Movie cliches

[christopher575]

Everyone in the house is worried because the killer is on his way. Then the lights go out.

After a shootout, the last two people are each confident that they have one bullet left and that the other has none.

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[scearley.livejournal.com]

I freaking LOVE the way that "The Way of the Gun" trumped the "no bullet" cliche by having bullets with no gun.


Whenever a character is making fun of another character, the mocked character suddenly appears behind the mocker.

[scearley.livejournal.com]

ALso: Roger Ebert wrote of "Ali MacGraw's Disease" which is a movie disease that lead female roles get. As the disease gets worse, the character gets more attractive.