Clichés in american movies

376 posts and no one has mentioned guys shooting handguns in both hands.

 

Maybe because it's not really an American movie cliche!

 

The chainsaws always seem to work and never need any gas.

 

Every phone call ends with `I love you'........

 

or using a shotgun down at the hip and not only hitting the target, but the recoil doesn't even knock them off balance

 

American movie cliches as presented by Italians who never have cliches in their own movies .

AMERICAN MOVIES ARE THE WORST! ONLY WATCH FOREIGN FLICKS!

 

Okay, so movies, in order to be "decent" can't have any skin in them, or god forbid, any sex? Because real life doesn't ever have any skin or any sex in it, right? Real life, is, apparently, "indecent"?

whatever...

 

I've always detested the "foreign movies are better" notion. It's smug and condescending - and it ignores that part of the reason foreign films seem to be better is because only the best foreign films play in the US.

Other countries release more than their fair share of crap, too - those films don't cross the ocean, though.

It's the same for old movies. We only remember the movies that have literally stood the test of time - much earlier decades included skillions of terrible films but they're essentially forgotten, so we view those days as a "golden era" in which everything was good!

And as I alluded earlier, some of these "American cliches" aren't even American cliches!

 

Any script writer who uses "with all due respect" should have to surrender his or her SAG card on the spot.

 

This thread has provided me with a hell of a lot of entertainment.

 

I'll take your word for it.

 

Steam coming out of the manhole covers and drains on wet streets at night! What is this supposed to portray? I've never seem such a thing happen in real life.

 

You're absolutely right in detesting the "foreign movies are better" notion. The expression "foreign movies" as some kind of genre is exclusive to the US, though.

 

"There's absolutely no way I'm visiting your mother this weekend. Absolutely not. No way, nada, it just isn't going to happen and that's final".

Cutaway to poor suffering husband visiting his mother-in-law. (Or whatever activity he insisted that he would not participate in.)

 

I actually have seen that in downtown Detroit. Made me feel like I was in a movie.

 

Like a lot of kids I grew up watching american films in the 1980's. Thinking back some of them almost seem like propaganda films. Full of ruthless, evil, communist, democracy hating foreigners. When I was a kid I wanted to live in the USA. Now it looks kind of scary, a pressure cooker of fear, ultra competitive, guns everywhere & never far from mob rule.

But to quote Harry Lime in the Third man

"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

 

Man and woman running away from the bad guys.
Woman falls down....always.

 

WGA, but yeah.

 

"With all due respect, I should've killed you when I had the chance."

Let's see if any writer has the balls to use that one.