I recall hearing of at least one alleged real-world case of a suspect trying to hide from the cops while wearing those light-up-at-each-step sneakers.
:o me too! No explanation, they just run into each other, fight together, and then get seperated again. Fantastic!
:o should have been :eek:.
Good guy #1: I know this plan sounds crazy, but it just might . . .
Good Guy #2: Yes, your plan does sound crazy, and it sounds crazy because it is crazy. For one thing, the full moon isn’t for another two weeks. So we’re going to go with my plan that, while not as crazy as yours, has the slight advanteage of being possible. Don’t ever waste my time with such as stupid idea again.
How about eliminating two cliches
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Instead of the Bad guy who is supposed to be dead suddenly popping up to be blown away in a more satisfying way actually does die the first time.
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The hero doesn’t kill the villian in the end of a detective or cop story. Instead he arrests them, you know by the book.
oh while we’re at it can they please eliminate telegraphing the means of killing the badguy.
(Eg Terminator Sarah comes across and accidentally sets off the press and we see teh candy red button up close.)
Might I remark that I just want to see this for the hungry-hungry hippo chase scene? 
In all those Sherlock Holmes stories and movies, the client comes in and almosdt instantly seems to know which of them is Holmes, without having seen either of them before. Very rarely, they’ll ask which one is Holmes, and be properly directed.
I want to see one where the prospective client goes to Watson and Holmes says that Watson really is Holmes, then acts as if he’s Watson. He then prompts Watson whenever he needs it, in order to keep the case going. It turns out at the end that there’s a giood reason for Holmes to be incognito. But it’s be a hoot.
Something of the sort was done in the Ben Kingsley/Michael Caine movie Without a Clue, but that added a Remingston Steele extra twist to it, and played it for laughs. My suggestion is less convoluted, and I’d take it more seriously.
Firefly - “Out Of Gas”
*Kaylee: Catalyzer on the port compression coil blew. It’s where the trouble started.
Mal: Okay, I need that in captain dummy-talk, Kaylee.
Kaylee: We’re dead in the water. *
In any movie that is fantasy based or set in an ancient Earth civilization, prophecies are always right. I’d just like to see one where no matter how you twist the logic or reinterpret the seer’s words, the prediction turns out to be absolutely, positively, dead-on WRONG.
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I’d like to see an old-time Superman movie scene where the villian empties his gun at supe, who stands there letting the bullets bounce off his chest, then throws the empty gun at him and supe…stands there and lets the GUN bounce off his chest, too! (instead of ducking)
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The bad guy has a silenced .357 Magnum revolver. He shoots it. Instead of going “phutt,” it goes “BANG!!!” and everyone in the vicinity jumps, going “The heck was THAT?” Just once, please. Just one time.
And, by way of a “Thank You” I’d like to mention the scene in which Indiana Jones watches a sword-weilding villian go thru his moves where you just know there’s gonna be a big fight and instead he just pulls out his pistol and shoots the guy dead. Priceless!
Or shoots the guy’s flock-of-seagulls buddy lying on the couch.
“I’m sorry, did I break your concentration?”
I would love to see a man punch a horse in the fucking mouth.
Again.
There was an episode of The Untouchables where a criminal hired a master weaponsmith to produce a special superefficient silencer. The criminal decided to use it to do away with the weaponsmith (don’t remember why), and as they were sitting in a crowded nightclub he holds the gun under the table and fires- producing a deafeningly loud BANG that alerts everyone in the room. The weaponsmith had guessed he was going to be doublecrossed and gave the criminal a silencer that didn’t work.
I’m gonna get shit for this one, I just know it…
Lifetime/Afterschool Special type movie where a character discloses to her friends that her first sexual experience was at like ten or twelve and the guy was old enough to be her dad (or was her dad, or her uncle, or whatever inappropriate partner seems like fun)… and just as everyone’s all gearing up for the big tearjerking oh-you-poor-victim-how-HORRIBLE-for-you speeches she continues “…and it was the bomb! I’ve tried it since and nobody’s gotten even CLOSE to how much fun that was, sure wish I could look the guy up for another round but he moved away, dammit!” No trauma, no jail time, just a big old razzberry… (This one’s for my buddy, who had his first sexual experience at ten, with his eighteen year old baby sitter–all cunnilingus. He refuses to feel like a victim, and I gotta say I’ve reaped the benefits that “child molester” sowed…)
That’s pretty much the scene that sold me on Firefly, too. Good thing it was the second episode (on the DVD set).
A co-worker loaned me Lost (Season 1) on DVD, and I slogged my way through that. (Believe me, it isn’t nearly as interesting when watched in immediate sequence as I imagine it is when you’re watching it once a week; it comes off as extremely contrived.) I did manage to make through the whole season, and finally to the last episode when the go to the Black Rock to get dynamite. Five characters go–four “main” cast and one clearly supernumerary charater who was introduced as a specific character in the previous episode. Clearly, he’s going to be the sacrificial lamb, and amusingly enough, he complains to the other members about being treated as disposable, not valued, not getting a fair share of the loot and game, not getting to participate in adventures, et cetera, instead of stoically accepting his Red Shirt role. (Another episode had two characters discussing “Red Shirts”.) Of course, he gets blown up–stupidly–and the regular cast members, instead of weeping over him and having some kind of dramatic funeral scene or hauling the body–well, the pieces–back, just kind of shrug and go on about their quest. It was a very clever moment of self-awareness by the writers, anyway, and so welcome after many, many episodes of contrivences and conjured conflicts.
Galaxy Quest had pretty much all the scenes I always wanted to see in a Star Trek film, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang neatly shot holes in some of the generic plot devices one typically sees in thrillers.
More generally, I’d like to see scenes where the characters are just as bemused or astounded by unlikely plot contrivences as the audience is, but so long as Ashley Judd and Angelina Jolie are making “thrillers” that ain’t gonna happen.
Stranger
I’d love to see a scene with one or more big futuristic war"Mechs" slogging into an area to lay waste to the grossly overmatched defenders…while blaring music over a PA system. (I’m thinking “Midnight Special” by CCR, or maybe “Monkey Gone to Heaven.” Hank Williams, for a nostalgic touch.) Bonus if the machines aren’t being piloted by humans.
A bunch of people have sudden, unexplained explosive diarrhea all at once.
SVU HAS done cases in which the purported victim was lying–at last two I can think of off the top of my head In one, a tourist visiting New York, allegedly raped in a swanky hotel, was actually running a scam with the help of her brother and her sister-in-law. In the other, the victim is actually the perpetrator, having drugged men and used electrical shocks to force them to ejaculate so that she might harvest their semen. I’m sure they’re others.
See the Angel or Buffy tv series. Prophecies were rarely literally true, and when taken as such tended to bite you in the ass.
Well, not quite the same thing, but last season there was an episode where a college student accussed her professor of raping her. He said it was consensual. The staory was set up so that it wasn’t obvious who was lying. They guy had scracth makrs on his back, but he said she liked rough sex, and her former BF said the same thing. In the end, they didn’t let us hear the jury’s verdict, and had an online poll for viewers to decide. I think the majority said they thoguht the guy was not guilty (actually, a good chunk of viewers said there wasn’t enough evidence…which is a BS answer, because if you’re on an actual Jury and that’s what you are thinking, then you vote not guilty.)