Cliche action scenes from films--a list

[Klaus]

That was a long read.

I gave up after the cat/human hybrid, though.

 

[Dog Moon]

Jeez, how long did it take you type all that?

 

[MaxKaladin]

Psychic warrior nailed it: The ultimate action movie cliche is the hero outrunning a big explosion.

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.

 

[Joker]

Jeez, how long did it take you type all that?

Let's see.

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[KaosDevice]

This is my least favorite take ever in TV/Movies/Literature.
Not really an action thing, just a way over used take.

In a room we have the older cop, knight, etc. and the young protege. Either the elder person has saved the younger person or taught the younger person a valuable lesson. The younger person goes to leave, pauses after some short appreciateve speech, turns to leave then pauses again, turns around and says, "Oh and hey...thanks."

That take gets used over and over and over and over again.

 

[Thanee]

If you are dismantling or disabling a bomb or other explosive device, if you have more than 5 seconds left on the clock and think you have successfully disarmed it, you either a.) sped it up, or b.) made it pause before it begins again. The disarm never works unless you have 1 or 2 seconds left on the timer.

Or 7 (on a 3-digit counter), if your name is James.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

Fighting in inappropriate places is also a rather repetitive theme.

Bye
Thanee

 

[KaosDevice]

Fighting in inappropriate places is also a rather repetitive theme.

Like a pre-school finger painting contest, or a clown convention?

 

[Joker]

How about seeing protagonists getting within two feet of magma, looking unconfortable, but walking away unscathed.

I'm looking at you Dante's Peak and Star Wars: RotS.

 

[trancejeremy]

Or 7 (on a 3-digit counter), if your name is James.

Bye
Thanee

Actually, in the one case that happened, that wasn't quite true...

Spoiler

That happened in Goldfinger. Sean Connery was trying to defuse an atomic bomb in Fort Knox. He fiddles with it, trying to disarm. But then suddenly from behind him, someone else disarms it (a bomb expert) and it stops at 007.

Pretty nice twist, I thought

Though in Octopussy, Roger Moore disarms a nuke at the last second (he takes the trigger mechanism out, actually, it goes off but it's not in the bomb anymore). Which is more cliched. I guess they spent their creative juices on the title of the movie