Top 10 riddiculous movie conventions

[Perry Milkins]

Frankenstein's Monster or the Mummy will walk slowly arms up and pointing straight ahead chasing the hero/heroine. The hero and the heroine will be giving it a 'Linford Christie' yet they always get caught.

 

[bhafc99]

9 If a couple take an instant dislike to each other when they first meet, guaranteed they'll be soppily in love by the end of the movie.

10 Everything that decided WW2 was down to the Yanks.

11 All asteroids, alien invasions, tidal waves etc always head for America first. (Sorry Badger, didn't see you'd beaten me to that one!)

 

[Perry Milkins]

In spooky old dark houses. the hero always leaves the heroine alone in a room.

Yep you guessed it.. the bogey man comes in through the window and carries her off.

 

[Perry Milkins]

How come the Wolfman in the old movies always used to strangle his victims?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The black guy is ALWAYS the good guy

 

[Thimble Keegan]

The police captain is always black.

Whenever the goodie gets shot he takes it like a true man but the second a woman starts to clean/dress the wound he winces like a baby.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Littlehampton BHA

 

[Easy 10]

If the phone is dead, they ALWAYS press the receiver down three or four times.

When the baddy runs out of bullets (after inevitably missing the target by miles), they usually throw the GUN

 

[Badger]

The final year of High School is by far the best year of your entire life and you go through so much with all those special lifelong friends

 

[vegster]

No one goes in to the toilet to have a pee or a crap.. If there is any scene involving some one walking in to a public toilet they are either

A, Going to be killed

B, Going to discover a body

C, Going to assemble/set a bomb

D, going to put on/take off a disguise

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The US Marines NEVER stop any kind of alien/superhero/supervillain threat, no matter how much artillery they have at their disposal

 

[medicine man]

A bit specific, but ALL Star Destroyer staff are English.

 

[medicine man]

Ooh, and sound travels in space, especially if there's an explosion

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

With the exception of John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, (the best film ever made), no cute little 11 year old girls get shot between the eyes by the bad guys !

 

[skipper734]

Goodies always get shot in the shoulder. Wince a bit then carry on rolling around. Having fractured my humerus and torn the rotator cuff I can confirm that any movement is impossible for weeks.

 

[backson]

When THE bombs' timer reaches the final 60 seconds there will be a further 20mins of action before the 'wire is cut' with 3 seconds to go.

That is, of course, one of those bombs which must have two wires sticking out, one of which will detonate it, the other diffuse it.

It also has to have a large LED display of the time left; it's the law.

 

[backson]

The day will always be saved by the cop who "doesn't play by the rules"

 

[backson]

There are never any squelchy noises when the hero and heroine are, well, doing the squelchy.

 

[Don Quixote]

there is always an unorthadox black guy with a massive gun.

the heroes can always shoot from the hip and somhow kill the baddies.

in old westerns if anyone gets shot there is no blood and they do a dramatic roll...

 

[backson]

The runaway car is always heading for a kid holding a balloon.

 

[Seasider78]

1) Bombs can only be diffused with seconds to spare
2) You can hack into any system in the world with a mobile phone and a laptop