Not necessarily. Look at the monochrome computer graphics in most sci-fi movies.

Maybe they're all playing Pong in those helmets.

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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

The protagonist almost always defeats the antagonist.







Is that a cliche?

Unless they are planning a sequel. In that case, the antagonist isn't quite defeated.

In cliche movies, we usually find this out in the last few seconds of the film.

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"All natural, huh? So is lightning." - Mike Rowe

Ah, but does it get on your nerves?

Actually, in the old days of the Code, films couldn't have endings wherein Good didn't prevail. (I'd argue that, in Double Indemnity, the protagonist is Fred MacMurray, who assuredly doesn't prevail.) Somehow, sins always had to be punished.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Way more paranormal investigators than in real life, with way fancier tech.

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

"Who ya gonna call?"

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"What you think you thought you saw you did not see." Agent J, MiB - Manhatten Bureau

Every depiction of the age of dinosaurs will feature at least one of the following:
1) T-Rex
2) Triceratops
3) Stegasaurus
4) A sauropod
5) A volcano in the background
And they'll probably show the plant-eaters eating grass, which didn't exist in dinosaur times.

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

And dinosaurs from several different ages and continents all mingled together. (Given that they can't even get the animals of 10,000 BC right I'm not too surprized they can't get the dinosaurs right.)

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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

What, were all filmmakers never kids? Any eight year old can tell you that there wasn't grass in dinosaur times.

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

Obviously the right sort of kids don't grow up to make films....

That's not a cliché. You personally just haven't heard a great enough variety of names.

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If we don't play god, who will?-James Watson
I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.-Albert Einstein
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.-Tom Waits

Then let eight-year-old kids make the movies. (They can hardly do worse, on average).

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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

You're right. ;-)

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

But 8 year olds have no sense of dramatic irony.

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"What you think you thought you saw you did not see." Agent J, MiB - Manhatten Bureau

Here's a cliche that gets on my nerves:

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.

Exactly.

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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

In horror movies series, it's a given that the bad guys will win. At best the good guys will have a temporary victory.

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I say there is an invisible elf in my backyard. How do you prove that I am wrong?

Disclaimer: Avatar is not an official NASA image and does not imply any specific interplanetary or interstellar capability.

The Leif Ericson Cruiser

... 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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