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Post by bravomailer on Dec 17, 2019 5:19:34 GMT
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)) Did the librarian wear thick glasses and have her hair up in a bun? Did she take the glasses off, shake her hair out, and va-va-voom?
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Post by kingkoopa on Dec 17, 2019 5:41:25 GMT
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)) Did the librarian wear thick glasses and have her hair up in a bun? Did she take the glasses off, shake her hair out, and va-va-voom? Sure did! Earlier she even disapprovingly scoffed and shook her head at me when I said "holy shit!" after finding what I needed on the internet. Then I continued to read the headlines I was reading aloud to myself until she returned. However, once that bun is down and the glasses off, she made sure to suggestively put the temples of the glasses in her mouth.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Dec 19, 2019 20:03:47 GMT
The bookish virgin survives a psychotic slasher's rampage
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Post by maxwellperfect on Dec 20, 2019 5:33:00 GMT
In sci-fi/fantasy, invisible people/creatures always leave perfectly formed footprints in the ground.
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Post by movieliker on Feb 11, 2020 5:50:46 GMT
The police don't believe and dismiss any and all claims by the victims. Even refusing to do any investigation. Leaving the victims to fend for themselves.
This is often coupled with the victims doing a terrible job of reporting their plight to the police.
Leaving the intelligent viewer to say, "That's a stupid, unrealistic, and illogical contrivance to further the story and create false conflict."
Often in bad movies and TV shows, the victim(s) will EVENTUALLY single handedly defeat the villian(s). And the police will then arrest the villian with little or no apology. And the victim(s) will say nothing. When really they ought to say, "If you had just believed me (us) in the first place --- and done any investigation like you were supposed to --- none of this would have happened." Leaving the police with no reply other than, "But then we would have not had any movie/TV show."
They never had one to begin with. That's why they had to employ this stupid, unrealistic and illogical contrivance.
I started watching Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in The Tourist on Netflix. But this cliche occurred after watching a little of a not-so-good movie. So I turned it off figuring "this is stupid", and gave it a thumbs down.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 11, 2020 7:26:12 GMT
Some of the dumbest and least realistic TV and movie cliches I see over and over are; 1) People never closing or locking the door when they use the bathroom, or have sex. And of course somebody always walks in while they are getting down to business. Supposedly setting up an embarrassing and/or humorous scene --- that would never happen if the victims would close and/or lock the door like normal people. 2) When a couple starts getting intimate and they apparently are going to have sex, the girl leaves the room (supposedly to get ready for sex) and the guy, standing alone in the room, gets undressed so he will be all ready when she returns. (Usually another set up for an embarrassing or humorous scene.) When I get intimate with a woman, we start kissing, hugging and undressing each other. Nobody leaves the room. And if she did, I would never get undressed without her. Seems insultingly presumptuous. 3) People walking in and out of their homes, apartments, bedrooms and bathrooms without knocking. Normal people lock their doors, and knock before entering somebody else's home, apartment, bedroom or bathroom. 4) In action movies, the bad guy talks too much and too long, explaining his motives and plans, before killing the good guy. Giving the good guy a chance to escape, be rescued, or get the upper hand. When the good guy takes down the bad guy, he or she doesn't finish off the bad guy, and often turns their back, leaving a weapon within arm's reach of the bad guy. You just know the bad guy is going to come back and launch another attack. 5) People being trouble makers just to create conflict. Not realistic or interesting. Normally people try to get along and avoid trouble. Or they try to stay away from trouble makers. What do you think? Can you think of anymore? Fights that go on forever whenever someone gets stabbed or shot. First of all the bleeding always stops right away until it's the final slash or bullet wound instead of previous ones that should have killed. Second of all, I don't care how tough you think you are, if you got shot or stabbed during a fight you would curl up into a ball and be whimpering and crying with pain. Third, someone gets stabbed with a knife, pulls it out and no bleeding! Wow! What a freaking miracle! When people call an office or some big business on a phones they are never put on hold or have to listen to a robot answering and wait for the number to press for 10 minutes like we do. Whenever a meeting is arranged they never work out all the details. It's just like, "See ya Tuesday," and somehow both know the exact time and place though they didn't mention it. Movie coincidences. Someone just happens to show up to find another character without knowing they were going to be there. Two overused lines that I have never used or been said to me: "You look like shit." And "Look at me!" If there is a man and a woman, especially in an action picture, no matter what they are both single, straight and end up being interested in each other.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 11, 2020 7:29:46 GMT
Don`t know if this is actually a cliche Its impossible to shoot the hero even if you shoot after with thousands of bullets, Or you will hit the hero one time but never in a place that could kill the hero. Absolutely. There are movies and TV shows where we are supposed to be watching experienced skilled killers. But they get in a gunfight, shoot a million bullets, and hit nothing. A skilled experienced killer would not be such a bad shot. And along the same note, only in the movies and TV would anybody be able to endure the beating the characters experience during the big fight scenes. In reality they would be finished much sooner. Yup. When I see the bad guys getting gunned down so easily by the good guy, I say to the TV, "Why don't you stay hidden, keep your distance, draw a bead and then take your shot to get him." Instead they leave their hiding place only to come out in the open to get hit.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 11, 2020 7:36:38 GMT
This is more an example of bad acting than a cliche. But it happens a lot. The driver of a vehicle not keeping their eyes on the road. But looking and staring at the other people in the vehicle, they are talking with. That reminds me of another one.... Next time you see a driving scene where the camera shows the front of the driver watch and see how he keeps on slightly turning the wheel when going in a straight line. And they never make any turns! Something must be really wrong with the alignment of movie cars because I never turn my hands as much as they do when I drive on a straight road.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 11, 2020 7:41:24 GMT
People waking up in hospital and immediately being alert enough to pull out their IV drips. Yeah, and what about all the times you see them leaving a hospital on their own before they get discharged and they never have any health problems later on in doing so? Not only that but sometimes someone will call someone else on the phone and say, "Switch on the news" and it sounds like the news just started the story where it should be in the middle of it.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 11, 2020 7:47:48 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. Yeah, and they shoot at that bad guy with bystanders around or fire their gun in a public place, like maybe at the ceiling to break up a fight or to get attention and there are no investigations, no paid suspension, no reprimanding and it just goes on as if nothing happened.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 11, 2020 8:00:44 GMT
Even in monster movies, think of the undersea beast in Deep Rising or the 1998 American Godzilla, they will take their sweet time in killing the main hero when with Red Shirts and others they get killed right away.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 11, 2020 8:20:50 GMT
Did the librarian wear thick glasses and have her hair up in a bun? Did she take the glasses off, shake her hair out, and va-va-voom? Funniest version of this is in GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE 1974. Michael Pataki is a vampire who goes into a library and she starts undoing her hair and making a display of herself and we (and him) think she is being seduced by his power but then she tells him to get out. His reaction is the same as the audience: wtf?
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Post by movieliker on Feb 11, 2020 9:17:16 GMT
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. Yeah, and they shoot at that bad guy with bystanders around or fire their gun in a public place, like maybe at the ceiling to break up a fight or to get attention and there are no investigations, no paid suspension, no reprimanding and it just goes on as if nothing happened. I just saw a parody of that on Family Guy. The doctor just performed successful surgery on Peter. When he announces the success to the family, they celebrate raucously. He pulls out a gun and fires into the ceiling to get their attention, and tell them, "This is a hospital. You cannot make so much noise." Then he gets a call on his cell phone. He then says, "Oh my goodness, my patient on the 2nd floor just sustained a gunshot wound." Ha ha ha . . .
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Post by movieliker on Feb 11, 2020 9:33:13 GMT
Absolutely. There are movies and TV shows where we are supposed to be watching experienced skilled killers. But they get in a gunfight, shoot a million bullets, and hit nothing. A skilled experienced killer would not be such a bad shot. And along the same note, only in the movies and TV would anybody be able to endure the beating the characters experience during the big fight scenes. In reality they would be finished much sooner. Yup. When I see the bad guys getting gunned down so easily by the good guy, I say to the TV, "Why don't you stay hidden, keep your distance, draw a bead and then take your shot to get him." Instead they leave their hiding place only to come out in the open to get hit. This reminds me of another movie/TV show cliche. When a character (usually the good guy) fights multiple attackers, they take turns attacking him, so he never has to fight more than one at a time. They wait patiently for the guy before them to get beat up, knocked down, killed, etc. before attacking.
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Post by movieliker on Feb 16, 2020 14:39:42 GMT
Women can't have fun unless they put their hair down.
Hair up (usually in a bun) --- it's business. Hair down --- "I'm here to have fun".
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Feb 16, 2020 14:49:29 GMT
How long does it take for an activated grenade to explode? In movies and shows, it takes however long the protagonist need it to take. Could be 3 seconds, could be a full minute. And how much damage will it do? Depends. Could blow up the bad guy and leave the hero undamaged even though he's standing ten feet away, or it could blow up a whole house.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 16, 2020 14:53:00 GMT
How long does it take for an activated grenade to explode? In movies and shows, it takes however long the protagonist need it to take. Could be 3 seconds, could be a full minute. And how much damage will it do? Depends. Could blow up the bad guy and leave the hero undamaged even though he's standing ten feet away, or it could blow up a whole house. It takes about four seconds for a grenade to explode. As far as i know a grenade would not be able to blow up a whole house. It would probably only damage the room it exploded in. But i could be wrong If you are 3 meters from a grenade that explodes i am pretty sure it would kill both the hero and villain.
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Post by movieliker on Apr 1, 2020 0:28:20 GMT
Everybody in a public setting clapping whenever a person proposes to another, and the "another" says yes.
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Post by drystyx on Apr 1, 2020 2:54:24 GMT
Good guys can never hit a single bad guy when they have a shoot out, with the lone exception of the hero and his special team mates. They are the only ones who can ever come close to hitting a bad guy.
And on the same motif, bad guys can never miss when they shoot at a nice guy or good guy, with the sole exception of the hero (and sometimes some of his special team mates, but no one else)
Then there is the slow motion "Noooooo" when a hero's friend is getting killed. This was especially annoying about thirty years ago, when you couldn't see an action movie without some hack putting that in.
One that really galls me is when characters are dying of thirst in the desert, and are going to just the first of some water holes, but they toss away their canteens. As if they will magically make a new canteen appear at the first water hole. Can't stand that cliché.
Oh, and the first water hole is always either dried out or poison.
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Post by movieliker on Apr 1, 2020 6:09:41 GMT
When actors pretend to be falling from a great height, they scream all the way down, "AAAAAAaaaaaa" ------- boom.
In real life, when people fall from great heights, they are too scared to say or scream anything.
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