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Added 2021-05-05 00:17:09 +0000 UTCName a movie cliche that really pisses you off, and why. Topic video to follow.
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Not quite a cliche but an Oscar baity trend I’m noticing is the long take. Don’t get me wrong I love an effective long take(Boogie Nights, Carrie, Come and See) when they work and serve the story they can be incredibly immersive. But it’s becoming more and more of a gimmick or showy trick than a way to lmake something flow or convey time.
jared Clarke
2021-05-10 17:36:19 +0000 UTCWhat I call the Hollywood poverty accent. No matter where someone is from regionally they always have a goofy southern twang. Idk to them southern= poor.
jared Clarke
2021-05-07 13:54:40 +0000 UTCOmen 3: The Final Conflict. Trite, rhetorical, cliched, inane.
Oskitello
2021-05-06 18:54:35 +0000 UTCTemp music in favor of a proper film score. There are plenty of great composers who would love the work instead of using some generic music from a studio archive
Emerson B
2021-05-06 17:00:57 +0000 UTCThe “Liar Revealed” shit just pisses me off. It only adds filler to the runtime only for the everything to be bundled up sometimes minutes later, trying to supply an arc to a character only for the arc be a hill full of dogshit. Supremely lazy tactic that I’ve barely seen actually used properly(can’t name any film off the top of my head, but I would like to hope there is a movie that uses it to its advantage). You use to see it in every animated film ever back in the day, and it’s always executed in the most annoying ass way possible. Fuck that cliche.
FilmLoverMike
2021-05-05 18:27:14 +0000 UTCsuch a good one
Deepfocuslens
2021-05-05 17:23:52 +0000 UTCplease stop making women wear high heels in horror films, no one is that stupid or skilled enough to run from a killer full stride in stilettos
nick moose
2021-05-05 16:04:05 +0000 UTCLovey-dovey flashbacks a man has of a murdered wife/girlfriend/daughter where they’re over-the-top nice to each other. No one has memories like that. Community hilariously made fun of this.
Bennett Oliver
2021-05-05 03:34:50 +0000 UTCLove interests in suspense thrillers. We all know the premise: a man gets embroiled in a murder mystery/vast criminal conspiracy/assassination plot. He has to race against time to stop or solve whatever’s going on, usually pursued by armed thugs. Along the way he is thrown in with a woman whose sole dimension is her feistiness. First they hate each other, then they understand, and finally they love each other—all in the span of a few days between dodging bullets and defusing bombs. This “ romantic” plot element is usually shoehorned into the movie by execs in a cynical attempt to satisfy female viewers. Very rarely does it work. More often than not, it’s bullshit.
Bennett Oliver
2021-05-05 03:31:34 +0000 UTCI wouldn't say that it pisses me off but it induces a major eye-roll: whenever they say the name of the title of the movie in the movie dialogue. Like the now popular meme where Will Smith's character in Suicide Squad says, "what are we? some kind of suicide squad?"
Ryan
2021-05-05 02:00:56 +0000 UTCThe way movies tell the audience a character's name — almost always a forced and awkward call-out that the character would never do.
Arthur Augustyn
2021-05-05 00:55:45 +0000 UTCWhen the hero shows up last sec to make the save . Like to wheres its really unbelievable. Like really u couldn't get here 15 secs earlier!!
swift minus one
2021-05-05 00:51:24 +0000 UTCThe evil corporate businessman or bully who's just there to be a villain. It removes all nuance and turns the story into a Saturday morning cartoon. So many comedies fall victim to this trope in particular and makes them unpleasant to watch.
Wolfman Brandon
2021-05-05 00:32:44 +0000 UTCDeus Ex Machina needs to go away!! Takes away all tension and always feels like a pop out of WWE. Also, the stupid false jump scares, like a cat running out of the closet for instance. Always destroys a great potential legitimate scare in horror films.
Tony Moro
2021-05-05 00:26:36 +0000 UTCNot a cliche but something that always takes me out of a movie is a scene set at night that was so clearly shot during the day and they just tried to make it look like night in post. It always looks awful, without fail.
Tyler Shobe
2021-05-05 00:18:46 +0000 UTC
