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Boy meets girl, boy looses girl, boy gets girl back, they live happily ever after.
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Agreed. 10x over. Anymore, when I see the first minutes of a movie, I can tell you the rest of the plot. Who's good, who's bad, who will die in the intervening scenes, precisely what we're supposed to think about each character. It's mind-numbingly boring.
How about the following few: The guy who owns a business, especially if it's industrial in nature, is always a ruthless type-A psychopath.
"More evolved". "More highly evolved." "The next stage of evolution". I don't know how many times I keep hearing this gaggy peice of pseudo-science cliche. Especially with all the near-uniformly assumed characteristics of this imaginary state. ESP, telekinesis, obnoxious PC attitudes, arrogant judgementalism towards the rest of mankind for percieved "failings", ect.
Similar portrayals of alien contact - they're either evil cardboard invaders, or they're supposedly benevolent demigods who are nevertheless given implied permission to destroy mankind for it's percieved "failings" (a violent nature, ironically, being among them), or at least issue absurd judgements from on high.