Irritating Film Cliches

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Couple having a good old session in bed at night (no nudity but they are nude). Following morning, the woman wakes up to answer the phone, but makes sure she is covered up with a bed sheet even though her partner is either still asleep or has left.

Prisoners or good guys chained up for hours and hours, perhaps even days. And yet when they're released they never want to go the toilet, or "messed" in their underwear
 
"You're not like other girls" 🤮

"You wouldn't understand"
"Try me"

Siblings saying "Sis" and "Bro". As Francine says in American Dad, it's clunky and expositional.

Using a cigarette and a leather jacket to convey that a character is a cool, nonchalant bad boy type.

Female characters who are in a situation where they don't have access to feminine hygiene not having an issue, eg. perfectly shaved pits (Kate in Lost lol)

That one character who stays quiet about their zombie bite or other debilitating injury until it's TOO LATE.

And lastly, the trope I hate the most, people who don't double-tap!! Make sure the fucker is dead before you turn your back on them!
 
Rbarb-bkini said:
"You're not like other girls" 🤮

"You wouldn't understand"
"Try me"

Siblings saying "Sis" and "Bro". As Francine says in American Dad, it's clunky and expositional.

Using a cigarette and a leather jacket to convey that a character is a cool, nonchalant bad boy type.

Female characters who are in a situation where they don't have access to feminine hygiene not having an issue, eg. perfectly shaved pits (Kate in Lost lol)

That one character who stays quiet about their zombie bite or other debilitating injury until it's TOO LATE.

And lastly, the trope I hate the most, people who don't double-tap!! Make sure the fucker is dead before you turn your back on them!
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Reminds me of that scene in A Cinderella Story where Chad Michael Murray asks Hilary Duff if she prefers rice cakes or a Big Mac.
 
Two complete strangers are in a cafe or bar. One of them does something that catches the other's attention (like a moby phone call). Guy finishes convo and inadvertently bumps into Girl, or drops his phone by her feet.

"Sorry!" he says
"That's okay" she smiles

They look at each other, there's a connection. He sits next to her, they talk, he buys her a drink, they talk, they laugh........ next thing they're back at his/her place humping like there's no tomorrow.

Key thing here though is that they're both "beautiful people" (am thinking Brad Pitt and Claire Forlani, in "Meet Joe Black"). In real life this would probably never happen.
 
May have already been said but in horror films I get so annoyed when they “kill” a baddie and then just relax and a bit without making sure he’s properly dead?! bleeping bash that guy over the head a few more times just to make sure! Usually then the baddie comes back and kills them for being so dumb.
Another horror thing - someone running away through the forest or whatever, why do they always run so bloody slow and trip over 😂 It’s so infuriating!

People searching around a creepy house and no one thinks to just put the lights on?!

The whole “opens the fridge and there’s someone/something behind it and when they close the fridge it’s a jump scare” except now it’s so over done!

Also hate it when people have a full plate of food and they just leave it cos something happens or they have an argument.
 
Sometimes in thrillers or murder mysteries, a detective will secretly record a conversation between 2 suspects on his tape recorder (we're going back a few years here). Later on when he is about to arrest them he plays the recording back to them. But when he presses the rewind button for a few seconds before hitting play, he always seems to find the exact piece of recording to prove their guilt! (There's never any faffing about constantly pressing FF and RW as you would in real life)

Also in sci-fi movies, you'll have an innocent woman under attack from a cyborg. She shoots the cyborg a million billion times, but doesn't kill it. She then finds she's out of bullets, so throws her gun at it, as if that's going to make any friggin' difference!
 
Bezolabub said:
Two complete strangers are in a cafe or bar. One of them does something that catches the other's attention (like a moby phone call). Guy finishes convo and inadvertently bumps into Girl, or drops his phone by her feet.

"Sorry!" he says
"That's okay" she smiles

They look at each other, there's a connection. He sits next to her, they talk, he buys her a drink, they talk, they laugh........ next thing they're back at his/her place humping like there's no tomorrow.

Key thing here though is that they're both "beautiful people" (am thinking Brad Pitt and Claire Forlani, in "Meet Joe Black"). In real life this would probably never happen.
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What about this?!!!! Admittedly they didn't make it back home, but same premise!

www.google.com

Woman caught having 'al fresco' sex with a stranger fined £230

Kate Jackson, 40, had an illict 'al fresco' romp with stranger Jonathon Pisani, 44, on a busy pavement in Greater Manchester at 3.43pm on August 10 while waiting for a train home.
www.google.com www.google.com
 
PennyLane321 said:
Sort of in the same vein but when there’s a table full of breakfast food that would feed the 5000 and everyone takes a single bite of toast and a sip of orange juice then rush out the door
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Ruined The Parent Trap remake when Chessy went to all that effort and that is literally all Annie had for breakfast.
 
American family dinner scenes where it's like a carvery in the middle of the table. A roast and ten side dishes for a family of four. Kitchens somehow look immaculate too, with no pans and mess on the worktops.

Also someone throwing open the church doors shouting "stop the wedding!" the second the vicar asks if there is any reason why this couple shouldn't marry 😒
 
Bezolabub said:
I'm sure we've seen it many times when watching films: the intended victim (usually a young and pretty female) enters a house late at night, never bothers to switch on the lights but carries on doing what she's doing.

She hears a noise.

"Who's that?" she says in the shadows.

Nothing. She shrugs and carries on

Another noise

"Is someone there? This isn't funny. I know who you are! I'm calling the police"

Scared, but still doesn't bother switching the lights on

Walks into a dark room very quietly (still no lights). Door slowly closes behind her with a creak at the end. She turns round to see the murderer in the shadows. Lots of screams job done.

That's just one example of an irritating cliche that bugs the hell out of me. Another one is where a bad guy is caught and has his hands tied behind his back. But never tight enough because there's always something close by where he can release his bonds.

Any more to add?
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Where someone hits the murderer when they get the chance but never enough to knock them out for long, so you know they’re going to get up again pretty soon and be after them again
 
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