Movie/TV cliches that need to be retired
Not the cliches we still like, like women having to run in high heels while in danger, but the ones that are, well, old and cliche.
Mine:
- When they do 21 gun salutes at military funerals and the shots make grieving family members flinch.
- The "slow clap."
- Passionate kisses in a torrential downpour.
- "I didn't sign up for this."
- Cars exploding into a fireball if they crash or get shot.
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What are some more?
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oooh, I got a good one: people getting out of the pool or the shower and then putting on a robe without first drying off.
oooh, I got a good one: people getting out of the pool or the shower and then putting on a robe without first drying off.
Powerful execs being told there's a call and immediately jumping out of the pool/ocean to put on said robe to take the call. As if.
I'm going to reverse course a bit, as I just heard someone complain about characters in horror movies being so stupid for the millionth time. People have been throwing this out for decades. And obviously it is true in NEARLY ALL cases.
Like Running and Tripping...
Ja, dat zijn allemaal klassieke voorbeelden die nu zo afgezaagd aanvoelen. Een paar andere die me te binnen schieten zijn: de schrikreactie in horrorfilms waarbij een "stil huis 's nachts plotseling een hard geluid maakt", of personages die door een storm lopen en er daarna kurkdroog uitzien. De "redding op het laatste moment" in actiefilms, waarbij de held een onmogelijke stunt uithaalt. Schurken die hun hele plan uitleggen in plaats van het gewoon te doen. De "onthulling van de kater de ochtend erna" in komedies. En vergeet de eindeloze montage van trainingsscènes op vrolijke muziek niet, waarbij niets echt moeite lijkt te kosten. Zoveel betblastnl.nl van deze dingen zijn gewoon makkelijke trucjes die vervangen zouden kunnen worden door iets slimmers.
The successful banker/executive who's been fired but pretending to go to work for months if not years and the wife/kids have no idea.
I mean, it's 2026 pretty sure the wife can see no new deposits into the checking acc't.
Or has tried calling him at work, et al.
Drivers constantly taking their eyes off the road while conversing with the passenger, including long meaningful stares. That shit will potentially get you done for vehicular manslaughter or at the very least cause you to crash.
Monologues while holding a lighter or lit match over a pool of gasoline. You'd be barbecued instantly as it's the fumes that's flammable.
Villains using complex way to kill hero instead of just shooting them with the gun they have.
From a show I was recently watching.
Hero has bomb strapped to chest with 5 minute timer that villain attached.
Villain has gun pointed at hero so hero can not do anything.
Villain backs out of room while holding gun on hero, locks hero in room.
Hero obviously defuses bomb with seconds left and escapes to chase down villain.
Villain should always just shoot hero and leave, let bomb explode attached to dead hero.
Would prefer hero lunges at villain, shot by villain misses, hero disarms villain but villain is able to run off. Hero can't give chase due to bomb about to go off, hero diffuses bomb and catches up with villain later.
No difference in the outcome except mine is more realistic.
There are a million versions of this where villain has a gun/able to kill hero but instead leaves hero to die in a complicated trap/scenario AND villain leaves hero alone instead of hanging out to confirm kill, even when no threat to villain as there is in bomb scenario.
Agreed, but in a franchise like that, it works, that is kind of the point of that franchise, absurd villains and plots etc.... In a random show, like the one I was watching, that's not really the focus of the show.
I am willing to amend my complaint to allow for some exclusions for things like bond, Indiana Jones etc..., where I don't like it is on these random cop shows/movies where it's not really the focus of the plot and its reused so much.
Splashing water on face when feeling stress.
Staring at mirror, ostensibly searching their own soul.
The only time real life people do these things is when shaving.
lost count of the amount of times 'just shut up and shoot him' has to be muttered while watching tv
ah, yes
as evidence throughout the course of time, all faults and fits of man are merely personal opinion based only upon circumcisional evidence somehow connected to his hubris
either for skinning future combatants with your wit, or you are a mole
