Movie cliches
When a character says "Come to papa," It’s all over for the other guy!
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He meets her in a grocery store, they really don’t get along…Some time later they meet again and something special happens…Cue a musical montage of roller coasters, museum trips and ice cream cones…eventually there will be a ridiculous misunderstanding and a painful breakup…
In the final act our male and female lead realize how much they complete each other and we all feel really happy and relieved!
I think I just wrote my first movie and it was a Rom-Com and I don’t even like those movies😎
Variation: They know each other in person and despise one another. When alone however they enjoy chatting online/writing letters to this special friend they have who they have never met yet tell everything to. They often have romantic fantasies about this mysterious friend...
Variation 2: Perhaps these letters are placed in a drawer or letter box. Somehow these letters transcend time and they receive responses which defy all logic..
Every time an adult tells a kid to do something or not to do something that kid proceeds to do the exact opposite.
Eg. "Wait right here. Don't go anywhere. Mommy will be back in 5 minutes." 5 minutes later mom comes back and the kid has wandered off. It's as if Hollywood goes out of its way to make audiences dislike movie kids.
the tortured detective who is more screwed up than the criminals he is trying to catch.
shareHe keeps a revolver and a bottle of scotch in the bottom drawer of his desk and narrates about his female clients…’She had longer stems than a tulip field…’
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To add to that, the tortured detective has an irate superior on his back threatening to throw him off the case. Said detective then redoubles his efforts to solve the case through a dogged pursuit acting on a long-shot theory and some unorthodox methods ( that will get him in more trouble if he fails ).
shareThere's always that one case that has consumed him, leading to the end of his marriage and heavy drinking.
shareThe one I really dislike seeing is where a very insecure female character, who has been in a long-term relationship with a boyfriend or husband. Some ridiculous series of events has him caught in the arms of another female by accident, the insecure girl just happens to walk in right at that moment and sees the two of them, and despite knowing him for many years, immediately loses all trust him him and freaks, storming away with the "I don't wanta hear it!" when the poor guy tries to explain himself.
shareWhich is usually followed by the jealous girlfriend having sex* with some guy she doesn't really like just to teach her boyfriend a lesson. Even though boyfriend wasn't doing anything wrong.
* or in some cases doing something stupid like becoming a stripper or porn star.
So exciting
sharePeople who get given an address over the phone and immediately commit it to memory. I’d be like, “Hold on! Let me get a pen and paper.”
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