When an unimportant stooge of the bad guy is shot, he will fall over and die immediately. But when the main villain is shot, he will remain standing, slowly looking down at the growing blood stain on his chest
Most Undernoticed Overused Movie Dialogue: "You just dont get it, do ya?"
When characters in movies receive wrapped presents, the lid is usually wrapped separately from the box--presumably so that if the scene has to be reshot, the gift can be "re-wrapped" quickly.
Heroes in movies who fall from great heights will land on shrubs, cardboard boxes, awnings, or something else that cushions their fall. Villains land on steel fence posts, or in the path of a speeding bus.
Whenever a movie requires the use of military-style radio transmission, if any numbers are being transmitted, one of them will always be "Niner," because it sounds so cool.
You will never actually love a film that claims you will love it because you liked another film. Examples: "If you liked A Fish Called Wanda, you'll love Nuns on the Run." Or "If you liked Who Framed Roger Rabbit, you'll love Cool World."
Standard scene in romance: Romeo rushes out into dark and stormy night to a pay-phone to call Juliet. He puts in quarter and dials. Juliet answers: "Hello? HELLO?" Romeo says nothing, and hangs up. Juliet hears the dial tone and stares at the receiver, wondering who it could have possibly have been.
Whenever a character displays an unusual talent or trick early in a thriller, it will later be used to save his or her life.
No car in a movie ever jumps over a curb without hitting a fire hydrant, which immediately splits open and sprays high into the air.
When it is stated that "only one man can (solve this crime, save the world, bring this man to justice, etc.)," you can be sure that one man is now retired or was kicked off the force and must now be lured into action.
Containers of urine in the movies have a surprisingly good chance of being either spilled or drunk.
Hundreds of people can be killed in a movie trailer, but any endangered dog or cat must be shown alive and unharmed by the end of the trailer. This is also true of the full film. An example is "Meet the Fockers," where the dog emerges unharmed from the toilet. Another is the opening of "Armageddon," where New York City is devastated, but the dog survives uninjured.
If the bad guy attacks the good guy with a sharp object during a fight and it gets embedded in the wall or floor, the bad guy will be killed by it, generally by falling on it.
Any lay person who gets behind the wheel of a golf cart will eventually drive the vehicle into the nearest body of water.
When a character intends to confess something and says, "There's something I have to tell you," the other person immediately confesses, "I have something to tell you first," prompting the original character to say, "Oh, never mind."
Any two women who are pregnant in the same movie will deliver at the same time.
In movies, ghosts pass through all walls whether they want to or not, no matter what the walls are made of. They never, however, fall through floors.
In any scene where a character barges into someone else's office (boss, co-worker, enemy), the barges secretary will always scold the character, warning him or her not to go into the office. The character will then disregard the warning and go in anyway, which leaves the secretary trying to stop the intrusion to no avail.
