1. One of my least favorite cliches: The bad guy has one of the good guys in custody, there's great build up to him killing the guy, then the bad guy shoots a random henchman that previously made a minor mistake or otherwise pissed him off. The the bad guy makes some excuse (usually "I can't kill you, I still need you", "We need a hostage", etc.) and doesn't kill the good guy. I'm sure it was a surprise the first 100 times it happened and I get that it makes sense sometimes but it's sort of played out.

Richard Roeper has some of this in his book, and two of my favorites are:

1. Whenever anyone coughs in a movie, they have gotten a terminal disease.

2. Whenever a student's chair is empty in the classroom, they are dead.

Person in scary/dangerous situation approaches certain area with an abundance of caution (usually creepy music in background).

Person sees nothing (creepy music ends).

Person turns all the way around, usually with a smile.

Person dies.

okay look: we know you've been chasing the bad guy alone in your crown vic and are itching to kick the door in and face the fuckHr down. but please stop. call for backup first. know why? there's a guy behind the door, or behind the bush, or the room next door and he's going to sneak up and put a gun to your head while you've drawn down on the bad guy and turn the tables on you. so please, just. call. for. backup.

failure to look UP: don't look left, right and everywhere else around the room but not up. LOOK UP. DO it. bad things can be UP too, you know. so please don't wait for the monster to drop on your head, look UP

oh. and you. stupid gal in the skin tight clothing, tons of makeup and tottery high heels guaranteed to break an ankle if you move faster than a crawl: don't walk down the unlit alley alone. stop right there. use the sidewalk and stick to the well-lit areas. you may live to the next scene. maybe

conversely, here is one of my favorite movie moments below, with samuel jackson. in fact, i wish there was a way i could insert this moment into more movies, at will. for example, psycho? the shower scene? shark pop. shark gets her first. or that forrest gump moment, where he explains that life is like a box of chocolates? shark pop! from right out of the pavement if necessary.

not cliche really but i think this is the most awesomely bad scene ever. Submitted for the approval of the Prince.Org...I present Horrible Dialogue In Mortal Kombat 2

1.Dumb hot chick: yes, this cliché still exists, watch any Michael Bay movie

2.The "latino" soldier, male or female, in modern action films or sci-fi/action films: stereotypes galore, most of them insulting...

3.Black guy in a supposedly important role (modern cliché), mostly in action films or thrillers, but who doesn't have that much importance in the script, unlike the eternal white guy in the starring role...

4.Clint Eastwood (in any role) drop serious while saying "What??" when challenged, troubled or insulted...

5.The ultra-mega-smart guy who can solve any tech problem...mostly played by male white actors...

6.The hot as hell japanese/chinese female sidekick portrayed as somewhat frigid/arrogant...

7.The mentally challenged dude who's a closet genius...

8.Henchman dying just before the main villian

9.Henchman dying after the main villian (vengeance time!)

10.Henchman killing the main villian and taking ova

11.Stallone being beaten to a pulp in the final fistfight just to recover in time to save the day, is he made of steel?

Joes list reminds me of another played out cliche.

White man going into another country, gets the girl of course. And has to save the people from ''themselves'' especially when it's a Japanese type situation. The new Wolverine movie had that same damn cliche.

EVERY male character who were Japanese were wife abusing, evil, and knew Kung Fu

He had to save the Japanese women fromt he evil Japanese men. All while fucking one of them of course.

Rococo said:

not cliche really but i think this is the most awesomely bad scene ever. Submitted for the approval of the Prince.Org...I present Horrible Dialogue In Mortal Kombat 2

that was so good!!!

Gunsnhalen said:

Joes list reminds me of another played out cliche.

White man going into another country, gets the girl of course. And has to save the people from ''themselves'' especially when it's a Japanese type situation. The new Wolverine movie had that same damn cliche.

EVERY male character who were Japanese were wife abusing, evil, and knew Kung Fu

He had to save the Japanese women fromt he evil Japanese men. All while fucking one of them of course.

Super Heroes ALWAYS gets the chicks

kpowers said:

Gunsnhalen said:

Joes list reminds me of another played out cliche.

White man going into another country, gets the girl of course. And has to save the people from ''themselves'' especially when it's a Japanese type situation. The new Wolverine movie had that same damn cliche.

EVERY male character who were Japanese were wife abusing, evil, and knew Kung Fu

He had to save the Japanese women fromt he evil Japanese men. All while fucking one of them of course.

Super Heroes ALWAYS gets the chicks

WHITE super heroes Spawn wasn't rackin in the pussy! neither was Black Panther.

Gunsnhalen said:

kpowers said:

Super Heroes ALWAYS gets the chicks

WHITE super heroes Spawn wasn't rackin in the pussy! neither was Black Panther.

Well I always get the chick

kpowers said:

Gunsnhalen said:

WHITE super heroes Spawn wasn't rackin in the pussy! neither was Black Panther.

Well I always get the chick

No

JoeTyler said:

1.Dumb hot chick: yes, this cliché still exists, watch any Michael Bay movie

2.The "latino" soldier, male or female, in modern action films or sci-fi/action films: stereotypes galore, most of them insulting...

3.Black guy in a supposedly important role (modern cliché), mostly in action films or thrillers, but who doesn't have that much importance in the script, unlike the eternal white guy in the starring role...

4.Clint Eastwood (in any role) drop serious while saying "What??" when challenged, troubled or insulted...

5.The ultra-mega-smart guy who can solve any tech problem...mostly played by male white actors...

6.The hot as hell japanese/chinese female sidekick portrayed as somewhat frigid/arrogant...

7.The mentally challenged dude who's a closet genius...

8.Henchman dying just before the main villian

9.Henchman dying after the main villian (vengeance time!)

10.Henchman killing the main villian and taking ova

11.Stallone being beaten to a pulp in the final fistfight just to recover in time to save the day, is he made of steel?

bugs me that in scary movies lots of the time the black characters are killed off first.

The whole black, white buddy film.

The heroic cop.

Villain captures hero sets up some complicated device to kill hero, then runs off to do something else and hero escapes.

JoeTyler said:

kpowers said:

Well I always get the chick

No

Close-up shots of the hero preparing for the battle, strapping on ammunition , loading his gun, applying camouflage make-up to his face, looking all serious, flexing his biceps, tightening his bandana or belt or shoelaces or whatever, all accompanied by cheesy sounding orchestral music that is supposed to sound epic.

I fell for it when I was a little kid but it´s just sad when you see grown men cheer to these kind of scenes in this day and age.

It´s very American as far as moviemaking goes and sometimes less is more. Mel Gibson´s first two Mad Max movies are still among my favorite action movies of all time for so many reasons but one reason is that the people involved didn´t take themselves and the whole story too seriously.

Rococo said:

not cliche really but i think this is the most awesomely bad scene ever. Submitted for the approval of the Prince.Org...I present Horrible Dialogue In Mortal Kombat 2

But she looks good

XxAxX said:

conversely, here is one of my favorite movie moments below, with samuel jackson. in fact, i wish there was a way i could insert this moment into more movies, at will. for example, psycho? the shower scene? shark pop. shark gets her first. or that forrest gump moment, where he explains that life is like a box of chocolates? shark pop! from right out of the pavement if necessary.

Having Samuel Jackson in a movie is a cliche now

That Mortal Kombat clip is boss. Your mother, who you assumed dead, appears before you in one of Prince's old tour outfits, and tells you that YOU...........will die.

Then they're this juicy classic:

Oh, and for cliches, I think the whole male/female whimsical fairy tale romance thing is SO fucking played out.

Whenever anyone eats chinese food, they always eat right out of the container...they never put it on plates. Even if there are a group of 12 friends, each one will have a white cardboard container in their hands instead of plates. And they ALL use chopsticks lol.

In apartment buildings, attractive female neighbors are ALWAYS asking if they can use the nerdy guy's shower next door...their shower "isn't working" or their roommate is in the bathroom and they're gonna be late for work.

Also, women seem to have zero problem answering the door wearing nothing but a towel. Just stepped out of their (working) shower...*knock knock*...doesn't matter who it is, just barely wrap a towel around your dripping wet naked body and open the door to a stranger. Sure.

Half-naked women walk in front of windows all the damn time...never close the curtains, never close the blinds. Just absent-mindedly stroll topless in from of the window while looking for their iPod. Even worse, the curtans/blinds ARE closed, yet we can see a picture-perfect silhouette of the woman's nude body against it, as if she has a million watt spotlight in her bedroom aimed at the window.

Stop walking around the house while brushing your teeth! It's disgusting!!

Guys seem to always carry a flask of whiskey in their suit jacket...not even alcoholics do that.

"Facial Recognition software" does NOT work like that, dammit...some blurry dot turns into a picture-perfect clear image of Kevin Costner.

Law Enforcement/Military Arrives Right After Catastrophe Is Handled By Hero;

Commanding Officer Casually Struts Out Of Given Vehicle (Bonus Points if CO is Hero's CO);

CO and Hero Exchange Cliches;

Cars, Tanks, Boats and Or Copters Swarm Scene, as Personnel Fan Out to Clean Up Damage And Arrest Surviving Baddies;

<Hero and Damsel In Distress Kiss | Buddies Stroll Off Camera>

Roll End Credits.

ScarletScandal said:

Then they're this juicy classic:

is that real?!

Score is a glorious operatic cresescedo with vocals

Ending is a big cluster of CG action on an epic scale

Action slows down, even freezes (bullet time), then jumps back to regular motion.

Comedies where some kind of team of underdogs fights to a championship competition, and there is a shared love interest between arch enemies.

_______________

Trailers:

Action movie with a personal hero journey with the same music from above, but that music is from a previous hit movie.

The last little funny or scary bit after the credits, that "surprise" jumpback.

ufoclub said:

Score is a glorious operatic cresescedo with vocals

Ending is a big cluster of CG action on an epic scale

Action slows down, even freezes (bullet time), then jumps back to regular motion.

Trailers love the Carmina Burana. They build up into a frenzy, and then freeze to deliver one line like "so be it" from the villain, then pound massive drum beats saying "Summer 2014" or something of that nature.

This one is missing the catch phrase, but almost gets it right