Movie Cliches

[Karrit]

esoterica said:

People who think they're gay, but turns out they're actually straight: You know...some guys pretending to be women for some reason, one of them befriends a girl, who thinks she just "so comfortable" with her/him, becomes strangely atracted and falls in love, thinking she then must be gay...but she's not! Because the girl is really a guy!!!

Whaa? That's a new one for me. Does anyone have an example?

Victor/Victoria

[spinsterliz]

It's also done in "Connie and Carla" (oooh, that was a bad movie) except the genders are switched because it's a woman dressed as a gay man who's a drag queen.

I really hate the cliche in movies about people who are supposedly struggling to get by and yet wear clothes that are clearly designer and very expensive. A twentysomething who works as a waitress wearing Gucci and Chanel in her off-time, suuuure.

[Deleted]

If a character is trying to deceive someone, and accidentally tells the truth but then corrects him or herself, the person being lied to will not notice AT ALL, and never question it.

Randomly made up example:
Person A: "I'm from Ohio-um, I mean, Cologne."
Person B: "Oooh, Cologne, cool!"

[marywebgirl]

Speaking of Ohio, that seems to be the "naive-small-town-person" home state of choice.

[mugatu]

I hate in romantic comedies, when at the end of the movie the hero/heroine inevitably realizes that they are in love with their coworker/best friend/neighbor etc. they have to tell them at THAT MOMENT. It doesn't matter that ____ just left to go to the airport, grocery store, bike ride etc. The hero/heroine has to go on a goose chase to hunt them down and tell them- I LOVE YOU. Like they can't phone them up and meet with them later.

[thesurlymermaid]

mugatu said:

I hate in romantic comedies, when at the end of the movie the hero/heroine inevitably realizes that they are in love with their coworker/best friend/neighbor etc. they have to tell them at THAT MOMENT. It doesn't matter that ____ just left to go to the airport, grocery store, bike ride etc. The hero/heroine has to go on a goose chase to hunt them down and tell them- I LOVE YOU. Like they can't phone them up and meet with them later.

Yeah...this plagues sitcoms as well. I'm thinking specifically about the Friends finale.

[pepper67]

People who think they're gay, but turns out they're actually straight: You know...some guys pretending to be women for some reason, one of them befriends a girl, who thinks she just "so comfortable" with her/him, becomes strangely atracted and falls in love, thinking she then must be gay...but she's not! Because the girl is really a guy!!!

Victor/Victoria

Victor/Victoria doesn't count. For all that he says he doesn't care if she's a guy, he knows she's a girl because he hid in the bathroom closet and watched her get undressed to have a bath.

Despite the ickiness of that description, I still like that film.

[franticjoy]

People who think they're gay, but turns out they're actually straight: You know...some guys pretending to be women for some reason, one of them befriends a girl, who thinks she just "so comfortable" with her/him, becomes strangely atracted and falls in love, thinking she then must be gay...but she's not! Because the girl is really a guy!!!

What about Yentl?

[chiqui]

Speaking of Ohio, that seems to be the "naive-small-town-person" home state of choice.

As Seattle is the home city of wimpy people (Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle, that Art Garfunkel-looking doctor on St. Elsewhere, etc.)

[defaultusername]

franticjoy said:

People who think they're gay, but turns out they're actually straight: You know...some guys pretending to be women for some reason, one of them befriends a girl, who thinks she just "so comfortable" with her/him, becomes strangely atracted and falls in love, thinking she then must be gay...but she's not! Because the girl is really a guy!!!

What about Yentl?

We could have a whole other thread made up of nothing but racial, ethnic, and religious clichés alone.