Tropescilloscope: Kubrick Stare

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They Really Do Love Each Other The Power of Love Cool Shades Deliberate Values Dissonance Heroic BSoD Redshirt Army Genre Throwback Cowboy Cop Shirtless Scene Russian Films Would Hit a Girl As Long as It Sounds Foreign Historical Hero Upgrade Antagonist Title War Is Hell Crucified Hero Shot Decoy Protagonist The '50s Psychopathic Manchild Establishing Character Moment The Stinger Older Than They Look Pretty in Mink Fun with Acronyms Biopic Four-Temperament Ensemble Chekhov's Gun Male Frontal Nudity Dwindling Party Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Dull Surprise Same Language Dub Comically Missing the Point Amoral Attorney Not So Different The Mafia Re-Cut Imagine Spot You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Grievous Bottley Harm Blatant Lies An Aesop Market-Based Title Chiaroscuro Mistaken for Gay Villain Protagonist Get Out! 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Is a Crapshoot Spiritual Successor Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Heterosexual Life-Partners Children Are Innocent Throwing Your Sword Always Works Toplessness from the Back A Minor Kidroduction Crazy Jealous Guy Villain Song Needs Wiki Magic Love After the End Pragmatic Adaptation Rule of Funny Big Applesauce Big Eater Dissonant Serenity Destination Defenestration Wham Line Genre Savvy Exact Words Sci-Fi Horror Visual Pun Logo Joke Rewatch Bonus Dressing as the Enemy Loads and Loads of Characters The Reveal Drowning My Sorrows Only Known by Their Nickname Bilingual Bonus Fat Bastard The Quiet One Bi the Way Gory Discretion Shot Actually Pretty Funny The '70s Our Zombies Are Different Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Show Within a Show Bloodier and Gorier Action Survivor Good Is Not Nice Ambiguously Gay No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Bond One-Liner Twist Ending Character Development The Hero Wham Shot Beware the Nice Ones All Men Are Perverts Badass in a Nice Suit Take That! Damsel in Distress One Steve Limit Overprotective Dad It Can Think The Dragon Manic Pixie Dream Girl Advertised Extra Morality Pet She's Got Legs Sole Survivor Left the Background Music On Offscreen Teleportation Adaptation Name Change Gender Flip Science Fiction Films Works Set in World War II Fire-Forged Friends Meet Cute Due to the Dead From Nobody to Nightmare Expository Hairstyle Change Double-Meaning Title Bavarian Fire Drill I'm a Humanitarian Slap-Slap-Kiss Thriller The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Developing Doomed Characters The End... Or Is It? Missing Mom Hell Is That Noise Lampshade Hanging Martial Arts Movie Friend to All Children Ungrateful Bastard Bloody Hilarious As Himself Kill 'em All Early-Bird Cameo Slasher Movie The Dog Bites Back Training Montage Love Triangle Black Dude Dies First Evil Is Petty Funny Background Event No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Improbable Weapon User Historical-Domain Character Unwitting Instigator of Doom Dramedy Fourth Date Marriage Make It Look Like an Accident Recycled IN SPACE! 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The '80s Product Placement Stealth Hi/Bye Eagleland Genre Shift Abusive Parents Hollywood Darkness Made of Explodium For Want of a Nail Tranquil Fury Japanese Films Storming the Castle Faux Affably Evil Hero Antagonist Asshole Victim Monumental Damage Motor Mouth Poor Communication Kills The Starscream Major Injury Underreaction Demoted to Extra The Atoner Deadpan Snarker Curb-Stomp Battle The Un-Reveal Coming-of-Age Story Male Gaze Plucky Comic Relief Gilligan Cut The Stoner Taking the Bullet Dirty Old Man Cloudcuckoolander Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The '60s And the Adventure Continues Gold Digger Canon Foreigner Accidental Misnaming Brick Joke Up to Eleven Would Hurt a Child Eye Scream Love at First Sight Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Artistic License – Physics Very Loosely Based on a True Story Adaptational Attractiveness Final Girl La Résistance Crazy-Prepared No Name Given Cassandra Truth Historical Villain Upgrade Artistic License – Biology No Ending Fantasy Films Guns Akimbo The Load Adorkable Wrong Genre Savvy Deconstruction Disproportionate Retribution Reality Ensues The Film of the Book Index of Film Westerns Mr. Exposition Take a Third Option Nothing Is Scarier Men Are the Expendable Gender Better to Die than Be Killed Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Playing Gertrude Anachronism Stew Big "NO!" Broken Aesop Parental Substitute Reckless Gun Usage Sanity Slippage Peek-a-Boo Corpse Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Serial Killer Catapult Nightmare Suddenly SHOUTING! The Chick Epic Movie Dark and Troubled Past Fan Disservice You Killed My Father It's Personal Eiffel Tower Effect Room Full of Crazy The Chessmaster Humans Are Bastards Flashback Bad Boss Getting Crap Past the Radar Empathic Environment Dark Is Not Evil The Bully Those Two Bad Guys My Greatest Failure Vampire Fiction Man on Fire Dark Reprise Fanservice Half the Man He Used to Be Took a Level in Jerkass Evil Sounds Deep Slashed Throat She Cleans Up Nicely Neck Snap Cain and Abel Action Prologue Cool Old Guy Precision F-Strike French Films Only in It for the Money Vitriolic Best Buds Five-Man Band Truth in Television Really Gets Around Suspiciously Similar Substitute Composite Character Mr. Fanservice Obfuscating Stupidity Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Laser-Guided Karma Insane Troll Logic Plot Hole Sequel Escalation Camera Abuse Call-Back Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Intrepid Reporter Documentary A Father to His Men Improvised Weapon Ironic Echo Tagline Only Sane Man Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Does This Remind You of Anything? Lock and Load Montage Fiery Redhead Daylight Horror Big Brother Instinct Slasher Smile Amusing Injuries Hope Spot Your Cheating Heart Artistic License – History Yandere Gorn Hypocritical Humor Reality Is Unrealistic The Voiceless Batman Gambit Insistent Terminology Funny Foreigner Madness Mantra Sassy Black Woman Cruel and Unusual Death Break the Haughty Armor-Piercing Question No OSHA Compliance Femme Fatale Creator Cameo Heel–Face Turn Film Series Call-Forward Sealed Evil in a Can Annoying Younger Sibling Worthy Opponent All There in the Script Vacation Films Maybe Ever After Fatal Flaw A Date with Rosie Palms Broken Bird Boom, Headshot! Chekhov's Gunman Informed Ability Car Fu Not Even Bothering with the Accent Foreshadowing Dropped a Bridge on Him Ascended Extra The Ghost Evil vs. Evil Fantastic Racism Covers Always Lie Pyrrhic Victory Rule of Three Self-Deprecation Evil Is Hammy Rated M for Manly Badass Bookworm Took a Level in Badass Not Quite Dead Villainous Breakdown Extreme Doormat Happily Married Anti-Villain Depraved Bisexual Butt-Monkey Beard of Evil Killed Mid-Sentence Corrupt Corporate Executive Authority Equals Asskicking Manipulative Bastard Deliberately Monochrome Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Beauty Is Never Tarnished Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Epilogue Beta Couple Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Eldritch Abomination Hate Sink Karma Houdini Translation Convention Grey and Gray Morality Punny Name Rich Bitch Back from the Dead Badass Boast Police are Useless Put on a Bus Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Mercy Kill Foil Celebrity Paradox Shown Their Work Framing Device Outrun the Fireball Danny Peary Cult Movies List Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Spiteful Spit Anyone Can Die Spanner in the Works Cold-Blooded Torture Dirty Coward Bad "Bad Acting" Belligerent Sexual Tension Blackmail O.O.C. Is Serious Business Too Dumb to Live Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Kids Are Cruel The Cameo Bolivian Army Ending Victoria's Secret Compartment Bloodless Carnage Australian Movies Horror Comedy Drives Like Crazy Red Shirt Scenery Porn Your Head A-Splode Arc Words Contrived Coincidence Not Using the "Z" Word Laughing Mad All There in the Manual Frame-Up Ms. Fanservice Married to the Job Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Superhero The X of Y Alpha Bitch Creative Closing Credits The Vamp Dark Action Girl Shell-Shocked Veteran Instant Death Bullet Central Theme Wicked Cultured Sexy Discretion Shot Did Not Get the Girl Camp Gay Mooks Domestic Abuse Bottomless Magazines Adaptational Heroism Shout-Out Tap on the Head Villain with Good Publicity The '90s Stylistic Suck Brainless Beauty For the Evulz He Knows Too Much The Sociopath Department of Redundancy Department Lighter and Softer Pre-Mortem One-Liner Brutal Honesty Leitmotif Well-Intentioned Extremist Ominous Latin Chanting Every Car Is a Pinto Casting Gag What You Are in the Dark