The couple having sex in their car: obvious first, due to Scream Rule #1. But, post-Scream, all bets are off.
The one black guy - totally second, in accordance with Askia’s Law. First is too obvious, and having sex is a worser crime than being black.
Celibate girl who wears flattering but practical clothing is probably next, to give AMH something to angst over in the second act.
Practical joker hangs on a while, to be our Red Herring, but then he’s next.
AMH cannot make it out of the movie alive, but he hangs on until the very end.
Sullen, hesitant leader, of course, subdues, but does not kill, the timid, quiet ten-year old girl, who is in fact the killer.
Spoons’ is still open: “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…”
It turns out to be his brother/cousin/best friend. Or, Mr. “I Never Miss” actually misses.
When the Hero is doing extremely well with the hot chick he has just picks up, it turns out that she is…
turns out to be an imposter who’s only using the service call as a pretext to get into the office and hack its computer system or commit industrial espionage.
Unless it’s a porn flick, in which case he and the hot chick do the horizontal rhumba.
When the Wild West hero pulls out his canteen against the backdrop of the scorchingly hot desert…
… he tilts it all the way up, and drains the last swallow out of it (and might then casually toss it aside, because once emptied, a canteen can never be refilled).
The protagonist turns on the TV. Instead of a commercial or even light entertainment, the protagonist will immediately be tuned into…
The canteen rule can, of course, be challenged with the Three Amigos Codicile.
… a news report regarding the very natural/supervillain-created disaster about to befall his residence.
The shy high school girl with the big glasses that always slip down her nose and the baggy clothes will always …
…the status bar will proceed mindnumbingly slowly as a potential discoverer walks towards her. A split second before the other party reaches our heroine, someone will destract him with something inane (happy hour tonight, hows the kids, whatever), just long enough for the transfer to finish.
During any car chase where one of those car transporter trucks is on the road…
He or she will go to a party where the punch has been spiked and will unwittingly make a fool of him- or herself before waking up the next day in unfamiliar surroundings, with a huge hangover, and about to go home to a spouse who is not pleased.
Halfway through any sports movie, Our Hero, who lives a clean life and who has practiced harder and longer than any other player, will always…
…get cruelly and unfairly injured by a sleazy coach/player on the rival team/bookie and angst about it until the final game, where he manages to pull through anyway.
If the main party has been separated, and we’re watching the ‘b’ group, how many non-character evil ninjas are needed to capture them for bait?
If the main party has been separated, and we’re watching the ‘b’ group, how many non-character evil ninjas are needed to capture them for bait?
Four - one to cut off each primary compass direction escape route. (N, S, E and W). (If the costume budget is tight you can just use the same guy for each shot)
If our heroine is the ugly duckling type, the BMOC will only recognise her true beauty after…
a cheap, chipped institutional white cup in an ethnically colorful greasy spoon, OR a Starbucks-style foam cup when carried on the street by an annoying, self-absorbed yuppie.
Aliens who seem to be friendly at first are invariably revealed as…
Yell out “Is someone there?!” and then go and investigate by themselves without turning any of the lights on.
If you’re driving down an alley in a chase scene you are definately going to…
