worn out movie gags

[Pbartender]

Or just take bomb-making advice from the Evil Overlord List.

Oddly enough, except for general advice about equipment and superweapons, the Evil Overlord list has nothing to say on the matter of bomb building.

 

[ssampier]

My favorite is how during any car crash, no matter how severe, it explodes and/or starts on fire.

The Simpsons have parodied that idiom on several episodes.

On the USA show "Monk" they frequently have to resort to deus ex machina on the show. When captured by the bad-guy, it'd be easier for the bbeg to shoot Monk and his friends than tie them up.

This happens, of course, in the James Bond films, as well.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

"Cut the blue wire!"

So what, is there a specific color coding scheme for wiring in the bmb-maker's handbook?

It seems to me that if I didn't want the good guys to disarm my bomb, I'd make all the wires blue... And then add in a couple dozen dummy wires (also blue) in a big messy bundle.

Which leads me to another bugger...

Disarming the time bomb with only single digit seconds left on the timer. My time bombs would be set to go off at something like 5 minutes 42 seconds.

"Six minutes... Good, we've got plenty of ti-" KA-BOOM!

Oddly enough, except for general advice about equipment and superweapons, the Evil Overlord list has nothing to say on the matter of bomb building.

Now, to be fair...

"15. I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation."

And from his cell block A:

"136. If I build a bomb, I will simply remember which wire to cut if it has to be deactivated and make every wire red."

He basically covered what you said.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Whenever time is sped up or slowed down to make a scene "more awesome".

 

[Pbartender]

"136. If I build a bomb, I will simply remember which wire to cut if it has to be deactivated and make every wire red."

He cut that one out for the official list of 100.

I did miss the countdown one, though. Fair enough.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Whenever time is sped up or slowed down to make a scene "more awesome".

Seconded!!!

The bad guys drop three hundred thousand rounds of ammunition downrange toward the hero, who then pulls out a 9mm autoloader with 14 in the clip and wastes an army of 30 bad guys... without re-loading and without ever missing. (was really bad in the days of the western 6-shooters with infinite ammo). I believe UHF and Hot Shots! Part Deux) both sent this up rather nicely.

Also the childhood friend who accidentally "died" only to later come back as the hero's enemy for by miraculously escaping somehow yet pissed off that his "friend" left him to die, regardless that he attended the funeral, wept and carried the burden all these years while that wanker watched him suffer from the shadows. Frankly I would have been happy to cheat death and had my friend throw me a party for surviving.

 

[Aeson]

Will Ferrell.

Yes, everything about that untalented hack is an overdone cliche. His bit is more captain obvious than clever.

How about Jack Black playing a thinly vailed character based on Jack Black.

I love you guys.


The Wilhelm scream. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

 

[Pbartender]

Will Ferrell.

Yes, everything about that untalented hack is an overdone cliche. His bit is more captain obvious than clever.

Ooh... In fact, within the last 20 years, easily 9 out of 10 SNL alums who try to make movies fall into that category.

 

[Frost]

How about when a hero (or his sidekick) is shot, but saved by some object under his coat. It's usually a whiskey flask for extra comic relief ('cause drinkin' is funny), but might also be a Bible, a medallion of some sort, a badge, etc.

A close cousin to this is the "bullet-proof vest surprise" (this might be for the hero or the villian, though). The character is shot, the audience is supposed to gasp in horror (or in the case of the villian being shot, relief), only to have the character survive due to him wearing a bullet proof vest, even though said vest was never mentioned or shown anywhere else in the film.

 

[Evilhalfling]

I was watching serenity again and really enjoyed the following:
Villain: "We need to talk this out - I am unarmed "
Mal: "good." *BANG* shoots villain, and makes a run for it.
Villain catching up "I am of course wearing full body armor, I'm not an idiot"
Villain then beats up hero, clearly outclassing him.

I mean sure "full body armor" does not include a helmet, but other than that it was just lovely.