Movie Cliches

[snooky]

At the suggestion of hibbyradge, here's the Movie Cliche thread.

One that drives me mad is when police go to interview a witness or someone who might know something, the person always carries on working while they talk to the police. The car mechanic fixing a car, the warehouseman loading boxes, etc.
That's no' gonny happen in real life.

Also, the mad cluster of photographers outside court rooms with their cameras flashing along with a hundred microphones stuck in the face of the exiting main character in the movie.

[Hibbyradge]

Nice one, Snooky.

Americans who salute very hard.

[Scouse Hibee]

Food and drinks being ordered then left after one bite, sip etc

[Hibbyradge]

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Food and drinks being ordered then left after one bite, sip etc

I can't help thinking, I would have necked that.

[Hibbyradge]

Because of movies, I now always carry a paper clip.

Locks, handcuffs, broken electrical circuits ...

[hibsbollah]

Putting the phone down without saying goodbye.

Making a date on the phone without arranging a location or ETA. 'do you want to go for a drink tomorrow?' 'uhh, yeah I'd love that'. 'take it easy'. End of conversation. WHERE Are You meeting her you stupid ****??

Person A has a confession. Person A attempts to confess to person B, but Person B unrealistically interrupts to the extent to which Person À doesn't get secret out. Person B then says 'what were you going to say a minute ago? Person A then looks sheepish and says' oh, it was nothing'. This secret comes out in the film later on, Person B is then furious with Person A for not confessing earlier. Always happens in soap operas in particular.

Chandeliers are only in movies if someone's going to swing from them or otherwise use them as a prop/riddle them with bullets.

Cars crashing usually result in the petrol leaking and frequently blowing up.

Arabs in movies will usually steal stuff.

When a character is getting chased, or trying to escape something, keys never go in locks easily.

Coughs or sneezes always lead to serious illness/death later on.

[Hibbyradge]

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When a character is getting chased, or trying to escape something, keys never go in locks easily.

Excellent.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Young women that can't run through a forest without falling.

Folks vehicles that won't start when being chased by a deranged killer.

People taking drinks from cups that patently don't have anything in them.

[Gatecrasher]

whole movie plots that rely on miscommunication

[Jay]

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Young women that can't run through a forest without falling.

Folks vehicles that won't start when being chased by a deranged killer.

People taking drinks from cups that patently don't have anything in them.

Have you ever ran through a forest? Its not easy 😁

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Have you ever ran through a forest? Its not easy 😁

The pursuers never fall.

[snooky]

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The pursuers never fall.

Or loses a shoe, or try to run in high heels.

[Dan Sarf]

In a chase, the fleeing hero/heroine always runs like crazy. The baddie who is doing the chasing always walks - yet never falls behind.

[McD]

Cop shows/films where, after struggling to solve a crime, one cop says something like ‘what if we’re wrong, and the criminal was actually colourblind with 2 missing fingers, 1 extra toe, and managed to escape by hang gliding from the 3rd floor’, or some premise that they wouldn’t have any realistic likelihood of just guessing, but then suddenly becomes the best idea ever, and is followed through to be the actual plot line.


People driving on film/tv who are constantly moving the wheel from side to side by a few inches, as if a) that’s how people actually drive, and b) the car continues to move forwards in a perfectly straight line even though the wheel is being turned back and forth.


The ‘good guy makes tragic error and goes and gets drunk’ scene.


no one in America locks their car doors ever.


Bad guys in American films will never try to just escape, they will always try to kidnap the family of the hero.


american good guys experiencing a crisis of confidence are apparently trained to go national landmarks/beauty spots/highly recognisable places to contemplate, usually whilst a poignant song plays over.


No one one actually pays their bar bill, they just toss some notes on the table and leave

[Hibbyradge]

People who can drive for long periods of time without taking their eyes off the person in the passenger seat.

[matty_f]

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People who can drive for long periods of time without taking their eyes off the person in the passenger seat.

And nobody needs a pee as soon as they get in the car as well.

[Greentinted]

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People who can drive for long periods of time without taking their eyes off the person in the passenger seat.

And often using one hand to point a gun at said passenger/hostage in heavy traffic.

Also (no doubt to avoid product naming) people in bars who ask for ‘a pint’ and the bartender serves the pint without asking ‘a pint of what?’

[Pretty Boy]

‘One last job’. A character who has apparently been a successful career criminal suddenly forgets all their experience on their Final heist and starts making mistakes to let the plucky hero defeat them.

If someone has to disguise themselves it just so happens the security guard/Doctor/Police Officer they attack will be exactly the same size as them and therefore their clothes will fit perfectly. The exception is a comedy film when the clothes will always be far too tight despite the characters actually looking roughly the same size.

Security at an airport is almost non existent until just before the gate when the inevitable jobsworth will stop the man from proclaiming undying love to his partner.

Any disturbance on a plane eventually leads to overhead bins opening and they are always full of loose paper that blows everywhere. Before long the oxygen masks will follow.

[Hibbyradge]

Sex in many American movies/TV dramas never requires bra removal.

[Dan Sarf]

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Sex in many American movies/TV dramas never requires bra removal.

But, but...

[Dan Sarf]

Crashing cars always scatter big piles of boxes which are often filled with fruit.

Rom Com women's shopping bags always have a baguette or a bunch of celery sticking out.

When the hero/heroine is on the point of being shot/stabbed/pushed off a cliff, there's always someone you have temporarily forgotten about who will regain consciousness, realise what's happening, and save the day.

[Pretty Boy]

In any romcom men behaving in a manner that would see most of us arrested and charged with stalking if we acted like that in real life.

Horror movies in which the prospective murder victims always run upstairs and trap themselves there rather than out into the street where a neighbour would almost definitely hear them screaming.

Folk firing guns with amazing accuracy and almost no recoil at all.

Bad guys who have the hero at their mercy but engage in a lengthy monologue before finishing the job.

[Hibrandenburg]

German soldiers who never seem to be able to shoot straight.

[Hibbyradge]

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all baddies who never seem to be able to shoot straight.

ftfy.

[hibsbollah]

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German soldiers who never seem to be able to shoot straight.

.. same for Imperial stormtroopers.

[Hibbyradge]

No-one has ever survived a sneeze in a film

[hibsbollah]

Baddies spend more time eating on-screen than goodies do. Especially Italian American mafia guys. And its always culture specific; you never see a guy from China settling down to a nice tikka masala or a Sicilian mobster ordering a Chinese.

[snooky]

Goodies six guns can fire round after round without reloading yet the baddie's gun runs out of bullets when he's about to shoot the helpless goodie.

Evil sci-fi men who want to rule the world and can blow buildings up by using their superpowers suddenly decide to lay their powers aside to fist fight with the hero - and get beat.

Indians always chase the stagecoach for miles trying to stop it. They seem to have a reluctance to putting an arrow in one of the pulling team of horses.

All nationalities on earth, Martians, robots, etc, etc, can speak English - though some have a wee bit of a broken accent.

[Hibbyradge]

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Baddies spend more time eating on-screen than goodies do. Especially Italian American mafia guys. And its always culture specific; you never see a guy from China settling down to a nice tikka masala or a Sicilian mobster ordering a Chinese.

That's true.

I remember the Sopranos guys always commenting on the "gravy" with their spag and meatballs 😂

[DH1875]

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.. same for Imperial stormtroopers.

Apparently Imperial stormtroopers are great shots and it was all part of the plan