Comments on: Giveaway: Taken – Two-Disc Extended Edition DVD!

By: Great White Snark

Great White Snark — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:05:50 +0000

Congrats to the winners: V, nickolai, and ahanovich.

By: Daniel M

Daniel M — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:47:30 +0000

the hero gets shot, then continues on like nothing happened.
bad guys have automatic weapons but never hit much, hero has a 6-shooter and takes them all out.

By: DG

DG — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:22:39 +0000

one cliche is letting your guard down when you think you have won but really the killer is still alive. don’t slump down or sit around relaxing. run away!

By: Moises De Leon

Moises De Leon — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:33:35 +0000

My least favorite cliché has to be when the hero is getting beaten up and fighting for her safety and protecting his mistress while she awaits for his safe return watching him fight while she does nothing.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:45:15 +0000

I love how when the killer is chasing you, you turn into a klutz. or that the killer who is walking at a slow pace manages to catch the sprinting person. wow.

By: Leann S

Leann S — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:06:18 +0000

As a female my least favorite action movie cliche is the female who stands by and watches as her hero/man gets beaten to a pulp. Do something sister.

The cliche that really, really bugs me though is the car that can catch up to another car a mile ahead but when it gets within 10 feet it can’t gain anymore ground.

By: cam

cam — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:55:54 +0000

the guy that takes on leagues of goons singlehandedly and gets away with it.

without it there’d be no Die Hard 1 and 3, Taken, Commando, True Lies, Total Recall, annnd…there’s dozens of them but i can’t pull them out.

yes, this cliche is a force of nature. it’s so cliche that my talking about it is cliche; that, my talking about how cliche talking about it is cliche.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:56:06 +0000

Most of my faves have already been mentioned: never-ending ammo, the good guys rarely get bruises (if they do, the severity never matches the violence inflicted), and, of course, the total inability for henchmen to hit their target (although sometimes I wonder if it is really the crazy ability of heroes to dodge bullets).

By: Gregory Freeman

Gregory Freeman — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:24:12 +0000

The fact that you can never damage a car in an Ahnaald movie. Commando…. he rubs the porche against the other car until it tips over. After dispatching the driver… pushes the car back onto it’s wheels…. not a scratch.

By: cshanyn

cshanyn — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:50:44 +0000

Probably my fav is when the good guy “finds” an unexploded, but pinless grenade, looks at it, looks around, makes a phone call, screams for 7-9 minutes about getting everyone off the bus/out of the building/off the roof/out of the plane, runs around and finally throws the “live” grenade in a last ditch attempt to save everyone and the thing finally blows up about 15 minutes after the hero originally found it. And then everyone, especially the hero, emerges from said explosion with no shrapnel injuries. Ahhhhh..the magic of movies!