The Movie Cliche List

The Movie Cliche List is a fun website to visit, especially for writers, movie fans, and those who just love to nitpick. Here's a few examples of The Movie Cliche List Collection:

AIRPLANES: If a flying vehicle runs out of fuel and crashes, it still explodes as if the tank were full.

ALCOHOL: Coffee will sober you up from a complete stupor in a matter of minutes.

ALIENS: All members of alien species wear the same outfits, including clothing, hairstyles, and jewelery. This makes them readily identifiable. Aliens who do not dress like aliens are hiding something. This may, in fact, be a consequence of the fact that aliens all have single, monolithic cultures: one language, one religion, one outfit, per planet.

ANIMALS: Deadly reptiles will always attack a woman first, even if she's in the presence of thirty men.

BARS: Every time some guy walks into a bar, usually the hero, he gets into a fight. Usually right under a BUDWEISER sign (see "product placement"). Likelihood of fight increases if country music is playing in the background.

EYEGLASSES: Computer geeks and "intelligent" persons use them, action heros never have glasses.

BODY FUNCTIONS: Menstruation is an unknown phenomenon in movies. Female movie characters are all immune from it.

BOMBS: Bombs always have big, blinking, beeping timer displays. Evil geniuses who devise bombs to destroy things/people are always thoughtful enough to include a visible display (usually LED) of how much time remains before the bomb detonates, giving the hero accurate feedback on exactly how much time remains.

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