I hate everything found in Stupidly Insulting Movie Physics, everything you've mentioned, and dragony ****ty fantasy movies labelled as "sci-fi"

I don't see the difference between one properly protected data connection and another. Which is to say, if you can protect a robot from being hacked by having it use a very high data rate optical input (eyes) and low data rate output (hands) you should be able to do the same with higher output rate and a more efficient connection. All that extra hardware (the body) is irrelevant.

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The Leif Ericson Cruiser

Are you suggesting the androids could be hacked via what they see with their eyes? An interesting premise, but is it possible? What would you show an android to make them do what you want? Seems on par with showing Joe or Jane Anyone a movie of a murder and expecting them to go out and murder who you tell them to.

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I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.-Albert Einstein
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.-Tom Waits

It tends to be a bit more subtle with humans. Think advertising, appeals to patriotism/religion and that biochemical process called falling in love.

None of those work on me.

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I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.-Albert Einstein
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.-Tom Waits

Has anyone mentioned speeding cars that hit something, flip into the air and explode for no readily apparent reason? When I'm watching a movie where that happens, I always lose interest in what follows while I try and work out why the car was apparently carrying a gallon of nitroglycerine in the back seat...

(Oh, and although it's not technically a cliche - the biggest nerve-grater I have is if a film features Adam Sandler and he survives past the opening credits.)

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From my own list of personal hatreds:
Any film -- err direct to video classic -- with Steven Segal and the rapper of the week.
Any film where the bands on the soundtrack are featured prominently on the poster, and it's not a film about music. (Varsity Blues)

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A Nerd can figure out how long it will take the original Enterprise traveling at warp 6.5 to travel from Regulus to Antares.
A Geek with think he can use that to pick up a girl in a bar.
A Dork knows he can't pick up the girl with it, but will hang around for hours anyway, just in case she asks.
She might. You never know.

I would agree with you on this one, but there might be one important fear factor involved... Blades. The odds of them coming down just the right way to do harm may be small, but the thought could be scary anyway.

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Best example of this (used for humerous effect): The Blues Brothers

"Use of deadly force in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers... has been approved"

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Offical Battlestar Galactica Apologist

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A couple more...

Gunshots not affecting the ears of those who are near the gun (they're VERY loud in reality)

Doors flying open with a kick

My back door does that!

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'The eye can only see what the mind is prepared to accept'

Not sure why this is a cliche.

So does mine!

I've seen some that don't, though. They are locked doors.

Another cliche is crockery that breaks when it falls onto a hard surface.

And that one's so ingrained now, that it's even shown happening to things that are made of some non-brittle substance, instead of glass or ceramics... like in The Return of the King when Aragorn's necklace with the metal thing hanging on the front of it falls to the floor, and the metal shatters into many tiny pieces!

Well... that was symbolic of Arwen choosing to follow her human heritage over her elven heritage. She was now mortal, and if Sauron rose to dominate Middle-Earth she would have no refuge in the West. That realization helps to drive Aragorn to walk the Paths of the Dead.

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The alcoholic drink thrown in the face, which somehow avoids harming the eyes.

The puch in the jaw that doesn't hurt the hand.

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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

. . . or the jaw.

"Well they tell you: never hit a man with a closed fist. But it is, on occasion, hilarious."- Captain Malcom Reynolds, Firefly

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Offical Battlestar Galactica Apologist

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

Car chases are cliche enough. Car chases that don't end up with one of the cars hitting a fruit stand are pretty rare.

The martial artist who performs a standing back flip during a high kick.

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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