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 ...

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.

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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This post was updated Sept. 27 at 9:26 p.m. “The Undergraduate” is putting college cliches to the test. Written and directed by Anthony Alyassi, the short thriller follows a college student ...

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 ...

There are some things that, it seems, are stereotypical images constantly used in movies, comic strips, ... 11 Visual Clichés You Never See in Real Life. By Kara Kovalchik | A Christmas tree on ...

Yet from Metropolis, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Westworld to 2001, Blade Runner, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and A.I: Artificial Intelligence, robots have been capable of serving as more ...