Monday's Movie & Musical Clichés

There's a long-running thread at Quora relating to disliked movie clichés - most of the entries were TL;DR (too long; did not read) for me, on my way skimming through the website. A short one with several images to support it struck me as a good example, it came from one Daniel Andrew Lockwood:

In almost EVERY movie that has trains, somehow, for some reason, the lead character ends up on top of it. If there’s a good guy and a bad guy they end up in a fight on top of it.

Ain't that the truth?

A few regular groan-inducing clichés, in films and TV dramas, for husband and me include:

Scenes where a character is brutally attacked, hit on the head falls to the ground then is kicked mercilessly, but soon after can get up and act as though it was just a few grazes and bruises - instead of what must have obviously caused broken bones, internal bleeding or worse.

Scene where female character decides to chop off her long locks, for one reason or another - using a pair of kitchen scissors, possibly quite blunt. She hacks away indiscriminately. Next time we see her, she looks as though she'd spent a half day at some celebrity hairdressing salon.

My own pet hate: The Dog in Film rule: if there's a dog in a film, the cuter the better - the dog will die, one way or another.

Hacking with ease: character searching for password to access someone's personal computer data - a few random guesses and he's in! Or hacking into websites of huge corporations, this takes a bit longer but there's always a whizz-kid expert who can do it in a hour or so.

Husband's pet groan moment: in horror movies, character looks in a mirror, usually bathroom cabinet mirror, looks away for a moment - then the villain appears, in the mirror behind him/her.

An ever present scene these days, supposedly titillating, I guess, but because it's so common now it has become slightly ridiculous; we even start a count as to how long it will take for two characters to get into bed together, naked, or take some other, more athletic pose up against a wall etc. and perform sweatily for the camera! This often happens well within the first 20 minutes.

Finally, because it is Music Monday, a rundown of the top ten most used, and over-used, songs in movies. The video is 14 minutes long, but it held my interest - do give it a whirl: