Fun with Movie Cliches
January 26th, 2009 at 4:08 pm by CrankyCheck out these twin posts about Hollywood’s favorite cliches. It’s kind of fun to see someone calling out what you might have taken for granted.
For example, didja know that
corporations are Capital “E” Evil and run by evil business people. Did I say evil? Yes, eeeeevvvvil! The CEOs are usually old white men, unless the hero of the story is female. Then the CEO’s a ruthless hot chick and the corporation is always planning to poison or kill their customers with their product, which they expect to make them rich. Bwa ha ha!!!!
I’ve added a couple of my own. Are there any that you’ve spotted?
A Christian is a hypocrite or fiend unless he’s African American, then it’s cool but only if he sings “safe” hymns in church.
Just once, I want to see a sooper-high-ranking general not trying to get his own people killed when they get too close to the Truth. Maybe instead, he tells his UN commander, “to hell with you, I’m going to intervene in that massacre!”
Movies about tortured Civil War veterans who massacre Indians and eventually find redemption selling Tupperware or something.
January 26th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Disney always kills mama. If she’s not dead when the movie starts, she’ll get there eventually.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
I’m partial to the two completely different animals that overcome Nature to be fwiends wif each other.
The Fox and the Hound. Dogs and cats, living together. Sharks and clownfish. Killer whales and small children. That kind of stuff.
What really sets me off is what it takes to win an Oscar. For women, there seems to be one standard – Be a whore. If you can be a whore then you are a cinch for Oscar gold. Charlize Theron – Monster. Halle Berry – Monster’s Balls. Jodie Foster – The Accused. Elisabeth Shue – nominated for Leaving Las Vegas. Julia Roberts – Envirowhore Erin Brokovich. Angelina Jolie – in Whore, Interrupted.
Oscar will leave cab fare on the nightstand but he won’t kiss you on the lips.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
A Historic Inauguration Draws Throngs To the Mall…
Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office as the nation’s first African American president yester…
January 27th, 2009 at 8:57 am
The rogue cop. Flawed but noble who operates outside the corrupt system to get the bad guys(usually the corrupt system). Ten car chases, fifty car wrecks, five tanker explosions, four train derailments, two helicopter crashes, untold gunfights, and dead bodies later, he emerges victorious with a hot chick on his arm to suffer no consequences what so ever…..
January 27th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Nailed it Tbird.
And at the end of the movie he is leaning up against an ambulance while medics bandage his arm.
Across the flaming wreckage, the commissioner looks over at him and nods.