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- comradechimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36If you're searching for something (a fingerprint match, a mugshot, a licence plate, etc.) All the entries in the database flash up rapidly on the screen until the correct one is found. This is accompanied by an electronic 'shuffling' sound.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31#27: When using a computer, every mouse movement, click, keystroke, and on-screen result or window pop-up is accompanied by a "beep" of some sort.
- dagfooyo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Somehow that blurry, grainy, pixelated photo from a cheap camera or video feed can be "digitally enhanced" 5000% so you can see the inscription on the ring being worn by the guy in the far far bacground, across the street and behind that car.
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2529. The only way to play any video game is to spastically shake the controller in a rage, contorting your fingers and arms at insane angles, as if taken over by a seizure.
- melmyfinger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2330. Even the most complicated computer functions can be executed by pressing just 3-4 buttons on the keyboard OR by pressing a bunch of random keys without having to hit Enter.
31. Keanu Reeves' character says "whoa." - gestalt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Number One digg cliche I'd like to never see again:
-lack of spelling and grammar - meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15No matter how large the database of FBI double agents, the entire thing will fit on a single CD or, in some cases, a floppy disk (!)
Unless you happened to bring a zip disk, in which case the computer will miraculously have a slot for it.
Oh, and computers with too much information always explode. - nTensify, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19"25. That in period pieces, vintage cars are always freshly polished, painted, and clean. They never have scratches, dents or any signs of use. "
Right. Point me to a collection of authentic vintage cars with road damage and I'll point you to a psych ward.
"23. Chinese food takeout in a movie always comes in those little white boxes, which I have never, in my life, seen chinese food arrive at my door in. I desperately want it to, but it never does."
Are you KIDDING ME? I've asked them to put it in different containers, but those are, by a LONG SHOT, the most common chinese carry out containers. The only other ones I've ever seen in my life are the generic white styrofoam containers that could be used for any food...
"16. When an innocent cough is always a symptom of terminal illness."
It just so happens that, as a part of the human condition, the cough is the number one sign of illness, and is one of the three most common symptoms of illness (if not the most common, though headaches are probably more pervasive).
ugh I can't even get through the rest of the list.. bullet time isn't even listed.. sigh. - bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10are you trying to put keanu out of a job?
- thatsiebguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1233. Japan has always somehow gone through some catastrophic event that spurred it to be rebuilt into MEGA-TOKYO where the entire island chain is now one uber city.... And they all speak fluent English..
- singdons, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10 in a shoootout - always hide behind a tree, car door or better still, a wooden table. those bullets will never get through WOOD
- bennybertow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7And don't forget: if you want to destroy the data, just shoot at the monitor. It will make everything unrecoverable.
- GrtEsc06, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7#27. In any car chase scene, one or more of the cars will find the nearest fruit stand or flower cart and proceed to sideswipe it.
- jskuah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9hate that how every character can afford a powerbook.
- davidlow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+716. That's exactly the point. In reality a cough may be the number one sign of illness, but in a movie it ALWAYS means the illness is terminal or at least life threatening. When a person coughs in real life does it usually signify (a) a cold? or (b) cancer.
- zizzybaloobah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Homeless people, vagrants, rednecks, cowboys, coal miners, etc. with straight, white Hollywood teeth. Even if they attempt to make 'em look less than white, they're still straight and even.
People boarding trains while the train is leaving the station. I ride the train everyday to work, and neither our commuter railroad nor Amtrak allow passengers to board once the train begins moving. It might be romantic, but it doesn't happen in real life.
Also, has there even been a car chase where the woman crossing the street with the baby stroller *didn't* get hit? - flipouk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Everywhere in the World or even in the Universe, everyone speaks English, even poorly. Natives who speak a poor English have nevertheless no problem understanding the hero, who speaks English at full speed with a heavy American accent. Foreigners, them being Russians, Germans, French or whatever, speak English to one another, but they do it with their native accent :)
- cryonix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10well because everyone is doing it, heres my list of least liked movie cliches:
-when being chased and shot at. the best place to be is running up or down a fire excape... no one ever gets shot on a fire excape!!!
-green text on black background for hacking... though i did come across an extreamly old apple computer that was like that. but i havent seen any command prompt thats green unless you customize it.
-also arent bullets made of lead or copper? then why do they spark when hitting something?
-there are windows everyware when bullets are being fired. and nearly every one of those windows will endup broken.
-its easy to get on top of an elivader, though all the hatches ive seen have locks.
-when a foot chase leads through a house, the people are always eating dinner or sleeping, never just sitting around watching tv, or beating their kids.
-all video games make classic arcade noises. though its obvious they are playing a newer gen console. or the game sounds arent for the console they are playing. (ie sonic with a SNES controller, i swear ive seen it!)
-raming through a road block the car will still run with no obvious dammage to the engine
-girls never really fight back when in danger, just cry and scream (except in high tension she kicked ass)
-owen wilson - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'd like to add the anguished "NOOOOOO!!!!" to the list. e.g., Darth Vader at the end of Episode 3. It doesn't display emotional gravitas, it's just funny... in a bad way.
- cakestick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5somebody is a little sleep deprived..
to be honest, i kinda like 'elivader', haha! - ronk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Love this one:
18. Young gorgeous women constantly falling in love with men much, much older than they are. In other words: ***** you Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood - jo42, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7#26: "I'll be back."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5singdons, we were talking about a different kind of movie then singdons special alone time movies.
- aahpandasrun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Here's one I'm suprised didn' make the list:
Characters jump through solid planes of glass without the slightest injuries. - JMJimmy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5#15 is wrong - the act of pulling the arm allows the slower of the two to actually run faster (I think Mythbusters did a thing on this one). It's why people tie ropes to one another when doing long distance treks, the lead person pulls the others taking a small amount of weight off them. The cliche really is that it's ALWAYS the woman that is slower.
#14 - hun? they always sing in road trip movies and that doesn't lead to bad things normally (and this is where I normally see people singing in cars...) - XxXoldsaltXxX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+412. If our protagonist goes to a sporting event, no matter who he is, his face will always end up on the ***** jumbotron.
I laughed - jaredseth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Homeless people, vagrants, rednecks, cowboys, coal miners, etc. with straight, white Hollywood teeth. Even if they attempt to make 'em look less than white, they're still straight and even."
This would be number one if I were compiling a list...espcially when it's done in period pieces. It drives me crazy to watch movies set during the dawn of civilization and everyone has perfect teeth and largely unblemished skin. And despite a low average life expectancy, there seem to be a hell of a lot of old people wandering around any flick set during the Roman Empire. - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -3/+7In Australia, I have not seen one Asian take-away that came in a white box. Not one. They prefer to use these plastic, rectangular prism boxes. But not the white ones we always seen American movies.
- ElevenisEven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3thats a fun list, id like to see more stuff like that
- icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -1/+432. Tokyo is the most hazardous city in the world. The city will crumble from every situation possible, natural or from Godzilla, almost every other week.
- becominglumberg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+525. True, and anyone who lets his vintage car get messed up for a movie should be hung in town square.
23. All but one *asian* restaraunt around me uses the ubiquitous white box for most of their dishes. I find this unfortunate, since they do not contain loose grease very well. - electrichead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Not as much 'see' as 'hear': that damn generic hollywood foreign accent. As heard in Val Helsing, the Mummy, etc etc
- Tabris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How about when all foreigners have that slightly British accent or Eastern European accent? No matter WHERE they're from?
Or documentaries always using people with British accents to sound intelligent. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I don't remember a single movie like that. And, while I know it happens in anime, the only way they speak English is if you watch it dubbed.
- markusfarkus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"23. Chinese food takeout in a movie always comes in those little white boxes, which I have never, in my life, seen chinese food arrive at my door in. I desperately want it to, but it never does."
I've never in my life NOT gotten Chinese takeout in those little white boxes. Where does this guy live? - Lacero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They always turn off the TV when there's breaking news or the lead characters are about to speak. If that happened in real life, the person turning off the TV would get smacked with the remote.
- AdverseE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Is it just me or does the list seem to have been written in 1989? I mean, you see a few of these cliches these days, but the majority of them seem to be confined to movies or television made in the 80's and early 90's.
- G_money, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3how about guns that can be cocked multiple times to show whoever is on the business end that the holder is really serioud?
- blugu64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@comradechimp
you laugh, but while I was working on some software for a Car Dealership they told me they were not satisfied with the interface. Silly me I made easy to use, and work like every other application. So I added some "flair" Logos, Full screen windows, and of course, whenever they do a search, it runs though a big list of car images ;) - Rinnt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+514. That somehow singing in a moving vehicle always makes something terrible happen.
- walkerj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I get those white boxes in Australia.
- imikedaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How about: "running away from an explosion and diving to the floor at the last possible second, thu escaping entirely unscathed"? First of all I don't know how they can outrun the fire from the explosion, but the invisible shockwave should have liquified their insides before they had a chance to run.
- DangerMouse9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2JMJimmy: in National Lampoon's Vacation they were singing and look what happened, Grandma died.
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Absolutely excellent list with a lot of cliches that I have never seen before listed as such in what I have read.
- Pokelicious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And; computers in films that have a very basic, generic operating system and software that no-one has ever seen before. These can usually be operated by typing commands in natural English.
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or cocking a semiautomatic by pulling back the hammer. It drives me nuts when they do this with Glocks. Jack the slide back!
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dude needs to find a new Chinese restaurant.
- Pokelicious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh yeah, all Brits in American films/TV shows have a very posh BBC-English accent, the only exception to this rule is Daphne from Frasier who, allegedly, has a Manc accent
- TomRemixed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+119. People being chased by a car who run top speed down the middle of the street instead of simply ducking somewhere where a car can’t follow, which happens to be pretty much anywhere except the middle of the street.
Whenever a person is running away from some huge pillar type thing they never run to the side where they would be perfectly safe. Instead they try to run the whole length of the thing and get crushed.
I think it runs along the same lines. - techlinks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree with the Chinese food box one, not because you don't see them in real life, but because, you don't see them EVERYWHERE. At least not everyone does. Depends on the restaurant.
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