Movie Cliché's You Are Sick Of

Dogs always live in epic movies. Not enough animal deaths, as far as I'm concerned.

• 2012: The Russian girl's dog was saved just as the room in the ark was filled with water.
• Independence Day: Dog jumps out of the way of an inferno that destroyed everything else. Excellent leaping skills.
• The Day After Tomorrow: Dog runs away from the cold, just in time for marshmallows and cup-o-noodles.
• My Dog Skip: No one shot that damned dog.

token black guy in the movie for comedy purposes 

When the villain(s) is in a car chase scene with the hero(s), they hit a pothole, a curd, another car, whatever and KA-BOOM! the car explodes like it had 100 pounds of dynamite in the engine.

And more aggrivating is when you have a villain whose plot is intricate and wholly dependant on outlandish decision making by others. If any one person doesn't do exactly what he has planned when he has planned it, the whole plot would be derailed.

Cars that blows up after crashing...Villains doing a monologue about the grand scheme to the hero...

Cars that blows up after crashing...Villains doing a monologue about the grand scheme to the hero...

Morgan Freeman's internal monologues. I don't know what it is about his voice that I love and hate so much. Frankly, I don't want to know.

"I remember the first time I met Andy Dufresn/Edward."

The Bad guys ALWAYS MISS. Even if there's an army. But the good guy has some friggin Bullseye level marksmanship.
All crashes end up in huge fireball explosions, most guns end up exploding something.

I'll make some categories, you guys help out.

HIGH SCHOOL

Nerds who doesn't know how to talk to girls, unattractive, physically inferior, completely socially awkward, gets shoved into lockers, and only hangs around other nerds.

Jocks are obnoxious, unintelligent, ultra-attractive, always wearing a red letterman's jacket, typically white with a buzz cut.

SCI-FI

Scientists warn of some impending doom, the military/congress whatever won't listen and call them "nuts/quacks"

Impending doom occurs/ reveals itself, said military/congress/officials are shown in exaggerated reaction shots, typical "Dear, God, save us all...." banter.

ROMANTIC COMEDY

The climax of the film usually comes from some sort of simple misunderstanding, they stop speaking to one another, and they guy has to come running in at the with some grand romantic gesture, publicly give some embarrassing monologue, and then, finally, she takes him back.

HORROR

A character has a nightmare, they wake up and bolt upright, sweating and panting, and more than likely, still dreaming.

Protagonists are running away from the killer/monster, and trip, or get to the car and it won't start, or turn a corner and somehow the bad guy that was just behind them is now in front of them.

ACTION

The good guy never runs out of bullets until a key moment with the main antagonist. Fully automatic weapons never run out of ammo until key moment.

Of course, walking away from an explosion right behind them and the flame doesn't burn them, shrapnel doesn't exist, the noise doesn't deafen them, et cetera.

Can you guys think of anything else?

@Prince CortSether said:

@Osiris1428 said:

Does the asian guy ever get the girl?

Harold and Kumar.

Yeah, but specifically an action movie where the cast is American, or just all around mixed. The asian male is pretty much ignored as far as romantically in the movie.

@Osiris1428 said:

@Prince CortSether said:

@Osiris1428 said:

Does the asian guy ever get the girl?

Harold and Kumar.

Yeah, but specifically an action movie where the cast is American, or just all around mixed. The asian male is pretty much ignored as far as romantically in the movie.

Fast Five?

@Osiris1428 said:

I'll make some categories, you guys help out.

HIGH SCHOOL

Nerds who doesn't know how to talk to girls, unattractive, physically inferior, completely socially awkward, gets shoved into lockers, and only hangs around other nerds.

Jocks are obnoxious, unintelligent, ultra-attractive, always wearing a red letterman's jacket, typically white with a buzz cut.

SCI-FI

Scientists warn of some impending doom, the military/congress whatever won't listen and call them "nuts/quacks"

Impending doom occurs/ reveals itself, said military/congress/officials are shown in exaggerated reaction shots, typical "Dear, God, save us all...." banter.

ROMANTIC COMEDY

The climax of the film usually comes from some sort of simple misunderstanding, they stop speaking to one another, and they guy has to come running in at the with some grand romantic gesture, publicly give some embarrassing monologue, and then, finally, she takes him back.

HORROR

A character has a nightmare, they wake up and bolt upright, sweating and panting, and more than likely, still dreaming.

Protagonists are running away from the killer/monster, and trip, or get to the car and it won't start, or turn a corner and somehow the bad guy that was just behind them is now in front of them.

ACTION

The good guy never runs out of bullets until a key moment with the main antagonist. Fully automatic weapons never run out of ammo until key moment.

Of course, walking away from an explosion right behind them and the flame doesn't burn them, shrapnel doesn't exist, the noise doesn't deafen them, et cetera.

Can you guys think of anything else?

Nice

There's never an indian guy as the lead role in a action movie.

I'll make some categories, you guys help out.
HIGH SCHOOL
Nerds who doesn't know how to talk to girls, unattractive, physically inferior, completely socially awkward, gets shoved into lockers, and only hangs around other nerds. Jocks are obnoxious, unintelligent, ultra-attractive, always wearing a red letterman's jacket, typically white with a buzz cut.
SCI-FI
Scientists warn of some impending doom, the military/congress whatever won't listen and call them "nuts/quacks"
Impending doom occurs/ reveals itself, said military/congress/officials are shown in exaggerated reaction shots, typical "Dear, God, save us all...." banter.
ROMANTIC COMEDY
The climax of the film usually comes from some sort of simple misunderstanding, they stop speaking to one another, and they guy has to come running in at the with some grand romantic gesture, publicly give some embarrassing monologue, and then, finally, she takes him back.
HORROR
A character has a nightmare, they wake up and bolt upright, sweating and panting, and more than likely, still dreaming.
Protagonists are running away from the killer/monster, and trip, or get to the car and it won't start, or turn a corner and somehow the bad guy that was just behind them is now in front of them.
ACTION
The good guy never runs out of bullets until a key moment with the main antagonist. Fully automatic weapons never run out of ammo until key moment.
Of course, walking away from an explosion right behind them and the flame doesn't burn them, shrapnel doesn't exist, the noise doesn't deafen them, et cetera.

Can you guys think of anything else?

Horror films: " What was that growl/bumping sound in that dark room? I'll go check it out!" 

CGI for the sake of CGI. It's irritating. I'm more impressed when directors can get away with using as little CGI as possible (like Inception).

CGI for the sake of CGI. It's irritating. I'm more impressed when directors can get away with using as little CGI as possible (like Inception).

The 20 year old random car in the middle of absolutely no where and somehow it still works and has gas.

Watch the movie something borrowed = about 90% of the rom com cliches 

the cat jumping out of the fridge or the toilet to make you jump in horror movies

also in horror movies someone always check the noise up stairs when they are home alone or when some says dont go up.

anime - if someone is in trouble or fighting,  a certain person will constantly repeat the heros name  e.g bleach

The damsel in distress. I mean c'mon, tell me that's not irritating.

The damsel in distress. I mean c'mon, tell me that's not irritating.

There's never an indian guy as the lead role in a action movie.

The black guy dies first in horror movies.
There seems to be a trend towards attractive women being paired up with unemployed dregs on society.  Think of Seth Rogen
In anime, they always need to say the name of the move before doing it, I wonder if they spend time thinking of names or writing lists. I don't hate it though, I just found it a little odd.
In Tyler Perry movies educated black women are either desperately lonely or uppity high-maintenance b####es that need a "blue collar brother" to bring them down to earth. 
Also, there's black men in drag.  Tyler Perry as Madea.  Martin Lawrence in the Big Momma's House movies. Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor and Norbit (that movie cost him an oscar)
Something always explodes in Michael Bay's movies.
Oh, yeah, I get tired of the movies about black kids that struggle and get out of the ghetto having to deal with racism.  I would like to see a movie deal with an upper middle class black family that has to deal with interracial racism.  That's kind of what I experienced growing up.

Date movies as a whole. I've sat through a few dozen in hopes of talking about my feelings afterward. Unless the industry takes care of a few minor annoyances that make up the overall story-lines, there is no hope for me.

1. Woman enjoys life, boyfriend and job.
2. Woman loses it all, cries.
3. Woman tries something new, is scared. Also meets guy she can't stand.
4. Woman gets the hang of her new life, boyfriend and kittens.
5. Kitchen dance scene.
6. Everyone in the movie dies in my imagination. (Scratch out in my imagination and you have an Oscar winner.)