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Most overused Clichés in movies/TV shows?
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
A movie signalling that it's more realistic, more self-aware, more tongue-in-cheek than your standard macho hollywood rubbish by having the protagonist say 'ouch' after falling off a building and landing on his face, then having him take several seconds to get back up with some visible discomfort.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
What is blood - no claret in a film despite huge amounts of beating and fighting going on. The hero maybe gets a red cut on forehead.
In general injury ain't a thing unless plot relevant.
Oh I'm evil says man who is a vizier/advisor who otherwise doesn't fight in sudden inevitable betrayal
L-shaped post coital blanket covering very specific parts.
In general injury ain't a thing unless plot relevant.
Oh I'm evil says man who is a vizier/advisor who otherwise doesn't fight in sudden inevitable betrayal
L-shaped post coital blanket covering very specific parts.
People having or having had sex with their underwear still on.I know it does happen* but it must be something to do with US censorship that it happens that much (in other words always).
* did happen
* did happen
Reno
The In Kraut
In a lot of cases that’s due to the contractual stipulations of actors who won’t do nude scenes. It can also be so a movie makes a PG rating, which isn’t so much censorship than a commercial consideration.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Barefoot brave people managing to scamper about through disaster scenes full of shrapnel, rubble and broken glass without so much as squeaking like a parent stepping on a bit of Lego.
Helen Back
:-)
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Or picking it up with a handkerchief
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Any incidental object observed twice, or incidental behaviour mentioned twice, will turn out to be hugely significant third time round
Reno
The In Kraut
Why are you quoting me ?
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Two things I notice all the time now on films and TV shows:
1) The "ringing ears" noise that overides all other sound for a second or two when there's been a bomb blast or something.
2) That sort of bass drop sound that happens when some sort of catastrophe is about to occur. The visuals often slow right down or stop completely when this noise is employed. It is also often followed by the "ringing ears" noise if the catastrophe is an explosion.
1) The "ringing ears" noise that overides all other sound for a second or two when there's been a bomb blast or something.
2) That sort of bass drop sound that happens when some sort of catastrophe is about to occur. The visuals often slow right down or stop completely when this noise is employed. It is also often followed by the "ringing ears" noise if the catastrophe is an explosion.
BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
UrbaneFox
They've doubled in price
Or a stack of empty cardboard boxes, Starsky and Hutch style.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Because it's in a similar veinWhy are you quoting me ?
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
skyscraper101
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When someone falls asleep in front of the TV late at night and the scene shows it playing white noise.
does that ever actually happen?
does that ever actually happen?
Reno
The In Kraut
It used to, when tv stations still went off the air at some time during the night. The film where this is a plot point is Poltergeist.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
min my experience they always just had a black screen with a test tone, or teletext. Never once did I see static/white noise.
There was a time before teletext, when the stations used to stop broadcasting.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
I should point out I only mention this because I was watching an episode of This Life from circa 96/97 and this particular cliche was used.
In all my memory of late night 90s TV (and I watched a lot) never did a channel just cut to static.
I don't know "this life" but it was certainly true before the advent of 24 hour TV in the UK, which started in the mid '80s.
Reno
The In Kraut
The Hitman and Her should have been on then.
I grew up in Germany and there some tv stations had a test image, some just went to static in the 70s. I believe the US, which by the 70s had many more channels than Europe, was the same.
miss direct
misfungled
Any film or tv programme featuring Turkey/Istanbul tends to use a silhouette of mosques and the sound of the call to prayer 
Also baddy running down an alley turning over bins to slow down the chaser.
But ... the chaser athletically jumping over the bins.
So turning round and throwing bins at them...
... which miss as our fit hero dodges them.
Arriving at a high fence which has a locked gate, panicking for a moment and climbing it....
Which the goody drags them down from, and cuffs them. Perhaps saying something funny about trash.
Of course if its the hero escaping, all these ploys work like a charm, ending with the fat panting baddies impotently shaking the fence and the chasee nowhere to be seen.
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