When did light bulbs start going "phoom" whenever they turn on or off? See the countdown clock in Armageddon, or the signal helicopter in Independence Day.

You will NEVER see a homosexual romance subplot in any movie. Period. This is starting to annoy me as a straight guy, so I can only guess how much this offends people who are homosexual. Just once I want to see hot male hero spurn the advances of hot female rescuee with the line, "Sorry, I already have a boyfriend." I would actually cheer.

I've already complained that whenever a hero is localised (Spiderman in New York, Dr Who in Cardiff and London, Godzilla in Japan), bad guys only ever appear in that area. I suppose in many comic universes there are different heroes in various places, but still...

Hear hear for novaderrik's suggestion that the hero should get hit by a bus. Or how about a disaster movie where the disaster is a surprise. The movie is trailed as a pure drama/romance, and the audience is truly shocked when a meteorite flattens half the town. We then see the characters trying to sort out who is still alive, coming to terms with their losses, making peace with their enemies as they all muck in to look for survivors, or whatever. But because we have spent the whole first half getting involved with the characters and their lives, instead of just waiting for the special effects to arrive, we actually care about what happens to them.