Worst movie cliches

redmgar

What do you find the worst type of movie cliche?
The type that makes you turn a movie off.
The nerdy girl who becomes a stunner when she takes off her glasses, or the fact any helicopter in any movie ever has to crash or get blown up?

RebelButtMunch

redmgar wrote: »

What do you find the worst type of movie cliche?
The type that makes you turn a movie off.
The nerdy girl who becomes a stunner when she takes off her glasses, or the fact any helicopter in any movie ever has to crash or get blown up?

Secure the area

B_ecke_r

The Brown People are always the baddies

gerrybbadd

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/49zy78/what_is_the_worst_movie_cliche/

is_that_so

The teen you know is going to die horribly.
The script which tells the viewer what's going to happen next.

RobbingBandit

Sean Bean must die in 90% of his roles

Thephantomsmask

Flicking a cigarette butt at a pool of petrol and everything going boom. In reality, the liquid petrol will extinguishe a cigarette butt before the vapour has a chance to ignite.

bottlebrush

when the baddies are watching TV coverage of their latest crime spree they always grab the remote and switch off the TV before the coverage is finished. same with the police.

DeepBlue

The dog surviving.

MrStuffins

Bad guys tend to be incredibly bad shots!

The good guy could be in the middle of a football pitch and would still be dodging every bullet being shot from an AK47! They always end up shooting the ground around them.

B_ecke_r

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Sean Bean must die in 90% of his roles

I actually think it's much higher than this!

I can't think of one he survives

Hobosan

Dumb or unusual prop mentioned at the beginning being used to save the day, usually with comic effect at the end of the movie.

TerrorFirmer

Splitting up to cover more ground in a ludicrously dangerous situation.

ohnonotgmail

Hobosan wrote: »

Dumb or unusual prop mentioned at the beginning being used to save the day, usually with comic effect at the end of the movie.

Chekhovs gun.

RoryMurphyJnr

Binoculars
Every time someone uses them the edges get blurred?????

redmgar

Hobosan wrote: »

Dumb or unusual prop mentioned at the beginning being used to save the day, usually with comic effect at the end of the movie.

Chekhov's Gun

redmgar

People can go into a bar and ask for a beer without a specific brand.

is_that_so

redmgar wrote: »

People can go into a bar and ask for a beer without a specific brand.

You can do that in real life in the UK if you ask for a lager or bitter!

Captain Chaos

B_ecke_r wrote: »

I actually think it's much higher than this!

I can't think of one he survives

Ronin

ohnonotgmail

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Sean Bean must die in 90% of his roles

Not even close to 90%. 32% according to his calculation:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/sean-bean-has-highest-screen-death-ratio/

joujoujou

Person falling off a building always lands on a car's roof.

Wheety

RoryMurphyJnr wrote: »

Binoculars
Every time someone uses them the edges get blurred?????

The view though binoculars looking like this

Cyclepath

People hanging up the phone abruptly without going through the bye, bye, bye, bey, b-b-bye, thing.

is_that_so

Cyclepath wrote: »

People hanging up the phone abruptly without going through the bye, bye, bye, bey, b-b-bye, thing.

That's an Irish thing although they should do it anyway!

The Davestator

People who hide under beds; most beds have rakes of dust, shoes, lego blocks and ya would prefer to die rather than to get under it

Vegeta

Ambiguous endings where the viewers are left to debate what really happened. One step above "I woke up and it was all a dream"

CastorTroy

Thephantomsmask wrote: »

Flicking a cigarette butt at a pool of petrol and everything going boom. In reality, the liquid petrol will extinguishe a cigarette butt before the vapour has a chance to ignite.

Same for matches. I try throwing a lit match on paper in the fireplace and it goes out before lighting the paper. In films, a single match can burn down a house.

Cyclepath wrote: »

People hanging up the phone abruptly without going through the bye, bye, bye, bey, b-b-bye, thing.

They made a joke of this in NTSF:SD:SUV with the main guy hanging up and the other person saying they're rude.


Horror movies where the monster moves slow and catches up with someone running. Or slasher movies where the human killer seems to be invulnerable with the ability to be everywhere

gerrybbadd

If someone has something they're trying to keep hidden or they're not supposed to have, they will regularly unwrap it (such as a gun in a handkerchief) to look at it.

Alkers

Continuously changing gears when driving fast,
Getting half way through a car chase before the close up of the accelerator being applied all the way to the floor

is_that_so

The number of completely outlandish plans that succeed and the remarkable ability of characters to reveal these fully formed.

Krombopulos Michael

Using a microwave a an explosive timer. Unless its a delay start (which isn't as the light is on and the plate is turning), pressing start should be the detonation, not when it turns off.

See Gross Point Blank or Under Siege or many others that do this.