Things that happen in the movies, but seldom in real life

Hi. There are many things that happen so often in films they could be called cliches. However, you don't see these same things occurring very much in real life.

For example, the beautiful, young girl who is lonely and can't seem to get any attention from the guys. Her friends, much less appealing, are more popular and make fun of her. I'm thinking specifically about Jamie Lee Curtis in the movie, Halloween.

Can you think of more examples?

 

Chase scenes that involve some sort fruit stand or cart, usually at the end of the chase.

 

This is great- presenting The Movie Cliches List!

http://www.moviecliches.com/

 

See also:

http://tvtropes.org

 

A man or woman literally running to tell someone that they love them and want to be with them for the rest of their lives.

 

Cars blowing up all the time. Especially when they are hit with a single bullet.

 

Chubby nerdy guy, hot beautiful woman.

Evan

 

In movies, if a girl breaks up with a guy, moves far away from him, meets someone else and walks down the wedding aisle with him, it really means she is still deeply in love with the first guy. All the first guy has to do to get his ex-girlfriend back is crash the wedding and bellow out the girl's first name. She will leave the wedding and get in a bus/car/motorcycle with her old boyfriend.

 

This may sound like a strange one but in movies I've always noticed that when people open bedroom windows at night there never seems to be a screen in the window.

 

In war films, if a soldier pulls out a picture of his girlfriend, he will die.

 

Someone falling or pushed off a roof/cliff/whatever and managing to grab a handhold at the last second, stopping their fall, although they may be moving 10-15 MPH or more, probably making their effective body weight several hundred pounds.

That and parachuting in a life raft.

 

In movies, if the hero is a janitor working in a college, he will be smarter than all the professors there. He will sneak into a classroom late at night and solve the problem on the blackboard no one else could solve.

 

If a group of young people are traveling on a deserted road somewhere in Texas, they will be trapped by a family of cannibals. The cannibals might be mutants, or they might have a chainsaw, but probably both.

 

But, they make a damn fine bowl of chili.....

 

In a women's prison movie, the heroine will be there because she loved her boyfriend and wanted to help him. She did not know the teddy bear she was taking on a plane was filled with drugs. She did not know her boyfriend was involved with drugs. She will also be pure, pretty, and speak superb English.

 

All the main people come back for a sequel 2 years later?

 

Guys who work in record stores and get laid.

 

If there is a ventriloquist in a movie, he will be schizophrenic. Eventually, his doll will take over his personality. At the end of the film, the ventriloquist will be motionless, and the doll will be talking.

 

In a science fiction movie, if the aliens possess vast intelligence, advanced technology, and a hostile agenda, you can kill them by pouring a cup of water on them. Either that, or if they catch a cold, they will die. You can also conquer them by planting a virus in their computers.

 

If a woman hates a man in a movie, hates him so much she despises him, they will kiss and fall in love.

If a woman tries to slap a man in a movie, he will grab her hand and they will kiss.

If a man throws a woman to the ground, they will at first struggle, then they will kiss.

 

Roger Ebert has collected over the years a "little movie glossary" of cliches from movies. His website only features recent submissions by his readers, but he's also collected them in his move review books from more than a decade ago.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=GLOSSARY

One of my favorite past entries was how ransom money, no matter how large or small, always fills up the briefcase perfectly.

 

If a man and woman are divorced in a movie, they still love each other passionately. If the divorced woman dates other men, she does not really like them and they never have sex.

 

If a man's daughter is kidnapped in a movie, he will not get any help from the police. The father must travel to another country, beat information out of countless bad guys, survive gunshots, torture, and beatings, to rescue his daughter unharmed.

If the leading man is a bodyguard in a movie, guarding a little girl, the bodyguard and the little girl will become amazingly close. Then, the little girl will be kidnapped.

 

If there is a monkey in a movie, the monkey will be cute, funny, and have more personality than the three Marx Brothers combined. Either that or the monkey will be a serial killer.

 

If a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong in a movie, the scientist will end up with powers most mortals would dream of having. The only other possibility is he will become half man/half insect.