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Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-29-23
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Posted By Corax
Desperado and The Last Man Standing both give Sir...

Desperado and The Last Man Standing both give Sir Isaac Newton the finger in this regard.



The new wave of gun-movies is a very tacti-cool, pious about showing people with fingers off the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 11-14-23
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Posted By Corax
Good point. Old westerns would always have always...

Good point. Old westerns would always have always have bloodless gunshots which seemed fake. Now it seems fake to us if there isn't blood everywhere.


Also, there is a conspicuous overuse of...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 08-09-23
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Posted By Corax
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Brooding on rooftops at decks at sunset or at night.



Every hospital has a roof that our hero can access for a long meaningful moment of contemplation. Our protag will be shot from behind. We...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-03-23
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Posted By Corax
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Super-cut of "I can't kill you, but 'X' can"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fhWZORatBA
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-17-23
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Posted By Corax
Axe Murderer: I've cut the phone lines, Nancy! ...

Axe Murderer: I've cut the phone lines, Nancy!


Nancy: What's is a phone line?



Nancy proceeds to livestream with 911 on the line and a flashlight app clearly illuminating the bad guy as...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-17-23
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Posted By Corax
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Is there no truth in beauty? (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/mar/14/the-disabled-villain-why-sensitivity-reading-cant-kill-off-this-ugly-trope)


It is a cliche that villains will be ugly...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-13-23
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Posted By Corax
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This is why we can't have nice things, like naked wrestling in the living room.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-13-23
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Posted By Corax
It sounds like that Victorian living room is prim...

It sounds like that Victorian living room is prim and proper and that the naked wrestling with "flopping" is not, offering a contrast of high and low. And it may be comical that aggressive...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-10-23
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Posted By Corax
And ninja movies always had to explain what...

And ninja movies always had to explain what ninjas are, "Look, few people know about these super-secret Japanese assassins."
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-08-23
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Posted By Corax
A great moment of being "literally figurative."...

A great moment of being "literally figurative." Viggo felt naked and vulnerable because he was naked and vulnerable. This is was an instance of appropriate nudity in a film. It had a point and...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-07-23
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Posted By Corax
True, but can you imagine if we spent 20 minutes...

True, but can you imagine if we spent 20 minutes watching our investigators opening drawers and pulling books off of shelves? I suppose we could save time but also communicate the passage of time...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-07-23
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Posted By Corax
I tend to sometimes dislike fancy impossible...

I tend to sometimes dislike fancy impossible camera shots for this reason. If your camera zooms through a closed window and walls, etc., then I know that it's not a real camera showing me a real...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-20-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Corax
Different strokes. As for the need...

Different strokes.



As for the need for truncation and efficiency, we should remind ourselves that cinema is brutally expedient. Large novels are compressed into a few dozen pages of script....
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-19-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Corax
That is "the" male fantasy. Give a man the option...

That is "the" male fantasy. Give a man the option of a virgin or non-virgin for a true romantic mate, hold other variables equal (e.g., beauty, age, wit), and the man will pick the virgin. Men have...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-18-23
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Posted By Corax
Star Trek II is arguably the inverse of this...

Star Trek II is arguably the inverse of this pattern, audiences went into the theater in "hoes mad" mode, because they'd heard Spock was going to die, but after he was "killed" in the simulator at...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-18-23
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Posted By Corax
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Not quite a cliche and not quite current, so off-topic, but the pattern of the apparent hero/leader being eliminated early in the story to establish stakes. Steven Seagal in Executive Decision...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-17-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Corax
There was a time when films would show a...

There was a time when films would show a character leaving their home, driving to another location in their car, walking up to the building, opening the door, etc. Today, we just cut to the next...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-11-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Corax
How about the key hidden in the car visor thing?...

How about the key hidden in the car visor thing? Does anyone do this? Am I crazy?
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-09-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Corax
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The cliche movie "slap" is the one that connects with a ringing SMACK! When Will Smith hit Chris Rock IRL, however, all we heard was a thud. Also, the slapper generally throws a haymaker telegraphed...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-09-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Corax
I wouldn't recommend smacking anyone, male or...

I wouldn't recommend smacking anyone, male or female. I am merely commenting on the question of whether it could have the desired effect. A smack can knock someone out of an hysterical "loop". Then...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-09-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Corax
Yes, it can work. Should you do it? You be the...

Yes, it can work. Should you do it? You be the judge.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-09-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Corax
https://youtu.be/_YDqm7LXt2g

https://youtu.be/_YDqm7LXt2g
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-08-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Corax
I am not familiar with this specific pattern, but...

I am not familiar with this specific pattern, but the inaccessible witness thing is common enough. Seems like there is always an argument about the dangers of using "medicine drug" to bring the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 11-11-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Corax
Formal cliche. If a story reveals fakery expect...

Formal cliche. If a story reveals fakery expect the fakery to be doubled or tripled. EX: A person who fakes murder will be faked out by fake murder.



This is formal property is played out for...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 11-03-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Corax
The 80s had a kind of odd obsession with the sax....

The 80s had a kind of odd obsession with the sax.

I think that there are instrument-cliches.

Unaccompanied Piano -- We want you to feel sad. Seriously, please be sad or at least melancholy. ...