As posted in the DAily G2
Movie Clichés II, the Sequel
A while back, we ran a piece that listed commonly used movie clichés. The more films I watch, the more evident it is, that there’s an INFINITE amount of them. Here are a dozen more that we see in movie after movie:
1. Hero cops have to deal with a boss or other authority figure that is wrong about everything.
2. In romantic comedies, the two stars have a fight or misunderstanding about three-quarters of the way through the film, before getting back together at the end.
3. Two characters battle it out.
....a) The bad guy appears to be dead.
....b) The protagonist turns his back on him and puts down his weapon.
....c) The bad guy leaps up.
....d) A third person surprisingly pops out of nowhere and shoots the bad guy.
4. During a balcony fight, the bad guy goes flying to his death no matter how much stronger he may be than the good guy - or even gal, sometimes.
5. People never say goodbye when they hang up the phone.
6. During car chases, the good guy always manages to swerve out of the way of huge trucks in the middle of intersections without crashing or killing any innocent people.
7. Car chases end when the protagonist’s vehicle crashes into a windowed restaurant full of people; but miraculously nobody in the restaurant ever gets killed.
8. When somebody spies on a person in their home with binoculars or a telescope, they always have a perfect view, regardless of the time of day or how bad the glare might be. And nobody ever closes their drapes, either.
9. Criminals not only keep details of their crimes on their computer hard drives and never erase them; but they’re sure to leave them behind for the hero to find.
10. The only time characters watch television news is when they need important information to keep the movie rolling along. And what do you know? They always get it.
11. When we hear a woman puking in a bathroom; that’s the writer’s way of telling us she’s pregnant.
12. When two lovers wake up in bed in the morning, they talk to each other an inch apart with their rancid morning breath. Nobody ever gets up to brush their teeth.
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