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Let us count the cliches ... one, two, three ...

posted 15 years ago by Xapora
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Apart from the fact that this was a terrible movie, I was also horrified by the number of cliches this movie featured ... let me know if I've left anything out:

* Lead is a beautiful, yet tortured woman
* Sister is blonde, dumb and irritating .. and winds up dead
* Creepy children singing creepy nursery rhymes
* Creepy dolls/toys
* A scary door that something sinister lies behind and against their better judgement, the character just HAS to investigate/explore
* A strange "caretaker" who may or may not be a raging psychopath
* Animals getting spooked (horses)
* Big ol' creepy house with no neighbours in a 20 mile radius
* Weapons of convenience - poker, shard of busted mirror etc.

That's all I can think of at the moment. My head hurts when I think about this movie ...

Hell is other people - Sartre

[–] EmmanKiddo 15 years ago

You definitely didnt get this movie huh?

WHATS IN FU CKING INSIDE ME!!!!!

[–] Xapora 15 years ago

Oh no, I got it. It was still crap though.

Hell is other people - Sartre

[–] EmmanKiddo 15 years ago

Well, with the blonde "cliche" and the caretaker "cliche" just with that u told me that u didnt get this. ohh and BTW those are no cliches ! Do u know what that means??

WHATS IN FU CKING INSIDE ME!!!!!

[–] ljriffel 15 years ago

How about the boyfriend who comes out of his high-rise office, walks up to his immaculate Jaguar (convertible top is open of course) that is parked on the street (in a red zone no less) and proceeds to drive off into clear streets devoid of traffic. Four cliches in one 15 second scene: people in movies never have to a) look for a parking spot b) open their convertible tops c) wash their cars and d) deal with traffic.

[–] EmmanKiddo 15 years ago

WHATS IN FU CKING INSIDE ME!!!!!

[–] Xapora 15 years ago

Do you really want me to write you an essay. I got the movie - I know it had hidden meanings and all was not as it seemed blah blah blah, it was a bad movie though - I don't care how deep the metaphor was.

She had a traumatic experience as a child, she had suppressed the memories, they resurfaced and she had a tough time dealing with it.

Characters we thought were "real" were imagined etc.

Now do u believe that I "got" the movie??? I just thought it was badly acted, produced and so on. I'm entitled to my opinion, so are you. Let's leave it at that.

Hell is other people - Sartre

[–] dpetty01 13 years ago

More cliches:

* The dopey policeman who wanted to "have a look around". He was literally a slack-jawed yokel. His mouth was hanging open for goodness sakes.

* Scary music, intense crescendo...nothing. Over and Over again.

* Young, beautiful woman who is way too advanced in her career for her age.

* Protagonist clearly in need of psychiatric help but people who supposedly love her don't even think to help her.

* White girls tripping and falling when they're supposed to be running away.

* Speaking of which, AWAY, out of the house, AWAY. Not run up and down the hallway, run AWAY.