It may be time to add a new entry to the Furdell Clich?d Book of Movie Clich?s, for Dummies: making reference to, or showing, two Starbucks Coffee shops across the street from each other.
I know of two qualifying films right off: Shrek 2 managed to shed the mantle of the original's Smashmouth clich?, but included this one. Best In Show features two characters who meet after seeing each other from their respective Starbuckses across the street from each other. (Maybe it's a good clich? to include in your movie, since both of those are quite funny. Did you notice yet how I can type the ? with an accent mark? I'm so sm?rt.)
Surely there are other examples. Meanwhile, how about some love for the original, bare-breasted Starbucks logo, from near Pike Place Market in Seattle:
Ahhh, sweet lady caffeine, personified.
I don't think 2 movies a clich?* makes. Actually I recently saw In America and almost added "Magical Black Guy" to my list o' clich?s, but I decided not to because everybody already notices that one (unlike the robot/smashmouth ones).
Incidentally here are the movies I could think of:
In America, Green Mile, What Dreams May Come, Family Man, Bruce Almighty, Legend of Bagger Vance
(I remembered it was alt-130, either in spite of or because I'm drunk)
The Preacher's Wife.
The Hudsucker Proxy has one, too.
star wars
No, no, no.
By "magical black man" I mean specifically a black guy who, via magical powers, helps white people.
Star Wars doesn't count because it has a white guy with a black guy's voice who uses magic to strangle a white guy. (Also 'The Preacher's Wife' probably doesn't count because it's a black guy helping black people.)
I'll give you Hudsucker though.
So, O' brother, Where are thou?
Need it be a guy? (midnight in the garden of good and evil)
Mystery men. (Sisqo totally helps out the white boys.)
Excuse me, but how about The Shining. Sure, he dies, but that doesn't make him any less magical.
There ain't nothin' in room 2-3-7. But you ain't got no business goin' in there anyway. So stay out, you hear me? Stay out!
I have trouble with The Shining. In the ones I listed, black guys always help out a GROWN white dude. The Shining only helped a little kid. And not much, at that.
Yes, it does need to be a guy; and no, it can't be Sisqo (except in 'Get Over It,' the best movie ever.)
That's excellent, since Sisqo wasn't in Mystery Men, it was Kel Mitchell.
I'm pretty sure RM was thinking of 'Snow Dogs.' Truly a magical movie.
Touch? to the anon, and no, sadly i could not get anyone to see Snow Dogs so I never say it. Not that that had Sisqo either. . .
Oh, I beg to differ. Sisqo in fact plays "Dr. Rupert Brooks," in a role that was no doubt as believable as Denise Richards's turn as nuclear scientist Christmas Jones. And apparently his name is actually spelled "Sisq?."
And we have gone full circle.
This is good, it reminds me that I need to get cracking on a script to my new play "Thong Song: The Musical."
OK. Then I'll just LnS from this thread.
So then, Sam Jackson in episode I and II?
Nope, doesn't work. Why, you ask? Because in Episode 1 & 2, we know that the Force has a basis in science and is therefore not magic. Take that, Lucas!