1) Let's start with the most obvious one there is: the black guy. I don't know why, but the black guy always dies first. I'm sure it's about racism. So many movies out there where the bubbly, dumb blonde lives a lot longer than the muscular black guy. And the other thing is that in every movie thee is there is only one black guy. It's a big town, but there is only one black guy. That's why Tyler Perry is awesome, every character is black and there is always one, AND ONLY ONE, white person.
2) It seems like every movie since The Matrix came out it's trying to copy it or at least parody it. We've seen the bend back to avoid getting hit with whatever they throw at you. On The Matrix it was fine, in Scary movie was funny, but after that it started getting repetitive and a must have for movies. There is also the slow-motion. After seeing Transformers: Dark of the Moon I noticed that they used a lot of slow-mo. It's not bad, but again, it takes away from the flow of the movie. It makes 3D look better and that way you see everything on the screen well, but when it happens every 15 minutes, its not worth it.
3) The hero of the movie. What cant the hero do? He always gets the girl, doesn't care much for explosion behind him, never gets hurt in a car crash, never dies at the end of a movie, you name it. I understand that he' the hero, but that doesn't make him super human. Batman is less super-human than some of these action heroes. They crash cars and they roll 5 or 6 times and they emerge with only a couple of scratches when the other car that barely hit the wall kills the driver. They get into situations where they try to get the audience to think they are not going to make it, but everyone doesn't really care when they get captured or knocked out because he always gets free and gets the bad guy.
4) "Oh no!!! There's a bomb in that building set to go off at any moment that the bomb squad couldn't disarm!!! What can we do?? I know. Let's bring in the hero, that knows NOTHING about bombs while the there's only 10 seconds before the bomb explodes and have him disarm it after 15 seconds." The hero always knows about bombs or lucks out (happens 99.9% of the time) and he always manages to disarm it with one second left. I don't know if anybody has noticed this, but why does the disarming scene usually last 15 to 20 seconds when the timer only has 10 seconds left. And grenades are usually out of whack. In Blade 2 he activates a box of grenades that is supposed to go off in 10 seconds, but, not only is his counting to 10 inconsistent, but it takes around 15 seconds before they go off giving the enemies enough time to actually attack. Which bring us to...
5) The villain's plan. Come on, you have the guy that has been trying to kill you in front of you, unarmed, and helpless and NOW you decide to give the grand speech, giving him enough time to come up with a plan and ultimately kill you??? I don't think the hero will care about your plan after he's dead. Let's say that for once he tell him the plan and afterwards kills the hero, what now??? Throw a party??? It's just plain stupid. Why not teach your henchmen how to shoot??? They shoot thousands of round with machine guns and not once hit the target. Stevie Wonder, while sitting in a pitch black room would have much better aim than you guys do!!!
This goes to show that clichés are not always good. They tend to drag a movie down and make it boring. Not so many movies surprises people anymore. Horror movies have the same generic bad guy and it's no surprise when the bad guy is revealed or when someone betrays someone else. Maybe that's why so many people think movies feel the same. Maybe that's why movies like Scott Pilgrim vs the World (not saying that it doesn't have its clichés), that try something new, flop. Even though it is something that it's been used a lot, movie clichés tend to be a safe zone where a lot of people live and are afraid to come out of that shell.
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