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Added 2022-08-16 02:13:56 +0000 UTCName a cliche that drives you nuts, and why.
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"It was all in their head" - Any movie that ends with a twist ending where we are the told everything that happened in the story was the result of the main character's mental illness/imagination. This is a cliche that has been around for literally one hundred years and when I see movies today do it I often find it cheap and sometimes can tell from the beginning that that is where the movie is going.
Stephen
2022-08-19 00:24:47 +0000 UTCI hate when the YouTuber tells us who they are in the video like we can't read the channel name that we just clicked on, and then at the end of the video tells where to watch more vid........ Oh wait . .. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
swift minus one
2022-08-18 22:35:03 +0000 UTCA character telling someone their going to rat on them or get them in trouble, and then that other person OBVIOUSLY stops them. Lol. How you about u just do what ur going do to that other character and shut the fuck up. 😂
swift minus one
2022-08-18 22:28:26 +0000 UTCJump scares. Specifically, cheap jump scares that are not earned but are more of a formulaic trick of editing and sound design used as a substitute for scary storytelling. Yet, they are a staple of horror and it can be difficult to distinguish why some work while most don't. When they do land, wow, what an effect they create, especially on a crowd.
Steven Aguilera
2022-08-18 06:54:22 +0000 UTCThe “back from the dead” trope that is so beaten to death, especially in horror. The killer’s dead — oh wait! — one last attack. Can also happen in thrillers, including famously and ludicrously in Fatal Attraction. (That movie is still great, though.) I won’t name the movie since people might still be waiting to see it, but there was a thriller this year that was very good until the ending was ruined by a “dead” character coming back to life. Ugh.
Jim Barnes
2022-08-17 04:56:13 +0000 UTCOverheard Conversations - normally either a scheme or slagging someone off. This cliché is a staple of just about every soap opera ever made but it also appears so often in film as a quick and easy way to advance the plot. It often takes place in a bathroom, the protagonist will normally be in a stall while a couple of other people talk about them at the sinks/urinals, but two people talking loudly in a bedroom or sitting room while the person they are talking about is standing outside a partially open door is almost as common. The worst part is that the people doing the scheming normally know that the person they are talking about is nearby but they do it anyway and loudly.
Ross Skilton
2022-08-16 21:07:43 +0000 UTCThe block of text at the end of a movie, usually to serve as an epilogue. The point is to tie a bow on the movie's plot, but it essentially rids the audience of having anything to chew on or contemplate regarding what occurred in the actual film. By doing this, the filmmaker exposes their belief that the audience is more invested in WHAT THE MOVIE IS ABOUT as opposed to THE MOVIE ITSELF. If what's mentioned in the text is so important, then why didn't you just make it a part of the actual movie? There are times when it's handled in an artistic way (Come and See, American Graffiti, Embrace of the Serpant, Hoop Dreams) but most of the time it's just lazy and more importantly unnecessary.
Christopher Cassara
2022-08-16 19:26:19 +0000 UTCCompressed conversations. Whether people are on the phone, having lunch, or visiting someone in jail, you know they’re supposed to be having a conversation that lasts at least an hour, but in fact only lasts about 2-3 minutes—enough time for the necessary information regarding plot, character’s emotions, etc. to pass between them—before it abruptly ends with a contrived sense of urgency with one of the characters having to leave, or they simply end the conversation. I know why it’s done—there’s only so much time in a film or a TV episode—but when it’s done terribly and calls attention to the artificiality of the scene, I hate it. It’s so very, very annoying.
Bennett Oliver
2022-08-16 15:23:05 +0000 UTCMoat love triangles. Might be a hot take but it just makes me want to see more fictional nonmonogamy, or, similar to first reply, more direct and decisive talk. This is always used as this really exhausting engine for conflict and discord
Jabari Weathers
2022-08-16 14:54:55 +0000 UTCI hate when a character is trying to solve a problem and another character accidentally gives them the hint they need by making small talk or doing something unrelated. I think the most insulting example of this is in the batman, where we’re expected to believe that the worlds greatest detective would not have bothered to research and identify the murder weapon, all for the sake of doing that stupid cliché.
Hart
2022-08-16 12:38:38 +0000 UTCThe last min save, some character gets what they want in the nick of time, everything comes down to the wire. It's necessary but it can be okkkkkkkk how about try something else lol. Dr. Strange said thiers 14,000,000 whatever possible outcomes to fighting Thanos and thiers only 1 outcome where they win? Really? Thier couldn't be like 85? With 4 draws and 2 no contests?
swift minus one
2022-08-16 04:06:57 +0000 UTCThe rebellious, rule breaking know it all. Top Gun, Ferris Bueller, and several Robin Williams and modern Disney films suffer from this. These are characters that have no motivations, except for what the plot demands, and are just tools to artificially generate sympathy from the viewer making them more unlikable than the villains in most cases. My intelligence is insulted every time I see one and it makes me wanna smack them.
Wolfman Brandon
2022-08-16 02:57:46 +0000 UTCThe beginning of the movie has every character stating each other’s name exactly once for the audience. Like you don’t have to force it guys we’ll figure it out.
Arthur Augustyn
2022-08-16 02:31:19 +0000 UTCHigh school movies ending on a prom.
Ken
2022-08-16 02:27:10 +0000 UTCNot sure if this counts as a cliche but cheap fan service. I watched Ghostbusters Afterlife recently and it really pissed me off. Just one of many examples, but a character asked someone if they could use the phone. The camera then held on the other person for a few seconds before they could say “who you gonna call?”. It’s the most insanely cheap way to get fans to applaud without making a sequel or a remake that can stand on its own merit. The fact that so many movies today do this with zero irony infuriates me.
Jackson Littlewood
2022-08-16 02:23:14 +0000 UTCThe "You lied to me!" reveal right before the last act. It always feels contrived easily avoidable misunderstanding than could be resolved by some context and t's way too reliant on two people being cartoonishly naive, it hits the same corny note and never ceases to makes my eyes roll.Bleh
jared Clarke
2022-08-16 02:21:37 +0000 UTC
