lukewarmwater

I have two, the first is when the protagonist leaves for a long time and then re appears to usually reclaim something that was lost/get revenge.
(I.E. Gladiator, Four Feathers, The Count of Monte Cristo, etc)
Doesn't matter how many times I've seen it, I always like those moments when they reveal themselves.

My personal favorite:
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and sad scenes when characters have to say goodbye to each other.
(Terminator 2, E.T., Treasure Planet, Toy Story 3, etc)
My favorite:
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JTH182

The nice guy gets the girl.

The good guy(s) win.

Michael Corvin

The ragtag bunch of losers that learn to play together to win a sports game, championship, etc. It's hard to fuck up that formula.

Nick Danger

The parlor scene.

MLBFan24

Millions of dollars of property damage due to a car chase.

From what I see in World's Wildest Police Chases, it's usually just a car that t-bones another car, or the car flips over in a grassy field.

PhantomStranger

A hero defeating the villain at the end has never bothered me as long as it's plausible. I hate deus ex machina solutions that save the hero from himself.

Ash Ketchum

Get a small band of outlaws, prisoners, losers, misfits, mercs, psychos, unemployed samurai, whatever, and put 'em together for a mission against a larger, well-organized, military-level enemy force and wait for all hell to break loose.

Yeti4623

Misunderstandings/mistaken identity.

mndtrp

A single person laying waste to hordes of bad guys, or overcoming insane odds.


Escape from New York
Die Hard
etc.

Alan Smithee

Anything done in musicals.

EddieMoney

Chicks getting DP'ed in some of the movies I watch. I still enjoy it.

dvdjunkie32

I still enjoy (and probably most people) one of the oldest cliches in the book. It's the counting time bomb, a race against the literal clock and the hero defuses the bomb or situation at the last possible second.

JumpCutz

All or most of the main characters are dead by the end of the movie.

Xiroteus

I prefer what you could call a happy ending or at least where the good one wins.

Oddly I don't mind a lot of deus ex machina wins too much however they can come out of nowhere. Appears to happen a bit in anime yet I always seem to enjoy it.

Villain is a thousand times stronger then the hero of the story...........they are sure to draw power from some random source and overcome this.

They might as well just yell out, DEUS EX MACHINA power activate!

Mike86

Heroes defeating villains. It's pretty much a given in almost every good versus evil type film that's what will ultimately happen even if there's a partial setback that isn't resolved until a sequel or whatever but it doesn't bother me.

SuperJim88

Kevin Spacey in heterosexual roles.

johnnysd

I read something or saw a bomb squad guy once that it is sort of a reverse cliche, in that people get on movies for having bombs with nice convenient LED timers and say it is completely unrealistic but in reality most homemade bombs are built with off the shelf timers most of which will actually have a countdown timer on them. I never get bothered by this either

johnnysd

I don't mind the "aha" moment when someone is doing research or a criminal investigation that type of thing.

EddieMoney

Or when they just start playing Take on Me.

Quatermass

Walking into a glass door is always funny, unless it happens to me.

Drexl

The Wilhelm Scream.

hbilly

Military drums whenever there's a scene showing tanks, soldiers or the Army.

Yeti4623

A group of people with different personalities interacting/having to team up.

davidlynchfan

When the good guy and bad guy trains for the final showdown and they play the song called: "Tough Enough" performed by the Fabulous Thunderbirds in the backdrop.

KaBluie

The Horror Film Mirror Gag. It's actually more shocking when it doesn't happen!