View unanswered posts | View active topics
Author |
Message |
Evans
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 8:00 pm |
|
 |
Boring but true
|
Joined: | 02 Mar 2005 |
Posts: | 15823 |
Location: | Oswald's Tree |
Bannings: | So long ago |
|
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. More here: http://www.mentorless.com/2013/09/30/50 ... ur-script/
|
|
Top |
|
 |
JohnG
ICE Mod |
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 10:56 pm |
|
 |
Boney Fingers Jones
|
Joined: | 03 Aug 2006 |
Posts: | 40794 |
Location: | Sunny Massapequa Park, NY |
|
"I've got this!"
_________________ "Every day a little sadder, A little madder, Someone get me a ladder."
ELP
“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?”—Steven Wright
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Bobson Dugnutt
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:30 am |
|
 |
MLVGB Champion, '92-'94
|
Joined: | 31 Jan 2005 |
Posts: | 31234 |
Location: | Tokyo, 1990 |
Bannings: | Self-inflicted |
|
Evans wrote: 8. No, no, no, no, NO! I’m not going. [Cut to them going.]
You forgot the record scratch sound effect.
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Bobson Dugnutt
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:40 am |
|
 |
MLVGB Champion, '92-'94
|
Joined: | 31 Jan 2005 |
Posts: | 31234 |
Location: | Tokyo, 1990 |
Bannings: | Self-inflicted |
|
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.
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Evans
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 11:05 am |
|
 |
Boring but true
|
Joined: | 02 Mar 2005 |
Posts: | 15823 |
Location: | Oswald's Tree |
Bannings: | So long ago |
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Evans
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 11:24 am |
|
 |
Boring but true
|
Joined: | 02 Mar 2005 |
Posts: | 15823 |
Location: | Oswald's Tree |
Bannings: | So long ago |
|
"You touch a part of me I never even knew existed"
|
|
Top |
|
 |
That meddlin kid
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 11:24 am |
|
 |
Biker Librarian
|
Joined: | 26 Mar 2007 |
Posts: | 25152 |
Location: | On the highway, looking for adventure |
|
"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."
_________________ The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls who, when he found an especially costly one, sold everything he had to buy it.
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Evans
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 11:39 am |
|
 |
Boring but true
|
Joined: | 02 Mar 2005 |
Posts: | 15823 |
Location: | Oswald's Tree |
Bannings: | So long ago |
|
"And I you, Scott. With all my heart."
Wait...
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Glenn S.
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 12:03 pm |
|
Joined: | 30 Oct 2006 |
Posts: | 4614 |
Location: | Tampa to Tennessee |
|
"It's quiet out there. Too quiet."
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Simon
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 12:15 pm |
|
 |
...
|
Joined: | 26 Oct 2006 |
Posts: | 59406 |
|
"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.
_________________ "They'll bite your finger off given a chance" - Junkie Luv (regarding Zebras)
|
|
Top |
|
 |
MILFbait
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 3:08 pm |
|
 |
The Kilted Wonder.
|
Joined: | 02 Dec 2004 |
Posts: | 30668 |
Location: | Out of his mind... |
Bannings: | I wouldn't count on it... |
|
JohnG wrote: "I've got this!" No Opie, nooooooo.....
_________________ "Don't look back, you're not going that way."
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Ocean Doot
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 3:09 pm |
|
 |
Dendritic Oscillating Ontological Tesseract
|
Joined: | 25 Oct 2007 |
Posts: | 51026 |
Location: | Milwaukee |
|
Bobson Dugnutt wrote: 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?
It happened to him all the time because he is still a person even if he looks different, racist.
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Ocean Doot
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 3:10 pm |
|
 |
Dendritic Oscillating Ontological Tesseract
|
Joined: | 25 Oct 2007 |
Posts: | 51026 |
Location: | Milwaukee |
|
Evans wrote: "And I you, Scott. With all my heart."
Wait... Hasn't been used in ENOUGH movies.
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Steve
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:14 pm |
|
 |
What do you call a camel with three humps?
|
Joined: | 21 Oct 2004 |
Posts: | 58174 |
Location: | Indiana |
|
There was a writer's room chalkboard shared around that showed all the writing cliches that need to be abandoned. Here it is.  
|
|
Top |
|
 |
JohnG
ICE Mod |
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:18 pm |
|
 |
Boney Fingers Jones
|
Joined: | 03 Aug 2006 |
Posts: | 40794 |
Location: | Sunny Massapequa Park, NY |
|
"Something's wrong"
_________________ "Every day a little sadder, A little madder, Someone get me a ladder."
ELP
“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?”—Steven Wright
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Bishop Hammer
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 9:12 pm |
|
 |
Write your own destiny
|
Joined: | 03 Sep 2007 |
Posts: | 10262 |
Location: | The 4th level. |
Bannings: | 3 |
|
You've taken everything I ever loved for me....know you're going to pay!
_________________ I'm forever blowing bubbles,
pretty bubbles in the air,
they fly so high,
nearly reach the sky,
then like my dreams,
they fade and die.
Fortune's always hiding,
I've looked everywhere,
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
pretty bubbles in the air.
UNITED! UNITED!
West Ham United fight song.
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Li'l Jay
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:24 pm |
|
 |
It scorched
|
Joined: | 28 May 2006 |
Posts: | 68687 |
Bannings: | One too few . . . |
|
"I want to do sex on you."
_________________ Rom's kiss turned Rogue a hero.
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Evans
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 4:01 am |
|
 |
Boring but true
|
Joined: | 02 Mar 2005 |
Posts: | 15823 |
Location: | Oswald's Tree |
Bannings: | So long ago |
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Simon
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 1:15 pm |
|
 |
...
|
Joined: | 26 Oct 2006 |
Posts: | 59406 |
|
Li'l Jay wrote: "I want to do sex on you." Czechoslovakian pr0n relies too heavily on this cliché, I agree.
_________________ "They'll bite your finger off given a chance" - Junkie Luv (regarding Zebras)
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Evans
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 2:21 pm |
|
 |
Boring but true
|
Joined: | 02 Mar 2005 |
Posts: | 15823 |
Location: | Oswald's Tree |
Bannings: | So long ago |
|
You just signed_____'s death warrant
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Tuna
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 4:36 pm |
|
 |
Still Not A Dalmatian In A Jaunty Beret
|
Joined: | 21 Dec 2007 |
Posts: | 36135 |
Location: | Humid |
|
Under not used enough: "Could be worse. Could be raining"
_________________ Because Life is a Treasure Already!
|
|
Top |
|
 |
Tuna
|
Post subject: Cliches in movie dialogue Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 4:43 pm |
|
 |
Still Not A Dalmatian In A Jaunty Beret
|
Joined: | 21 Dec 2007 |
Posts: | 36135 |
Location: | Humid |
|
"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!"
_________________ Because Life is a Treasure Already!
|
|
Top |
|
 |
|
Page 1 of 2
|
[ 33 posts ] |
|
View unanswered posts | View active topics
Who is WANline |
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests |
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot post attachments in this forum
|
|