Hey, kinda reminds me of a play by that famous guy, errm....

Anyway, we all know it's:

It's the old, old story: Droid meets Droid, Droid becomes Chameleon, Droid loses Chameleon, Chameleon turns into Blob, Droid gets Blob back again, Blob meets Blob, Blob goes off with Blob, and Droid loses Blob, Chameleon, and Droid. How many times have we seen that story?

Kryten.

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Oh, I almost forgot.

What about "Boy being meets girl being under a silvery moon, which then promptly explodes".

Maybe I'm just getting old but Disaster Area's songs are starting to sound the same to me.

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You know what I'm getting sick and tired of seeing? The story where the human cop is out to terminate the rampaging androids, who only want to be left alone to live out a normal lifespan. Well, the cop, rather unwillingly, kills all but one of them and the only one left, of course, is their leader. Well he toys with the human cop, even plunging his head through walls. Then, right at the end of the story he sits down and has a long soliloquy right before he dies.

(Well, maybe I've only seen it once)

How about mediocre movies loosely based on mediocre TV series, or remakes that are worse than the original films? Now that's cliche.

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"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

That does sound vaguely familiar now that you mention it....

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That moon (or even sun) didn't mean a hill of beans to me, I was too near the giant speakers

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So you were within, what, 37 Miles of the speakers?

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Offical Battlestar Galactica Apologist

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What?! speak up son!

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That's worth a thread all by itself.

And already has been, no doubt.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

My favorite disaster movie cliche. The evil contractor/politician/businessmen who downplay the danger from the impending disaster be it a waking volcano, or improperly installed wiring and then while cowardly fleeing the disaster they helped to create are killed in some gruesome manner by it. Dante's Peak and The Towering Inferno come to mind.

Let's see, the "downplaying danger of poor safety precautions" one is pretty real-life. The cowardice is so/so, since many real life high executives leave their employees in the lurch whenever there's financial or legal danger, but might not respond the same way to physical danger. The coincidentally karmic death? Very uncommon.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I was thinking the real life model for this cliche may have been the White Star Line managing director J. Bruce Ismay. He oversees the construction a ship (Titantic) without enough lifeboats, pressures the captain to have it beat the previous transatlantic speed record, and then slinks away in a lifeboat when disaster ensues. He didn't die along with a lot of his passengers and employees that night, but he did eventually lose directorship of the company.

How about mediocre "live-action" movies based on cartoons?

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As a metrologist, I find the convenience of movie quantities very amusing.

Such as

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Well, the first two are indeed just wrong. The remainder can be lumped into either hyperbolie or convient rounding.

Real-Life examples abound. For instance if I said the population of the world was 6.5 Billion I don't think people would think I ment there was literally 6,500,000,000 people on the planet.

Or if I said Star Trek was a hundered times better than Star Wars people would either assume A) I was making a general, non-quantifiable opinion B) I was obviously lacking in taste C) I needed to be beat up or D) I was a troll intent on starting a flame war.

(P.S. the answer is "D" )

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Offical Battlestar Galactica Apologist

Named Time Magazine's 2006 "Person of the Year"

over precise measurement.

Usualy spock will say something like 'In precisely 12.34 seconds'

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How they talked Dennis Hopper into playing King Koopa is beyond human comprehension...but then again, he also did Space Truckers....

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