Favorite Movie Trope

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There are a few on my short list but if I had to pick one it’s the repeating day. I prefer the ones where the main character dies over and over again and repeats the same day but Groundhog Day type movies are good to.

Happy Deathday and Boss Level are probably my favorites of the die and come back trope.
 
I like underdog movies. Rudy, Safety, Rocky, 300, the Little Engine that Could, stuff like that.


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I don't know about a favorite but there's one I don't like. That's the go back in time to correct whatever issue. If you cold go back in time I believe the way that would work would be that you just stepped into an alternate dimension and changed an outcome there. You didn't fix your reality, you just abandoned it and everyone in it.

In Justice League Apocalypse,
So at the end of Justice league Apocalypse they are still doomed, just dying without the Flash there.
 
I like scenes that are a shot in a very cool or interesting way. It’s hard to explain, and I’m sounding vague but here goes.

There’s one scene in the first Iron Man that I really liked. It’s when Stane meets up with his terrorist partner and he and his bodyguards roll up to their camp. He’s got like 2 or 3 bodyguards but there’s like 50 terrorist lackeys that surround them and start flexing. Stane uses his paralysis device (whatever that was) and by the time he comes out a few minutes later, his bodyguards have completely incapacitated the entire camp of lackeys and have them on their knees, about to be wasted.

How’s they do that so quickly and silently? An awesome move that you never get to see, only off camera so you have to imagine how it happened.
 
The silent Willis duct. Every house and building has one...that grate that opens to reveal a person sized duct the doesn't make any noise when you crawl through it to either escape from enemies or surprise attack them.
 
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I like tropes with a twist. Like the Twilight Show episodes.

The Sixth Sense had that twist at then end that just TOTALLY made me go "WOW! I didn't see that coming at all!" Then you're able to tie all the hints and clues together that you didn't realize were hints and clues.

I also like it when the prevailing tropes are completely upended. Like SciFi movies with aliens...it's almost ALWAY about some evil, alien invasion or some such bad thing. But when ET first came out, what made the movie so good for me was the fact that ET was really no different than any of us...he was just a stranded person on our planet who only wanted to go back home.

The "psycho ex-girlfriend" twisted it up a bit with the girlfriend being a superhero. That was frickin' HILARIOUS!
 
Immortality/ extreme longevity. It shows up in so many variations, and not always a central part of the story.
 
inconsistencies or mistakes or continuation errors.

examples:
1. a six-gun that shoots 7 times without reloading.
2. a jet contrail in the Ancient Roman sky.
3. reflections of the camera crew.
 
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