This is not to attack Spiderman 3, as it is a great film.
But many other films I notice also have employed similiar techniques as well.
In Spiderman 3, When Parker dons on his spidey-suit and has just wrapped up a battle with a foe, it never fails, Spidey always seems to have had his face masked ripped where it exposes one of his eyes,.and his mouth.
Hmmm....where have I seen this cliche before?
Oh, I know,..How about the Robocop films. When Murphy has taken on ED-209 in the first film in the stairwell of the Omni Office building after confronting Dick Jones. Yep, we see Robocop with one of his human eyes exposed.
Then of course, in other Robocop scenes, we see Robocop with his helmet off, showing more of the Murphy-side of him.
Where else have I seen this...Oh I know..How about the Terminator films. When Arnie has battled one of his foes, it never fails that his red robotic eye is always exposed alongside his "human" eye.
Lets talk about one of the top overused cliches ever used in action films...the damsel in distress.
Lois Lane,..Mary Jane Watson,..etc etc
Its pretty much the same story...damsel is kidnapped,..is put in dangerous situation,..falls 100 stories from a highrise, only to be swoop up in the arms of her hero.
Where is the psychiatric counseling for these women? Surely, any gal that has endured a trecherous descent from a skyscraper is gonna have some mental issues. We never see any of these chicks check into a clinic though. Its almost like they want to be with a superhero type of guy because they have a perverted sense of adventure.
At least Robocop was courteous enough to contact a rape crisis center for the blonde that had suffered an emotional shock in the first film.
Then there is the tiring scenario of a former best friend who later becomes an adversary of the main protagonist due to some sort of social conflict that has either humiliated or belittled the stature of them, causing them to turn evil to seek revenge.
Then in superhero films, especially the first film..its almost mandatory to go into an indepth scientific explanation of how so-and-so became who they are.
The film is averaging 2 hours, but up to 30 minutes is used to explain everything the director feels we should know about the character(s), as to set the stage for an obvious and eventual sequel, which will more than likely lack the extensive storyline the previous film had, and be chock full of nothing but special-effect shots of what our beloved hero and villian are actually capable of doing with the super powers we had to patiently learn about all within the course of the initial film in the series.
I know my focus has been solely on action hero genre films. I could have focused on other genres, but I would be here all night,.besides I would rather leave that input for you. but, I chose this genre simply to voice an example of overused cliches.
Trust me, exhausted cliches certainly are not limited to action films by any means..they can be found in every film. In some genres the cliches are more subtle and not so blatant.
This post has been edited by princesskadee: 20 May 2007 - 03:02 AM