Thread: Movie Clichés That Get On Your Nerves
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Old 10-March-2008, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by stutefish View Post
No matter how deep the shipyard says a submarine can dive, the captain always insists on going even deeper, just for fun. Later, the submarine will be forced by circumstances to dive even deeper than that. C.f. Das Boot, K-19.
... after having taken damage. The cliché isn't complete without that.

BTW, include Enterprise and Babylon 5 in that cliché. Both have done it.
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