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WOOD
WOOD Heroes and villains can successfully use wood, no matter how thin, as a safe shield against bullets of any caliber. Every table is bulletproof. When crossing a rotting suspended bridge, with we… more →
Movie Cliche Archive
WOOD
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DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: WOOD Heroes and villains can successfully use wood, no matter how thin, as a safe shield against b … more →
WOMEN
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DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: WOMEN Women will always have shaved legs and armpits, even in Elizabethan, Middle-Ages and Caveman … more →
WEATHER
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: WEATHER: • Snow flakes that land on people never melt It’s never so cold that people’s … more →
WEAPONS
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: WEAPONS Major characters never run out of ammunition, nor do they ever have to reload. (If the mov … more →
WAR
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: WAR You’re very likely to survive any battle in any war, unless you show someone a picture o … more →
VILLAINS
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: VILLAINS The bad guy is the foreigner. Corollary: the foreigner is the guy who speaks English with … more →
TRAVEL
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: TRAVEL Transportation always arrives and leaves on time. Unless used for comedic effect. Character … more →
TRAFFIC
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: TRAFFIC When a main character has to cross the street (in one of the slower parts of the movie), h … more →
TIME
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: TIME Movie timing is always exact. If a phone trace will take two minutes, for example, you can be … more →
STAIRS
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: STAIRS Whenever anyone is chased to a staircase, s/he will run upstairs rather than down. If someo … more →
SPORTS
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DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: SPORTS In any type of sport movie, a player on the field can look up into a crowd of 1 billion and … more →
SPACESHIPS
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: SPACESHIPS Spaceships make noise! Spaceships always fly perpendicular to the same axis. When two s … more →
SPACE & VACUUM
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: SPACE & VACUUM Explosions in space make noise Exposure to the vacuum of space makes you horrib … more →
SMOKING
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: SMOKING Smokers smoke only when there is a romantic or dramatic reason to. At other times the smok … more →
SKYDIVING
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DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: SKYDIVING You got plenty of time up there, often a couple of minutes. You can almost talk casually … more →
SIGNALS
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: SIGNALS If the tapping sound or flashing light represents Morse code, there’s always someone … more →
SHOPPING
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: SHOPPING When bringing home bags of groceries in a film, it’s required that you spill at lea … more →
SEX
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: SEX All beds have a special L-shaped top sheet, which reaches up to armpit level on women but only t … more →
SCHOOL
DoubtingThomas wrote 1 year ago: SCHOOL If you’re a high school student in a film, you will always get one of the preferable … more →
