Two characters lean towards each other for a kiss, and a third character, either a minor antagonist or (more often) a comic relief character appears in between them to break the tension.
The real issue is that they just give up completely after that. "Those were an akward few secondsnds, let's wait a few months and try again." There is a manga, "I"s, and that is 40% of the plot across, like, twenty volumes.
You never witnessed a 'kiss-cam' at sporting events. They show a couple on the video display and they're supposed to kiss for everyone's 'entertainment.' I did see a highlight from one such feature where the guy held up a sign, "She's my sister."
ok, how about when there is something REALLY urgent to tell and instead of saying it, they keep saying things like "Wait, you need to listen to me." until it's too late.
Or when someone needs to confess a lie and they get interrupted and don’t tell the person which later causes an argument when the other character finds out about it some other way
Or in every Lifetime movie where the best friend discovers something terrible about the new husband, and texts, Call me . No info. Leaving plenty of time for the husband to kill her before she can tell.
The kid who keeps saying, You have to listen to me! I have something to tell you! when he literally could have spent that time actually telling them his news
Yeah... but that comes straight out of REAL LIFE so if a writer is using that it is "writing with honesty". It ALWAYS happens in real life that when you REALLY NEED to tell somebody something that might take more than 2 seconds to say that the STUPID MFer you are talking to WILL NOT STFU so you can give them the information in enough time that the information does them (or you) ANY GOOD at all. And no matter what you try to do they will not stfu and listen to you. They just have to tell you this joke or story or run their mouth about something that is not important OR interesting. And no matter what AFTERWARDS it's always YOUR FAULT that they can't stfu. Seriously... if you need them to be quiet you have to kill them or kick them in the nuts or punch them real hard in the stomach or cut out their tongue or something. In real life, if you are ever in real anger and you cannot explain in 1 word like..."LIONS!" or something like that just yell "RUN!"... they aren't going to run. They are going to keep running their mouth "why should we run?" and then the LIons with get them and you can get free while they are still talking about something.
Women gets her heart broken and cries while eating candy, chocolates or ice cream straight from the tub and watching a romantic film/tv show to torture herself. One half of the couple says very seriously and worried "I need to tell you something" and the other person interrupts with "before you do" and then asks something really vapid or delivers some really happy news to show that they're very happy at the moment, and then they say "now what were you going to tell me?" and the other person, seeing how happy they are, decides that they can't share their terrible news at the moment and just sighs and says "nothing" or "you look really beautiful" while they look very obviously distraught, but the other person remains blissfully happy and oblivious.
The "monster" that kills every other character without hesitation, has the protagonist trapped. Instead of killing the protagonist the monster "ROARS", buying just enough time for the protagonist to escape, someone else to attack the monster, or a bigger monster to eat the first monster.
Bigger monster coming out of nowhere to eat the first monster just as it's about to kill the heroes seems to be a fairly newish trope, but became instantly overused.
@@1FatLittleMonkey **Disclaimer: sorry for making anyone endure this** This "Always a Bigger Fish" scene from Star Wars Phantom Menace is a pretty solid example ruclips.net/video/IIQVAShJzLo/видео.html
Agreed. Was this first used in Jurassic Park, when the raptors had everyone cornered and the T-Rex came out of literally nowhere to chomp them, then grandstand beneath the 'When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth' banner? Even back then it was pretty groan-inducing.
One overused trope that annoys me to no end is where the male protagonist and the girl are having a conversation, and they start to lean into each other or their faces start lining up to make the audience think that they're about to kiss, and then one of the protagonist's friends/sidekicks bursts in and says something to the effect of "You gotta see this, man!" or "What are you guys messing around for?!" I'd be so pissed if one of my friends did that to me. What a buzzkill.
On the other hand, it can be kind of a relief when it's with a couple you hate or you're just bored by and want to get back to the action already. And sometimes it can be funny. "You look like two seals fighting over a grape" -Rhodey, Ironman
I got a bizarrely specific scene that I've seen a dozen times for you. I call it the 'I-gave-that-up' scene= In which the protagonists need to call in a retired veteran to get a certain thing done. The veteran now has a bushy beard and almost always lives in a little cabin in the woods somewhere. Mostly he's chopping wood while the protagonists approach him. 'We need a favor. We need you to do X' 'I gave that up' *keeps on chopping* 'But we really need you!' 'I did my part. Now leave me in peace.' 'It's a shame, *character you really care for* is involved as well' Veteran pauses... 'I said leave me alone' Later, in the heat of the moment, when all seems lost, this veteran will appear out of nowhere to save the day.
I can see where that trope is annoying. But I have to admit, the scene where the veteran DOES show up is usually the one where the character he really cares for is in deep trouble-slash-mortal danger, the person sent in to save the person the veteran really cares about is about to die, or the villain is attempting the first go-round of their evil plan. The veteran shows up, usually to some grand musical flourish (and a zoom, pan, 360, or all three by the camera), saves someone, flummoxes the villain (who's left angry and sputtering, and has to retreat), and sets things up for Act III.
Дмитрий Можжерин For Fukishima, the plant was due for an upgrade to fix that problem, and put the generators on the new top floor. That floor still had minor flooding, but it wouldn’t have been enough to kill the generators, if they were already there. The sad thing is, more people are killed every year in Japan from coal power than died from the radiation released. Plus, coal plants are notorious for releasing radioactive Iodide into the environment, either through the stacks or leftover ash, and that stuff is horrible for getting into our food supplies(fish and cattle) but no one talks about it.
Even worse than the husband walking in on the wife one is the female love interest walking in on the male lead with a hot chick, and it looks like they're having an affair, but he's actually innocent, and he has to give her the half-assed "this isn't what it looks like," but she's already walking away, not yelling, not asking questions, just walking away indignant, and then whatever the main plot is comes back, and it's like that scene never happened. Not only is this scene weirdly specific and shows up in tons of movies, but they don't even really further the plot.
Ugh it's even worst if you've ever watched anime. The Japaneses treat it like a gag some shows(usually a male focused comedy) a scene like this happens in multiple episodes and the female characters beat him up
This is a more specific version of "something is not what it looks like and we can solve this misunderstanding with few words,but lets not talk till the end of the movie" trope. I hate those.
Dogs in disaster movies always get put in danger but are saved at the last second. Meanwhile, dogs in sappy family-friendly movies always end up dying. Conclusion: it's safer for a dog to live next door to a smoking volcano than to a nice, wholesome baseball park.
1. Hero is an irresponsible dad who forgets/is late to pick up his kid 2. News story that is super relevant to the plot and would solve so many issues is on right next to the protagonists but they don't notice it 3. Hero and heroine are arguing when the man kisses her without permission out of nowhere, she slaps him and is angry, and then she immediately kisses him back. 4. Family traveling in the car together with one teenager in the back seat rolling their eyes while wearing headphones and playing a video game. 5. Outsider is bullied and mistreated for no reason until they receive a makeover and then suddenly they are seen as having worth as a human being. 6. Group of non-white people are oppressed/abused/enslaved/etc until the white male protagonist shows up and teaches them to stand up for themselves/solves all their problems for them.
Ask for permission to kiss? That takes all the romance and passion out of it!! You just got to wait for a while till the time is right and it happens wit no real effort. The rest of them yes, very terrible used up plots and totally unrealistic.
Aggressive kissing generally annoys me. I've never ever seen anyone kiss aggressively IRL - kissing is a sensitive thing, it goes against every instinct to do it aggressively or suddenly. I've been surprise-kissed before but it was still really delicate, because guess what, hitting someone else's face with your face isn't a good idea.
People that end their phone conversations by hanging up and without confirming that both parties were done saying what needed to be said. That never happens in real life.
Perhaps I'm odd, but with friends and family members I seldom say "goodbye" or the like. I just hang up as soon as it is clear we have said everything we want to. I may have picked that up as a youth from watching a lot of Humphrey Bogart movies.
Esteban_Gunn I was actually thinking about this yesterday after watching an episode of a tv drama. I was thinking; Has any character in any film or tv show ever said "Okay, talk to you later. Bye!" or similar before ending a phone conversation!? It's almost alway people just hanging up on each other. In real life most people would think either it was a lost connection or they were just hung up. Also no one ever answers their phone with the normal "Hello?" standard greeting anymore on tv or in movies! Most of the time the recipient answers like he's just continuing a previous conversation.
And the weirdest thing about this, 9/10 times the person who just spend a long time preparing this breakfast will not be the least bit insulted, or even bothered by the person they made it for just running off.
I hate when characters get distracted and walk away from their open front doors. Never done that in my life. Everyone I’ve ever encounter has had a near pathological drive to close their own front door
+Prettypinkdork ~ Done it. I was very nervous abt appointment I was going to. My mailbox is by my front door, I left the door open to put the mail inside, but then just walked away and drove off. Came home several hours later, door wide open. Fortunately, my cat was just staring out at me, instead of running away. Got lucky.
In my country, it's usually a hospital. Receiving a call that a love one got an accident/illness and admitted into a hospital. Never stating which hospital
Those scenes where a janitor is cleaning up with their music turned up on head/earphones so they can't hear any of the events (usually fighting or destruction of the building) taking place behind them.
"I dont need a not so different speech, i get @lot of those." Phantom limb : "yes, im sure you do. So shallwe shake hands and leave as enemies?" Brock : "hehehe... for a second there.... i thought you were gonna do the killer hand thing." Phantom limb, immediately : "so did i."
Not a theme, but an entire movie genre is the rag tag sports team that gets a new coach who is really tough and he doesn't want to be there but they grow on each other. The team always has one fat kid with the jokes, one strong kid who is streetwise, and one kid who is the best overall player but needs direction to be the team leader. They start the season out losing, but as they work together they win more games and eventually the championship. Mighty Ducks, Mighty Ducks 2, Bad News Bears, Little Giants, Longest Yard, Kicking and Screaming, soooooo many movies fit this template it's gotten very stale.
SPOILER I didn't like all the trash language in The Bad News Bears, but I actually appreciated the movie setting the audience up with all the stereotypical shenanigans, but then subverting expectations by having the team *lose* in the end.
I'm *sure* this has been said but just in case: it drives me sorta nuts that there are SO many shows/movies where a group of "bad guys" are all attacking one person but they TAKE TURNS going at him. Like they don't all swarm on the guy and take him down in one fell swoop, they just kind of wait around as their fellow attackers get picked off one by one. Even like super trained ninjas are subject to this nonsense. How are y'all gunna let one guy (ONE GUY!) take you out individually?!
i call that "hercules the legendary journey" and "Xena" choreography. Even Nolans Batman did it yet people highly rate that films fight scenes... Just JUMP THE GUY LOL!
Oh the enemies also get incapacitated by the softest of hits. NOBODY, is going down from a halfhearted kick to the arm or back. Might get winded if it's in the stomach but you wouldn't be out cold lol
If the fight was choreographed so that all of the bad guys attacked at once, it would be too confusing for the audience to follow, because human brains are designed to only be able to follow one thing at a time. Even the best choreographed 1 vs many fight scenes show the bad guys attacking one at a time, but the trick is to leave as little space between attacks as possible. Basically the only way to fix this would be to either retire 1 vs. many fight scenes - which I personally would not be opposed to - or to derail the entire plot by having the hero die within the first three minutes of the movie to a group of unnamed henchmen - which, again, I would not be opposed to, but which no smart filmmaker would do. Sadly.
For real -- and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was programmed to mimic these movies, ugh! A nice exception is The Matrix Reloaded's "hundred man brawl."
girl shaving / cutting / dyeing her hair very poorly herself after going through a transforming or traumatizing experience and then the very next scene looks like a professional styled it
Exactly! it says a lot about what hollywood thinks of women, apparently a new hair cut or pair of shoes can change your life. Argh! Especially since they are nearly always crying and completely screwing it up as well.
The first one that comes to mind for me is Buffy cutting her hair in season 6, but if I remember correctly she went to the salon after to get it fixed 😂
Schrödinger's gunshot: Where they try to make you wonder if the character will be alright until they rip open their shirt to reveal if they're wearing a bulletproof vest...
Or a close-up of wide, startled eyes that indicate the hero might be shot, but then a wider shot shows them just fine and it's the villain who was shot.
There's even a parody of that in an old Horror movie... where a Vampire is wearing his 'Stake-Proof' Vest! (I'm still trying to figure how that would work!)
Or they’re shot with a AK-47 and they’re wearing a level II body armor and they’re fine. Not….. it would go through both panels after going through you.
When a news story that is important and related to the plot is on the tv right when the main characters turn the tv on, or walk into a bar with tvs or by a storefront with tvs on
The music stations are constantly interrupted by the latest news of a wanted criminal. Unless it's a major natural disaster or active 9/11 level terrorist event on an EBS alert, never, ever happens irl.
In relation: the character, typically shocked or annoyed at what she/he sees on the TV then TURNS IT OFF mid-sentence of the information being broadcast. Why would anyone turn off a news story relevant to their life/future without hearing the broadcast in its entirety?
Not only are convenient garbage trucks and dumpsters convenient, but also the garbage bags contain only soft items that won't bruise, cut or knock out the heroes.
Mathilde B that’s why I always double wrap my kitchen knives when I throw them out! You never know when a hero is gonna need my trash to break their fall! 😎
Characters just hanging up the phone without saying goodbye. People getting out of taxis without paying. I'm just one of these two scenes I want to see the person call back and yell "hey! I wasn't done!" or the taxi driver yelling "hey! You didn't pay!"
Those two exact things used to annoy the shit out of me when watching American film and tv as a kid. As a New Zealander I took it to indicate that Americans are rude on the phone and presumably pay with big bills in cabs and don't give a shit about their change.
When the female love interest is already in a relationship with a guy who treats her badly. She is then rescued by the male protagonist by being shown what real love is. Yet in real life people who are attracted to abusive partners wouldn't know what to do in an actual loving relationship.
Everybody knows this, it’s a very common condition that children of drug addicts and alcoholics suffer from. They seek chaotic unhealthy relationships because that’s the only way they know how to love someone. I’m movies women like this tend to date boxers and then threaten to leave the man and go to their sisters in some trashy Jersey accent
I think an even bigger Hollywood cliche than the husband walking in on his wife cheating on him is where the protagonist is being kissed by another person (whether they kiss them back or not is up to the film), but the love interest walks in at the EXACT SAME TIME as they see the kiss or sometimes intimate act happening either from afar or walking into the room, and more often than not it's a misunderstanding and in most cases it ends their relationship until the third act. You name it: Bruce Almighty, Transformers 2, Made of Honour, Just Married, My Best Friend's Wedding (although that was the protagonist kissing her friend), Monster-In-Law, She's The Man, A Cinderella Story 2, Captain America, etc. Talk about perfect timing. It also appears in a lot of anime, and it does become frustrating.
Man can't tie a necktie. Someone comes in and ties the worst four-in-hand knot you've ever seen, pats him on the shoulders, and tells him how handsome he is or what a fine man he's grown to be
To be fair, I have never yet dated a man who *could* (or would?) tie his own tie, even if he was specifically taught how. Is this just a thing guys really enjoy having someone else do for them? Like, I can brush my own hair, but it feels so much nicer when someone else does it, you know? Is it like that? Except for some bizarre reason, with ties?
@@KryssLaBryn I don't know. I've tied my own ties at red lights, only checking the mirror once I'm done to confirm I didn't mangle it. There *is* something pleasant about my wife tying my tie, though. $:^ )
Does it bother anyone else when in a movie they’re having breakfast, lunch, dinner etc, that they never touch or finish it because they get interrupted??
Guy who smokes sees person he plans on speaking to. Takes a puff then throws the whole damn cigarette away before approaching said person. I have never in my life seen that. I would be really impressed if I ever see someone in a movie put the cigarette out and put the half smoked cigarette back in the pack
Used to do that when I smoked, regularly. Stank up my jacket/coat/pants/shirt/etc. Smelled like a wlkg ashtray. Had to save them in my car ashtray, etc. Sometimes, plastic bags works.
I'd never do that. In fact if someone I knew who didn't smoke. I'd go smoke a whole cig just so I don't have to hear. You got another one or can I have drags ? So yeah that's stupid.
Daniel-I know you're reading this-can you do an episode that addresses the phenomenon of highly competent female characters in films being outperformed by near-idiot male characters? Pixels & The LEGO Movie are both perfect examples of this. EDIT 1: Ant-Man is arguably included in this category as well. EDIT 2: And Kung Fu Panda. EDIT 3: And there are arguments to be made for including How to Train Your Dragon and Ratatouille.
Now this is funny, did you forget that Adam and his crew out preformed every highly competent male character too. He had to teach people in the Army how to shot at something . Put yeah yeah we know when it happens to female it is different. But when a female pick up weapon and beat all these trained people at once.. that is ok.
The LEGO Movie was satirical of "chosen one" stories, but in the movie the totally average Emmet outperforms the hyper-competent Lucy. It's still a good movie, but that doesn't negate this dumb trend in movies.
Sam is an average dude who is good at classic arcade games. Nowhere else in the movie does he show off his ability to spot patterns, and nowhere else does he show any other aptitudes. Violet, on the other hand, is a military scientist who analyzes xenotechnology and engineers laser guns out of it by the midpoint of the film. Heck, her military rank alone shows how much more skilled she is than Sam. Yet the movie puts her in the position of support at best, and reward at worst. And the fact that Sam outshoots an entire field full of professional soldiers (when we have never seen him even hold a gun before) is utterly laughable. Firing an experimental laser rifle is in no way comparable to using a joystick and buttons on an arcade game 30+ years ago. And to assume that trained soldiers cannot hit gigantic moving targets that are not even returning fire is downright insulting to the viewer.
Hero/heroes mow down 3000 "bad guys", get to the big bad and just lock him up. "Killing him would be wrong!" What about all those underlings you just massacred? Some of them are probably just doing it for a paycheck, maybe their kid needs chemo, he just mops the floors in the evil lair...good guy sneaks up behind him with a garrote wire and ends him. Hero gets up to the evil mastermind (who often has committed some sort of genocide) dripping goons' blood, slaps some handcuffs on the guy. WTF, why are your morals kicking in now?
I loved how that was a recurring joke in Austin Powers. Every mook who got killed got a sad scene in which the news were delivered to his friends or family.
Don't know if this counts, but I always hated that in Supernatural Sam and Dean would almost never exorcize the demons inhabiting innocent people, they would just straight up kill them. But whenever someone close to them is possessed? Exorcism.
Isn't it more like the hero gets to the unarmed boss, and throws down their weapon when he says something like "Go on, kill me. Then you'll be just like me." Then the boss pulls out the retractable pistol/knife/force lightning up his sleeve, and the hero finally has an excuse to finish them off (or their partner does from off screen.)
@@Dhakadice That was a deleted scene added back in for some DVD release. I loved that bit, especially as a fan of the old bond movies. Definitely makes you consider the anonymous henchmen in movies
Bad guy is exposed to the public as a villain because they decide to (awkwardly and often out of place) insult the populous or admit a crime to the protagonist exactly at the same time their voice is being secretly transmitted by the hero (Batman Returns, Coco, etc.)
I actually love that trope lmao. There's nothing more satisfying than damning evidence and I haven't seen it used TOO much. Just the ones already mentioned plus Santa Clause 3.
Or like in horror movies when something obviously paranormal/unexplainable happens, and the character dismisses it and continues being a hardcore sceptic about the whole thing. You've just witnessed a ghostly apparition materialise in front of you, and throw furniture around, and you STILL don't believe in ghosts, really???
Jack Dee had a bit about this. Said he'd be crap in a horror film scenario because as soon as anything paranormal happens he'd just leave the house and never go back.
I think a horror movie is better if they acknowledge any paranormal activity that occurs. The audience knows it's a ghost so the characters should know it's a ghost. In "The Conjuring 2", for example, I love how the two police officers who are called to the house are coming up with rational explanations for spooky sounds and whatnot, until a chair moves and they leave the house saying, "That's out of our jurisdiction." When obviously paranormal creepy stuff happens, you don't deny it. You run.
The scene where two people make eye contact. Then it immediately jumps to a bed and one of them falls into frame by the other on top of them. As if to "shock" the viewer as if we haven't seen that same scene 40,000 times.
The Shape OMG yes same. I’m always like “ok but like how did they transition from making eye contact to that like immma need a little more information here”
1. Very cliche and every time I see it in a movie I roll my eyes. They need to retire the trope. Two recents trailers I’ve seen It in is the movie Joy and the Power Rangers movie. 2. I Have definitely done this before though. Not for any significant reason I just wanted a change in my look.
Musenginst the only show where I know the main characters really are the food is Gilmore Girls because the two main actresses also hate this. And they ate a lot on that show 🤣
I get why though. Continuity and multiple takes. The actors would be hugely full and props would have to re-set the plates at the correct stage of being eaten each time.
To be fair, it actually does happen. The thing is though, in movies it's supposed to signal "these people have their differences but they still love each other and should be together," whereas in real life it only happens in deeply unhealthy, emotionally unstable relationships.
to add a few: binding of wounds feat. sexual tension and there's always a bit in action movies where a cool weapon is introduced and (normally) the one black guy cast in the movie goes: "now that's what I'm takin' about"
theotherevilmonkey72 AGREED When Im wrapping someones hand from a giant gash I dont automatically think "Ya know what would make this better? Having candle lit sex while the camera zooms in on your many scars and bruises" Im actually like "Bro lets go to the ER and get u a tetanus shot"
This happens constantly. There must be a rule in movies and TV where if someone is talking on a microphone, we have to hear feedback, because otherwise we won't know they're talking on a microphone, or something. I've heard that feedback only happens if the person setting up the microphone is incompetent. These fictional microphone-setting-up people are getting some really bad training. Someone should start a fictional audio training school to help these poor incompetent fictional microphone people.
I like this list b/c it's things I wouldn't have thought of. However, I came here hoping to see the one that always drives me bananas: the handsome guy bumps into the clumsy girl knocking her onto the ground, and he's laying on top of her (or vice versa). Or he bumps into her & she knocks over her books, and he bends down to help her pick them up. Please come up with a better meet-cute!! PLEASE!! Look, I'm hugely clumsy, but I've never in my life come even close to this happening. Sheesh. :(
I had the book one happen once. I helped, and she called me a dick. Sorry I ran into you as we both whipped around a corner, I guess? I was one of the outcasts though in high school.
How bout: young boy is leaving the theater with his parents, all wearing tuxedos, then they get mugged by an unshaven guy with a gun who shoots the parents, and later the boy grows up to be a vigilante who uses bats as a motif? That exact scene has been in like 3 or 4 movies.
You know, interesting that you brought that up. I met a little guy a while back, he looked to be seven or eight, and he told me his dream was to grow up to be Batman. Being a nice guy I decided to help the little lad out so I murdered his parents in front of him. I know what your thinking, how can a guy like me be so nice and considerate in today's world? I can contribute it to the simple fact that I had a great mom.
Exactly this. I mean, the guy gave, what, 3, maybe 4 examples for each cliche. Barely a drop in the bucket compared to the movies, TV shows, animation, and even comics that depict this exact scene. How far Cracked has fallen...
Two people trying to think in a way to solve something, then both have a moment of clarity at the same time, turn to look at each other and one of them say: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" I cringe everytime I see this scene
-A woman gets her hair magically stuck in a guy's zipper right before another person enters the room. It's cheesy, predictable and makes no sense. -Bad guy shows his badness by killing a henchman for little to no reason. This makes sense with a military commander like Vader, but why would someone keep working for a boss who casually murders his employees? -A father is utterly confused, helpless and disgusted when changing a baby's diaper. Seriously, it's not rocket science. And why do they always act like they've never seen or smelled a shit in their entire life? -Characters speaking in a foreign language (with text translation) suddenly switch back to English for no logical reason. Like the viewers couldn't read 2 more lines of subtitles. -The main characters make eye contact in a large crowd of people and immediately fall in love. Why do writers think a love at first sight is the only way to get two characters romantically involved? It's definitely the laziest.
I agree with all of these except the 4th example, coming from someone who is bilingual and has grown up around bilinguals, code switching (or switching between multiple languages) in seemingly random places (seemingly because there *is* logic to it, it depends on the grammatical rules of the languages they're using) is actually pretty common. You can begin a sentence in Language A and end it in Language B. You can begin a monologue in Language C and flip flop between C, B, and A and end right back on C. It's very interesting actually. Nevertheless, movies rarely ever get bilingual characters or foreign languages right which sucks
The diaper thing.... have you ever changed a newborn? That shit's toxic, their poop is almost ten times grosser than adult poop. It smells and looks so much worse, so I get being a little disgusted and I've changed my fair share, just picture that being their first time ever!
For foreign language speaking characters, the trope I see and associate with more is them speaking in English with an accent to each other, even though logically they would be speaking in their first language
@@BlueGlow26 omg right?? Like to a degree I can understand if they take up a good chunk of screen time and the movie is intended for English speaking audiences, but if its in a few places here and there like damn it'd be so much more authentic if they codeswitched at least
@@Ches19. yes exactly, for the short bits it really doesn't make sense yeah guess so Also, I'm bilingual myself and agree with your original comment :)
It’s true for all good ideas. Think of the movies John Carter and Valerian . They both seemed full of sci-fi tropes we’ve seen in everything from Star Wars to Transformers, and uninformed people accused them of copying existing movies/ideas. BUT, their original books are what “inspired” people like George Lucas to steal and use their themes/ideas/ideals in Star Wars. So, when the originals finally got movie adaptations, they are the ones who looked like copycats.
It wasn't an American screenwriter, but a Colombian journalist, writer and Member of Congress (Colombia) named Hernando Téllez who likely created the fiction of a malignant character ordering a shave to establish his dominance. The story ("Espuma y nada más") is translated as "Lather and Nothing Else" or "Just Lather, That's All". It was published in 1950. Vladimir Nabokov published a short story entitled "Razor" in 1926 that is similar, but translations from Russian did not appear until the 90s. After that, everyone else is fart noise.
@@JeremyBowkett thank you! I read this story a long time back & think about it everytime I see such scenes. But couldn't remember the name. Really liked the story. But the way I remembered it, the dictator wanted to show the barber that it isn't easy to kill someone. Not to show his dominance.
ummmmm that's my first meal in every apartment I move into. How else are you supposed to eat when you move? Pizza Hut? ha! Pizza is for large gatherings of people, not one or two people with no furniture.
It bothers me how in classroom scenes the class starts (we know this because the teacher comes in, puts down her books on the lectern, and says “Today we’ll be looking at…”), the teacher talks for about a minute, and then the bell rings to end class (we know this because everyone gets up to leave as the teacher raises her voice to assign homework and reading). Do classes only last one minute in TV-land?
All the you're dying doctors news and proceed with a slow close up of said character while the doctors voice gets muffled or distorted and the character imagines all the things he'll be missing and then all the sudden you hear the clear voice of the girlfriend telling the doctor "what if we try this or that, right honey, honey?" and the character just says "how long?" to the doctor.
The two people that 'hate' each other fall in love everyone is killed instantly apart from main character they are captured & held till they're able to escape The villain wastes time in killing the hero & looses as a result out of league girl is the love interest n likes guy for their humour or the 'ugly' girl has a make over & is then hot smart people must write equations or whatever on walls the good guy & bad guy have equal abilities when it comes to fighting tankers being present for explosions, garbage trucks available for rooftop escapes good guy can out run bullet shots person makes *a lot* of food for breakfast but other one is in too much of a rush to stop n eat it all good guy gets shot but is okay because it only hits their shoulder people look away from road for a second & when they look back a truck is there blowing it's horn & they need to swerve out the way a train passing gives ability to disappear when running from someone
Omfg. The breakfast thing kills me. Mom made fucking eggs benedict , fresh squeezed O.J , pancakes and cereal. Let me take a bite of this toast so I don't miss the school bus. Bye mom! Don't want to be late for tryouts. (What the fuck are they trying out for?) But on the flipside. Let's sit down , have a 3 course breakfast. Squeeze in a shenanigan with best friend who came over for breakfast. Then leisurely ride bikes to school with friend.
I hate the gun one Especially in Lethal weapon The female character dies from one bullet wood Well Mel Gibson survives multiple armor piercing bullets haha
Or the bullet hits a "non-vital" spot, like the shoulder. Hey, it wasn't a leg, they still can run! Except that shoulder wounds can destroy a lot of major muscles & nerves and shatter bones. They can be incredibly serious and traumatic wounds.
Or at some point in the beginning of the movie we learn about special keepsake gifted or inherited from male relative - pocket watch, bible, whisky flask, cigarette case, etc. Later here is shot with fatally placed bullet leaving them apparently dead on the floor. Surprise! Bullet is stoppedby said item and hero is unscathed.
Also hydrostatic shock/stopping force isn't a thing in films, people react to bullet wounds like "ow, this is really painful". As opposed to the oft-remarked-upon real reaction of "wtf my body just stopped working for a minute, why can't I move properly".
What about those scenes from action movies where there is a mediocre male protagonist who basically has zero combat training and starts to be trained by a female, his love interest, who is an expert and has probably trained her entire life in said martial art. After a montage, he suddenly is a better fighter than her? UGH
Until you mentioned it, I had not realized how often that actually happened. Although to be fair, that happens with all mentors training a hero, not just female mentors. It does seem a little bit more blatant in the female mentor part, but that's because a strong female character is going against a stereotype. It's part of: "Women have to work twice as hard to be seen as equals" it's not just female mentors though, it's just part of the 'Hero's Story' template.
That's fair, but at the same time there's a reason why you don't usually see women with a Superman build. Cheap montages are cheap, but this example isn't completely unrealistic
In close quarters combat the person with the weapon ALWAYS loses. For instance, two characters are in a sword fighting, their equally matched or the hero is overmatched. The hero loses his sword then somehow avoids every strike, finds some other makeshift weapon, and kills the villain. This is especially common when one character has a knife and the other does not. The Character without the knife always wins.
Game of Thrones was refreshing for being kinda consistent with a lot of this, at least early on. Bigger weapons win. Scrappy underdog characters get killed immediately. Armour saves lives. Helmets save lives. People without helmets or armour on die easily. Small people can't win in fights against bigger people. Then Arya got turned into an obligatory tiny badass and the writers had to undo all that good work to please her fans.
@@boiledelephant Which is how guns got their nickname of "the great equalizer" because you no longer needed years of training/exercise to properly wield a weapon and no longer needed lots of money to obtain properly built armor. The physically weak and poor can protect themselves on a much more equal footing with the physically strong and rich with the invention and production of guns.
@The Comment Above Me Doesn't Check Out Are you okay? You seem to be getting upset over something most people have seen as unrealistic in most circumstances. More often than not, armor and weapons gives someone the upper hand. Yes, someone with superior skills could win in a fight but in the movies the major fight scenes are supposed to be between skilled fighters.
@@charleseleeiii I can kiiinda forgive the Shrek one because the miscommunication only happens as a result of Shrek's already-existing self-hatred that the movie has already established. He is hyper-aware of his "place" in society - he is an ogre and that means people automatically brand him as a monster, and while he wants to prove to people that he's more than that, deep-down he is scared that people will only ever see him as nothing more than a monster no matter how hard he tries to prove them wrong. So when he thinks Fiona called him an "ugly beast", it makes sense that he wouldn't simply talk to her about it and ask for an explanation, because deep-down he's scared that she'll prove to be no better than any other human who sees him as nothing more than a monster. Her words represent his number one fear - that he can spend time with a human, treat them with respect and kindness, and grow to love them...and they will STILL call him a "beast" or "monster". It's still frustrating that miscommunication is used as a plotpoint, but at least it doesn't come out of nowhere.
Hmmm, sometimes yeah I agree. But in real life people struggle to effectively communicate all of the time. Like... ALL of the time. It’s not always so silly when it happens in a movie even if sometimes it’s blatantly silly
In general all computer "hacker" scenes are bizarrely specific. They always contain - multiple screens with scrolling text. Green text on a black background preferably, like we are back in 1986 - lots of completely meaningless gobbledook. My personal favourites (well, a couple I remembered to write down, because no-one but a Hollywood writer could remember this shit): "oscillating variable matrix", "Inversion pathway", and "Python 6-number encryption" - Typing. L-o-o-o-o-o-t-s and lots of typing. Never mind that the screen in front of the hacker is all GUI - millisecond access times to any database, any traffic cam, any facial recognition algorithms *in the world* Amongst these Cracked videos are a couple called "Simple things Hollywood thinks are complicated". Well when it comes to computers, just about *any* scene can be labelled "complicated things Hollywood thinks are simple". I get it, it would be boring to show the actual details because, well, computers *are* boring, but to trivialise procedures and outcomes like they do is taking it too far to the other extreme and it's just wrong and stoopid.
@@christopherbedford9897 I liked Die Hard 4's inversion of the instant computers thing, where the hacker's like "Oh no boss! It's not working, something's wrong!" and Timothy Olyphant is like "just wait, give it a minute" and a minute later it starts working.
It might already have been mentioned in the 3559 other comments, but I'm going to add my bit anyway: someone hears they are wanted and people are searching for them on the radio, AND IMMEDIATELY after hearing this they turn off the radio. Uhm, you might want to keep listening, to see if they have more to say about their search for you? Find out some context?
Characters do constant research on problem without finding anything out Character x takes a break Character x accidentally stumbles across something "Hey guys, you might wanna take a look at this..." The thing they stumbled across was the solution all along. Now all that's left to do is save the day by either a) Arriving just on time with the solution b) Arriving too late and saving the day with a character's death c) Arriving too late and not saving the day until the wise former-expert mentor character saves the day in the nick of time *ba duh dum*
I would definitely love to see a movie where the air vents collapse in a non-plot convenient manner, due to the weight of the idiot stuck in the vents for some reason
That shit is real bro! I go to work And leave through vents... Everyday. I've been on a film set where there was a scene where dude is in a vent. The only way they managed to do this is by building some scaffolding up to the roof (in a room) and holding the vent. Don't know why they didn't just make a small series of vents and lay it on the ground to avoid the whole scaffolding thing.
I cringed during Bohemian Rhapsody when I saw him cough in a white handkerchief, pauses to show a little blood, then quickly hide the handkerchief in his pocket. Come up with something new to tell the audience someone is in bad health.
In real life coughing up blood does not mean you are dying. & if you are coughing blood you are probably sick enough that you don't wanna get out of bed or off the couch - you're not going to turn around and record an album or whatever. I have coughed up blood when I had a really bad cold soley coughing so much tore up my throat. I had a high fever and missed ~2 weeks of school. When I saw blood assumed I was dying because movies. Went to the emergency room to get prescribed a decongestant.
In straight culture, cheating is most hurtful to men if it's sexual and most hurtful to women if it's emotional. So I guess that's why they go about portraying it in this way. It would be interesting to see this flipped on its head.
@@nathy0308 Yeah, in Hollywood straight culture, but not in reality. I'm sure cheating is equally hurtful to anyone whether it's emotional or sexual and sexual is definitely emotional too, so it just makes it weird as hell that Hollywood keeps portraying cheating differently for different genders as you mentioned.
Nathy - Only true for men who see their wives more as sex objects than partners. Another man playing with their toy is the worst insult. Men in a real relationship would feel worse about their wife falling for another but not yet having sex with them, than having a one night stand with a stranger.
Hey, that happens!! I love the scene in (the book) "The Shining" where a doctor and a janitor quote "The Emperor of Ice Cream" which is a fairly obscure poem.
@@lazyhomebody1356 Wallace Stevens is the epitome of Modernist poetry Idk how you think "Emperor of Ice Cream" is obscure, or anything by him for that matter. That's like saying Robert Frost or Ezra Pound are obscure. All it takes is an interest in 20th century literature and you can't miss them.
@@conneremberton4018 Yes, IF you have an interest, or a good education. What percentage of Americans do you think could quote it? Pick a random pair of a doctor and janitor! On "Millionaire" once, only 16% of the audience knew a Bronte wrote "Jane Eyre". I guarantee none of my friends would have heard of the poem or the poet!
@@lazyhomebody1356 The point I'm trying to make is that the fact that you see it as obscure is only a matter of perception, it's obscure to you because you surround yourself with less educated people, and those of circles not related to literature, therefore influencing however you might see these poems socially. The fact that 16% of an audience knew a Bronte sister wrote Jane Eyre is just that, 16 out of those 100 people knew in that audience, which is an excruciatingly small sample size, also unsurprising as it is a simpletons game show, wherein the few interesting moments occur only when actually cultured, not even intelligent, individuals show how easy it is to win. My perceptions of modernist poetry are influenced by my decades in studying such works and therefore I've surrounded myself with an environment in which it's not conceivable to be so, and has me cynical of those not a part of it. And I'm egotistically aware of the fact.
@@conneremberton4018 Hey dude!! I am an expert on ALL poetry. MY point was that to most people it is obscure. Just because it isn't obscure to you(and me) it still qualifies as obscure. Plus, if you have any tips on how I can meet people who like poetry...oh never mind, I like the friends I have, even if I don't discuss lit with them. Are you in an academic setting, I'm guessing? You do agree that something can be considered obscure if MOST people aren't familiar with it, right?
Main protagonist has a lot of potential but waste it until an older mentor comes along to teach them about their potential until eventually something bad happens, usually a minor failure, to make the protagonist stop believing in themselves. And then their mentor either gets hurt or killed in some way forcing the protagonist to accept his potential in order to exact revenge. The end. At least one of these type of movies comes out each year and unfortunately is common in superhero style movies.
There’s always a parking spot right in front of the place the characters are going, and they don’t even have to pay to park there. Or lock the car door. Or take the keys out of the car!
Weirdly enough, the one movie to actually address this is the underrated _Superman IV_ (1987) where Lois leaps out of her car right in front the United Nations to hear Superman speak, and her boss says “But you’ll get a ticket!” An odd bit of realism from a movie that thinks there is air in space!
Or finding the keys to an unlocked car in the overhead sun-visor. Really? What the hell kind of moron do you have to be to actually leave your car unlocked with the keys RIGHT THERE for anyone to steal quickly and efficiently?
1. gun makes a clicking sound every time a character pulls it out. 2. protagonist child sports coach starts dating single mom of one of the kids. 3. white teacher improves education of underpriviledged minorities in inner city school 4. Character gets rescued the moment before the sodomy happens 5. Obnoxious racist character sees error of his ways and becomes friends with minority character. 6. slim girl beats down 3+ male henchmen without her hair looking messy. 7. Single father is only single because his wife is dead 8. Period pieces that take place in Greece or Italy where characters are always played by British actors and the dialog is extra British. 9. Protagonist is left at the altar and fiance shows up in the 3rd act after changing their mind. 10. Protagonist is late for their child's recital 11. Gangster films where mafiosi only have black or very dark brown hair 12. Calling a gun's magazine a clip instead of a magazine.
Character gets rescued the moment before the sodomy happens - yesss, all of pg-13 movies have scene where woman or child is going to be tortured/raped but it`s not happening cause hero is saving them
Rape as a lazy shortcut to peril is probably my least favourite trope of all. Every postapocalyptic 1st-world setting has an obligatory "hot female protagonist threatened with rape by group of men" scene. Like...how many men do you know who would openly, leeringly indulge in rape 5 minutes after the apocalypse? I resent the implication that law & order is the only thing keeping half of all men from being rapists.
1 is all too true. No experienced gun user is about to walk into a dangerous situation and not already have their gun cocked and safety off. Hollywood all too often waits until they have already snuck up behind someone and pointed the gun at their heads to then cock the gun.
How about when a character needs to make a blood oath, so he dramatically cuts his palm in some ritual. It happened in LOTR, GOT, Star Trek, even friggin Robin Hood. all I can think of is those hands will soon need to be wielding weapons, so why slice them open like that?
Especially with all the muscles, tendons, nerves, and such in the hand. You cut slightly too deep, and hey, you won't be able to properly grip that axe/sword/whatever. And you touch everything with your hands so the likelihood of infection shoots through the roof as the character scrambles through the muck and mire. Why not just superficially slice the outside of your arm? Less painful, easier to wrap effectively. Really late to comment, but that's one that always gets me.
*_TWO_* movies I watched in the past *week* did this. At the end of IT (2017). And I was on a Twilight marathon, rewatching and riffing all the movies… Bella does this twice, I believe in Eclipse. It isn’t a blood oath, but it’s overly dramatic. In fact, a lot of blood scenes in Twilight are overly dramatic but not because of anything vampire-related. Like, she slices her arm to the point it’s dripping a pretty fast stream of blood immediately. And let’s not forget that “paper cut” where she’s immediately gushing blood. Who’s ever gotten a paper cut like that before?! …Whoa, I really went off didn’t I?
I'm just so done with movies adding sexual tension to things that are very much not sexual. Like, a really really short list: -Bumping into people -Falling on top of someone (Maybe it's just me but if I fall on someone it's far more "oh shit that hurt didn't it are you ok") -Patching up wounds -Women kicking men in the face what why -Basic human acts of kindness, like helping someone pick something up or giving someone food -Hating someone
Yeah I hate this one, too. And it spills out in a toxic way into the real world-- "well, you helped me pick out a good melon, so you were OBVIOUSLY flirting with me" uh, no, he was just being a decent human being, Sunshine.
Actually I’d say that the patching of wounds and the hating are accurate. There’s something intimate about healing somebody, and have you ever heard of hate fucking? It happens. Also falling, because you’re in a close proximity that might be sexual if it were not an accident. Being kicked in the face is self-explanatory, masochism is a perfectly normal fetish. It occurs to me now that none of you have a very high sex drive, do you?
Haha ok, I totally agree with this whole list except for... please explain kicking in the face XD I'm trying to picture a movie or way that someone kicked someone in the face and it became sexual.
...when a character pops up panting from a nightmare into a big closeup, in a cold sweat, or... the other cliché variation... ...when a character splashes cold water on their face while staring into a mirror Even worse cliché is when either of these are used as an abrupt scene transition.
Also, when money transactions (often of illicit nature) happen, the recipient blantantly assumes the bag/briefcase is included in the transaction. Nobody says "Woah, dude! You said 1 million dollars cash. That briefcase is worth 5 grand. Put the cash in your own briefcase. The briefcase was never part of the deal." Not even when the person emptied the account and scrapped together the cash and shows up with the cash in a gym bag. Even then it gets taken. Come on, the guy has no money left and you're not even going to let him keep his gym bag? I expected better from amoral criminals.
How about the "rookie cop" always throwing up at the scene of the crime? *eye roll* Yeah, we get it, he's new at this. That's why everyone is calling him "rookie". No need for vomit clarification, thanks.
This would be way more interesting if they don't throw up and all the seasoned cops are like...waiting for it and go, "You're not gonna throw up?" And they're like, "Not really, wanna get lunch?" Cuz even in a lot of really creepy/sad situations where someone sees something gross they don't reflexively throw up. I'm more likely to want to throw up if I see rotten food than a mangled body.
Or, the rookie cop shoots the first black man he sees, and then the veteran is like, “Haha, you didn’t even turn off your body cam, Rookie!” And then literally nothing is ever mentioned about it again and there are no repercussions. Oh WAIT. ... REALITY! HASHTAG: REAL WORLD INJUSTICE! HASHTAG: WOKE HASHTAG: THOSE JOKES AREN’T FUNNY ANYMORE, DENNIS. I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY LET YOU VOTE.
There are a couple of phone-related suggestions below that may be better, but it always irks me when our heroes have to rush to the scene of an impending catastrophe to warn someone of danger or stop a planned event from happening with absolutely no consideration given to the fact that EVERYONE HAS A CELL PHONE!!!
I feel like that only makes a bit of sense in movies because the backing music swells triumphantly as they do it to indicate how magical and special the moment is, and so it sort of fits. In real life there's no orchestral accompaniment to anyone's public pash sessions so no-one walking by even notices there's anything special happening
In Ronin he gets kicked out of the crew like 10 minutes in. I spent the next 90 minutes just waiting for him to pop back up and be a bad guy. He never did :'(
Nieghorn True - but Sharpe is a TV series, not a film. As for Ronin, Sean Bean was definitely on his way to the airport in one of the cars that got wrecked, and died from his injuries. ;-)
Grimbeard Years later, and I finally get the closure I need, knowing he did meet his fate. Thank you kind stranger! Really though, I might have to check out that series. Legends looked interesting, too.
I'm tired of EVERY GOD DAMN MOVIE having to have a love interest. I want more action movies where a guy saves a girl because he's a good guy and DOESN'T kiss her at some point!
or just like, them actually developing an amazing friendship and deep trust and know they can depend on another or something. just, maybe, not wanting to jump each other's bones for some reason
Sylph Lens You are so right! That's why I was really proud of "Moana" :D A girl and and guy being alone for days, but instead of romance a friendship evolves. And this movie is from disney!
Yep, Abe openly says "I'm not much of a PROBLEM SOLVER" (that is: he admits The Rubik's is a matter of capacity at puzzle/problem solving, not a matter of genius).
Cubes have 6 sides, so he would be only one third genius. (Of course I'm solving a rubiks cube while replying right now, because if you're not impressed with my mental capacity for basic arithmetic and acerbic wit, surely you'll be impressed by my ability to tell you I'm doing something that you are unable to verify)
No. You just hate children. Children are often more insightful, less resigned, more emotionally in tune, and more wild and free than adults in our culture.
Something which is dawning on me as I get older is that people, including elderly people and children, really don't tend to change all that much. If you're a compassionate, insightful person then you were probably a compassionate, insightful child, and will stay that way when you're elderly. And if not, then not.
@Aaron Smith Well, whilst people don't overall change very much, we're also quite complicated. A person can be imperfect, do something wrong, and deserve forgiveness and a second chance despite not having had a total change of personality. Depends on the person, depends what they've done. It always depends in the circumstances.
I am so sick and tired of movies where the hero comes up against the villain and they engage in a series of tongue twisters to establish dominance. "So Mr. Bond... She sells seashells by the sea shore..."
Also, Something's Gotta Give. She has serious relationship with a perfect human being like Keanu Reeves who is a successful doctor, and she chooses the womanizer who almost banged her daughter.
The problem with Liar Liar is that the read dad is a jerk. During his truth period, did he ever mention feeling for h is ex, or was it all about the kid?
I get why you didn't delve more into the damage caused by movies perpetuating harmful/inaccurate stereotypes, but I really appreciate you encouraging people to at least be aware of it because I've never even heard someone mention the cheating one before and there's some serious social dissonance there.
To be honest, Jerry from Liar Liar always really depressed me. When I started to realize that he was ultimately a better person than Jim Carrey's character, it put a damper on the whole ending to think about him basically losing a new family. I definitely agree that making the boyfriend a cheater is very overused, but doing it like Liar Liar just isn't entertaining for a mainstream comedy.
Yep! They always tend to make the person who is going to lose or die unlikeable to the audience by making them an asshole, unattractive, or just really annoying. I think it's for that very reason, so the audience doesn't end up just being depressed.
My pet hate regarding over-used scenes: Introducing a character by having an alarm go off and the character reaches out from bed to turn it off! WHY?!! Another: a character ends a phone call, the phone rings and they ASSUME it's the same character! "What did you forget to tell - mum? Dad's in hospital?" The same when they close the door on a friend they escorted out. *door bell* "Ugh, guess he forgot his keys. Hang on!" Ya know in my when a phone rings immediately after the last call, it's usually NOT THE SAME PERSON AGAIN! IT'S NOT.
Sweet home Alabama is a great exception to the cheating bf rule. Reese Witherspoon's character realizes she still married / I love with her ex husband and leaves her fiance at the alter, and he's totally ok with it. I actually love that movie bc they didn't make the fiance a bad guy, it was two decent guys, she just realizes who she's "meant" to be with
Never seen before scene: A man and a woman spend time together. They encourage, inspire, have a great rapport. They are married/in relationships with other people who are totally cool with the friendship. They are just friends. And there is never sexual tension or forbidden kiss or anything.
Malcom and Zoe from firefly. Old war buddies, bffs, in the series it's more obvious as they acknowledge it. She's married and he does his thing and there is never any forced sexual tension. Loved it
@Alice Eliot Dear I hope no one calls you bad names for sharing your personal experiences! I've known the opposite. Granted, there are plenty of people this sort of relationship is absolutely impossible. From lack of bounties to shaky history there are any number of reasons where a man and woman cannot platonicly care for each other without it becoming an issue. But I've also had a few guys in my life over the years where it WAS, and these were/are very valued and protected friendships. Adopted siblings if you will. Same or opposite sex, I hope you got to hang out with some really good friends this weekend, Alice!
@@anxiousArtisan Ooooo good point!! I had forgotten about them... I've only seen half the season (was visiting friends who only had time to show me the first bit) I'll have to check them out again!
@Alice Eliot You're hanging out with the wrong people if you don't think guys and girls can be close friends without it being romantic or sexual. I hope you find better friends.
Just from my own experience of the nightmares I've had, when I wake up, I'm still lying down with my head on the pillow. But in movies when a character wakes up from a nightmare, they sit straight up.
Raechel Blakeney but that scene wasn't him using shaving to show dominance over her, it was to show how she was fed up and was about to use his confidence against him
1) The "tracing a phone call" routine where the villain has "routed" his call through a dozen countries (to justify the "keep him on the line") and the NYPD/FBI tech _in the same room_ is able to trace even several legs in another country. A tech in the US can't "trace" a call that's bridged two lines in an exchange in another country. 2) Any time that losing the connection instantly ends their ability to trace those multiple connections afterwards. Real-time or nothing. Digital systems don't keep logs you can analyse?
The one I hate the most though, is the simple misunderstanding that would take 2 seconds of communication. Usually coincides with people walking in thinking the person is cheating on them, but isn't. Then having to chase them down before they get on an airplane/bus/train.
There's actually an episode of Cartoon Network's show "Chowder" where the main character...Chowder...gets trapped inside his own mouth and his wisdom tooth breaks out a banjo and starts singing about sweet and sour
Young woman shows her rebellious nature by lighting a cigarette. Couple's first meeting is confrontational. Leading lady's first appearance involves doing something threatening or at least tomboyish (like pointing a gun at the hero). What really makes this a cliche is that it's one-off behavior, to grab our attention! Girl gets pressured by pornographer to take off her top, and bursts into tears. (See FAME.) Girl undresses with the curtains open, allowing boys to peep at her. Someone bumps into a glass door. Girl poses nude for boy artist. (This one happened in three movies that came out almost at the same time: TITANIC, AS GOOD AS IT GETS and GREAT EXPECTATIONS.) The hero doesn't wait for the cops but takes unilateral action by himself, and it turns out that all along the villain was counting on him doing this! Narc cop identifies cocaine by tasting it. Single woman whose close friend is a gay man. BTW, I think the movie that started the "powerful man being shaved" cliche was THE UNTOUCHABLES, with a barber shaving Robert de Niro's Al Capone. (So "credit" David Mamet and Brian de Palma for it.) And LOVE, ACTUALLY is a compendium of cliches!
James Matthews it was actually done first in The Color Purple 1985. And there is actually a pay off showing the character Celie growing into her own when she actually contemplates hurting Mr when shaving him.
@@thegirllikesmovies7389It actually happened to Al Capone in real life. Capone who was Italian went to a Sicilian barber and said he wanted a Sicilian style haircut. The barber was offended and gave Capone his trademark scar.
@@thegirllikesmovies7389 Another cliche in THE COLOR PURPLE: her husband intercepts letters to her but instead of destroying them he hides them all in a single place so she can find them someday. (When she finds out about the letters she goes in search of them, because she knows this is a world where intercepted letters don't get destroyed!)
James Matthews lol yes. I hate when characters don’t behave like normal people just for the sake of plot. I would never keep a stack of letters I’m trying to hide from someone in the house we live in. I’d burn them. There has to be a better way to write these scenarios.
There's also a shaving scene in The Color Purple where Celie has to shave her abusive husband's face, it's a very tense scene. I don't know when this trope originated but this is the earliest example I can think of when this scenario was used in a film.
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Two characters lean towards each other for a kiss, and a third character, either a minor antagonist or (more often) a comic relief character appears in between them to break the tension.
This is the worst one of all, and you know it's coming EVERY time.
The real issue is that they just give up completely after that.
"Those were an akward few secondsnds, let's wait a few months and try again."
There is a manga, "I"s, and that is 40% of the plot across, like, twenty volumes.
Tyrant-Den sounds terrible
Especially when they take a ridiculously long time to come together only to be interrupted.
Two people who are not a couple who for some reason pretend to be a couple and somehow end up with a crowd of people demanding that they kiss
Jacinda Carter yup, but in real life you don't see people demanding couples kiss, that would just be pervy.
You never witnessed a 'kiss-cam' at sporting events. They show a couple on the video display and they're supposed to kiss for everyone's 'entertainment.' I did see a highlight from one such feature where the guy held up a sign, "She's my sister."
crybaby ships phan at weddings they do...
Sounds like The Proposal
I think he addressed that in a different video.
ok, how about when there is something REALLY urgent to tell and instead of saying it, they keep saying things like "Wait, you need to listen to me." until it's too late.
"just let me explain!" (never actually explains)
Or when someone needs to confess a lie and they get interrupted and don’t tell the person which later causes an argument when the other character finds out about it some other way
Or in every Lifetime movie where the best friend discovers something terrible about the new husband, and texts, Call me . No info. Leaving plenty of time for the husband to kill her before she can tell.
The kid who keeps saying, You have to listen to me! I have something to tell you! when he literally could have spent that time actually telling them his news
Yeah... but that comes straight out of REAL LIFE so if a writer is using that it is "writing with honesty".
It ALWAYS happens in real life that when you REALLY NEED to tell somebody something that might take more than 2 seconds to say that the STUPID MFer you are talking to WILL NOT STFU so you can give them the information in enough time that the information does them (or you) ANY GOOD at all.
And no matter what you try to do they will not stfu and listen to you.
They just have to tell you this joke or story or run their mouth about something that is not important OR interesting.
And no matter what AFTERWARDS it's always YOUR FAULT that they can't stfu.
Seriously... if you need them to be quiet you have to kill them or kick them in the nuts or punch them real hard in the stomach or cut out their tongue or something.
In real life, if you are ever in real anger and you cannot explain in 1 word like..."LIONS!" or something like that just yell "RUN!"... they aren't going to run.
They are going to keep running their mouth "why should we run?" and then the LIons with get them and you can get free while they are still talking about something.
Women gets her heart broken and cries while eating candy, chocolates or ice cream straight from the tub and watching a romantic film/tv show to torture herself.
One half of the couple says very seriously and worried "I need to tell you something" and the other person interrupts with "before you do" and then asks something really vapid or delivers some really happy news to show that they're very happy at the moment, and then they say "now what were you going to tell me?" and the other person, seeing how happy they are, decides that they can't share their terrible news at the moment and just sighs and says "nothing" or "you look really beautiful" while they look very obviously distraught, but the other person remains blissfully happy and oblivious.
The "monster" that kills every other character without hesitation, has the protagonist trapped. Instead of killing the protagonist the monster "ROARS", buying just enough time for the protagonist to escape, someone else to attack the monster, or a bigger monster to eat the first monster.
You got me monologueing!
Bigger monster coming out of nowhere to eat the first monster just as it's about to kill the heroes seems to be a fairly newish trope, but became instantly overused.
@@1FatLittleMonkey **Disclaimer: sorry for making anyone endure this** This "Always a Bigger Fish" scene from Star Wars Phantom Menace is a pretty solid example ruclips.net/video/IIQVAShJzLo/видео.html
Agreed. Was this first used in Jurassic Park, when the raptors had everyone cornered and the T-Rex came out of literally nowhere to chomp them, then grandstand beneath the 'When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth' banner? Even back then it was pretty groan-inducing.
@@1800astra #nailedit!
One overused trope that annoys me to no end is where the male protagonist and the girl are having a conversation, and they start to lean into each other or their faces start lining up to make the audience think that they're about to kiss, and then one of the protagonist's friends/sidekicks bursts in and says something to the effect of "You gotta see this, man!" or "What are you guys messing around for?!"
I'd be so pissed if one of my friends did that to me. What a buzzkill.
Christopher Manthey or a phone rings.
Christopher Manthey Yes!! I always said, "Ok where were we" and kiss anyways. Never happens in fiction.
Actually, I've had that happen IRL several times.
Its called a cock block
On the other hand, it can be kind of a relief when it's with a couple you hate or you're just bored by and want to get back to the action already. And sometimes it can be funny. "You look like two seals fighting over a grape" -Rhodey, Ironman
I got a bizarrely specific scene that I've seen a dozen times for you. I call it the 'I-gave-that-up' scene=
In which the protagonists need to call in a retired veteran to get a certain thing done.
The veteran now has a bushy beard and almost always lives in a little cabin in the woods somewhere.
Mostly he's chopping wood while the protagonists approach him.
'We need a favor. We need you to do X'
'I gave that up' *keeps on chopping*
'But we really need you!'
'I did my part. Now leave me in peace.'
'It's a shame, *character you really care for* is involved as well'
Veteran pauses... 'I said leave me alone'
Later, in the heat of the moment, when all seems lost, this veteran will appear out of nowhere to save the day.
I can see where that trope is annoying. But I have to admit, the scene where the veteran DOES show up is usually the one where the character he really cares for is in deep trouble-slash-mortal danger, the person sent in to save the person the veteran really cares about is about to die, or the villain is attempting the first go-round of their evil plan. The veteran shows up, usually to some grand musical flourish (and a zoom, pan, 360, or all three by the camera), saves someone, flummoxes the villain (who's left angry and sputtering, and has to retreat), and sets things up for Act III.
Chase Roush “grand musical flourish” hahahahahaa
Like in The Force Awakens/The Last Jedi
You're not the only one who noticed this conceit. :-)
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@@GreenDragon1234 first thing I thought of! Or every Rambo movie after the 1st.
"The systems offline"
"Well can we get it back on?!"
"Yes... But one of us will have to go outside to perform a manual override..."
someone will have to STAY HERE and operate the machine
Uhhh oooh manual override! Somebodys gotta stay n die😣😣
Because it's impossible for space ship designers to put the manual override in a safe place.
It sounds cooler than, "yeah, just gotta head down to the basement and change the fuse; no biggy."
Дмитрий Можжерин For Fukishima, the plant was due for an upgrade to fix that problem, and put the generators on the new top floor. That floor still had minor flooding, but it wouldn’t have been enough to kill the generators, if they were already there.
The sad thing is, more people are killed every year in Japan from coal power than died from the radiation released. Plus, coal plants are notorious for releasing radioactive Iodide into the environment, either through the stacks or leftover ash, and that stuff is horrible for getting into our food supplies(fish and cattle) but no one talks about it.
Even worse than the husband walking in on the wife one is the female love interest walking in on the male lead with a hot chick, and it looks like they're having an affair, but he's actually innocent, and he has to give her the half-assed "this isn't what it looks like," but she's already walking away, not yelling, not asking questions, just walking away indignant, and then whatever the main plot is comes back, and it's like that scene never happened. Not only is this scene weirdly specific and shows up in tons of movies, but they don't even really further the plot.
That scene happens even more often in Anime.
I HATE that. Genuinely pisses me off every time it shows up in a movie.
Ugh it's even worst if you've ever watched anime. The Japaneses treat it like a gag some shows(usually a male focused comedy) a scene like this happens in multiple episodes and the female characters beat him up
This is a more specific version of "something is not what it looks like and we can solve this misunderstanding with few words,but lets not talk till the end of the movie" trope. I hate those.
nice try
What about main character parent who is late for child’s recital. Despicable me, anchor man 2, a bunch of Christmas movies...
Aidan Brown how about little kid at recital looking at the empty seat where they magically know their dad is supposed to be haha
@Your Favourite Comment wow you must be such a fantastic parent !!!!
@Your Favourite Comment LOL I know I saw what you did. I commend thee for being able to attend your child's rectals, even if they are a bit shit.
😉
Bonus points if they're late and end up getting into a car accident because of it (Save the Last Dance and, Everwood come to mind).
@@saraheerie Perks of being a Wallflower did something similar
Dogs in disaster movies always get put in danger but are saved at the last second. Meanwhile, dogs in sappy family-friendly movies always end up dying. Conclusion: it's safer for a dog to live next door to a smoking volcano than to a nice, wholesome baseball park.
Not in I am Legend. But I am probably gonna die mad about that movie in general.
Fact.
Haha that's very true, never realized it till now
"Everyone is dead... but awww, we saved the dog!"
True!!!
How about this one? Investigators enter dark structure and use their flashlights to search instead of turning on the lights.
Or torches, the flickering flames add to the ambiance...
You have to see the scene as it's presented!
1. Hero is an irresponsible dad who forgets/is late to pick up his kid
2. News story that is super relevant to the plot and would solve so many issues is on right next to the protagonists but they don't notice it
3. Hero and heroine are arguing when the man kisses her without permission out of nowhere, she slaps him and is angry, and then she immediately kisses him back.
4. Family traveling in the car together with one teenager in the back seat rolling their eyes while wearing headphones and playing a video game.
5. Outsider is bullied and mistreated for no reason until they receive a makeover and then suddenly they are seen as having worth as a human being.
6. Group of non-white people are oppressed/abused/enslaved/etc until the white male protagonist shows up and teaches them to stand up for themselves/solves all their problems for them.
Pera Medina The term for #6 is the White Savior Trope
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 So true
Ask for permission to kiss? That takes all the romance and passion out of it!! You just got to wait for a while till the time is right and it happens wit no real effort. The rest of them yes, very terrible used up plots and totally unrealistic.
Aggressive kissing generally annoys me. I've never ever seen anyone kiss aggressively IRL - kissing is a sensitive thing, it goes against every instinct to do it aggressively or suddenly. I've been surprise-kissed before but it was still really delicate, because guess what, hitting someone else's face with your face isn't a good idea.
Tootsie is a variation on 6. Women don't know how to assert themselves until a man in drag shows them how.
People that end their phone conversations by hanging up and without confirming that both parties were done saying what needed to be said.
That never happens in real life.
Esteban_Gunn THANK YOU
Esteban_Gunn yes it does
My brother does that in real life.
Perhaps I'm odd, but with friends and family members I seldom say "goodbye" or the like. I just hang up as soon as it is clear we have said everything we want to. I may have picked that up as a youth from watching a lot of Humphrey Bogart movies.
Esteban_Gunn I was actually thinking about this yesterday after watching an episode of a tv drama. I was thinking; Has any character in any film or tv show ever said "Okay, talk to you later. Bye!" or similar before ending a phone conversation!? It's almost alway people just hanging up on each other. In real life most people would think either it was a lost connection or they were just hung up. Also no one ever answers their phone with the normal "Hello?" standard greeting anymore on tv or in movies! Most of the time the recipient answers like he's just continuing a previous conversation.
When old friends meet up and launch into an elaborate chant/hand shake/dance, so that we know they were close a long time ago?
it's so annoying. they treat stuff like that like it's the only way to show the viewer that they're best friends
You mean you don't do that?
Predator helicopter scene lmao
The Hilton Breakfast Buffet in every household and then they are always in a hurry and just snatch a Strawberry and a sip of Coffee...
Yep this, and the juice is always in a pitcher. Who TF is pouring their orange juice into it's own damn pitcher every day?
Or one slice of bacon. ONE. Wtf
@@cherish78748 and its the whole entire pitcher full, every morning.
Yea that always bothered me. Like how all the good was nearly set up in china with place mats.
Like-i just eat cereal in a disposable bowl.
And the weirdest thing about this, 9/10 times the person who just spend a long time preparing this breakfast will not be the least bit insulted, or even bothered by the person they made it for just running off.
I hate when characters get distracted and walk away from their open front doors. Never done that in my life. Everyone I’ve ever encounter has had a near pathological drive to close their own front door
I do it often. I have the intentions of going outside and water the plants but get distracted doing something else. I am very easily distracted. Very
I leave mine sometimes... but only when the dog is locked in another room (like in the one of the bedrooms with the kids or something)
+Prettypinkdork ~ Done it. I was very nervous abt appointment I was going to. My mailbox is by my front door, I left the door open to put the mail inside, but then just walked away and drove off. Came home several hours later, door wide open. Fortunately, my cat was just staring out at me, instead of running away. Got lucky.
Thats my entire family. Im the only one in the house that closes the damn door.
Shut the front door!
Characters agreeing to go on a date and they haven’t given their contact information or set a location to meet at. It’s just “I’ll see you at seven!”
Thank you!!
Then again, we don't really want them to start going through their calendars to find a suitable date and then awkwardly selecting restaurants either.
omg YES, movies depictions of relationships is just the worst thing
"ill pick you up at eight!"
"You... You know where I live?"
In my country, it's usually a hospital. Receiving a call that a love one got an accident/illness and admitted into a hospital. Never stating which hospital
Those scenes where a janitor is cleaning up with their music turned up on head/earphones so they can't hear any of the events (usually fighting or destruction of the building) taking place behind them.
This is so typical though at the school that I work at. They all have their Bluetooth earphones on, not paying attention to anything that's going on.
Situational awareness - it's important, people
Naomi that kind of bothers me too but if it is used in a creative way i don’t care
Stan Lee in the latest Spider Man RIP
The antagonist says to the protagonist, "We're not so different, you and I"
So so true, I've seen that a lot
no that's actually just the way to annoy your nemesis to no end so they get angry and slip up with their goody-two-shoes act
"I dont need a not so different speech, i get @lot of those."
Phantom limb : "yes, im sure you do. So shallwe shake hands and leave as enemies?"
Brock : "hehehe... for a second there.... i thought you were gonna do the killer hand thing."
Phantom limb, immediately : "so did i."
Not a theme, but an entire movie genre is the rag tag sports team that gets a new coach who is really tough and he doesn't want to be there but they grow on each other. The team always has one fat kid with the jokes, one strong kid who is streetwise, and one kid who is the best overall player but needs direction to be the team leader. They start the season out losing, but as they work together they win more games and eventually the championship. Mighty Ducks, Mighty Ducks 2, Bad News Bears, Little Giants, Longest Yard, Kicking and Screaming, soooooo many movies fit this template it's gotten very stale.
George Tickle League of Their Own
Coach carter too
Major league...
Miracle
SPOILER
I didn't like all the trash language in The Bad News Bears, but I actually appreciated the movie setting the audience up with all the stereotypical shenanigans, but then subverting expectations by having the team *lose* in the end.
I'm *sure* this has been said but just in case: it drives me sorta nuts that there are SO many shows/movies where a group of "bad guys" are all attacking one person but they TAKE TURNS going at him. Like they don't all swarm on the guy and take him down in one fell swoop, they just kind of wait around as their fellow attackers get picked off one by one. Even like super trained ninjas are subject to this nonsense. How are y'all gunna let one guy (ONE GUY!) take you out individually?!
i call that "hercules the legendary journey" and "Xena" choreography. Even Nolans Batman did it yet people highly rate that films fight scenes... Just JUMP THE GUY LOL!
Oh the enemies also get incapacitated by the softest of hits. NOBODY, is going down from a halfhearted kick to the arm or back. Might get winded if it's in the stomach but you wouldn't be out cold lol
If the fight was choreographed so that all of the bad guys attacked at once, it would be too confusing for the audience to follow, because human brains are designed to only be able to follow one thing at a time. Even the best choreographed 1 vs many fight scenes show the bad guys attacking one at a time, but the trick is to leave as little space between attacks as possible. Basically the only way to fix this would be to either retire 1 vs. many fight scenes - which I personally would not be opposed to - or to derail the entire plot by having the hero die within the first three minutes of the movie to a group of unnamed henchmen - which, again, I would not be opposed to, but which no smart filmmaker would do. Sadly.
For real -- and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was programmed to mimic these movies, ugh! A nice exception is The Matrix Reloaded's "hundred man brawl."
girl shaving / cutting / dyeing her hair very poorly herself after going through a transforming or traumatizing experience and then the very next scene looks like a professional styled it
Yep! Performing a haircut on yourself is just that easy, to obtain the perfect blunt cut bob lol!
Lol like Beverly
Exactly! it says a lot about what hollywood thinks of women, apparently a new hair cut or pair of shoes can change your life. Argh! Especially since they are nearly always crying and completely screwing it up as well.
I don't know why, but Halle Berrys Catwoman transformation scene is what first comes to mind. lol
The first one that comes to mind for me is Buffy cutting her hair in season 6, but if I remember correctly she went to the salon after to get it fixed 😂
Schrödinger's gunshot: Where they try to make you wonder if the character will be alright until they rip open their shirt to reveal if they're wearing a bulletproof vest...
Or a close-up of wide, startled eyes that indicate the hero might be shot, but then a wider shot shows them just fine and it's the villain who was shot.
There's even a parody of that in an old Horror movie... where a Vampire is wearing his 'Stake-Proof' Vest! (I'm still trying to figure how that would work!)
Or as long as the good guys friends don't see the body then they arent actually dead
What if he had shot you in the head?
Or they’re shot with a AK-47 and they’re wearing a level II body armor and they’re fine. Not….. it would go through both panels after going through you.
When a news story that is important and related to the plot is on the tv right when the main characters turn the tv on, or walk into a bar with tvs or by a storefront with tvs on
change the channel and end up getting further details on the same story
The music stations are constantly interrupted by the latest news of a wanted criminal. Unless it's a major natural disaster or active 9/11 level terrorist event on an EBS alert, never, ever happens irl.
@@RM_VFX Yeah, that always happens on "Gilligan's Island." And it's so annoying, because otherwise that is such a logical show.
In relation: the character, typically shocked or annoyed at what she/he sees on the TV then TURNS IT OFF mid-sentence of the information being broadcast. Why would anyone turn off a news story relevant to their life/future without hearing the broadcast in its entirety?
YES!!! I HATE IT!!!!
Not only are convenient garbage trucks and dumpsters convenient, but also the garbage bags contain only soft items that won't bruise, cut or knock out the heroes.
Mathilde B that’s why I always double wrap my kitchen knives when I throw them out! You never know when a hero is gonna need my trash to break their fall! 😎
Characters just hanging up the phone without saying goodbye.
People getting out of taxis without paying.
I'm just one of these two scenes I want to see the person call back and yell "hey! I wasn't done!" or the taxi driver yelling "hey! You didn't pay!"
Those two exact things used to annoy the shit out of me when watching American film and tv as a kid.
As a New Zealander I took it to indicate that Americans are rude on the phone and presumably pay with big bills in cabs and don't give a shit about their change.
@@jimsmint I'm a Kiwi too and i grew up believing that Americans didn't say goodbye to each other on the phone. Or lock their cars.
unfortunately a lot of people dont say goodbye on the phone... its obnoxious but yeah around here it's a thing
Totally agree!! I HATE it when the hang up without saying goodbye. Or open a present and don't say thank you!!! Drives me nuts!
@@JS-wv3iy I always say goodbye on the phone! I'm glad everyone in my family does it
When the female love interest is already in a relationship with a guy who treats her badly. She is then rescued by the male protagonist by being shown what real love is. Yet in real life people who are attracted to abusive partners wouldn't know what to do in an actual loving relationship.
haha, yeah, the dude that got that girl would have a terrible relationship for months until he couldn't take it anymore
Everybody knows this, it’s a very common condition that children of drug addicts and alcoholics suffer from. They seek chaotic unhealthy relationships because that’s the only way they know how to love someone.
I’m movies women like this tend to date boxers and then threaten to leave the man and go to their sisters in some trashy Jersey accent
Maybe if he helped her heal her trauma instead of forcing a relationship then it wouldn’t be like that
@@williamcondon7729 Everybody knows this
No sequel about how said relationship fails within the year....
I think an even bigger Hollywood cliche than the husband walking in on his wife cheating on him is where the protagonist is being kissed by another person (whether they kiss them back or not is up to the film), but the love interest walks in at the EXACT SAME TIME as they see the kiss or sometimes intimate act happening either from afar or walking into the room, and more often than not it's a misunderstanding and in most cases it ends their relationship until the third act. You name it: Bruce Almighty, Transformers 2, Made of Honour, Just Married, My Best Friend's Wedding (although that was the protagonist kissing her friend), Monster-In-Law, She's The Man, A Cinderella Story 2, Captain America, etc. Talk about perfect timing. It also appears in a lot of anime, and it does become frustrating.
Daniella Dahoui YES!!!
Daniella Dahoui YES. PREACH. Sooo frustrating.
it is to add conflict to the plot to make it more interesting
Mind Flowers We know that. the trouble is, it isn't interesting.
Man can't tie a necktie. Someone comes in and ties the worst four-in-hand knot you've ever seen, pats him on the shoulders, and tells him how handsome he is or what a fine man he's grown to be
To be fair, I have never yet dated a man who *could* (or would?) tie his own tie, even if he was specifically taught how. Is this just a thing guys really enjoy having someone else do for them? Like, I can brush my own hair, but it feels so much nicer when someone else does it, you know? Is it like that? Except for some bizarre reason, with ties?
@@KryssLaBryn I don't know. I've tied my own ties at red lights, only checking the mirror once I'm done to confirm I didn't mangle it. There *is* something pleasant about my wife tying my tie, though. $:^ )
absolutely. it's like the shaving things.
Does it bother anyone else when in a movie they’re having breakfast, lunch, dinner etc, that they never touch or finish it because they get interrupted??
And in tv shows no one ever brushes their teeth after breakfast, they just head off to work or school. P.U.
And when they do get interrupted they throw their utensils down on the table
Is it weird that I brush my teeth before eating food?
Not really. In fact I see "film breakfasts" that don't get interrupted. :)
@@cataclysm7823
Same. The dentists tell you to brush before eating.
Guy who smokes sees person he plans on speaking to. Takes a puff then throws the whole damn cigarette away before approaching said person. I have never in my life seen that. I would be really impressed if I ever see someone in a movie put the cigarette out and put the half smoked cigarette back in the pack
Half-smoked cigarettes taste like total dirt when relit tho, I would probably chuck it if it was important that I go talk to them right away.
Just me, but I'd rather throw away a 3/4 cigarette than have a partially-smoked one sitting in my back. They REEK and the taste is all wrong.
Used to do that when I smoked, regularly. Stank up my jacket/coat/pants/shirt/etc. Smelled like a wlkg ashtray. Had to save them in my car ashtray, etc. Sometimes, plastic bags works.
@unknowning unknown wtf is wrong with you😂😂😂😂😂
I'd never do that. In fact if someone I knew who didn't smoke. I'd go smoke a whole cig just so I don't have to hear. You got another one or can I have drags ?
So yeah that's stupid.
Daniel-I know you're reading this-can you do an episode that addresses the phenomenon of highly competent female characters in films being outperformed by near-idiot male characters? Pixels & The LEGO Movie are both perfect examples of this.
EDIT 1: Ant-Man is arguably included in this category as well.
EDIT 2: And Kung Fu Panda.
EDIT 3: And there are arguments to be made for including How to Train Your Dragon and Ratatouille.
darkxarth This! Please!
lego movie was mostly satire
Now this is funny, did you forget that Adam and his crew out preformed every highly competent male character too. He had to teach people in the Army how to shot at something . Put yeah yeah we know when it happens to female it is different. But when a female pick up weapon and beat all these trained people at once.. that is ok.
The LEGO Movie was satirical of "chosen one" stories, but in the movie the totally average Emmet outperforms the hyper-competent Lucy. It's still a good movie, but that doesn't negate this dumb trend in movies.
Sam is an average dude who is good at classic arcade games. Nowhere else in the movie does he show off his ability to spot patterns, and nowhere else does he show any other aptitudes. Violet, on the other hand, is a military scientist who analyzes xenotechnology and engineers laser guns out of it by the midpoint of the film. Heck, her military rank alone shows how much more skilled she is than Sam. Yet the movie puts her in the position of support at best, and reward at worst.
And the fact that Sam outshoots an entire field full of professional soldiers (when we have never seen him even hold a gun before) is utterly laughable. Firing an experimental laser rifle is in no way comparable to using a joystick and buttons on an arcade game 30+ years ago. And to assume that trained soldiers cannot hit gigantic moving targets that are not even returning fire is downright insulting to the viewer.
Hero/heroes mow down 3000 "bad guys", get to the big bad and just lock him up. "Killing him would be wrong!" What about all those underlings you just massacred? Some of them are probably just doing it for a paycheck, maybe their kid needs chemo, he just mops the floors in the evil lair...good guy sneaks up behind him with a garrote wire and ends him. Hero gets up to the evil mastermind (who often has committed some sort of genocide) dripping goons' blood, slaps some handcuffs on the guy. WTF, why are your morals kicking in now?
I loved how that was a recurring joke in Austin Powers.
Every mook who got killed got a sad scene in which the news were delivered to his friends or family.
Don't know if this counts, but I always hated that in Supernatural Sam and Dean would almost never exorcize the demons inhabiting innocent people, they would just straight up kill them. But whenever someone close to them is possessed? Exorcism.
Isn't it more like the hero gets to the unarmed boss, and throws down their weapon when he says something like "Go on, kill me. Then you'll be just like me." Then the boss pulls out the retractable pistol/knife/force lightning up his sleeve, and the hero finally has an excuse to finish them off (or their partner does from off screen.)
@@Dhakadice That was a deleted scene added back in for some DVD release. I loved that bit, especially as a fan of the old bond movies. Definitely makes you consider the anonymous henchmen in movies
@@LazyboyRecliner
I saw that scene on swedish television in the daytime. =)
Bad guy is exposed to the public as a villain because they decide to (awkwardly and often out of place) insult the populous or admit a crime to the protagonist exactly at the same time their voice is being secretly transmitted by the hero (Batman Returns, Coco, etc.)
Also Monsters Inc and Zootopia.
Bret Sheeley great observation
PCU
and Big Fat Liar
I actually love that trope lmao. There's nothing more satisfying than damning evidence and I haven't seen it used TOO much. Just the ones already mentioned plus Santa Clause 3.
Or like in horror movies when something obviously paranormal/unexplainable happens, and the character dismisses it and continues being a hardcore sceptic about the whole thing. You've just witnessed a ghostly apparition materialise in front of you, and throw furniture around, and you STILL don't believe in ghosts, really???
Jack Dee had a bit about this. Said he'd be crap in a horror film scenario because as soon as anything paranormal happens he'd just leave the house and never go back.
i don`t believe in ghosts, but if i saw it in my room at night i`d move out
"there must be a rational explanation for this! "
I think a horror movie is better if they acknowledge any paranormal activity that occurs. The audience knows it's a ghost so the characters should know it's a ghost. In "The Conjuring 2", for example, I love how the two police officers who are called to the house are coming up with rational explanations for spooky sounds and whatnot, until a chair moves and they leave the house saying, "That's out of our jurisdiction."
When obviously paranormal creepy stuff happens, you don't deny it. You run.
The scene where two people make eye contact. Then it immediately jumps to a bed and one of them falls into frame by the other on top of them. As if to "shock" the viewer as if we haven't seen that same scene 40,000 times.
Kids In the Hall parodied that exact thing.
The Shape OMG yes same. I’m always like “ok but like how did they transition from making eye contact to that like immma need a little more information here”
You're right!!! I HATE THAT!!!
You forgot woman cutting off hair to symbolize renewal
Oh yeah, cutting it off THEMSELVES and it being perfect.
But wacko bitches actually do that
Usually part of a whole makeover montage.
yeah, but like that's real life
1. Very cliche and every time I see it in a movie I roll my eyes. They need to retire the trope. Two recents trailers I’ve seen It in is the movie Joy and the Power Rangers movie.
2. I Have definitely done this before though. Not for any significant reason I just wanted a change in my look.
Someone says "You'd better come take a look at this."
Loved "The Paper Chase"!
I wouldn't call that specific
that's not oddly specific, that happens in real life quite often, it's a totally normal thing to say if you have something that someone needs to see
also the 'Let's get out of here !'... used to death, I read somewhere it had been the most over-used line in movies
"Can't you at least give me a really brief description?" "No, it's easier if you just come and see for yourself".
Characters not eating the food on their plate but forever fidgeting with their forks (Sopranos!).
Musenginst the only show where I know the main characters really are the food is Gilmore Girls because the two main actresses also hate this. And they ate a lot on that show 🤣
I get why though. Continuity and multiple takes. The actors would be hugely full and props would have to re-set the plates at the correct stage of being eaten each time.
@@alysonshorthouse8858 this.
And chewing isn't all that attractive to watch. Brad Pitt does it well. Other actors, not so much.
That's a scene from every family holiday movie ever.
The constantly repeated scene of two people yelling or arguing with each other, and then immediately starting to make out! That never happens
Actually this does happen in real life :v
@@henry6499 Maybe just to you!
To be fair, it actually does happen. The thing is though, in movies it's supposed to signal "these people have their differences but they still love each other and should be together," whereas in real life it only happens in deeply unhealthy, emotionally unstable relationships.
It happened with me and my sister last night.
@@williamchadwick7948 Thank you for your input. Please close the window on your way out.
to add a few: binding of wounds feat. sexual tension and there's always a bit in action movies where a cool weapon is introduced and (normally) the one black guy cast in the movie goes: "now that's what I'm takin' about"
Men in Black??
theotherevilmonkey72
AGREED
When Im wrapping someones hand from a giant gash I dont automatically think "Ya know what would make this better? Having candle lit sex while the camera zooms in on your many scars and bruises" Im actually like "Bro lets go to the ER and get u a tetanus shot"
Alyssa First comment to actually get me to laugh out loud in a while
Exactly, that's what I'm talkin' bout😁
This sounds oddly familiar to me. I'll have to start counting each time it happens in a movie, now.
Hero steps up to mic, mic feeds back.
This happens constantly. There must be a rule in movies and TV where if someone is talking on a microphone, we have to hear feedback, because otherwise we won't know they're talking on a microphone, or something.
I've heard that feedback only happens if the person setting up the microphone is incompetent. These fictional microphone-setting-up people are getting some really bad training. Someone should start a fictional audio training school to help these poor incompetent fictional microphone people.
@@teiladnam As a microphone-setting-up person (DJ) I find your statement hilarious lol.
Every. Time.
YEAH
Oh my God, this one always kills me.
I like this list b/c it's things I wouldn't have thought of. However, I came here hoping to see the one that always drives me bananas: the handsome guy bumps into the clumsy girl knocking her onto the ground, and he's laying on top of her (or vice versa). Or he bumps into her & she knocks over her books, and he bends down to help her pick them up. Please come up with a better meet-cute!! PLEASE!! Look, I'm hugely clumsy, but I've never in my life come even close to this happening. Sheesh. :(
I had the book one happen once. I helped, and she called me a dick. Sorry I ran into you as we both whipped around a corner, I guess? I was one of the outcasts though in high school.
How bout: young boy is leaving the theater with his parents, all wearing tuxedos, then they get mugged by an unshaven guy with a gun who shoots the parents, and later the boy grows up to be a vigilante who uses bats as a motif? That exact scene has been in like 3 or 4 movies.
More if you count the animated ones lol
You know, interesting that you brought that up. I met a little guy a while back, he looked to be seven or eight, and he told me his dream was to grow up to be Batman. Being a nice guy I decided to help the little lad out so I murdered his parents in front of him. I know what your thinking, how can a guy like me be so nice and considerate in today's world? I can contribute it to the simple fact that I had a great mom.
@@sam21462 Why so serious?
@@gullijons9135 - Helping children live their dreams is a responsibility that we should all take quite seriously.
Exactly this. I mean, the guy gave, what, 3, maybe 4 examples for each cliche. Barely a drop in the bucket compared to the movies, TV shows, animation, and even comics that depict this exact scene. How far Cracked has fallen...
Two people trying to think in a way to solve something, then both have a moment of clarity at the same time, turn to look at each other and one of them say: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" I cringe everytime I see this scene
it is cringy and never ever happens in reality
-A woman gets her hair magically stuck in a guy's zipper right before another person enters the room. It's cheesy, predictable and makes no sense.
-Bad guy shows his badness by killing a henchman for little to no reason. This makes sense with a military commander like Vader, but why would someone keep working for a boss who casually murders his employees?
-A father is utterly confused, helpless and disgusted when changing a baby's diaper. Seriously, it's not rocket science. And why do they always act like they've never seen or smelled a shit in their entire life?
-Characters speaking in a foreign language (with text translation) suddenly switch back to English for no logical reason. Like the viewers couldn't read 2 more lines of subtitles.
-The main characters make eye contact in a large crowd of people and immediately fall in love. Why do writers think a love at first sight is the only way to get two characters romantically involved? It's definitely the laziest.
I agree with all of these except the 4th example, coming from someone who is bilingual and has grown up around bilinguals, code switching (or switching between multiple languages) in seemingly random places (seemingly because there *is* logic to it, it depends on the grammatical rules of the languages they're using) is actually pretty common. You can begin a sentence in Language A and end it in Language B. You can begin a monologue in Language C and flip flop between C, B, and A and end right back on C. It's very interesting actually.
Nevertheless, movies rarely ever get bilingual characters or foreign languages right which sucks
The diaper thing.... have you ever changed a newborn? That shit's toxic, their poop is almost ten times grosser than adult poop. It smells and looks so much worse, so I get being a little disgusted and I've changed my fair share, just picture that being their first time ever!
For foreign language speaking characters, the trope I see and associate with more is them speaking in English with an accent to each other, even though logically they would be speaking in their first language
@@BlueGlow26 omg right?? Like to a degree I can understand if they take up a good chunk of screen time and the movie is intended for English speaking audiences, but if its in a few places here and there like damn it'd be so much more authentic if they codeswitched at least
@@Ches19. yes exactly, for the short bits it really doesn't make sense
yeah guess so
Also, I'm bilingual myself and agree with your original comment :)
"The first screenwriter to come up with that idea is a genius, and everyone else is fart noise." LMAO
It’s true for all good ideas. Think of the movies John Carter and Valerian . They both seemed full of sci-fi tropes we’ve seen in everything from Star Wars to Transformers, and uninformed people accused them of copying existing movies/ideas.
BUT, their original books are what “inspired” people like George Lucas to steal and use their themes/ideas/ideals in Star Wars. So, when the originals finally got movie adaptations, they are the ones who looked like copycats.
It wasn't an American screenwriter, but a Colombian journalist, writer and Member of Congress (Colombia) named Hernando Téllez who likely created the fiction of a malignant character ordering a shave to establish his dominance. The story ("Espuma y nada más") is translated as "Lather and Nothing Else" or "Just Lather, That's All". It was published in 1950. Vladimir Nabokov published a short story entitled "Razor" in 1926 that is similar, but translations from Russian did not appear until the 90s. After that, everyone else is fart noise.
@@JeremyBowkett thank you! I read this story a long time back & think about it everytime I see such scenes. But couldn't remember the name. Really liked the story. But the way I remembered it, the dictator wanted to show the barber that it isn't easy to kill someone. Not to show his dominance.
Just moved in to a new building? Eat Chinese takeout on the floor surrounded by boxes but no furniture!
Lol
ummmmm that's my first meal in every apartment I move into. How else are you supposed to eat when you move? Pizza Hut? ha! Pizza is for large gatherings of people, not one or two people with no furniture.
I had a panini. Sitting on my bed-in-a-box, which I had shipped ahead.
@@frojoe2004 I can eat half a pizza myself so they don't go as far as you think.
@@frojoe2004 Speaking of Chinese food, *everyone in America* knows how to use chopsticks.
It bothers me how in classroom scenes the class starts (we know this because the teacher comes in, puts down her books on the lectern, and says “Today we’ll be looking at…”), the teacher talks for about a minute, and then the bell rings to end class (we know this because everyone gets up to leave as the teacher raises her voice to assign homework and reading). Do classes only last one minute in TV-land?
Would you prefer they lasted 50 minutes?
Yes, though not in real-time. You would just have some indication of the passage of time. @@HorribleSonofa
YES! And how the class material is always WAY too advanced for the grade level! All these 9-yr-olds studying sonnet construction and algebra!
Hahaha you're right. I never thought about how often that is done
All time overused. Someone is falling, they shoot their hand out and, TA DA!, one-handed grab save. Superhuman grip strength too.
Best parody of this ever, sink hole scene from This is the End with Jay Baruchel and Jake Johnson.
God yes. Ever tried to lift someone by one hand? People are heavy and hands suck at holding other hands.
All the you're dying doctors news and proceed with a slow close up of said character while the doctors voice gets muffled or distorted and the character imagines all the things he'll be missing and then all the sudden you hear the clear voice of the girlfriend telling the doctor "what if we try this or that, right honey, honey?" and the character just says "how long?" to the doctor.
Breaking Bad only
The two people that 'hate' each other fall in love
everyone is killed instantly apart from main character they are captured & held till they're able to escape
The villain wastes time in killing the hero & looses as a result
out of league girl is the love interest n likes guy for their humour or the 'ugly' girl has a make over & is then hot
smart people must write equations or whatever on walls
the good guy & bad guy have equal abilities when it comes to fighting
tankers being present for explosions, garbage trucks available for rooftop escapes
good guy can out run bullet shots
person makes *a lot* of food for breakfast but other one is in too much of a rush to stop n eat it all
good guy gets shot but is okay because it only hits their shoulder
people look away from road for a second & when they look back a truck is there blowing it's horn & they need to swerve out the way
a train passing gives ability to disappear when running from someone
Jonanice I
Omfg. The breakfast thing kills me. Mom made fucking eggs benedict , fresh squeezed O.J , pancakes and cereal. Let me take a bite of this toast so I don't miss the school bus.
Bye mom!
Don't want to be late for tryouts. (What the fuck are they trying out for?)
But on the flipside.
Let's sit down , have a 3 course breakfast. Squeeze in a shenanigan with best friend who came over for breakfast. Then leisurely ride bikes to school with friend.
I hate the gun one
Especially in Lethal weapon
The female character dies from one bullet wood
Well Mel Gibson survives multiple armor piercing bullets haha
Spot on
People speak out at a wedding, the wedding stops, the bride kisses the person who interrupted the wedding, everybody applauds.
"the bullet went through, it's just a flesh wound"
Martin Turon there was a funny use of that in Game night
Or the bullet hits a "non-vital" spot, like the shoulder. Hey, it wasn't a leg, they still can run!
Except that shoulder wounds can destroy a lot of major muscles & nerves and shatter bones. They can be incredibly serious and traumatic wounds.
Or at some point in the beginning of the movie we learn about special keepsake gifted or inherited from male relative - pocket watch, bible, whisky flask, cigarette case, etc. Later here is shot with fatally placed bullet leaving them apparently dead on the floor. Surprise! Bullet is stoppedby said item and hero is unscathed.
Also hydrostatic shock/stopping force isn't a thing in films, people react to bullet wounds like "ow, this is really painful". As opposed to the oft-remarked-upon real reaction of "wtf my body just stopped working for a minute, why can't I move properly".
What about those scenes from action movies where there is a mediocre male protagonist who basically has zero combat training and starts to be trained by a female, his love interest, who is an expert and has probably trained her entire life in said martial art. After a montage, he suddenly is a better fighter than her? UGH
Until you mentioned it, I had not realized how often that actually happened. Although to be fair, that happens with all mentors training a hero, not just female mentors. It does seem a little bit more blatant in the female mentor part, but that's because a strong female character is going against a stereotype. It's part of: "Women have to work twice as hard to be seen as equals" it's not just female mentors though, it's just part of the 'Hero's Story' template.
That's fair, but at the same time there's a reason why you don't usually see women with a Superman build. Cheap montages are cheap, but this example isn't completely unrealistic
ItsaMeMariah 😂😂😂 i literally thought the same thing after watching Ant Man.
yea exactly! this keeps happening
do you think it's possible for a male instructor to train a female student well enough for her to have the ability to beat him in a real fight?
In close quarters combat the person with the weapon ALWAYS loses. For instance, two characters are in a sword fighting, their equally matched or the hero is overmatched. The hero loses his sword then somehow avoids every strike, finds some other makeshift weapon, and kills the villain. This is especially common when one character has a knife and the other does not. The Character without the knife always wins.
Game of Thrones was refreshing for being kinda consistent with a lot of this, at least early on. Bigger weapons win. Scrappy underdog characters get killed immediately. Armour saves lives. Helmets save lives. People without helmets or armour on die easily. Small people can't win in fights against bigger people.
Then Arya got turned into an obligatory tiny badass and the writers had to undo all that good work to please her fans.
@@boiledelephant Which is how guns got their nickname of "the great equalizer" because you no longer needed years of training/exercise to properly wield a weapon and no longer needed lots of money to obtain properly built armor. The physically weak and poor can protect themselves on a much more equal footing with the physically strong and rich with the invention and production of guns.
@The Comment Above Me Doesn't Check Out Are you okay? You seem to be getting upset over something most people have seen as unrealistic in most circumstances. More often than not, armor and weapons gives someone the upper hand. Yes, someone with superior skills could win in a fight but in the movies the major fight scenes are supposed to be between skilled fighters.
I hate when they use misunderstandings and bad communication to further the plot. It's ridiculously and unlikely to happen in real life.
I agree, one of the worst! The dumbest part of movies like Bad Boys and Shrek to name a couple...
@@charleseleeiii I can kiiinda forgive the Shrek one because the miscommunication only happens as a result of Shrek's already-existing self-hatred that the movie has already established. He is hyper-aware of his "place" in society - he is an ogre and that means people automatically brand him as a monster, and while he wants to prove to people that he's more than that, deep-down he is scared that people will only ever see him as nothing more than a monster no matter how hard he tries to prove them wrong. So when he thinks Fiona called him an "ugly beast", it makes sense that he wouldn't simply talk to her about it and ask for an explanation, because deep-down he's scared that she'll prove to be no better than any other human who sees him as nothing more than a monster. Her words represent his number one fear - that he can spend time with a human, treat them with respect and kindness, and grow to love them...and they will STILL call him a "beast" or "monster".
It's still frustrating that miscommunication is used as a plotpoint, but at least it doesn't come out of nowhere.
Yeah those piss me off. Was like every episode of Seinfeld.
that shit actually throws everything waaay back.
Hmmm, sometimes yeah I agree.
But in real life people struggle to effectively communicate all of the time. Like... ALL of the time. It’s not always so silly when it happens in a movie even if sometimes it’s blatantly silly
Smart kid is always a hacker who can make UI scripts to enter the most crypto-locked system ever made in 10 seconds.
Make sure you hit the enter key really hard.
@@TheReddaredevil223 and do it one second before the timer runs out.
@@rs72098 Naah one second is too clichéd. Three seconds ;D ;D ;D
In general all computer "hacker" scenes are bizarrely specific. They always contain
- multiple screens with scrolling text. Green text on a black background preferably, like we are back in 1986
- lots of completely meaningless gobbledook. My personal favourites (well, a couple I remembered to write down, because no-one but a Hollywood writer could remember this shit): "oscillating variable matrix", "Inversion pathway", and "Python 6-number encryption"
- Typing. L-o-o-o-o-o-t-s and lots of typing. Never mind that the screen in front of the hacker is all GUI
- millisecond access times to any database, any traffic cam, any facial recognition algorithms *in the world*
Amongst these Cracked videos are a couple called "Simple things Hollywood thinks are complicated". Well when it comes to computers, just about *any* scene can be labelled "complicated things Hollywood thinks are simple". I get it, it would be boring to show the actual details because, well, computers *are* boring, but to trivialise procedures and outcomes like they do is taking it too far to the other extreme and it's just wrong and stoopid.
@@christopherbedford9897 I liked Die Hard 4's inversion of the instant computers thing, where the hacker's like "Oh no boss! It's not working, something's wrong!" and Timothy Olyphant is like "just wait, give it a minute" and a minute later it starts working.
It might already have been mentioned in the 3559 other comments, but I'm going to add my bit anyway: someone hears they are wanted and people are searching for them on the radio, AND IMMEDIATELY after hearing this they turn off the radio.
Uhm, you might want to keep listening, to see if they have more to say about their search for you? Find out some context?
Egregius ...pulls baseball cap lower over his eyes and/or flips up coat collar
Characters do constant research on problem without finding anything out
Character x takes a break
Character x accidentally stumbles across something
"Hey guys, you might wanna take a look at this..."
The thing they stumbled across was the solution all along.
Now all that's left to do is save the day by either
a) Arriving just on time with the solution
b) Arriving too late and saving the day with a character's death
c) Arriving too late and not saving the day until the wise former-expert mentor character saves the day in the nick of time
*ba duh dum*
Bad guys get identified as bad guys by eating an apple very frequently
*ding*
S.S.R.C.P.B. Yay Cinemasins!
The director said, "Let's have him eat an apple. It'll make him look like even more of an asshole!" *Ding*
In Sherlock BBC , one of the villains things was he ate an apple
ikamts2 I would like, but there's 111 likes, and I don't want to ruin it.
You left out hiding and or escaping in air vents.
I would definitely love to see a movie where the air vents collapse in a non-plot convenient manner, due to the weight of the idiot stuck in the vents for some reason
That shit is real bro! I go to work And leave through vents... Everyday.
I've been on a film set where there was a scene where dude is in a vent. The only way they managed to do this is by building some scaffolding up to the roof (in a room) and holding the vent. Don't know why they didn't just make a small series of vents and lay it on the ground to avoid the whole scaffolding thing.
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I cringed during Bohemian Rhapsody when I saw him cough in a white handkerchief, pauses to show a little blood, then quickly hide the handkerchief in his pocket. Come up with something new to tell the audience someone is in bad health.
3DSage slightly better than a doctor telling a character that they’re dying
Most of the time you don't even need blood on the handkerchief, you hear someone cough more than once in a movie and he's a goner
@@Gyork_ Well the opening scene in Bohemian Rhapsody is EXACTLY that: Freddie caughing as a sick man...
In real life coughing up blood does not mean you are dying. & if you are coughing blood you are probably sick enough that you don't wanna get out of bed or off the couch - you're not going to turn around and record an album or whatever.
I have coughed up blood when I had a really bad cold soley coughing so much tore up my throat. I had a high fever and missed ~2 weeks of school. When I saw blood assumed I was dying because movies. Went to the emergency room to get prescribed a decongestant.
@@Gyork_ If you see a woman peeing in a movie you know she is pregnant - or she thinks she is pregnant.
To be fair, women in films don't walk in on husbands cheating, but rather find evidence lying around that proves their guilt.
In straight culture, cheating is most hurtful to men if it's sexual and most hurtful to women if it's emotional. So I guess that's why they go about portraying it in this way. It would be interesting to see this flipped on its head.
@@nathy0308 Yeah, in Hollywood straight culture, but not in reality. I'm sure cheating is equally hurtful to anyone whether it's emotional or sexual and sexual is definitely emotional too, so it just makes it weird as hell that Hollywood keeps portraying cheating differently for different genders as you mentioned.
JP the old lipstick on the collar or phone number in his pocket
And sometimes...he's also trying to kill her.
Nathy - Only true for men who see their wives more as sex objects than partners. Another man playing with their toy is the worst insult. Men in a real relationship would feel worse about their wife falling for another but not yet having sex with them, than having a one night stand with a stranger.
Smart people always finish each others obscure quotes then look at each other like, oh hm... you're a smart person too.
Hey, that happens!! I love the scene in (the book) "The Shining" where a doctor and a janitor quote "The Emperor of Ice Cream" which is a fairly obscure poem.
@@lazyhomebody1356 Wallace Stevens is the epitome of Modernist poetry Idk how you think "Emperor of Ice Cream" is obscure, or anything by him for that matter. That's like saying Robert Frost or Ezra Pound are obscure. All it takes is an interest in 20th century literature and you can't miss them.
@@conneremberton4018 Yes, IF you have an interest, or a good education. What percentage of Americans do you think could quote it? Pick a random pair of a doctor and janitor! On "Millionaire" once, only 16% of the audience knew a Bronte wrote "Jane Eyre". I guarantee none of my friends would have heard of the poem or the poet!
@@lazyhomebody1356 The point I'm trying to make is that the fact that you see it as obscure is only a matter of perception, it's obscure to you because you surround yourself with less educated people, and those of circles not related to literature, therefore influencing however you might see these poems socially. The fact that 16% of an audience knew a Bronte sister wrote Jane Eyre is just that, 16 out of those 100 people knew in that audience, which is an excruciatingly small sample size, also unsurprising as it is a simpletons game show, wherein the few interesting moments occur only when actually cultured, not even intelligent, individuals show how easy it is to win. My perceptions of modernist poetry are influenced by my decades in studying such works and therefore I've surrounded myself with an environment in which it's not conceivable to be so, and has me cynical of those not a part of it. And I'm egotistically aware of the fact.
@@conneremberton4018 Hey dude!! I am an expert on ALL poetry. MY point was that to most people it is obscure. Just because it isn't obscure to you(and me) it still qualifies as obscure. Plus, if you have any tips on how I can meet people who like poetry...oh never mind, I like the friends I have, even if I don't discuss lit with them. Are you in an academic setting, I'm guessing? You do agree that something can be considered obscure if MOST people aren't familiar with it, right?
Main protagonist has a lot of potential but waste it until an older mentor comes along to teach them about their potential until eventually something bad happens, usually a minor failure, to make the protagonist stop believing in themselves. And then their mentor either gets hurt or killed in some way forcing the protagonist to accept his potential in order to exact revenge. The end. At least one of these type of movies comes out each year and unfortunately is common in superhero style movies.
Why is this sounds like Lord Of The Rings?
The JJ startrek reboot to a T
There’s always a parking spot right in front of the place the characters are going, and they don’t even have to pay to park there. Or lock the car door. Or take the keys out of the car!
Weirdly enough, the one movie to actually address this is the underrated _Superman IV_ (1987) where Lois leaps out of her car right in front the United Nations to hear Superman speak, and her boss says “But you’ll get a ticket!” An odd bit of realism from a movie that thinks there is air in space!
Or like how when someone gets a new necklace someone always puts it on them and it takes two seconds
This is called "Doris Day parking"
Or finding the keys to an unlocked car in the overhead sun-visor. Really? What the hell kind of moron do you have to be to actually leave your car unlocked with the keys RIGHT THERE for anyone to steal quickly and efficiently?
@@ElLocoyelLobo or a "kojak" in my world....recently mentioned by Cooler in an episode of flaked
1. gun makes a clicking sound every time a character pulls it out.
2. protagonist child sports coach starts dating single mom of one of the kids.
3. white teacher improves education of underpriviledged minorities in inner city school
4. Character gets rescued the moment before the sodomy happens
5. Obnoxious racist character sees error of his ways and becomes friends with minority character.
6. slim girl beats down 3+ male henchmen without her hair looking messy.
7. Single father is only single because his wife is dead
8. Period pieces that take place in Greece or Italy where characters are always played by British actors and the dialog is extra British.
9. Protagonist is left at the altar and fiance shows up in the 3rd act after changing their mind.
10. Protagonist is late for their child's recital
11. Gangster films where mafiosi only have black or very dark brown hair
12. Calling a gun's magazine a clip instead of a magazine.
Character gets rescued the moment before the sodomy happens - yesss, all of pg-13 movies have scene where woman or child is going to be tortured/raped but it`s not happening cause hero is saving them
exceeeeept Pulp Fiction, but usually, yes.
Rape as a lazy shortcut to peril is probably my least favourite trope of all. Every postapocalyptic 1st-world setting has an obligatory "hot female protagonist threatened with rape by group of men" scene. Like...how many men do you know who would openly, leeringly indulge in rape 5 minutes after the apocalypse? I resent the implication that law & order is the only thing keeping half of all men from being rapists.
1 is all too true. No experienced gun user is about to walk into a dangerous situation and not already have their gun cocked and safety off. Hollywood all too often waits until they have already snuck up behind someone and pointed the gun at their heads to then cock the gun.
The only reason for a apocalypse
How about when a character needs to make a blood oath, so he dramatically cuts his palm in some ritual. It happened in LOTR, GOT, Star Trek, even friggin Robin Hood. all I can think of is those hands will soon need to be wielding weapons, so why slice them open like that?
Especially with all the muscles, tendons, nerves, and such in the hand. You cut slightly too deep, and hey, you won't be able to properly grip that axe/sword/whatever. And you touch everything with your hands so the likelihood of infection shoots through the roof as the character scrambles through the muck and mire. Why not just superficially slice the outside of your arm? Less painful, easier to wrap effectively. Really late to comment, but that's one that always gets me.
EXAACCTLLYY!!! Thank you! I hate when they cut their hands! So stupid and gross!
like,,,, dramatic effect and all is important but so is basic logic and common sense lol
*_TWO_* movies I watched in the past *week* did this. At the end of IT (2017). And I was on a Twilight marathon, rewatching and riffing all the movies… Bella does this twice, I believe in Eclipse. It isn’t a blood oath, but it’s overly dramatic. In fact, a lot of blood scenes in Twilight are overly dramatic but not because of anything vampire-related. Like, she slices her arm to the point it’s dripping a pretty fast stream of blood immediately. And let’s not forget that “paper cut” where she’s immediately gushing blood. Who’s ever gotten a paper cut like that before?!
…Whoa, I really went off didn’t I?
Josh Combs it’s called not being a pussy
I'm just so done with movies adding sexual tension to things that are very much not sexual. Like, a really really short list:
-Bumping into people
-Falling on top of someone (Maybe it's just me but if I fall on someone it's far more "oh shit that hurt didn't it are you ok")
-Patching up wounds
-Women kicking men in the face what why
-Basic human acts of kindness, like helping someone pick something up or giving someone food
-Hating someone
Yeah I hate this one, too. And it spills out in a toxic way into the real world-- "well, you helped me pick out a good melon, so you were OBVIOUSLY flirting with me" uh, no, he was just being a decent human being, Sunshine.
Every comedy anime ever.
Actually I’d say that the patching of wounds and the hating are accurate. There’s something intimate about healing somebody, and have you ever heard of hate fucking? It happens. Also falling, because you’re in a close proximity that might be sexual if it were not an accident. Being kicked in the face is self-explanatory, masochism is a perfectly normal fetish. It occurs to me now that none of you have a very high sex drive, do you?
Haha ok, I totally agree with this whole list except for... please explain kicking in the face XD I'm trying to picture a movie or way that someone kicked someone in the face and it became sexual.
And John Wick managed to make a naked woman in a hot tub non-romantic
I am Astonded that "Explaining Faster than light travle or worm hols by folding paper and stabing a pen through it." was not on this list.
Maybe there will be a part 2.
Yep or using a stick to draw it in the sand or any material they have next to them.
...when a character pops up panting from a nightmare into a big closeup, in a cold sweat, or... the other cliché variation...
...when a character splashes cold water on their face while staring into a mirror
Even worse cliché is when either of these are used as an abrupt scene transition.
Also, when money transactions (often of illicit nature) happen, the recipient blantantly assumes the bag/briefcase is included in the transaction. Nobody says "Woah, dude! You said 1 million dollars cash. That briefcase is worth 5 grand. Put the cash in your own briefcase. The briefcase was never part of the deal." Not even when the person emptied the account and scrapped together the cash and shows up with the cash in a gym bag. Even then it gets taken. Come on, the guy has no money left and you're not even going to let him keep his gym bag? I expected better from amoral criminals.
You should watch Donald Glover's show "Atlanta"
You win the internet.
And they just peek inside the case and close it assuming it's the expected amount, never count it.
Didnt Austin powers do that?
Stroker and Hoop did that exact bit, it was pretty great. "This briefcase was a birthday gift from my daughter, its not part of the deal!"
How about the "rookie cop" always throwing up at the scene of the crime? *eye roll* Yeah, we get it, he's new at this. That's why everyone is calling him "rookie". No need for vomit clarification, thanks.
This would be way more interesting if they don't throw up and all the seasoned cops are like...waiting for it and go, "You're not gonna throw up?" And they're like, "Not really, wanna get lunch?" Cuz even in a lot of really creepy/sad situations where someone sees something gross they don't reflexively throw up. I'm more likely to want to throw up if I see rotten food than a mangled body.
Fargo. The cop sees the crime scene and has to throw up. But it's because she has morning sickness. That was memorable.
@@mretaoin1 Yes! Whenever a woman vomits, it's a signal she's pregnant. Like women never get a stomach flu...
And the veteran cop always says "I'm too old for this shit."
Or, the rookie cop shoots the first black man he sees, and then the veteran is like, “Haha, you didn’t even turn off your body cam, Rookie!”
And then literally nothing is ever mentioned about it again and there are no repercussions.
Oh WAIT. ...
REALITY!
HASHTAG: REAL WORLD INJUSTICE!
HASHTAG: WOKE
HASHTAG: THOSE JOKES AREN’T FUNNY ANYMORE, DENNIS. I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY LET YOU VOTE.
There are a couple of phone-related suggestions below that may be better, but it always irks me when our heroes have to rush to the scene of an impending catastrophe to warn someone of danger or stop a planned event from happening with absolutely no consideration given to the fact that EVERYONE HAS A CELL PHONE!!!
Old writers forgetting it's not the olden days anymore.
Not only that, NO ONE says goodbye. They just hang up. Drives me crazy.
doesnt matter, they wont have reception anyway.
@@emptyforrest Such a coincidence that the reception had to drop just when the hero needs help haha
The couple finally kiss at the end and everybody in the crowd starts clapping. That is so CRINGE who does that
I feel like that only makes a bit of sense in movies because the backing music swells triumphantly as they do it to indicate how magical and special the moment is, and so it sort of fits. In real life there's no orchestral accompaniment to anyone's public pash sessions so no-one walking by even notices there's anything special happening
Scenes we haven't seen: Sean Bean's character still being alive in the final scene.
Spoilers ...
... Ronin? The Sharpe series.
In Ronin he gets kicked out of the crew like 10 minutes in. I spent the next 90 minutes just waiting for him to pop back up and be a bad guy. He never did :'(
Nieghorn True - but Sharpe is a TV series, not a film. As for Ronin, Sean Bean was definitely on his way to the airport in one of the cars that got wrecked, and died from his injuries. ;-)
Grimbeard Years later, and I finally get the closure I need, knowing he did meet his fate. Thank you kind stranger!
Really though, I might have to check out that series. Legends looked interesting, too.
Percy Jackson...
I'm tired of EVERY GOD DAMN MOVIE having to have a love interest. I want more action movies where a guy saves a girl because he's a good guy and DOESN'T kiss her at some point!
or just like, them actually developing an amazing friendship and deep trust and know they can depend on another or something.
just, maybe, not wanting to jump each other's bones for some reason
One action movie that doesn't follow that is Pacific Rim , super glad they didn't
I was so happy when at the end of the movie and male and female lead just gave each other a platonic victory hug
Or kingsman, where eggsy and Roxy end up just becoming buddies. Love that
Sylph Lens You are so right! That's why I was really proud of "Moana" :D A girl and and guy being alone for days, but instead of romance a friendship evolves. And this movie is from disney!
"Character solves a Rubik's cube to prove that they're a genius"
"Three decades, I've only completed two sides."
Uhh...
Yep, Abe openly says "I'm not much of a PROBLEM SOLVER" (that is: he admits The Rubik's is a matter of capacity at puzzle/problem solving, not a matter of genius).
Siren Hound to show he is half a genius
Cubes have 6 sides, so he would be only one third genius.
(Of course I'm solving a rubiks cube while replying right now, because if you're not impressed with my mental capacity for basic arithmetic and acerbic wit, surely you'll be impressed by my ability to tell you I'm doing something that you are unable to verify)
Children being more aware, intelligent, insightful, and perceptive than they are even REMOTELY in real life.
No. You just hate children. Children are often more insightful, less resigned, more emotionally in tune, and more wild and free than adults in our culture.
Yeah, and if it's a Spielberg movie they swear like sailors.
Something which is dawning on me as I get older is that people, including elderly people and children, really don't tend to change all that much.
If you're a compassionate, insightful person then you were probably a compassionate, insightful child, and will stay that way when you're elderly.
And if not, then not.
@Aaron Smith Well, whilst people don't overall change very much, we're also quite complicated.
A person can be imperfect, do something wrong, and deserve forgiveness and a second chance despite not having had a total change of personality.
Depends on the person, depends what they've done. It always depends in the circumstances.
@Aaron Smith This just seems myopic.
I am so sick and tired of movies where the hero comes up against the villain and they engage in a series of tongue twisters to establish dominance. "So Mr. Bond... She sells seashells by the sea shore..."
Lmao
Megamind (the movie) actually makes fun of exactly that!
HAHAHAHA I actually love it, though. And I try to do it irl to people I am fighting. In video games.
Thank you for mentioning Liar Liar, the way possible "step-dad" was written was refreshing.
Also, Something's Gotta Give. She has serious relationship with a perfect human being like Keanu Reeves who is a successful doctor, and she chooses the womanizer who almost banged her daughter.
The problem with Liar Liar is that the read dad is a jerk. During his truth period, did he ever mention feeling for h is ex, or was it all about the kid?
I get why you didn't delve more into the damage caused by movies perpetuating harmful/inaccurate stereotypes, but I really appreciate you encouraging people to at least be aware of it because I've never even heard someone mention the cheating one before and there's some serious social dissonance there.
Being aware and conscious of things and not being preachy about them is probably one of his best traits.
So glad other people are tired of sketchy movie relationships justified by unlikable/cheating boyfriends. Not only tiresome but societally toxic!
"I'm going with you."
Predictable banter, argument ensues.
Hate that!
Also the "Take me with you" line.
To be honest, Jerry from Liar Liar always really depressed me. When I started to realize that he was ultimately a better person than Jim Carrey's character, it put a damper on the whole ending to think about him basically losing a new family. I definitely agree that making the boyfriend a cheater is very overused, but doing it like Liar Liar just isn't entertaining for a mainstream comedy.
Yep! They always tend to make the person who is going to lose or die unlikeable to the audience by making them an asshole, unattractive, or just really annoying. I think it's for that very reason, so the audience doesn't end up just being depressed.
My pet hate regarding over-used scenes: Introducing a character by having an alarm go off and the character reaches out from bed to turn it off! WHY?!! Another: a character ends a phone call, the phone rings and they ASSUME it's the same character! "What did you forget to tell - mum? Dad's in hospital?" The same when they close the door on a friend they escorted out. *door bell* "Ugh, guess he forgot his keys. Hang on!" Ya know in my when a phone rings immediately after the last call, it's usually NOT THE SAME PERSON AGAIN! IT'S NOT.
Sweet home Alabama is a great exception to the cheating bf rule. Reese Witherspoon's character realizes she still married / I love with her ex husband and leaves her fiance at the alter, and he's totally ok with it. I actually love that movie bc they didn't make the fiance a bad guy, it was two decent guys, she just realizes who she's "meant" to be with
Never seen before scene: A man and a woman spend time together. They encourage, inspire, have a great rapport. They are married/in relationships with other people who are totally cool with the friendship. They are just friends. And there is never sexual tension or forbidden kiss or anything.
Malcom and Zoe from firefly. Old war buddies, bffs, in the series it's more obvious as they acknowledge it. She's married and he does his thing and there is never any forced sexual tension. Loved it
@Alice Eliot Dear I hope no one calls you bad names for sharing your personal experiences! I've known the opposite. Granted, there are plenty of people this sort of relationship is absolutely impossible. From lack of bounties to shaky history there are any number of reasons where a man and woman cannot platonicly care for each other without it becoming an issue. But I've also had a few guys in my life over the years where it WAS, and these were/are very valued and protected friendships. Adopted siblings if you will.
Same or opposite sex, I hope you got to hang out with some really good friends this weekend, Alice!
@@anxiousArtisan Ooooo good point!! I had forgotten about them... I've only seen half the season (was visiting friends who only had time to show me the first bit) I'll have to check them out again!
I actually like that in Pacific Rim, it goes on about how compatible the main male and female lead are, but it doesn't get sexual or romantic.
@Alice Eliot You're hanging out with the wrong people if you don't think guys and girls can be close friends without it being romantic or sexual. I hope you find better friends.
"Who are you and what have you done with ________"
"You just don't get it, do you?!?"
Just from my own experience of the nightmares I've had, when I wake up, I'm still lying down with my head on the pillow.
But in movies when a character wakes up from a nightmare, they sit straight up.
Y'all forgot about the Color Purple shave scene, which is, to me, the ultimate shaving an oppressor scene ever.
Ole Albert lucked out. He was just one shave short
I commented about that too!
Raechel Blakeney but that scene wasn't him using shaving to show dominance over her, it was to show how she was fed up and was about to use his confidence against him
His interactions with her from the time she was a child was to show his dominance over her.
I am glad I am not the only one who thought about that scene when watching this.
My dad IS a stack of beagles in a kimono. Please don't belittle my pain.
Have you considered writing a memoir?
Dang. You should walk in on your significant other cheating on you, then you can go on a wacky, life-changing adventure.
That is not pain that is bombastic majesty!
The tracing a phone call routine: "Keep him on the line for 10 more seconds!" - Especially since the reality is that the scenario is complete B.S.
In times past it was necessary to do so but anything with tech newer than the 90's a phone trace is near instant.
1) The "tracing a phone call" routine where the villain has "routed" his call through a dozen countries (to justify the "keep him on the line") and the NYPD/FBI tech _in the same room_ is able to trace even several legs in another country. A tech in the US can't "trace" a call that's bridged two lines in an exchange in another country.
2) Any time that losing the connection instantly ends their ability to trace those multiple connections afterwards. Real-time or nothing. Digital systems don't keep logs you can analyse?
@@1FatLittleMonkey: What about when they've hacked the entire foreign telco? www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv3-ch2-aug29.pdf
The one I hate the most though, is the simple misunderstanding that would take 2 seconds of communication. Usually coincides with people walking in thinking the person is cheating on them, but isn't. Then having to chase them down before they get on an airplane/bus/train.
There's actually an episode of Cartoon Network's show "Chowder" where the main character...Chowder...gets trapped inside his own mouth and his wisdom tooth breaks out a banjo and starts singing about sweet and sour
funny smile 123 lol
funny smile 123 I can never get that episode out of my head
Young woman shows her rebellious nature by lighting a cigarette.
Couple's first meeting is confrontational.
Leading lady's first appearance involves doing something threatening or at least tomboyish (like pointing a gun at the hero). What really makes this a cliche is that it's one-off behavior, to grab our attention!
Girl gets pressured by pornographer to take off her top, and bursts into tears. (See FAME.)
Girl undresses with the curtains open, allowing boys to peep at her.
Someone bumps into a glass door.
Girl poses nude for boy artist. (This one happened in three movies that came out almost at the same time: TITANIC, AS GOOD AS IT GETS and GREAT EXPECTATIONS.)
The hero doesn't wait for the cops but takes unilateral action by himself, and it turns out that all along the villain was counting on him doing this!
Narc cop identifies cocaine by tasting it.
Single woman whose close friend is a gay man.
BTW, I think the movie that started the "powerful man being shaved" cliche was THE UNTOUCHABLES, with a barber shaving Robert de Niro's Al Capone. (So "credit" David Mamet and Brian de Palma for it.) And LOVE, ACTUALLY is a compendium of cliches!
James Matthews it was actually done first in The Color Purple 1985. And there is actually a pay off showing the character Celie growing into her own when she actually contemplates hurting Mr when shaving him.
@@thegirllikesmovies7389It actually happened to Al Capone in real life. Capone who was Italian went to a Sicilian barber and said he wanted a Sicilian style haircut. The barber was offended and gave Capone his trademark scar.
@@thegirllikesmovies7389 Another cliche in THE COLOR PURPLE: her husband intercepts letters to her but instead of destroying them he hides them all in a single place so she can find them someday. (When she finds out about the letters she goes in search of them, because she knows this is a world where intercepted letters don't get destroyed!)
@@thegirllikesmovies7389 I was literally about to check if The Color Purple came out before the Untouchables. Thank you.
James Matthews lol yes. I hate when characters don’t behave like normal people just for the sake of plot. I would never keep a stack of letters I’m trying to hide from someone in the house we live in. I’d burn them. There has to be a better way to write these scenarios.
Pass The Salt : Character expositions something important, typically plot heavy in nature, after which they dismissively say, "Pass the salt."
There's also a shaving scene in The Color Purple where Celie has to shave her abusive husband's face, it's a very tense scene. I don't know when this trope originated but this is the earliest example I can think of when this scenario was used in a film.