with the first thread being closed for some reason
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Good-Will — 11 years ago(October 22, 2014 10:22 PM)
You have to wonder whether the writers of Sharknado (which is loads of fun) have been studying this thread and taking notes.
A more recent cliché is for the FBI to be portrayed as extremely incompetent.
That used to be the prerogative of the local police force (plod) when the big guns came in, but now the big guns themselves are depicted as making the most basic of mistakes.
Regarding the FBI:- The lead actor/actress playing an FBI agent will always decide to try to drive to the ongoing crime scene rather than call the local police to prevent the crime or the criminal(s) from escaping. A fast car speeding through traffic from 10+ miles away is always going to get there faster than the local plod.
- Apparently the FBI can track anyone anywhere if they have their mobile phone on unless they actually intend to commit a crime. In which case they have a burner who's messages they can't intercept even and whose origin they can't locate even when they call a suspect that they're monitoring.
- Rerouting web traffic through Lithuania and North Korea gives you at least 24 hours leeway before the FBI can trace the source of the email/video/website/whatever.
- The FBI can't locate the originator of a video posted on Youtube if it's posted anonymously.
I have more examples but these are just a few.
If the opposite of Love is indifference, what's the opposite of Hate?
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Ceer — 11 years ago(November 02, 2014 06:38 PM)
No one ever just bumps into another person in television or movie. If it happens the bumped person was either pick pocketed, something was slipped into their pockets, or if there was blood drawn they've been either poisoned or infected.
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Ceer — 11 years ago(December 06, 2014 07:45 PM)
One of the top 10 signs your dying. The coughee usually knows he/she is dying but will not tell anyone else until they, long after the audience, figure it out.
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Cuish — 11 years ago(January 04, 2015 08:32 AM)
Romantic comedies:
You have two people, a handsome young man and a pretty young woman, bump into each other and they see a lot of each over the next few days and become friends as a result. However, when either of them has to leave and catch the plane (or the train or some other long-distance transport), one of them literally realises only at the very last minute that theyve fallen in love with the other and (depending on which one realises it) either rush back in the taxi to tell them so or catch up with them at the airport or train station. The other realises it also. Whether they do manage to catch up and tell them and they stay together or not are two other clichés altogether.
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Ceer — 11 years ago(January 22, 2015 05:15 PM)
Just catch a newspaper that's blowing in the wind. In huge letters on the front page the situation will be explained in less than a dozen words.
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Ceer — 11 years ago(March 11, 2015 06:34 AM)
The bad/good guy is in handcuffs. He's not dangerous now, whew! What's this? He's dislocated his thumb and now he's free and taking down the no name, ineffective guards. Or he has a piece of metal his hidden in his mouth and just by wiggling it in the key hole he's unlocked it. Or without any explanation except "he's that good" he shows the guards his handcuffs are unlocked and as they stare at him not comprehending the situation he kills or knocks them unconscious.
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Good-Will — 10 years ago(June 18, 2015 06:51 PM)
^^You could probably summarise this as:
Anyone can pick a police/prison handcuff lock as long as they have something a bit thin and pointy.
Cheers, Will
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R-Tune — 10 years ago(June 21, 2015 07:45 AM)
R-Tune
I've recently watched '
One Day
' with an insistence of my friend and that movie was full of clichés.. My friend told me that she liked it but I really didn't like it because I think director was probably unprepared while he was filming the movie. Lots of clichés.. -
Ceer — 10 years ago(July 25, 2015 10:11 PM)
When a character's life is in tatters they explode and rage and smash the mirror. They then look into the mirror and it reflects their image- a symbol of their life shattered into hundreds of pieces.
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kya1 — 10 years ago(August 12, 2015 12:43 PM)
Similar to this, a woman, upon hearing bad/nasty/insulting news from the man will get angry, scream and shout, and pound at the man with her fists. He will hold his hands up to defend himself and/or grab her wrists. As she becomes more and more upset, she will burst into tears, stop fighting, and he will hug her.
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TheEvilFookaire — 10 years ago(October 15, 2015 04:16 AM)
Chinese food: There are two people eating Chinese food, yet judging by the visible number of white boxes, they have enough food to feed a dozen people. Chinese food is
only
eaten by using chopsticks, and you will
never
see a character who doesn't know how to use these utensils.
Yoga classes: The participants will
always
be told at some point to assume the Downward-facing Dog position.
Stubbly men: No woman kissing a man with two or three days' worth of facial hair will ever feel like she's just buried her face into a porcupine.
Disarming villains: Any semi-automatic pistol taken from a temporarily incapacitated bad guy can be rendered permanently useless by ejecting the ammunition magazine and racking the slide to eject the bullet in the chamber. The hero can then just drop the gun right next to the bad guy and walk away because the bad guy will
never
be able to just re-insert the magazine into the gun, and rack the slide to chamber a round.
Daytime thunderstorms: Rain may be coming down in buckets and the wind may be blowing at a hundred miles per hour, but fifty feet away in the background, the sun is shining and the air is calm. -
Ceer — 10 years ago(November 05, 2015 03:47 PM)
You've seen it- the little bar that slowly drags across the computer screen showing the progress of the copying. But in movies and television that percent of the copying is sssssssllllllloooooooowwwwwww. And since it is so slow that leave the one coping helpless as he or she watches the slow crawl. The one that is making the copy is always under pressure and just about to be discovered. Their partner who is speaking to them through a blue tooth or some other high tech gadget is telling them to abort. But they always make it just in time to escape the guard or the returning bad guy. Sometimes the bad guy will pause when he opens the door as if he senses that someone was just there. Another scenario is that the bad guy walks through the door and our hero is calmly sitting there like they were waiting for the bad guy with an innocent excuse about wanting to talk to them.
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tuula-1 — 10 years ago(November 17, 2015 04:33 PM)
No-one ever backs up files properly - I watched 1st episode of Flash and soon after Daredevil: Flash - "oh stop thief, the laptop has my dissertation!" Right, you ARE a moron, how did you ever write a dissertation? In DD, some file is in a memory stick and it must be found, etc, only copy !
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pjmcgill142 — 10 years ago(December 14, 2015 04:00 AM)
Does anyone in an American movie use the handbrake?
And all cops in nightclubs notice the bad guys who are wearing coats because it's always June and isn't it a little warm to be wearing a jacket in June? There's never a cold snap it's just June! -
Ceer — 10 years ago(December 16, 2015 02:34 PM)
The protagonist is suffering a horrible nightmare. The scene cuts to him/her sitting in bed sweating and screaming. He/she then turns to their partner lying in bed next to them and we find out the nightmare isn't over when the partner is covered in blood or turns into a monster or something equally nightmarish. The protagonist then sits up again sweating and screaming.
My counter argument is that I'm offended.