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An Axe to Grind
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
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She's Got Legs
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Mundane Made Awesome
Would Hurt a Child
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A God Am I
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
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Your Head A-Splode
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Not Quite Dead
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Dark Is Not Evil
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Took a Level in Badass
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Book-Ends
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The Place
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Never Trust a Trailer
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All There in the Script
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Every Car Is a Pinto
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Everyone Has Standards
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Tempting Fate
Villain Song
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No-Sell
Bloody Hilarious
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All Girls Want Bad Boys
Crazy Jealous Guy
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N-Word Privileges
The Dreaded
Sequel Hook
Fire-Forged Friends
Leave the Camera Running
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Whole Plot Reference
Bi the Way
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
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Mistaken for Gay
The Big Guy
Bring My Brown Pants
It Can Think
Suspiciously Specific Denial
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Scary Black Man
Due to the Dead
What the Hell, Hero?
Insistent Terminology
Police are Useless
He Knows Too Much
Famous Last Words
Artistic License Geography
Those Two Guys
Fatal Family Photo
Children Are Innocent
Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Match Cut
Deal with the Devil
Psychological Thriller
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My God, What Have I Done?
Humans Are Bastards
Badass Grandpa
The Cameo
Index of Film Westerns
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Enemy Mine
Batman Gambit
What You Are in the Dark
Becoming the Mask
I Need a Freaking Drink
Laughing Mad
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Pretty Little Headshots
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Smoking Is Cool
Parental Abandonment
Works Set in World War II
Almost Kiss
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Big "NO!"
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Bad Boss
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BFG
Parental Incest
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Here We Go Again!
Double-Meaning Title
Make It Look Like an Accident
Plucky Comic Relief
Evil Sounds Deep
Overly Long Gag
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Beta Couple
Anti-Villain
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Groin Attack
And Starring
Did Not Get the Girl
Mr. Exposition
Jump Scare
Reality Is Unrealistic
Call-Forward
Black Comedy Rape
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Disappeared Dad
Silent Movie
Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Ace
Slasher Smile
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Dirty Old Man
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Red Right Hand
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Closed Circle
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For the Evulz
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Didn't Think This Through
Good Is Not Nice
The Oner
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Last-Name Basis
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Blatant Lies
The '90s
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Hollywood Darkness
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Happily Married
Serious Business
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The Faceless
Babies Ever After
Driven to Suicide
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Psycho for Hire
Cain and Abel
Authority Equals Asskicking
Badass in a Nice Suit
Police Brutality
Adorkable
Berserk Button
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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It's All About Me
Femme Fatale
Romantic Comedy
British Films
Blood from the Mouth
Offscreen Teleportation
All Just a Dream
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
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A Father to His Men
Face Death with Dignity
Hollywood Law
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Really Gets Around
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Evil Brit
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Room Full of Crazy
Zombie Stories
Death of a Child
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Better to Die than Be Killed
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She Cleans Up Nicely
Sir Swears-a-Lot
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Grievous Bottley Harm
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Eyepatch of Power
One Steve Limit
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Catch-Phrase
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Epic Movie
Random Events Plot
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Eye Scream
Well-Intentioned Extremist
Not So Stoic
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Black Best Friend
Our Vampires Are Different
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The Vamp
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Mama Bear
Hoist by His Own Petard
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
I'm a Humanitarian
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Adaptation Expansion
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Only in It for the Money
Red Shirt
A Minor Kidroduction
The Alleged Car
Artistic License Law
Determinator
Redshirt Army
Dark Reprise
Line-of-Sight Name
Loads and Loads of Characters
Rated M for Manly
Non-Indicative Name
Depraved Bisexual
All for Nothing
Artistic License Biology
Gold Digger
Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Drowning My Sorrows
Product Placement
Off with His Head!
Intrepid Reporter
Nice Guy
Expository Hairstyle Change
Does Not Like Shoes
Historical Hero Upgrade
Plot Hole
Faking the Dead
Film Noir Index
Television Movie Index
Shipper on Deck
French Films
Parental Neglect
Adapted Out
Henpecked Husband
Immune to Bullets
Recycled IN SPACE!
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Five-Man Band
Funny Background Event
The Lost Lenore
Bittersweet Ending
Affably Evil
Cat Scare
Big Eater
La Résistance
Real Life
Important Haircut
Would Hit a Girl
Intergenerational Friendship
Brick Joke
Body Horror
Horror Comedy
Fingore
Small Name, Big Ego
Distracted by the Sexy
Award-Bait Song
Dark and Troubled Past
Comically Missing the Point
Crazy-Prepared
Action Girl
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Film Noir
The Bad Guy Wins
Hero Antagonist
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Heroes Want Redheads
Developing Doomed Characters
The Stoic
Sole Survivor
Pretty in Mink
Punny Name
Nothing Is Scarier
Parental Substitute
Early-Bird Cameo
Break the Haughty
Vampire Fiction
The Voiceless
Trailers Always Spoil
Australian Movies
Abhorrent Admirer
Broken Pedestal
Bolivian Army Ending
Pun
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Refuge in Audacity
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
In Medias Res
Arc Words
I Did What I Had to Do
Never Trust a Trailer
aka: Trailers Always Lie
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Earn Your Happy Ending
Took a Level in Jerkass
Chekhov's Skill
Celebrity Paradox
Adaptation Distillation
Black and Gray Morality
Apocalypse How
The Un-Favourite
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Heroic Sacrifice
Deadpan Snarker
Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Ambiguous Ending
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Drives Like Crazy
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Red Eyes, Take Warning
Death Glare
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Missing Mom
Mercy Kill
The Chessmaster
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Big-Bad Ensemble
Put on a Bus
Self-Deprecation
Sanity Slippage
Love at First Sight
Taking the Bullet
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Betty and Veronica
Worthy Opponent
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Cool Shades
Foreshadowing
Chewing the Scenery
Light Is Not Good
Pay Evil unto Evil
Casting Gag
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Vacation Films
Cold-Blooded Torture
Kids Are Cruel
Meaningful Echo
Dramatic Irony
Informed Ability
Big Applesauce
Real Life Writes the Plot
Crapsack World
Precision F-Strike
Mythology Gag
Setting Update
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Foregone Conclusion
The Brute
Say My Name
Married to the Job
HeelFace Turn
Ungrateful Bastard
No Ending
Obviously Evil
Conspicuous CG
Rich Bitch
Author Avatar
Contrived Coincidence
Beard of Evil
Those Two Bad Guys
Hero of Another Story
Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Hope Spot
Sealed Evil in a Can
Woman in White
Ms. Fanservice
Stepford Smiler
Not What It Looks Like
Dropped a Bridge on Him
Friend to All Children
Love Triangle
Gorn
Dwindling Party
Domestic Abuse
Yandere
Never Found the Body
Lampshade Hanging
Adaptation Name Change
From Bad to Worse
O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Canadian Movies
Flashback
The Atoner
Pyrrhic Victory
Jerkass Has a Point
Action Survivor
Unspoken Plan Guarantee
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Take a Third Option
Gilligan Cut
No Name Given
Totally Radical
Adaptational Heroism
As You Know
Attempted Rape
Left the Background Music On
Bald of Evil
As Himself
Bloodier and Gorier
Badass Longcoat
Camera Abuse
Double Entendre
German Films
The Dog Bites Back
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Retired Badass
An Arm and a Leg
Cluster F-Bomb
Humiliation Conga
Let's Get Dangerous!
Visual Pun
Vomit Discretion Shot
Novelization
Decoy Protagonist
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Rousing Speech
In the Back
Ironic Echo
Heroic BSoD
Ax-Crazy
Cool Old Guy
Alpha Bitch
Evil vs. Evil
Despair Event Horizon
Toilet Humour
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Corpsing
Combat Pragmatist
Butt-Monkey
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Bland-Name Product
Truth in Television
Dutch Angle
The Ghost
Toplessness from the Back
Hell Is That Noise
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Lock and Load Montage
Big Bad Duumvirate
Lighter and Softer
Meaningful Background Event
Bond One-Liner
The Hero
Only Sane Man
Neck Lift
Broken Bird
Reality Has No Subtitles
NO INDOOR VOICE
The Starscream
The Ditz
Amusing Injuries
Annoying Younger Sibling
Superhero
Large Ham
Four-Temperament Ensemble
How We Got Here
Hong Kong Films
Foil
Spell My Name with an "S"
The Hero Dies
Sci-Fi Horror
Older Than They Look
Drugs Are Bad
Hidden Depths
Eureka Moment
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Bare Your Midriff
The Reveal
From Nobody to Nightmare
Improbable Infant Survival
aka: Infant Immortality
Too Dumb to Live
Have a Gay Old Time
Bound and Gagged
Kick the Dog
Our Zombies Are Different
Playing Gertrude
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
FaceHeel Turn
Brainless Beauty
Tranquil Fury
In Name Only
Implacable Man
Dirty Cop
Film Series
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Moment Killer
Defrosting Ice Queen
My Greatest Failure
Flipping the Bird
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Fantasy Films
Evil Laugh
Country Matters
Fourth Date Marriage
Chiaroscuro
Paper-Thin Disguise
Rasputinian Death
Bavarian Fire Drill
The Power of Love
Dressing as the Enemy
Rule of Symbolism
Rule of Three
Animal Motifs
Only Known by Their Nickname
Boom, Headshot!
Same Language Dub
Oh, Crap!
Naked People Are Funny
Soft Glass
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Fun with Acronyms
Sequel Escalation
Christmas Movies Index
Irony
All Men Are Perverts
Anti-Hero
Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Take That!
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Air-Vent Passageway
You Killed My Father
All There in the Manual
Extremely Short Timespan
Unreliable Narrator
Badass Boast
The '70s
Super Strength
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Improbable Aiming Skills
The Quiet One
Actually Pretty Funny
No Celebrities Were Harmed
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
More Dakka
Big Brother Instinct
He Who Fights Monsters
Sadistic Choice
Villainous Breakdown
Deliberately Monochrome
Video Credits
Riddle for the Ages
Cat Fight
Silence Is Golden
Black Dude Dies First
And I Must Scream
The Lancer
Ambiguously Gay
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Defiant to the End
Mighty Whitey
Meet Cute
Fate Worse than Death
Freeze-Frame Bonus
Slap-Slap-Kiss
Daddy's Girl
Shown Their Work
Made of Iron
Funny Foreigner
Hypocritical Humor
Big Damn Heroes
Death Seeker
The Musical
The End... Or Is It?
Eagleland
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Call-Back
Animal Title Index
Shower Scene
Science Fiction Films
Anachronic Order
Revenge
Chekhov's Gunman
Villain Opening Scene
Madness Mantra
Evil Is Hammy
Martial Arts Movie
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Fatal Flaw
Disguised in Drag
Ghost Fiction
Green-Eyed Monster
Re-Cut
Deconstruction
Spanner in the Works
Homage
Bury Your Gays
Destination Defenestration
No Antagonist
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Back from the Dead
Red Herring
Blood Knight
Composite Character
Brutal Honesty
Cool Car
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
I Have Your Wife
Dogged Nice Guy
Neck Snap
Bloodless Carnage
Get Out!
Honor Before Reason
War Is Hell
Twist Ending
Badass Normal
Expy
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Failed a Spot Check
Captain Obvious
Psychopathic Manchild
Creepy Child
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Kill 'em All
Arranged Marriage
Eiffel Tower Effect
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Car Fu
Cowboy Cop
Frame-Up
Wham Line
Monumental Damage
Guns Akimbo
Slasher Movie
Half the Man He Used to Be
Mr. Fanservice
Greater-Scope Villain
Not So Different
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Tap on the Head
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Anyone Can Die
The Load
Public Domain Feature Films
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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Sinister Minister
Rule of Cool
Reckless Gun Usage
Freudian Excuse
Meaningful Name
Creator Cameo
Dies Wide Open
Your Cheating Heart
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
No OSHA Compliance
Man on Fire
Cloudcuckoolander
It's Personal
One-Man Army
Together in Death
The Mole
Retirony
Author Appeal
Death by Sex
Dumb Blonde
Alliterative Name
Adults Are Useless
Deliberate Values Dissonance
An Aesop
Dirty Coward
Captain Ersatz
Cool Guns
The Alcoholic
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
"Well Done, Son!" Guy
Rape as Drama
Rewatch Bonus
Action Genre
Hypocrite
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Training Montage
Insult Backfire
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Death by Adaptation
The '80s
You Have Failed Me
Crucified Hero Shot
Affectionate Parody
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
What Happened to the Mouse?
Break the Cutie
Final Girl
Cassandra Truth
Token Minority
Bilingual Bonus
Mystery and Detective Films
Drill Sergeant Nasty
Spiteful Spit
Woman Scorned
Nice Hat
Gone Horribly Right
Historical In-Joke
Adaptational Badass
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Motor Mouth
Stalker with a Crush
Department of Redundancy Department
Improvised Weapon
Anachronism Stew
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Logo Joke
Getting Crap Past the Radar
My Beloved Smother
Cool Old Lady
Fanservice Extra
Gory Discretion Shot
Character Development
Show Within a Show
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Curse Cut Short
Fiery Redhead
World of Ham
Stuff Blowing Up
Animated Credits Opening
Action Prologue
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Mad Scientist
Fake Shemp
Killed Mid-Sentence
The Mafia
Advertised Extra
Stock Footage
Karmic Death
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Tagline
Wicked Cultured
As the Good Book Says...
Straight Gay
Diabolus ex Machina
Market-Based Title
Needs Wiki Magic Love
Storming the Castle
It Will Never Catch On
Obfuscating Stupidity
Beware the Nice Ones
Agony of the Feet
True Companions
Knife Nut
The Casanova
20 Minutes into the Future
Russian Films
This Is Gonna Suck
Sexy Discretion Shot
Bottomless Magazines
Victoria's Secret Compartment
Bad "Bad Acting"
Heel Realization
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Dying Moment of Awesome
Jerkass
Never My Fault
MayDecember Romance