Whenever someone or something is in a free fall, and you view it from a distance, they always fall way faster than terminal velocity. Not that I necessarilly know exactly what this rate looks like, but I can tell the films always over-dramatize how fast stuff falls. Actually I remember seeing old videos of 9/11 and you could see what it actually looks like when someone falls at terminal velocity. But even before these youtube videos came out I knew movies always embellished it.

One example of this is when the rocks start falling near the pirate ship in Goonies. Way too fast. Also, any movie that shows someone fall from a building.

To add to that, it always takes 2 minutes for the person to fall 100 feet.

anyone that uses a flip cell phone NEVER have their phone setup to answer when opening. they flip it open, see who is calling...press a button to answer. the call display is always on the outside, this tilts me every time

How about the musical montage of the character(s) trying on different clothes? Usually starting out shy and self-conscious but becoming happy and confident by the end of the wardrobe session...can we bury that scene once and for all please?

One that kills me is when people randomly burst into song to accent an emotional point of the movie. In Armageddon, just before they take off to the Russian space station, Affleck busts out "Leaving on a Jet Plane", and just like the slow clap, everybody else slowly joins in because they're LEAVING ON A JET PLANE GET IT?

The only time I've seen this work is during Almost Famous, when everybody on the bus, near the end of the film, sings Tiny Dancer; and that's only because of the film, then transitions into music that the characters can hear, which gives a plausible reason why somebody would start singing because they're singing along with the radio rather than spontaneously.

Also: "red wire or blue wire?". That specifically has probably been laid to rest by now but the concept is still well alive.

Obviously criminals never learn to mix it up, and why do the police send the new guy?

montages are pretty much passe nowadays, aren't they?

They've evolved to a more artistic version of the classic "we're gonna do a montage! **** yeah!" 80's style, but you still see them in the cookie cutter flicks that get pushed out the door with a couple famous names slapped on.

Painting Americans and America in a positive light. There are countless films where a group of dumb Americans save the planet because, although Americans are dumb, we have a little something called gumption and swagger to get the job done. Other countries may be more qualified "on papaer" but we've got the smoke and mirrors to make it all work here in America.

Also things like Rocky IV when Rocky beating Drago, and by the end of the film the "evil Russians" are all cheering Rocky, the gritty American hero. Only an AMERICAN can get mesmerize an entire culture, or save the world.

USA #1 IMO.

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Cars in action movies never run out of gas or malfunction.
Cars in road movies/horror movies always run out of gas or malfunction.

if you go to a séance and the psychic looks shocked and (more importantly) gives you your money back then you know something rly bad is going to happen!

Guns always make random clicking noises when aimed at someone. A room full of guns aiming at someone can be more deafening than the actual shots fired.