re: What are some movie cliches you hate seeing?

When a monster first appears in all its glory, everything stops as it spreads its arms and lets out a huge roar to announce its presence. Makes me want to throw tomatoes at the screen.

Vomiting. Directors seem to think taking time out to show a character vomiting his vomitus makes every stressful situation real.

The use of the word "shite", particularly on AMC and FX shows. It's like the approved curse word, and they overuse it to the point I wish they wouldn't use it at all.

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The use of the word "shite", particularly on AMC and FX shows. It's like the approved curse word, and they overuse it to the point I wish they wouldn't use it at all.

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This nearly led me to stop watching It's Always Sunny. They put such fricking emphasis on the word and it drives me crazy.

Not a cliche
But I can't stand it when people are offered a drink by someone or at a restaurant and take like one sip before leaving. Like wtf! You just opened that beer! Finish that thing!

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the Three's Company scenario (guy & girl having problems, she walks in to see the guy and another girl in fishy situation she immediately misreads and he has to win her back)

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And the guy just lets her walk away without taking 7 seconds to explain the situation

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Any form of mistaken identity

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Any form? The Big Lebowski? Life of Brian? North by Northwest?

I'm tired of seeing good guys who refuse to simply kill a bad guy.

I hate when there's a brainstorming session and the people start finishing each other's thoughts. Cop shows do this all the time. Legends of Tomorrow does this too.

I understand why fight scenes can't be realistic. But really, if a guy is gonna be hit so hard that he literally flies through the air, or if he's knocked unconscious for a while...he's really hurt. At least show a black eye. It takes a lot of force to make someone fly through the air.

1) head injuries. One character smashes another character in the head with a frying pan or bat or wine bottle and knocks them out, but when the unconscious character regains consciousness, he suffers no concussion symptoms or brain bleeds or death (Supernatural is egregious. Love the show, but Sam and Dean shouldn't be able to remember their names with the number of blows to the brain they've had). This wouldn't be so bad if you didn't also have very minor fights, say, some dude shoves away a woman who's bugging him and it results in her tripping, hitting her head against a corner and instantly dying, resulting in the need to bury the body in the desert or something. So, are people's skulls made of iron or tissue paper? Cuz you can't have it both ways, Hollywood!

2)people in cities being attacked by aliens or killer robots or out of control Avengers never see the need to do more than stare dumbly at the action until they are literally 10 inches away from it, THEN the screaming and running begins. People, the ground has been vibrating for half an hour and masonry has been falling from 20 floors up. Seek shelter NOW, don't wait until a giant metal foot almost smushes you!

Slo-mo gunshot wound where about a 1/2 pound of hamburger meat spurts forth from the wound

T-bone car crash. It was interesting the first 5 times, maybe.


Sorta related. The call of the Cactus Wren can be heard in almost all westerns. Lately, the sound people put it in any movie with an outdoor scene.

A cop is involved in a critical incident and is back in action by the end of the day. No admin time off post-shooting, no fitness for duty evals/counseling, not even any paperwork.

Just shoot them at 10am, back on the case by nightfall.