Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:23am
- Body Swaps
- I am going to make a bet that I can fall in love with such-and-such
- I hate you. Now I love you.
Any others?
#2re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:29am"I'm a brilliant, witty outsider who's going to do something amazing and then get laid."
#2re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:30am
Boy is an idiot. Girl inexplicably falls in love with him. Boy does something idiotic and girl breaks up with him. Boy then does something romantic/heroic/etc and girl realizes how much she loves him.
And they all lived happily ever after.
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I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
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And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
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"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
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Updated On: 1/11/08 at 02:30 AM
I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
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Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#3re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:50am"I'm a brilliant, witty outsider who's going to do something amazing and then get laid." - JUNO!
#4re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:05amSensible person dies, leaving carefree sibling to take care of their off-spring. After reluctance and fights, they all see the light and live happily ever after.
Celebrate Life
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#5re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:57am
The pretty-ugly girl concept.
They are at each others throats then seconds later they are attacking each others tonsils.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 6:28ammismatched partners must learn to work together to overcome an obstacle & achieve grudging respect for each other.
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#7re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 9:52am
Boy falls for girl way out of his league, and admires secretly from afar. Boy's best gal pal helps him overcome his fears and shyness, but falls in love with boy in the process. Out of league girl starts to take notice -- but now boy realizes gal pal is a real girl! and maybe he loves her instead! Which girl will he choose?
Updated On: 1/11/08 at 09:52 AM
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#8re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 9:59amA complete bastard learns how to be a warm, caring human being through a trial of poignant foibles.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#9re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:00am
"Boy falls for girl way out of his league, and admires secretly from afar. Boy's best gal pal helps him overcome his fears and shyness, but falls in love with boy in the process. Out of league girl starts to take notice -- but now boy realizes gal pal is a real girl! and maybe he loves her instead! Which girl will he choose?"
Also works with girl falls for boy....
#10re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:03amSports Team A sucks. They get a new player, coach, etc., who teaches them a thing or two and they rise through the ranks until they face Team B which is the reigning champ. They lose to Team B, fall into "we can't do it" syndrome until something happens to rally them to do better. Then Team A faces off against Team B in a climatic final showdown. This time they beat Team B (usually by one goal, point, run, etc.) and the movie ends happily.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
#11re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:06am
I just hate those movies where the lights go down, and then there's a plot, and then the lights come back up again.
They're all the same!
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#12re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:19am
"I'm a brilliant, witty outsider who's going to do something amazing and then get laid." - JUNO!"
Weird! I saw Juno but that wasn't the idea. I thought it was " precocious teenager not ready to be a mother gets pregnant and tries to decide what to do with the baby while proving she's more sensible than the adults in her life"
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#13re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:25am
When the plumber comes over to fix the "pipes" and ends up "fixing" something else.
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#14re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:28am
LOL!
Now we know what doodle watches! 
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#15re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:29amI think the two most overused ideas are #1 - ugly duckling --> beautiful swan, and #2 - your true love has been right in front of you all the time but you don't realize until you are about to marry the wrong person.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#16re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:47am
**Disaster looms, special effects save the day, no plot other than that to speak of.
**Straight men grow old but not up.
**Gay men never have sex.
**Women have sex wearing their bras. ("Say wha'?")
**Unattractive girl is turned into raving beauty. The girl is invariably played by Uma Thurman or some such.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
worrell4077
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#17re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 12:23pm
-Something threatens the world and it's up to a team of scientists to stop it before it's too late.
-Horny teenagers engage in premartial sex and do illegal drugs and then are murdered by some fabled murderer(Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, etc-I can't believe no one mentioned this one).
-Society shuns people who are different but then learns to accept them later on.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#18re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 12:37pm
Slick city dude with questionable morals finds out he has a brother he never knew existed. The brother is very naive, child-like. They travel across country in a car. Along the way, they buy matching outfits. They stop in Vegas. The naive brother has his first physical contact with a woman. He learns to dance.
That's RAINMAN. No - wait - that's TWINS. No- wait - that's both!
#19re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 12:42pmWorkaholic dad--because of some crisis or a free-living interloper--learns to reconnect with his children and wife, if she's still around.
#20re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 1:29pm
(1)Terrorist group takes control of highrise building, train, cruiseship, etc. They are either involved in an elaborate money heist or something to do with smuggled nuclear weapons. Unlikely hero, with little help from anyone else, manages to defeat the entire group of trained extremists, although both outnumered and outmatched, and saves the day.
(2)A family member or close friend of the protagonist is murdered (or something else bad) -- or the protagonist himself is abused in some way. The hero then goes on a vigilante spree to kill the perpetrator (and their cronies) or uses the pain from the experience to fight widespread crime and corruption in their city.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#21re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 1:54pm1) Nine or ten interlocking stories set in a major city (Usually Los Angeles) filled with characters who do awful, awful things: Infidelity, murder, rape, molestation, etc. However, this kind of film is usually done pretty well, barring CRASH.
#22re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:10pmMonster (of mankind's on making) goes on a rampage. A major city gets destroyed.
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#23re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:10pmI just hate it when the main character wakes up speaking a different language, and then halfway through the movie they start to sing, and it switches to B&W clay-mation.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
#24re: Most Over-Used Ideas For Movies?
Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:34pmcollegians on vacation in the wild or strange country, get hunted down and murdered one by one.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
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