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1. Non-starting car has been mentioned, but it goes beyond that because the teenagers/dumb people usualy have some crappy gag car like a convertible Mini Cooper or VW thing or BMW Isetta. Something that could get stuck in a wad of gum or peeled open by the killer's bare hands.
2. Do not be a minority. You will be a geek, or the source of profanity and drugs and you will not get to have the hot chick and you will die quickly.
Rom-Coms:
The guy will ride a motorcycle and seem like a hard working blue collar guy and will have his own business of building incubators and artificial nests for abandoned baby seals or orphaned bald eagles, but is sitting on some patents or stock options left by his eccentric relative worth millions. But in the meantime he is working day to day just getting by. She'll be a cupcake baker or croissant stylist who drives the hybrid version of a horror movie car and will be scatter brained, but loveable, with no style but plenty of charm, until she puts on that little black dress. Both live in impossibly large apartments or homes in upscale neighborhoods of major cities until they discover they REALLY have some money. Opt:B, the guy is a Dr. Lawyer who is a CEO in his spare time that just doesn't have time to meet the right woman until he stumbles into her and she dumps a tray of food/bag of dog poop or dirty diaper/or vat of nacho cheese on him.
Sci-Fi
All cool technology or abilities can suddenly be nullified at will by the creature or environment with a sudden unexpected tachyon phased disruption field so that the idiots running around getting killed are no better then the dumb teenagers with dead cell phones running from Jason.
Comedy
The same tachyons that stop cell phones also keep people in comedies from being able to call/email/text a crucial bit of info that would keep the main character from doing something stupid so that the initial misunderstanding that the whole plot hinges on keeps the hilarity ensuing for 90 more minutes.
Sci-Fi
All cool technology or abilities can suddenly be nullified at will by the creature or environment with a sudden unexpected tachyon phased disruption field so that the idiots running around getting killed are no better then the dumb teenagers with dead cell phones running from Jason.
Lol...seriously. I hope you are referencing Watchmen
My fictional cliche...villain monologues. Villains get the hero in a place where they can die (often that means shooting them) and prefer to deliver some lame monologue rather than getting the job done. it happens soooo often.
Also, the antihero is getting played out, unfortunately. I like the trope a lot, and it worked quite well for Batman, but the whole "I am damaged so I will be nonheroic, but not really" is getting boring.
Lol...seriously. I hope you are referencing Watchmen
My fictional cliche...villain monologues. Villains get the hero in a place where they can die (often that means shooting them) and prefer to deliver some lame monologue rather than getting the job done. it happens soooo often.
Also, the antihero is getting played out, unfortunately. I like the trope a lot, and it worked quite well for Batman, but the whole "I am damaged so I will be nonheroic, but not really" is getting boring.
Ha, I haven't even seen that one - see how that works?
I agree about the anti-hero thing. It is played. I'm not asking for Dudley-do-Right, but just a straight up by the numbers good guy who is out for justice and morality seems to be a type Hollywood wants to avoid.
A villain that doesn't talk but just opens fire immediately is something that is unheard of. I always think about Heat when Val Kilmer's character starts dumping full auto as soon as he sees the cops.
Black best friend who's only role is to help the white character solve their problems
Dumb husband with smart wife who is out of his league
Sexually active teenagers being murdered first in horror films
Police with family problems/no life
Good always wins at the end. Not that I have anything against happy endings, I just find it boring when you always know how it will end. And "black and white" morality (when all characters are classified as either completely good or completely evil) as well.
1. The second someone driving does something illegal, there's conveniently a cop right behind him/her and the blue-and-red lights are seen and the siren blares...
2. Someone knocks, and immediately that person answers the door.
3. Someone makes a phone call, that person immediately answers and they have an unrealistic short conversation to the point.
4. Someone gets out their computer and is immediately on the website they were trying to get to. No time to wait for the computer to turn back on, log in, Internet to load...
That wives/girlfriends are almost always no less than attractive or described as being such.
Just once I would like to watch a movie in which the wife/girlfriend was at least slightly overweight or had crooked teeth or had SOME flaw (or was described that way in a work of fiction), but she was still loved and/or considered desirable by her boyfriend/husband, anyway. (Btw, I had a pretty face when I was young and I am still a size 6/8, but I have always had cellulite thighs and chipmunk cheeks, and my SOs have always said they found me very attractive despite my flaws. So why do novelists and casting directors seem to think that women have to be VERY attractive in order to be a love interest?)
This especially irks me in works by Stephen King. I think most people would describe his wife, Tabitha, as NOT being physically gorgeous,, but she is a very supportive and intelligent person nevertheless, and I am fairly sure that he thought at least at one time that she was attractive. (They have, I think, three kids.) But in all his novels that I have read so far, all the female love interests are ALL more or less gorgeous. ARRRGHHH!
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