worst movie clichés?

[sugaredwalls]

How about an Atlas Shrugged sequel? Has that been done yet?

Okay, to be serious, here are some of the cliches I hate the most:

--last minute mad dash to tell the love of your life why he/she should not marry the wrong person, or to stop them from taking the plane, or to stop them from getting deported

--montage o' shopping a la Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman

--hardened career woman softens when saddled with adorable children

--college professor is wacky and flaky but students love him/her anyway because he/she is so Alive

--they hate each other but they secretly love each other (also works with two cops partnered together, men in boot camp with Sarge)

lol, now if you can get people to stop buying tickets to shit like that, then you'll really be on to something!

Some of that stuff has been done well but then it's been done over, over, over and over again.

And as far as I know, Atlas Shrugged has yet to make it to the big screen. IMO, that's a relevant book for our times, although Ayn Rand's views on sex were kind of warped and I don't completely buy Objectivism. I would love to see the screenplays that have been done and never made it to the big (and little) screen though.

Point me to it if there is a movie version of Atlas Shrugged.

Although, if we really thought about it, in abstract, a lot of movies have probably been made which reflect John Galt.

 

[LusciousLoralie]

--last minute mad dash to tell the love of your life why he/she should not marry the wrong person, or to stop them from taking the plane, or to stop them from getting deported

like in The Graduate? or pretty much any movie?

--montage o' shopping a la Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman

I have to say that I love those.

--hardened career woman softens when saddled with adorable children

or even worse: hardened career woman softens when she meets some guy and she realizes she's been wasting her life on her work and what she really wants is love and not financial success.

 

[monique1971]

To be fair, I wasn't quite accurate when I said I "hate" those cliches, because I also kind of love them. Done well, they're satisfying even if they're predictable.

More:

--mousy girl who loves books more than real life goes back in time/into a book and finds love

--elves, trolls, whatnot are on a Quest

--scrappy low-level employee has mad scheme to make money and it works...for a time

---black person helps white person discover himself/herself and be more spiritual

 

[Ekserb]

The trouble with Hollywood isn't that there are no good scripts. There are lots of good scripts, but the producers are retarded and they require changes to those scripts for them to understand the plot. You can either fold and make those changes to get your movie made, or stand your ground and go home with your script and no money.

It seems most people are perfectly willing to sell their soul for the cash, and so you get 9,658 romantic comedies with Kate Hudson.

When pitching Reservoir Dogs to a group of Asian investors, Quentin Tarantino was told they wanted to make the character of Mr. White a woman and they had a few other "suggestions." Tarantino told them that they wanted to make a different movie than what he had written, and left the meeting. Stunned, they called him back and agreed to let him tell the story as he saw fit. It seems they had never been told "no" before that day.*

*This is the story as I remember it. Might be slightly off.