Tropescilloscope: Left the Background Music On
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I'm a Humanitarian
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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Vomit Discretion Shot
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign
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The Atoner
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It Will Never Catch On
Recycled IN SPACE!
Curse Cut Short
No OSHA Compliance
Brick Joke
Only a Flesh Wound
Dwindling Party
Together in Death
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Evil vs. Evil
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Sexy Discretion Shot
Fingore
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Adults Are Useless
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Pet the Dog
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For Want of a Nail
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How We Got Here
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
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As the Good Book Says...
Your Cheating Heart
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Index of Film Westerns
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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All Girls Want Bad Boys
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Our Vampires Are Different
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Eyepatch of Power
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
Took a Level in Jerkass
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No Antagonist
Credits Gag
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Rousing Speech
Red Herring
Intergenerational Friendship
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Reality Has No Subtitles
Real Life Writes the Plot
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
Straight Gay
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My God, What Have I Done?
Martial Arts Movie
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From Nobody to Nightmare
Riddle for the Ages
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Nice Guy
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Hollywood Darkness
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Rape as Drama
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Unreliable Narrator
Gilligan Cut
She's Got Legs
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Ship Tease
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Not So Above It All
Sequel Hook
You Have Failed Me
The Chick
Our Zombies Are Different
No Name Given
Department of Redundancy Department
Creative Closing Credits
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
I Did What I Had to Do
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Blood from the Mouth
Fan Disservice
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Overprotective Dad
Dark Is Not Evil
An Arm and a Leg
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Yandere
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Crazy Jealous Guy
Honor Before Reason
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Once More, with Clarity!
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Anyone Can Die
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Evil Laugh
Taking You with Me
Defiant to the End
Even Evil Has Standards
Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Mad Scientist
Sadistic Choice
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Room Full of Crazy
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The Ghost
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Protagonist Title
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Henpecked Husband
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The '90s
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This Is Gonna Suck
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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Off with His Head!
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Translation Convention
Dies Wide Open
Boom, Headshot!
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Cool Old Lady
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What the Hell, Hero?
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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Older Than They Look
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My Greatest Failure
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Bar Brawl
The Ace
The Bad Guy Wins
Get Out!
Silence Is Golden
Demonic Possession
Determinator
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Only Known by Their Nickname
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Gory Discretion Shot
And I Must Scream
Men Are the Expendable Gender
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Taking the Bullet
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I Have Your Wife
Accidental Misnaming
Oh, Crap!
Setting Update
Camera Abuse
Abhorrent Admirer
Faking the Dead
Wicked Cultured
Dramatic Irony
Jerk Jock
Evil Is Hammy
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
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Villain Opening Scene
Paper-Thin Disguise
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Artistic License Geography
Playing Gertrude
Brutal Honesty
More Dakka
Adult Fear
An Aesop
Due to the Dead
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Epic Movie
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Eureka Moment
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Reasonable Authority Figure
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Killed Mid-Sentence
Hidden Depths
Dirty Old Man
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Really Gets Around
Hell Is That Noise
In Medias Res
Hero of Another Story