Movie cliches

I'm watching Dawn of the Dead, and they're climbing around in heating ducts. Do all buildings really have these easily accessable pathways in their ceilings, or is it just a cheap plot device that's taken hold? I'm genuinely curious

But it really pisses me off whenever a movie cuts back to a scene and a character says "Now, let me get this straight. You're telling me you're... from the future/from the past/robots/aliens/French/whatever." If anyone ever tells me something unbelievable like that, I'd just laugh at them instead of rephrasing everything they just said into a few sentences to make for quick storytelling.

What lame things have you seen in tons of movies that always annoy you?

The independent 30-something single girl who always fucking writes for a hip magazine/ newspaper...so overdone.

Film & TV... whenever someone goes grocery shopping in NYC they ALWAYS buy a baguette and it sticks out from their shopping bag.

dont forget the carrot stalks next to it

What with a dry cool wit like that I could be an action hero.

I'm tired of everyone having super-ninja skills. Sometimes fights don't involve martial arts and close up shaky-cam.

I don't like the shaky close-shots with the quick edits for action sequences... you can't see anything that's going on.

Paul Anderson is a bigtime offender, especially with Alien vs Predator.

Well, I wouldn't call them super. Sometimes it takes me two fingers to kill a man instead of the standard one.

Walk into a hail of bullets and feel no pain,

a scratch on your face and a women with a wet towel and you'll wince like a girl scout with a skinned knee.


I guess bullets don't hurt as much as papercuts then.

they always keep firing automatic weapons at full blast, , and never change the magazine, and never run out of ammo in a fire fight...
there is ALWAYS something sword like laying around for you to use when your oppenent pulls out his sword...

I hate K-PLOT radio

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

and if anyone gets married in an action movie, either the bride or groom or both will die.

I hate any kind of cliche odd couple type romance theme.

Polly Shore

The fiucking infatuation with where a mother is in a childs body and the child is in the mothers body.

HOW MANY TIMES THEY GOING TO DO IT!

There's always the variation of boy and father's body (Example being "Visa Versa").

hacting = when a character is at someone else's computer and guesses the person's password within 2 tries or immediately.

To elaberate on this one, I hate actors mashing a computer keyboard or repetitively hitting asdjklasdjklasdjkl and you see 130WPM perfect typing on the monitor.

Also, pretty graphics when someone is typing something on the computer, or hacking ("Hackers" is a big offender). Hacking isn't pretty... its unix and dos... it looks like you are going back to the computing of yesteryear... make it seem that way!

If the hero is a female she is always dressed in really tight clothing.

Hacking in the matrix:

Damn, how annoying is that.

Yum... Now THAT'S more like it.

Also, if the bag ever splits open or spills, it must contain 10-20 oranges, because they are always rolling all over the place.