Right, imagine the scene. You are watching a TV show or a film ... getting into the plot ... enjoying the character development ... being thoroughly entertained ... ... and CLANG! A boring cliché moment. In my case, it's the victim who is suddenly aware of their danger, they turn, they run two strides and boom - they TRIP! OMG, they fell over. Tripped over a pebble, lost their balance over a flat piece of ground, failed to hurdle the invisible unicorn, Who TF knows what or why? 1.89 million years of evolution in which mankind developed the ability to stand on two feet and run from their enemies. Those that never learned the skill weeded out of the gene pool by natural selection, those that could actually get two metres without tangling over their own feet escaped death and survived to pass on their genes ... yet here we are. Eight times out of ten, the victim will trip in the first ten strides of fleeing their peril and the other two times they fall over just before reaching safety. It is so fucking TIRESOME that I am losing the ability to sit and watch any kind of action film, be it thriller, horror or whatever. It is so DULL it's painful to watch. What lazy script writing device boils your piss and makes you reach for the remote control in a show that you were otherwise enjoying, up until to that moment? Feel free to give examples.
A bit of escapism, fiction, and tales of horror can do you the world of good sometimes. It certainly seems to work for the duke.
sex scenes piss me off. Don't mind seeing a bit of titty same as the next man but a 5 min scene with all that looking into each others eyes an shit...the only good sex scenes are in team America and sausage party
dont know, a burd from the past used to call me popit. so maybe it's an affectionate term for a well hung stud muffin maybe?
Brought back for retirement for 'one last job' usually gets a good airing in Hollywood Likewise as the detective leaves the room he pauses to ask 'that' question, Colombo style I guess writers write stuff that's within easy grasp to the majority of viewers, something easy to follow and not too taxing on the mind muscle. If it was like 'Eraserhead' every time viewers heads would literally explode.
some movies wouldn't work if it wasn't for cliches. "airplane" for example. but yip, it can spoil a movie, take the "human centipede" right at the beginning when they brake down and wander of in to the woods, you just knew one of them was gonna get their mouth stitched to the others arse.
Movies wouldn't be the same. Sometimes the villain telling the hero the plot is the only way you can actually figure out what the story is!
