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.
[QUOTE=The Dumbest Guy in the Room]
In many Computer Role Playing Games
You cause a hell of a lot of trouble for the bad guy, killing minions left antd right
Through some scripted lucky punch one of The Evil Mastermind’s lieutentant’s knocks you unconsious
You get your sword of asskicking+5, your Amour of Invunrability and your Rings of Nifty Power taken from you and are dumped in prison, despite the fact that The Evil Mastermind has been trying to arrange your death for the last 10 chapters.
You’ve shown that you’re the most potent threat The Evil Mastermind faces, so instead of getting his legion of dragons to guard you whilst you have no equipment he chooses the weakest bozos he can find. You break out, kill these guys with your bare hands, and find the complete set of items taken from you lying around in the 3rd or 4th room, just in time for some oprper enemies to show up again.
Also in Movies where it becomes apparant that all the Hero’s moves throughout the movie have in fact been part of the Villain’s intricate plan. The only thing the villain hadn’t counted on is the simple trick that the Hero uses to escape his bonds and kill the Villain in the last 10 minutes.
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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.
[QUOTE=Wile E]
And never forget the car that won’t start as the bad guy/psycho killer/alien/ vampire/werewolf/zombie /generic monster/rabid dog is approaching you. If you’re a red shirt it won’t ever start, if you’re the protagonist it will start at the last second as the bad person/thing has it’s hands/paws/claws/tentacles on the car door or trunk. Sometimes it will leap on the car as you drive off and appear on the windshield as your driving away or after you thought you were safe.
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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
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
How many times have you seen or heard this movie/TV cliche?
Action Sidekick: It’s quiet in here.
Action Hero: Yeah. Too quiet.
I hate it. :smack:
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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…
[QUOTE=MLS]
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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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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[QUOTE=monstro]
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.
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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:
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
How about verisimilitude? Real life is full of events that foreshadow nothing.
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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.
[QUOTE=Lemur866]
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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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.
[QUOTE=Ghanima]
Trailer cliches:
“In a world…(introduce setting)”
“Only one man…(can achieve specified goal)”
“But can he…(achieve said goal)”
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(screeeeeech) I feel good ♪♬♪ I knew that I would ♪♬♪ Now I feel good …
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
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:
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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?
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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?
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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.
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
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.
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Actually, I remember last year or the year before (?), California made it illegal to use newborns in movies. I’m not sure why.