bad guys running through crowded open areas in the middle of the day shooting at someone

basically every scene in National Treasure is a bad cliche

7/7/2009 12:44:51 AM

S.W.A.T. teams or other highly trained dudes running around pointing their fingers at their eyes and in various locations to signal the team what to do. Bonus if they start spouting off nonsense words like "rubicon, rubicon" as they are running around.

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7/9/2009 10:29:09 PM

Haven't read the entire thread so some of these probably have already been said:
- When someone has a ridiculously flashy computer interface to do something hacker-ish (decode a password, tap a phone, etc).
- Split personalities as a plot twist.
- Look at how gritty this film is! The colors are all washed out and we use shaky cam way too much.

7/13/2009 5:00:08 PM

i like how every post now has the disclaimer to protect themselves from [old] flames

7/13/2009 5:21:35 PM

and I like how clever you are. really.

7/13/2009 6:24:01 PM

guy thinks he's being trolled

7/13/2009 6:43:25 PM

Every time it shows a house at night, it will do a close up of a faucet in the kitchen or bathroom and there will be a single drop of water that falls out.

7/14/2009 9:54:44 AM

Everything has a progress bar. If someone on television attempted to post on TWW, when you click on "Post Reply!" there would be a status bar that pops up to show the progress.

When someone attempts to repair something (usually never unless plot relevant), it goes perfectly the first time. Never do they have to take 3 trips to the garage for different tools, or attempt two or three different methods of fixing something.

Very few people have pets, and if they do they are very well behaved (unless plot, like Marley and Me)

7/14/2009 10:32:55 AM

When the mousy looking girl takes off her glasses, lets down her hair, throws on a slutty dress and turns into a hottie

the beeping of computers in action movies

7/14/2009 10:38:45 AM

Portrayals of racism in the old south. Specifically, making an antagonist an unabashed racist while making the main character love all men equally, even though the race issue has nothing to do with that portion of the movie.

7/14/2009 11:10:11 AM

crappy 8 bit single tone bleeping when anyone plays a video game.

Pre-360 and PS3 when all stock system controllers had no wire attached.

7/14/2009 12:38:02 PM

the super simple 1 objective interface of CIA/FBI/ other organization software that you can apparently only use the keyboard to navigate through.

7/14/2009 1:54:37 PM

Rainy funerals.

7/19/2009 2:12:06 PM

Guy is being interrogated/interviewed and is asked an important question

Then starts a 20 second sequence where he gets out/is give a cigarette, lights it, and take a big puff

before beginning to answer the question

7/19/2009 2:17:20 PM

guy is a gatekeeper of information (librarian/whatever) and a guy goes to him to get some information. should be a normal task, but the gatekeeper guy goes "hmm thats strange" when something is missing or is out of the ordinary

7/19/2009 3:10:47 PM

sex scenes where the woman keeps her bra on for fear of showing a little nip

7/19/2009 3:54:46 PM

i hate in trailers where they'll show a guy saying/asking something in one scene, then they show another guy replying in a completely different scene

like one guy will be on the beach and he'll say something like "YA BOINKED HER?!"

and then it cuts to a guy in an office and he'll be like "WELL, YEAH.."

7/19/2009 6:57:07 PM

Greg Kinnear on the practice field "Where'd you play your college ball ?"

Mark Walhberg on the toilet talking on his phone "I didn't play college ball !"

7/19/2009 8:09:58 PM

-the general use of slow motion for dramatic effect

-traffic jam scenes featuring a cacophony of car horns. i've sat in my fair share of traffic across the US and never witnessed such a thing.

7/19/2009 9:12:44 PM

^lol you're right I can't think of a single traffic jam I've been in when people consistently blow their horns. Most people realize that emitting sound from your car won't make traffic move faster.

7/20/2009 1:46:44 PM

"we'll how do you explain...THIS" and they whip out something from behind their back

7/20/2009 2:59:41 PM

That just makes me think of the end of Ace Ventura.

7/20/2009 3:04:29 PM

someone is tired or so and they sit down while talking to another person...other person has camera on them and continues to talk about something and then they ask a question and the other person has fallen asleep

7/21/2009 5:41:10 PM

How lack of good decent communication skills could have saved us from face-palms and the last half of the movie, especially when there's a chick involved.

7/21/2009 8:13:36 PM

conversations that go like this:

person A: blah blah blah blah..

Person B interrupts: I have aids/there's an asteroid hitting the earth/general bad news

Person A: (keeps talking) blah blah blah blah (Pauses, just comprehended bad news) omg wtf!

7/21/2009 8:20:07 PM

^^art imitates life...especially when there's a chick involved...

7/21/2009 10:18:42 PM

"I'm OK!...thanks to these guys/this guy"

7/25/2009 1:27:19 PM

People break into a car and find the keys stashed in the visor

7/25/2009 2:32:36 PM

Child overtly (to the audience) watching and mimicking an adult.

Crossing arms, crossing legs, cock of the hat, speech, gait, etc.

7/25/2009 11:11:09 PM

while we are on the subject of kids.....i hate the movie cliche of creepy/quiet/evil little kids. the list goes on

The Omen (which i think was the original before it was a cliche so its cool)
The Good Son
Orphan
Poltergeist
Signs (The little girl)
The Sixth Sense
Stir of Echos

there are so many I cant even think of more

7/25/2009 11:54:22 PM

Quote :

"the super simple 1 objective interface of CIA/FBI/ other organization software that you can apparently only use the keyboard to navigate through. "

thats it for me

also how you can find anything in like 4 seconds

ala that soutpark episode making fun of 24

7/26/2009 8:28:04 PM

The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter

Comes with the Scorsese, I suppose.

7/26/2009 9:03:29 PM

my wife says

latin dance scenes

(we just went to see The Ugly Truth)

7/27/2009 10:08:07 AM

^^ When Scorcese directed Shine A Light Mick Jagger said that it was the first movie he'd made that didn't include Gimme Shelter.

7/27/2009 10:13:31 AM

Trying to think of a few that might not have been mentioned.

An airplane is shooting at someone on foot. The guy on the ground either outruns the bullets being fired from the plane or runs perfectly down the middle of the two lines of gunfire coming at them.

While on the subject of planes... the pilot gets sick and Joe Never-flown-one-of-these-things-before has to take over.

Bombs in general. They all have a clock strapped to them with a nice, large, digital readout. That way you know to wait to disarm it when it only has one second left. Plus all the bomb makers adhere to the strict ISO9000 guidelines for what color wire to use for each specific connection. How about using all red wires once, just to mess with people?

Probably the very first movie cliché that I ever noticed as a kid. The heel wearing woman that trips while running away from the bad guy. Bonus points if she just sits there being terrified instead of getting back up and continuing to run away. Even more points if there's some guy that has to go back, help her up, and hold her by the hand for the remainder of their flight.

Chandelier in a campy action movie? That puppy is going to be used as a Tarzan vine or will come crashing down on the heads of one or more bad guys at some point - guaranteed.

The best hackers in the world are all under 12 years old. This is because they know to type "access the secret stuff" at the command prompt.

You could probably have a whole thread on phone clichés:
-Phone line cut about 3 words into the call to the police... instead of before starting the attempted robbery/whatever.
-Not so much a issue anymore, but the press the button that hangs the phone up a few times while saying "Hello? Hello!" to discover that the line has been cut.
-Hang up whenever. No gradual end to the conversation or even a goodbye. Just -click- as soon as the relevant information is conveyed.
-A dial tone when someone hangs up on you - or I should say when someone on the other end is unexpectedly cut-off.


And the whole reason I even bothered... I saw portions of Shanghai Noon/Knights yesterday (I don't know which). The grubby, grubby outlaws in the mid-west with the straightest, whitest teeth you ever saw. Also, the reluctant participant and the guy that insists on a face off that takes place at noon.

[Edited on July 27, 2009 at 11:36 AM. Reason : -]

7/27/2009 11:33:47 AM

This is more of a TV show thing (and I might have already posted this), but when a popular music artist somehow ends up at a dance/bar because a character just happens to know the manager. "Hey Barry White come sing at this bar in Boston, my cousin's niece's daughter wants to surprise her boyfriend" "Sing in a bar for people I don't know. Sure why not?"

7/30/2009 9:08:12 AM

^works for movies, and i think you could even say that the famous singer is Tony Bennett (Bruce Almighty, Analyze This, etc)

7/30/2009 9:12:40 AM

^^ Reminds me of Click. Apparently the girl from the Cranberries does weddings.

7/30/2009 9:38:41 AM

L-shaped bed sheets. When it shows the guy and girl in bed post-nookie, the sheets go up to the women's shoulders, but up to the mans waist

7/30/2009 10:11:53 AM

Sex scenes with bras on because an actress doesn't want to show nipple.

7/30/2009 11:57:41 AM

To show that someone is intelligent they are shown doing some sort of mental arithmetic with large numbers...and then continuing their answer to the second decimal to show what a genius they are.

7/30/2009 8:13:48 PM

^ what the hell is that from?

i dig the scenes where someone has to alter their appearance, and armed with only a pair of kitchen shears, they manage to give someone a $500 haircut. bonus points if they cut their own hair, or use a pocket knife

7/30/2009 10:11:11 PM

From the top of my head:
21
le Chiffre in Casino Royale
maybe Spock in the latest Star Trek

7/30/2009 10:54:36 PM

When bachelor parties are held the very night before the ensuing wedding

does anyone ever actually do that?

7/31/2009 9:12:42 AM

when high school kids stand around in the hallway until the bell rings, then they go to their next class.

at my high school if we werent in the classroom before the second bell, it was ISS.

7/31/2009 1:22:32 PM

^i'll let that one go. we had a "get to class" bell and a "late to class" bell.

7/31/2009 6:03:47 PM

Rolling into a gas station just as the car runs out of gas.

Wind blowing back the hair when the love interest is seen for the first time.

Blood brothers/oaths/bonds

"How do you know she's the one?"

[Edited on August 1, 2009 at 8:59 PM. Reason : ]

8/1/2009 8:41:18 PM

anything dealing with love at first sight

8/1/2009 9:57:37 PM

Shooting at a weird angle when a character is drunk.

8/8/2009 8:39:56 PM

I guess seeing all the GI Joe ads has finally pushed me to post this...

The sergeant/football coach yelling "Listen up ladies..." as a preface to the rest of their orders.

8/8/2009 11:00:17 PM