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For me it's random sex. It's really annoying when woman get objectified like that.

No, I'm not gay.

Well, I know which cliche I like the most...

I voted for 'horror villain keeps coming back."  It's gotten to the point now where I'm actually pleasantly surprised if the madman/monster is actually dead the first time the heroes kill it.

Random nudity/sex is one of the main reasons I watch b-movies.

I also voted "villain keeps coming back." I actually get angry at the characters if they don't "double-tap" the villain the first time they get him down.

"Okay, this guy just killed all of your friends and your entire family, and you only hit him once with the hammer? Now would be a good time to demolish his entire skull."

My second most annoying cliche would be a cast of "partying teenagers." Let's see... a good girl, her love interest, a jock, his sorority girlfriend, a stoner, and a nerd they all hang out with for some reason. Throw in a rock soundtrack with no licensed groups of interest, add a scenic location, and mix to get yourself half-an-hour of wretched cinema that can safely be thrown out of any film.

I'll throw in "Killing horny teens" while I'm at it then.

Bad one liners. Most of the time they dont make me laugh or even chuckle but make me groan and roll my eyes.

Spontaineous Romance.

It just gets on my nerves...

Villains who, rather kill the hero in the moment, make an overdramatic speech to try and look intimidating. Sheesh, you've got the protagonist in a weakened state, just kill the bastard already!

I've got to vote for bad-guy monologuing. The biggest offendor would be "Van Helsing", it gets to the point where the hot-chick protagonists retorst to a vampire: "If your going to kill someone, just do it, don't just talk about it". she's right, the vampire should have killed her :) 

When you reach the end of some films and you find yourself asking what the body count really was since all the bad-guy did was talk about killing people for 90 some odd minutes without doing any real damage.

Right on brother.  I can't stand when the male and female leads fall in love for no other reason than they're in the same movie together.  The Running Man comes to mind.  Ah-nold and the female lead end up kissing at the end.  Why?  They shared no emotional connection and probably shared about 10 sentences in the whole movie. 

Mortal Kombat springs to my mind.  :teddyr:

Liu Kang and Kitana...yeah, they had how long together ?

I'm tossing in a couple write-votes. 

"Super" kids.

In the old monster movies, it was kids who would sneak onto a miliatry base or something because they wanted to help.  Never got punished.  Heck the kid in 20 million miles to Earth even gets rewarded despite the fact he stole the container with the Ymir and was somewhat responsible for the creature going on a rampage.

Then there where the ghost children from The Ring or The Grudge  Neither movie was that scary, but even one was saying how much scarier the Ring Girl was from Jason Voorhees or Freddy Kruger.

Which leads me to my other write in:  Whispering for no reason. Again in some horror movies.  You'll have characters talking under their breath which makes me turn up the volume. 

"Let's talk out that humor".  Something disgusting/violent/out of the ordinary happens and the characters seem to what to stop the story and discuss what just happened.  I get it.  Move on.  Couple of scenes in Land of the Lost remake fall into that category.

For the most part..I'm fine with everything that was mentioned on the list.

Yes, but could one forget that memorable romances of the animated Titanic movies?  One movies has the character's meeting twice and the other has characters sharing only one dance and one look.  Such a look must mean love!

The second annoying cliche to me, but the worst offense is the villian who won't stay dead.  It really gets annoying after a while, force offense to me being Anaconda.  It takes at least 3 times to kill this snake, including being shot, axed, exploded, and set ablaze.  What are anacondas made of?!

I always seen that as a second anaconda showing up.  Yes it survies some horrible stuff, but the one that gets shot earlier died, and a new one was lurking around.

Yeah, you are probably right about a second snake, but it is sort of confusing; especially when you have a title called Anaconda and not Anacondas.  Still, this cliche still applies since the second snake survived an explosion of all things.  How can it survive an explosion?  Explosions kill everything!

I voted for the spontaneous romance too.  It can be funny sometimes, but usually its just kind of cheap.


I hate that too!  Every time I see a movie summary that contains "A group of college kids..." I start losing interest, which is a shame because some of those movies are really good, but I'm just so tired of seeing the same group of people in every movie.

I know I mentioned it before, but I really can't stand over-using profanity... is that a cliche?  I'm not even sure what the point is anymore because it's not shocking, and the only people I know that talk like that are unemployed, alcoholic, chain-smoking high school drop outs that don't have enough money to go see a movie anyway.

The seemingly unstoppable monster is quite the movie cliche...be it a Terminator, Jason Vorhees, Michael Myers or a giant worm from Tremors...I have to admit I kind of like that one although it's definitely overdone since the late 1970s...

I voted for the action hero never gets hit (I was thinking shot) as the villains seemingly couldn't hit the side of a barn...despite usually being constantly shot at throughout a film, that just seems rather unbelievable (even Star Wars is guilty of this). I think on occasion, the hero should at least get temporarily taken down...

Instant Romance between characters.  Come on, it doesn't happen that quickly or with as few pretenses as some cases.  There must be connections and things must build up.  However, no one tries to do it and it is more for the sake of putting it in an hour and a half no attempts are made at times. 

While we're at it, how about the characters who we have to be told are "in love" just deciding to have sex when most people would agree it either makes no sense for them to be having sex or it's just a really bad time for it? One-night stands do happen, sure, but it's still pretty uncommon for people to sleep with people they have no feelings toward (or who they've known for such a short period of time; sleeping together on a first date is still considered unusual at best).

The car won't start is the reason that usually leads to the protagonist/ extra to run and trip and doesn't do the logical thing: Get up and run.  this is the problem with slasher film today, they're all cliched on these turn of events, which is the reason why I don't give a rats ass about them!

Quote from Megaladon 3:

Girl: Boy! I am sooo tired!
Guy: Yeah... I am too.
Guy: But ya know...
Guy: How 'bout I take you home and eat your p**sy?
*Then sex*

What the hell?

Cars that won't start.

Another annoying cliche is the usage of military drums whenever the army is shown on screen.

I second the car not starting. To me it is even more stupid than spontaneous romance. How is it that a perfectly working, well taken care of vehicle can crap out on you when a slasher is on your tale? If there is a reason for it, it doesn't bother me, but often it simply just happens.

Yeah, I agree with you there Gravekeeper.  It seems that very little is done.  Sex just can occur spontaneously from any flimsy item.  For instance, have you seen 30 Days of Night: Dark Days.  They have one in there that seems kind of WTF?  What do you two really know about each other?  There are other examples of course but drawing a blank off the top of my head. 

So true, it becomes a running gag in THE INCREDIBLES.

This Realy need multipual choice...but I went with spontanious romance. Stress based relationships never work out, Just ask Fay Wray.

Ah yes, that's probably one of the best jokes from the movie.

"You sly dog!  You caught me monologuing!"

Can we add 'Avatar' to that list?   :teddyr:  That whole movie is an annoying cliche.

Not exactly a cliche, but in just about any movie featuring a conversation in a moving car the driver is constantly turning their head to talk to the passenger, often to give a long meaningful look. This applies even if the car is involved in a high speed chase.

I can't concentrate on the movie 'cause I'm thinking "Watch the damn road! You're gonna hit something!".

Yes, never has so much money been spent to redo so many animated movies. 

Here are a few more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klltwoa6glE

Ahhhh... the romance between Joe Spinell and Caroline Munro in Maniac (1980) is probably the best example of this, I think.

I went with scenes that have nothing to do with the film.  A lot of times with low budget movies, it seems like they've got a 45 minute screenplay and try to stretch it out to feature length by padding it out with any random junk they can come up with.  Usually I suppose they could use the excuse that they're developing the characters, but no characters ever seem to get developed.  Anyhow, it just makes a boring movie into something truly mind-numbingly dull.

Ah yes. James Rolfe's list. I've seen that.