with the first thread being closed for some reason
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moviemystic — 18 years ago(January 20, 2008 11:55 AM)
In any movie involving the removal of a bullet from someone, no matter what the location may be - the safety of a hospital, or an emergency situation in a battlefront foxhole or desert sand dune, etc. - right after they pull it out you hear a loud "CLANK!" because magically someone always provides the guy removing it with a heavy duty metal bowl.
But very oddly, no medical journal in the world has ever mentioned that there must be a large metal bowl on hand in order to properly remove a bullet from any wounded patient. Go figure! -
nieder27 — 19 years ago(March 15, 2007 03:02 PM)
The high school basketball/baseball/football team full of rebellious athletes gets a new coach whom they initially hate. But then they all bond and the team wins the tournament.
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Ceer — 19 years ago(March 16, 2007 08:52 PM)
It's been done a million times in disaster movies. There is a earthquake or a tidal wave or a swarm of killer bees or well, you get the idea. The hero goes to the man in charge who laughs at the absurdity of the warning. The man in charge doesn't want to cause a panic or lose money so he blows off the warning and people die. The hero comes up with a wacky idea that nobody thinks will work and saves the day.
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phantom509 — 18 years ago(September 04, 2007 02:19 PM)
The car/helicopter/motorcycle/bicycle/ship/dirtbike/paper bag/ microwave oven/cell phone or whatever always blows up right after the hero gets out of it or away from it. So dramatic!!
Let's not forget the massive fires caused by explosions in space.
Isn't Oxygen part of the fire triangle?????????
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aquafunk — 14 years ago(June 18, 2011 07:52 PM)
"Regular" fires are. But oxygen is only one kind of fuel. Guns, bombs, missles, etc. all work in space because they have there own airtight fuel/detonation source. Also, what do you think our star is? It is a fusion explosion of fire.
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moviemystic — 18 years ago(January 20, 2008 12:13 PM)
The Hollywood writers strike should last forever and they should just go away forever. Their lame excuse for being so grossly unoriginal over the last few decades is always "there are only five main film plots, anyway" - which is total baloney!
That's funny, since from 1930 to 1970 they sure had no problem coming up with many more than "five main plots" !!!
Today's writers are just hacks, that's all.
Meanwhile, a recent cliche has been the awful Bowling Pin Choreography used in everything from MTV videos to bad teen prom flicks. None of them can really dance, but they've obviously had some weak form of training, which is even worse then letting them dance naturally. A certain song plays at some party, and boom - everyone suddenly falls into place and starts doing the Bowling Pin bit, copying each others' bad Bob Fosse moves in an overly-rehearsed looking way. Yuck! -
Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 — 17 years ago(April 01, 2009 01:57 AM)
The man in charge doesn't want to cause a panic or lose money so he blows off the warning and people die.
Don't forget: The man in charge always leaves the hero to take the blame for those people dying due to his ignoring the hero's warning. After all, he doesn't want to lose the next election.
Don't you just love the military always being portrayed as mindless automatons unable to act without orders even with all communications lines cut and the monster-or-disaster coming right toward them?
And then there's the wannabe-hero:
"Those three cannons couldn't kill the monster but I think I can kill it with my handgun if I can just get close enough."
(I like your signature, btw. Reminds me that Halloween = Christmas.)
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things,"
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indy_go_blue44 — 19 years ago(March 19, 2007 03:21 AM)
I was an EMT like 30 years ago. There were always two people in the crew, a driver and an attendant who rode in the back with the victim. We had communication between each other through an open door or window (depending on whether the ambulance was a van or a truck type. It's been a while, but I don't ever remember a slap on the door. The driver was usually aware if the attendant was busy (checking vitals, etc) and would wait for him/her to say the word to go.
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davywap — 19 years ago(March 18, 2007 10:46 AM)
In a movie when a smart, kind of cool teacher starts a new job at a high-school in a really poor, rough neighbourhood full of gang-bangers (a cliche in itself) they think they can change the lives of all the troubled students in their class, usually through literature, and actually do start to make a difference and change the way these gangsters think about their lives, but the worst bad-ass in the class always gets whacked just when he's starting to turn his life around for the better.
People who shag in horror movies almost always get killed.
Quite often when a bad guy is about to 'off' the hero of the film, he/she is out of bullets.
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MrPie7 — 19 years ago(March 19, 2007 11:51 AM)
Here's one. No matter how large and well-armed the man is, he will always be beaten by the tiny, unarmed female. EVERY SINGLE TIME! And in passing, in film, every time a man makes a suggestive, or smart aleck comment to a woman, this entitles her to kick him in the gonads. No one ever questions this, but I DON'T think it happens around the water cooler NEARLY as often as on film.
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mrjeff2u — 19 years ago(March 19, 2007 02:33 PM)
There are so many! Here are just a few off the top of my head:
I get peeved when I see groceries being carried in and there is a baguette sticking out of the bag.
I also never eat Chinese food out of paper containers but everyone in TV and movies do.
Cars speeding down an alley always seem to crash into stacked boxes which seem to be empty.
People who land in dumpsters don't get hurt and never land on a piece of lumber or an old chair.
People will drive great distances looking at their passenger without getting in an accident (try this sometime!)
A well aimed punch or blow to the back of the head will knock someone out (try this sometime!)
If a hero is taught how to operate a piece of heavy machinery at the start of a film, the same equipment will be used to fight an enemy.
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RoadKillBill1 — 18 years ago(August 21, 2007 11:58 AM)
One moreIf a womaan has been victimized throughout a film an dfinally gets a weapon aimed at the bad guyshe will always warn him to not come any closer or otherwise talk to him instead of just immediatly shooting him.
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buxtehude99 — 15 years ago(February 16, 2011 08:59 AM)
I just love spinning newspaper headlines, used to convey information.
Likewise, the close-up of the headline on the top of the bundle of papers just thrown off the truck.
Also running out of bullets and throwing the gun at your adversary.
Violins playing those little scale passages to portray a big city, while the trumpets imitate car horns.
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susanemccool — 11 years ago(August 08, 2014 10:21 AM)
Same when a bad guy has the good guy cornered at gunpoint with "no escape!" Instead of shooting, he will gloat and talk to him for so long about how he can't wait to kill him that back-up will arrive/the good guy will come up with a way to disarm him.