# Finish the Movie Cliche! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 10, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988 "2008-11-10T04:24:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/61 "2008-11-11T06:07:47Z")
…crash into a pile of cardboard boxes. If the town slut tells our heroine that she ‘did’ the guy the heroine’s dating… ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/62 "2008-11-11T06:15:41Z")
…either the slut or the guy will be dead by morning. Sword fights between extras never involve this element that is always present in fights between main characters: ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/63 "2008-11-11T06:23:15Z")
A cut so close that it ripped the other guys shirt but otherwise left him unscathed. The disabled character always has some… ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/64 "2008-11-11T06:35:38Z")
…sort of ‘sixth sense’. If our sidekick has a reputation of always being nice and cheery, and demonstrates this on-camera, you can almost guarantee that… ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/65 "2008-11-11T06:46:28Z")
He has a shameful secret dark side. If a group of teenage boys and girls go to spend the weekend in the woods. You can bet that… ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/66 "2008-11-11T07:01:39Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > If a group of teenage boys and girls go to spend the weekend in the woods. You can bet that… a) They start dying… and the killer is one of them! b) The really-hot-bitch will try to seduce the nice guy, but it turns out she has no wilderness survival skills. So after breaking a nail while failing to set up the tent, fairly-hot-nice-girl proves her skillz (with a z) thus winning over the nice guy c) One of them is a cross dresser d) They will get lost. Oh, you know they will get lost. e) All Of The Above A teen pregnancy leads to… ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/67 "2008-11-11T07:25:07Z")
A teen pregnancy leads to… A happy ending. Whether the mother to be finds true love or whether she finds the help of her own mother/family, and stoically proceeds to “keep her baby” in the face of a dissaproving society/school, it all turns out OK in the end. No one needs to defraud the welfare system, marry badly, or dance on a pole. It all works out OK. When the husband’s old high school friend loses his job and comes to stay for a few weeks at his newly married buddy’s house… ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/68 "2008-11-11T08:08:15Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > A teen pregnancy leads to… > > A happy ending. Whether the mother to be finds true love or whether she finds the help of her own mother/family, and stoically proceeds to “keep her baby” in the face of a dissaproving society/school, it all turns out OK in the end. No one needs to defraud the welfare system, marry badly, or dance on a pole. It all works out OK. > When the husband’s old high school friend loses his job and comes to stay for a few weeks at his newly married buddy’s house… …it turns out that the wife is friend’s old crash and after a while of navel contemplation they will have hot sex together and the husband go postal with a shotgun but end up being arrested and convicted! In a dog movie, dogs never… ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/69 "2008-11-11T08:10:02Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > A teen pregnancy leads to… > > A happy ending. Whether the mother to be finds true love or whether she finds the help of her own mother/family, and stoically proceeds to “keep her baby” in the face of a dissaproving society/school, it all turns out OK in the end. No one needs to defraud the welfare system, marry badly, or dance on a pole. It all works out OK. > When the husband’s old high school friend loses his job and comes to stay for a few weeks at his newly married buddy’s house… the sexual tension and a love-hate relationship with the wife ensues. We meet for the first time an eastern-European mobster. He will, invariably, be in a determined place… ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/70 "2008-11-11T12:37:08Z")
> [@CrazyChop](#): > > …it turns out that the wife is friend’s old crash and after a while of navel contemplation they will have hot sex together and the husband go postal with a shotgun but end up being arrested and convicted! > > In a dog movie, dogs never… …roll around in really smelly things like garbage, mushrooms, their own shit, etc. And to reiterate Sr Siete’s: We meet for the first time an eastern-European mobster. He will, invariably, be in a determined place… ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/71 "2008-11-11T15:21:28Z")
> [@](#): > > We meet for the first time an eastern-European mobster. He will, invariably, be in a determined place… And that place is a strip club. Always, always a strip club. Our Heroes are in space and suddenly there’s a 'splosion near their spacecraft! We know it’s a big one because… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/72 "2008-11-11T16:39:17Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > Our Heroes are in space and suddenly there’s a 'splosion near their spacecraft! We know it’s a big one because… …there’s a loud noise, the spacecraft shakes uncontrollably, and lights and sirens in the cockpit go off. In any car chase that goes through a colorful ethnic neighborhood… ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/73 "2008-11-11T16:45:28Z")
Fruit cart!!! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/74 "2008-11-11T16:49:33Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > . > Our Hero is on his way to an important meeting in a large American city. He’s driving his car and he’s late. But just when he gets to the building where the meeting is to be held… …he’ll pull his convertible into a wide-open, legal parking space right in front of the building, park it there and hop out of the car, never even bothering to put up the roof. Somehow, the car will still be there (even though he never bothered to put any money in the meter) when he gets out. He will arrive at the meeting room just in time to wittily interrupt a blowhard who’s giving a wrongheaded speech. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/75 "2008-11-11T16:51:12Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > And that place is a strip club. Always, always a strip club. > > . Strip club where all the girls are wearing swimsuits. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/76 "2008-11-11T17:25:43Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Strip club where all the girls are wearing swimsuits. …where a fight will break out, and an extra will be hit over the head with a… ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/77 "2008-11-11T19:05:04Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > …where a fight will break out, and an extra will be hit over the head with a… … bottle of liquor. When the main characters discover an illegal plot in the making, they never… ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/78 "2008-11-11T19:15:35Z")
> [@runcible\_spoon](#): > > When the main characters discover an illegal plot in the making, they never… go to the police because, as Alfred Hitchcock explained, “That would be no fun.” When someone with no musical skills must, on short notice, conduct an orchestra, he always… ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/79 "2008-11-11T20:35:44Z")
…makes wild and wacky gestures, and the orchestra will sound so different he’ll be complemented for it afterward. When the heroic team has just deduced the villain’s plot, and they rush off to stop him, the camera… ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988/80 "2008-11-12T03:11:32Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > …makes wild and wacky gestures, and the orchestra will sound so different he’ll be complemented for it afterward. > > When the heroic team has just deduced the villain’s plot, and they rush off to stop him, the camera… lingers on that _one_ piece of evidence that they forgot to take into consideration. If our hero and heroine have to make an escape in an airplane, when they check the gages… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-movie-cliche/471988.md?page=5)