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Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-29-23
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Posted By Captain Steel
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This one's probably been mentioned: but people shot by a gun who get knocked off their feet and go flying several feet backwards (often through a guardrail, wall, doorway, or through a window to add...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 11-14-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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The last couple posts reminded me of punch sound effects in movies.

This is similar to a post I made long ago about knives and swords - how they must always be accompanied by the sound of metal on...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-05-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
Sounds like MSNBC! (rimshot!) :p

Sounds like MSNBC! (rimshot!) :p
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-17-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but modern phone landlines have a quick-snap connector head at the end of the wire that snaps into the phone line jack in the wall (and also into the phone itself).

If...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-17-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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Another outdated cliche = cut the phone lines or rip the phone cord from the wall.
A standard practice of bad guys when invading a home or office to make sure their victims couldn't call out for...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-09-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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I know this thread is CURRENT movie clichés, but how about clichés that can no longer apply to a movie that takes place in modern times?

How about whenever anyone on the run (be they a fugitive,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-18-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
...and John Wayne in The Cowboys (1972). ;)

...and John Wayne in The Cowboys (1972). ;)
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-11-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
At my old rental house, I put a nail in the top...

At my old rental house, I put a nail in the top of window frame next to the side door - on the nail I placed the spare key (with the hole at the top of the key going over the nail so it could not...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-09-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
It worked for Will Smith (and he didn't even...

It worked for Will Smith (and he didn't even choose a woman)! :D
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-08-23
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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Killer dolls! ;)
Forum: General Movie Discussion 11-03-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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Why did 89% of the movies made in the 70's have to include a female topless scene?
Forum: General Movie Discussion 07-25-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
Then there is the old soap opera cliché - where...

Then there is the old soap opera cliché - where the apparently resurrected dead person is the long lost twin brother or sister of the dead person.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 07-25-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
No one notices... or no one wants kids? ;)

No one notices... or no one wants kids? ;)
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-30-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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This is an old one and may have been mentioned already...

Every movie bomb (explosion, self-destruct, or whatever) that has a countdown can only be stopped at the last second.
The "blue wire" can...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-01-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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Love that movie!

Weird thing is I have little interest in most sports, but I love most sports movies.
I think that's because sports in sports movies are usually metaphors for much more important...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-13-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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I liked the road construction worker in the Sopranos who threw Vito's cellphone under a steamroller when Tony was cursing him out! ;)
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-02-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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Someone in a movie saying they are absolutely not going to do something or will never do something...

Followed by the next scene showing them doing the exact thing they said they would absolutely...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-19-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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We have to remember that Revenge of the Nerds was a revenge movie (and the ethical merits of revenge are certainly debatable).

But the Nerds had already been targeted by the Alpha Beta's (jocks)...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-03-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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If I'm remembering correctly, I think the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) did the "whatever-happened-to" thing, but they did it throughout the movie (opposed to at the end) as Roger Corman made...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-03-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
Yes. Thinking about it, that's probably true. ...

Yes. Thinking about it, that's probably true.

In the second case (the what-ever-happened-to captions) it's just more of an epilogue, and in the first case it's just end credits with a visual...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-03-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
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Most clichés we criticize, but some aren't bad.

I'm not even sure if this considered a cliché, but I always liked when movies would put up pictures of the cast at the end with the names of the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-28-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
No matter the reasoning behind it, I'd like to be...

No matter the reasoning behind it, I'd like to be thrown into a pool of warm pasta too!
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-28-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
As long as whatever they use as slime is warm......

As long as whatever they use as slime is warm... it probably feels good to a baby! ;)

Remember in Patch Adams... the old lady who's life-long fantasy was to be thrown into a pool of warm pasta?...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-22-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
I didn't watch the whole video, so don't know if...

I didn't watch the whole video, so don't know if this was mentioned... but it made me remember in Revenge of the Nerds (1984 and one of my favorites, btw)... the part where the Nerds set up cameras...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-24-22
Replies: 800
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Posted By Captain Steel
Not really a cliche in that case, I guess. ...

Not really a cliche in that case, I guess.
(Although I kind of consider Jor-El the protagonist of the first chapter or opening act, but then I'm a bit biased when it comes to Superman movies). ;)...

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