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"Cliche Time"

This is always fun.
GIve me examples of movie cliches, I'll start.

Prison Movies:

Sadistic Warden
Bullying head gaurd
Rape of newcomer
Passing things between cells in a sock
Old lag that can get anything you want
Old lag that keeps an animal of sorts
Brash new arrival that thinks he's the man

spoofs must have a scene where someone falls down some stairs and a dance scene

Any opening scene that does not fit in with the rest of the film showing the hero failing at a simple task like target shooting or being unable to go into tall buildings will play a major part in the obstacle needed to ne victorious

Bad guys are ALWAYS really crap shots. Why?

If I was a bad guy in a film, I'd make all my henchmen take a shooting test!

Oh and halfway through the described film, the good guy will either have a clear shot at bad guy and not take it or at least the bad guy will come very close to dying, and somehow escape

Good guys:

Remember to hire a boffin. He or she will provide you with seemingly irrelevant object at some point, which will later prove to be invaluable. The irrelevance of the object is directly proportional to how much danger you will be in at the time it is required.

Bad Guys:
You must sneer at everything. You are not allowed to be slightly misguided in your beliefs, you must be a total pyscho.
And never, ever have a family.
You must be an angry lone monster with a european accent and be called Jeremy Irons or Alan Rickman.

Action Film:

Last (almost) scene:


Main character running through deserted/old building. Bad guy following

Good guy has no weapons.

Bad guy has big machine gun, loads and loads of bullets, and yet never shoots good guy. *how can he be such a bad shot?*

Good guy runs into room with lots of pillars/boxes. He hides.

Bad guy walks in and shoots round the room, again missing good guy. walks in a bit, good guy hiding behind door, now jumps out and has the fight described earlyer!

If you are trying to find the villain, go arrest Kevin Spacey.
He did it.

He always does.

Bad guys:

Don't explain your motives or construct elaborate timing mechanisms for bombs.

Do just get on with killing, and blow stuff up.

And if you work with a geeky female in a lab, after an explosion, be sure to remove her glasses and unpin her hair, because usually you will discover she is hot.