Cliche action scenes from films--a list

[trancejeremy]

Bad Guy Credentials Demo
In any movie where the villain is a really, really bad guy, whose dysfunction and malice transcend that of the ordinary evildoer, he establishes that fact early in the film by coldly killing one of his own men. (See Darth Vader, many Bond villains, Russian Mafia leader in "The Jackal," etc.)

Darth Vader only killed one his own people in the 2nd movie in the trilogy, after he screwed up.

In the first movie (ep 4, anyway) he just chokes someone, and that was for mocking the Force. But he didn't kill him.

 

[mojo1701]

Darth Vader only killed one his own people in the 2nd movie in the trilogy, after he screwed up.

In the first movie (ep 4, anyway) he just chokes someone, and that was for mocking the Force. But he didn't kill him.

But he wasn't the extremely bad-ass character we all know and (I guess) love until The Empire Strikes Back.

 

[Dog Moon]

Originally posted by Joker
Let's see.

-Select All
-Copy
-Paste
-Submit Reply

Ah, so you cheated and let someone else do the work for ya. Gotcha.

 

[Dog Moon]

Originally posted by Thanee
Fighting in inappropriate places is also a rather repetitive theme.

Oh yes, the 10 minute fight scenes where they fight on a precariously balanced beam over a flow of lava, for example, and then fighting on chunks of metal partially sunk into the lava. Sometimes it looks cool, but most often it just looks crappy.

 

[Storm Raven]

Darth Vader only killed one his own people in the 2nd movie in the trilogy, after he screwed up.

Two, actually. Admiral Ozzel, and Captain Needa.

 

[griff_goodbeard]

Two, actually. Admiral Ozzel, and Captain Needa.

He killed several X-wing pilots too.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Window dive - Hero dives out a window, crashing threw the glass, performs a roll and comes up with not a cut. Much the same with pavement dive.

 

[Storm Raven]

He killed several X-wing pilots too.

Except they weren't "his own men", so they don't count for this cliche.

 

[Thanee]

Window dive - Hero dives out a window, crashing threw the glass, performs a roll and comes up with not a cut. Much the same with pavement dive.

Oh, that reminds me of the common 'car jump' scene, where the car can still drive after crashing 'head first' (lacking the proper term) into the asphalt.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I'm sure I've said this somewhere before, but if I ever end up making a movie, I'm going to include a scene where the hero is doing this, trips over his shoelace and stops to tie it while the explosion pauses to wait and then resumes when he starts running again.

Reminds me of the movie "Der Wixxer" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313021/), a satiric/nonsense humour version of the old Edgar Wallace Movie.
The main hero lost his partner, and he describes the scene while we can see it - a typical slow-motion scene, where he runs toward the house where is partner is, screaming and shouting as he realizes what will happen - and then the house explodes. He then says: "If I hadn´t suddenly run in slow-motion, I might have been able to save him".