Most overused Clichés in movies/TV shows?
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cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Hello Reecejackox, I suspect you'll be gone again before the night is out.
AverageJoe
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"Geddouttahere!!".
Oh. You have
Oh. You have
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
'You're insane' said to the villain right after they've done the big villain speech that actually makes their evil plot sound a lot more reasonable than we originally thought it was.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Glasses = nerd, until they’re removed, thus revealing the glamorous individual that’s been hidden for so long.
discobastard
Well-Known Member
‘Inspector, is this going to take much longer? I really am terribly busy.’
Steel Icarus
we move
Happy/neat endings
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Give me a week to catch this monster, captain.
No, you have 24 hours!
OK, I can work with that.
No, you have 24 hours!
OK, I can work with that.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
You're going to regret this.
Someone regrets something.
Someone regrets something.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Head trauma ain't no thing
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
In the first episode of the sitcom the man goes to resign from his job, makes a big speech, then an attractive woman shows up for her first day and the man changes his mind
Dieselpunk2000
Well-Known Member
There are some exceptions...
andysays
Love and solidarity
Casual Observer
enough
A car chase with one or both cars driving through a fruit and veg stall.
T & P
|-o-| (-o-) |-o-|
“I can explain!”
Never once in the history of cinema was the character who’d uttered those words able to give a convincing explanation to the other party. Not right after anyway.
Also, countdown timers on bombs that beep every second. Timers don’t beep every second- it’d be fucking annoying in everyday use, and counterproductive to anyone planning to hide a bomb in a public place and hoping it won’t be discovered.
Never once in the history of cinema was the character who’d uttered those words able to give a convincing explanation to the other party. Not right after anyway.
Also, countdown timers on bombs that beep every second. Timers don’t beep every second- it’d be fucking annoying in everyday use, and counterproductive to anyone planning to hide a bomb in a public place and hoping it won’t be discovered.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Final boss being the most difficult person to take down after hero picks off dozens of henchmen in 5 minutes.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Or, the character who hasn't been in it for ages & returns and fits into everyday life/goings on within 2 episodes.
Supine
Newt Member
Steel Icarus
we move
Something unlikely is seen by a wino who looks at his bottle askance
petee
no gods, no malarkey
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Characters beaten to a pulp in one sequence, looking pretty handsome the next.
Detectives / sleuths / obsessives making large string-and-photo-art collages which lay the whole plot out for you because the script can't do the exposition. Connecting the dots, yeah?
Detectives / sleuths / obsessives making large string-and-photo-art collages which lay the whole plot out for you because the script can't do the exposition. Connecting the dots, yeah?
Picking up evidence with a biro
Tasting hard drugs to see what they are
Tasting hard drugs to see what they are
My favourite here is to see how they get round the plot problem of a person who only speaks Spanish when the whole lot has been dubbed into Spanish. Amazing how many Brazilians made it to the US.
Reno
The In Kraut
We find out how ruthless the killer is, when they kill the intended victim's pet for them to find. The most famous was probably the bunny in Fatal Attraction, which gave us the term "bunny boiler". If you see a cute pet at the start of a thriller or horror film, it generally turns up dead.
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