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  • What is the sound effect that plays at the end of the videos when they do the sin count and the sentence? Does anyone have a link to the sound effects used in the videos?
    • I'll have you know I made a Youtube Poop once that included Cinema Sins-like stuff but wasn't a complete 'parody' as the title indicated. I did find them on Youtube, all of them, right here.
  • What is it a reference to in the post-sentencing jokes, whenever there's a CG sequence inside a human body, it plays the same music. It's driving me nuts. Little help, anyone?
    • It's been a while since I've seen one of the videos with that joke, but I believe it's the theme to the TV show 'House'
      • That's "Teardrop" by Massive Attack, and is indeed the theme song to House.
    • In the outtakes for Star Wars: The Last Jedi (over the scene where Rey reaches out and touches her reflection's shoulder) & Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (when Kowalski is at the snowy lake, and it looks maybe like he's in some kind of simulation), there's some kind of haunting, repetitous melody. What is that tune?
    • Also, the first outtake for Child's Play, as we see the Good Guy kids' show, also has this infectious tune.
  • For two particular sins, in Pacific Rim and Avengers: Age of Ultron, He makes sins both movies for basically "This is taking longer than it should" (the recharging of Otachi's acid spit and Ultron's transfer into the Iron Legion drone, respectively). Question is, what sort of baseline is he using to determine how long each should take?
    • Boredom, apparently. That and the sense of when a "recharge" timer is turned into a Magic Countdown.
    • Watch the videos again, in the Pacific Rim video he said "Ah, melty blue acid spray. Cool. Why don't they use that all the time?", and in the Avengers: Age of Ultron he said "...why does it take 3 hours for an AI like Ultron to fully realize itself, take control of a robot, and attack the party?" He was asking questions, not making assertions, so "This is taking longer than it should." is not an accurate paraphrase.
  • Jeremy is right to point out that many of the early-2000s superhero movies he's reviewed feature characters rescuing people from burning buildings, but has it occurred to him that this might be connected to increased respect and reverence for firefighters in the post-9/11 zeitgeist?
    • Even if he's aware, it probably isn't going to stop him from pointing the sheer abundance of it. He's sinned tropes that have perfectly valid reasons for their existence or use before.
    • Oh, I wasn't saying he should stop, I was just observing that he'd discovered an interesting trend and wondered if he'd ever thought of analyzing it.
  • What exactly is the joke with the "Roll Credits" Running Gag whenever there is a Title Drop? If anything all this does is show how rare it is for a movie to actually end with a Title Drop.
    • It's definitely referencing The Dark Knight, which does have a Finale Title Drop, but more likely, it's simply referencing the trope itself. Since, y'know, it's common enough to be a trope in the first place.
    • Also, it's often a joke on how he wants the movie to end already so he can stop subjecting himself to the bullshit in whatever movie he's watching.
  • Every time a character picks up an apple, Jeremy goes, "Yes, let's have (X) eat an apple. It'll make (X) look more like an asshole." What is with that shtick?
    • It started out in the Star Trek (2009) video, when they pointed out Kirk eating an apple when he passes the Kobayashi Maru test to which the film's commentary by J. J. Abrams mentions that he had Kirk eat an apple to seem more smug. It then began a Running Gag to mention it every time a film uses The Snack Is More Interesting or when apples appear in general.

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