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THE GENERAL REGISTRY OF CLICHE LINES

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C'mon now folks, you've heard them in a thousand flicks, they are the true hallmarks of trashy writing....

Vent your spleen and post up those lousy lines.

Here's a couple or so to start the ball rolling...

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"We've got company"

"But, James, it's too dangerous"

"You must understand that this is really important to our operation"

Villain - "No, no, this could be of help to us, allow us to show the true power of our machine/bomb/deathray"
 
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Not sure this classifies as cliches, but these lines get muttered in every single episode of Star Trek in some fashion:

"The dilithium chamber is unstable!"
"Re-routing auxiliary power to the deflector!"
"Shields at [percentage] and falling."
"I can't get a lock on him, there's too much interference!"

As for general repeated lines in virtually every movie...

"You're gonna get us killed!"
"I'm concerned about him/her, s/he's acting strange lately."

I know there's more but they have probably already been said in this thread!
 
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What about some meaningful actions, situations or set-ups, not dialogue lines? Aren't they cliche?
For example:

1) - The protagonist reloads his gun, throws away his cigarette and goes to kick some asses with a serious face

2) - The mothers of tough protagonists are always strong women who have "raised a warrior"

3) - In horror movies, the one who doesn't take the danger seriously, always dies first

4) - In investigation genre movies, the real murderer is the most harmless person

5) - If the protagonist is a cop, or a soldier, he's professional at driving a car, bus, train, truck, motorcycle, and even flying a plane or a helicopter
 
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For "Seaview" fans; "Kowalski, shoot a charge through the hull!"
or "Damage control! Report!"

And for the real oldsters, Captain Video would routinely threaten to "throw out the interlocks" when the "Galaxy" was about to crash. Fortunately it never needed to be done, so I don't know what an interlock looks like.

Oh and on the old George Reeves' "Superman" show, almost every week a bad guy would start shooting at Superman, and Sup would just start walking towards the baddie.
The bad guy would keep shooting and Superman didn't flinch, he just kept walking.
Then the bad guy would run out of bullets and throw the pistol, and Superman would duck.
 
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mlesemann said:
If a person in a horror movie says "I'll be right back," you know they're the next one to be killed.
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Actually...

I don’t think this is a thing anymore. In fact, if you look for it, you’ll probably find that the character who says “I’ll be right back” does come back and gets killed later. Ever since “Scream” made the point of bringing this up, everybody knew to look for it, so filmmakers seemed to start doing the opposite, to subvert the cliché. Whether that was done on purpose or not, I don’t know. That in itself could be seen as a cliché now though.

It’s like the ‘mirror gag’, where somebody opens the bathroom cabinet and when they close it, the killer’s appeared in the mirror behind them. Nowadays, you know full well that when that character closes the door, the killer won’t be there. That’s a cliché now too.
 
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Inarius said:
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3) - In horror movies, the one who doesn't take the danger seriously, always dies first
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Which isn't cliché, but logic. If you are careless, you'll get killed easier.


Inarius said:
5) - If the protagonist is a cop, or a soldier, he's professional at driving a car, bus, train, truck, motorcycle, and even flying a plane or a helicopter
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Flying a plane or helicopter is something very different you can't just do with training/help.
But being able to drive a car, motor cycle and truck isn't that special. (I know 'regular people who can do that. And I know it's not weird for soldiers to learn to drive trucks... it's one of the main transport vehicles)
And a train usually needs to be stopped: believe me the controls of train will make enough sense to use the brake :P



Anyway, everytime some says 'I'll be back' I feel an urge to move a way from exterior walls, just in case that personreturns crashing right through that wall ;)
 
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* We've got company!
* We've gotta get outta here!
* Follow that car!
* I'd like that.
* And that's an order!
* I'm going to ... if it's the last thing I do!
* This time it's personal!
* Enhance it. Zoom in. Verify.
* Mwahahahaha! (Evil laughter.)
* I gotta get me one-a those!
* Hold on! Don't let go!
* Can't we all just get along?
* If I told you that, I'd have to kill you.
* You just don't get it, do you.
* You'll never get away with this!
* You've done enough already!
* Let me get this straight...
* I'm going to blow this case wide open!
* Is that a threat? No, it's a promise.
* You're off the case!
* You'll pay for this!
* I'm gettin' too old for this shit.
* Don't you die on me!
* Listen! No, YOU listen!
* Try to get some sleep.
* This ends now!
* Don't touch that button!
* Over and out.
* How dare you?
* We're all going to die!
* If I'm not back in __minutes, call the police.
 
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1. Try me

2. This is your destiny.

3. Donde esta [insert english word] por favor?

4. I was born ready.

5. Are you sitting down?

6. – Is that all you got? – I’m just getting started.

7. Cover me. I’m going in.

8. No, no, no, no, NO! I’m not going. [Cut to them going.]

9. No. Come in. ____ was just leaving.

10. We’ve got to stop meeting like this.

11. (Greeting) Well, if it isn’t ____.

12. I’m just doing my job.

13. – You’ll never get away with this! – Watch me.

14. Now . . . where were we?

15. How hard can it be?

16. You go girl!

17. What part of _____ don’t you understand?

18. Don’t even go there.

19. Is this some kind of sick joke?

20. Oh haha, very funny.

21. Did I just say that out loud?

22. It’s just a scratch.

23. – How is he? – He’ll live.

24. . . . and there’s nothing you or anyone else can do to stop me!

25. You say that like it’s a bad thing.

26. Note to self . . .

27. What seems to be the problem, Officer?

28. What’s the worst that could happen?/ What have we got to lose?

29. I have a bad feeling about this.

30. Don’t you think I know that!

31. Whatever you do, don’t look down.

32. We’ve got company.

33. Oh that’s not good.

34. Awkward!

35. What just happened?

36. We’ll never make it in time!

37. – Stay here. – No way, I’m coming with you.

38. Okay, here’s what we do . . . [and cut to a different scene]

39. Try to get some sleep.

40. Hi, sis.

41. Wait! I can explain! This isn’t what it looks like.

42. That’s it! You’re off the case!

43. In English, please.

44. – What are you doing here? – I was about to ask you the same thing.

45. This just getts better and better.

46. Shut up and kiss me.

47. Not on my watch!

48. You just don’t get it, do you?

49. It’s called ____, you should try it sometime.

50. That went well!
 
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“All my life…”
“Talk to me.”
“Let’s do this! / do this thing!”
“You still don’t know, do you?”
“bring it”, or “bring it on”, or “you got served son.”
“Are we having fun yet???”
“He was a good cop.”
“Can we just talk?”
“I want your badge and your gun on my desk.”
"Please do!"
“But __[dancing/singing/writing/breakin’] is my dream!”
"– Then you should follow it.*
Holding an awesome gadget/drives an awesome car/tested an alien technology "I’ve got to get me one of these"
“Put the gun down” / “give me the gun”
“I’ve taken a human sample and compared it to…”
(After scientific explanation) “In English?”
“Hey Lieutenant/detective/sarge/agent… you’ve gotta come take a look at this”
” I could ask you the same question.”
“That’s what I’m talkin’ about!”
“I’ll hate myself in the morning.” “So sleep till noon.”
“I think I’m in lust.”
“Well, look what the [cat/sabertooth/face-hugger] just dragged in.”
“You just had to ask, didn’t you?”
“Not so fast!”
“This won’t end well.”
“There’s more where that came from.”
"Do hear yourself?"
"We have to talk."
"What are you doing here?"
“I canNOT believe I just said/did that!”
“If you wanted to kill me, you’d have done so already.”
“Is this seat taken?”
“Do you have what it takes?”
‘If I could turn back time.”
“I didn’t sign up for this shit!”
“I don’t think you understand the gravity of the situation.”
"What took you so long?"
"Who da man?"
"Who’s your daddy?"
"Go on without me!"
“Your father was a good man…”
“This is something I have to do on my own.”
“Its a long story…”
"This wasn’t part of the plan."
 
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