Cliche Movie Lines

We at “Something’s Wrong with Esther” absolutely adore movies. Movies are magical. But like anything, they can sometimes suffer from clichés. Therefore, we are listing some cliché movie lines in today’s post:

“Which wire do I cut?”

I don’t know a thing about bombs. Maybe bombs really do have a green, red and blue wire (neatly color coded!) in an even array by a ticking timer. But seriously, aren’t bombs in real life messy homemade affairs? Unless a terrorist has time to run out to Radio Shack and has the foresight to color code his devious intentions, I find such scenes appalling. It’s always the blue wire too! Green and red aren’t bad, so why does blue get to be the good guy lifesaver?

“I love you but I’m not in love with you.”

There have been plenty of TV shows and movies that have used this line. Usually a character (most likely female as this is seen as a ‘nice or more understandable’ reason than a guy just screwing someone) cheats on their spouse and when confronted, uses this line as an excuse. How does this excuse adultery?! I mean, why, why, why? And it sounds like semantics too: how is loving someone different from being in love with someone? If aliens are picking up on the broadcast signals drifting out into the great void of space, they’re probably confused by messy human emotions.

“Well, today’s a good day.”

A cancer stricken protagonist utters this in a forlorn manner when asked by their caring friend/family member how they’re doing. Cancer sucks. I’m sure people with cancer, like everybody else, have their good and bad days but in movies its always where they have that one day to go to the beach, watch the sunset behind the Eiffel Tower or watch their kids frolic in the snow and then they die. The one good day is a cheesy plot device akin to the calm before the storm. It’s always that the one good day gets cut short by cancer.