"List of most irritating action movie cliches"

[Eric T. Jones]

I thought for Kevin in particular this would be of some amusement; this list was actually an iMDb poll which users could vote in (hence the bottom three choices), for what they thought was the most irritating action cliche:

-Villains who are lousy shots
-Females always being the ones taken hostage
-Average Joe easily accesses to government files with a laptop
-Putting the hero in a slow-working death trap from which they eventually escape
-Finding a time bomb and deciding which wire to cut
-Third-person shooter scenarios (someone off-screen fires the fatal bullet)
-Long expository speech from the villain
-Bad guys coming back to life inexplicably
-A trusted government official ends up being a traitor to the hero
-The hero easily getts into restricted areas despite barriers, security codes, IDs, etc.
-The hero gets beaten to a pulp but barely shows any pain and can instantly heal themself with a few bandages
-The hero slides under a fast-closing sliding door before it hits the ground
-Out-of-bullets scenarios
-The hero falling back in love with their ex-wife/girlfriend after rescuing them from the villain
-The car never starting when the hero is being chased by villains while trying to escape
-Other
-All of these
-I have no opinion here.

[kenny]

Good Violators:

Die Hard 4 (Out of Bullets)
Children of Men (Car not starting in chase scene)

[Skywalker]

a LOT of action movies can be boiled down to these cliches

[Eric T. Jones]

Yup, and it's asking which *one* irritates you most.

For me, it's easily the "cutting the right wire" one.

[Skywalker]

"Females being taken hostage"

[kenny]

-Bad guys coming back to life inexplicably (Ironically this cliche is used in one of my favorite arcade games frequently, which is where it's MUCH more annoying (Wild Dog from Time Crisis, why won't you just DIEEEEEE???))