History GenreSavvy / Film

* Early in ''Film/JohnWick'', police officer Jimmy is called to John's house for a "noise complaint". John answers the door, revealing a number of bodies scattered around behind him. Jimmy asks if John (a RetiredBadass ex-assassin) is "working again", and on getting an answer, immediately wishes John a good evening and leaves. Fans often refer to Jimmy as the single most intelligent character in the film.

* ''Film/CabinInTheWoods'' has the characters discover a cellar stuffed with [[ArtifactOfDoom creepy objects that are blatantly meant to summon monsters.]] One is a diary full of disturbing imagery which includes at the end some Latin, and the writer implores the finder to "speak it to our spirits."
-->'''Marty:''' Okay, I am drawing a line in the ''fucking'' sand here - ''do not read the Latin.''
-->She does.

* Early in ''Film/JohnWich'', police officer Jimmy is called to John's house for a "noise complaint". John answers the door, revealing a number of bodies scattered around behind him. Jimmy asks if John (a RetiredBadass ex-assassin) is "working again", and on getting an answer, immediately wishes John a good evening and leaves. Fans often refer to Jimmy as the single most intelligent character in the film.

%%* Colonel Stewart, TheBigBad of ''Film/DieHard2'' who proclaims before his fight with Mcclean "It's time for the main event."

* Colonel Stewart, TheBigBad of ''Film/DieHard2'' who proclaims before his fight with Mcclean "It's time for the main event."

* In ''[[Film/Monster1999 Monster!]]'', Lloyd Reeves starred in the movies the title Monster [[RefugeeFromTVLand escaped from]], thus is this trope due to knowing how monster movies work. This is especially helpful as the Monster [[RealityWarper warps reality to run by the rules of one.]] As other characters realize what's going on, they start applying the rules of the movies as well.

%%* ''Film/{{Gunless}}'': In-universe, Jane is the only one aware of the code of the wild west, which means she is not put off or intimidated by Sean, as she knows he won't kill an unarmed man.

%%* In ''Film/LockjawRiseOfTheKulevSerpent'', Winston is savvy enough to have brought a spare set of car keys with him, and to intuit that everyone's CellPhonesAreUseless. This doesn't stop him from charging off alone into a cane field in the middle of the night, but is one of the characters who survive.

* In ''Film/LockjawRiseOfTheKulevSerpent'', Winston is savvy enough to have brought a spare set of car keys with him, and to intuit that everyone's CellPhonesAreUseless. This doesn't stop him from charging off alone into a cane field in the middle of the night, but is one of the characters who survive.

* ''Film/{{Gunless}}'': In-universe, Jane is the only one aware of the code of the wild west, which means she is not put off or intimidated by Sean, as she knows he won't kill an unarmed man.

* ''Film/JudasKiss'': During some lighthearted banter with Detective Friedman, Agent Sadie Hawkins reels off a list of every trope/cliche that normally applies to females {{FBI Agent}}s in movies. Over the course of the film, she demonstrates that not a single one of them applies to her. (Except possibly her being a better driver than Friedman, and he was the one brought that up, not her.)

* When the crew of the ''Lewis and Clark'' discover the [[ApocalypticLog last video log]] of the eponymous ship in ''Film/EventHorizon'', involving its crew violently ripping themselves and each other to pieces with their bare hands while screaming in agony, Captain Miller immediately turns the video off and tells his crew "[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere we're leaving.]]" When the ship's creator objects to leaving his creation behind, Miller clarifies that once they leave, they will empty all of their ship's weapons into the ''Event Horizon'' until it ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill ceases to exist]]''.

* In ''Film/TimeBandits'', Kevin, at least, knows what's up when they meet RobinHood. He even tries to explain to the dwarves afterwards that of course Robin is going to hand out the treasure they stole to the poor.

* ''Film/TheDeadDontDie'': Ronnie is quick to speculate that [[ZombieApocalypse zombies]] are responsible for the recent string of murders, being familiar with them through pop culture. He explains what they are and the standard rules for killing.

* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': Just like in the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} graphic novel'': [[spoiler:Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias, declares that he is not a villain from a Republic Films serial and therefore had already completed his plan 35 minutes before beginning his BreakingSpeech]]

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'': Spider-Man uses the AT-AT sequence in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' as a cue for how to defeat Ant-Man after he turns himself into a giant, tangling up Ant-Man's feet with webbing and then having the others knock him over.

* In ''Film/JeepersCreepers'', as Darry is climbing down the drain pipe [[spoiler:looking for a dead body]], Trish tells him, "You know the part in scary movies when somebody does something really stupid, and everybody hates them for it? This is it!"
** Trish clearly watches a lot of horror movies, after hitting the Creeper with their car Darry asks "Do you think he's dead?" To which Trish responds "They never are" before running him over a few more times. [[spoiler:It doesn't work, but at least she tried]].

* Both brothers in ''Film/TheBoondockSaints''.
-->'''Murphy:''' That's stupid. Name one thing you gonna need a rope for.
-->'''Connor:''' You don't fuckin' know what you're gonna need it for. They just always need it.
-->'''Murphy:''' What's this 'they' shit? [[ThisIsReality This isn't a movie]].
-->'''Connor:''' Oh, right.

* ''Film/MonsterSquad'': A group of young monster movie fans fight back an invasion of classic movie monsters using their cinema knowledge.

* The entirety of the ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'' franchise is based on the characters being Genre Savvy, to the point that they make comments like "I know [[BlackDudeDiesFirst what happens to the black dude]], and I'm getting out of here." Randy Meeks was a veritable fountain of knowledge about how to survive a horror movie until he found a giant IdiotBall and turned his back to a dangerous area. In fact, most characters who die are the ones who make stupid mistakes. The characters know this, and discuss mistakes that should never be made, such as going off on your own.

* ''Film/ParisWhenItSizzles'' is about a jaded screenwriter who sees everything in terms of film tropes, which the movie proceeds to discuss, illustrate and parody to hell and back.