It drives me nuts when the 110lb woman with no background in martial arts or anything knocks out the big burly guy who’s a foot taller than her with a single punch to the nose. Please.
Here’s two older games with twists on those cliches you might like:
In Final Fantasy 7, this happens a little ways into the story, except:
1.) You’re taken prisoner (rather than simply killed) because the enemy is the lawful government, and they want to make an example of you, and 2.) You escape because the real villain, who’s just beginning to be hinted at, plows through the place and murders almost everyone in the building, leaving a trail of blood and destruction for your characters to discover. Very well-done horror scene, that.
In the old Marathon series by Bungie,
you have your basic enemies, and then you have the villain you work against initially, but ultimately have to get help from to stop an even bigger crisis. Pretty much everything the hero does is according to the villain’s plan. the villain gets what he wanted in the end, and the hero gets to live with the knowledge that he saved the universe.
Not to mention… the bad guy will slowly, ominously approach the car - not capitalizing on the temporary setback. If the damn guy/monster would’ve just ran to the car, the hero wouldn’t have had time for that last second escape.
Here’s mine: The hero is going to release a bad guy, or a henchman, for some reason. Maybe to deliver a message. The bad guy/henchman goes through a speech about how no matter what happens, he’ll eventually hunt down and kill the hero. Hero lets him go anyway.
There is, of course, a proper solution to that situation.
Kick him into an engine.
(in sci-fi) a woman gives birth to a child who grows to mature adult in 24-48 hours…
People can always find a [great] parking space in movies/on TV
Someone who’s never handled a gun before in their life will manage to fatally shoot the bad guy
I love that one! It’s my favorite!
any mystical, know-it-all stereotype peoples.
Labor and childbirth as portrayed in movies and TV:
La, la, la la la, all is fine, Bam! Aaaaarrrgghhh! The pain! The unbearable agony! EEEEEE! OOOOOO!
Bing! Aww, what a cute baby.
All in the space of, maybe, 10 minutes, except in “Gone With the Wind.”
Cliches I hate (along with many already mentioned):
Good guy kills bad guy. But when his back is turned bad guy gets up again only to be killed again! One, of many, reasons I liked the movie Soldier with Kurt Russell, when he kills em he kills em good.
Exploding car after falling down hillside. I quit watching 24 in the first season because of this cliche.
Any computer hacking scene where they predict how long it will take to access any super-protected system, throw in the password without a user id and you have two cliches for the price of one.
80’s action movies where the hero and the poor, but hot, lady fall in love…
Notice how the woman is always wearing a dress, and that you never see her panties at her ankles. One moments she’s screaming “I’m about to have my BABY!” and the next, she’s laying down with her legs spread. Generally, the character left alone to deliver the baby will be a guy. He will do a superb job and the mother will promise to name the baby after him.
I was reminded of another one when we watched “V for Vendetta” last night (not bad, not bad at all - not an Oscar contender, but I liked it) - someone declares how starving they are, and proceed to eat one bite of something and stop. You know what I do when I’m starving? I eat a bunch of food, not just one bite.
Here’s a more realistic scene:
“Ooh, breakfast - I’m starving!” {Starts eating}
Other person starts talking to them, etc.
Person talks a little, but mostly continues eating until food is gone.
I think we could also do with a moratorium on Mystic Negroes for the next 30 years. No more wise, patient, spiritual african americans who spend all their time helping to teach their white friends to learn, laugh, and love. Just once I’d like to see a Mystic Negro who spends their time helping out black kids rather than white guys.
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Labor and childbirth as portrayed in movies and TV:
La, la, la la la, all is fine, Bam! Aaaaarrrgghhh! The pain! The unbearable agony! EEEEEE! OOOOOO!
Bing! Aww, what a cute baby.
All in the space of, maybe, 10 minutes, except in “Gone With the Wind.”
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Also, I love how the woman in the movie or TV show gives birth, and the doctor or nurse turns around and hands her a clean, bone dry three month old baby that supposedly came out of her sixty seconds before. :rolleyes:
Yes, but fiction is Life: The Good Parts Version.
In other words, truth may be stranger than fiction, but truth is almost always more boring than fiction.
Or abandoned white kids or clueless white women. Whoopie Goldberg is the queen of Black Savior movies. Sister Act. Corrina, Corrina. Long Walk Home. Cora’s Heart. Girl…Interrupted. She’s an amazing actress, but goodness! If I see another tear-streaked Caucasian face nestled in her bosom, I’m going to vomit!
People can go on-line, google the most amazing bizarre things, and get the exact website they need on the first try. I wish I had their search engines.
(screeeeeech) I feel good ♪♬♪ I knew that I would ♪♬♪ Now I feel good …
Well, being perfectly clean and dry is tupid, but they can’t do much about having to use a three-month old. Do you expect the producers to keep a staff pf pregnant women around in the hopes one will give birth moments before they shoot that scene?
I guess you have a point there. Funny thing is, the oldness of the supposed newborn would be less obvious if they did make it look a little bloody and goopy. What they have now is two unrealistic practices working their synergy. 
I hate how on the bridge of every starship/warship/submarine there’s always the tense moment when the captain gives a crucial order and it’s at that time his first officer decides to argue with him about the wisdom of that order.
I have a feeling that the majority of those writers have never been in the navy.
Actually, I remember last year or the year before (?), California made it illegal to use newborns in movies. I’m not sure why.