10 Movie Cliches That Need To Stop

4. Saying Hello To A Dead Dial-Tone Thankfully a lot of smarter films don't include this, but I've lost count of the number of dumb action films and hostage thrillers I've sat through where this happens. A character will be having an impassioned dialogue on the phone, when for one reason or another, the call will end and abruptly leave the recipient with a dead dial-tone, to which the character still idiotically says "Hello? Hello!?" despite the obvious fact that they can freaking hear the dial tone and so can we; if there was silence maybe this would make sense, but do these characters just suddenly go deaf, or are they just a bit slow on the uptake? It's one of those cinematic stupidities that again just betrays the way people act; have you ever seen someone do this in real life?