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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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Stalker with a Crush
It Will Never Catch On
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Italian Films
Cain and Abel
Abusive Parents
Break the Cutie
All Just a Dream
From Bad to Worse
Groin Attack
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
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Reality Is Unrealistic
Bait-and-Switch
Non-Indicative Name
Toplessness from the Back
The Voiceless
Villain with Good Publicity
Manly Tears
Artistic License Military
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One-Man Army
Re-Cut
You Killed My Father
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FaceHeel Turn
Determinator
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Amoral Attorney
Bland-Name Product
Villainous Breakdown
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Properly Paranoid
Kick the Dog
Freeze-Frame Bonus
Anachronism Stew
The '80s
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Would Hurt a Child
Despair Event Horizon
I'm a Humanitarian
Blatant Lies
Rated M for Manly
Gender Flip
Hero Antagonist
The Un-Favourite
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Neck Snap
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
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Kick the Son of a Bitch
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Those Two Bad Guys
Extremely Short Timespan
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Hoist by His Own Petard
Badass Grandpa
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Big Fancy House
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Those Two Guys
And I Must Scream
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Line-of-Sight Name
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Serial Killer
Rule of Symbolism
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Arc Words
Sci-Fi Horror
Alas, Poor Villain
Betty and Veronica
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Rule of Three
Shirtless Scene
Real Life Writes the Plot
Needs Wiki Magic Love
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Documentary
The Hero
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Drowning My Sorrows
Book-Ends
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Danny Peary Cult Movies List
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Together in Death
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Meet Cute
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Canadian Movies
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Intergenerational Friendship
All There in the Script
Defiant to the End
Mexican Standoff
Take a Third Option
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"Shaggy Dog" Story
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Love at First Sight
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Vampire Fiction
Not Quite Dead
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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Adaptational Badass
Not Using the "Z" Word
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A God Am I
Never Found the Body
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Show Within a Show
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Match Cut
Your Head A-Splode
Insane Troll Logic
Red Herring
Chekhov's Gun
The End... Or Is It?
Make It Look Like an Accident
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My God, What Have I Done?
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Naked People Are Funny
Historical-Domain Character
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The Reveal
Loophole Abuse
Drives Like Crazy
Empathic Environment
Bound and Gagged
Karma Houdini
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
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Conspicuous CG
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
Nice Guy
Soundtrack Dissonance
Bavarian Fire Drill
Gory Discretion Shot
Well-Intentioned Extremist
Rape as Drama
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Captain Obvious
Television Movie Index
Getting Crap Past the Radar
Arranged Marriage
In the Back
Star-Crossed Lovers
Instant Death Bullet
Christmas Movies Index
Skewed Priorities
Ominous Latin Chanting
Silent Movie
Gainax Ending
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Deliberately Monochrome
Card-Carrying Villain
Storming the Castle
Fire-Forged Friends
Chewing the Scenery
Historical Villain Upgrade
You Have Failed Me
Belligerent Sexual Tension
Animal Title Index
Cool Old Lady
Hollywood Law
Superhero
Hypocritical Humor
Tap on the Head
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Henpecked Husband
Evil vs. Evil
The Quiet One
Bottomless Magazines
Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Gone Horribly Right
Dark Is Not Evil
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Final Girl
Retired Badass
What Happened to the Mouse?
Evil-Detecting Dog
Peek-a-Boo Corpse
She's Got Legs
Faking the Dead
Faux Affably Evil
Say My Name
The Film of the Book
The Mafia
Boom, Headshot!
Twist Ending
Overprotective Dad
Villain Ball
Scenery Gorn
In Medias Res
Expy
No Ending
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
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Disappeared Dad
Anti-Hero
Not So Above It All
Rich Bitch
Ungrateful Bastard
Dual Wielding
Mighty Whitey
Cluster F-Bomb
BrotherSister Incest
Spell My Name with an "S"
Works Set in World War II
Sir Swears-a-Lot
Dark Action Girl
Dwindling Party
Car Fu
Ripped from the Headlines
The X of Y
And the Adventure Continues
Real Life
My Beloved Smother
Never My Fault
Oh, Crap!
Taking You with Me
Call-Forward
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Guns Akimbo
Attempted Rape
Actually Pretty Funny
Took a Level in Badass
Shown Their Work
Heroes Want Redheads
Contrived Coincidence
Bi the Way
Black Best Friend
And Starring
Alliterative Name
Mundane Made Awesome
Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Artistic License Geography
Cool Guns
The '60s
The Big Guy
Asshole Victim
Scary Black Man
Word of God
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
Pet the Dog
Dramatic Gun Cock
No Name Given
Early Installment Weirdness
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Parental Abandonment
Adaptational Heroism
The Power of Love
Visual Pun
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Sacrificial Lion
The Place
Daddy's Girl
Martial Arts Movie
Closed Circle
Up to Eleven
Cool Old Guy
Death Glare
Epic Fail
Bald of Evil
Idiot Ball
Fanservice Extra
Dull Surprise
Does This Remind You of Anything?
Red Oni, Blue Oni
Authority Equals Asskicking
Spanner in the Works
Insult Backfire
Novelization
Rousing Speech
Crucified Hero Shot
Foreshadowing
Older Than They Look
The Brute
Villain Protagonist
Happily Married
Hair-Trigger Temper
The Alcoholic
Greater-Scope Villain
The Bad Guy Wins
Those Wacky Nazis
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Heel Realization
Adaptational Attractiveness
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Moment Killer
Redshirt Army
Training Montage
For Want of a Nail
Mind Screw
Big Damn Heroes
Badass Boast
A Father to His Men
Costume Porn
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Cat Scare
The Lancer
Artistic License Biology
Bond Villain Stupidity
Friend to All Children
Papa Wolf
Woman in White
Does Not Like Shoes
Ascended Extra
Let's Get Dangerous!
Insistent Terminology
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Deus ex Machina
Downer Ending
Politically Incorrect Villain
Fingore
Fun with Acronyms
The Dragon
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
Brutal Honesty
Improbable Weapon User
Femme Fatale
Beard of Evil
Parental Neglect
The Alleged Car
Did Not Get the Girl
Bar Brawl
Stuff Blowing Up
Demoted to Extra
Chekhov's Skill
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An Axe to Grind
Humans Are Bastards
Awesome, but Impractical
Refuge in Audacity
Blood Knight
Wham Line
Adapted Out
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Rewatch Bonus
Military and Warfare Films
Narrator
Psychopathic Manchild
Mr. Fanservice
B-Movie
Manipulative Bastard
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Badass in a Nice Suit
Cool Car
Bury Your Gays
Cloudcuckoolander
Kubrick Stare
The Great Depression
Setting Update
Suspiciously Specific Denial
Market-Based Title
Camp Gay
Film Series
Ambiguously Gay
Last-Name Basis
Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Adults Are Useless
Jitter Cam
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Poor Communication Kills
Trailers Always Spoil
Blood from the Mouth
Creative Closing Credits
Jerkass
Hero of Another Story
Dutch Angle
Genre Savvy
Took a Level in Jerkass
Adaptation Distillation
Damsel in Distress
Only in It for the Money
Bowdlerise
Framing Device
For the Evulz
Truth in Television
Earn Your Happy Ending
Armor-Piercing Question
Cowboy Cop
Only Sane Man
Cool Shades
Destination Defenestration
Ironic Echo
Smug Snake
Smoking Is Cool
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Red Eyes, Take Warning
The Cavalry
Evil Plan
Establishing Character Moment
Redemption Equals Death
Naïve Newcomer
Deadpan Snarker
All There in the Manual
Obviously Evil
Pragmatic Adaptation
HeelFace Turn
Genre Shift
Stealth Pun
Catapult Nightmare
Ship Tease
Credits Gag
Even Evil Has Standards
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Everyone Has Standards
Informed Ability
Big Bad
Tagline
Woman Scorned
War Is Hell
Dark Reprise
Light Is Not Good
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Genre Throwback
Distracted by the Sexy
I Have Your Wife
The Chessmaster
Large Ham
Deconstruction
Country Matters
Karmic Death
NO INDOOR VOICE
The Dog Bites Back
Film Noir Index
Psychological Thriller
Action Genre
Meaningful Name
Not What It Looks Like
"Awesome McCool" Name
The Lost Lenore
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Would Hit a Girl
Hong Kong Films
Vomit Discretion Shot
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Killed Mid-Sentence
Playing Gertrude
Crapsack World
Batman Gambit
Driven to Suicide
Crazy-Prepared
Logo Joke
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Adult Fear
Mistaken for Gay
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Rule of Cool
Flashback
Never Trust a Trailer
aka: Trailers Always Lie
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Red Shirt
Bad "Bad Acting"
Pay Evil unto Evil
Gorn
Back from the Dead
Hope Spot
Time Skip
Pimped-Out Dress
Epic Movie
Animal Motifs
Casting Gag
Slasher Movie
Break the Haughty
Catch-Phrase
Lighter and Softer
Posthumous Character
More Dakka
Australian Movies
Pragmatic Villainy
N-Word Privileges
Drugs Are Bad
Bloodier and Gorier
Bolivian Army Ending
Film Noir
Sanity Slippage
Once More, with Clarity!
Continuity Nod
Beware the Nice Ones
Dissonant Serenity
Bring My Brown Pants
Brainless Beauty
Unusual Euphemism
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Better to Die than Be Killed
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Off with His Head!
Knight Templar
In Name Only
Evil Is Petty
Never Trust a Trailer
Adaptational Villainy
Kill It with Fire
Anachronic Order
Dropped a Bridge on Him
Loads and Loads of Characters
Green-Eyed Monster
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Fish out of Water
The '90s
Evil Is Hammy
From Nobody to Nightmare
Good Is Not Nice
Video Credits
Dirty Old Man
Random Events Plot
Famous Last Words
Parental Substitute
Have a Gay Old Time
Coming-of-Age Story
Improvised Weapon
Mugging the Monster
Hidden Depths
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Berserk Button
Eldritch Abomination
Dogged Nice Guy
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Heroic Sacrifice
Love Triangle
Apocalypse How
Noodle Incident
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Air-Vent Passageway
Sinister Minister
Alpha Bitch
Ass Shove
Zombie Stories
'80s Hair
Fate Worse than Death
Cruel and Unusual Death
Monumental Damage
All for Nothing
Fanservice
Kids Are Cruel
Man on Fire
Calling the Old Man Out
Music Stories
The Faceless
One Steve Limit
Almost Kiss
Jerk Jock
Hollywood Darkness
Broken Pedestal
Composite Character
Retcon
Lock and Load Montage
Pretty Little Headshots
Facial Horror
Punny Name
Badass Normal
Public Domain Feature Films
Curse Cut Short
I Did What I Had to Do
Only a Flesh Wound
Creepy Child
Celebrity Paradox
Sexy Discretion Shot
Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Revenge
Demonic Possession
Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Captain Ersatz
Badass Bookworm
Sequel Escalation
Important Haircut
The Stoner
Protagonist Title
Mood Whiplash
Paper-Thin Disguise
Accidental Murder
Room Full of Crazy
Fan Disservice
Running Gag
Villain Opening Scene
Evil Brit
Rule of Funny
A Date with Rosie Palms
Maybe Ever After
Not So Stoic
Evil Counterpart
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Same Language Dub
Easily Forgiven
Deal with the Devil
Annoying Younger Sibling
Bloodless Carnage
Pyrrhic Victory
Covers Always Lie
Half the Man He Used to Be
Tranquil Fury
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
The Remake
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Artistic License Law
Anyone Can Die
Arch-Enemy
Left the Background Music On
Only One Name
Eye Scream
Improbable Aiming Skills
Worthy Opponent
Sealed Evil in a Can
Death by Irony
Mythology Gag
Immune to Bullets
Action Girl
Ms. Fanservice
German Films
Really Gets Around
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Kill 'em All
Here We Go Again!
Mercy Kill
Race Against the Clock
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Eyepatch of Power
Fourth Date Marriage
It's All About Me
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Wicked Cultured
Straight Gay
Evil Sounds Deep
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Vitriolic Best Buds
Reality Has No Subtitles
Ax-Crazy
Defrosting Ice Queen
Yandere
Mama Bear
This Is Gonna Suck
Big-Bad Ensemble
Malevolent Masked Men
Taking the Bullet
Motor Mouth
Chekhov's Gunman
Mr. Exposition
Shower Scene
Nothing Is Scarier
The Bully
Camera Abuse
Chiaroscuro
Be Careful What You Wish For
Leave the Camera Running
Death by Sex
As the Good Book Says...
Sequel Hook
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
One-Word Title
Ambiguous Ending
Only Known by Their Nickname
Disney Villain Death
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Vacation Films
Shipper on Deck
Dying Moment of Awesome
Anti-Villain
Slasher Smile
Ambiguous Disorder
Bilingual Bonus
Shout-Out
Diabolus ex Machina
Index of Film Westerns
Crazy Jealous Guy
Gratuitous English
20 Minutes into the Future
Police Brutality
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Small Name, Big Ego
Death of a Child
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Fantasy Films
Adaptation Dye-Job
Stepford Smiler