Me and my friends were watching this movie a while back, when one of my friends called it "The Movie of 1,000 Cliches", because of the numerous about of predicatable parts in the movie.
For Example:
1. The two guys walking with a plate of glass in the middle of the street during the first car chase.
Thats just one of a huge list of cliches, and i was wondering if anybody notcied any others.
You call 1000 cliches then name only 2??! Wtf. Dude, name atleast 500 then I'll believe you. I know you're exxagerating to overstate your assumption hoewever it's just too much. This movie rocked, it was awesome and didn't have many cliches. When I saw the window scene I thought the same thing you did, cliche, but damn did this movie go on to prove me wrong. I saw it when I was a kid and it was a real joy seeing it again now that I'm 25.
shareWell things can use cliches but be good. Like this. BUT its more fresh than the OP makes out, to be sure. It was awesome and pretty fun
shareA cliché or cliche (UK /ˈkliːʃeɪ/ or US /klɪˈʃeɪ/) is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning, or effect, and even, to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.
This movie doesn't really have much for cliché's in it at all, it's pretty damn original for it's kind and of it's time. The few things that're listed in this thread weren't clichés at the time, and in which case that's like saying a movie like Raiders of The Lost Ark is clichéd because it's about a guy who hunts for treasure, and there's chases and booby traps in it, or The Big Sleep because it opens with a woman walking into a detective office who wears a trench coat. A film like Friday the 13th part 4, there's a movie that's one of 1000 cliché's, fun movie, but totally cliché ridden. Lethal Weapon 4, yeah kinda. Rush Hour? Absolutely. The Hidden...? You're kinda off here.
Nope, this superb movie makes fun of cliches. It uses them and goes over the top with a lot of them. Scenes start licke a cliche and end up opposite to what one expects, like the guy in the wheelchair killed in the first minutes. In every other movie he´d survive.
Jack Sholder must have seen as many wonderful B-movies as Quentin Tarantino and uses his massive knowledge of B´s to best effect.
I´ve seen this movie when it came out, some 10 years later and again today and although I remembered how great it is, today I´d call it nothing short of a masterpiece, absolutely amazing. Superb dialogue, perfect action-scenes, great performances and a wicked cynical humor. You gotta watch a lot of movies to find another one as great as this! Such movies come 2, 3 per decade!
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So the movie has a THOUSAND clichés, but . .only TWO can be listed? Shouldn't it be easy to list all thousand, if they exist? Also, isn't it amazing that the movie has such a round number of cliches - not 997 or 1004, but exactly thousand?
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