i hate that one

5/7/2009 12:41:59 AM

"i'm getting too old for this shit"

5/7/2009 9:19:44 AM

^^^Lost has done that on the last two episodes

5/7/2009 10:17:39 AM

Dogs (pets) never die. Drives me.

5/7/2009 2:44:07 PM

[SPOILER]





























^Old Yeller Dies

5/7/2009 4:37:12 PM

Quote :

":gun shot: :shot of person in supposed line of fire widening their eyes: :pan to shot of original shooter being shot: :pan to wide-eyed person realizing they're not shot:"

Or the two guys chest to chest stuggling over a gun between them. Gun goes off, one guy's eyes get really big like he's been shot, other guy falls down dead.

5/7/2009 4:57:32 PM

Guy is in a heated argument on the phone. Guy hangs up. Phone rings. "GODDAMMIT I TOLD YOU.....!"

and it's someone completely different who just picked the wrong time to call about something completely different.

5/7/2009 11:43:18 PM

^lol, did you watch Southland tonight?

5/7/2009 11:45:16 PM

YES I DID

5/7/2009 11:51:07 PM

man behind desk in suit.

takes glasses off. (or slams fist)

"Get me Jed Pollack!"

5/8/2009 12:51:39 PM

prob already been said but.... when someone is walking away from another person and they turn back to look at that person and a vehicle, usually a large bus/truck, passes in between the 2 and when it is done passing the person who was looked back on is gone!

5/11/2009 12:11:12 AM

Quote :

"Dogs (pets) never die."

Lots of dogs and other pets die in movies.

5/11/2009 12:25:09 AM

Attackers flee a weak victim, victim breaths a sigh of relief, then realizes that attackers were actually fleeing someone/something more intimidating that appeared behind them.

Batman Begins is a good example, but I've seen it all over.

5/11/2009 1:04:06 AM

^If I remember correctly, I think Jurrasic Park did that at least once.

And every "Sci-Fi Original Movie" about dinosaurs has probably done it too.

5/11/2009 1:05:59 AM

Quote :

"They were good people!"

5/11/2009 3:08:55 AM

dunno if this is a cliche or just the directors/producers didn't care, but it does annoy me

when you're show one scene and its daylight outside, then the very next scene its night, even though it's the same location
of course there are exceptions (flashbacks is one, prob more)

5/11/2009 4:24:35 AM

Quote :

"Dogs (pets) never die."

Quote :

"Lots of dogs and other pets die in movies."

Sure, they said "never" but we all know what they're referring to. Independence Day is a good example. A million people got nuked in LA, but at least we have that feel-good moment because that dog was able to jump to safety at that last second where hundreds of people in that tunnel got fried. Huzzah.

^That's more of a continuity error... I'm guessing.

[Edited on May 11, 2009 at 7:30 AM. Reason : -]

5/11/2009 7:29:44 AM

when people are watching the news or something on TV, and we see what they are watching, then after they have watched enough (or at least enough for the audience to hear the story), they just turn the TV off

who does that IRL

5/11/2009 9:36:38 AM

yeah, who the fuck turns off the tv after watching it ?

I leave that bitch on 24/7

[Edited on May 11, 2009 at 9:51 AM. Reason : x]

5/11/2009 9:51:35 AM

they dont leave the room after that though, they stay in there for 5 more minutes, probably longer but the scene ends

5/11/2009 9:59:12 AM

^I'm with you on that one.

^^Most people wouldn't just click it off like that. There's a reason those 24/7 news stations stay in business and it's not because people turn the channel/turn the TV off after getting the 45 seconds of news they end up repeating and dissecting for the next 7 hours. I mean are you seriously arguing that the news station that's on just long enough to relate vital information isn't an overused plot device.


[Edited on May 11, 2009 at 10:36 AM. Reason : -]

5/11/2009 10:32:50 AM

So its like this then:

Two people turn on TV

"INSANE KILLER ON THE LOOSE"

Two people turn off TV and talk about how they plan to avoid being the Killer's next victim





Yeah, I've seen that in several instances and it is kinda bullshit...I retract my previous rolly eyes

5/11/2009 10:36:04 AM

Not a cliché, but annoying none the less:

When people are having a conversation and the setting completely changes (during the cut from one shot to another) but the conversation flows as if there were no break at all. Man, I can't explain it, happens all the time though. A seamless conversation where the setting changes imply a large passage of time. Here's an extreme example:

Setting: Walking down a sidewalk outside EBII.
Person 1: How about the weather.

Setting change: 9th floor of the stacks.
Person 2: Yeah, it's like we went straight from winter to summer without a spring.

I just have to imagine in my head about 15 minutes of silence as person 2 ponders the answer to the question while person 1 patiently awaits the answer.

5/14/2009 10:26:32 PM

^Happens in Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet when Paris and Capulet are discussing the marriage proposal. The same conversation passes from a sidewalk, to an elevator, to a steam room, and so on.

5/15/2009 6:54:47 AM

people making a getaway on foot through a kitchen

5/15/2009 9:56:00 PM

A villain dramatically thrusting a pistol towards the hero's face, allowing him to deflect and disarm the attacker.

If you're pulling a gun on a guy who's proven that he's proficient with martial arts stay at least arms length away.

5/16/2009 1:11:27 PM

people being mad/frustrated and pushing everything off their desk

ive never seen this happen in real life, but seems like it happens in every movie at some point (though it would be awesome to see this in an office somewhere IRL)

5/16/2009 2:15:42 PM

Probably been said, but the following phrase:

I've been ________ since you were ________.

As in:

I've been fighting werewolves since you were in diapers.
I've been a private investigator since you were playing pac-man.


Terrible examples, but they show what I'm saying.

5/16/2009 6:50:35 PM

yea, first one that comes to mind was in X-men 2 when Stryker is like "i was fightin wars since u were suckin your mom's tit at Woodstock" lol

5/16/2009 6:53:43 PM

Didn't he say that to Wolverine? I don't remember. Kinda strange since Wolverine is/was supposedly hundreds of years old.

5/16/2009 7:25:15 PM

he said it to the Senator guy, but it was actually Mystique

it was weird because i thought the senator guy was somewhat close to Stryker's age


not sure if he was a senator, it was the guy that was the leader of the Susan Ross Foundation that is giving her stuff away while George had to watch what would have been his be gone...as well as giving the scholarship to the kid that joined the Van Buren Boys

[Edited on May 16, 2009 at 7:33 PM. Reason : ]

5/16/2009 7:31:40 PM

Generic muslim sounding soloist wailing as the only element of the soundtrack.

Part of pretty much ever film set in the middle east over the past 20 years.

5/16/2009 8:56:23 PM

Guys fighting on a platform, one guy gets killed one way or another, and instead of crumpling where he is, he dead-fishes off the side of the platform into a flat fall



happened twice in the new Star Trek

5/16/2009 11:22:27 PM

I havent read through all 8 pages, and this is an obvious one, so its probably been said before

But when someone is looking in the medicine cabinet mirror, opens it to get something out, then closes it and sees someone behind her

or

When someone is looking in the medicine cabinet mirror, opens it to get something out, then closes it and no one is there, then turns around and bumps into someone they know that is just walking up behind them

or

any other variation of this scene

5/17/2009 1:18:04 AM

^ http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/snl-digital-short-the-mirror/224715/

^^ Which reminds me, why do spaceships have bottomless pits?

5/17/2009 12:49:20 PM

Stupid ass car bombs

Every time a hired assassin does the job he should, and goes to start a car...BOOM...no more assassin.

and yes, I'm referring to the current movie in theaters that it happens in

5/17/2009 3:02:53 PM

actually, you should be referring to multiple movies

5/17/2009 3:24:22 PM

I havent read through all 8 pages, and this is an obvious one, so its probably been said before

when a low flying jet/airplane/flying object is about to plow into a building or home and it cuts to a shot of the activity inside the house (typically ironic or 'funny')

like they do it to make people chuckle at the movie theaters, straying from the serious shit that is happening to throw in a quick lol. fuck that lol it ruins decent movies.

5/17/2009 4:13:43 PM

^Ah yeah, I know what you mean. Like it will show a fat guy eating a doughnut or something and just everyone being non-chalant, and you can see the plane through one of the windows in the background.

5/17/2009 4:38:16 PM

when an explosion happens near a character, so they show the character all dazed with the sound muffled around them, then another character/explosion snaps them out of it (ie saving private ryan and most recently i saw it in defiance at 1.50's)

5/17/2009 8:40:45 PM

When people find the need to stand almost nose to nose to have a simple conversation

I don't know about any of you, but I definitely stand a good distance away when speaking with someone

5/18/2009 10:52:38 AM

speaking of [spoilers], whatever happened to that spoiler thread that pretty much had spoilers from every movie quoted in it? I found it humorous.

5/18/2009 10:54:56 AM

Quote :

"holding someone at gunpoint, then to be dramatic, they either cock the hammer back or rack the slide, pump the shotgun etc.......do you not have a round chambered already?"

i was watching the rookie (1990, clint eastwood, charlie sheen) yesterday and at one point the main bad guy's chick kicks the cronie down and cocks the gun as she is pointing it at him.. then again a second later cocks it again.

made me think of this thread.

[Edited on May 18, 2009 at 12:14 PM. Reason : ..]

5/18/2009 12:13:39 PM

Quote :

"Attackers flee a weak victim, victim breaths a sigh of relief, then realizes that attackers were actually fleeing someone/something more intimidating that appeared behind them."

Or when one person is shooting, then there is a big explosion and they think they did it, but then turn around and realize it was something/someone else. Savign Private Ryan is the best example I can think of when Tom Hanks thought he blew up the tank with a handgun.

Quote :

"when people are watching the news or something on TV, and we see what they are watching, then after they have watched enough (or at least enough for the audience to hear the story), they just turn the TV off"

Even worse is when someone comes running into the room yelling "you have to see this!" and turns on the TV just in time to hear the headline...

How the fuck did they know what was happening if the newscaster is just announcing it?

5/18/2009 4:07:01 PM

Quote :

"Guys fighting on a platform, one guy gets killed one way or another, and instead of crumpling where he is, he dead-fishes off the side of the platform into a flat fall"

Guy on platform shooting at hero. Hero shoots the bad guy and he dramatically pitches over the railing.

Quote :

"Every time a hired assassin does the job he should, and goes to start a car...BOOM...no more assassin."

You'd think that professional henchmen would realize that most past employees of that specific arch-villain died violently immediately after completing their contract and be a bit more reluctant to do work for him.

5/18/2009 4:25:48 PM

When the girl is crazy for the guy and hurts sooo much because she isn't with him and then when she kisses him at the very end of the movie, it's just okay and she realizes then that she's over him because there isn't that "spark" in the kiss and therefore spontaneously moves on to this other dude who's been there for a while that she just had an epiphany that "omg, I think I'm actually in love with this other dude instead". (or visa versa) yeah... that annoys me.

5/18/2009 5:28:34 PM

it mightve been said already, but matrix-slow-motion-projectile-dodging in comedy movies

5/18/2009 5:36:41 PM

^^Superstar?

5/18/2009 7:32:08 PM

^^^ That's kinda like what pissed me off about The Notebook.

1) Guy A falls in love with girl and after some pursuit, girl falls in love with Guy A
2) Guy A goes off to war or some such shit
3) Girl moves on and meets Guy B who falls in love and plans on a future with girl
4) Girl runs into Guy A, remembers her feelings for him and cheats on Guy B before he finds out

Girls eat that shit up, but I walked away feeling bad for guy B and wondering why a mega-bitch like the girl deserved her own movie.

5/19/2009 2:03:30 AM

^But that actually happens in real life. Happened to me at least. Serious girlfriend had an ex walk back into her life after no contact for over a year and I was almost immediately cut out of the picture.

5/19/2009 4:19:55 AM