Movie Cliches That Piss You Off?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

A character has the drop on their mortal enemy. Instead of finishing them off, they engage in a protracted discussion about what brought them to that point in time!

[Glamrock]

1. Handguns

That can fire 30 or 40 times without reloading.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Hell yes! And, they out shoot everything else!🤬

[Glamrock]

12. Yeah man

One bullet one kill. Only James Bond could pull that off. He has a licence you know....

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. And he's 007! Imagine how bad ass 001 - 006 are!

[Glamrock]

21. Hahahaha!

I never thought of that!

[JDC]

75. And nobody's hearing is ever affected.

Ears would be ringing for days w/o protection.

[Glamrock]

79. Huh?

[sarge43]

99. At least they got that right in The Fugitive. n/t

[sakabatou]

144. And sometimes in live-action TV

[OilemFirchen]

94. Then, when the shooter runs out of ammo...

there's the two-click rule. If it doesn't fire for exactly two trigger pulls, he or she throws the gun on the ground.

Apparently it's in the instruction manual...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. A woman is running away from a bad guy and she falls down.

If a man and a woman are running away together, the woman will fall down and the man will have to pick her up.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Yep! 🤬

[True Dough]

7. The countless women I have stepped over

while saving my own hide. I tell ya...

[bigbrother05]

10. Usually because the man is trying to drag her along by the hand

Just let her run on her own or drop back to fend off the villain to let her get away.

[mythology]

164. That is not the appropriate rule

Here is the appropriate rule when being chased:

You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.

[sarge43]

100. The hand holding while they're running.

As if the silly woman has no idea what to do.

[True Dough]

3. Anything involving major coincidences

in either a movie or a TV show. If it happens early on and it just seems too far fetched, which it usually does, I just give up on it right away.

[lapfog_1]

8. unless it is a comedy detective show all about coincidences

Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency, for example.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Yep! 🤬

[lapfog_1]

4. Conversely (or maybe as a follow on)

every time "our hero" is captured by the bad guys (who have shown no hesitation in the past about offing anyone that gets in their way)... our hero is strapped to some sort of killing machine or chained up or whatever and the head bad guy orders that he be killed... and then leaves with some,most, or all of his henchmen.

Thus allowing our hero to escape and meet the head bad guy later in the picture.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Without fail! 🤬

[mucifer]

150. yeah but it was cool when Batman did it in the '60s.

[lapfog_1]

152. Goldfinger, laser

Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?"
Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!"

[FSogol]

13. Two cliches bug me:

1. Monsters last rarrrrr. You've killed the monster, but suddenly he gets up one more time! Rarrrr.

2. Everyone claps for the hero at the end.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. I know, I know! 🤬🤬

[htuttle]

14. Two of them: "As you know, Bob..." and also never saying goodbye on the telephone

NotBob: "As you know, Bob, we've been at war with the martians our whole lives, and that's why we can't go outside."
Bob: "Yes, of course I know that!"

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsYouKnow

TV Phone Etiquette
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTelephoneEtiquette

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Also, a character will just walk away after speaking their line.

They never say anything like, "Sorry, gotta go now," or "Nice talking to you" or any other final remarks. They just walk away.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. Yes! 🤬

[John Fante]

37. That type of dialogue is frowned upon in screenplays.

Each page equals a minute of screentime and chit-chat like "Hello xxx", "Talk to you later", "how are you?", and "I'm fine, how are you?" is considered wasteful and dull UNLESS it's advancing the story.

[htuttle]

45. I've heard that

And I never thought about it, until I noticed it one day. Now I can't help but thinking that the person on the other end of the phone is like, "Hello? Hello?"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

65. Yes, but when somebody just walks away it looks unrealistic - people don't do that

unless they're extremely rude. They could at least smile, nod or wave.

[John Fante]

73. As a director I'd probably include a few here and there.

Perhaps one character can say "talk to you later" as they're hanging up, just so they don't come off as rude, but that's it. Too much of that "hi/bye" dialogue gets old fast. Movies, even dramas, are exaggerated reality - the mundane has no place in them.

"The Room" (the Citizen Kane of bad movies) is loaded with "hi/bye" dialogue. So much so that YouTubers have compiled some of it:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Yes, the bad guy explains his plot in great detail

instead of just shooting his adversary, which is what would really happen.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. If only! 🤬

[LonePirate]

18. Bomb timers that tick down to 1 second before being defused.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. And why does it always have to be red or green wire FFS? It's not like the bomber expects to see

the bomb again! 🤬

[HopeAgain]

42. Gotta know your wires to get into bomb maker's union...

[John Fante]

85. That is done to build tension.

[hunter]

137. Galaxy Quest did it perfectly.

It's a brilliant movie, it got a lot of cliches just right.

Never give up! Never surrender!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/

[gratuitous]

24. Overhead shot of someone shouting "NOOOOOOO!"

And the more recent cliché of the somebody turning and walking away moments before his bomb explodes behind him. Yeah, you're really badass. We get it. The first time, it was kind of cool. The 450th time? Not so much. Can directors think of nothing on their own, they have to crib from each other all the time?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

32. Hate it! 🤬

[spicysista]

25. The roar!

The grunt/roar/yell of a person that's about to attack. So, I'm going to announce the moment I'm going to pounce on someone... I think not!
Also, I really hate the hiss/growl before a vampire bites....totally unnecessary. Here's a fun spoof by Key and Peele:

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. Hahahaha! 😂

[mahatmakanejeeves]

26. The Nazis running out into the middle of a wide-open field and taking their positions there.

No, this does not make me a Nazi.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. True! 🤬

[mahatmakanejeeves]

38. I'd get a clip from a movie, but yikes! I don't need to hear from IT. NT

[kmla]

27. Whenever people escape by crawling through suspended ceilings or ductwork...

As someone in the industry, I can most definitely state that a suspended ceiling system will not support the weight of a full grown adult. It just won't.

And all ductwork is not big enough to crawl through. In fact, most standard ducts are about 12" x 18" or less by the time they get to an office or lab area. And they usually have dampers, turning vanes, and other stuff in them that would preclude traveling through them. Dust free, of course. Because there is no dust in movies.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

29. Also, those huge, slow-turning fans in the walls, running at about 20 rpm.

And the giant, wall-sized computer monitors.

And the cars that blow up or flip over in any traffic incident.

And tires squealing on a dirt road.

[Atman]

35. The giant see-through glass computer screens floating in mid-air.

Everyone's got one!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

43. That's what I mean. Also, instantaneously being able to find things on the computer.

What's that show, "Criminal Minds," I think. The computer whiz looks up what a person of interest had for breakfast that morning, in about three seconds.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

49. And the computer displays are huge and multicolored

with big letters - like when they look up something in a database like CODIS the computer flashes and beeps and displays MATCH in huge red letters. I don't know any database that does that.

[hunter]

123. Why on earth would anyone want a see-through screen even if they were possible?

I 'm frequently irritated by the reflection on my cell phone. A see-through screen would be even worse.

[ProfessorGAC]

98. You Grabbed Mine!

Cars blowing up due to virtually any collision, and on top of that, the explosion is instantaneous. I saw a bad accident that ended up with the car engulfed in flames because the gas tank popped. But, it didn't explode, and the fire didn't even start until the first responders were already there. Paramedic and cop put it out with an extinguisher, but they kept everybody way back until FD got there to soak the pavement.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

36. And steam coming off hvac equipment. Unless it's an exterior cooling tower and low temps

there is no steam.

Oh! And activating one sprinkler head sets off the entire fss!

[blaze]

136. Oh yeah. ALL the sprinklers.

That one gets me too!

[blaze]

135. Hahaha!! Thank you!!

As a commercial HVAC tech for 20 yrs, this one always bugs me.

I was excited when the little mini-laptops came out because they were light enough for me to set on top of a ceiling tile.

[targetpractice]

162. Like this?

[The Blue Flower]

28. Repeating a dramatic line

I guess to make sure we heard it the first time?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

39. 🤬

[mahatmakanejeeves]

44. I guess to make sure we heard it the first time. NT

[dbackjon]

124. Repeating a dramatic line

[vlyons]

30. Car wreck that explodes 15 times

in case you missed the first 14 explosions

[Floyd R. Turbo]

40. From different angles! 🤬

[mahatmakanejeeves]

46. A trope of those "America's Most Shocking Videos!" shows. NT

[sarge43]

101. As long as we're discussing explosions

Our Hero's slo mo walk away from The Explosion. No flying debris in his direction, no blast effective ruffling his hair or clothing, his ear drums intact. In short, protected by the green screen barrier.

[Atman]

31. Character orders "a beer." Takes one sip, then leaves.

Followed by hanging up the phone without saying "good-bye."

[Floyd R. Turbo]

41. 🤬

[Midwestern Democrat]

88. The close sister of that cliche is the character who lights up a cigarette, takes one puff, and

then puts it out.

[HopeAgain]

47. Doing a back flip/front flip or any flip

in the middle of a fight. Really? has anyone done that EVER?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

48. Now that you mention it! 🤬

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

51. I got another one: The good guy gets into a brutal fist fight

and immediately afterwards he might have a faint bruise on his cheek but no cut lip, swelling, scraped knuckles or bloody nose that anybody would be expected to have. He's his usual handsome, almost completely unscathed self.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

50. When somebody gets shot they go flying backwards about 10 feet

instead of collapsing in an awkward heap, which is what would actually happen.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

53. True! 🤬

[sarge43]

103. Or if they're hit by something really big like a cannon ball,

they flip instead of being reduced to ground round.

[NBachers]

52. The monster that lumbers along at .3 MPH, but is always overtaking the fleeing victims.

The most obvious one of all: Going into the basement during a night time thunderstorm after the criminal homicidal maniac has excaped from the Criminally Homicidally Insane Asylum.

The Popular Cheerleader Prom Queen who falls for the pathetic picked-on dweeb.

The Hero Dog who runs off following a series of spoken commands and Saves the Day!

The desperate hero or heroine who bets their last crumbs on an unlikely outcome and Wins Big Time!

The guy who's released after years in prison and immediately gets into a car and starts driving around.

The guy who's released after years in prison and immediately gets some gorgeous and helpful woman in his life with no effort at all.

The fighting hero who falls through multiple stories of barriers and then gets up and continues the battle.

The big explosion where an entire wall of windows blasts into the protagonists and they're thrown to the ground, but then they get up and they're not shredded by thousands of razor-sharp glass shards.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

54. Similarly, when someone gets thrown through a large window

and picks himself up and walks away without a single scratch.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

55. Yes, yes, yes, yes, etc! 🤬

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

56. Sick or injured people in hospital beds

looking neat and clean instead of pale, beaten up and awful, and attached to catheters.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

58. And if a lead, perfect hair and makeup! 🤬

[mucifer]

155. Yup, hospice nurse here. Almost never see someone on a ventilator puffy yellow with

blood coming out of the side of their mouth from organ failure. Nope, they just look pretty then they die.

For the healthier ones in the hospital half the time the oxygen cannula is on wrong.

For tv shows once a year they get shot wounds but never have any long term chronic pain or limp or anything from it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

57. Loud explosions in space travel movies.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

60. Indeed! 🤬

[hatrack]

76. Don't forget the obligatory low rumbling space ships make while transiting . . . space

Oh, and the lower and more rumbly, the more menacing/morally ambiguous the crew of said space ship.

Remember the omnipresent rumbling on board the Death Star? Very low, very rumbly!

[targetpractice]

163. Come on! Turn the volume up...

...and behold the Battlestar Galactica...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

59. People who just had sex but when they get out of bed

they are still wearing their underwear.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

61. Spotless at that! 🤬

[ms liberty]

80. And with perfect hair and makeup!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

81. Yep!

[Kaleva]

92. And how about the modest women who wrap themselves in a sheet when going to the bathroom afterwards?

[becca da bakkah]

111. I Hate That! He's Already Pretty Much....

...seen her naked, so who cares anyway? And now you've got a stray sheet that will either have to be washed, or the bed will have to be remade. Annoying as fuck!

[Xolodno]

166. And that sheet...

...doesn't have ANY body fluid stains.

[LAS14]

117. People having sex and the woman never takes off her bra. nt

[TexasBushwhacker]

120. Yeah, I was watching "The Tale" on HBO

There were 2 sex scenes where Laura Dern was on top and both times she's wearing a bra. I get that actresses don't like doing nude scenes, especially when they aren't in their 20s anymore. But if they aren't going to get nude put them on the bottom and artfully arrange arms so you can't see anything. You might wear a nightgown while having sex, but no one strips down to a bra. Bras are the first thing that comes off because they're UNCOMFORTABLE.

Also, while nudity has gotten more equal in the last few years, there's still a lot more female nudity than male, especially full frontal. Kudos to the actors willing to let use see their junk. It's about time.

[patricia92243]

149. I assumed they just had really boring sex :)

[Wounded Bear]

62. The old character that can barely walk...

but when the bad guy shows up, they drop their cane and start bouncing off the walls, doing gymnastics, backflips, cartwheels, etc.

I'm looking at you, Yoda!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

64. Hahahaha! 🤬

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

63. Guy who's running away jumps into his unlocked car and starts it immediately

without fumbling for his keys. And, person in a desperate hurry to do something important can always find a parking spot.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

66. Hell yes!🤬

[LAS14]

116. Noticed that just this week in the latest Mission Impossible. nt

[dbackjon]

125. I can do that - Push Button locks and starter

Keys stay in pocket the entire time.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

126. This happened all the time in movies and TV dating back to the '60s.

No excuse for them.

[NBachers]

67. The ex-military Super-secret Special Forces specialist who just wants to live a quiet life & be left

alone because of the Great Tragedy, but he's persuaded to come out of retirement one last time by nefarious agents who intend to make him the Fall Guy, but he finds out and turns the tables on them, making off with all the loot he knows how to siphon into his pocket.

Then, somehow, he never gets into trouble for the scores of people he's killed, or the destructive car chases where he's plowed through the poor vegetable stand guy's business, or the other mayhem he's committed.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

69. Absolutely! 🤬

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

68. People outrunning an explosion.

Can't be done.

And another vote to people going through glass windows and not getting so much as a scratch. Likewise not possible.

Not turning on lights in the house or room or trailer or whatever when searching for an evil something. Also, the way lights only illuminate a very small space immediately next to the light. Even a dim bulb will light up a larger space.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

70. True, true, true! 🤬

[hibbing]

71. Stealing one from Ebert

The fruit cart getting knocked over in a chase scene. Oddly, I have lived in a city all my life and have never seen one of those rolling fruit carts. I think they use the same one from movie to movie.


Peace

[Floyd R. Turbo]

72. I think you're right! 🤬

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

74. LOL! Taco trucks, yes; but I've never seen a fruit cart

in my city or any other. But it's tough to knock over a taco truck.

[Cousin Dupree]

77. When women are portrayed as silly, simpering, dependent, weak characters. Drives me crazy

[Floyd R. Turbo]

83. Ripley!

[John Fante]

87. Kate Capshaw in "Temple of Doom" immediately comes to

mind. I guess Spielberg wanted an anti-Marion Ravenwood for the sequel, but did she gave to be that whiny and weak?

[sarge43]

104. And she was always perfectly groomed n/t

[betsuni]

169. I just saw a little of that movie on teevee,

Her white shirt never gets dirty. It must have been a magical shirt.

[sdfernando]

78. ....and that is exactly why

James Bond always wins the fight.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

84. Well yeah! 😯

[Wolf Frankula]

82. Oh you weak and puny humans!

I'm sick of that movie trope.

The computer whiz who can break into anything or find out anything in a few seconds by typing furiously. Doesn't anybody use a mouse?

Wolf

[Floyd R. Turbo]

86. Hey! I know this program! 🤬

[Midwestern Democrat]

89. Cars that are able to do spectacular jumps - like jump over a downed bridge - and then just peel off

after the hard landing as if the car's completely unaffected - when in reality the car was completely totaled after the stunt driver made that jump.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

112. Yep!

[Leith]

90. Bad Guys Who Fire Hundreds of Bullets

and never hit anything. The good guys get one bad guy per bullet.

Women whose only conversations are those where they discuss their love interests.

Grrrr.......

[TexasBushwhacker]

122. Or the women all spend half their income on clothes and shoes

Yes, I'm talking about Sex and the City.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

159. Sometimes the good guy gets two or more with one bullet! 😂

[betsuni]

170. Old Westerns are like that to a ridiculous extent.

Watched one the other day and every shot fired by the white guys brought down at least one Indian. They just fold over, can't miss.

[Kaleva]

91. Someone on foot who is being chased by a car and they run in a straight line.

[Kaleva]

93. The deep woods are so well lighted in the middle of the night.

All that mysterious natural lighting makes the use of flashlights and torches rather superfluous.

[OilemFirchen]

95. Shooting at a gas tank, or dropping a match into it...

causes a vehicle to explode. Ramming it has the same effect.

If all else fails, lighting a trail of leaking gas will do the trick.

[edbermac]

96. James Bond is a Secret Agent.

And he can walk into any bar in the world and everyone recognizes him.

“Ah, Mr Bond! The usual, a vodka martini, shaken not stirred?”

Edit: People shoot Superman and he just stands there letting the bullets bounce off his chest. Then they throw the gun at him and he ducks.

[IrishEyes]

97. In romantic comedies, the female lead usually has the same three careers.

She always works for a fashion magazine, works at a fashion company or own a cute little bakery. Just once, I want to see a female lead who is an engineer, veterinarian, pilot or anything of the other thousands of jobs out there.

Movies with tons of white guys in their 30s and 40s, one gorgeous white woman in her 20s and no asians, blacks or hispanics.

People in their 20s with way more experience, skills and education than would be physically possible. For instance, a 25 year old martial arts expert who speaks 7 languages, has two PhDs and is Vice President of their company.

Nurse always being portrayed as dumb, incompetent or lazy.

[sarge43]

106. She's living in an apartment that she couldn't possibly afford. n/t

[IrishEyes]

108. Of course, it is set in NYC which is famous for its reasonable rents.

She is also a size zero with a fancy wardrobe and a shoe obsession. Even though she has a job, she has plenty of time off during the day to do things like have long lunches with friends to talk about their relationships. She is always either trying to get a guy, keep a guy or get over a guy and find a new guy. She also has a gay best friend (always male) and a less attractive female friend who are always there to discuss everything about her relationships. The gay man works in the performing arts and knows all about fashion. The female best friend is desperate for a man but cannot find one because she is a size 6 which is fat in the movie world. In the real world, the female friend would be considered very pretty. Of course, these people don't have a love life or seemingly any life of their own.

[sarge43]

109. Size 6 does have a life. It's centered around Size 0, as is the rest of time/space continuum.

The gay best friend is usually black -- ya know, Size 0 is all about progressiveness and inclusion

(I don't think I need the sarcasm icon here)

[TexasBushwhacker]

121. You can't imagine how many people were upset that Mindy Kaling dated handsome white guys

on The Mindy Project and how many people said she was FAT because she's not a size 2.

[Mendocino]

102. The Ensign Ricky/red shirt

you know he's going to die. A relative of the dino fodder character or the nameless henchman.

[DetlefK]

105. Nobody is ever taking a piss.

Nobody needs to go to the toilet.
How do they wipe their asses when taking a shit in the middle of nowhere?

For example, the series Lost. They are stuck on an island and:
Nobody needs to wash their hair.
Nobody needs to shave.
Nobody gets sunburn.
Nobody needs "female hygiene products".

[raccoon]

107. A woman takes off her glasses and miraculously doesn't need them any more.

This is an oldie, not sure if it happens in movies any more.

[sarge43]

110. Getting really nitpicky here. Why does Tarzan always wear a loin cloth?

He was raised by great apes who do not have body shame, let alone the concept of clothing.

And how and why does he shave?

[Wolf Frankula]

113. Because Tarzan was a British Aristocrat

and had to be decent. That's why he shaves, I forget what with. Also, though Tarzan talks like a tard, he can read and write.

Wolf

[sarge43]

114. More discreet rather decent

However, point taken.

[LAS14]

115. They agree to meet for dinner but part before setting a place and time. nt

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

118. Running around on the tops of moving trains - hate that! nt

[LAS14]

119. Phone numbers with a 555 area code.

Either pay for a realy phone number or don't display it. This just yells at you, "This is a MOVIE!!!"

[jayschool2013]

127. The pushy journalist

shouting questions at some poor public official.

Some shout. Most don't.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

128. Die Hard, Dick!

[DashOneBravo]

129. Person has 12' of rope on their shoulder

Then makes a 500’ rappel.

[Vinnie From Indy]

130. People living in homes that they could never afford

The kids on Friends are a good example. Getting a three bedroom apartment in Manhattan like the one depicted in the series with a balcony would cost thousands. All of Jerry Seinfeld's buddies could never afford the places they live in. Kramer is unemployed yet he lives in an apartment that would cost well over a thousand a month.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

131. People who have a pet (usually a dog) that you see in only one scene,

and there's no evidence in their home that there's a dog there (unless the movie is actually about the dog). No dog dishes, toys, leashes, fur or chewed-up items. They walk the dog in one scene and you never see the dog again, even in other scenes taking place in the house.

[UTUSN]

132. Character in (whatever altered state) hugging a commode & barfing into it.

Really, this is in tons of movies, so qualifies as a cliche. And it's disgusting. Screenwriters apparently love it for the gritty "reality".

[Yavin4]

133. "Only you have the skills, powers, talents, etc. to do something or save the world"

On a planet of billions of people, I highly doubt that there's only one person with the skills/talents to do the job.

[VOX]

134. When a TV or radio comes on with just the right story at just the right time.

The protagonist can be in a bar, look up at a screen, and bingo! Something's on that's desperate and needs fixing or fleeing, right away!

[jrandom421]

138. My biggest pet peeve

Where the wild-eyed loner disrespected "genius" or the "brilliant" kid always knows more and has "newer" information than the respected scientists and engineers who have been working on or with a project for years, and somehow saves the day.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

139. A woman hiding her breasts from the guy she just had sex with

Pretty much every post sex scene has the woman lying in bed with a blanket completely covering her breasts. Makes no sense. If you got naked and screwed, why would you be worried about your partner seeing your breasts afterwards? It's like they instantly go back to being an uptight prude once the sex is done. Are there people out there that actually do this?

[pnwest]

156. I do - after sex nips are super sensitive and

I don’t want anything accidentally brushing across them! Seriously!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

157. Lol, never been a problem for me. n/t

[Iggo]

140. Well...

Empty coffee cups.

Lack of airbags.

Exposition.



(Not really what you're asking for, but those things really bother me.)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

141. Cell phone batteries seem to last forever.

And VW Beetles.

[Snellius]

142. Hitting someone's forehead with your forehead.A headbutt suckerpunch like rams.

I forget in what movie I first saw it (maybe a good trivia question for here) but it seemed like every second movie after some actor was face to face with some opponent and suddenly butts his head. Never tried it. Seems like hitting a hammer with a nail.

[liberaltrucker]

143. I HATE that cliche!

[Snellius]

147. Where is the "pass" anyhow? What IS a pass? I've never found one to cut someone off.

I suppose it's some kind of crossroad. But wouldn't that take longer, assuming who you're chasing would take the fastest route?

[sakabatou]

145. All Girls Want Bad Boys

[brettdale]

146. sterotypes

Hero is good looking.
bad person is ugly
fat person is lazy
short person is aggressive
woman are 20 years younger than their partners.
You know the white person is cool, because his best buddy is a funny black guy.
5 year old kids are played by eight year olds.
10 year old kids are play by 16 year olds.
16 year old kids are played by 27 year olds.

[lpbk2713]

148. The hero hits the bad guy with one punch ...

and he's out cold for the rest of the scene.

[sarge43]

161. And Our Hero can still use that hand. n/t

[Squinch]

151. The hero, who we are supposed to admire, puts his kid lowest on his list. He misses the baseball

game, misses the birthday, etc.

It is a plot device used all the time to show how busy and important the hero is, and we know it's OK because either the wife is fine with it, or she isn't in which case it doubles as a plot device to show the wife is a shrew.

What it really shows is that the protagonist is a narcissistic asshole.

[underpants]

153. Grocery bag with French bread and leafy greens sticking out

Not really a peeve but it's definitely a constant

[sarge43]

160. Don't forget the spaghetti.

It's always loose, never in a package. Our Leads bump into each other, spaghetti spills all over the NYC sidewalk. Leads have a 'cute' moment of confusion and banter. Then ... wait for it... they put the sketti back in the bag!

I have this dream that perky girl lead dies the next day of a disease that even the CDC won't go near.

[gopiscrap]

154. "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings"

[pnwest]

158. Girl has hot, drunken sex all night -

oversleeps in the morning and jumps out of bed, throws on last night’s clothes and runs in to work. No shower, no brushing teeth - NO one goes to work smelling like that!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

165. Car chases and foot chases across roofs.

[Xolodno]

167. Sound effects of fist fights...

...if you hit someone that hard and it made that sound....their dead. Plain and simple.

But nope. Not only does the villian throw a punch and make the sound, the hero returns the punch with slightly variation of the sound...and they keep doing this for awhile.

[grantcart]

168. Carrying empty luggage and bags

You can tell by the bend of the elbow that there is nothing in the luggage.

I know that they have to do a dozen rin throughs but the final shot should be like the bags our wives pack, overfilled and heavy