Annoying movie cliches (that keep on giving) (drama, horror, war)
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The failed escape attempt. The character is being held captive, but escapes! yay! only to be caught again. I always find this to be lazy writing, because it doesn't move the story along, but is just used as a filler or time waster.
The failed escape attempt. The character is being held captive, but escapes! yay! only to be caught again. I always find this to be lazy writing, because it doesn't move the story along, but is just used as a filler or time waster.
This reminds me of another that is fairly recent, the multiple false victories. This is something I really noticed when I saw Transformers: Dark of the Moon with the battle in Chicago where at least three times the Autobots and the armed forces could failed to defeat the Decpticons led by Sentile Prime. By the third time, I was shot and I just wanted not just the fight to end but the movie too. That is a reason why I was very skeptical about whatever the most recent one was.
I spent a day watching Lifetime (don't ask me why) and of course it was a bunch of movies about crazy women being obsessed with someone.
In almost every movie it ended with the wife/girlfriend/daughter/main female who was attached to the object of obsession fighting the crazy person on the roof, on the 2nd floor, in the attic, etc so that at the very end the female could then throw crazy person over the edge and they would land on either a glass table or a fence.
The first time I saw this was in hand that rocks the cradle but they're STILL doing it 22 years later.
I spent a day watching Lifetime (don't ask me why) and of course it was a bunch of movies about crazy women being obsessed with someone.
In almost every movie it ended with the wife/girlfriend/daughter/main female who was attached to the object of obsession fighting the crazy person on the roof, on the 2nd floor, in the attic, etc so that at the very end the female could then throw crazy person over the edge and they would land on either a glass table or a fence.
The first time I saw this was in hand that rocks the cradle but they're STILL doing it 22 years later.
I suggest watching Killing Daddy, it is a bit of the typical Lifetime movie that came out last year but it isn't to the point they get thrown off of something and crash.
Hero and villain drop their guns in the final showdown and decide to fight it out hand-to-hand.
Along the same line...
No matter how huge the final battle scene is, no matter how many combatants are engaged on both sides, somehow or other the chief good guy and the chief villain will find one another on the field and engage in one on one combat which always seems to settle the entire battle.
It also gets my goat when in some furious battle involving thousands of warriors, if the chief good guy's closest friend suffers a mortal wound, the chief good guy will somehow or other find the time to disengage from the combat all around him, long enough for a few final words and a tender goodbye, he is never interrupted by the need to keep fighting. The noise of the ongoing battle always suspiciously vanishes during this sequence as well.
When it comes to two heroes....If one has to die, it's the minority guy. Somehow, minority heroes somehow always comes up short.
The hero doesn't want to kill the villain after defeating him at the end but the villain forces his hand and so the hero shoots him dead in self defense, not because he wants to, it's because he HAS to.
The villain wins the fight but instead of just killing the hero. He decides to stop and give a 5 minute speech and then gets killed.
No matter what, 99% of the time, Hollywood hero always wins! I guess that's why I enjoy Korean movies, sometimes, the hero doesn't always win or live.
Every single damn time, a Hero saves a woman. Suddenly, she just sluts herself away, with the exception where the hero is an Asian man, then he's out of luck. Come on! How many women out there was saved by a cop, fireman, soldier in real life and then turns around and start sleeping with the person who saved them?
Smoking. Honestly, I have not seen a single movie were the hero/villain is a smoker and that smoking scene made such moving scene that if that smoking scene was not there, the whole movie would be ruin.
People hiding behind sofas, chairs, recliner, or dining table and survives a gun shoot out. Really?
Whether it is a war movie or western, whenever someone says "It's awfully quiet out there.", without fail someone else will respond:
"Yeah, too quiet."
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I always find this to be lazy writing, because it doesn't move the story along, but is just used as a filler or time waster.
