Quote :

"Holding a pistol sideways."

some idiot in new york got blasted by the cops after he turned his gun sideways and it jammed.

yuck yuck

2/9/2010 12:07:50 PM

A collection of mirror related cliches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tjoqhx_dwk

Most of them are the standard "look in the bathroom mirror and everything's fine, then close it/look in it again and something is behind you"

2/10/2010 1:34:27 PM

what movie is that at the 5 second mark?

2/10/2010 6:07:48 PM

Sean of the Dead?

2/11/2010 10:20:05 AM

Shaun of the Dead.

2/11/2010 12:14:25 PM

Man/woman has a romantic moment with a past lover that he/she divorced or broke up with, usually in one of the final scenes, and says "Do you think people can change?"

I watched 2012 on Tuesday, and it was chock full of clichés.

2/11/2010 12:36:41 PM

When badass characters chew pain pills.

2/11/2010 12:52:55 PM

A person is in the street and oblivious. Cut to truck driver who just dropped something.

2/11/2010 1:19:02 PM

A person yelling at their opponent exactly what their injury is just so the audience knows.

IE: "YOU BROKE MY NOSE!!!"

2/11/2010 6:20:35 PM

Chess metaphors.

2/13/2010 10:54:32 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk

2/25/2010 6:34:08 PM

^

That's great.

2/25/2010 6:37:47 PM

Basically the entire Valentine's Day movie.

Holy shit.

2/25/2010 6:53:55 PM

Quote :

"Chess metaphors."

Independence Day would have been better off without them.

2/25/2010 8:57:04 PM

2/26/2010 3:54:58 PM

The final scene in a horror movie where the evil whatever is shown to still be around.

2/28/2010 3:44:15 PM

when a client whispers in his/her lawyer's ear and apparently explains a great deal of information in less than 3 seconds

2/28/2010 3:58:05 PM

when people that dont know a language try to speak it, but actually say something that is way off which is translated by subtitle

like instead of "HOW ARE YOU TODAY?"

they say "I WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOUR UNCLE"

3/2/2010 2:31:14 PM

People answering the phone by saying "SPEAK" in place of "HELLO?"

I see this a lot in 80s movies, but remember Johnny Sac on Sopranos doing it after he became don. I guess they wanted to show how much more important his time was at that point.

3/2/2010 3:03:51 PM

what are you talking about? i say that all the time

3/2/2010 6:10:25 PM

Just watched Mystic River...How about when the movie leads you to believe character A is insane and that he killed Character B, only to reveal at the end of the movie that character A did something we might see as noble or heroic and that Character W, who was hardly even been in the movie, actually killed character B.

And, the line, "Admit it and I'll give you your life!," or something along those lines.

I like Clint Eastwood a lot and I liked that movie, but am i the only one who is always completely turned off by Sean Penn's utterly unbridled exaggeration? He chews scenery up like few others. He's a good actor, but it's completely obnoxious at times.

3/2/2010 7:26:57 PM

In Uncle Buck, when John Candy goes to teh party and drills though the doorknob to catch Bug and Tia...

He kicks the door open and it hit the dresser, bounces a few inches, then slams back into the dresser. Like it was attached to a spring. I guess I'm saying when someone kicks a door open and it sticks open unnaturally.



Also, in the Uncle Buck scene, if you look a the bottom left corner, you can see a hand grab the bottom of the door to hold it open after it bounces back. Not a cliche, but it's like the first time I caught one of those on my own.

3/2/2010 9:48:31 PM

As the set explodes around them:
"We both knew that this was a one way ticket!"

3/3/2010 2:34:03 PM

Two characters sleeping next to each other and waking up awkwardly close.

3/6/2010 12:29:06 PM

Conveying battle plan via hand signals.

Shouting nonsense to direct security forces. RUBICON RUBICON DELTA RED CHARLIE BRAVO 3 GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO!

3/6/2010 1:15:39 PM

Quote :

"jbtilley All American 7880 Posts user info edit post 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. [Edited on July 9, 2009 at 10:29 PM. Reason : -] 7/9/2009 10:29:09 PM"

3/6/2010 2:38:04 PM

Saw another movie with that garbage last night. Wow. At least I'm consistent.

[Edited on March 6, 2010 at 3:10 PM. Reason : -]

3/6/2010 3:09:17 PM

cop cliches...."Brooklyns Finest" was full of them.

The undercover cop who has been in so long he is starting to forget what side he is on.

The old burnt out alcoholic cop who is always contemplating suicide

3/8/2010 11:29:49 PM

Cutting to a scene where everyone is laughing like a joke was just told. This is generally done to show that everyone is having a good time or getting along, but always makes me frown at the lazy writing.

3/8/2010 11:34:08 PM

Quote :

" I like Clint Eastwood a lot and I liked that movie, but am i the only one who is always completely turned off by Sean Penn's utterly unbridled exaggeration? He chews scenery up like few others. He's a good actor, but it's completely obnoxious at times. "

Penn is a good actor, but he can be annoying as hell. I really just don't like him in general. Uppity, self righteous asshole.

3/9/2010 12:41:27 AM

^

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/03/08/sean-penn-wants-reporters-jailed-calling-chavez-dictator/?test=faces

3/9/2010 3:05:55 AM

This one might have been said already - but when someone is reaching for something and something bad is about to happen, and they are obviously very far away from the item, then at the last second they manage to somehow grab it.

3/10/2010 10:44:05 AM

^^

http://www.mediaite.com/online/sean-penn-celebrates-colon-cancer-awareness-month-by-wishing-it-on-his-foes/

What a fucking douchebag

3/10/2010 5:32:34 PM

Kids in movies.

Take that girl from Jurassic Park in the scene where they are right outside the T-Rex cage, and that thing had just gotten out. She's faced with several options:

A) Be still and silent and wait for it to leave the area.
B) Sit on the floor of the Explorer, and try and hide from view of the outside windows.
C) Shine a fucking light in the dinosaur's eye.

GUESS WHICH ONE SHE CHOSE!

Every kid in every movie ever made, including that Osment douchebag has a propensity for doing something extra idiotic that immediately makes you wish they'd be killed in some fashion in the next frame.

3/10/2010 6:52:40 PM

^my sentiments exactly. now i can show my wife that there is at least someone else who agrees with me. i hate like 99% of child actors.

dakota fanning being the main offender.

3/10/2010 8:08:22 PM

Movie Life cliches that annoy me: Children actors Children. I hate them. I don't think they have any place in the world

Not really, though.

3/10/2010 8:15:13 PM

Person has emotional experience and they turn on the radio and its playing a song that perfectly matches their mood

3/16/2010 3:26:45 PM

http://www.cracked.com/video_18156_a-trailer-every-academy-award-winning-movie-ever.html

3/24/2010 11:25:16 AM

A character is running away from a very fast threat, like a car, or a velociraptor, or a tidal wave, and they are somehow able to stay ahead of it for far longer than humanly possible.

3/24/2010 2:07:07 PM

I'm sure it's been said already, but I really hate the scene where it is all quiet and a dude is just standing on the curb and then all of a sudden, a truck comes into frame and crushes the guy with a loud horn blast.

[Edited on March 24, 2010 at 4:47 PM. Reason : ]

3/24/2010 4:45:31 PM

Casually discarding something by throwing it off screen and hearing glass break or someone yell "OWW!"

It may have been funny the first time but it's been beaten into the ground at this point.

3/24/2010 6:48:53 PM

people just hanging up to end a phone conversation... don't say bye or anything... that's pretty rude.

3/24/2010 11:23:05 PM

Deathbed resolution of pointless internal conflict.

during the Last Samurai:
"I've spent my whole life looking for the perfect cherry blossom."
"Every cherry blossom is perfect! (cough cough ) [dies]"

3/26/2010 3:37:07 PM

Sequels where the hero suddenly has a brand new vital skill that was never mentioned before and doesn't quite make sense.

examples: Rambo II and Die Hard 4 they can suddenly fly helicopters
Lethal Weapon II Riggs can suddenly pop his shoulder out on demand

3/28/2010 8:00:38 PM

riggs dislocated it in the first one where he flies off that bridge, so i guess that's where it comes from

3/28/2010 8:10:07 PM

Shit. He did?

I thought he flew off the bridge in the third one.

3/28/2010 8:24:10 PM

rows of stadium lights that come on or go off in rapid succession with a loud bang each time

3/28/2010 8:49:02 PM

I just noticed a great one. "His/her record is clean, not even a parking ticket."

Somehow, I really doubt that parking tickets would show up on your criminal history...

3/31/2010 10:40:29 PM

The montage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIi0vFyqWAc

4/1/2010 3:13:46 PM

when people out run explosions, floods, etc... with it continually at their heels.

4/1/2010 3:20:03 PM