Quote :

"when the movie tries to interacts with the audience you're a movie...don't try to connect with me like we're in the same univers"

Bertolt Brecht would like to have a word with you...

11/9/2008 10:46:11 PM

As would Jean-Luc Godard.

11/9/2008 10:50:45 PM

ttt

4/4/2009 1:50:57 AM

All the modern day comedies have happy endings.


Character gets job back, girlfriend back, life back, etc.

4/4/2009 2:07:17 AM

cutting to a 4 second clip of a dog doing something that we're supposed to laugh at with "bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yay" playing in the back.

4/4/2009 2:22:03 AM

Quote :

"when the movie tries to interacts with the audience you're a movie...don't try to connect with me like we're in the same universe"

4/4/2009 11:26:17 AM

mia sara is hot as hell

4/4/2009 11:41:00 AM

*was*

4/4/2009 11:57:19 AM

Quote :

"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."

Sounds like every james bond movie i've ever seen

4/4/2009 5:16:06 PM

It's probably been mentioned before in the thread but:

1) The main character gets to his loved one just in time to have them die in his arms, then when they die it cuts to an over the head shot as he dramatically screams "NOOOOO!!!!" while looking up.

2) The hero walks away casually from a building/vehicle that he has just set up a bomb in/set fire to, often while putting on sunglasses and acting as if nothing is going on. The building/vehicle explodes in a giant cloud of fire behind him. He doesn't even flinch and continues to walk away as if nothing happened. Sometimes there will be a henchman or villain in said building/vehicle.

Both of these occurred in the Wolverine movie.

4/4/2009 5:32:09 PM

^ Regarding #2

Quote :

""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"

4th post in the thread. And yes. I agree completely.

4/4/2009 6:44:37 PM

intense vehicle chase involving a man and woman as the protagonists, and the ridiculous dialogue that they have with one another during

4/6/2009 3:56:20 PM

When a guy and a girl start out hating each other and ultimately discover that they were meant to be together forever

4/6/2009 6:20:02 PM

^Or when a guy and a girl are already in love after having only known each other all of five minutes.

4/6/2009 7:04:12 PM

A couple having sex, being interrupted by a ringing phone, and then one of them having to leave before sex is finished because they're important.

4/19/2009 1:42:55 PM

dunno if it's been mentioned but i was watching something within the last week (cant remember what it was) and one scene ended with someone looking into a cabinet/refrigerator whatever and they close the lid/door. Then someone in the next scene opens another openable thing and that starts that scene

i dont really know if im annoyed by it, but it IS a cliché nonetheless.

4/19/2009 2:00:11 PM

4/19/2009 2:43:54 PM

i hate movies where a white cop has to team up with a cop of a different race/class/ethnic group/blood type and has to be cultured

tv shows where the president is black.

movies like milk where all the butt sex seems to just be something for shock value

but to be honest

i am a judgemental asshole

and i overanalyze these things and call the director a dumbass and an asshole

but like i said

i am a judgemental asshole

4/22/2009 7:03:41 AM

Hot-wiring vehicles.

4/22/2009 12:29:02 PM

holding someone at gunpoint, then to be dramatic, they either cock the hammer back or rack the slide, pump the shotgun etc.......do you not have a round chambered already?

4/22/2009 12:39:54 PM

^haha i had a friend back home that told me that annoyed him a lot

4/22/2009 12:49:47 PM

when an animal has to choose between two people, and the entire town is on the "good side" coaxing and cheering and the bad guy is yelling at it.

I'm looking at you, Air Bud.

4/22/2009 12:55:49 PM

^^^ One handed shotgun pump.

You know, where they just hold it by the pump at their side and make a big jerk off motion with the weapon before returning it to standard firing position.

4/22/2009 12:59:24 PM

slapping the little red light on top of an unmarked cop car to fly through traffic after a criminal only to be stopped by some intersection blocking pile-up. cue the car horns and angry drivers yelling at each other.

4/22/2009 1:24:26 PM

deus ex machina

4/22/2009 3:24:32 PM

Probably already posted but...

When introducing the characters, the "bad guys" are seen doing some unecessarily evil action, such as curb-stomping an infant, to demonstrate how "evil" they are, justifying the killing of said bad guys by the hero.

4/23/2009 3:56:45 AM

Quote :

"holding someone at gunpoint, then to be dramatic, they either cock the hammer back or rack the slide, pump the shotgun etc"

haha man I think about this all the time but I guess it's just an intimidation tactic

4/23/2009 8:28:20 PM

trebuchets/catapults that can launch car-sized stones about a half mile.
see: Lord of the Rings

uncannily accurate muskets and pre-1900s pistols
see: the Patriot

[Edited on April 30, 2009 at 11:27 AM. Reason : ]

4/30/2009 11:26:54 AM

yes, but you must admit that scene in the woods is pretty fucking awesome

[Edited on April 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM. Reason : on the patriot]

4/30/2009 11:45:42 AM

The scenes where someone will be pointing a gun at an unarmed person and you hear a gunshot

But it turns out it was someone off screen who shot the guy with the gun, and the unarmed person is fine

Often happens at the climax of shitty movies, just to reinforce their shittyness

4/30/2009 11:53:55 AM

happened on Lost last night too

4/30/2009 12:18:39 PM

Sorry if mentioned before, but saw a big one in the Star Trek sneak peek during Lost last night:
Man is being chased by a giant monster. Just as the monster is about to get him, an even larger monster grabs/bites the first monster. Larger monster then continues pursuit of man. This was also seen in The Phantom Menace.

4/30/2009 12:26:55 PM

happened with the velociraptor and the T-Rex in Jurassic Park too (except i dont know if the T-Rex runs after them)

[Edited on April 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM. Reason : ]

4/30/2009 12:28:48 PM

sequels and remakes (apart from few exceptions of course)

4/30/2009 12:29:07 PM

I like it when the larger monster kills the smaller monster but doesn't chase the man, and the man gets off scot free

like when the Trex got the raptors in JP

4/30/2009 12:32:53 PM

On page 1 Dammit100 had a list of actors who always play the same role:

Quote :

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

I think its wrong and down right disrespectful to have Jack Nicholson on that list.

4/30/2009 2:36:49 PM

nicolas cage in leading role

4/30/2009 3:04:29 PM

Quote :

"The scenes where someone will be pointing a gun at an unarmed person and you hear a gunshot But it turns out it was someone off screen who shot the guy with the gun, and the unarmed person is fine Often happens at the climax of shitty movies, just to reinforce their shittyness "

yea I think that has been mentioned several times, as has the character walking away with explosion in the background

one metaphor that I think has been used to ad nauseum (sp?) is the long winding staircase

5/1/2009 3:04:28 AM

Wolverine used almost all of the cliches listed in this thread, at least the ones specific to action movies

5/1/2009 3:05:58 AM

Said before, but when someone dying croaks "so... cold..."

I'm looking at you, Wolverine movie. Also your secondary explosions (i.e. the burning wreckage that manages to explode again, triggered by the main character.)

5/1/2009 3:08:08 AM

tropic thunder was such a good movie

5/1/2009 3:12:55 AM

Quote :

"I think its wrong and down right disrespectful to have Jack Nicholson on that list."

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Easy Rider
Batman
About Schmidt
The Bucket List
The Departed
The Shining
Chinatown
A Few Good Men

All pretty much the same film.

5/1/2009 10:27:16 AM

what

5/1/2009 10:33:49 AM

what?

5/1/2009 10:33:49 AM

what??

5/1/2009 10:57:29 AM

sarcasm.

sorry.

5/1/2009 11:00:36 AM

Quote :

"I think its wrong and down right disrespectful to have Jack Nicholson on that list."

I didn't say he's not damn entertaining. He's one of my favorite actors to watch, but he isn't the rangiest guy around.

5/1/2009 11:04:09 AM

"if i wanted you dead, i'd have killed you already"

or

"if you wanted me dead, you'd have killed me already"

5/3/2009 12:40:49 PM

^^^the sarcasm was obvious

5/3/2009 5:29:29 PM

:gun shot:

:shot of person in supposed line of fire widening their eyes:

:pan to shot of original shooter being shot:

:pan to wide-eyed person realizing they're not shot:

5/7/2009 12:24:57 AM