# What cliched scene do you never ever wanna see in a movie again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301 "2005-09-25T05:11:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/81 "2005-09-26T21:17:24Z")
I’ve complained about this before, but the whole “throwing away empty guns like Bic lighters” thing: empty your clip or cylinder, hear a couple of clicks on an empty chamber, glance at it for a moment in annoyance, and then toss it aside. Guns aren’t _free_, you know: if you hung onto it, you might pick up some more ammo for it later - or, God forbid, _buy_ some. Oh yeah, and if you must pack about four different weapons, don’t mix your calibres: if you’re carrying a 9mm, a .45, a .38 and a .50 calibre machine gun to complete the ensemble, there’s a just a chance that you’re going to confuse which bullets go where right at a crucial moment. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/82 "2005-09-26T21:52:00Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Oh yeah, and if you must pack about four different weapons, don’t mix your calibres: if you’re carrying a 9mm, a .45, a .38 and a .50 calibre machine gun to complete the ensemble, there’s a just a chance that you’re going to confuse which bullets go where right at a crucial moment. I agree mostly but not completely. I can imagine carrying a snub-nosed revolver for its superior reliability along with, say, a Glock 9 for greater firepower. But in that case the revolver’s going to be the last-ditch weapon, so I’m going to have multiple clips of ammo for the clock, and just one speedloader for the revolver. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/83 "2005-09-26T22:10:46Z")
On the subject of guns. Someone already cited where the evil guy can’t hit a barn from inside it, while the hero can pick off someone 40 miles away on horseback at full gallop with a derringer. Annoying enough already. Just as annoying, where do they buy all these big hand cannons that have NO RECOIL? Take westerns for instance. I think a 45 would have a bit of a kick to it. It may not wrench your arm out of its socket, like the Dirty Harry movies suggest, but there is a little bit of a kick or barrel flip, or at least a gentle nudge or something. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/84 "2005-09-26T23:16:32Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > I’m guessing Jackson fell back on cliche because the book version would be pretty tough to bring to the screen without it looking kind of aburd. Even assuming you are right that it would have looked absurd, (and I think a good filmaker could have made it look OK) that doesn’t make using an abused tired bullshit cliche necessary or acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/85 "2005-09-26T23:26:39Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > I’m tired of seeing a dangerous situation artificially created in a movie because a small child sneaks out of a house and goes running into the most dangerous situation it could possibly find. (Saw that the other night in the pilot of “Invasion”.) Uh-huh. And it’s always because they’re lookking for a goddam cat. Cats only exist in the movies as a device to separate people from their loved ones. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/86 "2005-09-26T23:48:51Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Even assuming you are right that it would have looked absurd, (and I think a good filmaker could have made it look OK) that doesn’t make using an abused tired bullshit cliche necessary or acceptable. Oh well, it’s not as stupid as it could’ve been. My prediction was that Frodo would try to help \*Gollum \* on the cliff. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/87 "2005-09-27T00:10:23Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > You’d think that after _The Blues Brothers_ nobody could with a straight face include another car chase scene in any movie. > > But then, you’d think a lot of things, I guess. Yes but now you can’t have a car chase without launching cars off the back of the car carrier truck (Matrix: Reloaded, Bad Boys 2). Romantic comedies where a large child is dropped off on some free spirited single guys doorstep and he must now learn adult responsibility. Jumping across subway platforms in front of an oncomming train. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I cant do a 12’ running long jump. Every upper-middle class or wealthy teenager is a good-looking obnoxious jerk with the morality of a sociopath (Dude!! We HAVE to kill that guy who saw me egg the deans car or I’ll lose my scholarship to Dartmouth!") Soldiers stepping on mine’s or booby traps that arm when you step on them and explode when you release. AFAIK, no mine should need to operate like that in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/88 "2005-09-27T00:14:10Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > I hate the cliche where the hero, after being beat up (really stomped), stabbed, shot, disemboweled, dismembered and blown up, still has enough strength to beat the crap out of a bad guy, who is in excellent shape (not all mangled up). Never underestimate the restorative powers of the Taunt Of Miraculous Recuperation, which usually occurs about two-thirds of the way into the fight, when the hero has been battered into bloodied exhaustion: “You lose, Mr Power. Soon you will bear witness to the triumphant culmination of my plan. Soon my army of Robot Ninjas will be complete, and then nothing can stop them. And after that, perhaps it will be time to pay a visit on your lovely daughter…” “Nyaargghhuugghh!” Max Power, revitalised by the thought of his daughter in the clutches of this monster, drags himself to his feet, gaining strength by the moment as the light of battle rekindles in his eyes. He has not yet begun to fight!And from then it’s strictly one-way traffic, as Baron Greenback gets his lumps. Thwack! Take that, perfidy! Thump! How do you like them apples, turpitude? Crunch! It’s payback time, malfeasance! The fight will then culminate with the evil Baron Greenback prostrate and sanguinary, as Max foolishly turns his back on his supposedly beaten foe. But what’s this - the Baron’s wizened claw scrabbles for the envenomed knife hidden in his artificial arm - Max whirls just as Greenback is poised to hurl the poisoned blade, and blows him away with the great fuck-off gun that had been knocked out of his reach early in the fight. The blade clatters harmlessly to the floor. Baron Greenback, flung back by the shot, gazes astonished for a moment at the large hole in his chest, and then topples slowly backwards through the window that overlooks his factory floor, and plunges screaming into his own reactor chamber. Boom! The subsequent explosion starts a chain reaction which will destroy the Robot Ninja production facility, and all Max Power has to do now is outrace the fireball down a tunnel and leap out onto the snowy mountainside, seonds before the entire factory is engulfed in flames. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/89 "2005-09-27T01:49:45Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Uh-huh. And it’s always because they’re lookking for a goddam cat. Cats only exist in the movies as a device to separate people from their loved ones. And to sit on the lap of the head of an evil organization, so he can stroke it while he taunts the hero. Dogs are for all american heros, cats are for evil europeon super-villians, or so the movies would have us believe. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/90 "2005-09-27T01:53:30Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Oh yeah, and if you must pack about four different weapons, don’t mix your calibres: if you’re carrying a 9mm, a .45, a .38 and a .50 calibre machine gun to complete the ensemble, there’s a just a chance that you’re going to confuse which bullets go where right at a crucial moment. Well, if you’re going to be killing people, it makes more sense to carry. 1.)An assault rifle and/or shotgun. 2.)A sniper rifle 3.)A handgun 4.)A backup handgun, in your ankle hostler. Serves all your needs. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/91 "2005-09-27T03:11:57Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > the great fuck-off gun I want one of these. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/92 "2005-09-27T03:14:07Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Even assuming you are right that it would have looked absurd, (and I think a good filmaker could have made it look OK) that doesn’t make using an abused tired bullshit cliche necessary or acceptable. True, that. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/93 "2005-09-27T03:22:40Z")
So many to choose from; the car flying through the air during car chase, lands with its front nearly sheared off, and continues driving as though nothing happened; EVERYTHING exploding on contact during car chase scenes; car chase scenes themselves (does Hollywood not know how boring these are now? And same goes for interminable fight scenes. Yawn.) As for the romantic stuff, how many people have been doing something physical with a member of the opposite sex (playing pool, football, pyramid, whatever), and you end up in each other’s arms, sharing meaningful looks? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/94 "2005-09-27T03:44:08Z")
> [@Vintage 1957](#): > > I’m tired of heroes who outrun explosions & villians who refuse to stay dead. ditto i mean - what the hell are they on that our hero doesn’t have access to? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/95 "2005-09-27T03:48:06Z")
Mines simple. Perhaps not quite enough to be called a cliche. I cannot stand the kids cast in movies. While most of the shit kids do in movies is indeed lame, it becomes all the lamer when you look at thehaircuts on the kids. Where does it state that every boy between the ages of 2 and 8 must have that ridiculous bowl haircut? No parent that I’ve ever know kept a kids hair like that IRL, yet all movie kids wear their hair like Joey Lawrence circa 1988. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/96 "2005-09-27T03:50:12Z")
> [@Bites When Provoked](#): > > The ugly duckling transformation scenes where a girl (or guy) is shown to be really attractive instead of the drab mouse they’d seemed to be. by merely loosening her hair from a pony tail or taking off his/her glasses or unbuttoning his top button and ditching the cardigan for a leather jacket my favorite of these is in (IIRC) That Touch Of Mink - After Cary Grant runs off to save Doris Day from John Astin, Gig Young turns to his bespeckled, ponytailed secretary and asks her to let down her hair and take off her glasses - only to reveal a squinting woman having a bad hair day; Young says “Gee, I guess not” (or something to that effect) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/97 "2005-09-27T03:54:40Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Damn you! Beat me to it! > > But in regards to that, “Not Another Teen Movie” is great, if for no other reason than because it breaks, or just satirizes/parodies, all those teen comedy cliches. > > Like the one guy starting to clap slowly and has everyone else join in. > > “You can’t just start the slow clap at any time! It has to be the right moment!” 😃 that has got to be the best cliche filled movie of all time ZAZ productions notwithstanding ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/98 "2005-09-27T04:06:38Z")
> [@](#): > > This was the role Dawn played in Buffy the Vampire Slayer only in season 5 and part of season 6, by season 7, she had evolved beyond, even if ever so slightly ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/99 "2005-09-27T04:13:06Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Uh-huh. And it’s always because they’re lookking for a goddam cat. Cats only exist in the movies as a device to separate people from their loved ones. Nah-ah! Puppies too (don’t lay it all on cats!) ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301/100 "2005-09-27T04:14:09Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > I want one of these. I want the great fuck-off revolver Hellboy had. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cliched-scene-do-you-never-ever-wanna-see-in-a-movie-again/323301.md?page=6)