Hollywood Cliches

For my own peace of mind, could somebody please explain how this could be done?

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Before the days of deadbolt locks this could be done. In fact It can be done on doors today with a standard passage set. Look at the image:



The top...the deadbolt... is immune to credit card entry. If the door is only equipped with the bottom set then a credit card could be used to open it. If you push on the part that sticks out it's spring loaded. Someone could potentially work a credit card into the v-formed part (if it's not seated all the way into jamb side) and from behind it pull toward themselves until the card pushes in the spring and forms a block over the jamb side.

Screwdrivers work better. A set of two small ones can get you in any lock like this.

I'm not questioning the spring loaded part of the knob mechanism. I'm saying that a credit card can't access this part because of the door stop. A screwdriver could if the door stop is wood (or if the metal is soft enough to bend with the prying of the screwdriver).

But my entire point that has been questioned is that in the movies, they swipe the credit card as if the door were an ATM machine, and the door opens easily. You can't swipe with door stop!

Yeah... ok.

Very select conditions have to be there for it to work, you are correct.

That slide thing ain't kosher

I hate how two people hate each other from the start and you know that they are going to end up in bed together and in LOOOOOOVE

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When Meg Ryan dumps her loser boyfriend/fiance for whomever is the wonderful leading man, the dumped boyfriend is never upset by this. Maybe he knows something.

Here are some from cop movies:

1) The Black Male superior.
2) The female that is smarter than all of the males on the force. (Some times the specialist sent in to work with the force, the criminologist, not to mention the character who always evaluates the sanity of criminals is always a woman).

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Or what about the black extra.
"oh look a black guy beaming down to earth with the search party - guess who aint returning back to the ship"..........etc.

Oh man, oh man, I was bored at home and decided to watch Fair Game,
a movie with Cindy Crawford and William Baldwin. (Both horrible actors/actresses.)

Anyways, I just saw some of the worst and cheesiest hollywood cliches ever. By the way, did I mention this movie is cheesy? CHEESY?

Here are some of the cliches I saw:

1.) People working in a computer store are "geeky."

2.) A beautiful woman can instantly attract "geeky" people who work at computer stores.

3.) The main character can get off eight shots from his cheap pistol in a span of a couple of seconds.

4.) The lead actor/actress do not like each other in the beginning, and ends up having it after an argument.

5.) The baddies are European. That has become a cliche nowadays.

6.) The classic "women-in-peril-so-man-must-protect-her" plot

7.) The main characters are actually responsible for the deaths of like four people, but of course, the deaths of those four people are not shown.
------For ex. (Since the baddies have been tracking the lead guy's cell phone, he decides to turn it on and throw it in another truck, so therefore, the baddies follow the other truck.) However, once the baddies find it is not the guy they're looking for, you know they will kill the truck driver because he knows their identities... but nooo... you don't see the truck driver get killed so nobody will be blaming the lead character. ) (That happens a lot in movies.)

8.) You're kinda confused about the plans of the bad guys for the whole movie, so in the end, they "suprise" everyone by wasting precious time to explain to their captives what their "evil" plan was all along. I believe that's in James Bond movies as well.

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Why is it that every one in movies seem to know ever ones phone number. Someone they have never called they have there number memorised in there head.

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When people are talking on the Phone they don't say 'good bye' they just hang up.

The "you killed my father" villian.

That was your father! Sorry.

Have you ever been to a real wedding in which they say, "If anyone believes that these two should not be joined in holy matrimony, let them speak now, or forever hold their peace" ?

I've been to several weddings, and I couldn't even imagine a minister or priest saying this. It would be totally inappropriate.
And so what if someone actually spoke up. By what athority do they have to stop the wedding?

Yet, Hollywood has us convinced it's part of the wedding ceremony.

In a dark house, on a stormy night, a killer (or somesuch beast) always decides to cut the power, then the phone line. Or they both go out at the same time.

Strong women in powerful postions always die, especially when they kill men or antagonize them somehow.

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r66-The member who always asks WHY?

I have been to weddings where they have said that, maybe it is used more here.

and did everyone pause and look around as if someone would speak up? Did the preacher actually think giving someone the opportunity to speak up would benefit the couple?

I don't know what the preacher thought, I went to one Wedding where the groom spoke up and made a joke, he was drunk and it was in the back yard, very strange wedding.

I hate in movies where the women have makeup on in the morning, they look beautiful after a night of love making, etc etc.

Morning breath is never an issue in movies