“Stay here and don’t move”
They never do.
“He tampered in God’s domain.”
Skewered by someone—MST3K, probably—as “He peppered in God’s lo mein.”
If by you mean “cliched” you mean “overused,” the answer is simple. It’s a line that has been used in an estimated 80% of all American movies.
“Let’s get out of here.”
Nothing else comes close.
“What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet.
“Are you talkin to me. Are you talkin to me? I’m the only one here.”
I had an ex-girlfriend who had never seen Casablanca. So I rented it. She liked the movie, but complained about “all the cliches.”
A Save-The-World action movie. We have the hero and his ex/soon-to-be/estragned girlfriend.
Hero: I gotta do this, Sally.
Sally: I know. Go. Save the world.
Hero: Thanks. You don’t know what hearing that from you means to me. [grammatical mistakes intentional]
Sally: choked up Just get out of here, you. smile
Hero turns to go. He’s almost out the door when:
Sally: Hero! He turns. (cliche time!)
Sally: Be careful out there, OK? * Hero smiles ruefully and nods. Sally stays strong until he has left the room, and collapses into a pile of simpering idiot.*
“I go on guilt trips a couple of time a year. Mom books them for me.” A custom made Wally .sig!
My iguana's sick.
He's all floppy. Could he have
Reptile dysfunction?
-Chef Troy, Haiku Master“Shut up and drive”
“This is it. This is the real thing. This is what you’ve been trained for.”
“Get the hell outta here! It’s gonna blow!”
“I’m dying. I want you to take my place.”
“Care to tango?”
“Let’s dance.”
“Great! You led him right to us!”
“I know yer scared, kid. Hell, we’re all scared.”
“This department can’t afford you! You’re a cowboy; a loose cannon!”
“Do you have any idea what your little stunt has cost this city?”
“Alright, if we’re gonna do it, we’re doin’ it MY way.”
“Who are we to play God with these people’s lives?”
“Sure he’s a drunk/lunatic/stubborn asshole. He’s also the best damn ________ we’ve got.”
My favorite ought-to-be-a-cliche line was from a movie I can’t remember a thing about, but it seems it was a movie about pool sharks and a young turk was going up against his mentor/master (maybe James Coburn), who said:
“Kid, I taught you everything you know…but I didn’t teach you everything I know”. I use that all the time.
SwimmingRiddles:
You forgot the part where the hero puts his fist next to her chin and gently knocks it to the side with the oh-so obligatory “Hang in there, kid.” remark.
Connor
This line has been in every action-adventure movie in the last twenty years (probably):
“GIVE ME YOUR HAND!”
(Always shouted when someone is hanging precariously from a great height.)
I don’t know about any lines, but how about dramatic devices in general?
The one I’m thinking of is the existential “throwing away” of the troublesome diamond/gun/statue/book/rock/ whatever.
“Jeez, you know, my wife was killed and I lost all my money and my house got burned down and I’m scheduled to go to trial next month for murder, but yep, I got my million dollar diamond. <big grin> Aww screw it, it’s not worth the trouble anyway… <throws diamond into the ocean>”
"[ Insert Mafia Type here ] is swimming with the fishes"
Frankly my dear I don’t give a damn…( the old version of Gone With the Wind)
The new remake version:
Frankly my dear I don’t give a rats ass.
“Follow that car!”
One villain to another
“I know we agreed a price, but that was before …”
“Don’t let anyone in ,I’ll be right back”
“…but before I kill you I just wanted you to know…”
“Care for a drnk, stranger?”
“We shouldn’t be doing this”