Stupid film cliches

[CobolMan]

Everybody always knows how to get onto the roof or into the basement of hospitals.

[croyde]

In all American films when the car driver is having a conversation so I am presuming that the vehicle is being towed or on a tracking truck, the steering wheel is upside down.

ie they should be permanently veering to the left or right.

Is this some sort of 'elf an safety thing?

[ajprice]

TV and film, the driver moving the steering wheel left, right, left, right, in some weird way to show that they are driving the car, but its on a straight road.

[HD Adam]

People flying in helicopters having normal volume conversations without headphones on.

[Blib]

If someone sneezes, they will be dead before the end of the film.

[shirt]

absolutely everthing in CSI. i don't watch it but my parents do and i was at their house last night and saw an episode of CSI Las Vegas.

clearly made for complete idiots. even the most simple and obvious things have to be explained to the viewer. If one character says something, another one will then respond by rephrasing everything they've just said as though the target audience is 10-12yr olds.

had to laugh at some things. then an advert for the shield came on so i asked my parents if they watch it. they said no, then asked if was any good. needless to say im lending them the first 2 series on DVD to stop them watching such tosh in future.

[ipitythefool]

ClintonB said:

Heroes on the other hand are all Olympic/Special Forces standard shots, even if they've worked in an office all their lives, been housewives etc

Apart from when shooting at the 'lead' baddie, when their sniper-like accuracy turns to jelly and they are forced into hand to hand combat.

[Lefty Guns]

People flying backwards when they're shot in the chest?

[ipitythefool]

If you're a poor person living in East London, and you are leaving then you always take a black cab and not the tube or bus.

Likewise when the same poor people arrive, they arrive by said black cab and ALWAYS allow the driver to keep the change.

[chris watton]

shirt said:

absolutely everthing in CSI. i don't watch it but my parents do and i was at their house last night and saw an episode of CSI Las Vegas.

clearly made for complete idiots. even the most simple and obvious things have to be explained to the viewer. If one character says something, another one will then respond by rephrasing everything they've just said as though the target audience is 10-12yr olds.

had to laugh at some things. then an advert for the shield came on so i asked my parents if they watch it. they said no, then asked if was any good. needless to say im lending them the first 2 series on DVD to stop them watching such tosh in future.

I agree, it reminds me of the end of each Scooby Doo episode; No matter how flimsy the evidence, the accused always spill the beans, in a “If it weren’t for those pesky kids….” type manner. Silly, silly programme.

[sadako]

aclivity said:

Mystic Slippers said:

Jasandjules said:

hugoagogo said:

Mystic Slippers said:

Exteriors of space craft that are dirty/grimy -how ?

they don't have a vacuum cleaner?

You'd need an awfully large "Space Ship Wash" to clean a Star Destroyer. I mean, a planet worth of water, then add the wax.. Nightmare...

i meant how in the vacuum / nothingness of space do they get dirty in the first place


unless you allow for space insects and lunar birds that is ......

because they are surrounded by the poo and wee from the ship ... the mass of the ship attracts all of the effluents back onto the ship?

A) space has dust and all sorts of particles in it, B) anywhere not orbiting a planed and the ship'll have the feck irradiated out of it by nearby stars, which might scorch the paint a little...

[Cotty]

If there is a fight tournament then the best fighter/favorite will always be a badie/villain and get beaten up by the nice/good guy in the final.

Think just about every JCVD film and many others.

[disco1]

Lefty Guns said:

People flying backwards when they're shot in the chest?

This is v annoying, they did this on mythbusters and it got busted. Basically you're going to drop on the spot (even if hit by a .50cal), not fly 10 yards.

[audidoody]

Huge tanks of inflammable material marked:
"Inflammable" and "Propane"


Control panels on nuclear reactors marked:
DANGER

People running in all different directions to escape an emergency

[AstonZagato]

audidoody said:

Huge tanks of inflammable material marked:
"Inflammable" and "Propane"

Isn't there a computer game that explicitly make reference to exploding barrels as a weak gaming cliche? Was quite amusingly scripted, iirc.

[pits]

shirt said:

absolutely everthing in CSI. i don't watch it but my parents do and i was at their house last night and saw an episode of CSI Las Vegas.

clearly made for complete idiots. even the most simple and obvious things have to be explained to the viewer. If one character says something, another one will then respond by rephrasing everything they've just said as though the target audience is 10-12yr olds.

had to laugh at some things. then an advert for the shield came on so i asked my parents if they watch it. they said no, then asked if was any good. needless to say im lending them the first 2 series on DVD to stop them watching such tosh in future.

CSI Miami is worse, they have liek a 3mgp picture of a phone, put it on there screens and they are like

• keyboard clatter* "enhance"
• keyboard clatter* "enhance"

"ok see that ticket stub on the floor"

• keyboard clatter* "enhance"

"bit more"

• keyboard clatter* "enhance"

"so that ticket stub is upside down, enhance that and digitally flip it"

• keyboard clatter* "enhance"
• keyboard clatter* "enhance"
• keyboard clatter* "flip it over"
• keyboard clatter* "enhance"

"now read that finger print off it"

• keyboard clatter* "enhance"

"seems that our perp/victim used this ticket"

Yes agree utter rubbish, but so good to watch and laugh at how poor it really is

The other one I like I dont know if its been mentioned but if you see a womans boobs in a film before knowing her name, she will probably die soon

[mikeyr]

probably already been mentioned but ridiculously sophisticated systems - usually touch screens - used by all shady government surveillance teams.

i understand that in real life these sort of places usually run on an old version of windows as it takes so long to get everything security checked before installing it on a network!

so why do all computer screens look like minority report was a documentary?!?

and not once to they have to turn it off and back on again!

[Strangely Brown]

pits said:

CSI Miami is worse, they have liek a 3mgp picture of a phone, put it on there screens and they are like

• keyboard clatter* "enhance"...

Yeah but it was only like a 3mp picture so it could have been something else and they were only like enhancing the picture so they were actually doing something else.

FFS! It's bad enough when people punctuate their speech with like all over the place. To do it in writing as well is really taking the piss.

Edited by Strangely Brown on Monday 2nd March 18:02

[Jasandjules]

disco1 said:

Lefty Guns said:

People flying backwards when they're shot in the chest?

This is v annoying, they did this on mythbusters and it got busted. Basically you're going to drop on the spot (even if hit by a .50cal), not fly 10 yards.

Parts of you may however keep travelling along with the bullet and/or spray around, but the main carcass will drop down.......

[croyde]

mikeyr said:

probably already been mentioned but ridiculously sophisticated systems - usually touch screens - used by all shady government surveillance teams.

i understand that in real life these sort of places usually run on an old version of windows as it takes so long to get everything security checked before installing it on a network!

so why do all computer screens look like minority report was a documentary?!?

and not once to they have to turn it off and back on again!

What gets me in Minority report is when he uses his hands to sweep some info into some sort of attachment, like a USB drive then takes the drive over to the other desk so that the other guy can see it. With all that gubbins around, surely they had a Wi Fi Network.