RikkiTikkaTagem said:

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wangus12 said:

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et98 said:

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Lawyers introducing last-minute surprise piece of evidence or witness that the judge or the other lawyer never saw coming, even though that would be grounds for an immediate mistrial.

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The only jury I've ever been on actually had this happen.

Guy was suing an insurance company that was refusing to pay out after he was hit by someone that had their vehicle insured through them. They went through this whole deal about how the vehicle had been sold to the owner's sister on a set date. They had a bill of sale with signatures that were dated for that specific day so surely the sale occurred and therefore they were not liable for the vehicle after the sale.

The plaintiff's attorney then gladly dropped the bombshell that there was no way that the bill of sale was real since the sister had been in jail that weekend and had no visitors at that time. The insurance company had fabricated the whole sale to get out of paying damages. You could hear a pin drop lol. I thought it was hilarious

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We're you and everybody else not pissed off at this lawyer wasting everybody's time by withholding damning evidence until the very end? I mean that case should have just been settled at the very beginning with such egregious proof the insurance company was in the wrong.

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Yeah it was fairly annoying that we sat for like 2-3 days of boring as hell insurance law before they even got to that point. There were definitely some people who worked hourly jobs that were furious because they'd missed like 4 days of work and the pay for jury duty is some joke like 10 or 15 bucks a day.

Last 5 minutes of a drama series where they play some thoughtful guitar strumming out ro music.

Greys Anatomy does this the last 10 minutes of every episode. Start the tears…

ItsA&InotA&M said:

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Cops coming up on a bad guy and from 50 yards away, yell "halt" and the bad guy takes off running. They could have gotten closer everyone.

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This one drives me nuts. My wife watches Criminal Minds and I see this every dang episode. They're soooo smart and can track down a serial killer in 30 minutes, but haven't figured out that sneaking up on them would be better than yelling at them and trying to chase them down.

1. Vehicle chase scenes - they are all the same thing nowadays
2. Jump scares in horror movies - ditto
3. Female protagonists in action movies that do that jump up, leg around the neck, takedown move

aTmAg said:

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double aught said:

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You guys are lame. Most of these tropes are great.

I've always loved 'never say bye on the phone' for some reason.

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My dad is a big fan of that too. Because that's how he's done phone calls my whole life.

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I assume he is divorced?

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No. He and my mom got a divorce in '82 but then he married my stepmom in 1990 and they have been together since.

Quad Dog said:

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Most of these are just to save time in a movie.
Does anyone want to watch someone circle the block looking for a parking spot only to find one but some dummy is to far over the line?
Or go up to a bar, ask what's on tap, ask for something specific, but then be told they just ran out and get the list repeated to them?

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Yes

Along the line of the no "bye" before hanging up (which has been mentioned like 4 times…read threads before posting, you heathens!)…..

Answering the phone with "yeah". Drives me nuts and rude as hell.

Character on the phone repeating everything being said to them so the audience knows what's up
"Hi this is Dan from the furniture place. Will I be there within 30 minutes? I'm not sure traffic is bad. You have to leave in 10 minutes to get to another appointment?….and on and on.

Southlake said:

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Hot woman gets out of bed holding a sheet up against her chest with the guy she just boned with laying beside her like he can't see her naked.


No rear view mirror in the car!

Cars that make a "peeling out" noise even when they don't drive off quickly.

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Or they're on a dirt/gravel road.

Not a trope, but the Wilhelm scream completely takes me out of any scene it is used in and I hate it more than any trope.

Potcake said:

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Southlake said:

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Hot woman gets out of bed holding a sheet up against her chest with the guy she just boned with laying beside her like he can't see her naked.


No rear view mirror in the car!

Cars that make a "peeling out" noise even when they don't drive off quickly.

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Or they're on a dirt/gravel road.

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OK, here's one - idiots driving hondas that get audio-sound over from a real car that sounds awesome.

(for instance, the wolf's honda in Pulp Fiction as an egregious example)

Pretty sure the wolf was driving an NSX. I'd call that real car.

schmendeler said:

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Pretty sure the wolf was driving an NSX. I'd call that real car.

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it was an nsx

to each his own

but it damned sure sounds like a sewing machine, and they made it sound like a Transam car.

Brittmoore Car Club said:

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cr06gis said:

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Women "kicking ass" in an action movie.

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It works when cast properly.

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Crazy that this is the same woman. Her character in Aliens was basically latino "brownface" I believe.

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Along those same lines but a much more famous actor I still can't believe this Stephen Lang from Manhunter:

Is the same guy from Avatar:

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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When people just spit out toothpaste and walk away without rinsing.

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if you want the fluoride to work, you don't rinse it off. You have a ton of cavities.

schmendeler said:

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I don't want to sidetrack this thread but i feel the need to defend the NSX. I would love a sewing machine like this. 3.0 liter 6 cylinder with V-Tec and an 8,000rpm redline

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I've raced them. Theyre ok, not for me. Some people love them.

But its still a 290 horsepower seeing machine.

Dont make it sound like a 900hp v8.

Rex Racer said:

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elfurioso92 said:

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There is never a shell in the chamber of any pump shotgun even if someone has already been shooting the gun. If someone is held a gunpoint they always have to work the pump and no shell is ejected.

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This is my number one!

When they are holding a pump shotgun on someone, and they want them to know that "okay, now I'm REALLY SERIOUS" they pump the shotgun.

I always yell at the tv, "Why didn't you have one in the chamber before now? What were you going to do?"

My wife just rolls her eyes.

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you REALLY need to watch Phone Booth

jokershady said:

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Rex Racer said:

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elfurioso92 said:

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There is never a shell in the chamber of any pump shotgun even if someone has already been shooting the gun. If someone is held a gunpoint they always have to work the pump and no shell is ejected.

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This is my number one!

When they are holding a pump shotgun on someone, and they want them to know that "okay, now I'm REALLY SERIOUS" they pump the shotgun.

I always yell at the tv, "Why didn't you have one in the chamber before now? What were you going to do?"

My wife just rolls her eyes.

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you REALLY need to watch Phone Booth

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Saw it. Good movie, regardless.