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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 8, 2019 19:59:48 GMT
People waking up in hospital and immediately being alert enough to pull out their IV drips.
Defibrillators having magical properties that can bring people back to life, even when not used properly.
People wearing shoes on their bed.
Women still being hairless with groomed eyebrows in the midst of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
A character switching on the news and it always being conveniently related to the plot in that moment.
A nerdy character explaining something and someone replying with "in English please."
Women pretty much never going into battle with their hair pulled back.
Any time that women vomit in movies, it's an indication of pregnancy.
Every alien invasion involving a blue sky beam.
Kids in movies being super-precocious and wise.
Movies pretending that slim female characters eat nothing but junk food all the time and never exercise.
Conveniently shaped bedsheets covering women from the chest down, but not men.
People planning dates without exchanging any important details.
And of course, girls only being considered attractive once they straighten their hair and get rid of their glasses.
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Post by movieliker on Nov 8, 2019 20:25:32 GMT
People drinking a health food drink --- straight out the blender --- right before they go run.
I guess they throw up during their run.
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Post by movieliker on Nov 8, 2019 20:27:22 GMT
People wearing their underwear in bed after sex.
(Bra, panties and boxer shorts.)
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Post by movieliker on Nov 12, 2019 7:55:04 GMT
People only watching the one story on the news that pertains to them, and then turning off the TV without watching the rest of the news.
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Post by movieliker on Dec 7, 2019 9:41:53 GMT
Police and military thinking machine guns and pistols will be effective against a monster bigger than a building.
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Post by 博:Dr.BLΔD€:锯 on Dec 7, 2019 10:50:02 GMT
One character becoming progressively less intelligent throughout the show. People's children hardly ever being featured unless it's for a specific plot point. Episodes that have a kid doing a science project that's invariably about the solar system or volcanoes. People always eating Chinese food straight from the containers. Dads being useless but fun, and mums being long-suffering nags. Women wearing a full face of makeup to go to sleep. Men ending up with a medical problem that puts them in pain at the same time a female character is going into labour. Everyone living in inexplicably nice apartments that they definitely wouldn’t be able to afford. Random siblings popping up for an episode or two to cause some conflict. Anyone with glasses always being shown as smart but unpopular. Episodes that take place in the past or future showing a character looking super different, which can be hard to believe when that character has looked the same for years on the show. An "attractiveness gap" between couples that means women are always the more conventionally attractive partner. Women going into labour at super inconvenient times. Will-they-won't-they couples rarely being allowed to be happy once they're together. People getting into a job industry with little experience or qualifications. Shows having one person who everybody hates and is mean to, with no real reasoning behind it. Women who don't want children becoming parents, even if that storyline doesn't fit with their personality. And characters who really want children are always the ones who struggle to conceive. A group of friends all dating other people within the group. A regular table constantly being available at the group's local hangout. And characters waking up in the morning and being completely shocked by who they've slept with the night before. LoL . There's a whole movie there....and it's sequel, Feo.
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Post by 博:Dr.BLΔD€:锯 on Dec 7, 2019 10:58:51 GMT
" I thiπk I WiLL have that driπk πow. "
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Beiπg caught iπ the act and rushing pants back oπ...... "Honey.....it's not what you thiπk!" "You've got this all wroπg."
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Post by movieliker on Dec 7, 2019 11:11:53 GMT
One character becoming progressively less intelligent throughout the show. People's children hardly ever being featured unless it's for a specific plot point. Episodes that have a kid doing a science project that's invariably about the solar system or volcanoes. People always eating Chinese food straight from the containers. Dads being useless but fun, and mums being long-suffering nags. Women wearing a full face of makeup to go to sleep. Men ending up with a medical problem that puts them in pain at the same time a female character is going into labour. Everyone living in inexplicably nice apartments that they definitely wouldn’t be able to afford. Random siblings popping up for an episode or two to cause some conflict. Anyone with glasses always being shown as smart but unpopular. Episodes that take place in the past or future showing a character looking super different, which can be hard to believe when that character has looked the same for years on the show. An "attractiveness gap" between couples that means women are always the more conventionally attractive partner. Women going into labour at super inconvenient times. Will-they-won't-they couples rarely being allowed to be happy once they're together. People getting into a job industry with little experience or qualifications. Shows having one person who everybody hates and is mean to, with no real reasoning behind it. Women who don't want children becoming parents, even if that storyline doesn't fit with their personality. And characters who really want children are always the ones who struggle to conceive. A group of friends all dating other people within the group. A regular table constantly being available at the group's local hangout. And characters waking up in the morning and being completely shocked by who they've slept with the night before. This sounds like the show "Friends".
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Post by maxwellperfect on Dec 7, 2019 15:16:17 GMT
If you're trying to escape from a bad guy who is holding you prisoner...don’t settle for just one whack to the noggin – keep on clobbering! If two people who shouldn't be kissing each other eventually do...you can bet there'll be someone there to witness it happening (usually revealed in the background when the two people kissing pull apart). When a good guy/girl has to be mean/nasty to their love interest in order to drive them away and "keep them safe" from bad guys. This^ hardly ever works, though, as the bad guys usually know that it's just an act and will go after the love interest anyway. A cough in a TV show is seldom, if ever, just "nothing". It bugs me when people sit down at a bar/table with a freshly poured drink, maybe take a sip or two (if that), and then leave without having drunk the whole thing (oftentimes it's because they're storming off in a huff, having just had an argument with someone else at the bar/table - though sometimes it might not be an argument, it's just that they apparently have enough money to throw away on drinks that they waste). When a character walks into their home and find another character sitting on a chair in their lounge in the dark. Now, how did the character who was sitting there know when the owner of the house would be home? Or have they been sitting their for ages, waiting? If so, what did they do while waiting? Just once, the character (who obviously thought it would be so 'cool'/creepily effective to be sitting there in the dark waiting for the homeowner to return and give them a fright) should have fallen asleep while they waited and wind up being the one who gets a fright when the person they were waiting for returns home. Whenever someone tells someone else over the phone they have any sort of important information...but they can't tell them it over the phone and instead they have to meet in person (usually later on), it's almost always a guarantee that the person with the information will meet an untimely end before they pass this information on. Just tell them when you're talking to them, don't wait! If a character gets in a vehicle and the camera focuses on them inserting the key into the ignition and turning the key...chances are that vehicle is going to explode. A character approaching a villain (usually the Big Bad) with a hidden knife and pretending to be on their side, only to go for an overhead stab – which typically never seems to work, as the villain can see it coming from a mile away and has more than enough time to block it, then usually kills the character who attempted it. A character standing across the street/some distance away from another character, then a vehicle or a bunch of people pass by in front of them and suddenly the character's disappeared. If a villain wants a hero (who is undercover with the villains) to prove their loyalty/allegiance, and presents them with a gun whilst telling them to kill someone (usually an innocent or someone who's a good guy), the person who is handed the gun will either not end up going through with the shooting or they will try to shoot the villain...except the gun is empty and it was just a test, so they've just given themselves up. This can also happen with villain lackeys who wind up switching sides and try to help the hero, and the villain wants proof of their allegiance by having them kill the hero - which usually leads to the lackey winding up dead. In this type of situation, it would pay to know the difference in weight between a gun that is loaded and one that is empty. Another thing that always bugs me is when the villain is in the process of almost killing the hero, and the hero is reaching for something that will ultimately be the villain's undoing - but the villain doesn't take any notice of the hero reaching for something and instead will just concentrate on what's right in front of them and not wonder to themselves, "Hmm, what is he/she reaching for with his/her hand?". Also, when a good guy has seemingly killed the villain (who is either lying face-down or, if they're lying face up, they're just staying perfectly still - usually with their eyes closed), but then has to walk up close enough to them to check they're dead/finish them off, thereby giving the villain the chance to - shockingly - open their eyes/turn over and stab/shoot/kill the good guy. And lastly...why do villains who are intent on killing good guys think that tossing said good guy away from them is the best course of action? I mean, if you've got your hands on the good guy...just break their neck or something, WHY throw them away from you? It's defeating the purpose of you wan "A character standing across the street/some distance away from another character, then a vehicle or a bunch of people pass by in front of them and suddenly the character's disappeared." It's always a bus.
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Post by kingkoopa on Dec 7, 2019 15:49:01 GMT
"There's only one scientist/archaeologist who can pull this off."
::cut to a dirty looking guy standing outside a rusty old Airstream trailer, parked in the middle of the Mojave desert, shooting golf balls and smoking a cigarette. A black van pulls up and a bunch of much cleaner looking people approach him::
Bonus points if the approacher is a former love interest.
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Often in the beginning of the movie, a lone scientist in a Hawaiian shirt, in his lab, late at night, listens to opera music and eats pizza. Casually monitoring some kind of signal from his computer. Business as usual right? All of a sudden something turns red. Cut to the Pentagon.
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I'm with Dr. Blade. I love the cliches...especially when overblown.
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Post by movieliker on Dec 13, 2019 14:03:01 GMT
Two people make a date, but they don't make out any particulars --- what time, where, who's picking whom up, etc.
"Couple of friends are having a party tommorrow night, would you like to go?" "Yeah, sure." "Really, wow." "Yeah, why not?" Wow, I wasn't expecting . . . Okay, thanks." . . . And the asker (usually the male) just wanders out unsuredly. And the female smiles thinking the male loaded with no confidence, suredness, or decisiveness was cute.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 13, 2019 17:29:20 GMT
The person goes to answer the door fully expecting the caller to be a specific person. They even start addressing the person they are convinced it is before they open the door. The caller is never that person.
Example : In Kramer vs Kramer, after Joanna has been gone a few hours, there's a knock on the door. Ted goes to answer it saying "Well, it's about time - " The caller is Margaret from downstairs.
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Post by movieliker on Dec 13, 2019 18:43:14 GMT
The person goes to answer the door fully expecting the caller to be a specific person. They even start addressing the person they are convinced it is before they open the door. The caller is never that person. Example : In Kramer vs Kramer, after Joanna has been gone a few hours, there's a knock on the door. Ted goes to answer it saying "Well, it's about time - " The caller is Margaret from downstairs. What about people answering their smartphones without checking the caller ID? They will do the same thing. Only to realize it's not who they thought it was. (If they would only check the caller ID before answering, like a normal person.)
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 13, 2019 18:57:47 GMT
What about people answering their smartphones without checking the caller ID? They will do the same thing. Only to realize it's not who they thought it was. (If they would only check the caller ID before answering like a normal person.) Absolutely. I believe everybody, but everybody, checks their screen before answering!
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Post by movieliker on Dec 13, 2019 19:00:23 GMT
What about people answering their smartphones without checking the caller ID? They will do the same thing. Only to realize it's not who they thought it was. (If they would only check the caller ID before answering like a normal person.) Absolutely. I believe everybody, but everybody, checks their screen before answering! I agree. Not only that, but half the time, they won't even answer it --- purposely.
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 13, 2019 19:01:26 GMT
Tires screeching to halt, even though the vehicle isn't going very fast at all.
If a TV character gets amnesia from a blow to the head, we all know the remedy!
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Post by maxwellperfect on Dec 15, 2019 6:57:20 GMT
Birds suddenly taking flight after the (usually abrupt) death of someone.
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Post by Morgana on Dec 15, 2019 9:51:29 GMT
I'm not sure if this counts or not - maybe as a cliche? The cop/detective/ex green beret/CIA operative/etc. etc., that goes rogue and refuses to follow orders and/or the law, and goes solo to take down the bad guys, and of course succeeds but is never, ever prosecuted for breaking the law.
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Post by movieliker on Dec 15, 2019 13:48:03 GMT
I'm not sure if this counts or not - maybe as a cliche? The cop/detective/ex green beret/CIA operative/etc. etc., that goes rogue and refuses to follow orders and/or the law, and goes solo to take down the bad guys, and of course succeeds but is never, ever prosecuted for breaking the law. And almost always that rogue detective is called into his superior's office to be balled out --- "This is your last chance (rogue detective). Next time I promise you, you will be fired - demoted to traffic - sent to an extremely unpopular location - etc." - right before that rogue detective goes rogue again, and solves the big case. Which --- as you say --- he never gets punished for breaking the rules again.
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Post by kingkoopa on Dec 17, 2019 4:58:34 GMT
Howabout giant air-conditioning vents that can support the size and weight of a grown man, let alone when he's trying to sneak around? Somehow they are always shiny and clean too. Poor custodians.
Also, custodians seem to really love dancing with their mops after the office building closes...whistling too
And since after a building closes for the night, nothing better than a Zippo lighter that not only lights up an entire room, but burns steady for at least a few hours.
I'd rather have one of those oil soaked rags and a stick (like you'd find in a convenient spot in your nearest ancient Mesopotamian tomb if you were graverobbing)
Then maybe I could find a way out of that tomb and hop in a giant bus or truck that's ten times the size of anything I've ever driven and fly down the highways like Vin Diesel.
I'd drive it to the giant, decrepit mansion of the reclusive, old (now disfigured) man who ran into the goblin/leprechaun/monster years ago and barely escaped. He'll know what I need to do, but he'll warn me about the cost.
I had his address from 'bazoogle.com' (or something similar) after looking him up at the public library, then being scolded by older woman librarian because they were about to close. She'll say, "sir, sir," and get really close and say "Sir!" snapping me out of my intense focus. (I do miss when this cliche was more revolved around microfiche ((the old machines that held slides of newspapers))
Or I should have gone to the library at the local university where all of the desk lamps are green, there are no computers, and the ceiling is four stories up.
Then I'll probably be tired and go back to my apartment in New York. My stingy landlord lives right next door and will hassle me about the rent in some vague accent. It's okay though, I'll just go into my dirty studio apartment, but you know I'm cool because an accoustic guitar (which I will never play or discuss) is leaning against the wall.
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Loving this thread.
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