People In This Online Group Point Out 38 Of The Most Irritating Clichés From Movies And TV Shows

Something is clearly not right. Shady, bad gut feeling, whatsoever. Or the character heard or saw something that seems not good.

Then, they get asked something like "Is everything okay?" and they ALWAYS say "yeah yeah everything's fine"

And then something bad happens and nobody is prepared because they didn't tell ffs

Something along this line is in SO MANY movies and shows and it always pisses me off

When a character walks into a bar and orders a “beer” or “whiskey.” You need a state a type of beer, buddy.

A character arriving to a restaurant or a diner, ordering, and leaving without having a single bite, or even before the food even gets to the table. It's so pointless, why even have that scene in the movie? If they're there to talk to someone, just don't have them order for no reason and that's it.

Feedback whenever someone starts talking into a microphone.

Falling through windows, because apparently toughened glass doesn't exist.

When digging a hole to bury a body, the hole always has perfectly vertical sides. Anyone who's ever dug a hole knows this is impossible.

At the end of any class, as everyone is leaving, the teacher tells them to "read chapter 4". Never happened in real life.

When someone tells a joke but you only hear the punchline.

The Hollywood Hangup: a character hangs up the phone without saying goodbye or ending the conversation in a natural way, it pulls me out of the movie every time.

Realising they're the one before the other person is about to board a plane/train, and rushing to reach them at the gate and running through traffic/airport as final take off announcement is made... and making it in time to stop them, kiss, and have a 10 minute conversation.

P.S I hope writers who are on strike right now have a lot of time to read these comments. We can do with a rebirth of cinema!

Children who either talk like cynical 40 year olds (Ghostbusters: Afterlife) or simply exist to defy their parents and do what they want putting everyone in danger. Usually getting them out of danger means innocents die.

A pregnant woman is immortal until she gives birth.

The slasher movie villain who's never really dead.

I’ll go first.

When two characters are about to kiss and it’s so obvious someone is going to walk in an interrupt them from doing it.

The premise it takes zero $$$ to travel anywhere either airfares or gas money.

Person with a soon to be married partner (or just any partner) moves to a new town on their own for a work thing or whatever and falls for the “mysterious” guy and then proceeds to cheat on their partner with them (+rubbing it in the partners face)

If you don't get into an Ivy League school, Stanford, or NYU, your life is ruined.

It's raining, they have just had an argument, they both walking their own way, one looks back but the other is still walking then they swap. Both not knowing that they did indeed look back.

Cell phone service being dogs**t in every horror movie

Specific to horror movies, but the "character opens a door and closes it to reveal a monster behind it" jumpscare is overdone.

Villains casually killing one of their henchmen to intimidate everyone

Poor exposition, it honestly f*****g sucks and feels like it's on the rise. I read a theory that it's because streaming execs are asking filmmakers to cater for a generation that is on their phones whilst watching movies, so everything needs to be audibly explained to the nth degree, even between characters that ABSOLUTELY would have that info anyway.

"Well, you are my brother after all". "Wait, so this will cause a singularity to emerge that might consume the universe?" Ugh, just f**k all the way off. It's so, so lazy and makes you feel like you've been lobotomized.

And the thing is, it's not big info dumps that are the issue, it's the way you present it. One of the strongest parts of The Matrix is the sequence when Morpheus literally explains everything to Neo. Its totally enthralling and feels earned because we are learning along with the central character.