Tropescilloscope: Kubrick Stare

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Famous Last Words The Great Depression Meaningful Background Event Ripped from the Headlines The Load Adaptational Villainy Disney Death Riddle for the Ages Very Loosely Based on a True Story Precision F-Strike Rule of Symbolism Abusive Parents Beware the Nice Ones Nothing Is Scarier Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Foregone Conclusion Not Even Bothering with the Accent Brainless Beauty Parental Substitute Love at First Sight Groin Attack For the Evulz Hate Sink The Dragon Rousing Speech The End... Or Is It? Soft Glass Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Anti-Villain Russian Films Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality I Did What I Had to Do Closed Circle The Lost Lenore Knight Templar Overly Long Gag Police are Useless Shoot the Shaggy Dog Insult Backfire Kids Are Cruel Extreme Doormat Scenery Porn Left the Background Music On The Voiceless Shirtless Scene Crazy-Prepared The Reveal Horror Comedy Fiery Redhead The Dog Bites Back The Un-Reveal Chekhov's Gunman Light Is Not Good Arranged Marriage Batman Gambit Badass Bookworm Unusually Uninteresting Sight Politically Incorrect Villain My Beloved Smother Didn't Think This Through Betty and Veronica Diabolus ex Machina Your Head A-Splode Agony of the Feet Mind Screw B-Movie Earn Your Happy Ending Bullying a Dragon Visual Pun Our Zombies Are Different Heterosexual Life-Partners Evil Plan Take That! Laughing Mad Hong Kong Films Fan Disservice Too Dumb to Live Action Genre My God, What Have I Done? Asshole Victim Corrupt Corporate Executive The Film of the Book Death by Irony The Alcoholic Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Even Evil Has Loved Ones Psychological Thriller No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Together in Death Only in It for the Money Pre-Mortem One-Liner Novelization The Hero Ironic Echo Fainting Continuity Nod Your Cheating Heart Honor Before Reason The Brute Nice Guy Kubrick Stare Destination Defenestration Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Fatal Family Photo Punny Name Anyone Can Die As Himself Sealed Evil in a Can Break the Haughty Morality Pet Mistaken for Gay Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Stock Footage Be Careful What You Wish For Took a Level in Jerkass The Starscream Cluster F-Bomb Bi the Way Kick the Dog Humans Are Bastards Brother–Sister Incest Never Trust a Trailer Canadian Movies Fatal Flaw '80s Hair Establishing Character Moment The '70s Wicked Cultured Drill Sergeant Nasty Dogged Nice Guy Setting Update What Happened to the Mouse? Dropped a Bridge on Him Darkest Hour Age Lift Took a Level in Badass Serious Business She's Got Legs Lampshade Hanging Biopic Unresolved Sexual Tension Determinator aka: The Determinator Manly Tears Heroic BSoD Abhorrent Admirer Hooker with a Heart of Gold Kill 'em All Sci-Fi Horror Dirty Old Man The Cameo You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Needs Wiki Magic Love Hoist by His Own Petard Posthumous Character Zombie Stories Bait-and-Switch Facial Horror Smug Snake Badass in a Nice Suit Dramatic Irony Catch-Phrase Evil Brit Wretched Hive Foreshadowing Manipulative Bastard Imagine Spot Stealth Pun Artistic License – History Animal Motifs Here We Go Again! Adaptation Dye-Job Pragmatic Villainy One-Man Army The Musical Historical Hero Upgrade Handicapped Badass Leave the Camera Running Epic Fail Badass Grandpa Evil vs. Evil Bad Boss Demonic Possession Sanity Slippage Cool Car Dirty Cop Translation Convention Foil Adaptational Badass All There in the Script Evil Counterpart Femme Fatale Villain Song Bad "Bad Acting" Works Set in World War II Not Quite Dead The Cavalry Off-into-the-Distance Ending Dying Moment of Awesome Rule of Cool Dark and Troubled Past Blood Knight Crapsack World Covers Always Lie Genre Shift Domestic Abuse Scenery Gorn Faux Affably Evil Woman in White Well-Intentioned Extremist Sports Stories Playing Gertrude Slasher Smile Dwindling Party The Oner Improbable Weapon User Dissonant Serenity Reality Has No Subtitles Anachronic Order Costume Porn An Axe to Grind Ms. Fanservice For Want of a Nail Brick Joke A Minor Kidroduction Defiant to the End Red Shirt One Steve Limit Sadistic Choice Exactly What It Says on the Tin Actor Allusion She Cleans Up Nicely Mythology Gag A Father to His Men Bloody Hilarious Frame-Up The Mafia Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Vamp BFG The Dreaded Dual Wielding Parental Incest Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Spell My Name with an "S" Star-Crossed Lovers Market-Based Title Worthy Opponent Fire-Forged Friends Bottomless Magazines Becoming the Mask Stylistic Suck Almost Kiss Plot Hole Australian Movies Dirty Coward Sir Swears-a-Lot Greater-Scope Villain Suspiciously Similar Substitute Love Triangle Developing Doomed Characters Dark Reprise Fat Bastard Amoral Attorney The Ditz The Stoner Big Bad Duumvirate Noodle Incident Improbable Aiming Skills Film Noir Index The Bully Flashback Fanservice Extra Jump Scare Loophole Abuse Sinister Minister Leaning on the Fourth Wall Grievous Bottley Harm The Ace Double Entendre No-Sell Tap on the Head The Remake Not Using the "Z" Word Logo Joke Cat Scare Epic Movie And Starring Humiliation Conga Disney Villain Death The Smurfette Principle Madness Mantra Big-Bad Ensemble Eye Scream Meaningful Name Red Eyes, Take Warning Curse Cut Short Martial Arts Movie Homage From Bad to Worse Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Comically Missing the Point Naked People Are Funny No Name Given Mama Bear Calling the Old Man Out Suddenly SHOUTING! Gorn Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Self-Deprecation Only a Flesh Wound Bring My Brown Pants Reality Ensues Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Actually Pretty Funny Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Karma Houdini Hair-Trigger Temper Broken Bird Anguished Declaration of Love Badass Normal Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Retcon All Girls Want Bad Boys Psychopathic Manchild Beauty Is Never Tarnished Unspoken Plan Guarantee Black Best Friend Redemption Equals Death Refuge in Audacity Chekhov's Skill Interrupted Suicide Important Haircut Last-Name Basis The Sociopath All Men Are Perverts Oh, Crap! Made of Explodium Christmas Movies Index Deal with the Devil Getting Crap Past the Radar Exact Words Eldritch Abomination Big Bad Put on a Bus Parental Abandonment Genre Throwback folderlabel Badass Longcoat Taking You with Me Retired Badass Aside Glance Downer Ending Bloodless Carnage Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Green-Eyed Monster Belligerent Sexual Tension Redshirt Army Back from the Dead Shower Scene Peek-a-Boo Corpse Sacrificial Lion Animal Title Index I Need a Freaking Drink MacGuffin Neck Lift Faking the Dead Artistic License – Physics Eiffel Tower Effect Heroic Sacrifice Adaptational Heroism You Killed My Father Broken Pedestal The '80s The Faceless The '90s Stalker with a Crush Author Avatar Bowdlerise I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Suspiciously Specific Denial Alliterative Name N-Word Privileges Alpha Bitch Vacation Films Fake Shemp Offscreen Moment of Awesome Failed a Spot Check Cowboy Cop Chase Scene Gilligan Cut Big "NO!" Shout-Out Insistent Terminology Bilingual Bonus Cloudcuckoolander Freeze-Frame Bonus Death Seeker Authority Equals Asskicking Big Damn Heroes Cat Fight Punch-Clock Villain Dies Wide Open From Nobody to Nightmare As You Know "The Reason You Suck" Speech Hell Is That Noise Manic Pixie Dream Girl Bond Villain Stupidity One-Word Title Spanner in the Works Action Prologue Bound and Gagged Stepford Smiler A Date with Rosie Palms The Quiet One You Have Failed Me Mooks Chekhov's Gun Does Not Like Shoes Bolivian Army Ending Loads and Loads of Characters Time Skip Victoria's Secret Compartment Babies Ever After Spared by the Adaptation Only One Name Neck Snap Ax-Crazy Death by Sex The '60s Shipper on Deck Villain Opening Scene "Awesome McCool" Name Ambiguously Gay Villain with Good Publicity Berserk Button Adaptation Distillation Based on a True Story Race Against the Clock In the Back Thriller Affably Evil Contrived Coincidence Mugging the Monster Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Malevolent Masked Men Death of a Child And the Adventure Continues Token Minority Hero Antagonist Cool Old Lady Henpecked Husband Fun with Acronyms Beard of Evil Alas, Poor Villain Romantic Comedy Jerkass Has a Point Taking the Bullet Reckless Gun Usage Show Within a Show The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Rated M for Manly Blood from the Mouth Mighty Whitey Slashed Throat My Greatest Failure Stealth Hi/Bye Historical-Domain Character Deadpan Snarker Four-Temperament Ensemble Documentary 20 Minutes into the Future Match Cut Cool Guns Pyrrhic Victory Rasputinian Death Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Advertised Extra As the Good Book Says... Aluminum Christmas Trees Black Dude Dies First Male Frontal Nudity Laser-Guided Karma The Chessmaster Dramedy Random Events Plot Japanese Films Death Glare Totally Radical Offscreen Teleportation Let's Get Dangerous! Index of Film Westerns Gender Flip More Dakka Darker and Edgier Tempting Fate Intrepid Reporter Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Extremely Short Timespan Twist Ending Face Death with Dignity Due to the Dead In Medias Res Red Oni, Blue Oni Cain and Abel Line-of-Sight Name Mexican Standoff Psycho for Hire Pimped-Out Dress It's All About Me Names to Run Away from Really Fast Hero of Another Story Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Enemy Mine Lighter and Softer Freudian Excuse May–December Romance Implacable Man Crazy Jealous Guy Really Gets Around Mercy Kill Every Car Is a Pinto The Stoic Vampire Fiction Artistic License – Biology Shut Up, Hannibal! Double-Meaning Title Say My Name Maybe Ever After Face–Heel Turn The Lancer Fourth Date Marriage Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Cassandra Truth Grey and Gray Morality Call-Back Moment Killer Easily Forgiven Large Ham Insane Troll Logic Guile Hero Mr. Fanservice Amusing Injuries Mystery and Detective Films Narrator Throwing Your Sword Always Works Superhero Department of Redundancy Department Fish out of Water The '50s Jerk with a Heart of Gold Retirony Rule of Three Woman Scorned Knife Nut Better to Die than Be Killed Made of Iron Evil Sounds Deep Country Matters Black and Gray Morality Wham Shot Up to Eleven Expository Hairstyle Change Badass Boast Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Good Is Not Nice Properly Paranoid Sassy Black Woman Evil Is Hammy Would Hurt a Child Adaptational Attractiveness Damsel in Distress Sexy Discretion Shot Improvised Weapon Our Vampires Are Different I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Would Hit a Girl Take a Third Option No Ending The Alleged Car Bavarian Fire Drill Product Placement And I Must Scream Killed Mid-Sentence Early-Bird Cameo Cool Shades Final Girl Not So Different Conspicuous CG Celebrity Paradox The X of Y Bond One-Liner Bar Brawl Silence Is Golden Re-Cut You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Evil Laugh No Celebrities Were Harmed Have a Gay Old Time Fantastic Racism Rewatch Bonus Slap-Slap-Kiss Outrun the Fireball Coming-of-Age Story Big Fancy House Breaking the Fourth Wall Action Survivor Hollywood Darkness Central Theme The Hero Dies "Well Done, Son!" Guy Big Applesauce Those Two Guys Meet Cute Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Those Two Bad Guys The Ghost Science Fiction Films It Will Never Catch On timeperiod Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Even Evil Has Standards Dressing as the Enemy Naïve Newcomer Military and Warfare Films Villain Ball Jerkass Vomit Indiscretion Shot Air-Vent Passageway Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Auto Erotica Black Comedy Rape He Who Fights Monsters Romantic False Lead Daylight Horror Fantasy Films Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene There Is No Kill Like Overkill Empathic Environment Idiot Ball Race Lift A.I. Is a Crapshoot Real Life French Films Fanservice Book-Ends Half the Man He Used to Be Flipping the Bird Body Horror Word of God Drowning My Sorrows Award-Bait Song Car Fu Death by Adaptation Attempted Rape Skewed Priorities Small Name, Big Ego Camp Gay Whole Plot Reference I'm a Humanitarian Hope Spot Slasher Movie Accidental Murder No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Dull Surprise Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Silent Movie Card-Carrying Villain Defrosting Ice Queen Creepy Child Captain Obvious Children Are Innocent All Just a Dream Those Wacky Nazis Pragmatic Adaptation War Is Hell Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Fate Worse than Death Obfuscating Stupidity Cool Old Guy The Mole Gone Horribly Right Public Domain Feature Films Lock and Load Montage Hypocrite Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Get Out! An Arm and a Leg Television Movie Index Arch-Enemy Cold-Blooded Torture Black Comedy Dramatic Gun Cock Major Injury Underreaction Screw the Money, I Have Rules! O.O.C. Is Serious Business Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Vomit Discretion Shot Mundane Made Awesome Chiaroscuro Super Strength "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Informed Ability Eureka Moment The Place Off with His Head! Jitter Cam Everyone Has Standards Shell-Shocked Veteran Intergenerational Friendship Ghost Fiction Not What It Looks Like Tagline Straight Gay Break the Cutie Accidental Misnaming Horror Films Danny Peary Cult Movies List Manchild Title Drop Beta Couple Deliberate Values Dissonance Deus ex Machina Camera Abuse He Knows Too Much Adults Are Useless Adult Fear World of Ham Make It Look Like an Accident Artistic License – Geography Disappeared Dad Running Gag Non-Indicative Name Yandere In Name Only Jerk Jock Armor-Piercing Question Drugs Are Bad Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Reasonable Authority Figure Captain Ersatz Eagleland Plucky Comic Relief It Can Think Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Blatant Lies Wounded Gazelle Gambit Character Development Bald of Evil Canon Foreigner Poor Communication Kills Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Spiteful Spit Paper-Thin Disguise Scare Chord Broken Aesop The Casanova Curb-Stomp Battle An Aesop Combat Pragmatist Unreliable Narrator Driven to Suicide Crucified Hero Shot Truth in Television Reality Is Unrealistic Kill It with Fire Italian Films I Have Your Wife Same Language Dub Five-Man Band Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Despair Event Horizon Immune to Bullets Roaring Rampage of Revenge Bare Your Midriff Credits Gag Red Herring Gratuitous English Wrong Genre Savvy NO INDOOR VOICE The Bad Guy Wins Irony Sole Survivor Fingore British Films Butt-Monkey Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Determinator Creator Cameo Never My Fault All for Nothing Heroes Want Redheads Hidden Depths Historical In-Joke Ambiguous Ending Smoking Is Cool Artistic License – Law Antagonist Title Older Than They Look Dark Action Girl Villain Protagonist Annoying Younger Sibling Chewing the Scenery Dark Is Not Evil Apocalypse How Music Stories Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Gold Digger Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass After the End Expy Bitch in Sheep's Clothing How We Got Here La Résistance Karmic Death Call-Forward Cruel and Unusual Death Real Life Writes the Plot No Antagonist Early Installment Weirdness Mood Whiplash Dutch Angle No OSHA Compliance Depraved Bisexual Ungrateful Bastard Rich Bitch Daddy's Girl Mad Scientist Men Are the Expendable Gender What the Hell, Hero? Anti-Hero Wham Line Casting Gag Sequel Hook Kick the Son of a Bitch Ascended Extra Artistic License – Gun Safety Nice Hat Storming the Castle Friend to All Children Deliberately Monochrome Heel Realization Affectionate Parody Rule of Funny Corpsing Guns Akimbo Blackmail Serial Killer Undying Loyalty Tranquil Fury Room Full of Crazy Adorkable The Big Guy Only Known by Their Nickname Film Series Film Noir Ominous Latin Chanting Never Found the Body Motor Mouth Catapult Nightmare Pay Evil unto Evil Missing Mom Eyepatch of Power Shown Their Work Pretty in Mink Obstructive Bureaucrat Parental Neglect Not So Above It All Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Creative Closing Credits Leitmotif Unwitting Instigator of Doom Hollywood Law As Long as It Sounds Foreign Big Eater Revenge Dumb Blonde Stuff Blowing Up Red Right Hand Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Adaptation Expansion Funny Foreigner Once More, with Clarity! Mr. Exposition Gory Discretion Shot Framing Device Distracted by the Sexy Evil Is Petty Awesome, but Impractical Adaptation Name Change Villainous Breakdown Police Brutality The Smart Guy Video Credits True Companions Genre Savvy Man on Fire Historical Villain Upgrade All There in the Manual Soundtrack Dissonance Bury Your Gays Scary Black Man Meaningful Echo Funny Background Event Training Montage Animated Credits Opening Drives Like Crazy Demoted to Extra Pretty Little Headshots Disguised in Drag Rape as Drama Evil-Detecting Dog The Stinger Happily Married Did Not Get the Girl It's Personal Instant Death Bullet German Films Only Sane Man Pet the Dog Overprotective Dad Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Bunny-Ears Lawyer Gainax Ending The Chick Hypocritical Humor This Is Gonna Suck Papa Wolf Deconstruction Action Girl What You Are in the Dark Artistic License – Military Unusual Euphemism Arc Words Male Gaze