Disaster Movie Cliches

[d100763]

I was telling my dad about Day After Tomorrow, and we started naming cliches in disaster films: Add one of your own (movies like (Independence Day, Armaggedon, Godzilla, etc...)

For instance:

Unknown scientist discovers natural disaster which will wipe out all life forms in 6 days, 23 hours and 14 minutes...

[kirupa]

Humans engineer dinosaurs, dinosaurs end up causing big problems on an island, in LA, and back on an island :)

[senocular]

A.I. is created to help man but goes wrong and instead is out to destroy it...


Could that A.I. be Kir... :whistle:


:run:

[d100763]

nice...

how about...

Troubled thug / homeless with _____(insert animal) changes heart and saves a person who is about to die or get crused by a _______(insert heavy robust object name).

[lunatic]

Does it have to be a disaster movie?

How about . . .

Person who doesn't like kids gets stuck/trapped with a kid who at first drives them nuts but then has a change of heart and ends up becoming really attached to the kid. Kid gets in trouble at some point where person might lose kid and has to act to save kid. Everyone cries at the end.

:sigh:

[d100763]

I'll allow it....
Hey Lunatic who said

"It's like when I want you, I can't have you, now no one wants you and I can have you, it's funny how it works out sometimes, but now the forbidden fruit must be tasted"
Love that line

[[Legoman]]

A rogue government agent who was sacked for playing by his/her own rules is tracked down(on the tropical island they now live on) because they are the only one who can bail out the world and save the day. with a motorbike.

[fester8542]

Any car accident regardless of how small wil result in an explosion.

The hero always gets a parking space up front

If a good guy's animal dies (implied) during the movie it will be fine and come running out from somewhere at the end.

[d100763]

Evil villain captures hero (any James Bond flick will do) and talk quite extensively about how the hero will suffer long torturous death while the villain makes attempt to world dominance. Insert evil laugh here. Hero escapes with 2 seconds left before death

This was well shown in Austin powers and Last Action Hero

[Kitiara]

There's a pair of English comedians called Steve Punt and HUgh Dennis. Used to have their own show many years ago. One time they did a sketch about chilched movies.

They said that whenever they watched an old movie or something, they played a game called 'Spot the Stiff' where you pointed out who was going to end up dead. Anyone who said "When this war's over I'm going to marry that girl of mine" - dead. Anyone who says "What was that noise? I'll go and check" - dead. :P

It was hilarious. :)

[berkoWitZ]

villain: well, well, well..........who do we have here? :D

and also being the protagonist best friend it´s not a good role, they always die

[d100763]

sounds like the good old famous last words:
"I've done this a million times" = dead
"Don't worry it's not loaded" = dead

[lunatic]

I'll allow it....
Hey Lunatic who said

"It's like when I want you, I can't have you, now no one wants you and I can have you, it's funny how it works out sometimes, but now the forbidden fruit must be tasted"
Love that line

That sounds super familiar . . . but I don't know off the top of my head. A good one for the Movie Quotes thread! :P

As for Spot the Stiff - the guy who wore the red suit in the old Star Trek episodes - always dead!

Reminds me of Galaxy Quest and the guy who for sure thought he was gonna be "the extra" character that gets the gratuitous death scene. :beam:

[d100763]

That sounds super familiar . . . but I don't know off the top of my head. A good one for the Movie Quotes thread! :P

As for Spot the Stiff - the guy who wore the red suit in the old Star Trek episodes - always dead!

Reminds me of Galaxy Quest and the guy who for sure thought he was gonna be "the extra" character that gets the gratuitous death scene. :beam:
Hey Luna, big hint, check your avatar...

Back to cliches...

Government agent (president's advisor, or V.P.) who states this will not work, we'll do it with the military....Military fails, science, good heart and community efforts succeed, hero smiles at our doubting government agent.

(See Vice-President in Day After Tomorrow)....

[kirupa]

Daughter gets kidnapped. Father defeats the entire nation of Columbia/Vietnam/Cambodia single-handedly. Father also happens to be either Stallone, Schwarzenegger, or Norris.

EDIT: Adding Van Damme to the list also (according to EthanM) :)

[DariusMonsef]

I think Van Dam did that a few times too.

P.S. I watched Armaggedon the other night and that movie makes me cry every time...


Daughter gets kidnapped. Father defeats the entire nation of Columbia/Vietnam/Cambodia single-handedly. Father also happens to be either Stallone, Schwarzenegger, or Norris.

[kirupa]

Added him to the list also! It seems like almost any 70's or 80's action hero had a plot similar to that :)

[d100763]

Hmm, the master has spoken

Allright then,

Add washed up bad ***, hot chick possibly single mother, cute kid who has some sort of mental or physical handicap. Mix into plot. Season with evil villains and sub-villains who will get killed in order of rank. Let dry for two hours, and sprinkle with tanks, motorcycles, exposions. Kid gets superdad, hot chick has perfect makeup and hair and our hero comes out the big winner.
PS: No police report / internal affairs investigation is ever filed on shootouts, car crashes, 124 dead guys in broad daylight

[dropkick]

everything d said + a dash of bad acting, bumbling terrorists(always Russian or Eastern European) or drug runners, badly choreographed fight scenes, evil henchmen that couldn't shoot the broad side of a barn from 10 feet away with an uzi, and 90 minutes of cheesy one-liners

(how'd this go from cheesy disaster movies to every steven seagal/van damme movie ever made?)

[d100763]

Good point with a kick-*** footer, back to disaster flicks...

New York city landmarks are blown up, frozen over, burned, sunk, wiped out by tidal wave. Statue of libery shot a must. Too many films to name.

[kirupa]

Tough street guy meets big-time crime boss who later becomes a rich, tough, street guy. Rich, tough, street guy steals boss's girlfriend, kills boss, takes over the boss's business. The rich street guy lets his power get to his head, loses girlfriend, best friend/accomplice ends up killing him.

(usually a few crates of drugs are also involved)

:P

[RabBell]

There's always the hero who is played by a big action star (mentioned before) but there is always someone who won't listen to them or doesn't like them for whatever reason. They usually end up dead as the audience says "Glad he died...I didn't like him"

When someone thinks of a plan there is usually an alternative plan which they deem too dangerous. Then when the safer plan fails leaving them with just one option...the dangerous plan DUH-DUH-DUH-DDUUUUUUUUUUUUUU :)

A great program in Britain for the victim tag is Casualty. It's a drama, kind of like ER except it was on British TV 10 years before ER came around and it shows you some background on the victims before they arrive at the hospital. Before they arrive at the hospital is best cause they're in situations like...
"Why shouldn't I climb this ladder and clean my own gutters?"
"Who needs an electrician, I can do it myself!"
"I know I'm almost 50 but I have to run in that marathon!"
To heavily pregnant wife: "Lets go for a long drive in the country, miles from any phone"

[d100763]

A plague starts in a small remote village in a third world country. American or European tourist is sight-seeing and contracts virus. Arrives home and slowly his small town begins to show the sympthoms. Introduce washed up, out of work, alcoholic scientist. Big cities start showing symptoms. Introduce panic and fear in public. Random character states, he knows of a guy, that was once a great scientist and only he could help humanity now...
Next scene, president personally meets with scientist, who is hesitant. President delivers, "save mankind" speech. Only the potion can save humanity. Potion is hidden in random third world country jungle/ animal. Last second humanity is saved, scientist gets back on track and marries hot chick he met in the jungle...They keep the monkey and live happily ever after...