Movie cliches that wouldn't work

[Mattk]

I just watched 'Man on a Ledge' and they used the tried and tested movie cliche of clipping a still photo onto a security camera to fool the guards. Surely this would never work as the camera is focused 10 foot or more away and not 2 inches?!

What other movie cliches that just wouldnt work can you think of?

[Tilly2]

When Jennifer Aniston always looks so perfect.

[janzman]

Nobody ever has to look up a phone number and nobody ever says goodbye at the end of calls they just hang up.

[joko]

when they are falling and they manage to catch themselves on 2inch ledge with just their finger tips...or by grabbing a pole with one hand - pretty much impossible...no-ones finger tips are that strong to stop their body weight at velocity... even a professional climber or gynmnast that uses the bars would struggle to do that!

[joko]

there is alway only one person in the phone book with their name...and they always rip the page out ... thered be no pages left if everyone did that

there is no such dialling code as 555 - so they always use those numbers.

some things though - if they did them - would just make boring telly, and make the film twice as long - like looking up numbers etc

[cathfromsaron]

yes 555 is compulsory in all films and tv progs ...

[Mattk]

They can stop a lift and climb out of a hatch

[janzman]

555 Dialling Code
http://en.wikipedia.o...55_(telephone_number)

[zebo]

No-ne ever needs to pee, no matter how long the action takes.

[islasmum]

I was going to say that zebo - and noone ever gets to eat more than two mouthfuls of a meal - mind you, maybe that's why they never need to go to the loo!

[Canary42]

My favourite is in shoot-outs in Westerns - the good guy(s) always manage to duck AFTER the bad guy has pulled the trigger, then pops up and shoots the bad guy who doesn't duck - do baddies use slower bullets ?

[weecalf]

In musicals they are alone in the house suddenly this 100 piece orchestra strikes up .

[weecalf]

John Wayne saying " Fill your hands you sons of bitches " How did he know they were bitches he did not even know who they were yet .

[Flyhalf]

At most, three sides of a table are occupied at mealtimes.

[jno]

oh Islasmum, how can you say that??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tezjznL9NzM

[THECORBYLOON]

A speeding car hits a parked car and takes off, flying tens of feet in the air yet the parked car hasn't moved an inch.

[jno]

it probably had a flat battery, TCL. I've had cars like that.

[islasmum]

I must have missed that film jno, - thank goodness!

[jno]

she died just the other day, at a ripe old age, Islasmum

http://www.guardian.c...ce-redman?INTCMP=SRCH

the idea in the film is that they were trying to seduce each other though the audience suspected (but the characters did not know) that she was his mother.