Movie/TV clichés

[San Bernardhinault]

You can also have a treadmill in a training montage. We could make a list of the things required in a training montage, but probably don't need to. The Rocky one is the template that almost all others follow. Including parody montages.

[elguapo4]

The only reason for a treadmill to be introduced in a film/TV show is for someone to fall off the end of it.

The only exception is to show the villain, usually a billionaire businessman , finishing his workout and taking a call, which is always bad news about the hero interrupting his plans. This makes him yell " I want him dead,you hear me?" to anyone who may be listening in.

[Sits]

After a lengthy hospital stay at 3yo I managed to develop temporary terrors over having my hair washed, and swallowing tablets. Some of my earliest memories are of my poor parents attempting to coerce me to have these things done while I writhed and screamed in my attempts to escape. Makes no sense; both of these things must have happened regularly in hospital.

ursus arctos and Sporting, what if you get an inch-long plasticised capsule with rank-tasting powder inside? Maybe a little drink to follow it down afterwards, just get rid of the taste? It just seems needlessly unpleasant not to swill them down with a drink, unless you enjoy it.

[lambers]

On a tangential but entirely unrelated to the thread title point I remember with some anguish trying to get our son to take pills to avoid car sickness. Somehow he developed a real aversion to the idea, whatever stick or carrot we set before him. The inevitable result was a sudden back seat chundering while we were on the motorway with no easy means of stopping.

I had the opposite when I was about 10. Family road trip to Belgium, mum tries to make the three kids have travel sickness pills, but I can't swallow pills despite heavy "cajoling", so mum gives up on me. No issues for bro and sis taking their medicine. Come the ferry, those two are feeding the fishes whilst I'm fine and dandy.

[Sporting]

On a tangential but entirely unrelated to the thread title point I remember with some anguish trying to get our son to take pills to avoid car sickness. Somehow he developed a real aversion to the idea, whatever stick or carrot we set before him. The inevitable result was a sudden back seat chundering while we were on the motorway with no easy means of stopping.

[Sporting]

I do the same. But nobody watches me, so they're not appalled

[ursus arctos]

I regularly appall family members by taking vitamins, anti inflammatories and other pills "dry".

I can't recall when I started to do so, but it is deeply ingrained behaviour by now.

[WOM]

I notice this one more and more. It's almost a device now. The question you couldn't possibly understand:

"How do you do it?"

"Do what?"

"Treat people like they're just steps on your way to. etc etc etc"


Now that I've written it out, I realize that the question is always "How do you do it?" It's the new "You just don't get it, do you?"

[Heliotrope]

People in movies and TV shows almost always seem to take pills by just swallowing them, but I could never do that without water or something to wash them down with.

[Sits]

Oh dear.

[Hot Pepsi]

A slight twist being that one half of the couple go to the other’s place to apologise/make up. The other opens the door a crack, perhaps slightly dishevelled.

“Oh hi”
”Can I come in? I want to apologise”
“Oh, errrm..”
”Oh, you’re not alone. No no, it’s fine.”

Cue sad walk away.

Something like that happened to a friend of mine.

[San Bernardhinault]

I thought this was going to go into them conversing thus

”I have something I really need to tell you” that would fix everything
at the same time the other says “I have something to tell you” that is going to blow up the relationship
”Oh! You first.”
”No, you first”
Er…
then it’s the one who blows everything up who speaks.

[Sits]

A slight twist being that one half of the couple go to the other’s place to apologise/make up. The other opens the door a crack, perhaps slightly dishevelled.

“Oh hi”
”Can I come in? I want to apologise”
“Oh, errrm..”
”Oh, you’re not alone. No no, it’s fine.”

Cue sad walk away.

[tee rex]

Surprise Parties - an opportunity for the person on the receiving end to either lash out about how awful all their friends are, or reveal some shameful event or desire, only for everyone to leap out from behind furniture to yell SURPRISE!! Or sometimes to half-heartedly SURpri...se.

In similar vein, when there's a row or break-up between lovers and one of them wants to patch things up and goes round to the other one's home/apartment he (it usually is) will start talking immediately about something intimate like "let's have wild make-up sex!" before the other says ... "have you met my parents?" or a love rival will appear from the bedroom, the important thing being that it's *hilariously* embarrassing and what always happens if you don't call beforehand, you presumptuous idiot.

[Hot Pepsi]

[G-Man]

A couple have cropped up recently:

You are making a film some time between 1985 and 2005, and it's a period drama. In particular, it's likely to be set in the US south (although a version of this could be set on a Belfast built boat in 1912), and possibly be slightly whimsical, and take place over a fairly extended period of time. But you can't quite work out how to draw the audience in. There's something slightly amiss, and you wander into a place where old people are - a barber's shop, or an old peoples' home, or outside a church, or possibly at a wedding. One particular old person starts talking to you, and you ignore them. Then slowly they draw you in to their tale, and with a gentle cross-fade there you are, some time between 1850 and 1940.... occasionally the past might fade out and the present will fade back up, to show how the story is changing you before you again get caught up in their narrative with another cross-fade.

Fried Green Tomatoes did that trope very well, it must be said.

[Gangster Octopus]

Also why couldn't said goons hit a cow's arse with a banjo or something...

[Patrick Thistle]

. Nobody ever explains why goons are willing to go to their deaths for drug lords, mafia kingpins, or secretive deep state agencies, willing to charge into a sea of bullets even though ten earlier henchdudes are already very dead. You would think that as a shitty mercenary you'd not even have the "king and country" compunction to go over the top and walk into the machine gun emplacements. You'd be totally cynical about the whole process, making sure you got your cash at as little risk to yourself as possible.

Yep. It's always an eyeroll time when this starts to happen.

[Levin]

When a film within a film is shown as real, with music, multiple camera angles and edits etc. And then pulls back to someone saying cut.

It really annoys me.

[San Bernardhinault]

And, while watching the not-as-bad-as-it-might-have-been Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts yesterday, I was reminded of something that really bugs me:

You are a highly trained, brilliant assassin, possibly programmed by the deep state to be a secret operative who doesn't know they're a brilliant highly trained killer with unbelievable physical skills and an incredible ability to spot connections.

And yet, when you are in a bind that will result in your inevitable death, you escape not through using your incredible skills, but by an accident of timing where your wheelchair happens to careen out of control at exactly the right time to smash an incidental henchman to his doom.

The amount of luck in action film action-sequences riles me up. As do incidental henchman, of course. Nobody ever explains why goons are willing to go to their deaths for drug lords, mafia kingpins, or secretive deep state agencies, willing to charge into a sea of bullets even though ten earlier henchdudes are already very dead. You would think that as a shitty mercenary you'd not even have the "king and country" compunction to go over the top and walk into the machine gun emplacements. You'd be totally cynical about the whole process, making sure you got your cash at as little risk to yourself as possible.

[San Bernardhinault]

A couple have cropped up recently:

You are making a film some time between 1985 and 2005, and it's a period drama. In particular, it's likely to be set in the US south (although a version of this could be set on a Belfast built boat in 1912), and possibly be slightly whimsical, and take place over a fairly extended period of time. But you can't quite work out how to draw the audience in. There's something slightly amiss, and you wander into a place where old people are - a barber's shop, or an old peoples' home, or outside a church, or possibly at a wedding. One particular old person starts talking to you, and you ignore them. Then slowly they draw you in to their tale, and with a gentle cross-fade there you are, some time between 1850 and 1940.... occasionally the past might fade out and the present will fade back up, to show how the story is changing you before you again get caught up in their narrative with another cross-fade.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The depiction of the band’s behavior surrounding their Ed Sullivan Show appearance is equally baseless, he said. The only reason Morrison sang the word “higher” during Light My Fire – after he had been specifically instructed by the show’s producers not to – wasn’t to be defiant. It was because he was nervous to perform on TV, so he stuck to the script of the song to anchor himself, Krieger said. He added that it was flat-out false that the band were subsequently banned from the show, as the Doors movie had it. In his book, Krieger writes that Manzarek later embellished this part of the story even more than Oliver Stone did. “The way Ray told stories, I’m surprised his version didn’t end with us strutting in slow motion down Broadway while the CBS studios exploded in the background,” he wrote.

From the interview with Robbie krieger in the Guardian today.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...razy-jim-stuff

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Lot of lethal weapon ii in that video

[Hot Pepsi]

It's apparently completely 100% accurate. And since it's cheap as fuck, and is spectacular enough for TV, they just go with it. Everything else about explosions is either too expensive to replicate, or is too dull to show properly. You can see footage of real life explosions on tv. They look like a really strong sudden gust of wind. It doesn't look great so you get the exploding buildings that are filled with diesel. If an explosion lifts and throws you, you're likely already dead as the pressure wave that can throw you, is probably going to liquify your organs. It might knock you down, but the best description I've heard is that it's like bellyflopping really fucking hard.

Cool guys don't look at explosions.

[Sits]

Interesting, thanks