Sunday, October 30, 2011

My most hated movie cliches

Sure there are loads of terrible movie cliches: Nobody ever seems to reload their guns in a gunfight, Good guys will get attacked one at a time by hordes of bad guys, the bad guy having an English accent, etc.  But there are some lessor ones that really get my goat.

  • If a guy dresses up as a woman, there will always be guys that try to hit on them.  No matter how terrible they look, they seem to attract guys.  I could give Tootsie as an example, but that guy was a drunk.  There was also one of the Revenge of the Nerd movies that had a terrible episode of that, but the all-time worst has to be White Chicks.  How the hell is anybody fooled by this.  They both look like that Crazy Tiger Lady.

  • Whenever you have the underdog team play in the big game in a football movie, they always give up a kickoff return touchdown to start the game.  I assume they do this just to show how bad the underdog is.  But it happens all the time.  I just recently watched The Best of Times and Necessary Roughness and they both had a kickoff return for a TD to open the game.
  • Whenever somebody is getting chased down by a car, they run straight down the road.  They never weave off the road or try to get behind an obstacle.  The closest I've seen to actually using logic when running away from a car was in The Terminator when Linda Hamilton is running away from the Terminator.  Of course, she mainly runs down the road still, but does try to get some cars in between her and the truck behind her.  
    • A corollary to this is that whenever anybody is running away from something in a movie, they always trip and fall down.  Doesn't matter what kind of ground they are running on or what kind of shoes they have, they always go down.
  • How many times have you gone out to your car on a nice sunny day and tried to start your car only for it to sputter and not start. Probably never, since this is real life, but in the movies whenever somebody is trying to escape from evil government forces or evil bloodthirsty demon hordes, the car always sputters when they try to start it.
I'm sure I have some more that I can't remember right now.

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