Tropescilloscope: Kubrick Stare

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The Chick Cloudcuckoolander Totally Radical Foregone Conclusion Friend to All Children Your Head A-Splode Mooks Unspoken Plan Guarantee How We Got Here Imagine Spot The Mafia Curse Cut Short Television Movie Index Film Noir Index Hypocritical Humor Vomit Indiscretion Shot Real Life Writes the Plot Red Eyes, Take Warning Canon Foreigner Fat Bastard As the Good Book Says... Homage The Stoic Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Every Car Is a Pinto Took a Level in Jerkass Boom, Headshot! Framing Device Insane Troll Logic Important Haircut Abusive Parents Ambiguous Disorder The Film of the Book Storming the Castle Public Domain Feature Films Chiaroscuro Implacable Man Names to Run Away from Really Fast Broken Aesop More Dakka Dirty Coward Pet the Dog Deliberately Monochrome Large Ham Foreshadowing Daylight Horror Empathic Environment I Did What I Had to Do Dogged Nice Guy folderlabel Woman in White Corrupt Corporate Executive Corpsing Pretty in Mink Bound and Gagged Would Hit a Girl Video Credits Laser-Guided Karma As Himself Henpecked Husband Token Minority Composite Character Toplessness from the Back Earn Your Happy Ending Black Comedy Naked People Are Funny Intergenerational Friendship Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Pretty Little Headshots She Cleans Up Nicely Shut Up, Hannibal! The '80s Historical Hero Upgrade Anyone Can Die Actually Pretty Funny Police are Useless Slasher Movie Fiery Redhead Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Chessmaster Get Out! 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Closed Circle Men Are the Expendable Gender Pragmatic Adaptation Disproportionate Retribution Animal Title Index Italian Films Word of God Male Frontal Nudity Loophole Abuse Only in It for the Money Crazy-Prepared Lighter and Softer Big Applesauce The Ghost Double Entendre Dropped a Bridge on Him Auto Erotica Honor Before Reason Ripped from the Headlines You Have Failed Me Sexy Discretion Shot Plot Hole Deliberate Values Dissonance Scare Chord Adapted Out Mundane Made Awesome "Well Done, Son!" Guy Ms. Fanservice Unusually Uninteresting Sight Non-Indicative Name Crapsack World Those Two Guys A Date with Rosie Palms Kick the Dog Motor Mouth Kids Are Cruel Sacrificial Lion Improvised Weapon Meaningful Name Pyrrhic Victory Anti-Villain Manic Pixie Dream Girl Authority Equals Asskicking Fanservice Daddy's Girl All for Nothing Demonic Possession Whole Plot Reference Reality Has No Subtitles Death Glare Superhero Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Stuff Blowing Up Epic Fail Disney Villain Death Demoted to Extra Rasputinian Death Aluminum Christmas Trees Central Theme Our Vampires Are Different Very Loosely Based on a True Story Russian Films The Oner Calling the Old Man Out Advertised Extra Riddle for the Ages Abhorrent Admirer Shout-Out Cassandra Truth Green-Eyed Monster Victoria's Secret Compartment It's All About Me I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Spanner in the Works Serial Killer Animated Credits Opening Monumental Damage Extreme Doormat Insistent Terminology Stealth Pun Ambiguous Ending Dirty Old Man Suspiciously Similar Substitute Dark Is Not Evil Made of Iron Missing Mom Man on Fire Neck Snap Taking You with Me Dark Action Girl Straight Gay Morality Pet "The Reason You Suck" Speech Attempted Rape Based on a True Story Coming-of-Age Story Wounded Gazelle Gambit Even Evil Has Loved Ones Leave the Camera Running A God Am I Wham Shot Creative Closing Credits Destination Defenestration As You Know Disappeared Dad Frame-Up Artistic License – Biology Punny Name Casting Gag The Cameo Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Rule of Funny Genre Throwback Pay Evil unto Evil Badass in a Nice Suit Serious Business The Dragon German Films