Top 10 Movie Cliches We are Getting Most Tired Of
You fork over twenty bucks for stale popcorn only to watch the exact same predictable plot unfold again. Hollywood executives apparently think you possess the memory of a goldfish. They relentlessly spoon-feed your brain a recycled diet of lazy screenwriting shortcuts.
Your free time deserves better. Grab your pitchforks and rank the exhausting movie cliches that need to be permanently banned from the silver screen.
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Being saved at the last minute
It's gotten really predictable, and not to mention really old. But I don't hate it.
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Mexican standoffs
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Villain dying at the last minute
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The poor being good and the rich being bad
Remember the Disney movie "Robin Hood"?
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Happy endings
That's the one thing I don't like about Disney movies. Can't a few of them have a somewhat sad ending for once?
I've literally had enough.
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The dog dying
Where the Red Fern Grows.
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Mean cheerleaders
Also, they apparently have to be pretty.
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Half-naked woman
It feels like a straight man's world. Boobs and butts everywhere. Some people don't want to see that. I would hate to wear immodest things.
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The man and woman always having to hook up
It sounds like, "A male and female main character? NOW THEY MUST BREED! By the power of heterosexuality! Boy meets girl. Nahh, they can't be 'just' friends! Ew, the friend zone is a sad fate worse than death! Nature calls. Can you feel the love tonight? Everybody falls in love and needs a special someone! Don't be single and alone! It's the most beautiful thing and feeling ever! Romantic love is the one true love! It will make you complete! Your other half, your soulmate! Get married! Settle down, raise a family, and grow old together!"
I don't agree with any of that big pile of baloney. Do I smell a thing called amatonormativity? I used to think that I should have a partner because that's what people do, and that if I don't, I will keep being a defective human and nobody will love me, including my family, when I grow up. It doesn't hurt me to not have a significant other, especially if I don't want to do things that are common in romantic relationships and because I haven't felt romantic attraction. Sounds exhausting, to be honest.
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America always saving the day or world
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Anti-war messages
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People running and tripping over their own feet
They run from the killer and they fall.
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The shaky cam
One of the biggest movie cliches is shaky cam, like in found footage and cinema verite, such as The Blair Witch Project, Battle Los Angeles, and Earth to Echo.
Even documentaries and reality shows are filmed this way. Home videos are especially examples of shaky cam, and so are many YouTube videos.
It's because our hands are not perfectly steady, as they shake due to muscle fibers contracting and expanding and changing shape at different intervals in response to the brain. Stress and fatigue intensify this as we exert energy and strain from holding, doing, or using things.
We can minimize tremors by breathing and concentrating, as well as through healthy nutrition, staying hydrated, and getting good rest, but we cannot completely get rid of them for good. They're there forever and involuntary.
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Always having a villain
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Bratty teenage daughter
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Villain having to kill hero, hero falling in love with villain, villain falling in love with hero, villain saving hero's life, villain turning hero, and them becoming a couple
I have seen this a million times. -Alexa the Eevee
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Overprotective dad
Manny in Ice Age 4 and 5.
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The liar revealed
Rango, A Bug's Life, Wedding Crashers, The Tigger Movie, Regular Show: The Movie, and so much more.
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Comic relief trios
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Small, annoying sidekick
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Androgynous villain
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Brooding pretty boy
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The decoy villain
Disney has gotten really bad about this in recent years.