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snake 04-16-2016 09:21 PM

Favorite movie cliches/tropes
 
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 04-17-2016 05:12 AM

http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-co...duke-pic-2.jpg

ToTheNines 04-17-2016 07:10 AM

I'm a sucker villains getting decapitated.

Shark_Blade 04-17-2016 07:29 AM

Good guy is actually bad guy routine.

snake 04-17-2016 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Shark_Blade (Post 1569889)
Good guy is actually bad guy routine.

Like The Usual Suspects?

plastroncafe 04-17-2016 10:37 AM

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 04-17-2016 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by plastroncafe (Post 1569926)
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 04-17-2016 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by snake (Post 1569936)
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 04-17-2016 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by plastroncafe (Post 1569947)
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 04-17-2016 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by snake (Post 1570023)
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 04-17-2016 03:57 PM

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

plastroncafe 04-17-2016 04:01 PM

The word you're looking for is queerbaiting.

snake 04-17-2016 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 1570031)
I like lesbian moments that aren't really lesbian moments. Subtle lesbianism is the best.

Helps you crank the ol' cybercube right?

Prowler 04-17-2016 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 1570031)
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 04-17-2016 09:14 PM

"Noooooooooooooo!!"

:D

Allio 04-17-2016 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Prowler (Post 1570106)
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 04-17-2016 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Allio (Post 1570156)
would that be considering cucking?


Someone call?

ProactiveMan 04-18-2016 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ToTheNines (Post 1569883)
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 04-18-2016 12:38 AM

the crazy guy was right all along.

The Deadman 04-18-2016 10:20 AM

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


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