4. "You Look Like S**t"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wlonv3yJCL4 I have to confess that the above montage did leave me in a fit of hysterics, but there's no denying that the titular utterance is one of the most ludicrously rehashed in all of movie history. It's always used by one character who meets up with another at work/in a diner/wherever, and remarks that they look like excrement, usually because of a tough night on the sauce the night before, or a beating they've received. Why the line is so overused is that often characters use it when the person they're talking to looks absolutely fine by any normal standard. Try and keep a straight face as one character tells George Clooney, kitted out in a suit and looking superbly coiffed, that he looks crap. It's a ridiculous and lazy way for writers to try and convey that a character has either physical or emotional torment, but the costume and make-up departments rarely fall in line with this. For someone to say that in real life, you'd have to be covered in bruises or mess, rather than be a movie star with one hair out of place.
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