Maybe because they got tired of hearing people quote james bond.

11/26/2009 7:48:45 PM

any mixed drink, for that matter

11/26/2009 8:25:01 PM

pretty sure you're supposed to stir a martini -- not shake it.

11/27/2009 1:50:17 PM

maybe they aren't cliches they are just post modern statements. ever think of that simpletons?

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[Edited on November 27, 2009 at 1:57 PM. Reason : no wonder you didn't get into unc]

11/27/2009 1:56:58 PM

awkward young boy just hitting puberty having a nervous first sexual encounter with and older, hot, popular female for some odd reason

11/27/2009 3:35:56 PM

^^^ I think that only applies to gin martinis, however, thats a bit of obscure bar trivia that no one knows and every bartender I've ever seen has shaken it.

Also, people walking up to a bar and saying "I'll have a beer". I understand that there are licensing issues and what not, but I have a hard time believing that busy bars all over the world only have one beer on tap.

12/3/2009 8:48:30 PM

An older woman talking about what a slut she was when she was younger as comedy.

12/13/2009 6:59:18 PM

^^See that bothers me too, but equally if they were to walk up to the bar and say "I'll have a Bud" that would annoy me too cause I'd just think it was lame product placement. I'm so picky

12/14/2009 4:11:34 PM

Quote :

"shaken, not stirred"

since this is only Bond, i don't think it counts as cliche.

12/14/2009 11:39:52 PM

one character is wearing a necklace or locket. someone comes up and grabs it from the front and pulls it off easily as if it were unclasped in the back. tried it, doesnt work, hurt their neck.

12/27/2009 1:20:53 AM

bonus points if they rip it off, then somehow clasp it behind their own neck immediately or later in the film

12/27/2009 1:47:05 AM

why do people stand so friggin close when they speak?

12/27/2009 10:03:41 AM

A big villain or henchman throwing a smaller hero around the room, doing little damage but allowing the hero to grab some item and use it as a weapon, thus defeating the larger enemy.

Note to enemy: knock off the body slams. just punch him in the face a bunch of times.

12/27/2009 3:19:17 PM

Guys having a weekly poker game that becomes a source of friction when one of them falls in love with a girl.

1/22/2010 1:24:58 AM

Totally inexperienced person is forced to take the controls of the speeding car/plane/space-ship/etc and manages to expertly drive/fly/navigate through the oncoming deadly obstacles.

Tiny women with perfect skin & hair shoot 20-lb hand-cannons in gritty gun-battles.

1/22/2010 11:00:46 AM

Has the dressing/equipping montage been mentioned?

Where they take 5-10 minutes just before the climax to show the main characters trying on new clothes or preparing their new weapons.

I remember Rush Hour being especially annoying in this regard.

1/22/2010 11:13:37 AM

^all of the original batman movies did that way over the top, i never liked it

i liked the adam west batman better where he just slides down the pole and is in costume by the time he reaches the bottom lol

1/22/2010 11:19:49 AM

Guys that have bulletproof vests cannot get shot anywhere outside their torso

When a guy that the audience doesn't know is wearing a bulletproof vest gets shot and appears to die, then springs back up and kills his assailant after the assailant has turned his back

When someone wearing a bulletproof vest gets shot multiple times in the vest by high powered rifles and doesn't slow down at all

1/22/2010 11:20:46 AM

^Thanks. You reminded me of one I was meaning to post but always forgot about it.

The guy that was just saved by his bullet proof vest always:

1) Opens his shirt to reveal said bullet proof vest to their baffled companion.

and here's the biggie

2) Takes the bullet proof vest off, tosses it on the ground, then returns to the fight... because clearly he won't be needing that bullet proof vest anymore. I guess those things are no longer useful once they've been shot once, so you're just better off with that wife beater as a bullet deterrent.

1/22/2010 1:19:01 PM

^ yep, i believe clint eastwood made that one popular

1/22/2010 1:30:20 PM

Quote :

"^all of the original batman movies did that way over the top, i never liked it "

i mostly just remember it in the batman and robin, batman forever movies, where the director really seemed like he got off on it

1/22/2010 3:07:45 PM

^ Yes, gratuitous ass and nipple shots were the main tool that Joel Schumacher used to kill the franchise.

1/22/2010 3:18:31 PM

http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=4272

1/22/2010 5:06:35 PM

the protagonists are trapped in a seemingly inescapable situation and they accidentally trip the trigger to open a secret passage or randomly look down and discover a hidden sign to point the way out

[Edited on January 22, 2010 at 9:51 PM. Reason : .]

1/22/2010 9:51:05 PM

Has the person behind the open refrigerator door/other door been posted? Seems to happen a lot in horror movies.

What about the person in the bathroom medicine cabinet mirror, has this been posted? Mirror door closed--no person; mirror door opens and closes--usually menacing person seen in mirror.

1/23/2010 4:14:16 AM

^ many times on the bathroom mirror

1/23/2010 4:18:18 AM

Jumping and landing in a dumpster.

Just once I'd like to see someome impaled on a piece of rebar.

1/23/2010 2:03:33 PM

Using tarps and wall-mounted sun shades to break your fall.

1/23/2010 4:22:18 PM

^ They tested that on Mythbusters. I don't recall the result though.

1/23/2010 4:34:33 PM

Yeah I remember that. Don't remember the result either, I just remember that Adam really badly wanted to be the one to do the jump, but was forbidden due to the show's insurance policy or something. He got really pissed off.

1/23/2010 4:37:19 PM

"LET'S GET ONE THING STRAIGHT......!!!!!"

1/28/2010 8:55:10 PM

Quote :

"Using tarps and wall-mounted sun shades to break your fall."

whatever, this shit looks painful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbgR9ikPdRE#t=5m00s

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 9:11 PM. Reason : ]

1/28/2010 9:10:05 PM

Quote :

"Don't remember the result either, I just remember that Adam really badly wanted to be the one to do the jump, but was forbidden due to the show's insurance policy or something."

I seem to remember them finding out that the sun shades actually did significantly help the person falling... they'd come out bruised, possibly with something broken, but far less likely to be seriously injured. I think they gave it a "plausible".

1/29/2010 2:45:34 AM

didn't want to create a new thread for this question, but what's the name of that fat red-headed movie blogger with the heinous neckbeard? He's got a real popular movie-blog but i can't remember it for the life of me.

1/29/2010 8:57:05 AM

Holding a pistol sideways.

1/30/2010 1:41:29 PM

person A is spying on person B he doesn't like, assumes the worst is going on

then when person A tries to publicy call out person B about the goings on, person B reveals an alternate truth that makes person A look like a dumbass

1/30/2010 10:21:50 PM

Operation Koh Samui?

1/30/2010 10:41:47 PM

a girl catches a guy doing something that appears to be bad but isnt, the guy then give a really bad explanation if at all, and she leaves still mad at him then we spend the next two hours watching him win her back

1/30/2010 11:10:50 PM

^ that

1/30/2010 11:26:32 PM

rich CEOs with crystal bottles filled with bourbon in their offices

1/30/2010 11:32:19 PM

Quote :

"didn't want to create a new thread for this question, but what's the name of that fat red-headed movie blogger with the heinous neckbeard? He's got a real popular movie-blog but i can't remember it for the life of me."

Harry Knowles



Holy crap he was fatter and uglier than I remember.

1/31/2010 12:47:34 AM

The montage at the end where they show individual characters and then have a little paragraph at the bottom of the screen explaining their fate after the end of the film. Yes, I give a shit about what these fictional people did after entertaining me for 105 minutes.

+1 for the stupid girlfriend who reads that and then leans over to ask me "Wait, this was based on a true story?"

1/31/2010 4:01:51 AM

^I've never seen that happen in a non-based-on-a-true-story movie... which one are you talking about?

1/31/2010 4:04:03 AM

Yeah, the Sandlot was definitely based on a true story, and Yeah Yeah really got into bungee jumping, and Timmy and Tommy really did invent mini-malls, and Squints did Marry Peffercorn, and they really did have nine kids, and Hamilton Porter really did become a proffesional wrestler, and DeNunez really did make it to triple A, and of course we all know Benny The Jet was arguably the best player in Dodgers history, at least in the top 5

1/31/2010 4:23:24 AM

^Point taken, though I don't think I've ever actually watched more than 20 minutes or so of the Sandlot.

[Edited on January 31, 2010 at 4:37 AM. Reason : .]

1/31/2010 4:36:08 AM

^Can't Hardly Wait did this also

1/31/2010 9:55:54 AM

Animal House too

[Edited on January 31, 2010 at 10:15 AM. Reason : ]

1/31/2010 10:15:09 AM

Stripes

1/31/2010 6:56:26 PM

Fast Times at Ridgemont High too

1/31/2010 7:54:09 PM

Apparently "Moonlight Serenade" was the only song used for a slow dance in the 1940s.

2/9/2010 11:56:41 AM