Hollywood Movie Cliches

BINOCULARS & GLASSES
- A villain will always commit murder right in front of the window when someone with binoculars is watching

BOMBS
- Evil geniuses who devise bombs to destroy things/people always have them detonate after at least an hour,
giving the hero ample time to defuse it

- When you cut the wire to the detonator, the timer will stop. You will not be able to do this, however, until
only one second remains.

- All wires have different colors, so the hero can easily differentiate them when he has to cut the right one

CARS & DRIVING
- There are always people carrying around large sheets of glass on the street during a car chase

- A car that crashes will always explode in a ball of flames, but not until the hero can pull the important
passengers to safety

DINING
- The hero and heroine in love always get a great table in a restaurant, even in New York City at lunch
on Saturday

ELEVATORS
- Movie elevators are always ready at that floor. But if the hero/heroine is being chased, elevator won't come.

HEROES
- The hero always misses the villan leaving the scene by seconds

- Heroes can go without food or sleep, with no measurable drop in physical or mental faculties, for at
least 72 hours.

- When a hero gets a bloody nose, he'll stop bleeding almost immediately

HOUSES
- Any apartment in Paris will have a view of the Eiffel Tower

SPORTS
- In any type of sport movie, a player on the field can look up into a crowd of 1 billion and immediately spot
their loved one.

TIME
- Movie timing is always exact. If a phone trace will take two minutes, for example, you can be sure that that
means 120 seconds, not a fraction more or less. Same for bombs, amount of time to get to a destination, etc

- Corollary to the above: all characters in a movie have their watches perfectly synchronized

VILLAINS
- The bad guy is the foreigner.

- Whenever a villain has captured the hero, he will pause for 5 minutes to tell the hero every detail of his
plan to destroy and/or rule the earth, including times, dates, and addresses

WOMEN
- Women always fight other movie women by pulling hair, falling to ground together, rolling over twice

- Women also scream or make some other noise at the precise moment the villain is close enough to hear