Cliche action scenes from films--a list

[sniffles]

How about the number of action movies that have included characters escaping from plummeting elevators - or monsters/villains in elevators - by climbing out through the hatch in the top of the elevator car?

In real life elevators are very unlikely to plummet down the shaft unless something really horrible has happened to the entire building, and most elevators don't have "escape hatches" because you're safer inside the elevator than you would be in the shaft (unless you're trapped in the elevator with the monster/mad slasher, in which case you're screwed).

 

[TanisFrey]

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 DV was willing to kill him.

 

[MaxKaladin]

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".

Groan!

 

[Hypersmurf]

I was watching Commando the other day *ducks* and was remineded of another big cliche.

Hero kills bad guy, hero walks away making a tounge-in-cheek remark describing bad guys death. Example, in commando arnold drops bad guy off cliff, when asked what happened he responds "I let him go."

He really comes into his own in The Running Man, though.

"What happened to Buzzsaw?"
"He had to split."

On Fireball:
"What a hothead."

To Sub-Zero:
"Chill out!"

Then there's "Let off some steam, Bennett!" from Commando, and "You're fired!" from True Lies...

-Hyp.

 

[ConnorSB]

Well there's always the classic "rediculous but creepy villian throwaway line that simultaniously fills a plot hole and creeps you out" - e.g. Hannibal Lecter: "What happened to the guard?" "I ate him."

 

[Hijinks]

Also the villain always has to spill the beans on his/her nefarious plot to the hero, when the hero is tied up/chained up/in a cage/etc, because the villain is very sure that the hero will never, ever escape, and so it's ok to tell him/her how they screwed it up for everybody.

(Then, of course, the hero escapes and now we have the villain's confession!)

Sometimes the hero manages to have witnesses to the villain's confession, which is always helpful.

 

[sniffles]

Continuing my observation about falling elevators: the other day I saw the tail-end of a movie, 'The Hollow Man', I think, in which two characters were escaping from some underground structure by climbing up a ladder in the elevator shaft!! And at one point a huge fireball shot up the shaft as something below exploded - but the two characters managed to conveniently be just high enough that the flames didn't reach them. They also managed to dodge out of the way when the elevator car went plunging past them.