Top 10 Worst Movie Cliches - Cinemassacre.com

[SauerkrautSandwich93]

Tuco says it all!

[THEONLYBIODUDE]

NUMBER 6 HAPPENS IN REAL LIFE MORE OFTHEN THEN YOU THINK

[pejb83]

8:33 "when you have to shoot, shoot don't talk" ,movie was done over 40 years ago however holds more common sense than most of today's crap being churned out

[KingOfTheKill10001]

I'm sorry, but that Jackie Chan line is awesome.

[souljubilant12]

i think Lethal Weapon has the shoot and talk alot too lol

[Hudsman1120]

Last scene was weird cuz i thought that well His gun was under water or bubbles wouldnt the gun not shoot then?

[Quartzzzz]

That comedic pause thing really bothers me now

[LibraGamesUnlimited]

I actually saw a movie this weekend where the guy who provided the false jumps was actually doing it on purpose because he thought it was funny. :)

Actually, like anything it's all in the hands of the user. Sure a lot of these things are over done but would you really want the bad guy to just shoot the hero and end the movie? Okay maybe in a really bad movie but usually not you wouldn't.

[vedymadcow]

3:20 Satan lolXD

[strongholdCG]

the matrix did bullet time second blade did it first....

[birum18]

What I hate the most is how the murderer can kill every supporting character within seconds but when he goes to kill the protagonist he has to drag it out, giving him a chance to get away or be saved at the last second. Just stab him the way you stabbed the other 8 people! Jesus! Such lazy writing...

[birum18]

hahaha "if you're in a hurry, you're not going anywhere!"

[TheBattousai6009]

Does anyone know the music during the "360 Shot Montage"

[SauerkrautSandwich93]

the trailer to Lockout fades to black 36 times!

[NelsonFV]

You forgot the massive fights, why in hell when the good guy is fighting 50 bad ones they go and try to kick his ass one by one and the others are just staring?

[amartinjoe]

the last one says it all!!!

[eateroftheflame]

The worst for me is trained soldiers missing from just 2 feet away while the hero who never fired a gun before lands every shot

[GoblinXXX]

I have despised that "constantly fading to black" bit in trailers for years.

[AliciaMooVProducts]

What about when nobody ever says 'goodbye' on the phone? Like they expect the other person to know when they've finished...

[HeadB0xF1]

I read the title; "Top 10 worst movie GLITCHES"

[gilldoom]

Movies about musicals are a cliche nowadays.

[elvis32z]

how could you forget the cliche where hundreds of bullets are fired at a guy as he runs and they all miss?

[MyComicStyle]

Yeah, there are a bunch of those dumb clichées. Especially in horror films. Who is stupid enough to go to a lake where people have been murdered several times? Who gets out of the house when there's a killer outside and you know it? Who in their right mind runs up the stairs when the killer is following you? Why does the killer often where a mask? But seriously, why do villains always have to start explaining their plan? That's pointless. Wes Craven made a great movie that shows clichées: Scream

[evilbu]

3 The comedic pause... I never noticed how often this is used, but it is indeed annoying... how long have they been using this??

[Azf12]

When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.

Words of wisdom.

[billytamer]

3. the music stopping for a funny part isnt bad at all. sometimes it can be VERY funny. but it IS stupid and cliche when you hear that record skip noise. ugh....

[superstevenumber1]

One that annoys me is when someone has a gun pointed at them and they tell the person pointing it at them to shoot. They always say something like "So you're gonna shoot me? Well go ahead and pull the trigger!" And then the person with the gun just totally gives up wanting to kill them.

[ndefalco]

@superstevenumber1 A great filmmaker will know when to turn a cliche like this on its head. In Michael Mann's Collateral, Jaime Foxx points a gun at Tom Cruise and Cruise is like "You're not going to shoot me." Right then Foxx goes for a headshot! When I saw that I thought, "Damn, that was hardcore." Honestly, it should have been expected.

[spencerdartstar]

Tuco Ramirez For The Win !!

[blueberry631992]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL xD

[dontpunchgirls]

really could do with putting what film each clip is from at the bottom wile it's on screen

[Voiderify]

yea the matrix thing has to stop

[TheModernGuy]

You know a video sucks when ratings are disabled.

[CBPCorps]

@TheModernGuy Well, this video doesn't suck, so your statement is invalid.

[thrashandburn1022]

I think the PANORAMIC 360 shot is a good way to immerse the audience into the set/atmosphere. but that's opinion

[OriginalLawnmower]

@thrashandburn1022 How does that immerse people in the enviroment when the camera is focused entirely on the characters. I'd almost say the opposite is true, makes me completely ignore the scenery.

[Marklosextremus23]

@thrashandburn1022 it is tacky and annoying

[malaybastard1]

what about the "YOU JUST DON'T GET IT DO YOU"

[MDamped925]

question, whats the movie with bill murray at 1:43

[deadfool121]

took the words out of my mouth

[brandons3]

in horror films stupid people never turn on the lights ... they like to search in the dark for that unknown noise.. lol

[GoldKnightProduction]

@brandons3 In a horror movie situation, all of physics turn against you.

Sparkplugs are suddenly breathless, An object will suddenly be placed behind you by the universe, and your brain will immediately fart.

[GoblinXXX]

@brandons3 What gets me is when COPS do that, or people in their own home.

[TransportedFilms]

Quinten Tarantino was the first to impliment a 360 shot in a movie, in reservoir dogs. Thats why its relitivly recent (last 20 years) and it appears in virtually all the QT fils, as demostrated here. At least that is what I have gathered, I've never witnessed an earlier use of 360.

[M4TRIXed]

4:01 is that cow shooting MILK 4 real!?!?!? XDD LMAO hahahahahaha



[cowtheif]

@M4TRIXed kung pow enter the fist, it is a must watch lol

[esterra90]

do you know the names of the movies with the teachers in them?

[mossman11111]

to bad the matrix has a 360 shot

[Icelandrobot]

y u hating jakei brown

[imthemanbro]

SHUT UP MAN THE 360 SHOT IS GOOD, LET IT LIVE!

[jonnyjive5]

All of the 360 shot examples you used were great scenes from great movies.

[Benstudio13]

@jonnyjive5 Did you just say Karate Dog is a great movie...

[Wutzan]

Your intro uses fade to black...

[wazupwolf]

kung pow was a great movie

[BreakingGravity72]

You have definitely raised logical issues with advertisement and cinematic stupidity.

Favourite.

[fullfist]

And I have no problem with the 360 shot, sure it may just seem kinda and art house on purpose, but I like it since I'm impressed that they can do a 360 without showing the film crew. Makes you feel like the place is real.

[TheLifeAquatic3]

James! How did you overlook the "Bad guys have incredibly shitty aim" cliche? It's infuriating.

[elephantman2222]

I've got another cliche, you see it happen in mystery shows, or murder shows. The mystery is usually almost solved, or almost abandoned, and the character is somewhere completely distant and unrelated, and they see something random, which brings a sudden epiphany on how to solve the murder. I saw this on Castle the other night, he is tying a bow on his mom, and he's like "THE BOW, IT WAS TIED WRONG" bingo, mystery solved. It happens in Charade from Alfred Hitchcock, in the stamp market too.

[fullfist]

@elephantman2222 lol, sooo stupid

[sfilms100]

3:21 look in the back on the blackboard

[79kassius]

I have nothing against the 360 shot. It's more artsy than ridiculous. 

[rockysid92]

I'd also like to add the overuse of the Howie and Wilhelm screams in movies. Really annoying and take you out of a film. I can't even count the number of times I've heard them in movies!

[bfitz82]

You are free to call them cliches, but you're just a f*$&ing critic. You have produced, directed and acted, and you are no more fit than I to critique popular movies from today and yesterday. Yet I still say to you, James: "You're the man now, dog."

[apocratos]

numbers 10, 9 and 1 are the most stupid, ridiculous and the most common of all

[MerlinAmbrosius17]

Indiana Jones moonlights as a treasure hunter. He's probably exhausted a lot of the time (not to mention, bruised and battered from the numerous scrapes he gets into). At least I think he gets a pass for being absent-minded or disorganized. :-)

[ndefalco]

@MerlinAmbrosius17 And as a teacher, I can attest to the fact that this happens almost every day in at least one or two classes. It's almost always because the students interrupt too much.

[Diogo019]

"When you have to shot, shot don't talk!" EPIC

[BluTrilobite]

Budding movie producers and writers should take notice of this very critical list and avoid this cliched nonsense!

[Leftysfive93]

A movie made to look it's 'found footage' a la Blair Witch or Cloverfield is fast becoming a cliche.

[GuardianOfNonE]

I can say that I've been exasperated, at one time or another, by every item on this list except for the 360-degree camera rotation. If used appropriately, I find that it's one of the most effective techniques for immersing me in a significant moment. Certainly more effective (and less invasive) than those extreme closeups of a character's eyes.

[jmwestful]

school bells don't actually sound like that either.

[gabdarkrai]

what's the movie at the end plz?

[BluTrilobite]

@gabdarkrai "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", a great western!

[gabdarkrai]

@BluTrilobite thanks man!

[cnlo2002]

House of the dead had so many 360 turns. example after a zombie gets shot in the face they figgen do a 360 spin.

[RandomShinigami7]

You know, Blade had that "Bullet time" thing, and it came out before The Matrix...

So, really, they're ripping of Blade.

[cnlo2002]

@RandomShinigami7 Most of the movies did it like the matrix did

[1999BRIGHT]

This video makes me wanna watch all the movies

[drunkinneworleans]

6:04 

[baddogmiles]

I really think that Kujo had an excuse for the car not to start cause that's kinda why the whole book/movie was about :P them being trapped~

[camerabox1]

now i know what to avoid when writing a screen play

[cherryblossompath]

Also there's the left-handed knight or soldier in epic medieval movies or any average peplum... it's more a goof cause on those ages, nobody was left-handed (everyone must to be right-handed, the left was considered to be sinistra : sinister) but since nobody pointed that mistake, this became a commun cliché in recent peplums and medieval flics

[TheNorton27]

You know what's worse than Matrix spoofs? Star Wars spoofs. That's what.

[MegaPurplePlant]

4:05 wtf

[BossWolfen]

Montages.. montages...MONTAGES!!! ALL STUPID FILMS HAVE THEM XO

[123runaways]

they forgot the one where the protagonist closes the mirror and the villain is right behind them

[David696969420]

Why is the rating bar disabled?

[kaysonfired]

you forgot the door won't open

[marooncanflyer]

PROJECTILE COW PISS

[kaboose86]

@marooncanflyer its milk dumbass....

[00paradiselost]

This is surprisingly well done and entertaining.

[berkant2341]

I think parodying matrix shoud be first on the list.

[mandude846]

The scene where Biff doesn't shoot marty kind of makes sense ! I mean biff is an idiot

[darkwatch127]

i dont care what people say. the scene with jackie chan is just freaking funny!

[mharris0128]

Funny how most, if not all of the ones he complains about for the 360 shot are generally good to great movies.

[guitarman88ify]

they forgot the interupted kiss

[paleobc65]

@guitarman88ify lmao yeah buildup to the first kiss

[MitsuruXIII]

@guitarman88ify YES!!! They should of put that instead of the secret talk thing. That is sometimes essential to the story.

[Ekampokem]

@guitarman88ify Yea man that should have been number one, def time for the interrupted kiss to be retired.

[Akibachan1]

@guitarman88ify This is one of my biggest movie pet peeves

[LivingZombieJew]

Damn, but 360 shot is awesome! I hope it would be used very often.

[JulianGroom]

I HATE THAT WHEN I AM TRYING TO TO FIND MY SEAT AND THEN I CANT SEE ANYTHING FOR LIKE 3 SECONDS

[soki12456]

"When you have to shoot, SHOOT"

Best clichè-killer ever!

[ghostriderx101]

lol bugs bunny <3

[LeadingNowhere]

"If you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."

[kgp8]

@LeadingNowhere Looks like they need to take lessons from Pac from the movie Juice.

[davidzxx]

@LeadingNowhere that said it better than anything.

[h1h1puu77y]

This movie has more views than Thankskilling 5:54

[timmytreakleknows32]

this video sucks

[guitarman88ify]

@timmytreakleknows32 and so do u

[Witbruintje]

Or that cliché yelling when someone fall off a cliff. AAAOOEW!

[rockysid92]

@Witbruintje See my latest post for that.

[FilmFTW1]

Transformers 3 had the "fade to black" issue. What's this supposed to be, a trailer inside a film? Stupid.

[FilmFTW1]

#3 is still happening! ENOUGH!

[Coopdavyl]

The false alarm thing always got 2 me. You don't just come up and put your hand on somebody's shoulder or anything like that. You damn sure don't just pop out or anything unless you intend to scare them. Most people I know would knock somebody out for doing things like that...LOL

[SOSspecialdlover]

@Coopdavyl One time I was reading a creepypasta and my friend came up on my and put her hand on my shoulder. I never punched harder.lol

[TheChillsta]

ahaha if you have to shoot...shoot, dont talk

[RpGfreak901]

I don't mind the comedic pause if it's done right.

[legoguy5555]

WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK GUY ALWAYS DIES FIRST

[wataki2]

10. When u are really really scared with something ur legs are like Jelly, thats why u trip and fall, its true and it happened to me. 6. At all the schools ive ever attended the teacher dismisses u not the bell.

[64jamesbond]

holy shit cinemassacre is DOWN you cant go to the site?

[srmax13]

You forgot the "False alarm- than they die" thing in scary movies. It's like the moment someone pulls a scary prank on someone or it's just a cat (something like that) than he killer comes up, as if they are catching us off guard by reusing the same tecnique over and over.

And I have no problem with the 360 shot, sure it may just seem kinda and art house on purpose, but I like it since I'm impressed that they can do a 360 without showing the film crew. Makes you feel like the place is real.

[TheCratt]

It's kinda stupid and vague, but really, secret talk? How specitfic and stupid is that?

[videomaker74]

does any one know the name of that movie at 1:53?

[tuberofyou1]

@videomaker74 Clerks 2

[bigguyjames34]

@videomaker74 I think it is clerks

[SpecialForcie]

You criticize stuff that you shouldn't. The parody of the matrix is hilarious. It always will be.

[Arella17]

I love the false alarm in video games...it works really well in the jump out at you horror games...the monologuing villains is a staple in almost every video game...

[Quicksilver6]

#3 ruined comedy trailers for me.

[mcfat89]

9 happens to me every day before work

[guitarraelectrica]

360 shot: C'mon, that's not a cliché, that's a really powerful shot.

Bell ring: I can tell you that actually happens a LOT, especially in university.

Comedic pause and Fade to black: Dude, it's a trailer, it HAS to be fast-paced and attention-grabbing.

The rest of 'em, you're right, they're awful.

[mjc931]

The false alarm is called a "luton bus" in horror films. I thought it was a fun fact...wanna know why? ok i'll tell you...it was first used in Cat People and the false alarm was a bus.....in Luton. I bet you feel better now.

[MetFanMac]

#1 - Or, as The Incredibles called it, "Monologuing".

[jaspumtrades]

what also cliche is in older movies is the red button oh dont push the red button or we all gonna die.

[JohnGreasyGamer]

If you thought the villains here were stupid, wait until you see Troma movies. Believe me, the Chairman from the Toxic Avenger movies could overact a fart.

[NoHealerJustPain]

Do you ask why the allies are traditonally stupid because they are mostly russian and russian are stupid )))

[NoHealerJustPain]

The Matrix itself parodies the Mortal Combat )

[MetalMephiles2]

the only time i like the 360 shot is if their showing you multiple things happening at once, like if two people are fighting and its showing their teammates fighting in the background as well

[XGamer644]

they even use the comedic pause in tv commercials -_-

[FurryFox97]

1:10 what is that film

[VideosNoOne]

what about the time when couples eat lobsters or crabs.. boy oh boy you let that wooden hammer go and it's guarantined that piece of the lobster goes to the near by tables glass or table..

[Multi80schick]

How about 2 guys in the john having an awkward conversation while trying not to look at each others' junk. Think we've seen enough of that one yet?

[horaciosi]

Seriously? number 7 is a bad cliche?

[paleobc65]

@horaciosi lmao right

[jcudal32]

the 360 shot puts emphasis on the characters in the center. it can also be used for a lot of this. when a person feels brand new, when a character is checking out his surroundings, usually in a fight.

[ed1uardo2]

Yes, I HATE number 3.

[BadTouchTuesday]

I actually like the 360 shot lol

[TheFrostyJackson]

In Superhero moves, law enforcement = completely worthless or they get in the way. Or the govt being evil cliche.

[deltaforce419]

intro music?



[LurkTheDarK]

Tough guys don't look at explosions dude!

[VNDproductions9009]

dont forget always using eye of the tiger in training montages

[casino16]

@VNDproductions9009 well no rocky is the only one, all the other movies that used it were comedies, so they were parodies

[UnIKrafTr]

"Time sensitive." I see what you did there.

[Leftysfive93]

The disavowed secret agent out to prove his or her innocence after being betrayed by a corrupt superior.

[Leftysfive93]

The impending worldwide catastrophe that can only be solved by a group of American military, scientists and or politicians (I'm thinking of Armageddon or The Core)..

[Leftysfive93]

How about the slow motion profile shot of a person or group of people walking away from an explosion?

[OkGoJays32]

I agree about the car not starting bit. But I think in Back to the Future it made more sense, because Marty wasn't driving away from something/someone, he had to drive towards it (the light poles containing the wire that would channel the electricity from a lightning bolt).

[Creaturelover18]

Another cliche I really hate is "People who can't swim". Seriosuly, doesn't swimming-class excist in the movie-world? And they actually make fun of it in Captain America, when the kid falls into the water, and when Capt. is about to save him the kid goes "it's okay I CAN swim!".

[SmoothCriminalAaron]

oh god, the record scratch in trailers

Come on, the record is so obsolete the things that made it obsolete, the CD, is not obsolete

[EndlessNytemare]

the fade to black one is really bad

[TL0610]

interesting how these things are used so much you often subconsciously expect them and barely notice them. We're so Hollywood conditioned! It's always great when you find a film which does things differently and almost makes you feel uncomfortable by refusing to conform to your subconscious expectations...

[improvisedcinema1]

tuco at the end...awesome!

[chainfloats]

WHERES THE LIKE BAR?? I WANT TO LIKE SO MUCH

[cosbusta]

What has been seen, cannot be unseen O.o