r/MovieTropes

Why are bad guys always trying to kill people and then they say they don’t want to die when they’re about to be killed by the person they tried to kill

I feel like that's more of a subversion of a trope, and that the older one would be the one who's been a cop longer while the younger one's new, but I still wanted to ask.

You’ve prepared breakfast with love.

And when I say breakfast, I mean BREAKFAST.

Croissants. Toast. Jam. Butter. Fresh orange juice. Scrambled eggs. Bacon. Pancakes. Fruit. Cereal. Yogurt.

Basically, you’ve opened the Hilton breakfast buffet in your kitchen.

And all of this before going to work.

Because your suit is perfectly ironed, spotless. It moves with you like a second skin.

You’re made up. Hair perfect. Not a single strand out of place.

Ready to go to work at the real estate agency.

Your teenage son comes downstairs.

Pours himself half a glass of orange juice.

Drinks it.

Leaves.

Your daughter comes in.

“I’m in a hurry.”

Doesn’t eat anything.

Your husband walks in, grabs a piece of toast and says:

“I’ll have breakfast at work.”

And you look at the table.

The same table.

The same table for 10 years.

And you smile.

“These kids…”

WHAT TIME DO YOU GET UP?

Haven’t you learned yet?

Why don’t you just make a glass of juice and some toast?

Why are you preparing a breakfast buffet for six people every morning?

Aren’t you worried about the queue of neighbours waiting by your garbage bins at 8 a.m.?

WHAT KIND OF BREAKFAST BUDGET DO YOU HAVE?

And most importantly...

Haven’t you noticed that you’ve been doing this for 10 YEARS?

At this point, you know why the local charities stopped operating in the area.

What movie or TV show have you NOT seen this trope in?

This is a weird thing to ask but I was wondering if anyone could help me find movies from 1970-1999 that have scenes of a female character having her mugshot(s) taken? I have a YouTube channel where I upload these scenes and that's the purpose of why I'm looking for them.

Seeing the Doomsday trailer is really just the same thing over and over. People are lining up for it? To have dead characters return to be threatened again by...WAIT FOR IT. Death..."bUt iTs iN ThE cOmIcs"

I'm sure there are other comics that take a different approach. The issue is the same formula always gets green lit because corporations like an algorithm. For money.

I'll line up for Dune thanks.

I'm watching the movie Outlander. These Vikings have got to have the most vocal horses I have ever seen! They won't stop whinnying or sneezing or neighing or snorting or wuffling. The sound guy or producer act like they have no idea how quiet horse herds actually are.

It's an innate survival skill, just like how no one told us to be quiet when playing hide and seek. Those ancient brain spots know that the most noisiest creature is the first to be found. Because back then, not being found meant you could hide to live another day, or attack prey and live for another day.

And that's when realized...

Tl;DR - Why do so many movies with one or more horses make them sound so noisy? Horses aren't that noise -alone or in a herd.

My cat has things to teach us about LLMs.

An essay - Guns Don't Kill People - on Ai fear, and what that hides.

Working on a second piece called - Would You Like To Play A Game? - about whether Ai could design a environmentally neutral processing system under it's corporate restraints.

Actively seeking opinions.

***Sorry for the title. Apparently you can't edit titles, onlt body text*****

Two people are trying to solve a problem and can't, for the life of them, figure it out. They may be cops solving a murder, prisoners devising an escape plan, or scientists battling an alien invasion. They have been at it for a long time, pouring over dusty old books, looking at photographs writing formulas on the chalk board and time is ticking down. One of them says "I'l be right back. Gotta take a leak." "What did you say?!?" "I gotta piss" "Thats it's it!!! The answer was staring us right in the face!" As it turns out, the murderer snuck up behing the victim and stabbed him while he stood at the urinal or the prisoners can tunnel through the wall and escape and through the sewer pipes or human urine was extremely poisonous to the aliens and they could kill them by pissing on them.

After watching true detective, and the sopranos. I am wondering why these symbols keep appearing.

*Spoiler alert*

I was watching The Last house on Prime. The daughter is bitten and within a day is sick from infection. The mom fights her way past the attacker to get needed antibiotics. They give the daughter a pill.

Now, this kid is on death's doorstep, barely consciousness, fever, the works.

But my heart sank the second mom said "This will work real fast."

Yep. That's right. Next scene the girl was healthy enough to fight the attacker with the fam. As if she hadn't been dying 5 minutes ago.

🤬

I do hate "the magic pill" trope!

I'm pretty done with the "what was that last part?" gag.

Example:

"I've tried everything! Sleeping, exercising, farting on you while you sleep, better diet!"

"What was that last part?"

"Better diet? Oh well I've been trying this new.."

"No, before that"

Pretty sure I've seen that exact dialogue in three different shows/movies within a week

You’ve been chained to a wall in a filthy basement for who knows how long. Your dirty clothes and matted hair make sure we get the message.

Then we spend THREE DAYS watching close-ups of your brilliant escape plan: slowly scraping away at the chain ring with a nail file, a bit of wire from the bed, or whatever tiny object the plot has provided.

And somehow... it works.

You’re free!

The kidnapper walks in. You grab something heavy.

BAM. He’s down.

And you... DROP THE WEAPON AND RUN?!

REALLY?

HIT HIM AGAIN! You spent THREE DAYS getting out of that chain! You have the weapon! He’s on the floor!

Or just waste five seconds closing the basement door and putting the padlock back on. God forbid he wakes up trapped inside.

But no. You run into the woods, he magically recovers in five seconds, and you trip over the only root for miles.

Also, apparently, the American wilderness is absolutely littered with abandoned bunkers specifically designed for kidnappers.

Three days escaping. Thirty seconds getting captured again.

Back to the basement.

What’s the worst example of this trope you’ve seen?

I love it when one of the characters gets shot but somehow keeps running at full speed away from the threat for God knows how long.

Like, how are you not dead yet? How are you not hopelessly bleeding out on the ground?

One of the more annoying tropes that is just everywhere in movies, shows, etc… is a character being hit over the head and then going unconscious until the plot needs them awake. Then they just wake up and maybe have like mild dizziness.

Like this trope is used in media that’s supposed to be realistic. I don’t understand why this completely nonsensical myth has become so pervasive in media. I get it’s convenient for the plot but that’s just not at all how being knocked out works. You might be unconscious for a few seconds but it doesn’t last. And if it does last, you’re not just gonna wake up with mild discomfort. Like that is SIGNIFICANT brain damage if you are genuinely out for an extended time. I’d like writers to work a little harder at realism rather than defaulting to this silly unrealistic trope.

Same goes for someone being choked out. Once they release the pressure the oxygen returns and you’ll be conscious again fairly quickly. And if you aren’t then you’re probably dying and need immediate medical attention.

There are many movies, including Operation Taco Gary's, where the rich and/or famous are buying tickets or space to survive an apocalypse of some kind. The movies are usually focused on the scrappy not-rich/famous people trying to get in somehow or another. But it's usually like 2 to 5 people. There is NO WAY 2 to 5 people will be able to keep the rich/famous alive, and very few of THESE movies show any other regular schmucks being included. When someone was in the planning phase, did they really not consider how these entitled people were going to get food when supplies ran out? How things would be repaired, cleaned, moved, garbage removed, etc.?? It seems like a short site in movies like Operation Taco Gary's.

(Not talking about apocalypse movies 2012, or Ascension, where this is a non-issue.)