa... there's a guy who knows all about wolvesbayne)

At a party/club, no matter how busy it is, there's always a HUGE space around the main characters dancing

Whoever is the first person to find something important out about a murderer they are killed. If they are found dying then they have time to give a deep and meaningful speech but never have time to say what they found out or who the killer is.

[Pink*Lady]

No one mentions condoms or any other form of contraception before having sex.

[Pandapop]

Originally Posted by xTKsaucex

I heard LOST ended being ' It was all a dream ' - even my primary school teacher taught me the cliché of ending stories on a dream.

A gunho army commander is usually outdone in tactics and thinking when judging the consequences of their actions by a person who isn't even militarily trained. Usually a smart ass scientist.

Lost didn't end on it all being a dream.


OT: I'll be right back.......*dies*
in a horror film

[xTKsaucex]

Originally Posted by Pandapop

Lost didn't end on it all being a dream.
:

its only what I heard, or that they've all been dead all along . I watched it until season 3 I believe but then it got moved to sky and only until a year back did we get any of those channels.

[diplodocus]

Originally Posted by mattty

Bombs that have a handy digital numeric countdown display to let you know exactly how long the hero has to cut the correct wire

Yeah and bombs always have really obvious coloured wires that are conveniently accesable to wire snipping.

[Defiance]

does anyone remember that soap that came on years ago on channel 5 called sunset beach. it was kinda renowned for it's mad plots and bad acting, well ..in the final episode it was revealed that the entire thing had been a dream