Well, obviously, that’s because they’re good at it.
Women who work in professional law enforcement jobs as detectives or senior level technicians but dress in tight fitting jeans, plunging tops, and fuck me pumps as if they are ready to hit the clubs.
Men who work in professional law enforcement jobs as detectives or senior level technicians but dress in tight jeans, athletic shoes, and t-shirts.
People who continuously and aggressively mouth off to superiors but remain employed.
People who are easily and completely knocked out with a single blow to the head
Monologuing criminals
Ninjas and pirates. And by pirates I mean the swashbuckling (heh) 18th century pirates that sing and dance and go on merry adventures.
Famous Spies.
After the first couple of movies, everybody seems to know who James Bond is (“You’ve just killed James Bond!” Tiffany Case emotes in Diamonds are Forever), which would seem to be a serious liability in that profession.
And I’ll second MEBuckner’s
, amending it by removing the “regularly”. I heard Ed McBain talk about creating the 87th Precinct novels because non-police detectives, he said, didn’t solve any murders, something I’ve seen re-iterated on this Board.
It could be argued that a lot of world leaders qualify as real examples of this character.
Lab technicians who can accomplish two weeks worth of work in a 15 second montage (which is supposed to montage an hour).
I saw this once. She didn’t throw a drink in the guy’s face, but she flounced out and the guy went after her. The lobsters that arrived soon after looked mighty tasty.
They never did come back. I guess makeup sex is better than lobster.
Doctors who run all their own tests, and even take their own Xrays. And dotors who break into a patient’s “House.”
Likewise, only in TV/movies do you see a gorgeous girl being treated as ugly or frumpy because she’s wearing glasses and her hair is slightly frizzy.
The honest “little” guy who wages a tough, savvy political campaign against ultra-powerful moneyed interests, and triumphs with the overwhelming grass-roots support that the people’s admiration for his spirit and virtue has engendered.
You mean Rand Paul?
The Democratic Senate candidate from South Caroline might be an example of that, other than his arrest for stalking a co-ed.
Isn’t this much more likely than the opposite cliche, though, where two people trade kicks and pucnhes for ten minutes? I mean, unless you’re a trained fighter, or are otherwised experiences at taking hits, espeicially to the face/head, you actually are very likey to go down in one or two punches.
Maybe not unconcious, but you will be on the floor in pain wondering what just happened.
Not to mention cousins who look like identical twins. Okay, maybe that happens in real life.
Yeah, but in movies it seems like bonks to the head can be delivered as precisely as anesthesia. In fact someone often says, “He’ll be out for an hour or two”. When in reality, a blow to the head in unpredictable.
I had a friend who was clubbed on the back of the head with a pistol just like in the movies. It fractured his skull and gave him a concussion, but it didn’t even knock him down. He just shook his head and handed over his wallet. Later the cops insisted he get himself checked out, because he was just going to go home to bed. Good thing he didn’t.
This is pretty much my girlfriend.
There are attractive streetwalkers, but they’re usually/always cops. As for wacky neighbors…visit my 'hood sometime.
High school students who regularly pull off elaborate schemes and pranks and make fools out of their superiors but manage not to get expelled or otherwise receive anything more severe than an after school detention.
So, if they never make a movie about me, now you know why.
Lawyers with one case.
Socially awkward, unattractive and unproductive guys, who mostly talk about offensive and sexual topics, and manage to get attractive girls to fall in love with them. That’s every movie ever written by Kevin Smith.