Film Clich�

[BigDogsWang]

Which one bugs you the most?

[Jay_Jay]

A couple of my 'favourites': When anyone goes to leave by a door, they're always, but always called back by the person to whom they were talking in the first place.

And ties: you (almost) never see an actor tie his own neck-tie.

[Supernick]

I hate it when action heros get injured, and they only get a cut along their cheekbone. They never get a tooth knocked out or a big black eye etc.

[shammydodger]

That nobody ever, ever goes to the crapper!

[BigDogsWang]

Any time a woman is brave enough to face her attacker with a gun, the safety will be on. The assailant will laugh and take the gun from her.

[jenky]

Jay -Jay, that was Columbo's greatest weapon in his game of cat and mouse with the villain. Surely we can't take that away.
"one more thing....."

[chazza]

When someone goes to tell someone else something eg that they want to leave them for someone else, and the other person says "no let me go first, i love you and want to thank you for all your support" and the first person doesnt get to say what they wanted to say

Also, when a wife throws her husband out of the bed they always have to sleep on the sofa with a thin blanket, even though they own a massive house which is bound to have a spare bed somewhere!

[natalie_1982]

When they think somebody is in the house with them and instead of running out the front door they run upstairs and lock themselves in the bathroom. Without a weapon of any sort.

Seriously, you would grab somethng heavy if it was anywhere near you and dash out side screaming as fast as humanly possible.

And when they lose reception on their mobile whilest lost in the forest being chased by inbreds. If I was lost in the forest there would still probably be some pillock with the Nokia ringtone shouting "HELLO? I'M IN THE FOREST!"

[bonbon28]

I hate it when the villain is after the 'goody' and they run up the stairs!!! WHY!!!!

[natalie_1982]

Also, when they are leaving the front door, usually someone is the other side just about to know. This happens more on TV (soaps) than films, but how often does it happen in real life?

[natalie_1982]

.....aaaaaannnnndddd...... in action films, the framed good guy has a chuffing water pistol and takes on the entire police force who are armed to the teeth and escapes with, as pointed out earlier, a scratched cheek or at the most a bullet in the arm or leg which miraculously heals intself within about 20 minutes.

[natalie_1982]

Good question BDW< but I can't stop now....

Another thing is actors/ actresses waking up looking perfect. What is that all about?

Their hair doesn't have knots / dreadlocks / static, their eyes are not stuck together, they don't have drool on the pillow or mascara smeared down their cheek, their eyes aren't red and puffy and they don't have that scrunchy marking from the pillow on their face/ neck/ chest. And they don't spill tea on the bedcovers.

[BigDogsWang]

Three stars for everyone!!! I can't keep up!!

How about bad guys who 'lurk' until their presence is revealed by a flash of lightning.

[natalie_1982]

Yeah, that's another one. People only get murdered when it's raining hard or thundering, it nevers happens in the sunshine.

No wonder so many people are buying property abroad..... they obviously know something we don't.

[Supernick]

Detectives investigating a crime scene in a house always do it with torches rather than turning the flaming lights on.

[yinyang]

To follow on from what natalie was saying about people locking themselves in the bathroom. How about when a girl on her own late at night hears a noise outside and immediately goes out( usually in a skimpy nightie) to investigate?

[shammydodger]

...and not just in films, but no two characters will ever have the same first name. Not even 2 Johns in the same street!

[BigDogsWang]

All movie mothers will prepare a breakfast every morning, usually consisting of scrambled eggs, bacon, etc. Dad and the kids will invariably arrive at the table 30 seconds before Dad has to leave for the office and the kids have to catch the school bus. Each will have time only for a sip of coffee/juice and/or one bite of toast.

[natalie_1982]

Shammydodger reminded me, and this happens in TV as well as films, that you have Doctors living in the same street as uneployed peeps living on benefits. I know this does happen, but not as common as TV. How the hell does Lois Lane (dunno the character/ real name) afford that whacking great house in Desperate Housewives?

[JustSia]

Talking about waking up perfect... They always seem to hover over each other without any concern for their morning breath. I only saw the character admitting to the cat dying inside her mouth over night once and that was soooo refreshing.

Oh and there is always knocking the villain out and leaving him on the floor with an axe or a gun right next to him and then running and finding that he is chasing after you again only this time madder for knocking him out in a first place. Couldn't they just kill the b.....d whilst he is out cold or at least restrain him/her?

Oh, and the fact that the Titanic sank. I say, give me an alternative ending. Oh, and the americans always save the world and yes, they were the ones who won the WW2. When, oh, when will our history be rewritten to acknowledge that fact?

S.

[Rumford]

Agree with all the above posts about the bad guys emptying magazines of ammo at the hero/ine and either it hits just behind him/her as they run or ricochet off of stair rails, pillars etc. The target then fires two pistol shots and kills two people, regardless of the range.

My bugbear is where they try to show how intelligent people are by showing them playing chess. I don't object to this as such but it irritates me beyond belief when the board is the wrong way round. i.e. at ninety degrees to the proper way.