LOG ENTRY #7 - Stereotypical Enslavement

. ..And this is why I cringe at watching movies now. Don’t get me wrong-I LOVE watching movies, but I absolutely HATE the fact that nowadays they are all so predictable!
 Basically, all movies have a hero, who is essentially a shy-guy.  Shy Guy likes someone who doesn’t pay them a penny’s worth of notice. Shy Guy finds himself in bizarre situation, breaks out of shell, saves the world, defeats the evil guy against all odds (yes – that includes miraculously, and illogically coming back from the dead) and gets the girl, who suddenly thinks the world of him.

Other clichés include:

• Dumb sidekicks. One’s thin and gangly (and dumb) and the other’s extremely fat and short and a blundering fool (and dumb).
•   Mean Blondes. All movies meant for teenagers have a high school, have the Mean Blonde and her two less pretty and soft-brained cronies.
•  Cheesy Morals. From “Always follow your dream” to “Don’t fit in- Stand out”. I blame this stuff for what’s happened to our youth. I mean, what if a kid’s biggest dream was to meet a wrestler who hates kids?! Funerals for the young, eh?
•  The idea of the lead character having some serious (and extreme) personality disorders. Either he/she’s abnormally shy or abnormally overconfident, and the "overconfidence problem" is usually the negative character's issue.
•   End of the world. Total Domination. Mind Control. Need I say anymore?
•   Jokes that stink. Badly. 
•  [Okay, this may not be that much of a cliché but it is DEFINITELY irritating (and stupid!)] -Leading male and female characters having emotional scenes during wars/riots/robot rampages etc. -_- It is the mother of all pet peeves.

I know that the above stated clichés aren’t present in quite a few movies, but then again these are the ones that pop out the most and frankly… are the most annoying too! This just shows how stationary and boring the human brain's creative area has become. I mean, can't we think of anything exciting or out of the ordinary anymore? Aliens, world domination, gangsters, Tron Legacy and all the rest of the weirdness. We need more of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling and Steven Spielberg! But I don't see chances of all that happening anytime soon, so if you're thinking of making a movie, try to get yourself a script writer from another world or something.