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Leslie Cheswyck
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Location: University of Western Chile
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| OK we get it, the evil/greedy/bad guy meeting his end weighed down/smothered by all that gold. |
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flakfizer
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| If you ever flip to channel OCN, you may come across a TV series called, "Legend of the Seeker." Watch 2 or 3 episodes and you will have seen 95% of the cliches listed here. |
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roadwork
Joined: 24 Nov 2008
Location: Goin' up the country
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
| If you ever flip to channel OCN, you may come across a TV series called, "Legend of the Seeker." Watch 2 or 3 episodes and you will have seen 95% of the cliches listed here. |
That show is horrible. That old wizard dude is a composite of every rotten B-grade Hollywood straight-to-video budget flick. |
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beercanman
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:45 am Post subject: |
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| It seems that the future, the next 20 or up to 50 years, will be a much more sinister, cold, and callous time, with greater uniformity among people and all other things, less individualism, full of strange dangers that lurk here and there, and lots of white buildings in the cities. Oh yeah, and lots of personal flying machines. And this will be either LA or New York. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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| roadwork wrote: |
| flakfizer wrote: |
| If you ever flip to channel OCN, you may come across a TV series called, "Legend of the Seeker." Watch 2 or 3 episodes and you will have seen 95% of the cliches listed here. |
That show is horrible. That old wizard dude is a composite of every rotten B-grade Hollywood straight-to-video budget flick. |
How could you say that about Zeddicus Z'ul Zorander? Was there ever a character name more obviously created by a 12 year-old? Unbelievably, this show is getting an 8.1 over at IMDB (I went there to check the spelling of the wizard's ridiculous name). Everything about this show hackneyed. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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Less-than-tough guy holds gun on tough guy.
Tough guy says "You know how to use that thing?" or "Put that thing down before you hurt yourself."
Stupid.
It's pointed at you, dumbass! |
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roadwork
Joined: 24 Nov 2008
Location: Goin' up the country
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| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:00 am Post subject: |
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I just watched a flick called The Marine with WWE star John Cena and noticed it was chock full of many of the cliches listed here. There were 4 "running away/diving just as something explodes" scenes
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beercanman
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I suppose it would be hard to make a good movie with no cliches, as there are so many, and even real life has a few now and then. |
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freshking
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| The "I gave you my handkerchief, but now you blew a ton of snot in it, so keep it". Who carries around a handkerchief anyway? |
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roadwork
Joined: 24 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| beercanman wrote: |
| I suppose it would be hard to make a good movie with no cliches, as there are so many, and even real life has a few now and then. |
I would say Memento and The Usual Suspects are two decent examples of not following cliches. |
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joeyjoejoe
Joined: 24 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| the movie "Hot Fuzz" has most of these cliches. |
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beercanman
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:29 am Post subject: |
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| I guess comedies are allowed to be cliche in the name of funny. |
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He with Horns on Head
Joined: 19 Aug 2009
Location: Cybergoat farm
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| roadwork wrote: |
| beercanman wrote: |
| I suppose it would be hard to make a good movie with no cliches, as there are so many, and even real life has a few now and then. |
I would say Memento and The Usual Suspects are two decent examples of not following cliches. |
Antichrist. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
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| A guy holds a gun to someone's head demanding something. That something is not immediately forthcoming so, to let them know he is serious, he loudly c0cks the gun. Do bad guys always use single action guns? |
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kiknkorea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:41 am Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
| A guy holds a gun to someone's head demanding something. That something is not immediately forthcoming so, to let them know he is serious, he loudly c0cks the gun. Do bad guys always use single action guns? |
Pump action shotguns also make a dramatic showpiece.
Someone will have one and wait until things get serious before they chamber a round.
And my favorite- The double pump!
Reminds me of an old Married with Children episode when someone had gotten arrested and had a menacing cop/guard standing by them. He pumped it once at the beginning of the scene and yet again when it was time to go.  |
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