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Thread: Movie Cliches
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18-01-2018 01:07 PM #91
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18-01-2018 01:09 PM #92
The hero who stays in a shabby/chic loft - open plan (bed in one corner and motorbike in another), exposed brickwork instead of plaster, 5m ceiling height, huge old factory windows - where do they get the money to heat these places?
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18-01-2018 01:23 PM #93This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
They don't have to heat them - they all live in LA.
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18-01-2018 01:32 PM #94
Kids that are up, perfectly dressed with their bags packed ready for school while eating breakfast in the morning while the parents come downstairs after getting just themselves ready just before the kids need to leave for school.
Every xbox/playstation game in the movies is played by repeatedly and over-enthusiastically pressing buttons with your thumbs despite the game being a FPS where your meant to be using the trigger buttons on the controller. While every game can become a 2 player just by handing another controller to someone else, mid-game, who immediately starts bashing buttons too.
When someone has a job interview they are told immediately after it ends that they got the job and that they start on Monday.
Have your hero and your villain played by the same actor but give the bad guy a goatee beard to make it clear he is evil.
Laptop batteries never die.
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18-01-2018 01:51 PM #95
computers that turn on and boot up instantly!! I mean, fantasy or what?
There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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18-01-2018 02:19 PM #96
The film nears it’s conclusion and the camera slowly pans out to leave panoramic view down over the last scene.
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18-01-2018 02:47 PM #97
Terrified heroine backs away from where she thinks the baddie is, peering into the scary shadows. Where is he? Where is he?...
And backs straight into him!
Brilliant when it was Pip and Magwitch in David Lean's Great Expectations. Done to death ever since.
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18-01-2018 07:22 PM #98
Roads in America are ALWAYS wet at night.
it never rains a little bit in American films/programmes, it’s always a downpour. Same with snow.
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18-01-2018 08:38 PM #99This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
In the old westerns all the main characters meet a girl who always dreamed of "settling down back east, in a little house with a picket fence and have kids"...blah, blah, blah.
In Barffsville, no doubt.Last edited by snooky; 18-01-2018 at 08:47 PM.
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18-01-2018 08:42 PM #100This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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18-01-2018 11:27 PM #101
Computer users -usually in police stations - who never lock their PC when they leave their desk.
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19-01-2018 06:42 AM #102This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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19-01-2018 07:51 AM #103
The sporting hero who's glory days may be behind him and has let his team down recently steps forward in the 'big game' and puts in the performance of his career.
(Cough.....Anthony......cough)PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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19-01-2018 08:25 AM #104This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-01-2018 10:07 AM #105This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-01-2018 10:21 AM #106This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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19-01-2018 10:51 AM #107This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-01-2018 06:22 PM #108
Police dramas or films where they are carrying out a particularly dangerous raid. Despite there being a dozen SWAT-style guys in full body armour, masks and helmets, toting assault rifles, they're only allowed to follow behind the two lead detectives who are in a t-shirt or short-sleeved shirt and maybe a flak jacket, with their pistols.
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19-01-2018 07:53 PM #109
New York police stations always have a crotchety desk sergeant with an Irish background.
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19-01-2018 09:23 PM #110
Bank transfers to international accounts have a progress bar on the computer screen.
Folk that don't like each other but have to work together end up best pals, usually confirmed at a key moment in the film when they have the chance to be mean but do the right thing instead.Follow the Hibs podcast, Longbangers, on Twitter (@longbangers)
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20-01-2018 11:25 AM #111
Siblings referring to each other as 'brother' or 'sister' in early conversations rather than using their names.
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20-01-2018 12:08 PM #112
Seriously nasty baddies who are going all out for world dominance, usually have a throne like chair with a variety of buttons on the chair arms :-0
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20-01-2018 12:16 PM #113This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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20-01-2018 10:22 PM #114
John Wick2 watching it now it is absolutely awful. Every cliche mentioned on this thread and more.
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21-01-2018 12:29 AM #115
The old wino remembers a significant fact. The landlady finds the business card or photograph as the car drives away and yet the driver always witnesses them signalling in the rear view mirror. Any child with the story of a ghost helper is telling the truth. The million to one shot to save the planet wins. American muscle cars can turn into alleys as wide as Ptries wallet on a "dime" at 70 mph.
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21-01-2018 09:02 AM #116
Whenever aliens invade the Earth the good guys miraculously can understand their technology and inevitably use it against the aliens to save the planet.
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21-01-2018 11:04 AM #118
Not a cliche as such, but guys in movies always go to a bar, have a few whiskies and drive home yet it’s never part of the story and usually they make it home ok. What’s the deal with that? Is the drink drive limit in America a lot higher than here and you could have 3 or 4 whiskies and drive legally?
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21-01-2018 11:10 AM #119
The bullied kid always eventually summons the strength and courage to fight back and humiliates the bully in front of his friends.
Previously bullied kid becomes hugely popular and gets laid by the best looking girl in school. Probably.
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21-01-2018 12:07 PM #120This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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