Movie Cliches That Drive Me Nuts (I)
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"They're standing right behind me aren't they".
More a sitcom trope
That's funny in south park
In many rom-coms, the white female main character's best friend is either a sassy black girl or swishy gay guy.
Cliche: When a child is narrating parts of a movie and said child is wittier and more intelligent than any of the adults around him/her.
I feel like that cliche is increasingly becoming reality
Im lucky I have never watched a movie with this in
Almost as bad as the cliche where children are raised by divorced parents, and the dad is shown as being absent. But then gets involved when bad guys attack them.
Even worse, is when the narrator says something along the lines of "You know those stories where a man and woman fall in love at first sight? This isn't one of them." Just screams "look at me, we're self-aware!" on the writer's part and comes off more obnoxious than anything. Some examples of this cliche can be found in 500 Days of Summer, The Fault in Our Stars, and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (all movies I hated).
@@Whoa802 Almost as cliche as having Morgan Freeman narrate the movie.
"I know who the killer is, but I can't tell you on the phone."
and then they get killed
""i know who the killer, i can't ell you on the phone ,LET"S MEET AT MURDER THE EXPOSITION GUY, MOUNTAIN!
Lol. Saw that one last night watching "Amsterdamned".
I know who the killer is. But instead of calling the police, I am wasting time calling you so that the killer has time to enter my house and kill me.
"I have something to tell you. Meet me at my place!" Killed. I've lost count how many times I've seen this or variations of this, even in classics. E.g. in The Third Man (1949), two guys are even talking in person when one guy says, "Come and see me tonight! I have something to tell you." Killed.
This was so much fun, Maggie. It was like a present day addendum to “Ebert’s Little Movie Glossary: A Compendium of Movie Cliches, Stereotypes, Obligatory Scenes, Hackneyed Formulas, Shopworn Conventions, and Outdated Archetypes” published in 1994.
And as far as I’m concerned, this is the quote of the year so far:
“Uma Thurman is a great actress but nothing about her makes me think she can kick anybody’s ass - I don’t think she could kick my ass.”
I want that emblazoned on the front of a yellow sweatshirt with black stripes along the sleeves.
What's her real and full name ?
The most annoying cliche is when a person is introduced on screen with a lot of exposition that goes over the characters backstory. Happens a lot in action movies, where one of the cops or military persons reads the file of the protagonist to the character. As if the character doesn't know his own life.
What about the horror cliche, where the children are the only ones who can see the ghost?
“This is Katana, she’s got my back. I’d advise not getting killed by her, her sword traps the souls of its victims”
🙄🙄🙄
But you're assuming everyone is normal and has a healthy psyche:
patients with borderline personality disorder and other kinds identity-based mental illness very often don't know their own life accurately. Like high-functioning autists, they remember only plain, isolated facts about themselves without any rhyme or reason to bring everything together, so they make the same mistakes over and over again, since everything is just a random, meaningless experience with no lesson learned. It certainly would make very annoying story-telling though. LOL
The guy trying to get some unattainable girlfriend and enlisting the help of his female tom-boyish best friend eventually discovering that they have been in love with each other "all this time."
I think it says a lot about the types of people in Hollywood that they literally cannot wrap their heads around the idea of a man and a woman just having a close platonic friendship.
@@birdosquad3495 It's near impossible for men and women to be "just friends". There will always be one or both who secretly have an attraction to the other. A man is not going to waste his time going out with a woman unless he hopes to one day get lucky.
@@nerychristian It's definitely not "near impossible" because it happens all the time? I can understand if it's considered difficult by a lot of people but saying it's near impossible is just silly. Also I think claiming men aren't going to want to hang out with women unless they think they might get sex is just ridiculous. People form emotional bonds with others that they aren't attracted to all the time. Why would a straight guy ever be friends with other men or a gay guy ever be friends with women by that logic? Whenever I hear people say this it's almost always just a problem with them and not people in general.
@@nerychristian drop dead
@@birdosquad3495 because he’s a manipulative piece of shit who is not attracted to men, but can be friends with men he isn’t attracted to. Not so with women, because he does not respect women’s humanity enough to be friends with one unless he is into her sexually.
Now I want to see a catfight between Uma and Maggie.
What's her real and full name ?
Cliche:
Evil business man says "it's just business" after doing something unrealisticly evil
they get this from the mafia/godfather
But it's so accurate
Major horror trope: When trying to escape monster, the car won't start. This was fun, Maggie, hopefully you can make more vids on cliches!
Or when the protagonists are using a car to escape, and they have a massive head start, somehow the enemies will catch up to them in their heavy trucks.
That happens to me in general 😫. When I’m in a hurry. I can’t find my keys or the car won’t start
One cliche that drives me nuts is the moment where a character appears to be dead to set up a false "emotional moment" and then they spring back to life
Yeah and they never actually check for a pulse or anything it's always "Oh no they're dead I'm so sad" and the audience is meant to believe it then the person moves or speaks and everybody's happy again...wow what an emotional rollercoaster.
I think it’s so interesting that you pointed out the “hello/goodbye” cliche. I did my undergrad in film and when I took writing in television, I remember vividly our professor telling us in our scripts to not waste time with mundane patterns or speech like hello/goodbye or when a character says another character’s name repeatedly throughout the script. I always wondered why this was a no no. I guess when you’re sitting in a theatre as a regular audience member you notice those things more?
There's an awkward middle ground between "Get in late, get out early" and "Don't waste time on meaningless exchanges." Small talk on screen is absolutely a waste of time, and especially obnoxious when presented as covering subtext, but there's a degree to which it becomes unreal when characters don't add a simple "Bye" to their conversation. But, if you can end the scene before ending the phone call, you don't have to worry about it. The edit to the next scene IS the "Bye."
People tripping over something when running from a threat, be it a murderer, monster, animal... and then they turn around and sit and look at them whilst slowely moving backwards instead of directly f*ing standing up and running away... so annoying. If that happens now i'm like, it's your own fault, you get what you deserve for tripping over that unmissable object haha.
I don't love the "person thinks that they are dead and they're crying over them until they actually are not dead and/or come back to life" cliche. I can be effective but it's been done so many times.
And the number one cliche that appears everywhere. Two characters are talking, but one faces the camera while the other talks to the back of their head!!
That's not a cliche. That's more of a directing choice.
Many episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond take place in a pizza parlor and EVERY damn time a character is shown eating pizza, you can tell they’re simply bringing it up to their mouth and not actually eating it. Drives me crazy lol
Well, yeah, cuz it would be hard to read lines while your mouth is full of food. And in sitcoms they have to do several takes, often in front of a studio audience. So they don't want to have food on their mouths.
@@nerychristian Well uh, real people don’t try to have lengthy conversation while eating.
I don't think you know what cliche is
@@helvete_ingres4717 I forget the original context of my comment, but I was referring to something said in the video. Wasn’t insinuating that it was a cliche
So happy to watch this, 100% agree with most of what was said. I'll my top hated 3:
* a character trying to choose clothes (usually a female) taking the clothes out of the closet and into the floor
* someone trying to write a letter, and ripping and tossing the entire leaf at every attempt: dude! write a draft! those things are made of trees!
and the worst:
* setting up a fire by throwing the entire lighter into the gas. Seriously? You won't have it later! That's what matches are for!
The biggest cliche that absolutely annoys me, is in horror movies when peoples legs are made out of twizzlers and they trip over everything.
1. "It was all a dream..."
2. Characters not using the bathroom
3.Getting in the car with information you need to share with the other passenger(s), but you don't talk until you get to the destination.
1. I agree. Overused, I've only seen it done well once or twice.
2. Personally, I'd rather not see people go to the bathroom. I'm okay with it being assumed they go at some point off-screen.
3. Yes, absolutely. What did they talk about on the way? Or did they just sit in silence. It's so weird.
@@timetheory84 Seven. I love that film, but there's no way they talk for that length time in the car.
Something like #3 is when one character asks the other character what is going on? And the other one says something like "It's a long story, I'll tell you later. Just trust me."
Do you really wanna see your MC taking a shit?
When people say "CAPICHE" !!
When gangstas hold their guns sideways.
A guy kills someone, then to appear as if he is insane, he stares at the body and tilts his head sideways!
Ah the last one is so bad I cringed hard :/ Reminds me of the villain vampire James from Twilight.
When the person we thought was the killer, ends being innocent and the real murderer is actually a potato. Too many times , I'm sick of it.
The cliche I hate the most is probably: A police has uncovered a conspiracy but they can't prove it and therefore none in the police force believes them and they take a lot of shit for it. This especially bugs me when the police who is onto the conspiracy has proven to be a great and respected cop earlier in the film
1. Character #1 calls character #2 and tells them to turn on the TV to see the news. The television is on the exact same station the person on the phone is watching.
2. Guy walks into a bar and orders a beer. Any beer will do, no specific brand name.
3. Groceries will always be paper bagged and have celery and french bread sticking out the top.
4. No one has to look for a parking space.
5. All sheriffs who are not the hero of their movies are corrupt.
6. Never share a foxhole with a character who carries a photo of their sweetheart. (Unless its Captain America or Wonder Woman)
7. Films that start with home movies are never about happy lives.
8. All Italian-American cops have a childhood friend thats in the Mafia.
9. No scene showing a class in session lasts more than five minutes.
10. In any murder mystery, the murderer is usually the person who offers the most assistance in finding the killer.
2,3,4,5,8 = Oh hells yeah. Good ones. Especially the beer. :)
#9 = Check out Paper Chase. the classroom scenes are the best parts. Epic shit.
@@fattymcfatso1083 Paper Chase is the exception because...thats sorta integral to the plot. The TV series wasnt too bad either.
"You just don't get it, do you?"
Lmaooo 😂
“I’m not going to train you kid, I’m retired”.
The not saying goodbye on the phone has ALWAYS been my #1!
I'd agree that it's rare to see the "if you're reading this, I'm dead" cliche done well. I think a good example, though, would be in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. It's very effective and emotionally shocking, it adds so much more depth to a character we didn't really know until that point. I would really recommend that film.
I'd say Three Billboards is an example of that cliché (and many others) done POORLY. It was an excuse to keep a character involved in & affecting the story after suddenly removing him, and his continued presence as narration detracts from the terrific on-screen performance.
Additionally, it's done really well in The Dam Busters (1955) where before the raid a crewman writes a letter and props it up on the lamp in his room. And it's still there long after he should have returned. That was a common occurrence during wartime and works really well in that instance.
The only convincing 'small girl beats up guys twice her size' character ever, is Toph Beifong from avatar the last airbender. And what a great one (8
Out of place British accents. When it's a movie set in pharaonic Egypt or something and everybody sounds like Peter O'Toole. Drives me up the wall.
Bill Maher made fun of that in one of his "New Rule" clips: "Brit for Brains".
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You know, Peter O'Toole was actually able to even distinguish between different kinds of fancy speech : often spoke proper RP English, the posh Irish way. In "The Last Emperor" (1987), he speaks high-class English (RP) the Scottish way.
The worst one is someone falling off a ledge or cliff and then barley hanging on, then just as they are about to slip, someone catches their hand. How many God damn times is Hollywood going to use this? Every single action movie and its so played out.
good one - mostly old movie though, right?
@@fattymcfatso1083 No. It happens a lot in superhero movies too.
@@nerychristian ha ha ha - so I wouldn't really know about THAT
I'm glad you brought up the sopranos xD It's really appreciated when the characters actually eat a good chunk of their food
Disney does this all the time: Pixar characters making pop culture references and speaking in "cool" hip-hop phraseology.
That shits annoying
4:50 I just watched "The Assistant", and I liked how the main character had to commute from Queens
People blasting shotguns for the first time like it's nothing. Or a civilian staring down the barrel of a gun during some hostage scene and they barely seem intimidated.
Stunningly beautiful actress given grandma sweater and glasses and we're magically supposed to perceive her as a plain Jane dork.
Paul Thomas Anderson has the best long takes because you don’t even realize the Sven you’ve been watching hasn’t cut in a minute because the writing, acting, and directing has built this immersive world.
One cliche that irritates me is in those action dramas when there’s an abundance of violent trauma that would make anybody under 40 incapacitated from speaking but they have a 4 y/o kid asking some incoherent question like “are the bad peepuh coming back to get us dah-dee ?” 😆
Do you ever notice how when someone's hiding out from someone in a movie pretty much everyone they know gets killed by helping them out. And it's just kind of like passed over
This video earned you my sub. Love your takes.
When the bad guy or monster picks someone up by the neck and the camera cuts to their feet coming off the ground. The same identical shot EVERY SINGLE DAMN TIME... arrrgh
much less expensive than showing their whole body since you'd need a special harness
mine happens a lot in action movies, when the character gets hurt in a fight it's almost always forgotten in the next fight.
When the characters are at a restaurant or something and they literally never ever even the good and polite characters, say thank you or please to the waiter or waitress, i don’t know if it’s just a thing in America but in the UK we literally always say “can i have __ please” but in american films it’s just “can i have ___” like it’s just common decency...
If the waiter is asking you to order something, then I don't think it is necessary to add the word please. Plus you are paying for the food. It's not like you are asking for a special favor. But I do thank my waiter once they have brought the food to the table. And it's even less formal in fast food restaurants where the waiter will ask "What will you have today?" And the customer responds "I'll have the number X with a side of fries and a coke.
@@nerychristian it’s just common decency to say please in any situation when you’re asking for something from someone, in a restaurant, you are asking for food from the waiter who will go and get the chefs to make it for you, it doesn’t matter if you’re paying, people are still going out of their way to do something for you so you simply say please after you ask for whatever you get
@@juxe411 the guy above wrote another misogynistic comment about how men are never friends with women without wanting sex
@@blackswan4486 How is that misogynistic? That's like the opposite of misogynistic, since I am saying something bad about men, not women.
Indeed, trying so hard to make rudeness seem "cool" (especially from the protagonist) is a very annoying Hollywood trope. I suspect it started with late-60's road trip movies, but it was definitely the norm by the time 80's teen comedies or war movies came around.
Cliches are often found in genre films because there are usually "genre conventions" to be followed. There are only finite ways to tell stories, and genre conventions add even more restrictions.
Similar to the phone cliche, I get hot when people start talking about someone who JUST left (1 second ago). They're literally still on the other side of the fuckin' door and the people left in the room confidently talk behind their backs. It never backfires.
I suppose the cliche that urks me sometimes is the car doesn't start always at the most inopportune time, then suddenly the car mechanically is fine, runs great, no problems. Like, what?
1./ Cars that explode after being shot once.
2./ Vehicles that don't sustain any damage after jumping from a high distance. In the next scene, they just keep driving.
3./ Shooting more bullets out of a gun than that gun is designed to hold without ever once reloading.
4./ Cops that are right back on the street and working the case just after shooting someone in the previous scene.
5./ When a character is shot, they react like it's an inconvenience rather than an extremely painful and serious emergency.
6./ When a phone number starts with '555'.
7./ When two characters are talking on the phone and one hangs up, you hear the dial tone right away. (even more annoying
when it's a cell phone)
8./ When a student overcomes the big final exam just by cracking down at the last minute and really studying hard (usually
shown in a montage sequence).
9./ The main hero always has to drive around in a vintage muscle car, a vintage convertible, or a vintage motorcycle.
10./ The main hero always has to wear a distressed leather jacket and distressed leather boots.
11./ The main hero always has to wear sunglasses. (The actual reason for this is so the actor's stunt double can be
concealed by covering his/her eyes)
12./ Whenever a group of characters are in a setting with loud music playing, they are talking to each other at normal
volumes rather than screaming at each other.
13./ Characters that just came out of a shower but have dry hair. (or in a female's case, perfect makeup)
14./ Characters that get out of bed with neatly-combed hair. (Jack Nicholson is the exception to this)
15./ The lines, "Are you okay?" or "Let's get out of here."
16./ When driving a car, characters that stare too long over at the passenger instead of looking at the road ahead.
17./ When a character is running (either on flat ground or up the stairs), they rarely ever sweat or are short of breath.
18./ When in a cold environment, you never see the characters' warm breath coming out of his/her mouth when speaking.
19./ A gun being out of bullets when that one critical shot has to be taken.
20./ Characters never have to excuse themselves to use a restroom. (John Travolta is the exception to this)
21./ A character walking away from an explosion without looking back to check and confirm the damage.
22./ A character not being harmed after being near an explosion. The true destructive force of explosions are never hinted
at in the movies. It is an expanding wave of considerable energy that when passing through a person can cause quite
a bit of damage to the human anatomy (concussions, organ-shifting, internal tears, internal hemorrhaging, broken
bones, hearing damage, etc.) A character outrunning or outdriving an explosion also grinds my gears. An explosion is
almost instantaneous.
23./ Whenever a car chase is taking place in a foreign land, a fruit cart or a herd of animals always has to get in the way and
slow things down for heightened suspense.
24./ Whenever a character emphasizes that there's absolutely no possible way they're going to do something, in the very
next scene, they're doing it.
25./ Whenever a vehicle is accelerating to leave from somewhere or slowing down to arrive somewhere, the tires squealing
on the pavement must be heard. Also, if the vehicle is an older model, the obligatory backfire 'bang' must be heard.
26./ The villains not hitting anything with their fully-automatic weapons. The hero hitting everything with his/her single-action
weapon.
27./ When firing a fully-automatic weapon at a character that's running away, the bullets always have to hit the ground and
follow one or two steps behind.
28./ Characters speaking to animals or infants in a manner and with the intention that the animal or infant understands them
perfectly.
29./ Whenever the hero enters a quiet and creepy environment looking for the villain, a flock of birds must all of a sudden
become spooked and take off suddenly for unexpected shock value. (very prominent in John Woo films)
30./ Turning on a television or radio and instantly getting the news bulletin that's needed to automatically advance the plot.
My mother actually ends phone conversations all the time by simply hanging up without saying goodbye. She really does do that. We're used to it by now 😂
I don't know if this counts as a cliche. But in action movies, when the protagonists are running from enemies, getting shot at, driving all over the place, but you never see them drink water or rest in order to recover from their wounds.
1. Restaurant/bar scene were the main characters are involved with raised voices or an emotional scene...and no one in the area recognizes their existence at all!
2. Interrogation scenes where the interrogator has superpowers to extract information and the interviewee has no ability to resist or ask for a lawyer.
3. Phone dialing (in older movies) the last four digits are always 1-4 to get through the dialing faster!
"There's a storm coming, [Protagonist]."
Always spoken in a hushed tone for the trailer.
There's a storm coming, Pee Wee. Best be ready. - whispers Mystic Character
@@timetheory84 also worked pretty well in Harry Potter
You and your friends better batten down the hatches, cuz when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large, and leave so little for the rest of us...
The father of one of my nieces received 17 stab wounds to the shoulders, chest, and head, but still ended up chasing the guy for about a block before his own friends could catch up, point out that he was full of holes, and make him lie down. These things happen.
I hear you, mate. I’ve grown up with some crazy ass people that’ll make your jaw snap. A lot of people just don’t know shit about life these days. Too sheltered.
Thank you for this video. Now when I make my own movies, I can come back to this and the comment section in order to avoid major cliches or use them in a way that actually advances the plot.
Would fit under not eating: when a character makes another character breakfast and the character takes one bite of toast and says I’m late and rushes out the door. Also can’t stand when they use that almost empty cup slurping sound effect when someone is drinking through a straw.
The cliche I hate the most is how about 95% of the time a character is offered food or drink, they decline. I don't know what the hell it is in movies about all these characters who are hydrating extremely well off screen and have always just eaten a meal somewhere else. I think this is mostly done because of the hassle of filming eating scenes and the fact that many actors might be self conscious about monstering down a plate full of spaghetti on camera and getting marinara smeared on their chin or what have you. But I still hate it.
depends on the circumstances - whenthe cops show up to question someone, the person if it's a woman usually offers coffee, etc - i think cops are actually trained to decline offers like this - for comic effect i once saw one cop accept the offer and his partner looked at him all annoyed - don't remember where - maybe one of you you screen play guys can use that one :)
or in Magnolia where the cop character accepted the coffee offer b/c he liked the girl. but the coffee was so terrible he dumped it into the sink when she wasn't looking - PTA is God btw
One I used to not stand is when characters eat breakfast, I looks like it was catered. And who eats cereal in a bowl but has the open box and more milk at the center of the table? I know I don’t.
Miss? .... as far as a movie critic, you are really truly talented 👍👍
I don't know if this this a cliché but it is a more or less prominent occurrence in movies: people knocking on doors by banging the absolute shit out of them where there is no urgency or any reason for them to do that and it drives me absolutely nuts.
When people in movies and Tv reference the situation they're in is like something from another movie or Tv show.
E.g, Avengers Endgame - Back to the future reference.
*hangs up the phone.*
You should draw a graphic novel about you watching movies and reviewing them, Maggie :)
Thank you for your videos, they are always splendid.
What's her real and full name ?
Hey, I got an idea for one of your videos. Best Crime Noir films of 40's and 50's. Just saw a great one with Bette Davis called Another Mans Poison. Too Late For Tears with Lizbeth Scott is cool too. I'm digging that genre so much. I can tell David Lynch watched a lot of it too. Could be a cool video that not everyone touches on
Kiss Me Deadly my favorite film noir.
@@fattymcfatso1083 That's so strange. I literally watched the original for the first time last night. It was great!
@@bennyl.5 Hey. Glad to hear that. I must have seen it about 10X. Read the book, too.
When a character looks disbelievingly at the phone after someone hangs up on them....yeah, that'll help.
The villain with a tragic life story or a pseudo-philosophy which could justify his evil and supposedly brings moral conflict.
An artist and a piece.
When the bad guy has the side character or love interest of the hero as a hostage, holding them in a choking position and also has a weapon pointed at them
-whenever someone asks how long ago something was, it's always 6 months.
-villains revealing their entire plan just before they plan to kill the protagonist (which ends up not happening ofc)
-when characters act like they have an important meeting and then it's literally 1.5 minutes long
p.s. omg you know thug rose!?
I hate when a character sits down to eat something then gets called away urgently and never takes a bite. I have hated that all my life as an enjoyer of food.
I don't think I've seen you review any Fosse before. You definitely should! (Would love to hear your opinion on All That Jazz or Lenny).
All that Jazz is amazing!
Saying woke is the cliche that drives me up a steep incline (notice how I deftly avoided THAT cliche!).
When characters take a tumble from a height or smashed in an accident or any number of traumatic events and they get up and shake it off. NO BROKEN BONES???
When police/detectives are looking for something/one in the woods and one of them sees something and says "[leader of the group], you should see this", and then the camera remains focused on their alarmed face until the others join him to look at the thing
Haha ye
I live in NY. It wouldn't be $2k a month for someone's basement, or a two hour commute. Let's say you'd probably have to live half hour away from Manhattan and pay around $1,200 for a studio.
One that has annoyed me for as long as I can remember is when people can have a quiet chat in a nightclub and sometimes the music fades down so we can hear the conversation. I can barely hear myself think in those places
A movie that avoid this cliche is Trainspotting where the characters are shouting over the load music like you have to when in a nightclub
And the subtitles! Love it.
@@nate1066pollock I'm assuming you mean they put the subtitles in the loud scenes? That is such a good idea
@@crowstakingoff I think it's a bit if a joke, because they have thick Scottish accents and use Scottish slang. So add that to the noise of the club, and you have no idea what the characters are talking about.
@@nate1066pollock does the rest of the movie have subtitles?
No, which is what makes the subtitle moment funny.
OmG, thank you! I did not like the fight scenes in Kill Bill at all, but I keep hearing people praise them on the level of fight scenes by Jackie Chan and Jet Li, which is crazy.
The scenes in Japan were great, but everything else was meh. I honestly don't know whether Yuen Woo Ping was involved in any of the non-Japanese fights or not.
I love those fight scenes because of how wacky and dumb they are. But I’d agree that they shouldn’t even be in the same conversation as Jet Li or Jackie Chan. That’s just ridiculous
That was a fun video!
Don't know if anyone mentioned this before but the best "if you are reading this I am dead" was from The Mechanic (1972). If you've seen it you know. One of the best endings of all time.
had it in the remake as well
Bugs me in the old timey westerns when the hero wants to be a good guy and shoots someone in the hand in which they are holding a gun to merely disarm them. This is so wrong, yet it's been done thousands of times. It's nearly an imposssible shot. Furthermore, shooting someone in the hand would cause devatating injury. But in the movies the characters simply drop the gun, and react like they were stung by a bee or something.
Some lines are used too often in movies and need alternatives: "You don't get it, do you?" "We've got company!" "Let's do this!" "Showtime!" "Are you sitting down?" "You better be on the level with me!" "Are you (f_____) kidding/s___ing me?" And many more I'm sure.
The F word is used way too much. And I usually see it used in movies with lazy script writing. The more F bombs they use, the lazier the script.
You forgot the classic "I didn't sign up for this shit!"
If you want a full thanksgiving feast of cliches like this, watch the scene in The Dark Knight when the police are chasing Joker. There are like 3 or 4 of them in there
@@Whoa802 "I'm too old for this shit!" :)
@@fattymcfatso1083 Strangely enough, I haven't heard that one used outside of Lethal Weapon...
Action movie cliche: When the bad guy holds the gun up to the head of the good guy, he doesn’t pull the trigger and just holds the bloody gun there.
Another action movie cliche: When the villain has the opportunity to kill the hero and/or complete his evil plan, but instead HE STARTS MONOLOGUING GIVING THE HERO THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEAT HIM! I mean, I love some action movies but it’s a common cliche.
Getting shot just below the collarbone in one million movies.
Another one is someone (cop) just gets some food like a hot dog and just throws it away when they have to go solve the case
i think hot dogs are meant to be thrown away :)
@@fattymcfatso1083 or inhaled
@@mem1701movies ha ha ha - yeah
3:54 This one I remember from one episode of Screen Junkies' Movie Fights, where Alicia Malone brought up how much she hated that cliche. Thought it was oddly specific, but I have since realized just how common it is.
3:55 I actually knew a guy who never said goodbye on phone calls. A retired politician. When he was done talking to you he just hung up. No good byes. A real jerk.
@@timetheory84 yeah the always-wait-for-you-to-hang-up-first person
Bette Davis was also known for doing that.
@@Whoa802 yeah - that doesn't surprise me :)
Characters looking amazing with great makeup and groomed eyebrows while in a shitty situation. I just watched Those Who Wish Me Dead (terrible movie but great with weed) yesterday and Angelina Jolie and Jon Bernthal always look dolled up even while in the middle of a forest fire. That’s one that drives me nuts.
Cliche in period drama: bad corsets/corset behavior. Not wearing a chemise underneath. Tight lacing...even though not many women did it. Calling it torture within the film even though every single woman was wearing them.
In journalistic shows the interviewee is filmed walking up to the building they work in & then they cut to them typing on a computer, as if they're JUST NOW making the discovery they're gonna be talking about.
@5:35: I feel dumb now, as I've actually gifted copies of "The Devil wears Prada" to several people without even having thoroughly watched it!
More than the fact that a child can connect with the ghosts or the supernatural realm, what really pisses me off is that the child is not afraid, specially when the kid is like 7 year old and acts as an idiot and interacts with a demonic entity calling him by a stupid baby name as “Toby”. At least it would be slightly more believable if it was a 2 year old toddler who’s not fully aware of the surrounding world.
In many horror movies one of the investigators of a murder happen to have psychic powers
There’s this one very specific thing in some horror movies that drives me fucking crazy, where the main character is harming or killing an adversary but it turns out they were hallucinating and they actually just killed their friend, Oculus does this shit twice
Well, that's because it would be kind of racist if they actually kill the demon.
@@nerychristian How so?
@@apollo1493 I was joking.
@@nerychristian Oh ok I was really confused lol
@7:30: One of the oldest and most iconic examples of that was how Charlie Chaplin and Mack Swain got sick from overeating licorice after constant takes for that infamous shoe scene in "The Gold Rush" (1925).
@deepfocuslens have you ever seen or considered watching Jackie Brown (1997)? It's free on HBO Max, btw.
The unbelievably intelligent child that people dont listen to.. like that kid in The Poseidon Adventure.
Cliche: When an important character dies, only to be brought back almost immediately. The movie that solidified this cliche for me was "Star Trek: Into Darkness." It's such a cheap, manipulative ploy. It's the movie equivalent of having your cake and eating it too.
Justice League anyone?
The one that’s always peeved me is a mid-conversation location change. Like a character will literally respond to something another character just said, only now they’re somewhere else.
That's more of an editing choice. Where the person is telling a story, and the location changes while they are narrating. Or when a voice from another scene narrates before the scene changes.
@@nerychristian It is 100% written into the script every time, with this particular trope. Inception does it a few times with the Cobb/Ariadne exposition sequence.
7:20 scenes that bother me but I’ve mainly seen it on LAW AND ORDER where they urgently need to talk and could get the information at the door but the person brings them in and serves them tea
Tough, bad-ass woman in a movie: I thought Charlize Theron was believable in "Atomic Blonde" Good choice with Michelle Rodriguez.
What made Atomic Blonde more believable was that she sustained injuries
@@fattymcfatso1083 You know what? After I commented, I realized that it was that realism of the injuries and the exhaustion than made her balls-on fight look so realistic.
@@reader1956 yep
Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley are still the best examples of this character type, IMO. Those two worked because they didn't rely on brute force to get the job done. Sarah managed to escape the mental hospital in T2 not by karate kicking every guy into orbit, but by using stealth and targeting her enemy's weak spots when she does have to fight. Ellen Ripley similarly, managed to defeat the Xenomorph Queen in Aliens not through doing Lara Croft style dual-wielding acrobatics, but through sheer wit and improvisation. Those characters could exist in real life, whereas someone like the Mission: Impossible bitch (don't remember the character's name) can't.
@@Whoa802 Good points. i especailly liked the scene in T2 w Sarah fighting her way out of the mental hospital; but then when she saw the terminator all the strength and hope left her in an instant. She was tough but fragile. She was real.
I was watching Friday the 13th Part 2 on blu ray last night & something that bothered me early on is when two of the main characters (Jeff & Sandra) make the call to Ted, as soon as Jeff finishes dialing the numbers he immediately starts talking. No ringing. I don't know why, but it irks me.
Here is a cliche. Just about every night scene is movies has a full moon. Every. Night.
hmm. honestly i never noticed that
The sophisticated psychopath (or villain). Listens to classical music, drinks milk or wine, has eccentric behavior, is polite to women (and scolds his dumb sidekick who acts rude or dumb), well-read in literature, philosophy, science etc.
Hannibal Lecter, Alex DeLarge, cop from Leon.. Perhaps it wasn’t as overused in 70s and 90s, so it was fresh, but today it’s lame. ‘The charming villain’ goes back as old as Mephisto from Faust, and probably older.
I think the two best "sophisticated" movie villains in recent memory both come from Tarantino movies: Hans Landa from Inglourious Bastards and Calvin Candie from Django Unchained. What worked about Landa was that his sophistication was actually believable and essential to the character's intelligence. He didn't just randomly quote Shakespeare or sip red wine every now and then, he displayed actual sophistication through his ability to speak multiple languages, of which he used to manipulate and psychologically intimidate people. He was sophisticated BECAUSE he was intelligent, and not the other way around as it often is. Calvin Candie on the other hand, worked in the exact opposite way. The man was so blatantly vulgar and crude, yet still had this facade of sophistication to him. He was clearly a phony, which is what made him so compelling, as the character serves as a sort of mockery of the sophisticated villain archetype.
@6:45: It can go both ways for me, as sometimes it can look unappealing or even just grosses me out when the actors are eating real food. I remember been mentally taken out of the movie the moment some minor characters were slurping up some messy spaghetti in "Rapid Fire" (1992); a bad movie anyway with the ugly and "cheap" feel typical of early-90's action flicks.