The Cliché: A true badass doesn't blanche in the face of an explosion. He doesn't even bother looking at them. Instead, he simply strolls away, letting the heat of the blaze gently singe his neck hair as he stares into the middle distance. Flinching? Flinching's for pussies…
Examples: Tom Jane has this down pat in The Punisher, sending two different mobsters sky high on two separate occasions, not bothering to look around at either of them. Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek look impossibly cool in Desperado, having tossed a couple of grenades through a book store window. In fact, Banderas loves an unflinching stroll, nonchanently leading a group of refugees away from a collapsing mine in The Mask Of Zorro.
The T-1000 takes it to the next level in Terminator 2, strolling out of the middle of an explosion as though it were the most natural thing in the world. That thing eats clichés for breakfast...
If It Was Real Life: It's up to Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg to flag up the absurdity of this cliché in The Other Guys, when an explosion sends them flying to the tarmac. "How do they walk away in movies without flinching when it explodes behind them?" says Ferrell. "There's no way! The movie industry is completely irresponsible for the way they portray explosions!"
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ASmileSoDevious
Apr 18th 2012, 7:34
Passenger 52? Is this a prequel to Passenger 57? lol :P
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Hadouken76
Apr 18th 2012, 11:03
A villain will never shoot the unarmed hero immediately, even when the hero is at his mercy, but instead choose to start blathering on... Lucius summed in this up perfectly in the 'The Incredibles' : "Yammering! I mean, the guy has me on a platter and he won't shut up! " See : Cohagen in Total Recall; "Blow this thing and be back in time for cornflakes" and every Bond villain.
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2Dglasses
Apr 18th 2012, 11:11
Obvious really, but another one is the 'usually office bound by the book j*****s boss', who hinders as much as he helps. Usually in cop movies -Lorenzo in die hard, the boss from lethal weapon..or just some weaselly politician who threatens to pull the plug on the whole thing or is universally hostile while being on the 'good' side.
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2Dglasses
Apr 18th 2012, 11:14
"yippie kay ay motherf.......r" is printed, but "jack ss" gets asterisked. This is just bizarre. Its not even a swearword. What if i wanted to talk about breeds of penguin?
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writerdave87
Apr 18th 2012, 13:09
To be fair, 'We were Soldiers' the guy that gets killed with the new baby was a real life person :p Ice Cube's speech in 21 Jump Street deconstructing the 'angry black police captain' stereotype is priceless.
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Heisenberg
Apr 18th 2012, 14:56
A Cliche i've noticed, although not only in movies, but TV shows aswell, is that if someone falls down a set of stairs, they are immediately unconscious. No matter how they fall or land, unconscious.
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2Dglasses
Apr 19th 2012, 9:06
if the brakes are cut-it only becomes apparent at the worst possible moment. Also no one ever shifts down a gear to use engine braking, the car just picks up even more speed.
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FBFPerondi
Apr 19th 2012, 15:04
Hey! "Cool guys don't look at explosions, they walk away in slow motion..."
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MrScary
Apr 19th 2012, 18:30
Similar to the Double Tap, but more of a genre cliche; how about the Killer in every horror movie jumping back up for one more scare?
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