Favorite movie cliches/tropes

[snake]

Here are mine
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-Badass entrances (Reservoir Dogs)

-Movie takes place in a singular location (12 Angry Men)

-Cheery song plays over something not so cheery (Hip To Be Square in American Psycho, Stuck In The Middle in Reservoir Dogs)

-Movie has good worldbuilding and lore

-Movie has goofy things and plays them straight without adding "realism" (Mad Max 2, The Warriors, Fury Road, Pulp Fiction, Speed Racer)

[AT-Man]

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[ToTheNines]

I'm a sucker villains getting decapitated.

[Shark_Blade]

Good guy is actually bad guy routine.

[snake]

Good guy is actually bad guy routine.

Like The Usual Suspects?

[plastroncafe]

I love me a good reluctant hero, or a protagonist in an existential crisis.
Competent Comic Relief is a must.
Also villains who leave their mustache twirling at the door. Show me that they think they're the hero in their own story.

[snake]

I love me a good reluctant hero, or a protagonist in an existential crisis.
Competent Comic Relief is a must.
Also villains who leave their mustache twirling at the door. Show me that they think they're the hero in their own story.

Avatar TLA executes those perfectly

[plastroncafe]

Avatar TLA executes those perfectly

RIGHT?!
Well...except for Ozai, who does nothing but mustache twirl. But he's voiced by Mark Hamill, so that's okay. (But man, what a wasted opportunity in the comics...)

[snake]

RIGHT?!
Well...except for Ozai, who does nothing but mustache twirl. But he's voiced by Mark Hamill, so that's okay. (But man, what a wasted opportunity in the comics...)

Ozai's fine for me lol. You gotta have atleast one totally bad dude

[plastroncafe]

Ozai's fine for me lol. You gotta have atleast one totally bad dude

I think in the context of the show he's fine, because we see what his father is like, so clearly....the apple isn't going to fall far from that tree.

But he's like malicious for no reason in the comics. I was going to say a kiddie-level of Joffrey malicious, but that would imply Azulon was related to his wife....which, huh. They never strictly say they aren't siblings.

And it would explain why Azulon specifically goes looking for Ursa.....
HEADCANON ACCEPTED!

[CyberCubed]

I like lesbian moments that aren't really lesbian moments. Subtle lesbianism is the best.

[plastroncafe]

The word you're looking for is queerbaiting.

[snake]

I like lesbian moments that aren't really lesbian moments. Subtle lesbianism is the best.

Helps you crank the ol' cybercube right?

[Prowler]

I like lesbian moments that aren't really lesbian moments. Subtle lesbianism is the best.
Like what, two straight women having a lesbian-like moment on camera in order to get a bulge in a guy's pants? That stuff should just stay in porn.

[TLP]

"Noooooooooooooo!!"

:D

[Allio]

Like what, two straight women having a lesbian-like moment on camera in order to get a bulge in a guy's pants? That stuff should just stay in porn.

would that be considering cucking?

[snake]

would that be considering cucking?

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/gravityfalls/images/d/d8/Louis_C.K._staff_image.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20151026193647
Someone call?

[ProactiveMan]

I'm a sucker villains getting decapitated.

Me too; or total, visceral explosion. I like a good high fall onto a sharp object as well; the stupider and more unnecessary the better. My favourite example is probably Sudden Impact, where Dirty Harry shoots the bad guy off a rollercoaster, through a glass skylight, and onto the absurdly long horn of a merry-go-round unicorn.

[Allio]

the crazy guy was right all along.

[The Deadman]

Would "the black guy having to die first in a horror movie" count as one?

[Krutch]

Getting the girl at the end :)

Always been a sucker for it, what can I say? :tcool:

[Wesley]

Break the Haughty
Bittersweet Ending
Deadpan Snarker
Black and Grey Morality

[Prowler]

would that be considering cucking?
...I'm sorry, what?

[plastroncafe]

...I'm sorry, what?

I'm going to assuming they're using a shortened version of "cuckold," ie: someone who's female partner is cheating on them.

[Prowler]

I'm going to assuming they're using a shortened version of "cuckold," ie: someone who's female partner is cheating on them.
Some straight guys claim to like the idea of their gf/wife having a go with another woman. Maybe it's just more of a fantasy than something they'd like to see irl, though.

...did I just make a CyberCubedesque post?

[CyberCubed]

We're not in the 80's or even 90's anymore. Girls kissing girls is so commonplace that its not even a big deal anymore. Even straight girls kiss other straight girls for no reason at all nowadays.

[ProactiveMan]

Man I miss the 80s and 90s; sometimes I miss the train to work because it’s so full of straight girls kissing. I wouldn’t mind so much if they were doing it for a reason, but it’s just pure gratuity as far as I can tell. Get out of the way you girls; it’s beyond a joke at this point.

[Utrommaniac]

The Noodle Incident. From TV Tropes: "The Noodle Incident is something from the past that is sometimes referred to but never explained, with the implication that it's just too ludicrous for words - or perhaps too offensive for depiction - and the reality that any explanation would fall short of audience expectations."

Favorite examples?


Finding Nemo
Marlin: Hold my fin. Hold my fin.
Nemo: Dad, you're not gonna freak out like you did at the petting zoo, are you?
Marlin: Hey, that snail was about to charge!


The Iron Giant
Hogarth Hughes: You'll never know he's there. I'll keep him in a cage...
Annie Hughes: ...until you feel sorry for him and set him free in the house. You remember the raccoon, Hogarth? *shudders* I remember the raccoon.


Bone (Graphic Novel)
Every single thing Phoney Bone did in Boneville in a get rich quick scheme.
Building an orphanage on a toxic waste dump...filling the river with sewage and then holding a swimming contest (not shown in professionally published versions)...combining a slaughter house with a petting zoo...

Steven Universe
There's a reason why the Big Donut doesn't bake their own donuts.

[Krutch]

The Noodle Incident. From TV Tropes: "The Noodle Incident is something from the past that is sometimes referred to but never explained, with the implication that it's just too ludicrous for words - or perhaps too offensive for depiction - and the reality that any explanation would fall short of audience expectations."
Don't forget Hot Tub Time Machine's shoebox labeled Cincinnati on it :lol:

[plastroncafe]

The Noodle Incident. From TV Tropes: "The Noodle Incident is something from the past that is sometimes referred to but never explained, with the implication that it's just too ludicrous for words - or perhaps too offensive for depiction - and the reality that any explanation would fall short of audience expectations."



Budapest from Avengers.

[ProactiveMan]

Like Snake Plissken's adventures in Cleveland.