inexplicable movie cliches

[DotCommunist]

American baddies holding a cigarette in that bizarre thumb and two fingers grip, rather than nestling it between ring and index. WTF is that about?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

It's "prison style". It makes it harder for somebody to take the fag off you.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

the goonies
naked gun 33 1/3: the final insult
and a slew of corman crime capers and b movies

I'll have to take your word for that as I can't remember any bad old women wearing berets from any of them, and The Goonies was rubbish anyway.

 

[little_legs]

no one happens to have a mobile in 2009. think Lost.

 

[Orang Utan]

a mobile phone would have been useless in lost though

 

[HobgoblinMan]

All Russians are huge blokes with no sense of humour.

True to life that.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

All computer usage is instantaneous. Never an hourglass to be seen, and certainly not a beachball because in filmland nobody uses a mac

unless your Jeff Goldblum in which you can use a mac to upload a virus to an alien ship

 

[damnhippie]

Steven Segal:

a) is considered a role model of some sort
b) has a girlfriend
c) is on the side of good, not evil
d) 's ponytail

 

[Orang Utan]

tis indeed inexplicable!

 

[N_igma]

Yer ma.

 

[purves grundy]

Robbers / killers are able to enter premises because security guards are busy doing a word puzzle with their back to the monitors.

 

[damnhippie]

Yer ma.

there are explanations, it's just that no one wants to hear them.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

That explosions in space are audible

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

1. elderly female criminals must wear berets

Shelley Winters. Bloody Mama. Fedora

 

[Orang Utan]

she's middle aged

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

British college professors will always be wearing a sweater.

 

[Orang Utan]

that's both explicable and incorrect

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The girlfriends of vampires will never be fat.

 

[Orang Utan]

but strangely, there are plenty of fat goth chicks with skinny boyfriends. tis never reflected in the movies cos hollywood is shit.

 

[quimcunx]

No matter how crime ridden the town, anyone can just open your front door and walk in.


Or is that inexplicable sitcom clichés?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The first people to bite the dust in horror movies, will be the black people.

 

[Kizmet]

Why does nobody, in the movies, ever crack their teeth together when they're snogging. And how come nobody ever leans on their partners hair or bangs their head on the wall while they're shagging passionately?

And sheets are always magnetically attached to nipples...

 

[army_of_one]

Jumping through a plate-glass window will cause you no harm other than a few minor scratches.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Any man with a ponytail, is either very bad, or very good.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

eg.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

And then you have the slick gangster's bodyguards in the same films, a bit fatter but kind of psychotic, in an immaculate suit and ponytailed

 

[Buddy Bradley]

All buildings will have air-conditioning systems ideally suited to crawling through. And related - all elevators have an incredibly unsafe hatch in the ceiling permitting access to the elevator shaft by anyone who feels like it.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

All buildings will have air-conditioning systems ideally suited to crawling through. And related - all elevators have an incredibly unsafe hatch in the ceiling permitting access to the elevator shaft by anyone who feels like it.

And all robots/aliens etc will know exactly how to jump on top of the lift and slice through the roof, trying to grab the goodies as they leg it

 

[marty21]

parking is generally never a problem in movie world, and they never buy parking tickets, or pay the congestion charge

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

That baddies will always get up for one last attempt, just when they think they're dead.