this thread is to give examples of scenes in movies that have been done so many times it gets annoying.
i can’t belive any credible director would let those ruin their movies,
here are my first 2 examples:
we are the FBI,we are now in charge of this case…(and the never ending animosity between PD and feds)
good lord!!!
it really irks me when this cliche happens.
so we know regular officers “maybe” can’t stand the feds taking over.
but Mr director,does it bring anything to your movie??
does it fuck!!??
the “wild” officer who’s entitled to do whatever the fuck he wants,
more often than not,he owns that very rare,almost unique ,vintage sports car.
but for almost no reason,like when a pedestrian jaywalks,he’ll ram that irreplaceable car and transform it into a tuna tincan,
gimme a fucking break holliwood
[quote=“Hrodric”]The same fucking car chase scene where it leads to one car doing the same damned flip in the air before it crashes upside down.
I get ill every time I see that.[/quote]
i was going to mention this too,seems there should be like an holliwood olympics,movies would be rated upon how many flips a car makes,how many time the plot changes direction,etc…
similarly I’m sure not all scotts are stingy bastards…right?right?[/quote]
That’s not the kind of information I can just give out for nothing. I’m not a fucking charity.
Lieutenant Columbo, LAPD? No feds… and the car, terrible, not to mention the dog. No chases, nothing of that kind of excitement. Just a great TV series.
Anything with tons of automatic weapons that isn’t a war movie. Same weapons never being able to actually hit anything. Protagonist getting shot in the arm or the leg, wrapping some duct tape around it and going on to save the day. Cars that explode soon after impact.
Villians having that boring gloating chat with captured heroes instead of just shooting them. The hero always figures out how to get away.
Space movies where some people in a ship find an older version of their ship and attempt to rescue it only to find that some demonized character is throwing a wrench in the works so that he can do something evil. Everyone dies but the cute chick and the hero.
Protagonists who have dark past usually including losing a son or daughter in strange circumstances. Numurous flashbacks for this. Same protagonists frequently gobbling pills and drinking hard alcohol out of the bottle.
People who can take numerous roundhouse kicks to the head and recover instantly without bruising or anything.
similarly I’m sure not all scotts are stingy bastards…right?right?[/quote]
That’s not the kind of information I can just give out for nothing. I’m not a fucking charity.[/quote]
ROFL
Oh, I can’t believe people haven’t mentioned this one yet: how the ‘bad guys’ can’t hit the broadside of a barn with their machine guns, but the ‘hero’ is able to pick their whole batallion one by one with his mad kung fu skills.
Anyone remember that scene in Indiana Jones with that huge Arabian thief with the double swords? Harrison Ford’s character looks at the acrobat maneuver the swords… before he picks up his pistol and shoots him dead. THAT was one of the best scenes ever.
[quote=“Hrodric”]
Anyone remember that scene in Indiana Jones with that huge Arabian thief with the double swords? Harrison Ford’s character looks at the acrobat maneuver the swords… before he picks up his pistol and shoots him dead. THAT was one of the best scenes ever.[/quote]
Trivia time!
That scene was supposed to be a big fight, but Harrison was feeling so shit that day that he just went for the pistol idea instead.
[quote=“irishstu”][quote=“Hrodric”]
Anyone remember that scene in Indiana Jones with that huge Arabian thief with the double swords? Harrison Ford’s character looks at the acrobat maneuver the swords… before he picks up his pistol and shoots him dead. THAT was one of the best scenes ever.[/quote]
Trivia time!
That scene was supposed to be a big fight, but Harrison was feeling so shit that day that he just went for the pistol idea instead.[/quote]
:fume: :fume:
oiii
get your own threads off topic,skunk!
(actually my inspiration for this thread came after watching “rogue assassins”,a pretty fine movie,were it not for some of the cliche that i mentioned,in that movie,Jet Li gets jumped by 3 ninjas,so right away u know he’s going to kung fu their ass…but no,he takes his Glock out and shoots the flailing retards…highly refreshing i must admit!!)
back on topic=
the bomb scene
black wire/red wire??..the counter always stops at 00.01
black wire/red wire??..the counter always stops at 00.01 [/quote]
Oh, I can’t believe I missed that one. That one makes me ill too.
Ok, how about the SAME ‘boy-meets-girl-but-messes-up-then-wins-the-girl-again’ plot. I think there are a million titles of this same movie. Or, the same two types of “Teen” movies: ‘boy-looking-to-get-laid-then-meets-good-girl-and-finds-love’ or the quintessential ‘girl-wanting-to-fit-in-does-bad-things-but-turns-it-around-and-steals-the-good-boy-away-from-evil-witch.’
Or, the same tired twist of “and the cavalry arrives.” You know the one–the good guys are surrounded, things are turning for the worse but then… ‘the cavalry arrives’ and saves the day.
Honestly, it comes to the point where I see a preview of an ‘upcoming’ movie and I turn to my girl and I say, “I’ve seen it already.”
p.s.: BTW, I’m glad they felt bad enough to change the script in that Indiana Jones scene. It turned it into a beautiful moment of lucid truth.
I don’t live in the US, never have, so I don’t know what the situation there is on the ground. Why is it that, whenever there is a black actor in a film, he will make one comment or another about himself being black or someone else being white? It’s so predictable. Why has this ALWAYS to be included in a film? Are those African-Americans doing this all they time, or is it just the directors’ idea of black people’s behavior?
