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When there is a disaster/tornado/something blown up, the hero is covered in a bunch of houses, cars, dolls, tables, golf clubs, etc. When the hero manages to not only survive, but push through 7 tons of scrap, he stands atop the heap and looks out to see a desolate landscape.

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11-18-2010 , 04:20 AM

#178

animal_chin

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Loaf of French bread sticking out of the only bag of groceries.

People not closing doors after then enter a building. WTF FFFFFUUUUUUUUU!!

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11-18-2010 , 08:07 PM

#179

unrealzeal

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raining during the climax of a movie that suddenly stops when everything is resolved?

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11-18-2010 , 11:10 PM

#180

amoeba

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Sheet is covering girl's boobs but is only at waist level for the guy while they are both sitting in bed.

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11-19-2010 , 12:43 AM

#181

prohornblower

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Someone comes home, hears noises upstairs, first thing they do is go in kitchen, pull drawer open and remove a knife. Then put it back and grab a bigger knife.

Not that this doesn't kinda make sense I guess, if you don't own a gun, but I'm pretty sure this happens in movies about 30x as often as it happens irl.

Another one: People climbing an ivy trellis running up alongside someone's house. I've never tested them but I find it hard to believe these flimsy trellises hold a 200 pound man without failing.

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11-19-2010 , 02:30 PM

#182

unrealzeal

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heros getting thrown clear of a horrible explosion unscathed

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11-19-2010 , 07:07 PM

#183

faarcyde

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Can't take credit for this one - I remember reading it in one of Ebert's "Great Movies" books...mostly in action movies, when there is a foot pursuit they inevitably end up in some kind of factory where there are a lot of moving parts that have no clear purpose with nobody around, usually complemented by immense amounts of steam. See any Steven Seagal movie for examples of this.

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11-20-2010 , 04:24 AM

#184

prohornblower

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^ lol true.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of mechanical equipment operating at 11pm with nobody in sight. Pretty funny.

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11-21-2010 , 12:51 AM

#185

WhiteRabbito

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No one gets change when they pay for stuff

flicking through tv channels or turning tv on always manages to find poignant relavant stuff on every channel.

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11-21-2010 , 12:09 PM

#186

YouWishFish

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Dogs always know who's bad, and bark at them

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11-23-2010 , 05:20 AM

#187

Number7

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Someone is about to get hit by a car (obv kid or cute girl). Hero comes to the rescue, saves the "victim" while staying in the lane himself, gets hit etc.

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11-23-2010 , 08:24 PM

#188

Irish Lefty

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Bad guys have southern accents. The killers in schlocky horror movies are always fundamentalist Christians. Maybe a new thread; are blondes or brunettes more likely to be sexually ravenous, duplicitous, and not to be trusted?

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11-24-2010 , 07:59 PM

#189

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Originally Posted by Irish Lefty

Bad guys have British accents.

Fyp

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11-24-2010 , 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Irish Lefty

To clarify your first statement: primarily when played by non-southern actors. I'm thinking DeNiro in Cape Fear, and Brad Pitt in Kalifornia. Something downright sinister about seeing a goombah or a pretty boy talk like Jim Varney.

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11-24-2010 , 09:11 PM

#191

Sway

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This is a summary of nearly 99% of movies ever created:

Guy/girl/couple/group of people get screwed/are screwed for the entire length of the movie and than at the end everything works out.

Examples:
Indiana Jones series
Star Wars series
Karate Kid
Home Alone series
Back to the Future series
The Goonies
Total Recall
Aliens
Bloodsport
etc...it's pointless I can go on forever

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11-24-2010 , 09:37 PM

#192

BrokeDonk

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I'm not really sure if that's a cliche, it's more like that's the reason why movies are made and exist...

It'd be like saying it's a cliche that cameras are used when filming a movie. It just has to happen.

Unless you're actually saying that the existence of a plot in a movie is a cliche. In which case...try Jodorowsky?

edit: or you just hate happy endings?

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11-24-2010 , 09:44 PM

#193

BigPoppa

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Career criminals make no effort to not leave fingerprints on scene of crime or on murder weapon:

In Goodfellas when they shoot Stacks and leave prints all over his apt.
In The Godfather when they strangle Carlo, they leave the body in the car covered with their prints.

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11-25-2010 , 02:32 AM

#194

daveT

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Every meaningful conversation is held in a car. Somehow, people are screaming and yelling at each other while driving just fine.

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11-25-2010 , 09:31 AM

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Two characters spend most of the movie leading up to an all nighter of drunken, steamy passionate sex. Yet when they wake the next morning and toss off the sheets, they are wearing t-shirts and underwear.
Maybe this is just in the TV version?

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11-25-2010 , 10:03 AM

#196

adult molester

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along with the gun cliches: if youve ever been hunting, you know that sound the bullet makes when it hits something (like bone or skull) is loud. even at fairly close range you can here the pop-crack (pop being firing, crack being bone breaking).

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11-26-2010 , 03:55 AM

#197

BigPoppa

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Nonfatal wounds leave the victim still able to run/jump and do anything else they want.

Fatal wounds come in two categories:

1) Instantaneous
2) Still able to talk for short time before death

No one ever dies because they decided to run and jump with an otherwise nonfatal wound.

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11-26-2010 , 05:17 PM

#198

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Originally Posted by The Brickie

Also on the computer theme...

No-one ever uses a mouse.

o rly?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19BWJQ8kjrw

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11-27-2010 , 07:58 AM

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AnnAfromAlabamA

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the musical compositions in the "epic" movies and movies that want to be epic--always a dramatic symphony piece, plenty of horns in battle scenes. i dont think i have ever seen a movie that had no soundtrack. eraserhead i guess (although it has a soundtrack, but its like all white noise), nothing else.