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- ApplCmptrDood, on 10/10/2007, -6/+53Gah - digg should have a delete comment button. Bury.
- ostracize, on 10/10/2007, -0/+46 Dr. Evil: Scott, I want you to meet daddy's nemesis, Austin Powers
Scott: What, are you feeding him? Why don't you just kill him?
Dr. Evil: No Scott, I have a better idea. I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death.
Scott: Why don't you kill him now? I mean, come on, we can shoot 'em together it'll be fun. Bang!
Dr. Evil: One more word out of you and you are grounded Mr., and I am not joking!
Dr. Evil: Begin the unnecessarily slow-moving dipping mechanism.
[Guard starts dipping mechanism]
Dr. Evil: Close the tank!
Scott Evil: Wait, aren't you even going to watch them? They could get away!
Dr. Evil: No no no, I'm going to leave them alone and not actually witness them dying, I'm just gonna assume it all went to plan. What?
Scott Evil: I have a gun, in my room, you give me five seconds, I'll get it, I'll come back down here, BOOM, I'll blow their brains out!
Dr. Evil: Scott, you just don't get it, do ya? You don't. - tynansanger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28I'm pretty sure all of these are in Last Action Hero.
- chocobomog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25The interesting thing is they list Die Hard for almost every cliche and yet that movie is one of the best action movies ever made. Sometimes a cliche isn't so bad.
- JRD1776, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20If it weren't for all of these movie cliches, the movie would end really quickly because everyone would be dead!
- DiggDuggDone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15I digg #7. We have a rule of thumb at our house, "If the bad guy's monologuing, SHOOT HIM!"
- huskerdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13If action movies didn't have cliches, the protagonist would be dead about 10 minutes into most of them.
- macaddct1984, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13They were all in Hot Fuzz too, but that was more of a blatant parody and an awesome movie to boot.
- dirtyfratboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I can't believe I just had to click through four pages to read a total of sixteen points. That's ridiculous.
- canewediggit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10no escaping in the ventilator shaft? psssshhhh
- NecroSexy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Here's a classic, CSI: Miami, Caruso one-liners http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948
- Superflks, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Your brother writes some pansy-ass music.
- yohnstoppable, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Maybe Die Hard was so awesome that movies felt they needed to copy it, hence creating the cliches
- cyberwiz01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8You missed a zero, here let me fix it for you:
"..have been in every action movie in the past 50 years." - sideshowRAHEEM, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7It's all about the execution the 4 Die Hard movies have pulled every single one of the things listed on this list but when its done so well you don't really care how many times you've seen it before.
- Meatgrinder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I hate that stormtrooper syndrome.
- BrewBeau, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Another cliche is when they spend a good deal of time letting you know how physically impossible something could be done, but the hero can do it just because he has the tenacity and will. ie. in Armageddon when they're trying to drill deep enough to plant the nuke to blow up the asteroid that's bound to collide with the earth (ugh) and the drill can only go an inch an hour or something, yet they need to go 200 ft in 10 minutes.(I know, the figures are all off, but I refuse to watch that horrible movie a second time.) But they all get that determined look on their faces and just do it. Somebody must have called in a big favor to get all those "A" list actors to be involved with that film.
- TuneRaider, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Martyred mentor, anybody? From Obi-Wan and Shepherd Book to just about every kung-fu movie ever made... Or how about when a subdued villain is killed by the *real* villain (or stooge thereof) just as he's about to spill the beans?
- cloudyprison, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
The hero's journey. The Father figure has to be removed so the hero's since of protection is gone and must rise fully to his destiny without relying on one stronger then he is. - tynansanger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Never give me the odds, C3PO
- yohnstoppable, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The ***** police chief should have been on there. Every time a cop does anything heroic, there is some windbag back at the station calling him a "loose cannon" and pulling him off the case. In extreme cases, he asks for badges.
- ethnicman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Did you even read the article you are referring to? It was not that it was sad to quote movies. It referenced lines in movies that were over quoted. This is a very funny and apropos quote. I will actually dig ostracize up
- zengonzo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Children of Men makes an excellent exception.
- imbetterthanu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Not on my watch!
- MrLunar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Oh yeah, THAT makes it less of a cliché...
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I would like once in awhile for the hero to just get shot, just 'bam', hero dead credits role. Especially after a really climatic conflict, where you get all 'Oh yea, that's right! NOBODY defeat.... oh *****, that's not so good.'
- skinny01, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Here's one few seem to notice.
Not to sound racist but most films involving any foreigners consists of the white guy going in, pretty much killing any of the local guys (they're all bad guys), and running off with the hot foreign chick (she's okay). Most of the times she will be at the mercy of the native men of her country just waiting to be rescued from them by the white guy. The only good guys in the foreign land are the non-virile ones (little kids and the wise old man who of course taught the hero his super skills).
You even see it in films that aren't about another country. Different classes here are subject to the same plot. Heroic white teacher risks life going to the urban jungle to save the natives from themselves. Racist cop puts husband in jail then bones his wife. Caucasion tough guy takes on japanese assasins and beats them easily with their own techniques that they all have been training in since they were 5 and he just took some classes at the Y. Then of course after the hot japanese chick sells out her ninja brothers she runs off with prince charming.
There are waaaayyyy too many movies that have that subcontext I'd get a cramp trying to type them all. - jankind, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The angry captain back at the police station.
The movie "So I Married An Axe Murderer" goofed on that one pretty good.
"Gimme your gun and your badge you no good loose cannon son of a bitch! You're OFF THE CASE!" - MindFork, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I hate the thing where the good guy or worse, the about to be kidnapped female, WACKS the gun wielding bad guy with something hard enough to knock him to the ground AND make him drop his gun, then they run away.
Here's a thought: KEEP HITTING HIM in the head with that baseball bat / golf club / blender until he is DEAD. Then shoot him just to be sure.
One movie where that was nicely done was Firewall. Harrison Ford brains a bad guy with a nice, sturdy blender and doesn't stop until he's sure the guy is never getting back up. Then he takes his gun. Thank you. - Vodka2389, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Another one is how the villain always treats his men like crap and sometimes even kills them (like in Die Hard 4), yet they remain completely loyal.
- clockpolitiks, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6The only ones I'm really, really tired of are the female hostage and the third person shooter. It seems like those 2 alone have been in every action movie in the past 5 years.
- yohnstoppable, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Television. Television is the explanation for this - you see this in bad television. Little assault guys creeping through the vents, coming in through the ceiling - that James Bond ***** never happens in real life! Professionals don't do that!
- pcpimpster, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Whatever happened to the "R" rated action flick where there was so much sex, violence and "*****" was used in every other word?
Everything is PG-13 now, its quite drab. Guess its hollywood widening its audience. The "R" rated action flick is dead for the most part.
"I'll Be Back" - polymorphist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No need...the digg comment system constantly eats my comments.
- lokee73, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3True, but Unbreakable wasn't exactly an action movie either.
- sideshowRAHEEM, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3All 4 of those movies are great Die Hard 1 is quite possibly the best action move of all time Die Hard 2 had a really good twist in the middle Die Hard 3 was just ***** amazing I don't know why people hate it so much and Die Hard 4.0 may be the best action movie sequel ever.
- SSCrow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3*Stormtrooper effect*
Also known as the Inverse Ninja Law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtrooper_effect
And I love that effect, tis awesome. - KevenM, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3They forgot to mention that car keys are almost always kept above the sun visor.
In an unlocked car. - Cdog923, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3When Randy Quaid saved President Bill Pullman during the final dogfight.
- miyamotofreak, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Corrupt goverment officials aren't cliches.
- Cdog923, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That's because LAH is a parody of the typical action movie; you know, the whole "movie within a movie" plot?
- jankind, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2THANK YOU!
I am dying here. I have tears coming down my face that ***** is so funny! Thank you, thank you! - nogami, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's also the bible of just about every season of "24". Which is why I stopped watching it.
"24", otherwise known as "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, at the worst possible time".
Oh, for more chiches, don't forget the "Mole in the organization", or the "Supervisor with the hidden agenda". - beattycoon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Every action movie has the scene where the hero and the girl make a running leap right out of the building the very second the bomb explodes. And amazingly end up without even a first-degree burn in the process.
- jobenly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That's why it was so funny in Hot Fuzz that all of the bad guys were little British grannies and grandpas.
And I think you're forgetting that "The Man" is the bad guy in a lot of movies. Henchmen that are American spies, soldiers, mafia thugs, domestic drug dealers, and the like. Also, lots of action movies involve robots, monsters, and/or aliens.
Finally, I think you're forgetting that a lot of modern action movie actors are very multicultural. Will Smith, Sam Jackson, Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, LL Cool J, Lawrence Fishburn, Wesley Snipes, Ice Cube, The Rock (black/Samoan, by the way), Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Ving Rhames, Chris Tucker, Antonio Banderas...
The bad guys are foreigners? So are the good guys a lot of the time, even if they are white. Van Damme is Belgian. Jean Reno is French. Mel Gibson, Hugo Weaving, and Russel Crowe are Australian. Christian Bale is Welsh. Liam Nessen is Irish. Ewan McGregor and Sean Connery are Scottish. In fact, all of the Bonds are British, as are Orlando Bloom, Jason Statham, and Clive Owen. Um... how about Schwarzenegger? Are foreign actors usually from English speaking countries? Yeah, but American films are in English.
I think it seems like a cliche because a lot of action movies involve war, organized crime, or terrorism. Those subjects all involve foreigners. When action movies take place in the U.S., they take place in urban areas, by in large, with means there will be a higher proportion of minorities involved. I think the most justified criticism you can have is that there aren't enough Latino heroes out there. Also, there aren't many movies that have a non-superpowered heroine for a main character. Other than that, it all seems reasonably diverse to me. - thedragon4453, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Kind of reminds me of The Last Samurai. Tom Cruise learns how to fght as well as a samurai that has been training all of his life in less than a year? Although, to be fair, a year is about the longest I've seen this cliche take to learn.
- lokee73, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Just for a change of pace, I would like to see the action hero take the action villain to jail and let him get anally violated for a few years.
Yeah, I know that in real life the guy would get a great lawyer and that would be it, but do they have to kill the bad guy in EVERY movie? - swanny89, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2When would you ever need some *****' rope?
- frozenwalkway, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i think they missed one thing. the jumping into the air while with a huge explosion in the background pushes them forward... in slow motion of course. OH and of course the epic slowmotion walk.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I was surprised how much that movie rocked. The parody was so subtle and that in itself made it more hilarious. But i kind of like Cliches. You know whats gonna happen next but you still get a kick in the pants when it happens.
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