Pretty funny website that lists a bunch of the most common movie cliches.  Enjoy!


http://www.filmcliches.com

That is very funny and very true, I think it is time to do a bit of rewriting  :B LOL

Here's a similar list:

http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html


Phil

i hate film cliches.  although some are exceptionally hilarious in their own respect

"The villain will almost always kidnap the hero's woman in an atempt to destroy the hero's heart and spirit, but instead it gives him the will to go on and ends up being the villain's downfall, or the woman he kidnaps will end up defeating him."

Guilty as charged!

oh.  so ur a woman stealer, guy? lol.  ill look out for you so i can beat u up :P hahaha

So the next challenge, official or otherwise, will be to write something while avoiding every cliche in here...

that should be fun... and hard. lol.  cliches are part of films, as sad as it is.  but im up for it.

My favourite is the cop who's two weeks away from retirement, or has just given his two weeks notice. You just know he's about to die.

Hehe these are funny!

Sean

My personal favorite is in horror movies, when they have the biggest house, they only have one phone.  And conveniently, it's a cordless.  Watch Scary Movie 3, they do a gag in there about that.  That's really when i first realized that.

Quoted from Takeshi My favourite is the cop who's two weeks away from retirement, or has just given his two weeks notice. You just know he's about to die.

That is probably the most hilariously true statement on teh face of the earth.  Watch the movie "Colors."

I like how aliens always seem to speak subtitled English.

I'm actually about to write a Sci-Fi movie.  I might have to avoid this.  

Quoted from George Willson So the next challenge, official or otherwise, will be to write something while avoiding every cliche in here...

Or uses every cliche....


Phil

Here is a related thread, in the same vein, that ended up being pretty amusing:

http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-Chat/m-1120793279/s-0/

George, I suggest you do a challenge with lot of cliches! As Phil said "or use every cliche..."

Quoted from dogglebe Or uses every cliche.... Phil

Yeah, I've thought of writing a script using every known cliche. I was going to call it "The Cliche Kid". However, it never got past the idea stage.  

Lol that would be fun! Or like each person on the simply scripts board should right an episode for a series using a certain number of cliches, and yet, have a decent plot.

Sean

And after we've read all of them, we can say, "It's finally over..."


Phil

...with a astonished sunset!"

And then whatever was killing them, chasing them, etc., slowly walks behind them at a certain distance and pulls out a knife.

Sean

What about when the protagonist unknowingly jumps into a cab, driven by "gulp"...the antagonist.

I recently caught myself writing that into one of my scripts.  :o

Needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway) it didn’t survive the first edit.  

"Villans will always explain their plan, in its entirety, to the hero before leaving him in an easily escapable situation with an incredibly incompetentguard, or no guard at all."

"When the hero is taking on a barrage of the villian's henchmen, they will attack him one at a time."

Haha!  So true!  Why do they do that?  

"If a man is dressed up as a woman, no matter how ugly of a woman he is, some guy will hit on him."

Haha.

Quoted from guyjackson "Villans will always explain their plan, in its entirety, to the hero before leaving him in an easily escapable situation with an incredibly incompetent guard, or no guard at all."

That was actually stated very blatantly just like that in the first Austin Powers film of Mister Evil's plan to kill Austin Powers.

"If there happens to be a high-rise building in an action/disaster film, you can always expect an oblivious Hispanic janitor listening to salsa on his headphones."

This one made me laugh out loud.  Now, I must poop.