http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/feature/2011/04/12/phone_goodbye_supercut/index.html

4/14/2011 9:59:25 PM

Saying "Whoa whoa whoa....slow down!" on the phone.

4/14/2011 10:10:03 PM

^^That video is hilarious.

4/15/2011 10:51:00 AM

something important being dropped on the floor where a bunch of people are walking and people scurrying to grab it, but it just keeps getting kicked around right before they are able to grab it

4/15/2011 8:09:43 PM

Monitors/Screens that explode killing everyone but the main stars.

The sound of a hammer being cocked when the actor draws a GLOCK or other striker fired weapon.

People not reacting at all to the sound of un-suppressed gunshots fired indoors or in an enclosed space.
Honorable exception:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPlDq19kVVc

Extra gets killed during the course of an episode/movie, no one grieves. Main actor gets killed, lots of grief.
(Example: Star Trek, extras get killed off all the time and no one is the worse for wear, but when Tasha Yar or Jadzia Dax gets killed off, its a big deal)

A silenced centerfire pistol is fired, and people in the next room do not notice the sound at all.

Courtrooms in the movies are alot fancier looking than most are in real life.

4/16/2011 2:34:52 AM

"I didn't sign up for this shit."

4/16/2011 10:12:39 AM

cop waves with pinky and ring finger while holding coffee near his face

4/26/2011 7:58:11 PM

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but:

Grabbing a bad guy and using him as a bullet shield.


^ Cops always seem to drink coffee from paper/styrofoam cups.

[Edited on April 30, 2011 at 5:13 PM. Reason : ]

4/30/2011 5:11:56 PM

was watching something last night and saw one where a guy gets punched or something, then wipes blood from his lip w/ his hand and has this look like "you wanna go?" and does this little head nod

4/30/2011 5:13:26 PM

military generals ALWAYS want to nuke shit. it's the only solution to anything

4/30/2011 9:12:28 PM

Answering machines. Either playing all the messages, or the protagonist receiving an embarrassing/misunderstood phone call within earshot of the love interest.

5/13/2011 8:19:58 AM

Underling comes up to main good or bad guy

"I've got some good news...and some bad news"

Good guy always wants bad news first, and vice versa

5/13/2011 9:00:55 AM

Quote :

"military generals ALWAYS want to nuke shit. it's the only solution to anything"

and they are always about 80 years old and dressed in their military dress uniform

5/13/2011 10:17:25 AM

To be fair, its the only way to be sure.

5/13/2011 10:42:41 AM

when someone needs to raise money for another guy's surgery, it seems like it's always $50,000

5/15/2011 2:41:46 PM

^I, too, watched Hot Rod today

5/15/2011 7:23:48 PM

yeah, odd that the only other movie i can think of for that is Dirty Work, but there's gotta be more

5/15/2011 7:38:25 PM

Whenever a character comes home with groceries it's always a brown paper bag with raw leafy vegetables (Celery, carrots with the stem still on, etc) or french bread or something sticking out the top without any type of cover. Their grocery stores don't have the little plastic vegetable bag things with twist ties I guess.

5/16/2011 12:32:03 PM

^ also the milk is always square paper containers, never plastic gallons

5/16/2011 1:27:07 PM

5/16/2011 3:37:29 PM

The Man Child.

This cliche, if it was ever funny, stopped being funny 15 years ago.

Pee Wee Herman
Dumb and Dumber
Ace Ventura
Billy Madison...Adam Sandler

Since then, this cliche has continued to be done to death, and its just not funny or clever anymore.

Seth Rogen, Will Farrell et al

5/17/2011 2:17:42 PM

people using those small projector machines at the library to look at newspapers from years past when trying to solve crimes

5/18/2011 7:14:36 PM

microfilm

5/18/2011 7:46:55 PM

right, that

5/18/2011 7:50:49 PM

the eclectic black woman is always a lesbian

5/18/2011 9:35:41 PM

dream sequences

5/28/2011 7:57:33 PM

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2011/06/03/best_montages_slide_show

6/4/2011 10:21:44 AM

Cops running through a crowd yelling "POLICE! MAKE A HOLE!"

6/4/2011 12:50:45 PM

"You just don't get it, do you?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoKWf6pLs8

plz 2 embed

6/4/2011 5:13:06 PM

No one using a computer ever uses a mouse. Everything is typed frantically on a keyboard.

6/5/2011 10:55:33 AM

noisy scene cuts to someone's phone ringing in the middle of the night or an alarm clock

6/6/2011 2:25:30 PM

Said alarm clock rings just long enough to piss you off in real life

6/6/2011 2:55:18 PM

- someone yells at someone/a group that they need to go do something. everyone sits still for a few seconds doing nothing. "don't just stand there, let's go!"

- someone shoots/stabs/punches another person that can't get hurt for some reason. guy that got shot looks down at the injury, then back at the other person, waits a beat, then kills them. meanwhile the other guy is just standing there looking scared or confused.

[Edited on June 6, 2011 at 3:13 PM. Reason : ]

6/6/2011 3:09:43 PM

Quote :

"someone yells at someone/a group that they need to go do something. everyone sits still for a few seconds doing nothing. "don't just stand there, let's go!""

reverse of this was a funny moment in Without a Paddle, when Burt Reynolds tells the 3 guys that they had to get out there and change their lives and they had to do it "now" ... they all stand up like they are gonna leave and he looks ticked and is like "not RIGHT NOW, ya idiots!"

6/6/2011 3:35:06 PM

I don't get it. I mean right now it looks like there's nobody home. Last night the place was jumping. Something ain't right. Go check it out.

Now?

No tomorrow, egghead. NOW! GET!

6/6/2011 3:40:36 PM

This has probably already been said (and it may even be more of a television cliche), but every time a character tells someone else (usually a significant other) that they "will always have time for you" or "just want to be there for you" they immediately get an extremely important phone call that forces them to leave right that moment.

6/6/2011 11:04:49 PM

car chase and some specialty truck gets slammed and whatever it's carrying gets strewn about

(watching The Rock, water cooler truck hit by the hummer)

6/11/2011 5:07:54 PM

^fruit stands getting knocked over too

6/11/2011 5:56:44 PM

and a dozen poorly placed garbage bins

6/11/2011 6:35:51 PM

Quote :

"car chase and some specialty truck gets slammed and whatever it's carrying gets strewn about"

I was always bothered by the timely appearance of specialty trucks in the first two Terminators.

6/11/2011 6:52:13 PM

Two-part chemical explosives.

6/11/2011 8:35:40 PM

Has no one mentioned how cliched it is that the good guy is ALWAYS able to escape by crawling through duct work? It is always magically large enough to fit at least one person, secure enough to hold their weight, and never has any obstructions such as turning vanes or dampers. Also, the ducts magically end in one of 2 places: The outside without a fan (not a very smart design for an exhaust system) or a giant fan that is large enough to chop a person to little bits.

Doesn't hollywood know that there is a LOT more to an HVAC system than rectangular ducts and giant fans?!!?

6/12/2011 10:49:39 AM

hollywood does but the general public doesn't...

don't know if it was mentioned yet, but they show a bar...it is late at night and only 1 or 2 people in there, and the bartender is wiping off glasses with a cloth

6/12/2011 11:04:46 AM

Guy does gravity defying flips through the air, lands on all fours, has chin pressed against chest and slowly, dramatically raises head.

6/13/2011 12:41:36 PM

Dramatic music plays, 6 low level bad guys come in the room and stand in formation, three on each side. Then main bad guy comes and stands between them before addressing protagonist. Bonus points if he lets out an evil laugh or says something along the lines of "You really thought I wouldn't catch on to your plan?"

6/13/2011 12:45:50 PM

6/14/2011 2:43:13 PM

news reports on a TV that the audience knows is important (dramatic irony, i know) but the characters just turn the channel or turn the TV off w/o paying attention

6/26/2011 6:42:02 PM

soft drink cup (especially the large ones) with a straw always make a slurping sound when someone is drinking out of them, even if they are full

6/26/2011 8:41:59 PM

main bad guy meets his demise by falling 30+ stories out a window

i was thinking about it, and i am changing it to just 'bad guy falls to death from great heights' in general

[Edited on June 26, 2011 at 10:24 PM. Reason : ]

6/26/2011 9:58:22 PM

i'm not going through 18 pages to see if this has already been posted

when a character is driving on what is an obvious straight road, yet quickly jerks the wheel back and forth

6/26/2011 10:02:16 PM