Things we don't need to see in any more movies

Last month I posted a list of weird situations that are common in movies. 

Continuing the fun, I now present a list of really, REALLY overdone things that are in a LOT of movies. Most of these are visual tropes, but some are just plain old cliches.

Got any more?

I've seen enough to last me forever of:

• Runaway Ferris wheels rolling through city streets
• Fruit carts being crashed into by cars
• Random St Patricks Day or Chinese New Year parades 
• Unhinged scientists
• People/vehicles bumping into ladders and causing workmen to fall off them 
• Men jumping off things into rivers before other things crash into them
• Vehicles mounting footpaths during chases
• Cars driving the wrong way down freeways
• Dogs stealing strings of sausages from butchers
• That really insanely heavy rain
• Really mean high school football coaches 
• Drill sergeants
• Women screaming (or crying hysterically)
• Men not screaming (or crying hysterically)
• Overly literal, unimaginative scientists proven wrong by mystic/wonderous events
• Any character living in a houseboat, for any reason
• Young boys who are smarter/calmer than their grown women carers
• Mysterious strangers at funerals
• People running through airports being chased by security
• Female villains wearing dark lipstick
• Pies cooling on windowsills
• Old guys in denim overalls sitting on porches
• Dogs chasing cats through other people's houses
• People caught kissing via their shadows behind a lit curtain/screen
• Mechanics spitting on the ground
• Bus passengers in third world countries traveling with cages of chickens 
• Ululating women in black abayas 
• People escaping being run over by lying down under trains/trucks
• Cute children's drawings or painted signs that were obviously created by an art department
• Creaking wooden screen doors banging while a wind chime twirls ominously 
• Cork boards with papers tacked all over them to help the hero think
• White boards with crime figure head-shots tacked to them and arrows joining them up
• People hiding in bedroom cupboards with slatted doors
• POV shots through camera lenses (complete with freeze-frame and clicking for photos taken) 
• Partners who refuse to take the hero/ine's claims seriously despite mounting evidence
• Children's school concerts that descend into chaos
• Assistants saying "You can't go in there!" and then "I'm sorry sir, s/he just barged in" 

I feel like I could go on, but I will pass it on to you.

What other scenes and visual tropes are totally overdone in movies?

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