Eye Rolling Movie Tropes

[dumb]

not mentioned yet i think, and there's probably less of it happening now. but, a man teaching a woman how to use a gun. sometimes because the man is saving both their butts and may need help now that they have a spare gun. may or may not involve sexual tension. first one that comes to mind is in 'aliens'. even in video games like 'the last of us'.

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

A tomboy in a TV show, whether it be a sitcom or a drama, abruptly wears a girly girl dress and jewelry and perfume in the school dance episode (may not even be the year 12 dance!)

 

[peternorth]

The Daredevil TV series made effective use of the trope by having a lengthy fight in a narrow hallway, meaning only one villain at a time could attack him.

Similarly when the Spartans fought the Persian army they utilised the narrow pass at the Hot Gates.

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

Arnold and Mr Drummond's cameo in "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" is intended to be "aww, how adorable! Still together!" by the Fresh Prince production team but you realize when watching it that it means that Arnold Jackson is almost thirty and still living with his adopted father!

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

I noticed this on the YMMV page for the 1964 Addams Family tv show on TV Tropes:

"Fester demands little Wednesday be beaten for helping herself to his fireworks collection. Gomez's only objection with that is there should be good reason for a beating".

(Editorial note: Wednesday is SIX in the 1964 TV series)

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

Another cliche!

Communist China, their Beijing Olympics, and how they solved the difficulty of their highly skilled singer not being pretty and beautiful enough to be on live international TV:

 

[edgie]

Similarly when the Spartans fought the Persian army they utilised the narrow pass at the Hot Gates.

And when the Anzacs fought the Nazi's

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[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

OOC: My Facebook feed noted Tommy Cooper's birth anniversary the other day.

To honour him, we should all lie on the floor and snore.

(Good News Week: "Someone died, it's not funny. Oh, but it will be!")

 

[GreyCrow]

When you start surveillance on someone they come out of their office,home or restaurant within 5 minutes of you parking

 

[Pistol Night]

not mentioned yet i think, and there's probably less of it happening now. but, a man teaching a woman how to use a gun. sometimes because the man is saving both their butts and may need help now that they have a spare gun. may or may not involve sexual tension. first one that comes to mind is in 'aliens'. even in video games like 'the last of us'.

And then the obligatory moment when the man is about to be killed and the women who previously had the aim of Travis Cloke kills the bad guy with a precision head shot to save the male lead

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

This Holly Vance screencap from an article in Melbourne's "The Age" seems appropriate for the "woman with a gun" point. Imagine a guy aiming a gun while in the equivalent of what she's wearing - well it wouldn't happen but that's another point about cliches!

 

[MatthewB]

This Holly Vance screencap from an article in Melbourne's "The Age" seems appropriate for the "woman with a gun" point. Imagine a guy aiming a gun while in the equivalent of what she's wearing - well it wouldn't happen but that's another point about cliches!

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didnt notice the guy and the gun until i read it

 

[peternorth]

Gang fight in a rave, the ravers continue having a good time as gunfire ensues

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

Gang fight in a rave, the ravers continue having a good time as gunfire ensues

Ditto cafe patrons in Doctor Who where Oscar gets stabbed by Shockeye (The Two Doctors) and Scarlioni's armed thugs kidnap the Fourth Doctor, Romana and Duggan (City of Death)

 

[Pistol Night]

Gang fight in a rave, the ravers continue having a good time as gunfire ensues

Good drugs

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

Good drugs

Shaggy and Scooby are well familiar with such things...

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

Lead characters who get wounded (stabbed, shot) & then a couple of minutes later seem to forget it & are running around as if nothing's happened...& no wound bleeds that much in films, usually just a trickle of blood & that's it. Oh, & I've posted this before, being hit on the head so bad that it knocks you out is a really serious, potentially deadly injury, but in films it's nothing, just nothing, an inconvenience at worst.

I've been rewatching The Saint, and Simon Templar is on the course for severe brain injury at the moment - I give him about six months.

I'm sure I remember reading something that it's not uncommon to vomit as soon you wake up from being knocked unconscious, something Roger Moore never seems to do, and it always pops into my head when I see it in these things!

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

bad makeup jobs on "shapeshifting" robots...

 

[GreyCrow]

When you don't know who the double agent is it's not the hardnut arseh*le breaking the lower agents balls

tl;Dr the bad guy is the good guy

 

[PT Bar None]

When the female lead is shapely and wears tight pants, how often they are framed in a walking away from the camera shot compared to other actors. "Actors faces are expensive, so they're centred in shot almost always." Scarlett Johansson's bottom must run a close second.

The Black Widow movie covered a lot of these tropes

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

Old time publicity photographs of people on radio where it's obvious the mic is just a non-functioning prop.

 

[edgie]

Holly Vallance, there's a name I've not heard in a while.

She was a big tease back in the day.

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[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

In war dramas, if there has been a mass parachute jump then one of the airmen will inevitably end up dangling from a tree.

 

[dumb]

tell me about the thing, or i'll do something to you!
i don't know! i don't know what you're talking about!
you've got 3 seconds until i do something to you! 1.. 2..
ok ok! i'll tell you about the thing!

 

[do_i_look_worried_go_ahe]

*CLICK!"

"Next time, the chamber won't be empty!"