When a bad guy gets impaled, he has to be badass enough to pull himself forward along the blade until he's nose-to-nose with the good guy when he dies (Fellowship/Rings & Star Trek: Nemesis being two of many examples).
When a person gets shot with a rocket launcher, the minor explosion 100% vaporizes the person's body so there's not a single drop of blood or speck of bone left. Pedowood obviously confused the effects of a grenade with a Star Trek phaser (numerous '80s movies).
Massive, long machine gun fights in an enclosed room actually never do any hearing damage and no good guy ever gets hit with the countless ricochets (too many to list).
Silencers actually work on revolvers, even though the bullet's noisy gasses bleed out around the cylinder. Also, I know a silenced automatic makes a light popping sound, NOT the high-pitched tiny squeaks they make in movies. Also, a silencer reduces a bullet's lethality by greatly reducing its speed, so people DON'T instantly die of a silenced gunshot like they do in movies (numerous '80s movies).
When two cars have the mildest crash, both INSTANTLY explode into a boiling, armageddon-fireball the size of a gas station explosion. Even though everyone knows that only the tiniest percentage of non-Ford-Pinto car wrecks result in any fire (numerous '80s movies).
Apparently, a massively, continuously-used machine gun never runs out of bullets, jams or gets too hot to touch (the Schwarzenegger movie of your choice).
When the hero of the movie is musclebound, the camera spends a homoerotic amount of time with close-up lingering over every bulge, ripple and blood vessel on the hero's body, complete with menacing Wagnerian music, to the point it actually gets gross (numerous '80s movies, especially Stallone & Schwarzenegger).
When a car goes off a cliff, it sometimes explodes in mid-air before it hits anything (movie Goldfinger and countless '80s TV shows). But then again in movies, cars turn into incendiary explosive devices if you look at them wrong.
Speaking of car explosions, if the car being "uncreated" is a Mercedes, you can bet there will be a brief shot of the hood ornament twirling through the air (Dirty Harry, The Dead Pool).
So, any cliches I'm forgetting? Please go nuts with the subject, I want this thread to be a little goofy (like me, of course).
When a person gets shot with a rocket launcher, the minor explosion 100% vaporizes the person's body so there's not a single drop of blood or speck of bone left. Pedowood obviously confused the effects of a grenade with a Star Trek phaser (numerous '80s movies).
Massive, long machine gun fights in an enclosed room actually never do any hearing damage and no good guy ever gets hit with the countless ricochets (too many to list).
Silencers actually work on revolvers, even though the bullet's noisy gasses bleed out around the cylinder. Also, I know a silenced automatic makes a light popping sound, NOT the high-pitched tiny squeaks they make in movies. Also, a silencer reduces a bullet's lethality by greatly reducing its speed, so people DON'T instantly die of a silenced gunshot like they do in movies (numerous '80s movies).
When two cars have the mildest crash, both INSTANTLY explode into a boiling, armageddon-fireball the size of a gas station explosion. Even though everyone knows that only the tiniest percentage of non-Ford-Pinto car wrecks result in any fire (numerous '80s movies).
Apparently, a massively, continuously-used machine gun never runs out of bullets, jams or gets too hot to touch (the Schwarzenegger movie of your choice).
When the hero of the movie is musclebound, the camera spends a homoerotic amount of time with close-up lingering over every bulge, ripple and blood vessel on the hero's body, complete with menacing Wagnerian music, to the point it actually gets gross (numerous '80s movies, especially Stallone & Schwarzenegger).
When a car goes off a cliff, it sometimes explodes in mid-air before it hits anything (movie Goldfinger and countless '80s TV shows). But then again in movies, cars turn into incendiary explosive devices if you look at them wrong.
Speaking of car explosions, if the car being "uncreated" is a Mercedes, you can bet there will be a brief shot of the hood ornament twirling through the air (Dirty Harry, The Dead Pool).
So, any cliches I'm forgetting? Please go nuts with the subject, I want this thread to be a little goofy (like me, of course).
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