We all know they're there, some are so engraved on the screen and in our minds that we hardly think about them anymore.

Well, this is the thread where we do! If you can think of some (or many) movie cliches that annoy you to no end or just some funny ones, post them and we can enlighten each other.

The following are just a few select cliches;

No matter how big a public building is, there's always just ONE person cleaning it.

The person cleaning is usually an elderly black male or a fat, grumpy caucasian woman who smokes.

People who smoke are criminals or of criminal intent.

Almost every single student in a public school is slim, those who are fat or obese have poor grades and are much less intelligent than the people with glasses.

People with glasses are smart.

Any car, regardless of make or model, can easily perform and survive 60' jumps and speed on.

Ocean water is never murky.

People with muscles are violent.

Black people and latino people can NEVER speak proper or fluent english.

The only legal way of ingesting beer in the US is by way of a red plastic cup.

14 years old boys have heavy beardstubbles (because the actors are 25).

When a date has ended, or someone is suggesting a date for someone, the person is always beatiful, smart and funny. Those, apparently, are the three only positive traits people may have.

People who play football have trouble at home, and the quarterback always has a hidden side of melancholy an deep insight.

The cheerleaders also have this side, because they have such strong personalities (lol).

It is by no means possible to disarm a bomb before the timer shows 1 second left.

Women must make sure to hide their bodies from their man after sex.

Every time someone goes shopping, they come home with a humongous baguette protruding from the grocery bag, and probably carrots.

Surveillance cameras get better and better resolution the more you zoom in.

When being chased trough a tall building, people will always seek to run UPstairs towards the roof and unevitably be forced to halt once they're there.

Once on the rooftop, the antagonist must make an informative speech, so the protagonist knows every detail of the intricate plan before another comes and shoots the antagonist in the back.

Russians are terrorists and their national sport is smuggling uranium.

Binoculars provide audio; when you look at someone who are a mile off, you can easily hear them through the binoculars as long as you keep them in sight. 

That's just to kick off, feel free to give me your movie cliches!!

...you got those off some website, right?

No, me and a friend of mine deviced a list some years back. Found it last night while rumaging through some of my papers. There's not much to do where I live...

Well, there are entire websites with pages and pages of movie cliches.

Some of those are quite good though.

Yeah, I saw one. Think it was called moviecliches.com, but it was quite lacking!

Guns are a dime a dozen in movies but cannot be reloaded, so when its out of ammo you might as well through it at someone.

I know this is and old one but what I like about it is that in the german military in the handbook for a handgun it realy says under AMMO: 8 shots and one throw

The hand book also states that when climbing a tree a soldier must stop climbing at the end of the tree without permission. Soldiers walking through rivers must also start swimming when it gets to deep without permission. Who knows what was happening before these rules where enforced :)

But now back on topic...

1. Villans 

If a villan doesn´t die at least three times in a movie he/she must be in the sequel.

If you are a villan before 1950 you must wear a black long hat and a long black mustache at all times.

If you are a villan before 1950 and you want to kill someone you must tie him/her to traintracks and run them over with a train, there are just no other options. 

Villans will always find the most incompetent person to help in the most complicated plans. 

Villans love telling their plans to captured heros only to then let them alone assuming they will die.

Villans love hideing out in exotic locations or rundown places but nothing inbetween.

Villans love to have cameras zoom in on their eyes.

Villans love setting time bombs to times where it is still easily possible to disarm them. 

Villans love to build traps that are highly comlicated and look very cool but are uneffective at trapping people. 

well thats all for now, can someone else do heros please :) 

Here are the ones that make me cringe:

Horror Movies

- People splitting up when a axe wielding maniac is after them.

- A woman tripping while running through the woods while being chased by a maniac (who is sometimes wearing a mask with limited visibility yet never trips).

- The man/woman/monster that is stalking everyone will appear to be dead near the end of the movie but will get back up for one last attempt at killing someone before being put out of it's misery.

- If it's a creature of some sort (alien, etc) and you don't get visual confirmation that it's dead (no head or body) then expect to see a brief flash of it alive (so they can make sure that even the thickest of audience members realize they're leaving things open for a possible sequel if the movie does well) at the end of the movie.

Alien Movies

- The military is usually either shown as a bunch of muscleheads that simply want to blow shit up or they want to capture the deadly alien for scientific research for new weapons.

- A lone scientist is the only one who figures out what's going on or knows the cure/answer to things but the military and others refuse to listen to him until it becomes blindingly obvious he's right, but then they want to do what I mentioned in my previous point.

-All the aliens will look pretty much alike, you'll never get like a black alien and a white alien or whatever of the same species (they're afraid it might confuse their target audience or make them seem more human).

Action Movies

-If a skyscraper, plane, train, or ship gets hijacked by terrorists you can almost bet there will just happen to be someone who's ex special forces that just happens to be a passenger or guest.

-The terrorists in the movie will almost always be one step ahead of the authorities and have technical expertise that rival or surpass the FBI.

-If there's a car chase you can pretty much expect there to be an over the top explosion or an insane car jump.

-The cars being driven by the hero(es) in the movie can survive falls that would put any other car out of commission.

Thrillers:

Black guys always die, and killers are always white.

If you are a girl and are about to have sex, you will die.

You will always split up a group in smaller ones so the killer can hunt you and kill you without effort.

All killers are impervious to bullet shots, unless it's a headshot after the last scare. Sometimes even that is not enough.

A guy who lives alone in a cabin in the wilderness is a maniac killer.

Hitch-hicking will kill you, because the guy you picked up is a killer.

When the killer calls in the night, he's always inside the house, but no one can hear him save on the telephone.

Action Movies:

If you fire a bullet in a car, it will explode, even when the engine in not running.

If the protagonist is hit by a car, he will survive.

No child hostage ever dies.

The terrorists will always pause for a speech before delivering the killing blow to the protagonist, which enables him to counter-attack and kill them.

Martial arts always win, even if the other guy has a gun.