This seems true, as long as you note that Neon Genesis Evangelions’ ending sucked, not just the rest. It should be noted that the use of the tradition pleading for a tunafish sandwich song, “Oh, for tuna” in the soundtrack of a movies does not necessary mean that the movie will suck. For example:
Natural Born Killers, The Doors, and, to a lesser extent, Detroit Rock City.
P.S. Jet Jaguar, I loved your performance in “Spiderman” as the Green Goblin.
Regretfully, the only example I can think of is a movised (televised?, forgive me if my memory fails) version of an Agatha Christie novel where an older woman used a choker to hide a goiter, or perhaps it was just the scar from it. I can’t recall the title, but I think it was Murder by Invitation. I can’t find an imdb entry for the movie I am thinking of, so let’s just scratch “old woman in choker” off the list of movie clichés.
In a similar vein, in Science-Fiction, if a new and wonderful piece of technology is available to the crew of a spaceship, it will be pulled out at the last minute to provide a solution to some horrendous problem the crew face.
Am I wrong, or did every one of the '60s/Vietnam cliches listed in this thread appear in Forrest Gump?
If you start seeing teasers for the movie more than 60 days before its release, it’s gonna suck.
If they are more than 6 months before the release, it’s gonna suck pondwater.
It’s “A Murder is Announced.” Coincidentally, I just saw it this past weekend. She was hiding a scar…
To conceal the fact that she was really Charlotte Blacklock, who had had a goiter removed, not her sister Letitia, who had died some years earlier but was expected to come into a large inheritance one day.
Then there was the dear auntie in Arsenic and Old Lace who always wore high collars to hide the marks where Grandfather’s acid burned her.
Disproved by every Pixar teaser ever released. 
Anyone have a time machine I can use to show this theory is/will be true of Pixar’s film “Cars”?
Unless they’re the Blues Brothers!
Black people usually have nothing better to do than to offer warm, humane and wise advice to clueless and confused white people. Very often these black sidekicks and advisors have magical powers that they use to help their white friends. See, black people are so spiritual and strong due to all the suffering their people have gone through, therefore they usually spend their time helping their white friends instead of other black people. The wise mentoring black friend’s role is to personally absolve the white lead character, writer, director, and audience of any role in the racial oppression of black people.
She’s a Fem-bot.
Okay, I guess you’re right.
The poorer, the better.
Sometimes old people are like this too. And people from both groups are often crusty. Because being old or non-white makes you very embittered, and it’s only through the eyes of the young, white and attractive that people can realize how great the world is.
If a background character announces that he or she is going to tool up and chase after the monster/beastie that’s stalking the group, said character will be very quickly disposed of, all alone, at the hands of the monster/beastie 
The disabled often fill this role as well. If they are mentally disabled, it is practically obligatory.
San Francisco: that spire-y type building isn;t that some sort of insurance or bank building or something?
Seattle: Rain, The space needle, flanneled people drinking coffee
Florida - Swamps or people in Miami-Vice style bikinis, Flamingos
The Trans-America building?
… strutting and sunbathing on Miami Beach … powerboats …
That’s the one.
Actually, while being a cinematic cliche, the Cough is a pretty varied one. A cough in any movie always represents one of the following -
A character is mortally ill, but is usually keeping it a secret. (seen to affect both genders in any time period according to medical experts)
The character(s) is/are smoking pot. (The Kumar Imperative)
The character is ripping a page out of a book. (The Gittes Maneuver)
The character(s) is/are surreptitiously casting insults upon some deserving person by way of coughing to cover words like “blowjob” or “asshole” (The Belushi Stratagem)
Also, the first “jump-out-of-your-seat” moment in a horror movie may safely be attributed to a cat.