Bad Movie Cliches

[kyo]

I thing one of the worst is the fruit stand. Give me your opinions.

[Junkyard]

"I work alone!"

[Tripe]

Just one week till retirement (not to worry you'll be dead before then )

[Rude]

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Inner city kids pull together to accomplish something lame and full of hope.

-Rude

PS- The two guys carrying a plate of glass is pretty cliche as far as the fruit stand thing goes!

[Tripe]

The spunky kid manages to get through to the crotchety ol' bastard and he begins to live again.

[Junkyard]

Sports movies about a bunch of underdogs who pull themselves together as a team to win/lose well.

So yeah, all sports movies.

[Tripe]

Girls who wear glasses and are a bit klutzy are actually conventiuonaly hot after the application of a cusory make over


(I like them with the klutzy persona better generally)

[Junkyard]

One I've given my opinion on a few times before:
Screeching, panicky black men serving as comedy relief.

[Tripe]

And related: "Go on I'll only slow you down" - gasped out by the black buddy of the white hero who then scarpers leaving his buddy to certain doom.

And with that post I am no longer hurt by pain. Rock on!

[Junkyard]

Yet another race one: There are black guys on the team, but a white guy is almost always the leader. Strangely, this is even more common in children's cartoons.

[PlayMSTie]

People shouting at the drop of a hat. I'm SICK of people shouting in movies and shows. Talk normally, already!

"Be yourself." The number of times we've heard that one, you'd think the world was full of people walking around NOT being themselves. Which I really don't think is the case.

[RobtheBarbarian]

Whenever a traveler enters a small midwestern town, he finds out the whole place is ruled by a corrupt corporation and/or rich tycoon that he has to dismantle in order to bring justice back (Road House, Man-Thing, every other episode of most '80s TV series, etc.).

Government divisions always employ people who are basically useless, requiring them to canvas for 20-year old geeks, janitors and other outsiders to figure out what this code means or where the monster is going to strike next (Transformers, Godzilla, etc).

Hardened, experienced female soldiers will always wear makeup and skimpy clothes to battle and won't have the slightest muscle mass or tone to detract from their supermodel bodies. (King Arthur, etc.)

[Dr.Impossible]

Sports movies about a bunch of underdogs who pull themselves together as a team to win/lose well.

So yeah, all sports movies.

All sports movies, ditto.

Especially football movies with pro wrestling moves in them unless they're The Waterboy.

They always seem to feature this move in particular:

I'm pretty sure that shit don't work. Lori Petty's character does it in Point Break, as an example.

[Junkyard]

Actually, a continuation of Rob's thing on small towns: if they're not in need of  a knight in shining armor, they're keeping a sinister secret. (Druids, cannibals, vampires, druid cannibal vampires, etc.)

[Dr.Impossible]

Actually, a continuation of Rob's thing on small towns: if they're not in need of  a knight in shining armor, they're keeping a sinister secret. (Druids, cannibals, vampires, druid cannibal vampires, etc.)

In my experience small towns do hold sinister secrets. Only it's usually incest or a meth lab or an incestuous meth lab.

Symbolism: it's deep as shit!