I was just watching the trailer for Ghost in the Shell, and it made me think about recurrent lines of movie doggerel - the lines that seem to show up in every third rate action movie, ("I'm in", "Everything they told you was a lie" etc.) Here's a top ten - can you think of more?

1. Try me

2. This is your destiny.

3. Donde esta [insert english word] por favor?

4. I was born ready.

5. Are you sitting down?

6. – Is that all you got? – I’m just getting started.

7. Cover me. I’m going in.

8. No, no, no, no, NO! I’m not going. [Cut to them going.]

9. No. Come in. ____ was just leaving.

10. We’ve got to stop meeting like this.

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"I've got this!"

You forgot the record scratch sound effect.

11. "We've got company!" - This one is especially weird when you see it said by an alien or an elf. When was Admiral Ackbar ever in a domestic situation where he's long-suffering wife was inviting people over unexpectedly?

12. "That's an order!" - My cousin who was in the Army used to point this out all the time. You never, ever, EVER hear a superior officer say this in real life. If they're telling you to do something, of COURSE it's an order.

13. "Can you zoom in and enhance that spot?" - If every grainy CCTV footage could just be magically enhanced to 4K ultra HD with a few clicks of the keyboard, why didn't the Tech Guy already do that before the Hero walked in?

14. "If I told you, I'd have to kill you." - Every person that has been told this in a movie invariably finds out the information, and doesn't die.

15. "This ends NOW!" - This is usually said by the same person that previously in the movie said "I was BORN ready!"

Every screenwriter should just scan their work for the lines "Let me get this straight..." and "You don't get it, do you?" and just CTRL-A and DEL that shit right out of there.

"You touch a part of me I never even knew existed"

"The gloves are off!" comes to mind. But I think it's actually more of a comic book cliche. Don't know whether it ever made it to Hollywood.

"Let's get out of here!" is said to be the most over-used line of all. Although I suppose one could make a case that in the kinds of movies where it tends to appear it's more of an unavoidable necessity, like "and" and "the."

"And I you, Scott. With all my heart."

Wait...

"It's quiet out there. Too quiet."

"Did I just say that out loud" ?

Perhaps it was funny once, but it's one of the most annoying examples of lazy writing that jumps out at me whenever it's used.

No Opie, nooooooo.....

It happened to him all the time because he is still a person even if he looks different, racist.

Hasn't been used in ENOUGH movies.

There was a writer's room chalkboard shared around that showed all the writing cliches that need to be abandoned.

Here it is.

"Something's wrong"

You've taken everything I ever loved for me....know you're going to pay!

"I want to do sex on you."

Wrong thread, Jay.

Czechoslovakian pr0n relies too heavily on this cliché, I agree.

You just signed_____'s death warrant

Under not used enough: "Could be worse. Could be raining"

"I'm going to explain this ONE MORE TIME".

"I said DON'T (push that button) (pull that lever) (touch that thing) (talk to that person) (call the police) (tell them where we are) (open that package) (cut the red wire) (follow me)!

"I trusted you!"