when a less-experienced person regarding military says something about war and a more-experienced war guy is all like "BOY U DONT KNOW NOTHIN BOUT WAR"

6/8/2008 9:50:51 PM

girl finds out the guy has been scheming to get her, hates him for 20-25 minutes, then falls in love again

6/8/2008 9:52:50 PM

last minute wedding interjections

6/8/2008 9:59:09 PM

"A major character is seen walking nonchalantly toward the camera and away from a big, napalm-like explosion. Even the Coens use this in "No Country for Old Men." I believe the granddaddy of all such scenes to be the opening stinger in "Goldfinger" in which James Bond is the only person in a nightclub not reacting to a huge explosion nearby, an explosion for which he is responsible."

from rogerebert.com




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sike.
i LOVE this. see also: me playing GTA IV

6/8/2008 10:08:02 PM

movies where all the characters join together in a final scene for a movie


like all of adam sandlers movies

i think its stupid

6/8/2008 10:13:24 PM

Iron Man, a film by John Favreaux

6/8/2008 10:16:00 PM

When the good guy wins. I wish the bad guy would win more often.

6/8/2008 10:36:21 PM

cars that barrel roll over top of the back of a parked car

6/8/2008 10:42:06 PM

bullets sparking when hitting any surface...concrete walls, brick walls, wooden walls, anything

6/8/2008 10:53:10 PM

Highly trained military guys shooting wildly and missing, while the main character is able to pick off all of them with a pistol while running.

6/8/2008 11:00:21 PM

any actor or actress who plays the same damn role in every movie. see meg ryan

6/8/2008 11:29:52 PM

it kind of annoys me a little when someone walks away from an explosion without looking at it.

"look how badass this guy is."

see: Iron Man, No Country For Old Men, The Matador, etc.

although I <3 all of those movies.


edit: haha, i hadn't read this thread yet but Ebert is now my boy.


[Edited on June 8, 2008 at 11:40 PM. Reason : jfds]

6/8/2008 11:38:25 PM

^^you forgot Mike Myers, Matthew McConaghey, Vince Vaughn, Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Heather Graham, and Sandra Bullock.

6/8/2008 11:53:37 PM

not vince vaughn

6/8/2008 11:55:37 PM

igniting the aforementioned napalm-like explosions with a lit cigarette.

6/9/2008 12:40:18 AM

I just want to see one drug/gangster movie where the dealer or whoever lives happily ever after. It never happens.

Blow, Goodfellas, godfather, traffic, etc.

the only one I can think of is trainspotting. and that is a sorta.

6/9/2008 12:56:55 AM

Scary movies: someone opens a mirror medicine cabinet then closes it and there is a spooky face in the reflection....ooooohhhh scah-wee

6/9/2008 1:01:08 AM

^ I'm tired of camera tricks with mirror medicine cabinets in general. Contact and Layer Cake come to mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=517XwYlu3F0

Or the scary movie thing where they build something up, but then it isn't scary. Then all of the sudden something scary jumps out 2 seconds later.

[Edited on June 9, 2008 at 1:08 AM. Reason : .]

6/9/2008 1:04:08 AM

I'm not crazy about things jumping out at me every 6 seconds. Not every time, but it works better in moderation to me.

6/9/2008 1:13:09 AM

vince vaughn is the same in every movie he's in except maybe the remake of psycho

what a crappy movie

6/9/2008 1:25:58 AM

^The Cell.

[Edited on June 9, 2008 at 1:30 AM. Reason : fjds]

6/9/2008 1:30:00 AM

I'm tired of the cliche when the main character is some martial art/military/mobster badass and turns good never to kill again, someone is taken from them, forced to go back to "old ways" to get family member/lover back

6/9/2008 1:30:13 AM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=O6mdEWmcVk4

6/9/2008 1:32:58 AM

^ not funny

6/9/2008 2:11:51 AM

^ I didn't say it was. The comedian in the video does, however, examine clichés in the cop movie genre.

6/9/2008 2:31:43 AM

movies where ben afleck doesn't die a horribly painful death

what a fucking douchebag

6/9/2008 3:02:25 AM

^^ It was decent. Certainly nothing to troll about.

6/9/2008 4:06:58 AM

Quote :

"When the good guy wins. I wish the bad guy would win more often."

yes.

6/9/2008 7:10:41 AM

When movie producers don't know a god damn THING about guns.
This movie was so crappy I forget the name of it. Someone's gun GETS WET and then WON'T FIRE. So they do a sequence where he is HOLDING IT UNDER A HAND DRYER while KUNG FU FIGHTING OFF BAD GUYS because apparently this MAGIC GUN WON'T FIRE WHEN IT'S DROPPED IN TWO INCHES OF WATER.
Makes me weep for fucking humanity.

6/9/2008 10:33:04 AM

Quote :

"I believe the granddaddy of all such scenes to be the opening stinger in "Goldfinger" in which James Bond is the only person in a nightclub not reacting to a huge explosion nearby, an explosion for which he is responsible."

I'll play devils advocate on this one. James Bond is expecting the explosion where everyone else isn't? Big surprise to everyone in the nightclub, not so much for James Bond.

The bad guy that just won't die. Some movies are so bad about this you just know the main villain isn't dead, that is until the death scene is more ironic, accompanied by some clever one-liner, or brought about by some sort of device they randomly showed at an earlier point of the movie.

Not so much a cliché, but annoying nonetheless... the hyper-extended jaw.

6/9/2008 10:44:31 AM

Quote :

"This movie was so crappy I forget the name of it. Someone's gun GETS WET and then WON'T FIRE. So they do a sequence where he is HOLDING IT UNDER A HAND DRYER while KUNG FU FIGHTING OFF BAD GUYS because apparently this MAGIC GUN WON'T FIRE WHEN IT'S DROPPED IN TWO INCHES OF WATER. Makes me weep for fucking humanity."

Wasn't that in Shoot 'Em Up? Gun gets dropped in a toilet or something like that?

6/9/2008 10:52:30 AM

Well it doesn't really count as a cliche for Goldfinger.

6/9/2008 11:04:45 AM

I dont like how nearly everyone with a southern accent in a movie is portrayed to be unintelligent

6/9/2008 11:09:59 AM

using Trajan font.

6/9/2008 11:24:13 AM

^^ October Sky was a pleasant exception to this.

6/9/2008 11:45:24 AM

Quote :

"When movie producers don't know a god damn THING about guns. This movie was so crappy I forget the name of it. Someone's gun GETS WET and then WON'T FIRE. So they do a sequence where he is HOLDING IT UNDER A HAND DRYER while KUNG FU FIGHTING OFF BAD GUYS because apparently this MAGIC GUN WON'T FIRE WHEN IT'S DROPPED IN TWO INCHES OF WATER. Makes me weep for fucking humanity."

holy shit man, you have to know that movie was a comedy/parody and not serious...

6/9/2008 11:58:28 AM

Jaybee1200: now bringing the objectivity to the entertainment board.

6/9/2008 12:00:29 PM

trained military guys, fucking up the timing of their grenades so the good guy can just throw them right back at them

6/9/2008 12:21:41 PM

MEXICAN STANDOFFS

(actually, i love these. nevermind.)

6/9/2008 1:07:36 PM

Quote :

"Wasn't that in Shoot 'Em Up?"

Thank you.

6/9/2008 1:12:29 PM

1. The world's most skilled __________ is a trendy teenager with no formal education in the subject.


2. Guy confesses true feelings to woman in public. 100 strangers stop, listen, and clap.

6/9/2008 1:13:29 PM

dude...Shoot 'em Up was a black comedy. Drying the gun under the hand dryer was making exactly the same point you are trying to make. It was ridiculous and that was the point.

6/9/2008 1:16:31 PM

Bad guys explaining their entire master plan before killing someone giving them enough time to make some miraculous escape.

6/9/2008 1:23:08 PM

from the looks of those thread, seems like every 'action' movie sucks ass.

6/9/2008 1:27:32 PM

How asian people aren't allowed to do anything but fight.

6/9/2008 1:36:00 PM

shotgun sound effects for a pistol or rifle

6/9/2008 1:48:36 PM

"silenced" large caliber rifle sounds like a mouse sneeze.

6/9/2008 1:54:24 PM

things making noise as they travel through space.

6/9/2008 1:54:52 PM

every fucking situation in Dan in Real Life, worst movie of all time

6/9/2008 1:57:36 PM

People cocking a double action pistol to show that they mean business.

6/9/2008 1:57:50 PM