Be annoyed. Be very annoyed…
I think you have two kinds of “kill me now” scenes.
There’s the kind where they really mean it, because life will suck if they don’t die, like in The Departed.
Then, there’s the “skin that smokewagon” kind where someone is challenging a coward to be man enough to pull the trigger. A real bitch slap.
Both are played out, but they’re distinctly different animals.
My most annoying movie cliche: Tough Guy walks away from a house, a car or something else which either looks OK, or is already on fire. It then explodes impressively, and Tough Guy keeps walking toward the camera, not looking back or even flinching. Ooooo, he’s tough. :rolleyes:
I am so going to have to do that next time I see my Chiropractor.
(Bonus points if he stops to light a cigarette while it explodes behind him.)
This was probably a cool scene for whoever filmed it first but my god it’s been done to death. Most recently in the trailer for Iron Man. Grooan :rolleyes:
Clap.
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Clap.
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Clap. Clap.
Clapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclap!
Mysterious person riding motorcycle is always a woman with log flowing hair that she flips in slow motion after taking off her helmet.
Joe Pesci to Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull: “Me, kill me! Start here, kill me first, do me a fuckin’ favor.”
In The Unforgiven, there’s a jail scene where Gene Hackman (as Little Bill) hands the pulp western writer a loaded gun and tells the writer to shoot him (Hackman) and make his escape. But it’s obvious Hackman knows the writer doesn’t have the nerve to do it.
Bad Boys has every cliche ever filmed, so it’s no suprise that it has both the “kill me! do it!” scene and the “bad guy comes back to life and gets shot” scene.
Oh, yeah, I remember that from Battlefield Earth. What? Oh, it wasn’t in the movie itself, AFAIK. The line was spoken by me, about two minutes in.
Another example of this is Lonesome Dove. Some secondary character, having been shot in the gut, scalped, and probably other things which I have blocked from memory, asks Duvall to kill him.
Even better - Mel does pull the trigger, but Glover has his thumb between the hammer and the frame of the revolver, so it doesn’t fire, though it hurts Danny like a sonofabitch.
The scene in Dead Presidents is distinctly different, but I think there is a lot of overlap between these two.
It’s in the commercial for “Vantage Point.”
If I’m remembering right, in Red Dawn, Jennifer Grey, gravely wounded, begs Patrick Swayze to kill her. He can’t do it, and instead leaves her with a live grenade.
From Carlito’s Way:
In The Fly, there’s an unspoken “Go ahead and shoot me” moment, as Jeff Goldblum’s mutated character pulls the barrel of the shotgun against his head.
From The Muppet Movie, Kermit to Doc Hopper:
Final Confrontation. The good guy is just about to take on the bad guy when the bad guy reveals that everything the hero has been doing all film was in fact an elaborate ruse by the bad guy. In fact if the hero hadn’t retreived the golden macguffin for him then his whole plan would have failed. Unfortunately for the villain his intricate plan fails to account for the fact that the reason the hero was such a useful tool was his ability to fight his way through almost impossible situations. In fact, just like the one he’s in now…
Scrappy underdog team practices hard and wins (or barely loses) the last play in slo-mo.
Kevin Kline staring down K-K-K-Ken’s steamroller in A Fish Called Wanda.
Of course it’s played for laughs.
Batman Begins (scene on the train):
Ras Al-Ghul: Are you finally prepared to do what is necessary? [by which he means “Go ahead and kill me”]
Batman: I’m not going to kill you, but I don’t have to save you either.