Movie cliches

[christopher575]

Police officer happens upon a robbery in progress, which he notices because flashlights are used in an otherwise-dark store or residence.

Person struggles with two or more paper bags full of groceries while trying to unlock a door, which leads to them meeting a neighbor. Grocery bags cannot have handles, ever.

Person gets locked outside house or hotel room naked while trying to grab the newspaper.

Newspaper delivery boy hits person in the head with the newspaper.

Comments

[electriclime.livejournal.com]

And all bags of groceries must have some kind of green leafy vegetable..and a loaf of french bread.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Celery!

http://www.lileks.com/institute/frahm/indexmain.html

[entropic-system.livejournal.com]

Newspaper delivery boy hits person in the head with the newspaper.

Or the ballsack.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I especially like when that happens on a bike with skis.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Look! I can't move my right arm!

[salacious-pop.livejournal.com]

A best friend barging into a room like Kramer and going "oh hay gurl whats wrong?" in a teen slasher flic, when the director decides to switch it up and not use the "oh its just the cat" trick.

I'm really bad at this.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I think horror is probably the most cliche-ridden genre. My favorite is when the girl opens the medicine cabinet and there's someone behind her when she closes the cabinet door and who wasn't there when she opened it. It's so common, that they totally made it seem like it was going to happen in Sorority Row and it was actually even scarier when she closed the medicine cabinet and nobody was there.

[scearley.livejournal.com]

black character dies first.

[salacious-pop.livejournal.com]

A forelorn teenager entering a school dance (gym) only to be confronted with a perfect, unobstructed view of their crush dancing with The Asshole in spite of their being hundreds of kids all around them. May or may not be a spotlight involved.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Oooh, good one!

[scearley.livejournal.com]

RAPPING GRANDMOTHER

[scearley.livejournal.com]

In the movie "The Edukators" two of the three main characters are experienced at breaking in to houses. A third gets involved, and is immediately told to shut her flashlight off and flip the lights on after they've broken into a house because flashlights look conspicuous.

[thisiserika.livejournal.com]

Very rich, emotionally distant couple eats a meal, each at either end of a very long dining table being served by a butler.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Oh totally. The longer the table, the better.