June 24, 2004

Movie characters driving in the city will get to park wherever they like when they get to their destination. A compendium of movie cliches. Nuff said.
posted by pyrrthon1 20 years ago
  • Ah, wonderful! Remind me to consult this next time I write a screenplay for things to avoid (or riff on).
  • ah! dangerous time-sucking portal!! thanks!
  • I submitted the "timed police response" twelve years ago to Roger Ebert's book, and he thanked me but never put it in. Basically the police will always arrive in 2 or more cars just as the bad guy is going down.
  • That was fun. My favorite is probably the part about movie characters never watching the #*$@ing road when driving. I'd noticed that before, and it drives me up a wall. Ahem. Fun list.
  • I always used to love how wherever Kojak went, there was *one* spot available...always in the front of the building. Parking spots in Manhattan, that truly is fiction.
  • On the other hand, would you really want to watch him search futilly for most of the program, then have to run all the way back to the scene?
  • "If a main character dies, his sweetheart back home will have nightmare at that exact same moment" So, so true. Hee. These are awesome.
  • This is a fantastic site. Great job pyrrthon1. I love the incredibly long and detailed entries under "Chess." This would tell you just a bit about the author of the piece. If I were responsible for this site, there would be an enormous section on Jarts-related cliches in movies.
  • And, it's always good to keep this in mind, in case you're planning on writing/becoming an Evil Overlord.
  • Fantastic, cs1. Any data file of crucial importance will be padded to 1.45Mb in size. Floppy disks, the bane of any evil overlord's existence.
  • This one drives me nuts: Supposedly brilliant players usually miss one move checkmates ... Also, check out how the game of Go is played in A Beautiful Mind. It's absolute madness.