Five clichés to deep-6 Five visual clichés I would like not to see again in movies for at least the next five years: 1. Fireworks: The all-purpose go-to effect to pump up the visuals in a dram ...

In the era of IP dominance at the box office, “formulaic” has become an oft-used term in movie discourse and criticism. Franchises, such as the MCU, are particularly lambasted for their recycling of ...

For the most part, "Miracle" avoids the slow-motion grandeur and all the other the manipulative visual and aural cliches that have become so tiresomely familiar in the sports-movie genre.

11 Movie Cliches You Couldn't Live Without. Cool guys don't look at explosions. by Jack Pooley. Mar 17, 2021 Updated: March 17th, 2021. Fox.

Designed to highlight minor pieces of visual detail during action sequences, there's a time and place for slow motion. However, featuring it heavily can come across as a played-out technique as of ...

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[larger photo montage available at Christophe Courtois] Building a face out of other objects. Someone just got photomosaic software, and now none of us get to know what the movie is actually about.

Let’s examine some of the more scintillating lines of dialogue from Simon Cellan Jones’ sports movie “Arthur the King” in the order they occur. Repetitive verbal cliches like these are ...

What movie cliches annoy you most? It drives me crazy when a movie villain looks at the camera and cracks his neck. What clichés bug you? — Ray Dangelo I’m a longtime hater of the girlish lip ...

But over 11 seasons and three direct-to-video movies, the show infiltrated the culture, and for risk-averse Hollywood, it's usually a safe bet to cash in on existing properties.

10 Cliches of the Body Swap Movie. This list was originally posted to Spout Blog on April 15, 2009. It has been republished in anticipation of the latest body swap comedy, “The Change-Up ...