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Commen movies cliches that you believe need to stop

1. When a hero has to ponder on whether to save one person or an entire city, country, or planet.

2. When the main character lies for absolutly no reason

3. When a villian decides to kill the hero with pulles or sharks or other devices that give the hero several minutes to escape

4. When the villian gives the hero a last request

5. Where several bullets are fired at the hero but for some reason miss

6. When someone with powers wishes he didn't have them
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There goes the James bond franchise....

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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7. When a hero is outnumbered yet still wins because the bad guys choose to make some idiotic display in front of them.

8. Singular monsters that never die

9. Ventalation ducts that lead everywhere and can always hold the wait of multiple humans and nobody ever thinks of looking for them.

10. Horror movies where the main charcters just do everything wrong (there is a hell of alot of them)
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Originally posted by: jimbo
Commen movies cliches that you believe need to stop

1. When a hero has to ponder on whether to save one person or an entire city, country, or planet.

2. When the main character lies for absolutly no reason

3. When a villian decides to kill the hero with pulles or sharks or other devices that give the hero several minutes to escape

4. When the villian gives the hero a last request

5. Where several bullets are fired at the hero but for some reason miss

6. When someone with powers wishes he didn't have them


Ok, this sounds like a challenge to me! Let's see if I can find a situation for each of these cliches.

##MIGHT HAVE SPOILERS OF SOME KIND##


1- Hmn... ok, how about: Cameron inside his car in Ferris Bueller Day Off.
2- Uh... let's see... The Austin Powers Penis Enlarger scene? "This is not mine..."
3- Easy. Austin Powers. "Turn on the unnecessary dipping device!". Also seen in every Batman 60s TV series episode, or in every Bond flick.
4- Hmn... Maybe, Spaceballs? Every Jackie Chan flick? Can't think of any right now, but I know I've seen it.
5- Matrix.
6- Matrix?
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Originally posted by: jimbo
7. When a hero is outnumbered yet still wins because the bad guys choose to make some idiotic display in front of them.

8. Singular monsters that never die

9. Ventalation ducts that lead everywhere and can always hold the wait of multiple humans and nobody ever thinks of looking for them.

10. Horror movies where the main charcters just do everything wrong (there is a hell of alot of them)


Oh, oh, there's more:

7- The perfect example of this is in a stupid movie called "Simbad of the Seven Seas", staring... Lou Ferigno I suppose. But you can see it in "Matrix Reloaded" too.
8- Godzilla?
9- 25% of James Bonds movies, 99.999% of Metal Gear Solid games.
10- First half of The Exorcist?
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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I would consider the dodging in the Matrix as Cliches since it is explained.
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You meant, you WOULDN'T consider?

Ok, let's see... Maybe... Rambo?
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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8. Singular monsters that never die
8. Jason
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11. When a hero goes out of his way to save a villian

12. When someone works for an abjective and then doesn't want it
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Originally posted by: jimbo
8. Singular monsters that never die
8. Jason


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Originally posted by: jimbo
7. When a hero is outnumbered yet still wins because the bad guys choose to make some idiotic display in front of them.

8. Singular monsters that never die

9. Ventalation ducts that lead everywhere and can always hold the wait of multiple humans and nobody ever thinks of looking for them.

10. Horror movies where the main charcters just do everything wrong (there is a hell of alot of them)


Oh, oh, there's more:

7- The perfect example of this is in a stupid movie called "Simbad of the Seven Seas", staring... Lou Ferigno I suppose. But you can see it in "Matrix Reloaded" too.
8- Godzilla?
9- 25% of James Bonds movies, 99.999% of Metal Gear Solid games.
10- First half of The Exorcist?


first of all about 9 i like it
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Originally posted by: jimbo
Commen movies cliches that you believe need to stop

1. When a hero has to ponder on whether to save one person or an entire city, country, or planet.

2. When the main character lies for absolutly no reason

3. When a villian decides to kill the hero with pulles or sharks or other devices that give the hero several minutes to escape

4. When the villian gives the hero a last request

5. Where several bullets are fired at the hero but for some reason miss

6. When someone with powers wishes he didn't have them


number 3 austin powers and james bond
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I don't know if this is a cliche, but when there's a bomb in front of the hero and he has to cut one of two wires and he has five seconds to decide which one and then right as the bomb's about to explode, he cuts one of them and saves the entire building/city/planet/whatever. I really, really, really hate it when they do that. In fact, any situation when the hero's faced with some major problem and fixes it at the last second (literally).

Note to movie studios: stop putting stuff like that in movies. It's not suspenseful, it's not dramatic, it's just idiotic. We KNOW the hero's going to make it out fine. Stop having him cut the wire at the last second (unless he cuts the wrong wire and the bomb explodes - that would be awesome to see for once).

Some others that I hate have already been posted, like when the hero runs as fast as he can while the bad guys fire bullets and he doesn't get hit once. Also, I hate it when the hero's being shot at by the bad guys and he runs without getting hit by the bullets (as I just said) and then he jumps through a glass window or whatever and lands on the other side, miraculously unscratched. And I hate basically anything that's way too unrealistic just to seem dramatic. I mean, I don't have a problem with unrealism with movies (I'm a Star Wars fan, aren't I?) but sometimes they sacrifice so much realism just to make something seem more dramatic or suspenseful (those two examples I mentioned) that it just becomes ridiculous and unoriginal. Why can't the bad guys shoot at the hero and have the hero get hit by the bullets and fall down and die and have the bad guys win? Or how about the hero jumping through a glass pane only to find out that glass isn't quite as conveniently smooth as he'd hoped? Those would be really cool and original to see, instead of always being so boring and predictable.

Well, to sum it up, I basically hate any movie cliche that involves the hero miraculously getting out alive and completely unscratched and having a perfect, happy ending.

I'm sure there are others I hate, but I can't think of them right now. I'll post them when I remember them.
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Very true Spyder X. That definutly needs to be added to my list.

13. Always picking the right wire to defuse the bomb

14. Machine being brought down by its own programing
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Of course, the thing that makes them cliches is their constant repetition; if it weren't for that, they wouldn't be cliches.

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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Whenever anyone knocks out anyone else and takes their clothes, it's always a flawless fit.
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Of course, the thing that makes them cliches is their constant repetition; if it weren't for that, they wouldn't be cliches.


if it werent for the cliches we would not have the movie that we love
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When a villain seems dead, he never is. He will always be allowed one, and sometimes two resurrections. The hero will frequently see him coming, even if his back is turned. If he doesn't, a friend will finish the villain off.
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Whenever anyone is chased to a staircase, s/he will run upstairs rather than down.
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15. No matter how reliable your car normally is it will fail to start when the monster attacks

16. Villian resurections

17. Kids always live no matter what

18. Outrunning a nuclear weapon on foot

19. PG-13 movies where there is alot of nudity but it is never shown

20. Clones with memories of there previous life

21. Villians who gloat about killing the hero instead of just killing the fucker. (Why my favorite villian is the Terminator)
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Whenever anyone knocks out anyone else and takes their clothes, it's always a flawless fit.

Check out Silverado. You'll laugh when Kevin Kline tries to claim someone else's clothes.
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Whenever anyone knocks out anyone else and takes their clothes, it's always a flawless fit.


Not in Indiana Jones
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Or Die Hard,he kill a terrorist and the shoes are too small.
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I loved the scene with Indy on the Nazi atoll trying to get into the uniform. Hilarious.
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I loved the scene with Indy on the Nazi atoll trying to get into the uniform. Hilarious.


Love it. Truely a classic Indiana Jones momment. My favorite has to be the guy with the sword. I couldn't stop laughing at that scene.