Quote :

"i hate in trailers where they'll show a guy saying/asking something in one scene, then they show another guy replying in a completely different scene like one guy will be on the beach and he'll say something like "YA BOINKED HER?!" and then it cuts to a guy in an office and he'll be like "WELL, YEAH..""

The Inglorious Basterds trailer kills me with that.

Hitler: "Nein! Nein! Nein!"
Brad Pitt: "Yes yes yes yes!"

8/8/2009 11:10:25 PM

^I agree.

Also when he says something like "thats the plan". Then they show him getting tackled... then he says.. "maybe not". Looks like two different scenes. (it might not be in the movie, but it sure looks like it in the trailer.)

8/8/2009 11:44:10 PM

when a detective guy is like onto something in his case and then they say they are going to talk to another person of interest....2nd person in room says "no you're not" and detective is like "what's it to you" and they are like "[person of interest] was killed last night" ... then detective mean mugs

8/9/2009 11:34:32 PM

every character remotely connected to the military, like a damn IT guy or something, has went through SERE and all that other shit.

8/11/2009 2:29:54 PM

Looking at grainy video in a lab and then telling the tech to zoom in on one part of a frame and saying "enhance" or something like that.

If I were a tech guy I would just go ahead and enhance it anyway based on the assumption that you wanted the license plate number and not just a grainy unreadable picture of a license plate.

8/11/2009 2:38:02 PM

"if i'm not back in 10 minutes...."

"we have to go back...for the others"

8/11/2009 2:38:45 PM

people breaking down on the stand in court

and to the writers of law and order criminal intent, please stop ending every damn episode exactly the same, ie the suspect loses control and yells everything about the crime at the same time every episode

8/11/2009 9:59:24 PM

^
I covered flipping out on the witness stand on the last page.

Also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXJY3vjxz70

8/12/2009 10:47:45 AM

Has "caving in to Matlock/Columbo/Angela Lansbury's pure speculation" been covered?

Guess what's not going to convict you? Speculation.

Guess what will? A confession.

8/12/2009 10:59:12 AM

Bank alarm gets tripped and the robbers say "2 minutes until the cops show up!" and start a stop watch.

Maybe I'm talking out of my ass, but doesn't that plan fall apart if a cop happens to be closer and listening to his radio?

8/17/2009 8:43:42 PM

The doctor who is on the lam/in jail who corrects the "misdiagnosis" of another doctor and saves the patient's life as a result.

See: The Fugitive

8/23/2009 5:08:19 PM

you were just watching that shit too.

8/23/2009 5:25:08 PM

Well, to be fair, they did it in The Sopranos, too.

8/23/2009 6:58:38 PM

^^
^^^
rofl

[Edited on August 23, 2009 at 7:03 PM. Reason : ]

8/23/2009 7:03:20 PM

white kid gets caught stealing something from a martial arts master, martial arts master decides to teach white kid martial arts instead of calling the cops

[Edited on August 25, 2009 at 11:38 PM. Reason : kung fu was successfully changed to martial arts, to not contradict the rest of the post]

8/25/2009 11:13:28 PM

yeah seems like that happens every movie

8/25/2009 11:25:25 PM

lol i know of at least 2 i guess

i saw GI Joe last week, and Bloodsport just came on TV

8/25/2009 11:28:11 PM

that ways the kid can grow up to be a criminal that knows how to fight

8/25/2009 11:37:26 PM

trying to walk away froma building all calm and cool and then have it explode in the background. they do that in a lot of movies

8/25/2009 11:44:25 PM

I was watching Matrix Reloaded last night, and during the fight scene with all the Smiths, at the end of the fight just before Neo flies off, he throws on Smith guy into a bunch of other ones, and the sound effect is bowling pins.

I don't know if that's a cliche, but no that I heard it I can't un-hear it and it's awful.

9/6/2009 8:59:11 AM

another movie trailer one, right before a person is about to swear they either cut away or have some sort of explosion/other interrupting action

9/6/2009 9:52:36 AM

the guy hiring the protagonist eventually being the true bad guy, seriously thats prob like 25% of all movies

9/6/2009 10:12:33 PM

not reading through 12 pages to see if these are repeats..

The Storm Trooper Effect - 1000s of trained soldiers/police/whatever chasing and shooting at our heroes and not a single one of them can land even a scratch? Ha. Those cloners sold the republic a bunch of lemons.

High School Movie Actors - If you're going to make a movie about high school, don't use actors that look too old to even be in college. If I wouldn't card them for alcohol, they shouldn't be in the movie.

The Montage - Please just stop with this. Its even worse when accompanied with a crappy song by a shitty band no one has ever heard of or will ever like.

Shit Burning in Space - I love when you see shots of spaceships on fire in space.

Unlimited Ammo - Congratulation Mr. Hero, you just fired 16 bullets and hit nothing but air. But don't worry about sliding another clip in, those bullets magically appeared again inside your gun and are ready to fire!

The Substance Abuse Bad Guy - The bad guy who has to be seen constantly drinking, or doing lines of coke, or smoking just to make a point that the guy does bad things. Why can't the bad guy just be bad? Why does he have to have a habit too?

The Post-Sex Fall Back - A couple finishes up and falls back into bed out of breath and covered in sweat. Even worse is where they fall back and the girl miraculously has the sheet fall just right as to cover her from the cleavage down. As the scene continues, the sheet somehow manages to stay perfectly on that spot no matter how much the girl rolls around to talk to the guy.

Exploding Cars - Why do cars blow up or fly into the air in crazy flips and rolls when they get into accidents? Why can't they just crash like everyone elses cars? I think if cars acted like they did in movies, people would be getting into accidents a lot more often just to see the crazy explosions and retarded flippage.

9/8/2009 9:38:46 AM

^ lol I like how you called it the storm trooper effect, that really is the number one example

9/8/2009 2:29:32 PM

This happens on TV shows (usually the Simpsons), and it's when a major celebrity walks on the screen playing him or herself and the characters announce who they are.

"Paul McCartney!"
"Mickey Rooney!"

9/8/2009 2:41:22 PM

"Hey! Jon Voight! Jon Voight!"

9/8/2009 2:56:15 PM

Quote :

"Why do cars blow up or fly into the air in crazy flips and rolls when they get into accidents?"

Or instead of making the car explode, a car bomb or RPG makes the car fly straight up 30 feet and shoot flames out from under the sides before it descends straight back down with the car body relatively undamaged.

[Edited on September 8, 2009 at 3:54 PM. Reason : .]

9/8/2009 3:53:24 PM

Quote :

"A couple finishes up and falls back into bed out of breath and covered in sweat."

that's what often happens after sex that is good.

9/8/2009 4:02:16 PM

guy shoots a pipe/fire extinguisher/whatever beside a bad guy and the substance sprays directly onto screaming bad guy

9/9/2009 9:01:34 PM

Quote :

""Go to Hell!" he says. "You first!" she says. "

9/11/2009 3:25:12 AM

more about technique than cliche, but every scene in older movies is front lit. i don't know enough about the history of film making to know if it was technologically limited or lighting techniques just weren't well developed yet, but it bugs the shit out of me.

none the less, i still love old movies.

9/14/2009 8:14:43 PM

that one new york skyscraper is in like every movie, it's probably most prominent in sex and the city, I mean it is prob the most beautiful skyscraper in the city but I'm sick of seeing it

9/16/2009 9:03:16 PM

When people take medication like they're tic tacs. Marv in Sin City comes to mind, although I didn't mind that given the over-the-top nature of the film.

9/16/2009 10:32:32 PM

when a character looks like they have avoided a certain life-threatening event, and they think they are going to be alright...but then something happens that causes the event to either happen or something else happens that kills them anyway

ex: the guys in the truck that is teetering over the broken-out section of the bridge in True Lies, they laugh about it, and then a pelican comes and lands on the hood knocking them off the bridge anyway

boris in Goldeneye, "yes!!!..i am inVINcibleee!!" then the liquid nitrogren tanks explode and he's frozen in time

9/17/2009 8:26:11 AM

^^^

yes ?

9/17/2009 9:27:09 AM

that shit was even in our room at the triple H hotel

9/17/2009 11:18:39 AM

^^yep, it is an awesome looking building

[Edited on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM. Reason : k]

9/17/2009 3:04:06 PM

zoom in on a clock and 4 sec later, the time clicks over and the alarm sounds

9/18/2009 12:52:43 PM

are we really referring to the chrysler building as "that one skyscraper"? What are we, foreign?

good guy engages villan for 2nd or 3rd time in movie
"you just don't get it, do you"

a cop or anyone trying to figure something out can be completely discouraged with no clues then all of a sudden get a lightbulb flash from either
a.some object right in front of them as they are about to give up
b. their kid.
c. their stupid friend
d. the tv

I'm sure the obvious have been covered like

no cell phone service
car won't start
guy gets girl
if two main characters are m and f they always hookup at the end
always have sex when alone

9/21/2009 1:19:46 AM

Previews that feature a clip of a character or a narrator saying something followed by the sound of a record needle being pulled off a record and then cutting to a character saying something along the lines of "Oh no, he just di-in't!"

Side note, when will the needle scratching vinyl leave the lexicon of often used sound effects? No one uses record players anymore.

9/21/2009 12:05:38 PM

Cops putting down their badge because they aren't a cop that night.

9/22/2009 7:37:23 PM

"he doesn't know that I know that he knows that I know ..."

9/28/2009 2:02:03 PM

woman - "I'm pregnant!"

man - "wait, say that again/what did you just say/i'm sorry, i didn't hear you"

9/28/2009 2:13:03 PM

I'm sure someone already pointed this out, but whenever there's a countdown, the characters ALWAYS take longer with dialogue and getting TFO than the actual time left.

9/28/2009 2:23:49 PM

While running from a guard, the young pair (who've appeared to dislike each other, yet shown sexual tension since the movie started) decide that the best course of action is to make out and act like they're a couple in love.

10/22/2009 1:24:36 AM

How long have you been standing there.

Long enough.


Just once I'd like to hear someone answer - just got here, why?

10/22/2009 6:55:51 PM

an episode of NCIS

10/22/2009 7:20:57 PM

snipers using a scope and a laser even though they're trying to be stealthy

little hint: other people can see the bright red dot too

10/30/2009 9:06:02 PM

Starting a fire by throwing a zippo on it.

You just wasted a perfectly good lighter.

11/16/2009 3:25:59 PM

"shaken, not stirred"

After spending years of my life in bars I can safely say that I've never seen a bartender prepare a martini by stirring it.

11/26/2009 7:11:17 PM