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Smoking Is Cool
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All Just a Dream
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"Shaggy Dog" Story
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Evil Sounds Deep
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Not So Stoic
Undying Loyalty
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Defiant to the End
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Wretched Hive
As You Know
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Trailers Always Spoil
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Not What It Looks Like
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Famous Last Words
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Playing Gertrude
Heroic Sacrifice
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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Authority Equals Asskicking
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Humans Are Bastards
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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Once More, with Clarity!
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Pretty in Mink
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
My Beloved Smother
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The Dog Bites Back
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Pet the Dog
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Captain Obvious
You Killed My Father
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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Chekhov's Gun
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Fire-Forged Friends
Manchild
Creator Cameo
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Tap on the Head
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
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Say My Name
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Man on Fire
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The Cameo
After the End
Nice Hat
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Wham Line
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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Parental Incest
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The Ace
Karmic Death
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As Himself
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
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You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
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Token Minority
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I'm a Humanitarian
He Knows Too Much
Better to Die than Be Killed
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In the Back
I Did What I Had to Do
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The Hero
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Important Haircut
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Darkest Hour
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Loads and Loads of Characters
Fatal Family Photo
Evil-Detecting Dog
Revenge
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Christmas Movies Index
Happily Married
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
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Rule of Symbolism
Every Car Is a Pinto
Drugs Are Bad
Body Horror
Dirty Cop
Ripped from the Headlines
My Greatest Failure
Kick the Dog
Chekhov's Skill
Comically Missing the Point
Spiritual Successor
Awesome, but Impractical
Same Language Dub
Canon Foreigner
Never My Fault
Historical Villain Upgrade
Friend to All Children
Red Right Hand
Adults Are Useless
Let's Get Dangerous!
Blood from the Mouth
Dirty Old Man
Taking You with Me
The Dragon
The Big Guy
Cool Guns
Tempting Fate
Put on a Bus
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Training Montage
Defrosting Ice Queen
It's Personal
The Lancer
Pretty Little Headshots
Retired Badass
Four-Temperament Ensemble
Properly Paranoid
Genre Throwback
Dramatic Gun Cock
Black Comedy Rape
Bare Your Midriff
Super Strength
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Take That!
Fat Bastard
Sexy Discretion Shot
I Have Your Wife
Suddenly SHOUTING!
Dramedy
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Major Injury Underreaction
Light Is Not Good
Dumb Blonde
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Madness Mantra
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Everyone Has Standards
Hero of Another Story
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The Oner
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Parental Abandonment
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The Alcoholic
Poor Communication Kills
How We Got Here
Bait-and-Switch
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Mood Whiplash
O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Killed Mid-Sentence
Our Vampires Are Different
Bowdlerise
Unusual Euphemism
Artistic License History
Big Bad Duumvirate
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
Take a Third Option
Never Found the Body
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Abhorrent Admirer
Break the Haughty
Retcon
Beard of Evil
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Music Stories
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
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Death by Irony
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Black Dude Dies First
Not So Above It All
Made of Iron
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Homage
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Yandere
Extremely Short Timespan
Honor Before Reason
Large Ham
Epic Fail
Badass in a Nice Suit
Camp Gay
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Sequel Hook
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Cassandra Truth
Bottomless Magazines
The Cavalry
Fish out of Water
Dissonant Serenity
Closed Circle
Bound and Gagged
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Male Frontal Nudity
Bullying a Dragon
Only in It for the Money
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Mercy Kill
The Bully
Immune to Bullets
Mythology Gag
Our Zombies Are Different
Covers Always Lie
Ambiguously Gay
The Remake
Auto Erotica
Country Matters
Butt-Monkey
Meet Cute
Animal Motifs
Rousing Speech
Flipping the Bird
No Ending
Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Good Is Not Nice
Up to Eleven
The Chessmaster
Storming the Castle
Only Known by Their Nickname
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Rasputinian Death
Romantic False Lead
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Hypocritical Humor
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Show Within a Show
Be Careful What You Wish For
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Author Avatar
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Half the Man He Used to Be
Sir Swears-a-Lot
Improvised Weapon
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Took a Level in Badass
Nice Guy
Crazy Jealous Guy
Truth in Television
Cruel and Unusual Death
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Informed Ability
Woman Scorned
Anachronism Stew
Badass Grandpa
Author Appeal
Australian Movies
Armor-Piercing Question
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Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Toplessness from the Back
Married to the Job
Zombie Stories
Parental Neglect
Fanservice
Intergenerational Friendship
Face Death with Dignity
Beware the Nice Ones
Villain Ball
Cold-Blooded Torture
Laughing Mad
Darker and Edgier
Wham Shot
Belligerent Sexual Tension
Big Brother Instinct
Hollywood Darkness
Reality Is Unrealistic
Jerkass
Eureka Moment
Male Gaze
Martial Arts Movie
Adaptation Distillation
Deus ex Machina
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Riddle for the Ages
Demoted to Extra
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
The Stoic
Vitriolic Best Buds
The End... Or Is It?
The Vamp
Manly Tears
Shout-Out
Catapult Nightmare
Interrupted Suicide
Jitter Cam
Broken Bird
Cool Car
Character Development
Word of God
Star-Crossed Lovers
Missing Mom
MacGuffin
Lock and Load Montage
Bring My Brown Pants
Horror Comedy
Bland-Name Product
More Dakka
The Bad Guy Wins
Sealed Evil in a Can
Diabolus ex Machina
Psycho for Hire
Kubrick Stare
Off-into-the-Distance Ending
BFG
Pyrrhic Victory
From Nobody to Nightmare
Amoral Attorney
Gender Flip
"Awesome McCool" Name
Kill 'em All
Meaningful Name
Bond Villain Stupidity
Have a Gay Old Time
Mystery and Detective Films
Bittersweet Ending
An Axe to Grind
The Brute
Actor Allusion
Needs Wiki Magic Love
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Noodle Incident
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Exact Words
HeelFace Turn
No OSHA Compliance
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Red Herring
20 Minutes into the Future
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Race Against the Clock
Artistic License Law
Victoria's Secret Compartment
Adaptational Villainy
The Hero Dies
Accidental Misnaming
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Guile Hero
Hoist by His Own Petard
Empathic Environment
Product Placement
What You Are in the Dark
All There in the Script
Shown Their Work
Deadpan Snarker
Scare Chord
Fun with Acronyms
Vomit Discretion Shot
Attempted Rape
Broken Pedestal
Drill Sergeant Nasty
Oh, Crap!
For Want of a Nail
Genre Savvy
Scary Black Man
Mr. Fanservice
And I Must Scream
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Get Out!
Cool Shades
Ship Tease
MayDecember Romance
Enemy Mine
Beta Couple
Improbable Weapon User
Dies Wide Open
Big-Bad Ensemble
Air-Vent Passageway
Blackmail
The '90s
Ungrateful Bastard
Evil Plan
Batman Gambit
The Place
Superhero
Reality Has No Subtitles
Match Cut
Fate Worse than Death
For the Evulz
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
The Starscream
True Companions
Self-Deprecation
Serious Business
Double Entendre
Motor Mouth
You Have Failed Me
Determinator
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Drowning My Sorrows
Villainous Breakdown
Award-Bait Song
Corpsing
Posthumous Character
Badass Boast
It Can Think
Adaptation Expansion
Disappeared Dad
Lighter and Softer
Demonic Possession
Not So Different
Last-Name Basis
Evil Counterpart
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Bald of Evil
Adaptation Name Change
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Make It Look Like an Accident
The Musical
Wicked Cultured
Manipulative Bastard
And the Adventure Continues
Kids Are Cruel
Death Seeker
Shower Scene
Hidden Depths
Only One Name
Decoy Protagonist
Chiaroscuro
Television Movie Index
Morality Pet
Sadistic Choice
Calling the Old Man Out
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Leave the Camera Running
Big "NO!"
Actually Pretty Funny
A God Am I
Malevolent Masked Men
Deal with the Devil
Only Sane Man
Non-Indicative Name
The Film of the Book
War Is Hell
Adorkable
An Aesop
Jerkass Has a Point
Rewatch Bonus
Babies Ever After
Mistaken for Gay
Depraved Bisexual
Smug Snake
Skewed Priorities
Overprotective Dad
Room Full of Crazy
Asshole Victim
Crazy-Prepared
Grey and Gray Morality
Card-Carrying Villain
Driven to Suicide
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Artistic License Military
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Stealth Pun
Never Trust a Trailer
aka: Trailers Always Lie
No-Sell
Dark and Troubled Past
Re-Cut
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Pragmatic Adaptation
Brick Joke
Daylight Horror
Outrun the Fireball
Off with His Head!
Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Foreshadowing
Anyone Can Die
Freeze-Frame Bonus
Gilligan Cut