Clichés in western films and dramas

Touati wrote: I saw this comic today and immediately thought: Oh, let me post this on MD- wait. The sites down. What do I do know!?!? And we're back up. :D

Here it is:

Hahaha I love that!! :p

Stupid kitten! ROFL!!!
Thanks for posting this! :D

Romantic comedies have always the same plot
*Getting to know each other
*Hidden secret
*The romantic part when they get together, or realize they are in love.
*The secret is revealed and there's the conflict and break up or separation.
*The reconciliation.
*They live happily ever after.

I can`t stand catastrophic films: it does not matter what the catastrophe is: infection, insect, mutated animals, natural disasters like snow, earthquake, tornado, asteroids - it always follows the same pattern - practically always there is young woman: a doctor, engineer or some expert in the issue - there is physically strong male: he is either her ex, or some worker in the field - usually there is bickering at first, then growing attraction - he is sometimes her protector - our heroine/hero has a vulnerable person to care about: younger sibling or a child - there are usually some family issues, often spoiled brats or divorce - the little town that is menaced is always about to host an event with a great amount of people - when expert tries to explain the mayor/politician/military officer the level of danger, they shake it off as unconfirmed and they don`t want to make a panic but in fact they all have hidden agenda: either they try to keep some secrets hidden or it is about money - this delay causes people to die - the first try to solve the situation fails - there are always people who refuse to obey rules for their security: e.g. they go out of house when they are not supposed to - if there is some group of people trying to get somewhere in order to survive, there is almost always some very unpleasant person - if the catastrophe strikes around the world, the images of ruined things are always the same: hollywood sign, sometimes giant crowd of people somewhere in Asia, and of course two monuments as mentioned before: Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower - and what eats me the most is utter ignorance of the matter: of course wast majority of these disasters are imaginary themselves, but this talk about "science" is so fundamentally wrong that I want to smash the screen. I see it mainly when there is talk about the infection - the way they deal with it is often so ridiculous (antibiotics for viral infection as the smallest example)