Stupid film cliches

[singlecoil]

You must know what I mean, the same silly stuff seen in film after film.

For instance, it's the middle of winter, the character enters a house, but doesn't close the door behind him.

The hitman assembles a sniper rifle, the telescopic sight is seperate from the barrel. No ranging shot, very first shot smack on target.

The main characters run from an explosion or a building bursting into flame (often used as a publicity still).

The main character arrives at his or her place of work, often an open plan office, everybody else is already there.

Character gets into a car and drives off, doesn't need to start the engine.

Feel free to add more.

[BermyAndy]

never needing to re-load guns

[cottonfoo]

Huge, noisy explosions in space.

[juice]

Airplane

Jet Engine with Propeller sound effects.

That was probably intentional though

[FourWheelDrift]

Things always blowing up in huge sheets of flame whenever they are shot, cars pushed over cliffs exploding or that bloody Windsor Flight in Die Hard 2 that is "running on fumes" when it is forced into crashing and blowing up like it was a flying petrol tanker.

[eharding]

singlecoil said:

The main character arrives at his or her place of work, often an open plan office, everybody else is already there.

Ah, now then..you see, that happens to me, most days.

[Civpilot]

FourWheelDrift said:

Things always blowing up in huge sheets of flame whenever they are shot, cars pushed over cliffs exploding or that bloody Windsor Flight in Die Hard 2 that is "running on fumes" when it is forced into crashing and blowing up like it was a flying petrol tanker.

To be fair though, a fuel tank full of fumes will go up far quicker than a tank full of fuel

[marshalla]

car - pile of empty boxes - steering event - interface condition.

[HD Adam]

Tyre screeching noises as the car takes off from a standstill on grass or gravel.

Multiple gear change noises on automatic cars during a chase.

The countdown timer on a bomb that runs in slow motion. 20 seconds till explosion, 1 minute of action then still 10 seconds to go.

[patmahe]

Always getting a parking space right outside where you wanted to go.

[10 Pence Short]

The good guy winning.

[Chainguy]

Never finishing a meal.

[Crimson Tide]

These aren't really clichés though, I didn't think? I thought a cliché was more an overused plot idea or similar. For example, a policeman's older partner with a wife and kids is days from retirement but gets killed by the bad guy.

Or the countdown thing of getting to the 'abort' switch at 00:00:01. And so on.

The above are still amusing inaccuracies though.

Edited by Crimson Tide on Thursday 19th February 22:14

[EDLT]

Being involved in some extrordinary event.

[central]

Motorcycle 2 stroke/4 stroke exhaust notes always wrong.

[Tunku]

Computer screens that light up the face of the user to such an extent you can read words on their skin.

[singlecoil]

Sixties Mustang convertible, don't know how many times I've seen one of those in a film.

[G'kar]

Student/waiter/rookie cop has unfeasibly fantastic apartment.

Cop/Fireman/Coast Guard etc wearing a watch worth half their annual salary.

[singlecoil]

Tunku said:

Computer screens that light up the face of the user to such an extent you can read words on their skin.

That reminds me, people operating a computer, always having to type everything, no mice in action

[Killer2005]

Cars continuously blowing up in any accident
Any Guy Ritchie film where all cockneys are wide boys and such like