Cliches you are sick of in movies and TV shows

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What common cliches you see in movies and TV shows are you sick of seeing?

Guys wearing girl's clothing. It's not funny anymore. And if anything, it makes me uncomfortable to watch because it is so painfully unfunny :/

The brat pack. Groups are consisted of: The nerdy kid, the athletic kid, the hot girl, the goth chick, the environmental friendly kid, and the boring average main character. In the real world, these people would probably not get along.

The girl that is better than the boys. Girl joins an all boys team despite having no athletic background. Girl is the best one on the team. Without girl the team sucks because apparently she is the only team member that matters. Basically the message is, girls are just as good a boys. However it fails because the girl is not at all athletic.

The popular girl. She and the main character were once best friends, but now they hate each other. The popular girl is very obsessive and spends all her time making main character girl miserable.

Making out in a disastor. Ok, if you are on a sinking ship, in a room that is about to explode, or in tight situation where you could die at any second, the last thing you are going to want to do is make out with your love for about five minutes. No, you'd want to get the hell out of there.
 
The evil guy who likes breaking girls hearts that the girls have to get revenge on. Come on, woman do bad things too. Why not make one movie where it's the other way around? Oh wait, because that would be abuse wouldn't it?

And pretty much everything you mentioned Rydia.
 
The one thing that annoys me about T.V shows and movies is something that would more than likely NEVER happen in real life.

Where the loser guy likes the popular girl and to prove his love he stands outside her window and either declares his love for her and persuades her to leave her current boyfriend, or he plays an instrument and sings some song he made up for her.

Wouldn't happen that often if ever in real life.

It's too grown up and mature and highschool is never grown up and mature in real life.
 
Rydia said:
Making out in a disastor. Ok, if you are on a sinking ship, in a room that is about to explode, or in tight situation where you could die at any second, the last thing you are going to want to do is make out with your love for about five minutes. No, you'd want to get the hell out of there.
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I lol'd.

This is so true on so many levels.

Another cliche I'm sick of seeing is the "ugly girl was first invisible to guy she likes, then suddenly she becomes visible the moment she gets her face reconstructed". This kind of thing is usually common in T.V. shows and movies in my country. Like, the ugly girl could be just friends with her love interest, and her love interest only starts to see her "in a different light" when she becomes pretty.
Really sickening. :dry:
 
The "it's alright, it was just a bad dream" / "it's just your imagination" / "it wasn't real" people in horror movies. More often than not these are the adults who don't believe anything's wrong until they have a weedwhacker shoved through their torso so that it shows them their now-removed stomach. They condescendingly assure everyone else that it's alright or that "you're just upset, dear" and push the belief until it's very nearly too late.

And did I mention that even when they're finally killed/about to be killed, their only reaction is to look at the bad guy with this expressoin that seems to say "Come on man, stop harshing my reality buzz..."

This is also one of the (few) things I liked about Freddy vs. Jason: The adults of Springwood were dreamproofing the kids and essentially had a safety net to keep Freddy out. Did it fail? Yes. Was it the adults' fault? No.
 
The most annoying cliche for me would be Jennifer Aniston starring in a Romcom movie.....why can't she do a really scary horror or a freaky sci-fi fantasy where she stars as a miniscule little elf with no teeth and green hair?? Boring boring BORING! Same old same old! :yawn:
 
Kandy-Sugar said:
The one thing that annoys me about T.V shows and movies is something that would more than likely NEVER happen in real life.

Where the loser guy likes the popular girl and to prove his love he stands outside her window and either declares his love for her and persuades her to leave her current boyfriend, or he plays an instrument and sings some song he made up for her.

Wouldn't happen that often if ever in real life.

It's too grown up and mature and highschool is never grown up and mature in real life.
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That's largely down to the need for a storyline though. If it were made more realistic, the film (presumably) misses out on a rather major plot development, or the story for the film just isn't there at all. It's ridiculous to single that out for being unrealistic when abut 90% of situations in film are unrealistic, which is why we watch and enjoy them.
 
Long-time friends that suddenly come to see each other as lovers. It's too predictable and I hate cliches like that. It doesn't really create much for a storyline, unless it's played out very well.

Or even when one lover goes off to live somewhere else and then their other lover manages to stop them from going. It's old, boring and seriously, how many people get to stop their lover from getting on a plane or boat elsewhere? The odds are practically near zero.
 
Happy endings. the good guy almost always wins

horrors/thrillers whatever, where the victim almost always runs in the wrong direction, instead of opening a window and commando rolling to safety screaming blue murder, they run upstairs or some other daft shit like that, and end up dead. Nob eds.
 
Brother's and sisters that do not get along. Seriously, it's old. I want to see something different where the siblings are actually friends.

Matrix parody's. Oh, my god, I am sick of seeing this in every movie. it's old almost a parody itself. Movies stop doing this!
 
Ke$ha said:
Or even when one lover goes off to live somewhere else and then their other lover manages to stop them from going. It's old, boring and seriously, how many people get to stop their lover from getting on a plane or boat elsewhere? The odds are practically near zero.
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Definitely :gonk: Like in movies like
How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days
, where near the end it doesn't work out so she suddenly decides she's going to move to a new city and get a new job, like it's that easy for most people? >_> IRL it would take someone quite a while to scout out a new place to live and secure a new job to pay for it with, not just a day or two on a whim o_O

The cliche I really am sick of the most, however, is gender wars in general. Like, when there's a family sitcom and the wife is always "smarter" than the husband, even though he thinks he's the "smart one" :mokken: Please, enough already, there are smart and dumb people from either gender and it has nothing to do with what body parts you have :ffs:
 
1) Drawing swords from the back, adding a "shwing" sound effect or both. You absolutely cannot draw a sword from your back effectively, and it doesn't look "cool". It makes the swordsman look like a complete asshat who can't be taken seriously. I've drawn a sword or too in my lifetime (one of them being a Katana) and in no way do they go "shwiiing". Do they think we're idiots?

2) Flashy choreographed fighits. A perfect example of this is the difference between the lightsaber duels in the original Star Wars trilogy and the prequel trilogy. In the original trilogy you see the duels played out like a kendo style sword fight that is simplistic and choreographed in a way a real sword fight would be like. In the prequel trilogy, they're just a mess of choreographed dances that don't show impact and take away the suspense of who will win or lose. There's no way a sword fight can look like that, at all. Fine, they're movies, and it'd be cool to see swordfights like these every once in a while, but the fact that it's a cliche is what drives me mad.

3) Unnecessary love scenes. I'm not a fan of "fan service" in general. If I want to see tits, I can see better on the internet for free. This is also a reason why I'm turned off by anime these days.
 
Ashley Riot said:
3) Unnecessary love scenes. I'm not a fan of "fan service" in general. If I want to see tits, I can see better on the internet for free. This is also a reason why I'm turned off by anime these days.
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Or just the unnecessary romance in general. its like, Im here wanting to watch things get blown up, and youve thrown a love interest in...why?

Or theres the avenging the death of wife/child/brother etc

Then going onto to either save the day, or whatever competition they have retired from, to win
 
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