"Could we get some more candles over here?"

There are lots of irritating cliches in movies today. Perhaps because there have never been so many bad directors given a camera decades before they were ready, if they were every ready. But one of the most frequent and tiresome cliches is candles. How many movies have you seen with a beautiful woman sitting in a bathtub surrounded by the glow of dozens of candles? It seems to be the scene bad directors use when they need some filler. Of course they never show the woman lighting the candles as that would probably take an hour or so, or buying the candles, which must cost quiet a lot when you have to have this many. No she's just luxuriating in their glow, usually for no good reason. Of course one is always impressed that this beauty even has an old-fashioned bathtub in these days of glass-doored window boxes,  but I am sure the director yelled at the scenic designer, "I must have an old-fashioned tub, with claw legs...for the candle scene." Not only do I hate this because it's so trite and overused, but I think it's particularly insulting to women to suggest so many of them indulge in this costly and insipid vanity. These directors must be Republicans.