Jaan Kenbrovin
6:03 Wed May 19
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Impolite phone manners. It seems the world is littered with it, going by tv and film.
Saying goodbye doesn’t take long.
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SecondOpinion
6:02 Wed May 19
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sex scenes where the couple kiss for more than ten seconds before they fuck
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TonkaToy
6:00 Wed May 19
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Idiot thugs/henchmen who attack the hero one at a time, rather than all steaming in together.
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zico
5:58 Wed May 19
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Mike Oxsaw 5:51 Wed May 19
Always wore red!
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SecondOpinion
5:53 Wed May 19
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zico 5:48 Wed May 19
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Good call! I'd forgotten about that bit. Love the film though
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Mike Oxsaw
5:51 Wed May 19
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Star Trek always had a Lieutenant Bitpart who's only role was to beam down with the landing party and get killed.
You'd have thought that by the second series...
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cholo
5:50 Wed May 19
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An archeologist and loads of men digging a massive hole in the desert, just a few feet away from a huge dig by nazis looking for the same thing, for hours, without getting caught for ages...
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zico
5:48 Wed May 19
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SecondOpinion 5:37 Wed May 19
Yep, not a disguise mind you but the dead pilots shoes didn't fit!
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cholo
5:47 Wed May 19
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SecondOpinion 5:43 Wed May 19
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Hammer and Pickle
5:47 Wed May 19
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Doing the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs - highly absurd.
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wd40
5:44 Wed May 19
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A good war film ! then a rooki joins and get the piss taken out of him and puts them at risk but always ends ups not dead.
Private Ryan and the tank film Fury
same story line.
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cholo
5:42 Wed May 19
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People waking up on the beach after being knocked unconscious whilst escaping a shipwreck. Is that even possible? Surely you'd down?
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SecondOpinion
5:37 Wed May 19
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Castaway?? Tom Hanks film?
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zico
5:28 Wed May 19
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When the hero needs a disguise and the clothes from the fella he knocks out always fit. Indiana Jones and Castaway are the only two I remember that made a point of that.
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SecondOpinion
5:11 Wed May 19
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Downloading a file from a computer onto a memory stick........it always works and works fast
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arsene york-hunt
4:53 Wed May 19
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... or whe the car explodes the heroes have just got far enough away for the explosin not to kill them and are thrown in the air with a background of huge flames.
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arsene york-hunt
4:50 Wed May 19
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When an on/off love affair raeches a climax, the woman decides to fuck off . The bloke chases after her and in a crowded public place, he swears his undying love, or proposes. When she says yes, the crowd start clapping..
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Westside
4:40 Wed May 19
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Lost count recently, of the number of times in dramas, a supporting character, who has to be killed off, to develop the plot, is run over. Purportedly accidentally.
As soon as I see such a character near a road or a pavement, I'm expecting a splat.
Was watching something yesterday (won't say the series name, to avoid spoilers). It made a pleasant change, when the supporting character didn't get run over, but got shot through the head.
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Darby_
4:36 Wed May 19
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Women fainting. A great plot device that lasted from the Victorian era to the action movies in the 80s. Now sadly restricted to Bollywood films.
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Northern Sold
4:29 Wed May 19
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Ooooh great shout with the white horse in Never Ending Story.... very trumatic... that and Limahls fucking shocking barnet
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