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"Movie Cliches"

Films are loaded with 'em these days. "Ghost Ship" is one of the worst pieces of drivel, I've had to endure, and couldn't help but spot them everywhere. Let's hear some typical movie cliches that get on your nerves...

Ms NY wrote:
> Probably because the writer's love to dream. Their characters are
> [probably] like a different side of them, only, one in which they
> can't have!

Possibly, although said cliché only really bothers me when a character is meant to be someone we are supposed to feel sympathy for. It’s summed up better in a quote I read on Empire online of their review for Shaun of the Dead: “in Bruce Almighty, for instance, we’re supposed to accept Jim Carrey as a failure, though he has a job on television and is living with Jennifer Aniston” .

It’s hard to feel sympathetic for a character when they live a lifestyle most can only dream of.

cipro wrote:
> Another I also just thought of, why is it that in many US movies, the
> characters all live in huge houses with swimming pools and hired
> staff to help cook and clean for them? Stupid.

Probably because the writer's love to dream. Their characters are [probably] like a different side of them, only, one in which they can't have!

Only kidding Reefer, wouldn't worry about it

The Hibernator wrote:
> Here's a cliche - over-use of the nasty r-word...
>
> No disrespect, I just don't like it.

Hardly a cliche..
I'll use a nasty m-word instead.

Grix Thraves wrote:
> Reefer wrote:
> The Hibernator wrote:
> You know, Duffman said that in last night's episode of "The
> Simpsons"
>
> I didn't know it was last night, but that's where I stole the quote
> from.
>
> Hey, just a word of advice, if you copy things to post on here, make
> sure you give credit to where they came from, it's only fair.

But it wasn't like that...

Here's a cliche - over-use of the nasty r-word...

No disrespect, I just don't like it.

Very_Metal wrote:
> There is the climax at the end
>
> .... yes. yes there is.
> where else to you propose they put the climax of the film?? :)

Don't nitpick. I was stating it simply for any of the mongoloids on this forum.

Reefer wrote:
> The Hibernator wrote:
> You know, Duffman said that in last night's episode of "The
> Simpsons"
>
> I didn't know it was last night, but that's where I stole the quote
> from.

Hey, just a word of advice, if you copy things to post on here, make sure you give credit to where they came from, it's only fair.

munn wrote:
> In love films and shiznit, when the main guy goes to find the girl he
> loves, he walks into the room and someone is kissing her against her
> wishes, then, the guys walks away, and she pushes the guy away.
>
> Seriously, it wouldn't be a teen love movie without that scene.

Ugh.. I hate that one, like I hate the cliché where a woman sees her boyfriend talking to another woman and immediately thinks he's cheating on her, then goes into a blind rage throwing his clothed and stuff out of the window of their apartment without even bothering to hear what he has to say.

Another I also just thought of, why is it that in many US movies, the characters all live in huge houses with swimming pools and hired staff to help cook and clean for them? Stupid.

In love films and shiznit, when the main guy goes to find the girl he loves, he walks into the room and someone is kissing her against her wishes, then, the guys walks away, and she pushes the guy away.

Seriously, it wouldn't be a teen love movie without that scene.