The narrator sounds just like the angry video game nerd. Is it the same guy?

>> ^ForgedReality:
The narrator sounds just like the angry video game nerd. Is it the same guy?


Yes.

the last one was full of win

I fucking love AVGN. Hilarious shit that revels in being juvenile and idiotic, and surprisingly good game journalism to boot. And any time you can establish yourself as "The" anything or stake a claim to an acronym (everyone in the know knows what AVGN is these days), you have arrived.

I would add #11: "The misunderstanding". Over-used in television more than movies, this happens when one character and the audience knows a certain fact, but another character in the scene doesn't, and has a misunderstanding that is often milked for WAY too long as you're sitting there thinking "WHY DOESN'T CHARACTER 'A' TELL CHARACTER 'B' WHAT THE REAL INFO IS, AND CLEAR THIS SHIT UP, DEAR CHRIST."

As for the "trip", "car won't start", "false alarm", those are just simple ways to increase tension in the audience, which then intensifies the experience. I will grant that they get old, though. There are plenty of ways to intensify the experience and raise tension. Those are just the sure-fire formulas.

I like the 360 shot.

Yeah, the 360 shot? If you're watching a movie and you suddenly become upset due to a 360 shot, I'm thinking maybe you just don't like movies.
Not really the 10 worst cliches, more like 10 random ones (like most top 10 lists).

Are 360 shots and fade to black transitions really clichés? Some of these are really nit-picky. You might as well bitch about the panned shot, the close up or any other commonly used technique.

>> ^nach0s:
I would add #11: "The misunderstanding". Over-used in television more than movies, this happens when one character and the audience knows a certain fact, but another character in the scene doesn't, and has a misunderstanding that is often milked for WAY too long as you're sitting there thinking "WHY DOESN'T CHARACTER 'A' TELL CHARACTER 'B' WHAT THE REAL INFO IS, AND CLEAR THIS SHIT UP, DEAR CHRIST."

Actually, one of my favorite lines from Friends was "Oh, I think this is the episode of Three's Company where there's some kind of misunderstanding." Until they said that, I never realized that EVERY episode of Three's Company had essentially the same plot. One could argue shows like CSI have the same plot, but it isn't the exact same people doing the crimes.

Secret Talk is merely the film version of the dramatic aside, where a character steps to the side of the stage and talks directly to the audience. Usually this is an internal monologue, but there are a few places where two characters should be audible, given the circumstances, but it is assumed that they are not.

Far more egregious, IMO, is unnecessary tension created when a secret talk occurs that the audience isn't in on, especially when there are other secret talks that include the audience.

As for the 360, there's a reason why it's a relatively new innovation--cameras are small enough to allow for rapid movements without a HUUUGE crew in the wings to support each shot. A 360 shot is meant to defy the expectations of the viewer. While it doesn't completely eliminate the Fourth Wall, it suggests a freedom of perception and movement. I'd imagine AVGN would have had a problem with the opening of Citizen Kane, as, in short order, everyone was mounting a camera on a crane and breaking the 2-D plane that had limited films up to that point. Was it overdone? Sure, but like everything else, it got boring and was put away until someone had a really NOVEL use for it, and dusted it off.

And it should also be noted that there's a 'trip' in The Book of Eli that doesn't result in a complete loss of balance.

I could really live without the "we cast a famous comedian in our movie and we're going have him improvise for half his screen time" cliche. Everyone's not Bill Murray, and hell Bill Murray was really only funny improvising in Caddyshack and Ghostbusters.