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wendell borton

Just watching Firefox, it begins with a washed up loner who lives in a log cabin alaska gets called back for one last go.

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Adamantium

BBDBB wrote: »

every movie with a submarine has to include

a ) a scene where an overhead pipe bursts and the captain/hero has to stand under it like a shower and turn a handle until the spray stops

This made me laugh way more than it should have. Well done

BBDBB

The cops are trailing the suspect, they know he is up to no good, they just need to catch him with his hands in the cookie jar........wait whats this? the suspect has parked up for some kind of meeting.

Cop 1 says pull over
Cop 2 driving does so..........right there, the perfect observation position

he never has to reverse into a space, never has to go around the block and wait for a space, or hop out of the car to get a ticket and walk back to stick it in his windscreen.

If it was true to life, at least once in a while they'd have to do a park and ride scheme

Sugar Free

Villain assembles a team of elite rogue soldiers. Said soldiers can't hit a barn door, especially when the hero is standing in front of it.

MJ23

-silly bimbo being chased by dude with a hatchet, runs upstairs.
-silly bimbo being chased out of the house by a dude with knife, she jumps in car, car takes several attempts to start, but starts just as yer man gets to the car.

BBDBB

nerdy teen falls for pretty girl who doesn't know he exists, she is going out with the captain of every sports team in the school, his failures are comical and embarrassing, she learns that the boyfriend is a dick, the nerdy teen is there and does something heroic to win the girls heart, they kiss while a popular chart hit from a couple of decades ago plays

MJ23

Highly trained weapons expert shoots at enemy 10 feet away, misses.
Every computer hacker person wears glasses and is a quirky nerd. (Criminal Minds)
High school kids that look in their mid twenties and drive brand new cars.
The bomb is always disarmed in the last 5 seconds.
Alleyways always have steam coming up out of manholes.
Mexican dudes always wear white t-shirts and love their mama.
Soldiers always have PTSD and have nightmares.
Alcoholic cop is always popping aspirin, and always solves the case.

valoren

James Bond gets a rundown of gadgets for his upcoming mission from Q branch.

During said mission, he finds himself in situations where uses each and every gadget.

Donkey Oaty

Instead of holding a well-managed press conference, police updates to the media are given outdoors on the steps of a big building to a swarm of reporters who listen intently to the first line or two of the statement and then suddenly all start shouting hysterically.

Grayson

Chorcai wrote: »

Taking pills with out a drink

Chewing the pills.

fiachr_a

If expressionless actors walk towards the camera with a car behind them it will explode.

osarusan

fiachr_a wrote: »

If expressionless actors walk towards the camera with a car behind them it will explode.

delricyo

Bombs always have a countdown timer on them.
The L shaped sheets that go up as far as the man's waist and the woman's chest.
Every irish person is a heavy drinker
Cops and detectives walking on to a crime in standard clothes

crockholm

When in Paris (the city-not the hilton) the Eifel Tower is Always within veiw,just so you are reminded that you are in Paris,France (not Hilton)

bodhrandude

People trapped in sinking ocean liners in the movies, they all tend to go gurgly gurgly for some reason.

IvyTheTerrible

The hero has to save one person, and it doesn't matter if several of his friends/helpers die in the process.

(Saving Private Ryan, The Day After Tomorrow...)

Tail Docker

No one ever goes "Lads, hang on a minute, I really need a poo".

Cars can be "hot wired" using nothing more than your bare hands and no matter how many bullets the bad guys spray at the hero, they all miss/hit them in the shoulder at worst. Being shot in the shoulder, no matter what by, is merely a minor inconvenience requiring no more than some wincing and a torn bandage..

Good guy snaps off a shot from the hip and five baddies fall dead. Also, many things are bullet-proof, including car doors, barrels and large shrubs. Unless a baddie is behind them, in which case they become highly explosive.

sammy37

Horror movies are the worst for cliches - car wont start when murderer is approaching, the black person will die first , the slutty bimbo will die next and the virgin never gets it [in both senses]. And no matter how many times they kill the murderer he/she will survive for one last act or even 5 or 6 sequels and why oh why in horror movies do they always split up when they are looking for someone.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Shooting at a lock with a pistol opens it really easily.

People who retire always buy a boat.

When a cop is close to solving a case, he'll be suspended from duty, which he'll ignore.

Young cops carry semi-automatic pistols, while old cops always have a pump action shotgun handy.

Every cop knows how to pick locks.

Grayson

crockholm wrote: »

When in Paris (the city-not the hilton) the Eifel Tower is Always within veiw,just so you are reminded that you are in Paris,France (not Hilton)

When in Paris (Hilton, not the place) you will have a hand held shaky cam.

Irish Guitarist

If you phone someone and say "turn on the news" they switch on the television and the right channel is on. And despite the fact that the news report has already been broadcasting for the last few minutes they will always turn it on at the right moment and get the full story.

Anyone who goes on the run suddenly turns into a professional hair stylist. They just go into a pub toilet and cut and dye their hair in the sink doing an expert job. If it's a man they will always have a beard ready to be shaved off.

Tail Docker

No matter how badly our hero gets beaten up in the course of a fight, they will be lightly marked but generally grand. A kick in the head is no biggie and can be shrugged off, as can falling through a glass window/off something quite high.

I bumped me shin there last week and I'm still limping.

bnt

Want to improve every aspect of your life in a couple of seconds? Take off your glasses. Not only will you suddenly be better, faster and stronger, and popular with all members of the opposite sex ... your eyesight will miraculously improve at the same instant. :rolleyes:

Birneybau

Nobody seems to pay for taxis...

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Mexican characters can speak fluent English but will always say 'Gracias' and 'Señor' in Spanish.

McChubbin

Something I've noticed in a lot of movies is that American characters never seem to say "Please" or "Thank you."
It's always "Give me a beer/meal/etc" and that bothers me.

BigBrownBear

The captain always says' You've got 48 hours' when the cops tell him they have a prime suspect they need to find

Sisko

Oh I got this mother****er.... : The American Bar Fight Scene! :rolleyes:

Variants in so many movies and TV shows....

Formula typically involves hot chick at a bar who doesn't seem to be able to talk for herself and does nothing but sit there and smile while either :

Main character starts chatting to her, insert large and stupid boyfriend/other guy trying to hit on her + his 5 friends. No one seems that drunk yet an illogical and irrational alpha male chest bumping conversation in sues that has to result in physical assault for pretty much no reason.

All while the girl just sits there, never declaring her interest or disinterest in anyone involved.

OR Main character sees group of men talking to female friend/love interest at the bar, goes over to 'rescue' her, resulting in the same formulaic exchange of irrational alpha male chest bumping bull**** that just HAS to result in a fight, for almost no reason. All while noone seems drunk and again girl just sits and watches and says nothing.

Its like its part of a tradition in American bars or something.

The irony being the American hollywood likes to portray the Irish as people who'll get into fist fights over nothing at the drop of a hat due to it being part of our culture or something. :rolleyes: While at the same time promote the idea that in America its impossible for a guy to talk to a girl at a bar with out a fight breaking out for no reason.

Its cliché as ****! :mad:

MrCreosote

Tail Docker wrote: »

No matter how badly our hero gets beaten up in the course of a fight, they will be lightly marked but generally grand. A kick in the head is no biggie and can be shrugged off, as can falling through a glass window/off something quite high.

.

The second those bruises are gently touched by a woman with a wet flannel they hurt like crazy though...

Capt'n Midnight

this thread needs a little more

tvtropes - movie clichés , puns and sarcasm
evil overlord list - "What Not To Do If You Capture James Bond".

or both
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList

No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine

The villain has the hero at his mercy, surrounded by armed goons. Does he just shoot him? Of course not. Does he take the hero prisoner to be strapped into an improbable torture device? No, not that either.

Instead, for a time, he treats the hero as a close friend and guest in his home, giving him a plush bedroom and a fine (if tense) dinner with A Glass of Chianti and the hero's favorite meal, made from ingredients grown in the villain's garden. If the food isn't spiked, the meal ends with a tour of the facility, then a sales pitch on the villain's scheme to remake the world Just Between You and Me. The hero will reply "You're Insane!" — and that's if he's polite. If he isn't, saying "I'm Not Hungry" dampens the festivities quite early.

dandyelevan

When the good guy leaves the room the bad guy always picks up the phone.

When the girl in stiletto heels is being chased by the baddie driving a car, she always runs along the center of the street / road and always falls when she looks back.

Hand-grenades always explode upon hitting the target, irrespective of their fuze timer, except those thrown by the Japs / Jerries / bad dudes, giving the James Bond / US Marine / ex-Marine / Green Beret turned Cop rakes of time to throw it back.

When the government is in trouble they always send a helicopter to remote cabin in the Jungle / Artic to bring retired Green Beret (who left the service under a cloud yonks ago) back to home to save the day.

Soldiers on Gate Duty of Important Military Complex never ask for I.D. and always allow in the bad guy dressed up as a 'bird' Colonel because he pulls rank /shouts at him.