‘We’ve got XXX seconds’ - which always turns out to be exactly the number of seconds they need to get out safely…
Heroine: ‘What makes you think I’d be seen dead with a lowlife like you?’ - before falling madly in love with the good-looking rebel who plays by his own rules
The next is not a line but it’s such a cliché when the camera slowly pans along a trail of clothing on the floor leading upstairs to the bedroom. They never show the couple going around the place sheepishly picking everything up again afterwards do they.
Quite an amusing thread. But let me be contrarian and ask: is there anything wrong with cliches if used in moderation? After all real people use them all the time which is why they become cliches in the first place.It would be more unrealistic if movie characters had original, interesting lines for every situation they find themselves in.
(Spoken by the angry cop hero as he confronts the smug villain in a situation where lack of evidence, search warrant, etc. prevents the hero from arresting him right there.)
Another one of those non-dialog things is when the guy is so anxious to get into bed that he just rips his shirt open in the process of getting undressed. Rarely is the shirt a snap-front job, but the plain old button-up.
Another thing: the guy always sits on the edge of the bed to put his pants back on, usually with no underwear to impede that action. Do any of you guys ever sit on the bed to put your pants on?
“I have a crazy idea, but it just might work.” - And the crazier it is, the greater the likelihood of it working flawlessly.
“I think it’s dead.” Don’t do anything drastic, like MAKE SURE.
“It’s only a flesh wound.” Translation: I just got sht in the shoulder with a bazooka, but there’s no blood loss or incapacitation. But it does sting like the dickens.
“You have no idea what/who you’re dealing/messing/f***ing with.”
“Get out of here! I’ll try to hold them off!”
Spoken by hero = He will hold them off but you will get captured when he’s not looking.
Spoken by non-hero = He will hold them off, dying nobly (usually to redeem himself for a prior mistake.
“That’s suicide!”
“I can’t let you go. You know too much.”
With disgust:
“How could you?!”
“I trusted you!”
“You sick bastard!”
This inevitably happens in TV adventures whenever the good guys and bad guys are trapped together and faced with Certain Death:
GOOD GUY: We need to call a truce.
BAD GUY: Okay. For now.
Of course the villains immediately double-cross them as soon as they’re out of danger. And while they’re struggling to get out of danger, the villains are quarreling and scheming and being generally as helpful to the heroes as a horde of pit bulls at the wheel of a flaming mack truck that’s been chained to their goody-goody ankles.
Army of Darkness skewered that one with the posessed crone.
She collapses and one of the guards reaches for her but Ash grabs his arm and says “Wait. It’s a trick. Get an axe.”