Movie and TV Show Givens

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debodun

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What is a set of circumstance that always seem to occur together in entertainment? Add any that you like. I'll give a few to start:

If there's a funeral, it will be raining.

If a car goes over a cliff, it will explode on impact.

If a pretty girl is being chased by a criminal or monster, she will trip and fall.

There's always an open parking space at an airport's (hotel or other usually busy place) main entrance for the hero.

When being chased by the hero, the criminals will speed through a changing traffic light while the hero gets stuck at the red light.
 

Been watching a specific TV show .
we have noticed in the last few episodes........ that emergency stop switches / buttons on machines or escalators etc ..............although stopped in the midst of paramedic trying to free victim machine turns on by itself....
phone batteries ALWAYS are dead in an emergency........
many more people impaled in car accidents like everyone has a spare piece of wood or metal pole loose in back seat.....
 
And the bad guy always gets caught.
The good guy always gets the girl.
Justice is always served.
Murder victims are always helpless, & usually female.
When the police get into a gun fight with James Cagney & he runs out of ammo, he always throws the empty gun at them. :ROFLMAO:
 

The bombers always walk away toward the camera when the whole building blows up, but they never look back to watch as if they blow something up 10 times everyday, and they are on a schedule.

5 heroes finally get their act together and form a magnificent line walking abreast to march off somewhere to save the day.

One of the things I loved about the Marvel Universe was they would utilize all of the usual and often tiresome tropes, but do it in a way that makes fun of the tropes, even some of the tropes that Marvel invented itself.
 
A bunch of college kids explore an abandoned house. Someone is murdered. A guy tells his girl friend to stay in the room and don't open the door for anyone. He leaves, and he's gone for two minutes before the girl leaves the room to find him. One of them may not get murdered, because the script is flexible after she puts herself in danger. I always wondered if she was safer in the room by herself, or walking around with him.
 
My favorite goes back to the Flintsones ........
but in many forms repeated in other shows
Example: Fred decides on some get rich quick scheme and pours money into starting some project and maybe successful for a moment then falls flat and no matter what ... Fred and Barney seemed to ALWAYS break even never lose or gain a dime....
if only that really happened lol...
 
Young adult male actor's agent tells him he wants him to read for a supporting part in an upcoming big budget movie starring the popular male lead of the moment:

ACTOR: You bet! What's the part?
AGENT: You play [male lead]'s ex-wife's new husband/boyfriend.
ACTOR: Sigh. Well, at least I won't have that many lines to learn.
 
I watch old black and whites from the 30's. (depression years)
Most everyone lives in MANSIONS.
But,
the people who live in one room cold water flats and are counting their pennies
in a piggy bank, always seem to have a housekeeper and a butler! Odd!

In the old Westerns, the good guys always wore white hats and
the bad guys always wore the black hats.
 
Michael Z said:
Hallmark: Young attractive professional woman (always a project manager) must work with handsome cocky man that she dislikes. They fall in love. She discovers he is not honest with her. But alas she is mistaken. Marriage proposal.

While at Mayo, my wife watched about 5 of these while I did jigsaw puzzles.
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She always has a best friend who is not as pretty as she is, to which she confides everything.
She's far too humble to make a decision to "get her man". She has to be pushed into it.
 
helenbacque said:
If Prime or Netflix says "We think you'll like this" I probably won't. Comic book characters, heroes in capes and fairy tales are for the very young. I'm grown up.
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I still like heroes in capes done by Marvel (usually), and sometimes DC Comics succeeds too. But Netflix creates a lot of their own content, and while they hire block buster stars, the stories seldom compare. There is a certain sameness to all of them and few things feel fresh. I start most of the series they say I will like, but seldom get very far into them. I cancelled Netflix after a month or two, and haven't been streaming for a few months now. I'll check out other services, but I only do one at a time. My favorite so far was Hulu, which hardly anyone talks about. I may return to that one, and stay for a few months, and then move on to something else.

By the way, The Queens Gambit on Netflix was excellent... I thought. I watched that series twice. I wish I could buy the disks, but Netflix is holding back on their creations, and apparently wants us to stream, rather than buy.
 
If there is a woman detective on a show she usually has a dark and troubled past and is often ostracized from her coworkers. If a male detective happens to have a dark and troubled past he is often looked as having character and is well respected.

There is always an photo expert in a police department who can blow up a video or picture and get perfect resolution of a license plate or a face. This used to drive me crazy back in the day when the technology was not possible.

In many courtroom dramas, there always seem to be a 'crowd" in the courtroom, people who are just there to watch every trial.

Apparently in medieval times, people took showers everyday, never had to go to the bathroom (never see outdoor plumbing), and had perfect teeth. I know I am nitpicking here but even on "authentic shows" like The Vikings this holds true.

If at the beginning of a cop show the main suspect is slimy, a jerk, or acting very guilty then he/she is most of the time innocent (Law and Order shows famous for this).
 
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