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I was watching Minority Report a while back. Just a few days before that, I was watching one of the Dirty Harry movies. I noticed how both movies have ridiculous chase scenes in them. The chase goes on for a LONG time, and it always involves rooftops and awkward bystanders. A lot of movies have that, actually.
Another one that comes to mind is the "hit and run" that movie characters always do when the bad guy is almost upon them. They hit him, he falls, and they run (rather than stay and hit him again).
The anguished character screaming "Nooooo!" is over done to IMO. I'd love to see someone cry "YESSSSS!" for a change when someone dies in a movie. Baring that, at least go with "WHHYYY??" or "AHHHHHHHH!" Or even incomprehensible sobs would be better than yet another character crying "NOOOO! "
How many other worn out movie gags can you think of?
For me it's the whole shooting out the tires thing. Serioursly if your trailing a guy and you're close enough to shoot out their tires, why not go for a head shot if you're going to kill him anyway?
For me it's the whole shooting out the tires thing. Serioursly if your trailing a guy and you're close enough to shoot out their tires, why not go for a head shot if you're going to kill him anyway?
Because that triggers Dead foot Leadfoot
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Action Movie Trope where the driver of a vehicle is shot/killed. Instantly, he suffers a muscle spasm that extends the driver's leg, pushing the accelerator pedal all the way to the floor. Then instant rigor mortis sets in, keeping it there. Naturally, this causes the vehicle to accelerate to ludicrous speed, putting anyone in the way of this driving dead man at mortal risk.
How many other worn out movie gags can you think of?
It's not so much a gag, but a complaint. Every time someone hotwires a car in a movie, even a brand-new one, they crank the engine on the first try and drive away like they own it.
Never mind that the freaking steering would lock without the key in the ignition...
They do come up with some pretty good trope names, no?
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So what, is there a specific color coding scheme for wiring in the bmb-maker's handbook?
It seems to me that if I didn't want the good guys to disarm my bomb, I'd make all the wires blue... And then add in a couple dozen dummy wires (also blue) in a big messy bundle.
Which leads me to another bugger...
Disarming the time bomb with only single digit seconds left on the timer. My time bombs would be set to go off at something like 5 minutes 42 seconds.
"Six minutes... Good, we've got plenty of ti-" KA-BOOM!
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__________________ "Y'know, I think my favorite thing about being a hero of destiny is that it gives you all kinds of narrative justification to just slay any ol' jerk who gets in your way." -- 8-bit Theater
"i did not serve with napolean in his artillery. but i did play wargames with him and his men." -- diaglo
Oddly enough, except for general advice about equipment and superweapons, the Evil Overlord list has nothing to say on the matter of bomb building.
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My favorite is how during any car crash, no matter how severe, it explodes and/or starts on fire.
The Simpsons have parodied that idiom on several episodes.
On the USA show "Monk" they frequently have to resort to deus ex machina on the show. When captured by the bad-guy, it'd be easier for the bbeg to shoot Monk and his friends than tie them up.
This happens, of course, in the James Bond films, as well.
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So what, is there a specific color coding scheme for wiring in the bmb-maker's handbook?
It seems to me that if I didn't want the good guys to disarm my bomb, I'd make all the wires blue... And then add in a couple dozen dummy wires (also blue) in a big messy bundle.
Which leads me to another bugger...
Disarming the time bomb with only single digit seconds left on the timer. My time bombs would be set to go off at something like 5 minutes 42 seconds.
"Six minutes... Good, we've got plenty of ti-" KA-BOOM!
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Oddly enough, except for general advice about equipment and superweapons, the Evil Overlord list has nothing to say on the matter of bomb building.
Now, to be fair...
"15. I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation."
My online gaming group, Torch of Spirit (Contains all information for the current game I'm co-DMing as well as lots of houserules I'm using or considering for the future. Feel free to check it out.)
"136. If I build a bomb, I will simply remember which wire to cut if it has to be deactivated and make every wire red."
He cut that one out for the official list of 100.
I did miss the countdown one, though. Fair enough.
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"I don't believe it. There she goes again! She's tidied up, and I can't find anything! All my tubes and wires and careful notes and antiquated notions..." - Thomas Dolby
Whenever time is sped up or slowed down to make a scene "more awesome".
Seconded!!!
The bad guys drop three hundred thousand rounds of ammunition downrange toward the hero, who then pulls out a 9mm autoloader with 14 in the clip and wastes an army of 30 bad guys... without re-loading and without ever missing. (was really bad in the days of the western 6-shooters with infinite ammo). I believe UHF and Hot Shots! Part Deux) both sent this up rather nicely.
Also the childhood friend who accidentally "died" only to later come back as the hero's enemy for by miraculously escaping somehow yet pissed off that his "friend" left him to die, regardless that he attended the funeral, wept and carried the burden all these years while that wanker watched him suffer from the shadows. Frankly I would have been happy to cheat death and had my friend throw me a party for surviving.
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On one hand, taking away their weapons is a dead giveaway that they will need them. On the other hand, by the time conflict starts the players will already have opened the rulebooks and found the parts that deal with bare-handed combat, performing disarm moves, and using improvised weapons. Players may blunder through dialog with shocking ineptitude, forget the name of the country they are in, or get confused about which side they are on, but once it comes time to roll for initiative they all turn into Sun Tzu. - Shamus Young DM of the Rings
Yes, everything about that untalented hack is an overdone cliche. His bit is more captain obvious than clever.
Ooh... In fact, within the last 20 years, easily 9 out of 10 SNL alums who try to make movies fall into that category.
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"I don't believe it. There she goes again! She's tidied up, and I can't find anything! All my tubes and wires and careful notes and antiquated notions..." - Thomas Dolby
How about when a hero (or his sidekick) is shot, but saved by some object under his coat. It's usually a whiskey flask for extra comic relief ('cause drinkin' is funny), but might also be a Bible, a medallion of some sort, a badge, etc.
A close cousin to this is the "bullet-proof vest surprise" (this might be for the hero or the villian, though). The character is shot, the audience is supposed to gasp in horror (or in the case of the villian being shot, relief), only to have the character survive due to him wearing a bullet proof vest, even though said vest was never mentioned or shown anywhere else in the film.
I was watching serenity again and really enjoyed the following:
Villain: "We need to talk this out - I am unarmed "
Mal: "good." *BANG* shoots villain, and makes a run for it.
Villain catching up "I am of course wearing full body armor, I'm not an idiot"
Villain then beats up hero, clearly outclassing him.
I mean sure "full body armor" does not include a helmet, but other than that it was just lovely.
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