After every script, I'll now check this list to make sure it's free from horrible horrible dialogue *insert mediocre sarcasm here and rant about why some of those lines are perfect!*

Nevertheless, a good list and worth checking against. Cheers :)

After someone says something negative about the character:
"I'm right here!" or "Am I invisible?"

Listen to me, and listen good, cause i'm only gonna say it once.

Heh, looks like someone has been on a Arnie/Governator marathon! It seems action films are the worst offenders of 'cliche' dialogue.

Should be noted that if you subvert the cliche in an interesting way, you can surprise the audience with something unexpected. Joss Whedon does this a lot. There's three I can think of just in Serenity.

One is a spin on something from this list -- "Remember, if anything happens to me, or you don't hear from me within the hour... you take this ship and you come and you rescue me."

Another fun one: "I'm takin' your sister under my protection here. If anything happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you... I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears."

And lastly, the Captain, after a crewman threatens mutiny:
"Do you want to run this ship?"
Which is of course the standard cliche threat that should shame the crewman into quieting down. But instead the reply comes:
"Yes!"
To which the flustered captain responds:
"Well... you can't."

I don't know if this quite qualifies as a line, but one of my least favorite bits of lazy writing is dialogue that begins thus:

"Let me guess -- "

Either I'm a sadist or a masochist, but there's a sick part of me that wants to write a script that uses all 120 of these cliches.

Watch, I'll send it out and it'll be my first Hollywood script sale and I'll learn the horrible truth... it was my avoidance of cliche that staunched my career.

How about the excruciatingly obvious military/action/cliche'...

"Fire in the hole!"

Jeff - Yes! My first thought was to create a character that only speaks from this list of lines. I just may have to do it to satisfy that sick puppy side of my being.

"Are you okay?" is in about half the films I see. I guess it's better than, "Penny for your thoughts?"

The 'eyes on you' bit from MEET THE PARENTS was great back then. But it keeps popping up. Was in the trailer as the tag for OLD DOGS.

Then there's this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIZVcRccCx0

That's not a ___. This is a ___!

I'm only gonna say this once,

Sorry I'm late.

Did I miss anything?

So, where was/were I/we?

Take the wheel!

It's suicide.

On Three. One, two...

Alright, here's what we do...

Don't shoot!

Cuff 'em!

I'll drive.

No. I'll drive!

Are you tryin' to get us killed?

Ok, you drive. But at some point go real fast, against traffic, in reverse, and ask me to take the wheel 'on three'.

You got it!

Just wrote a post about this doozy..."I've got a confession to make..."

ugh.

Oh, man. I counted at least 5 on that list that I've used. Or, used very close versions of. Crap. I'll never be a good writer.

my ultimate if I never hear it again line

"That's what she said"

OVER MY DEAD BODY.

Any piece of dialogue that has the word SURREAL in it.

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"Why, that's most inane, far-fetched idea I have ever heard! .....but it might just work."