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Only a Flesh Wound
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Hell Is That Noise
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Black Comedy Rape
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Determinator
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Have a Gay Old Time
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Dark Is Not Evil
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Here We Go Again!
Shut Up, Hannibal!
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The Atoner
Advertised Extra
Comically Missing the Point
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Sacrificial Lion
Wicked Cultured
Woman Scorned
Narrator
Action Genre
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Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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You Killed My Father
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Meaningful Name
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Despair Event Horizon
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
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Hong Kong Films
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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The Remake
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Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
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Line-of-Sight Name
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Domestic Abuse
Extreme Doormat
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Neck Lift
Fate Worse than Death
Serial Killer
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Celebrity Paradox
Accidental Misnaming
Ripped from the Headlines
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He Who Fights Monsters
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Rousing Speech
Dark and Troubled Past
Black and Gray Morality
Hope Spot
Blackmail
Instant Death Bullet
Blood from the Mouth
Easily Forgiven
Ghost Fiction
Fantastic Racism
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Sequel Escalation
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Up to Eleven
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The Mole
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Epic Fail
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Adults Are Useless
The Alleged Car
Crazy Jealous Guy
Accidental Murder
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Chick
Training Montage
Cool Guns
Deliberate Values Dissonance
"Shaggy Dog" Story
Contrived Coincidence
Brick Joke
Naked People Are Funny
Antagonist Title
Film Noir
Villain with Good Publicity
Tagline
Meet Cute
Half the Man He Used to Be
I Need a Freaking Drink
Fire-Forged Friends
Real Life Writes the Plot
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Flashback
Meaningful Echo
Disney Death
Loads and Loads of Characters
Only Known by Their Nickname
Parental Incest
What Happened to the Mouse?
Scenery Gorn
Evil Sounds Deep
Bar Brawl
Plot Hole
I Did What I Had to Do
Authority Equals Asskicking
Never Trust a Trailer
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Hypocritical Humor
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All There in the Script
Grievous Bottley Harm
Gold Digger
One Steve Limit
Riddle for the Ages
How We Got Here
All for Nothing
Call-Back
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Silence Is Golden
The Power of Love
Our Zombies Are Different
Dogged Nice Guy
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Awesome, but Impractical
One-Word Title
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Stealth Hi/Bye
Leave the Camera Running
My God, What Have I Done?
Taking You with Me
Horror Comedy
Pay Evil unto Evil
Sadistic Choice
And the Adventure Continues
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Pretty Little Headshots
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Gratuitous English
Stuff Blowing Up
Reality Has No Subtitles
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Disproportionate Retribution
Scare Chord
Needs Wiki Magic Love
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Oh, Crap!
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Historical Hero Upgrade
Humans Are Bastards
Getting Crap Past the Radar
As You Know
Undying Loyalty
Plucky Comic Relief
Villain Protagonist
Put on a Bus
Maybe Ever After
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Insane Troll Logic
Cool Old Guy
Red Herring
BFG
Darker and Edgier
The Dreaded
Setting Update
Knife Nut
Made of Iron
Pet the Dog
Star-Crossed Lovers
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Dramatic Gun Cock
Tempting Fate
Disguised in Drag
Spanner in the Works
Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism
Papa Wolf
Death of a Child
Killed Mid-Sentence
Made of Explodium
Kick the Dog
Nothing Is Scarier
The Film of the Book
Genre Shift
Heroic Sacrifice
Villain Ball
Artistic License Geography
Babies Ever After
Too Dumb to Live
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
All Men Are Perverts
Artistic License Physics
Ass Shove
Let's Get Dangerous!
Big Bad
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Wham Line
Costume Porn
Cruel and Unusual Death
Love at First Sight
Mercy Kill
Guns Akimbo
My Beloved Smother
Spared by the Adaptation
Naïve Newcomer
Took a Level in Badass
Arranged Marriage
Anti-Villain
In Name Only
All Just a Dream
Hollywood Darkness
Jerkass
I'm a Humanitarian
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Music Stories
Really Gets Around
Rated M for Manly
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The Cavalry
Hypocrite
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No Name Given
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Not Using the "Z" Word
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Every Car Is a Pinto
A Minor Kidroduction
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
Annoying Younger Sibling
Catapult Nightmare
Alas, Poor Villain
Toplessness from the Back
Neck Snap
Heroes Want Redheads
Refuge in Audacity
Henpecked Husband
The Quiet One
Bury Your Gays
Mundane Made Awesome
Title Drop
Fatal Family Photo
No OSHA Compliance
Adult Fear
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Shower Scene
Serious Business
The Chessmaster
Silent Movie
Paper-Thin Disguise
Shell-Shocked Veteran
Reasonable Authority Figure
Race Lift
Cloudcuckoolander
Big "NO!"
I Have Your Wife
Deconstruction
Actually Pretty Funny
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Kubrick Stare
Informed Ability
Due to the Dead
Once More, with Clarity!
Manipulative Bastard
Ax-Crazy
Captain Obvious
Deal with the Devil
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Empathic Environment
Horror Films
Dark Reprise
Not What It Looks Like
Evil Plan
Eagleland
Police Brutality
Totally Radical
B-Movie
An Aesop
Bloody Hilarious
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Loophole Abuse
Break the Haughty
Dramatic Irony
Well-Intentioned Extremist
Cat Fight
Greater-Scope Villain
Villainous Breakdown
Token Minority
Protagonist Title
Malevolent Masked Men
Air-Vent Passageway
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
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Handicapped Badass
Children Are Innocent
Fat Bastard
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Psychopathic Manchild
Coming-of-Age Story
Fourth Date Marriage
Missing Mom
Dying Moment of Awesome
Insistent Terminology
Double Entendre
Bait-and-Switch
Beta Couple
Cain and Abel
Facial Horror
No-Sell
Mugging the Monster
O.O.C. Is Serious Business
More Dakka
Smoking Is Cool
Anti-Hero
Drugs Are Bad
Show Within a Show
Vomit Discretion Shot
Disney Villain Death
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Dirty Coward
Gory Discretion Shot
Word of God
The Bad Guy Wins
The Un-Favourite
aka: The Un Favorite
Video Credits
Vitriolic Best Buds
Affably Evil
NO INDOOR VOICE
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Artistic License Military
Shipper on Deck
Berserk Button
The Voiceless
Mr. Exposition
Pimped-Out Dress
Irony
Rasputinian Death
Creative Closing Credits
Toilet Humour
aka: Toilet Humor
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Bavarian Fire Drill
Documentary
Arc Words
Running Gag
From Nobody to Nightmare
Gone Horribly Right
Foregone Conclusion
The Dragon
The Ace
Left the Background Music On
Anachronism Stew
Re-Cut
Artistic License History
Scenery Porn
The Big Guy
Final Girl
Canadian Movies
Your Head A-Splode
The Sociopath
Hollywood Law
Make It Look Like an Accident
For the Evulz
Mama Bear
True Companions
Hoist by His Own Petard
Mythology Gag
Humiliation Conga
Asshole Victim
The Great Depression
She's Got Legs
Badass Bookworm
What the Hell, Hero?
Becoming the Mask
Race Against the Clock
Bad Boss
Shout-Out
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Sports Stories
Bad "Bad Acting"
Those Two Guys
Decoy Protagonist
Curb-Stomp Battle
Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Beard of Evil
He Knows Too Much
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Bolivian Army Ending
Fish out of Water
Ungrateful Bastard
Death by Sex
You Have Failed Me
Spiteful Spit
Vampire Fiction
It's Personal
Big Applesauce
Adaptation Dye-Job
Faux Affably Evil
Badass in a Nice Suit
Jerk Jock
Animal Title Index
Artistic License Gun Safety
Small Name, Big Ego
Kick the Son of a Bitch
It Will Never Catch On
Heroic BSoD
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Psycho for Hire
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aka: Riff Trax Movies
Badass Grandpa
Ms. Fanservice
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Slashed Throat
Twist Ending
The Ghost
Beware the Nice Ones
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Armor-Piercing Question
Artistic License Biology
Car Fu
Call-Forward
Dirty Old Man
Evil-Detecting Dog
Cat Scare
Central Theme
Japanese Films
MacGuffin
Does This Remind You of Anything?
Historical Villain Upgrade
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
Anguished Declaration of Love
Eiffel Tower Effect
Adaptational Badass
Homage
Sassy Black Woman
Only in It for the Money
Adaptational Attractiveness
Pragmatic Villainy
Rule of Cool
An Axe to Grind
Man on Fire
And I Must Scream
Works Set in World War II
The '80s
Dirty Cop
Index of Film Westerns
Cold-Blooded Torture
Rule of Symbolism
Better to Die than Be Killed
Vacation Films
Epic Movie
Match Cut
Enemy Mine
Nice Hat
Cool Shades
Back from the Dead
"Awesome McCool" Name
Determinator
Hero Antagonist
Only Sane Man
Obviously Evil
"Well Done, Son!" Guy
Spiritual Successor
Soft Glass
Soundtrack Dissonance
The Smart Guy
Crapsack World
Gainax Ending
Jump Scare
Agony of the Feet
Mr. Fanservice
Mooks
Bound and Gagged
Our Vampires Are Different
Dark Action Girl
Improbable Weapon User
Drives Like Crazy
Lighter and Softer
Your Cheating Heart
Mistaken for Gay
Would Hurt a Child
Shown Their Work
The Mafia
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Cameo
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Expository Hairstyle Change
Never Trust a Trailer
The Stoic
Animal Motifs
Immune to Bullets
Unreliable Narrator
Only One Name
Blatant Lies
As Himself
Camp Gay
Drowning My Sorrows
Exact Words
Heel Realization
Adaptational Heroism
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Stealth Pun
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Film Series
Morality Pet
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Deus ex Machina
Card-Carrying Villain
Rewatch Bonus
The Reveal
Overly Long Gag
Translation Convention
Freudian Excuse
Eureka Moment
For Want of a Nail
Bottomless Magazines
Knight Templar
Groin Attack
Hair-Trigger Temper
Wrong Genre Savvy
Dwindling Party
Lampshade Hanging
Pyrrhic Victory
Married to the Job
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Attempted Rape
This Is Gonna Suck
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Madness Mantra
Femme Fatale
Face Death with Dignity
Punch-Clock Villain
Visual Pun
Fan Disservice
Body Horror
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Not So Different
Bond One-Liner
Creepy Child
Funny Foreigner
FaceHeel Turn
Evil Is Petty
Cool Car
Red Oni, Blue Oni
Historical In-Joke
Tap on the Head
Straight Gay
Badass Longcoat
Beauty Is Never Tarnished
The Musical
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Four-Temperament Ensemble
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Reality Ensues
Catch-Phrase
Spell My Name with an "S"
Not So Above It All
Green-Eyed Monster
Scary Black Man
Defiant to the End
Film Noir Index
Red Right Hand
As the Good Book Says...
Gilligan Cut
Evil Is Hammy
Market-Based Title
The Casanova
Never My Fault
Redshirt Army
Genre Throwback
Obstructive Bureaucrat
Chekhov's Gunman
Daddy's Girl
Cluster F-Bomb
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Adaptation Expansion
Pretty in Mink
Insult Backfire
Daylight Horror
Curse Cut Short
Male Frontal Nudity
Male Gaze
Zombie Stories
Dutch Angle
Major Injury Underreaction
German Films
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Animated Credits Opening
Five-Man Band
Villain Opening Scene
Anyone Can Die
Even Evil Has Standards
Pragmatic Adaptation
The Dog Bites Back
Extremely Short Timespan
Hate Sink
Lock and Load Montage
Adorkable
Parental Neglect
It Can Think
Arch-Enemy
Casting Gag
Big Damn Heroes
One-Man Army
Chewing the Scenery
The Un-Reveal
Destination Defenestration
Department of Redundancy Department
Closed Circle
Everyone Has Standards
Country Matters
Hidden Depths
Author Avatar
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Dissonant Serenity
Age Lift
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Australian Movies
Cowboy Cop
Frame-Up
Dual Wielding
Eye Scream
Honor Before Reason
Crazy-Prepared
Creator Cameo
Worthy Opponent
Monumental Damage
The Stoner
Non-Indicative Name
Parental Substitute
Retirony
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
In Medias Res
Funny Background Event
Sexy Discretion Shot
Biopic
Wham Shot
Yandere
Martial Arts Movie
The End... Or Is It?
A Father to His Men
Fiery Redhead
Take a Third Option
Jitter Cam
Smug Snake
Aluminum Christmas Trees
HeelFace Turn
Italian Films
Damsel in Distress
Adaptational Villainy
The Faceless
Award-Bait Song
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Suspiciously Specific Denial
Overprotective Dad
Alliterative Name
Aside Glance
A Date with Rosie Palms
A God Am I
Reckless Gun Usage
The Bully
Good Is Not Nice
Kill 'em All
Stylistic Suck
Badass Boast
Chekhov's Skill
Early Installment Weirdness
Those Wacky Nazis
Take That!
Thriller
Psychological Thriller
Kids Are Cruel
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Sci-Fi Horror
Slasher Smile
She Cleans Up Nicely
Red Shirt
Karma Houdini
Bullying a Dragon
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Mind Screw
Rich Bitch
No Ending
Outrun the Fireball
Ominous Latin Chanting
Ambiguously Gay
Product Placement
Laughing Mad
Get Out!
Wretched Hive
Historical-Domain Character
Fun with Acronyms
Fatal Flaw
Character Development
Canon Foreigner
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
From Bad to Worse
Karmic Death
The Load
The Starscream
Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Kill It with Fire
Woman in White
And Starring
British Films
Improvised Weapon
Redemption Equals Death
BrotherSister Incest
Pun
aka: Incredibly Lame Pun
Almost Kiss
Betty and Veronica
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Older Than They Look
Politically Incorrect Villain
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Dropped a Bridge on Him
Actor Allusion
Light Is Not Good
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Evil vs. Evil
It's All About Me
Parental Abandonment
20 Minutes into the Future