Hollywood Cliches - TV and Movie (1 Viewer)

[Leroy Hoard]

Jumping out of a window and landing in a dumpster. I don't know about you, but that'd be the LAST place I'd want to land. If I'm gonna die, I don't want to do it with a lettuce-covered wine bottle penetrating my rectum.

If you are lucky it's just the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

The Tony Montana effect

They are basically saying that if you snort a giant desktop of coke it takes you a lot longer to fall over dead.

 

[zamboni]

Forgot about this thread.

Probably was said long ago, but protagonist gets into a fight with a bunch of thugs - all the thugs wait patiently for one of their boys to get knocked out - each thug individually and unsuccessfully takes on protagonist - finally one of the beaten-up thugs takes a beer bottle, chair or other blunt object to finally batter the protagonist.

 

[zamboni]

Runaway car going about 100+ MPH sees that he is headed straight towards a car going nearly as fast in the other direction, yet deftly steers out of harm’s way at the last split second.

 

[Mr. Mojo]

Tom Cruise at 5'7" can still beat up and/or kill more bad guys than Bruce Lee.

 

[peaces]

Not sure it belongs in here, but when they use phone texts to move the plot along... Just seems like a lazy and cheesy storytelling device to me.

 

[comfortably numb]

Tom Cruise at 5'7" can still beat up and/or kill more bad guys than Bruce Lee.

Bruce Lee was 5'7"

 

[Mr. Mojo]

Bruce Lee was 5'7"

Exactly.

Bruce Lee was clearly the more skilled fighter, yet Cruise seems to beat up more villains. I find that to be a cliche.

 

[zamboni]

Couple walks during a perfectly clear day. One of them mentions rain and the skies magically open up. But in buckets, not a gradual drizzle.

 

[Phil Elliott]

Sound effects for the “speeding” car actually only going 30 mpg.

 

[Joe Summer]

Sound effects for the “speeding” car actually only going 30 mpg.

Every time a car goes around a corner, the tires squeal.

 

[Caesar]

Every time a car goes around a corner, the tires squeal.

Good one.  Like when  someone is walking in the forrest alone, when they stop to listen, its always a twig snapping and a bird flying away.  EVERY DAMN TIME!

Stock audio.

 

[zamboni]

Good one.  Like when  someone is walking in the forrest alone, when they stop to listen, its always a twig snapping and a bird flying away.  EVERY DAMN TIME!

Stock audio.

Somewhat related: victim running away full speed from killer, who is walking at a deliberate, gingerly pace. And yet the killer seems to *gain* ground.

 

[Mr. Mojo]

In a tense moment before a killing, a random cat will jump out making a loud sound.

 

[zamboni]

Just caught this one again:

Female characters going to bed and/or waking up with full makeup. Clearly said actress is frightened of being seen au naturel by a TV/movie audience.

 

[Rustoleum]

Lead actress in a romance always has a sassy/promiscuous friend who would have no common interests or reason to hang with our poor heroine in real life.

 

[Joe Summer]

Rustoleum said:

Lead actress in a romance always has a sassy/promiscuous friend who would have no common interests or reason to hang with our poor heroine in real life.

Also: the lead actress in a romance is usually highly-educated, with a great job, owns her own house/apartment, and has no kids.

AND YET SHE CAN'T SEEM TO FIND ANY MAN WILLING TO GO ON A DATE WITH HER.

 

[quartz]

When a character has become dependent on pain meds, they take the pill bottle out of their pocket and chug several pills like they are candy. Eventually they take the bottle out and it is empty and get frustrated.

Same with asperin and pepto-bismol when stressed out.

 

[[scooter]]

Sound effects for the “speeding” car actually only going 30 mpg.

Every time a car goes around a corner, the tires squeal.

People driving cars are constantly turning the steering wheel from side to side. I guess this creates an illusion of movement, but if anyone tried to do that in real life they'd be swerving all over the road. 

 

[zamboni]

College professors are generally drunken, diviorced, and disheveled, but also bond with a brilliant but aimless slacker student.

 

[El Floppo]

The nebbishy woody allenesque Jew. 

 

[zamboni]

Men and women always orgasm simultaneously.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Also: the lead actress in a romance is usually highly-educated, with a great job, owns her own house/apartment, and has no kids.

AND YET SHE CAN'T SEEM TO FIND ANY MAN WILLING TO GO ON A DATE WITH HER.

..and of course is usually hot as hell.