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 Posted:   Oct 28, 2018 - 5:40 AM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

In a fight scene, when the hero gets violently punched or thrown, he always lands in a pile or stack of empty cardboard boxes.

And if he falls off of a roof or fire escape, the dumpster he lands in will always be full of soft cardboard and pillowy trash bags instead of, say, bricks and broken glass.

 
 Posted:   Oct 28, 2018 - 8:29 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Similarly, whenever there's a fight in a barn, someone always falls or are pushed backwards onto a pitchfork.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 28, 2018 - 8:38 AM   
 By:   leagolfer   (Member)

When watching movies - tv shows an actor or actress who swim in water by river or sea seem to be bone dry instantly.

 
 Posted:   Nov 18, 2018 - 9:02 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

All is lost, the hero has no answers, it's a somber moment in the film. Their usually having a conversation in their office or sitting back having a drink, when they for no reason glance down at the newspaper right before them. Suddenly a clue is revealed in a headline and they are suddenly back on the trail of solving their problem.

 
 Posted:   Nov 18, 2018 - 11:25 AM   
 By:   madmovyman   (Member)

the DA says "you have 48 hours to find the murderer or I'm going to charge your client" or
the kidnapper says, "you've got 24 hours to pay up or I'll kill the kid".
It's the hour thing that bothers me.
Just once, I would like to hear "you have 17 hours and 11 minutes or I'll do it."

Thumbs up for the film 36 hours for breaking the standard.
 
 Posted:   Nov 18, 2018 - 11:27 AM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

RE Solium;

That is pretty much a staple of mysteries.
Take that away and the genre dies.
(last seen on new PERRY MASON)!

Re: you have "48 hrs."..
Yeah . i mentioned that one before. HAte it!

Brm

 
 Posted:   Nov 18, 2018 - 12:53 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

All is lost, the hero has no answers, it's a somber moment in the film. Their usually having a conversation in their office or sitting back having a drink, when they for no reason glance down at the newspaper right before them. Suddenly a clue is revealed in a headline and they are suddenly back on the trail of solving their problem.

Or, a newscast starts on TV with a big clue (CE3K has a noteworthy example, where Roy Neary sees Devil's Tower on the news and it all comes together).

 
 Posted:   Nov 18, 2018 - 3:35 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Eccentric lawyers and judges.
They always have to be 'characters' with behavioral ticks - like no real life jurist ever would.
See: THE GOOD WIFE
THE NIGHT OF

 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2018 - 1:07 PM   
 By:   madmovyman   (Member)

Whenever a pizza is ordered, it's always plain cheese -
no sausage, no pepperoni, no onions, no pineapple.

 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2018 - 1:18 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Whenever a pizza is ordered, it's always plain cheese -
no sausage, no pepperoni, no onions, no pineapple.

tHAT is how I eat it>
You gotta problem with dat!

 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2018 - 1:43 PM   
 By:   jackfu   (Member)

Old movies, phone booths:
1. The phone booths are rarely, if ever, being used by someone else.
2. The phone always works.
3. The user always has enough change for a call, even international.
4. A person uses the phone without once ever looking at the thing to see if it's anything like clean and without regard as to what might've been on the hands of the last users.
5. The called person always answers.

 
 Posted:   Nov 21, 2018 - 11:13 AM   
 By:   madmovyman   (Member)

when the villain points a gun at the hero, then talks, blusters and scolds...
like Eli Wallach said, "if you're going to shoot, shoot, don't talk."

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 21, 2018 - 12:32 PM   
 By:   The Wanderer   (Member)

I hate it in Star Trek TNG that every member of the enterprise that doesn't have a speaking role is a dead-eyed extra showing zero emotion regardless of the circumstances.

 
 Posted:   Nov 23, 2018 - 5:00 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

In the first film the lead male and female characters fall in love by the end of the film. In the sequel they are at each others throats if not already separated.

 
 Posted:   Nov 25, 2018 - 12:36 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

...someone comes across the aftermath of a bloody murder scene, then stoops down to pick up the discarded murder weapon, thus incriminating themselves via fingerprints and a convenient eyewitness? Watched Candyman again this morning, and was reminded of this.

 
 Posted:   Nov 25, 2018 - 12:37 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

In the first film the lead male and female characters fall in love by the end of the film. In the sequel they are at each others throats if not already separated.


Always bugged me in Karate Kid II when Ralph Macchio and Elisabeth Shue had broken up off-camera between films.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 25, 2018 - 1:26 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

"In threads, don't you just hate it when.....a spambot suddenly rears its head".

 
 Posted:   Nov 25, 2018 - 1:39 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

"In threads, don't you just hate it when.....a spambot suddenly rears its head".

i thought we had a new member frown

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 25, 2018 - 1:48 PM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

Whenever a pizza is ordered, it's always plain cheese -
no sausage, no pepperoni, no onions, no pineapple.

"Oh, and one more thing. Good luck."

 
 Posted:   Nov 25, 2018 - 3:23 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Whenever a pizza is ordered, it's always plain cheese -
no sausage, no pepperoni, no onions, no pineapple.

"Oh, and one more thing. Good luck."


"Be careful "

 
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