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Here's a movie cliche that seems to still come up and will never die. When ever someone is in a river, whether on an long-planned rafting trip or because they jumped in to get away from a bad guy or because they're just lost and fell in--they're going to end up floating down to a massive waterfall. And they're always suprised by it. Because massive waterfalls are never well-known tourist destinations nor is there ever much common knowledge that downstream from where they are they might end up floating over a massive waterfall. This will often end up in a specatcular scene of someone going over the falls that instead of ending in certain death splattered on the rock at the bottom, they just end up getting soaking wet then finding an safe cave underneath the waterfall or being pulled out at the last minute.
Another more ridiculous cliche is when they're floating down a river--and there's a fork in the river with two separate branches--and on one branch there's a pleasant calm waterway going to the correct location and on the other is a once again--a massive waterfall or possibly a angry native tribe or something else. And they'll always end up taking the dangerous fork. And the most ridiculous instances are when there's a fork in the river going downstream, which completely defies most geologic science. Although there was also one film where I think they ended up going over a waterfall while somehow going upstream.
This has been repeated so often in movies that it isn't even funny anymore. Sometimes I wonder if everyone in England was out in Hollywood playing bad guy roles. Why don't have some heroic English characters for a change, and maybe villains with Aussie/Irish accents?
Any movie Steven Segal is in. Someone messed with his family/partner/hairstylist. He goes for revenge. Same old story.
Segal movies have their own cliches, too. There will pretty much always be a knife fight, and at some point after beating the crap out of an entire room full of thugs, he'll give an inspirational "speech", which undoubtedly changes everyone's perspective on something important.
Segal movies have their own cliches, too. There will pretty much always be a knife fight, and at some point after beating the crap out of an entire room full of thugs, he'll give an inspirational "speech", which undoubtedly changes everyone's perspective on something important.
Yes, I agree.The movie Against the dark was hilarious in this regard. It was like a bootleg version of Blade and he was more wooded and stiff then the undead he was fighting against.
This has been repeated so often in movies that it isn't even funny anymore. Sometimes I wonder if everyone in England was out in Hollywood playing bad guy roles. Why don't have some heroic English characters for a change, and maybe villains with Aussie/Irish accents?
Even characters who aren't English will often have English accents. Actors playing French royalty or Nazis don't speak with a French or German accent, they'll still be English. Maybe because it's understandable, yet still foreign-sounding for an American audience?
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