Name those movie clichés ...

[Doc Daneeka]

What about the tough guy cliche' where the main character is impossible to defeat?

Chronicle of Riddick anyone?

"Give me the water. ALL of it "

[peter johnson]

Dear Inyarear --
  Really resent the fact that you call my reasoned and heart-felt response some sort of "rant/flame/bash" -- I in no way called you names or got "personal" or got in any way all "Ad Hominem" on you.  We were having an actual intellectual discussion.  I expressed a reasoned argument based upon my life experiences.  You choose not to respond, but somehow blame me for . . . what?  Being a "bully" or something?  My very carefully worded response to you -- I reworked it several times to in fact NOT be gratuitously insulting -- was meant to elicit a response from you as to exactly what you mean, as if you DON'T
  I did, in fact, attempt to carry on our correspondence in private -- I sent you a private in-box posting in fact.
  Please check your mailbox/personal message section.
 

[peter johnson]

   Dear Inyarear --
   Well, hitting the wrong buttons sometimes leaves off certain sections of a posting --
   However, the basic jist of what I intended does exist even though the post left off a paragraph or two --
   Yeah, I'm angry that you want to dismiss what I had to say about what you were posting as just some sort of rant/flame.  Not so.  I don't bear you any ill-will -- Hell, how could I?  I've never met you, nor you me.
   I'm all for carrying on the discussion in private -- simply hit my mailbox, or write to me at my e-mail address posted on my profile.
   One of the things I said in the message that disappeared was that you are very erudite.  I hope you continue to be so, and please post messages in my box here & we can talk in private.
peter johnson/denny crane
   

[Texdar]

This is quite a long thread and though I read it all I may have missed this one:

Any killer in a slasher movie always tells the very last victim his reason for the killings before attempting to kill him/her, yet all the other victims get killed really fast without any reason to them whatsoever.  I personally find that very rude.

[ghouck]

When the villan and hero meet within eyesight of the Hero's goal (self-destruct button, off switch for some doonsday device). The villan beats the hero, and stands there with him near that goal while he gloats and explains his actions, , , while the hero devises plan-b, which is executed while the villan lets his guard down for just a second (but the rules must say the hero has to say something cool first).

[CheezeFlixz]

This one really annoys me and I saw it in a film last night ...

Anytime the hero is faced with many opponents, not 5 or 10 but maybe 20 or more they all stand around and wait for "their turn" to fight. Even with guns! They don't start blasting away all together to kill them they attack in 1, 2's or  3's so the good guy has a sporting chance to defeat all 30 or so of them. This happen why to much in Kung Fu style movies and other martial arts films.

If you've seen Equilibrium this happens a few times in that movie when the cleric is fighting and it's not the only one there have been many. Neo fighting all the Mr Smiths in the Matrix (think it was the last one) off the top of my head is another.   

[Flangepart]

When the villan and hero meet within eyesight of the Hero's goal (self-destruct button, off switch for some doonsday device). The villan beats the hero, and stands there with him near that goal while he gloats and explains his actions, , , while the hero devises plan-b, which is executed while the villan lets his guard down for just a second (but the rules must say the hero has to say something cool first).

Ah yes....MONOLOGUING!
Gotta love THE INCREDIBLES just for that.

[peter johnson]

As I said, the best "monologuing" example is in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" --
Gotta love a gun beneath the bathwater . . .
peter crane/denny johnson

[Flangepart]

As I said, the best "monologuing" example is in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" --
Gotta love a gun beneath the bathwater . . .
peter crane/denny johnson

Tuco :"If your gonna shoot,Shoot! Don't talk"
What i wanna know is, he had a cap and ball Colt...how did he keep the powder and primers dry?
Earwax?

[sideorderofninjas]

All movie bombs will be deactivated when the digital readout hits 1 second left. 

The Hero's Sweet Lovin' powerup.  The hero must have has obligatory Sweet Lovin' with his ex (whether it's an ex-wife opr ex-girlfriend he couldn't commit to) who he has just reunited with.  The sweet Lovin' must occur before he goes to stop the main evil overlord once and for all. 

[Raffine]

Characters are always able to turn on the television/radio and immediately tune in to the news story concerning them, or pick up a newspaper and have the pertinent story splashed across the headlines, no matter how trivial the story might be in the grand scheme of things (SOCIALITE HEIRESS SUSPECTED OF MURDER!!!).

While a bit more believable, I suppose, in these days of 24 hour news channels, this was going on all the way back to the 1920's.

I thought SHAUN OF THE DEAD did a good job of lampooning this particular cliche' with the characters being annoyed by the ever-growing "Dead walk the Earth" news story and constantly channel surfing to get a wy from it.

[Oldskool138]

Tuco :"If your gonna shoot,Shoot! Don't talk"
What i wanna know is, he had a cap and ball Colt...how did he keep the powder and primers dry?
Earwax?

No, remember when he holds up the General Store and builds his own gun?  He asked the clerk for cartridges before robbing him.  I'm not much of a gun historian so the gun he may have had in that scene might have been a cap and ball gun.  But, they addressed that earlier in the film.

That scene makes the movie for me. 

[Oldskool138]

All movie bombs will be deactivated when the digital readout hits 1 second left. 

LOL!  I can think of one movie where that doesn't happen.  "Goldfinger".  The bomb stops at seven seconds so the readout reads "007".  Cheezy but cool.

[ulthar]

All movie bombs will be deactivated when the digital readout hits 1 second left. 

While diffusing a bomb in a movie, either the person diffusing the bomb or someone helping him by radio/phone will say "it's the blue wire - it's always the blue wire."

Nowadays, it has become cliche also for the person diffusing the bomb to realize that THIS evil bomber will try to outsmart them and use the RED wire instead of the blue one - so he cuts red instead.  And diffuses the bomb.

Tip for writing a better bomb diffusing scene: make ALL the wires black - the good guys won't know what to do.   

[CheezeFlixz]

Shooting computer monitors will destroy all the data.

Shooting electronic key codes to open doors, will in fact open the door.