Film Movie Cliches

Red Rash

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What are some of the most common cliches found in movies?

1. In romance movies, the love interests start off hating each other, then fall in love, then have a big arguement and split up before eventually getting back together again

2. In action movies, no matter how many hundreds of henchmen there are, once the main villain is killed there is no one else to take out the hero

3. Whenever there is a slow moving horror antagonist, a character will fall over while running to allow the villain to catch up and kill them

4. Also in horror movies, when the villain is close someone will be detected due to loudly screaming out after being scared
 
when someone has a bit of a cough they usually end up with something serious
 
Ghosts in horror movies like building suspense. Instead of just going for the kill, they will open doors and cupboards etc for no reason.
 
Fight scenes, the baddies attack the main character 1 by 1 instead of just absolutely battering them as a group
 
In a horror movie when a group splits up and each individual gets killed 1 by 1.
 
RedSky said:
Maybe they were hungry DS, ever think of that?
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Good point :lol:

A cliché I hate in movies is when there's blurry footage and a hacker/it person presses a button and suddenly it's crystal clear.

Being an editor by trade, guarantee you that shit don't work!
 
A family of four going on a holiday will pack all their stuff into two suitcases that weigh nothing as dad will easily be able to lift one in each hand and fling them into the boot/trunk with no effort.
 
Less of a cliché and more of an annoyance is how suddenly a scene in London will be one popular place, and then the next scene will randomly continue in another place which is clearly no where near by on the other side of the city but is shown as a continuation.
 
yaps said:
Less of a cliché more of an annoyance is how suddenly a scene in London will be one popular place, and then the next scene will randomly continue in another place which is clearly no where near by on the other side of the city.
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28 Weeks Later
 
Rado_N said:
A family of four going on a holiday will pack all their stuff into two suitcases that weigh nothing as dad will easily be able to lift one in each hand and fling them into the boot/trunk with no effort.
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Tbf, this is the right amount of luggage.
 
In Hollywood movies the English characters always have to have the most over the top stereotypical Queen's English accent.
 
Not sure it counts as a cliche, but I always hate people “drinking” from obviously empty coffee cups.
 
Red Rash said:
In Hollywood movies the English characters always have to have the most over the top stereotypical Queen's English accent.
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Or a cockney one, no in between and they're choc full of British colloquialisms

"bloody hell corr blimey guv'nah he's gone ham and toast down the sodding biffa baffa"
 
In a film where alien invasions take place, they are almost always in a US city like New York. The US are always the ones to save the world, too. If they aliens want to conquer Earth successfully, they should try taking over another continent. Start off in Newport or Neath first.
 
The camera follows someone into the front seat of their car to eventually reveal someone else waiting for them in the backseat, usually with nefarious intentions.
 
When the characters go somewhere to eat, order some food, eat like two bites then leave. Wasting bastards.
 
if there's a bad guy and then or secondary or even third ranked bad guy in a movie

the bad guys must be defeated in a reverse chronological order, with the main bad guy defeated last (who usually comes back to life for another go before being defeated again)
 
Ancient Roman and Greek characters most often have English accents. Tom Cruise running in every film.
 
Films about an "ugly" girl who at the end goes through a transformation to look like a smoke show. Naturally we're expected to believe she's being bullied for wearing glasses, despite being drop dead gorgeous.
 
horsechoker said:
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Mission Impossible 2. They are in Sydney, decamp to somewhere hours away for the sole purpose of having a scene in outback Australia, and then go back to Sydney. Why they went to the outback rather than, say, go to a coffee shop for a chat instead is never explained.
 
An old, over the hill director can release the biggest pile of shite imaginable and the pompous twats in the Caf entertainment forum will still say it's amazing. Lol, come at me nerds
 
Mr Pigeon said:
An old, over the hill director can release the biggest pile of shite imaginable and the pompous twats in the Caf entertainment forum will still say it's amazing. Lol, come at me nerds
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That pile of shite was very entertaining. Mainly due to being such a pile of shite, of course, but that's neither here nor there.
 
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