Eye Rolling Movie Tropes

[2006_Eagles]

The pain I can believe, but that cut went right through her abdominal muscles. If anyone has had their appendix out where they pull the fibers apart over maybe two inches... it's way worse than that and I bet those people couldn't sit up in bed by themselves.

Whenever I see a movie do pain/injury reactions right, they instantly get bonus points in my book

One that comes to mind is in Above The Law when Steven Seagull snaps the main bad guys arm. His shriek, face and bodily reaction completely sold it

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Shaw was lucky the emergency C section gave her the ability to run to the side too.

 

[Pistol Night]

Character looks into a mirror, camera pans down to sink. camera pans back to mirror. Bad guy or monster in background. Every.Single.Time

 

[Wallaby]

I like the ones where the heroes are talking through the clues, going,'So, if that happened, that means this, which means the murderer must be......'

pause

Look up slowly at other person in room (usually ex-partner or boss), who is now holding a gun and sneering evilly.

 

[iluvparis]

I'm sure this has been mentioned - but anyone getting a leave pass for the weekend in a war film is odds on to be dead inside the next 5 minutes

 

[peternorth]

Can’t be bothered checking but I may have mentioned people closing laptops instead of shutting it down first

 

[rank and file]

The hard-nosed journo who is like a dog with a bone and they wont let the story go.
The surveillance team parked one house back,
across the road,you'd notice.
The two heroes eat junk food while looking through cameras for ages while broken marriage
senior partner asks to see rookie's pics of girlfriend
and says
"DAMM!"
Bond is forged and bad guys defeated

 

[MatthewB]

The surveillance team parked one house back,
across the road,you'd notice.

people never notice when they have a tail, especially at night when they both pull over to the side of the road and turn off their lights at the same time

 

[JackOutback]

Can’t be bothered checking but I may have mentioned people closing laptops instead of shutting it down first

I do that plenty.

 

[tenderwarrior]

Literally my favourite line of any RD episode: ‘there’ll be time for explanations later… and hopefully some sex.’

The best line of RD was one of the very first..

"He's dead, Dave, everybody is dead, everybody is dead, Dave."

 

[peternorth]

I do that plenty.

I feel its safer to turn the laptop off. Then remove the hard drive, put it in the microwave, burn it. Sprinkles ashes into the ocean.

 

[Pistol Night]

I feel its safer to turn the laptop off. Then remove the hard drive, put it in the microwave, burn it. Sprinkles ashes into the ocean.

Depends on your search history..

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

The cop who knows best and does things his way

His angry bureaucratic chief who makes catching the bad buys more difficult and just doesn't get it

 

[rank and file]

The cop who knows best and does things his way

His angry bureaucratic chief who makes catching the bad buys more difficult and just doesn't get it

"My hands are tied .
I need your gun and badge NOW!"
As good cop exposes City Hall

 

[Wallaby]

"My hands are tied .
I need your gun and badge NOW!"
As good cop exposes City Hall

Boss puts young punk cop in smart suit in charge of investigation, but he don't know da streets.

 

[Lethality]

The white male narcissist genius and the ongoing suspense plot over whether or not he will soften and express his real feelings. Spare me.

I omitted Dexter because he is the opposite of this trope; he pretends to be more normal than he actually is.

 

[peternorth]

The capable hero who has reluctantly accepted a doofus sidekick, kicks the doofus out. doofus comes back to save the day in the end.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

American high school cafeteria food fight

 

[rank and file]

American high school cafeteria food fight

See that
Raise you an American jail movie where they have an actual riot.
Also cons who work in the kitchen,deal drugs and do there time comfortably.

 

[deanc]

Incredible results with self hair cuts..!

Our main protagonist/hero, usually female, on the run from authorities needs a quick makeover which includes cutting and/or dying her hair?

Usual scene is; she is in a train station/café/motel grubby bathroom, the dim light is flicking as she hacks away with scissors, there's a shot of the hair dye bottle and sometimes it's not even actual hair dye.........
Then remarkably the next scene the following day, reveals her new hairdo which amazingly looks like something a professional stylist would spend most of a full day in a salon achieving..?

 

[Wallaby]

I watched The Mummy the other night (either #2 or #3 - can't remember. Fun movie - Brendan Fraser is good at 'Slightly Daggy Hero').

Anyway:
a) The bad guys shot rifles, fired machine guns and pistols at the good guys - from a range of 10-50 yards throughout the movie. I kept careful count, and they fired 123,852 bullets at the 4 good guys - none hit.
b) Cute kid kept spotting the clues that the adults missed.
c) London streets are deserted while zombie mummies chase the good guys who are driving a bus. By the way, it was a double-decker bus, and I said 'Low bridge coming up' 10 seconds before it appeared.
c) At one stage the camera focussed closely on one particular nameless henchman (never noticed him before) as he crept nervously through the dark jungle - I thought 'He's got 10 seconds (at most) left to live'.
d) Evil God-like character can raise sandstorms, move concrete columns with his mind powers, is impervious to bullets, crushes rocks in his bare hands - but chooses to fight Hero with his fists - and loses.
e) There was an Evil girl and a Hero girl - both cute - and, believe it or not, they had a fight (just between them) near the end of the movie. (I'll admit - I liked that bit).

The wife and I spent most of the movie saying 'He's going to die now', 'Look behind you', and 'I could write this shit'. It was a fun night - had a good bottle of wine.

 

[Contra Mundum]

I like the ones where the heroes are talking through the clues, going,'So, if that happened, that means this, which means the murderer must be......'

pause

Look up slowly at other person in room (usually ex-partner or boss), who is now holding a gun and sneering evilly.

Mr Exposition

 

[phantom13]

The white male narcissist genius and the ongoing suspense plot over whether or not he will soften and express his real feelings. Spare me.

I omitted Dexter because he is the opposite of this trope; he pretends to be more normal than he actually is.

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Was Becker a genius? I seem to recall him being a barely competent GP (although he had a research partner who made a tonne of money at some point didnt he?)

 

[deanc]

The entire thread could be dedicated just to this scene alone. A few observations/dot points:

- Arnie vs 100 South American paramilitary troops and his only injury is a few cuts from a frag grenade going off right beside him..!

- Kills all using just two clips. No reloading, rarely missing, uses flowers for cover..!

- Guy with moustache dies at least 5 times, a few others also amazingly come back to life to continue shooting..!

- I love how his machine gun ammo belt never gets shorter while he's shooting a million bullets..!

- You are not supposed to notice - but you can clearly see the bullets are actually tied to the gun..!

- Also love how a guerilla army has a ballet type grace when they get hit, spin and fall..!

- While all the army boys are aiming, Arnie is just firing from the hip - because obviously that's more accurate..?

- Despite over 500 rounds shot, amazingly not even a little smoke from the barrel..?

- RIP to the flowers and the statues...

 

[MatthewB]

The entire thread could be dedicated just to this scene alone. A few observations/dot points:

- Arnie vs 100 South American paramilitary troops and his only injury is a few cuts from a frag grenade going off right beside him..!

- Kills all using just two clips. No reloading, rarely missing, uses flowers for cover..!

- Guy with moustache dies at least 5 times, a few others also amazingly come back to life to continue shooting..!

- I love how his machine gun ammo belt never gets shorter while he's shooting a million bullets..!

- You are not supposed to notice - but you can clearly see the bullets are actually tied to the gun..!

- Also love how a guerilla army has a ballet type grace when they get hit, spin and fall..!

- While all the army boys are aiming, Arnie is just firing from the hip - because obviously that's more accurate..?

- Despite over 500 rounds shot, amazingly not even a little smoke from the barrel..?

- RIP to the flowers and the statues...

do not dis Arnie or Commando, the are immune to movie tropes