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Stupid movie cliches.

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  1. Rocket River

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    The 'nerdy' girl takes off her glasses and scrunchie
    all of a sudden she is the prettiest girl in the school

    Rocket River
     
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    Bollywood anyone?
     
  3. Shroopy2

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    STUPID movie cliches off the top of my head...

    - Setting up sympathetic hard luck character who's gonna move onto a better life away from the grind by retiring or moving to another region, but they killed. Life isnt fair, but its so cliche in movies it stinks

    - Left-for-dead character who had 30 gun shots and 50 stab wounds comes back and saves the day for good guys, perilously close to the jaws of defeat. Bonus if its sympathetic hard luck character but resurrected

    I think high school culture is the scourge of society. Thats where all the corruption is breeded :eek: Lets all learn to get along. Except high school, narrowly define yourselves in cliques and be divisive.
     
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    car chase scenes on crowded streets were not one pedestrian gets hit. Even when the cars are driving on the sidewalk.
     
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    It may be cliche but that's what I do all the time.
     
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    In sports movie:

    the very bad team, with people that sucks at the sport, wins in the last second against a very well formed team with very talented players.
     
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    I was gonna say Lack of Depth Wooden Female Character. If she's not falling in love or making brownies and doing secretarial work for people, she just seems to be filler or just plain getting in the way.

    If you're implying gender bias and females getting "held back", I think thats BS if I can honest. :) Society still has work to do but I think in film its all about the money. If 3 times the people watch Angelina Jolie at 55 years old kicking ass over a dude in the same role, they'd cast her over the dude easy. If you can't see that women have closed the gap and are closing it even further, not sure what to say. Women RULE daytime TV, its not even close.

    In truth animated characters rule the film world.
     
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    And of course all it took to get them over the hump was a no-nonsense coach with uncompromising rugged standards, and some very creative "outside the box" playcalling.
     
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    "I"m getting to old for this ****"
     
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    Just once I'd like to see a movie where there's a small town team full of scrappers that gets completely obliterated by a superior team in a richer school district because their risky play calling caused too many turnovers/errors. I'd find that to be pretty amusing.
     
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    That would be the Miami(OH)/Florida game from today.
     
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    thats called real life.
     
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    its about being fair. they understand its bad enough that it's 20 vs 1, so the honorable thing to do is to fight one at a time. you obviously never been in many 20 vs 1 fights. :cool:
     
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    person facing group of friends or coworkers badmouthing a boss, ex, or someone, then everyone but the person talking stops and looks behind the talker. The talker pauses then says "he/she is right behind me isn't he/she?"

    A spy couple will say ordinary couple things while battling 10 bad guys. "What's for dinner?" "can't you see I'm a little busy right now" (while punching a bad guy)
     
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    Yes, I get the whole honorable thing... but do the rest of the gang have to dance around the fight the whole time?
     
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    Take all the action out of it, and that's the Ocean's 11-19 movies.

    Real life is, real. Thats why its called fiction :)


    If people in real life keep debunking all the myths and live solely through science and and fact-based elements, things like Christmas movies will be scoffed at as "nonsense based on ignorant man-made beliefs in deities". So enjoy it it all before they deflate all the fun out of it.
     
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    What's that creepy sound in this creep place? . . let me go over there and see . .. . and that's when the killing starts.

    Rocket River
     
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    But I love french bread and celery, damnit!!! :mad:
     
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    No, it's definitely Sid the Kid.
     
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    The only movie that fooled me was "Lucas". I really thought the kid was going to catch the ball..he was wide open.
     

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