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.

Comments

[boomstick.livejournal.com]

The power is cut just before the person who is going to kill everybody finally makes a move.

Ah, to be fair to this one, usually it's the killer who cut the power ;]

I love your movie cliches. I can never think of any good ones!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

That's totally what I meant, I should edit it to be more specific.

And it's totally getting harder to think of them. That's why the posts are shorter, if I think of something I need to post it, then I can maybe think of one more.

[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.

[theropod.livejournal.com]

Countdown timer on bomb is stopped with a few minutes to spare. Then it starts counting down 15x faster.

(Tim totally called this one during Tuesday night's "Lost")