Someone is in the hospital under police protection and someone sneaks in and kills them.

Bonus point if the killer dresses like a cop and tells the cop on guard duty some BS to get them to walk away briefly.

4/2/2010 12:15:32 AM

The movie opens with a weather report or a news broadcast. It usually starts with a large panning shot of whatever the city is, then it goes to a radio or TV in the main characters house/car.

4/2/2010 7:54:41 AM

Cigar smoking executives with well stocked liquor cabinets in a ridiculously plush, well-appointed, large office.

Following 24-hour time with hours: "We'll strike at zero-three hundred hours!" I don't think I ever heard anyone talk like that when I was in the military.

Characters spitting out whatever they're drinking when something startling is said.

^ In general, I don't like news dialogue in movies. Doesn't seem like it would be that hard to find an actual newscaster to write an actual news story based on an actual (perhaps anonymized) event, and then appear in the movie.

[Edited on April 3, 2010 at 9:29 AM. Reason : ]

4/3/2010 9:15:16 AM

Any trailer that ends with "This summer....you are invited......."

4/7/2010 12:12:05 AM

Main character is in an ambulance when the bad guy suddenly appears.

Bonus points if:

1) It's post climax.

2) The ambulance is surrounded by police in the middle of a crime scene.

3) The bad guy is 'dead'.

4/7/2010 9:21:24 PM

At the end of the movie we get still shots of every main character and get to read a paragraph about what they did after the events of the movie. They are fictional characters. They didn't do shit after the movie ended.

4/12/2010 1:01:49 PM

Henchman screws something up and reports back to his boss
"Sir, I won't let it happen again"
"I know"
BANG

4/17/2010 6:40:01 PM

Rapping on the rear window of a meat wagon.

4/17/2010 8:07:03 PM

Bursting through double doors in a hospital with the gurney.

5/8/2010 9:29:33 PM

Video game movies sucking major balls.

5/9/2010 2:51:10 AM

Someone showing their hand in a poker game and then triumphantly reaching for the pot without looking at anyone else's cards.

5/15/2010 6:21:26 PM

when someone is in a position they shouldn't be in (corky romano is an example as an FBI agent dealing with the drug deal translator role) and they get swooped into a situation that calls for an expert in their field to handle it

5/22/2010 2:47:11 PM

In an epic battle of thousands of soldiers, the hero and the villain or enemy leader are always able to find each other and duel without interference from the thousands of other soldiers fighting around them. For examples, see Braveheart, The Patriot, Gangs Of New York, The New Robin Hood...Im sure there are more i just cant recall any ATM

[Edited on May 22, 2010 at 5:33 PM. Reason : .]

5/22/2010 5:32:49 PM

^ reality is much less dramatic, they usually would just get killed by a stray arrow or bullet and die alone

5/22/2010 5:46:24 PM

Some commando or old special forces dude being reactivated because no one else can do the job.

It seems like they could find someone who's active duty and still trains regularly instead of your old ass. Commando, Shooter, Stargate, and Rambo II come to mind.

5/28/2010 10:43:45 PM

and The Rock, sorta

5/28/2010 11:46:57 PM

Someone being chased on foot knocks over a shelf full of stuff in front of the person chasing them. It never slows down the chaser.

5/29/2010 9:48:44 PM

The hardened cop showing emotion when he reveals the one thing that got to him the most.

I feel like it's always something about a crackhead putting a baby in a microwave.

6/5/2010 1:58:00 PM

im sick of that stupid scream that's in every action movie, it totally pulls me out of the disbelief. It called the Waldo or the Wilbur or something.

6/6/2010 3:47:03 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream?

6/6/2010 4:43:38 AM

there are at least 2 different screams that i hear more than the wilhelm

6/6/2010 11:12:00 AM

Flashback/prequel where a woman gives birth to a future main character and someone says the baby's name dramatically because the audience knows who he/she is.

6/6/2010 5:39:29 PM

"Excuse me, are you ___________?"
"Maybe. Who's asking?"

I think you just gave yourself away by not saying "No. Sorry."

6/14/2010 10:24:16 PM

It's probably already been posted, but: missing a recital as shorthand for bad parenting.

6/20/2010 7:42:12 PM

Quote :

"im sick of that stupid scream that's in every action movie, it totally pulls me out of the disbelief. It called the Waldo or the Wilbur or something."

Quote :

"there are at least 2 different screams that i hear more than the wilhelm"

I know what you're talking about, one I hear in almost every movie is when someone gets punched or hits something or whatever, there's an 'UUUH' sound that I first discovered back in Goldeneye whenever you would karate chop a guard or any male character.

6/20/2010 11:03:57 PM

^YES

it was goldeneye that overused it as well

6/20/2010 11:51:08 PM

I'm sure it's been posted, but it's really annoying when some guy wakes up from a long coma (ex. Steven Seagal) and has a ridiculous coma beard. As if the nurses don't shave them.

6/21/2010 12:20:36 AM

Good guy says to bad guy "You're the most vile, evil, despicable, vicious person ever!" Bad guy says "Flattery will get you nowhere!"

7/7/2010 1:19:42 AM

Old soldier/cop wants to retire. Then bad guys kill or kidnap his family for no good reason. Then he fights and leads the good guys.

7/10/2010 1:17:23 PM

like the Wilhelm scream there's this fucking creepy kids laughter in just about any movie or commercial that features one or more kids running around playing or some shit. it seems so lazy


http://www.pagetworld.co.uk/diddylaugh.mp3

7/10/2010 1:26:38 PM

I'm kind of sick of every movie preview being exactly the same, it's the exact same formula for any major hollywood mature film

lets say two and a half minute advertisement: 2-3 shots of a beautiful woman taking her clothes off in a seductive fashion or teasing sex in some other way + a good guy usually really angry about something + about 30 seconds of some brutal violence + a bad guy acting insane/yelling about something + some closing statement about good and evil over some even faster editing of brutal violence

oh and the same mother fucking guy does the voice in every mother fucking single preview, who the fuck is this guy? I mean he has a cool kind of raspy deep foreboding but somebody should know something about him or notice how damn popular he is

7/10/2010 6:50:21 PM

i think that guy died

7/10/2010 6:52:57 PM

i will gladly replace him. i have the technology. voice.

7/10/2010 6:57:57 PM

Some sort of military ball being interrupted by someone telling the attendees that they're being deployed immediately and that the party is over.

7/10/2010 7:22:22 PM

Semi-good character in an evil organization finishes a mission and then all his friends draw their guns on him.
Semi-good character in an evil organization: (Surrounded and without a weapon.) "The boss is going to be mad when he finds out that you killed me!"
Main rival: "You fool! He was the one that ordered you to die!"
Semi-good character in an evil organization: "No, that can't be!" (Realizes the truth, escapes somehow, and seeks revenge on boss.)

7/10/2010 9:50:19 PM

That seems too specific to be a cliche

I dare you to cite three examples

7/10/2010 9:55:02 PM

"Why wasn't I told about this?"
"It was on a need-to-know basis and you didn't need to know."

7/11/2010 12:33:26 AM

either 2 or 3 guys together and one renegade guy decides to do something that is crazy or out of protocol, one of other guys operates strictly to the book, but after first guy commences, book-guy is like "fuck..." and follows along begrudgingly

7/11/2010 4:08:08 PM

Badass takes loser clothes shopping. Loser repeatedly walks out of dressing room with new outfit as badass shakes their head in disapproval until they come out in a winner.



[Edited on July 11, 2010 at 10:04 PM. Reason : f]

7/11/2010 10:03:23 PM

pretty common...IN THE 80s

7/11/2010 10:06:38 PM

Quote :

"I'm kind of sick of every movie preview being exactly the same, it's the exact same formula for any major hollywood mature film"

I read an article somewhere...Popular Science I think, where they scan people's brains while they watch trailers for horror movies to maximize the amount of stimulation they get. Like they flash a new scene every three seconds because they determined that was the most effective.

7/11/2010 10:10:31 PM

^^
Bullshit, that crap still goes on.

7/11/2010 10:16:00 PM

Not a cliche, but I'm amazed by the apparent fact that Dr. Silberman was the only psychiatrist in LA for over 20 years.

7/12/2010 3:29:45 PM

7/12/2010 3:50:23 PM

Everyone in a historic movie wearing leather wrist bands.

7/20/2010 7:52:28 PM

Christ figures

7/28/2010 6:27:34 PM

This might be more of a tv cliche, but...

when a character turns on a radio
then it cuts to a scene of a character in a completely different place listening to the same station

7/28/2010 11:54:04 PM

"you a cop?"

7/29/2010 6:45:13 PM

When the main character nevers dies, unless it at the end or almost the end of the movie.

7/29/2010 8:15:47 PM

^you must really like Psycho then lol

7/29/2010 8:32:42 PM