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open "Quit buggin' me!" said with a scary face Film
You know when there is a TV show or movie—comedy, usually—with a character who is either secretly supernatural or not very overtly magical, proooooobably evil, and are being irritated constantly—usually by a dog, barking because it senses evil—and so, when nobody is looking, they whip around and make a HIDEOUS monster face and roar, sending their antagonist fleeing... Then they turn immediately back to their human companion(s) as if nothing happened, and nobody noticed.
WTF is that particular trope called?
I thought it might've been "Nightmare Face" at firs, but the description doesn't fit...
openDisable replies to my Reviews / permission to delete replies Film
I get a lot of malicious and verbally attacking replies to many of my reviews of movies.
I can't just give a positive review out to every movie there ever was made - I also want to be able to express my own honest opinion of said fictional work. Not everything I write down in my reviews is a fact, I also put down a lot of my own sentiments.
I'm not violating community guidelines when I write these movie reviews down - but I get denigrated a lot by multiple reviewers hostile towards me.
Am I supposed to just ignore their replies or can I also delete their replies to my reviews?
Edited by Khrunwahl02open Unknown cartoon Film
So a while ago I watched this tv show about wizards and fairies. It was a cartoon. The style reminded me of the show, ever after high. It was set at a magic school. I can’t re,ear much but in the first episode, there were a group of girls who entered the magic school and somehow got into a room where they chose a cape or something like it (I forgot) and they had powers. It was kinda like a magic school. Someone please help me I can’t find this show
Edited by Xxcherryxxopen Unknown movie !!!! PLEASE HELP Film
This movie is old looking and cartoonish (animated). It’s in color, but it looks likes it’s made in the 1900’s. It is about animals , including pretty sure it’s mostly rats and mice. They are in battle and one side is super evil. The other side In this castle, and there’s some monk looking animal too. He is on the castle side. Hewears a brown robe. There are no humans in this movie. The animals are not exotic animals like lions or cheetahs. They look mostly like regular mice and rats. I think. It also takes place in a woody area. It’s not that well known of a movie. Thanks if you know it !! I Need to know the name of them movie!! Thanks!!
open Need help naming mid 80's - 90's movie/tv show Film
Please I need help naming this movie/tv show it's driving me mad. I'm 80% sure it's a movie. Anyway here is what I remember. I think it was made in the mid 80's into the late 90's sometime it's been years ago I seen it. I feel like it happens in the south but not sure as the murder happened years ago at the time of the movie maybe 20-40 years had passed. I think the main character is a lawyer (thou believe me you won't find it googling lawyer movies) but could have been a cop. I just remember the scene when he finds out he has held/been in the room with the murder weapon many times over the years. What I do no is the father-in-law (not 100% on the father-in-law part could have been his mentor father-in-law feels right thou or even both) who may or may not be a judge/lawyer. Has the murder weapon a gun (a rifle of some kind) laying around his office. If I remember correctly it was even used as a doorstop on occasion (during parties and such). 100's of people have seen it and never connected it with the old murder case. I can't remember who was murdered but feel it was a black person or people and the murder was maybe racially motivated. A scene I also remember clearly which may or may not be in this movie (could be a completely different movie) is a black girl walking down a long (dirt) road she was either raped and/or beaten and/or maybe was a witness to the murder but didn't tell. MOVIES that it is not as I have already watched them in the last few days. A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, Ghosts of Mississippi, The Client, The Chamber and Mississippi Burning.
openSpam in review comments Film
Spambots have been infesting a review for Guardians of the Galaxy: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_comments.php?id=12601
openMad Max: Fury Road - Acclaimed Flop? Film
I found this entry was recently made by Kamiccolo on the Trivia page for Mad Max: Fury Road, and I'm somewhat uncertain of its validity:
- Acclaimed Flop: Fury Road got great reviews from professional critics and Internet forum users, yet a neutral-to-negative response from general audiences. It barely turned a profit ($378 million gross on a $160 million production budget; much less than "masterpieces" with bad reviews like Hotel Transylvania 2 or Terminator Genisys) and might have actually lost money. Predictions range from Forbes calling it "too expensive, but not quite a flop" to Hollywood Reporter reporting that the film lost its studio $20 million.
Now, I checked the numbers, and they seem accurate, so unless someone has reason to believe they aren't, I won't dispute them. I should note that the Forbes article quoted is referring to Edge of Tomorrow with that quote, saying that Fury Road could go down that road (though I suppose with those box office numbers, it might have). Also, I'm curious where the Hollyywood Reporter got those numbers and how they were calculated, but again, I don't really have any reason to dispute them.
My main cause for concern is the "neutral-to-negative response from general audiences" bit. Is there any reason to believe that? As far as I know, the box office total merely represents how many people went to see the movie, not what they thought about it, and Rotten Tomatoes has the film at a 85% audience rating, which - while not as good as the critics' score - doesn't really say "neutral-to-negative" to me.
Now, I want to try to stay neutral when it comes to subjective things like the quality of a film - even if it's a film I like - but I'm concerned that this entry is somewhat biased against Fury Road.
Thoughts?
Edited by KarkatTheDalekopen CAN I HAVE SOME HELP PLEASE Film
I was watching tv with my cousin one day a while back and a trailer came on. It started like a kids tv show with the main character a man dressed formally but then it started becoming really disturbing and turned into a horror/thriller. I don’t remember too much but it seemed really bright and colorful and there were a lot of kids like a game show. I remember the cover for the trailer was the man dressed formally in front of a colorful house or something and it might have started like “mr._____” I don’t know but it looked really scary and cool so if anyone finds anything lmk!
open Tear Jerker / Star Wars 9 Film
Currently the Tear Jerker page for the unleashed Star Wars Episode IX consists of meta examples regarding Carrie Fisher’s death. As Tear Jerker is a No Real Life Examples, Please! Trope, what should be done with this page?
Edited by costanton11openSpoilers off for MCU? Film
Yesterday, PStriderFan went through Ant-Man and the Wasp and changed it to Spoilers Off; removing all spoiler tags and adding a "spoilers are unmarked" warning at the top. Was that officially decided on anywhere? Because it doesn't feel right to me. I wanted to check before I did anything — and honestly, if spoilers should be put back, then it'd be quicker to have a mod do a restore.
For the record, Avengers: Infinity War is also Spoilers Off, though I can understand that one given how spoiler-heavy the film is. I still figured I'd bring it up just in case.
openMythologyGag/Shazam2019 Film
Just noticed MythologyGag.Shazam 2019, which won't be out until next year, and...is there enough material on the page for it to have a page?
openEdit Lock Bug at it again...I think. Film
The main film page for Who Framed Roger Rabbit has an edit lock. Is it the post update glitch or are some pages actually locked for a reason?
openFor anyone who's seen ''Film/OurDailyBread'' Film
Saw this on Capitalism Is Bad:
- Our Daily Bread is about a group of Americans in the depths of The Great Depression who form a socialist-style collective farm. The film isn't excessively strident, but the anti-capitalist message is obvious. In a meeting of the farm workers, one suggests a democratic form of government for the farm, but that's dismissed as what got America into The Great Depression in the first place. At the foreclosure auction, a capitalist fat cat right out of Soviet propaganda—overweight, dressed in a suit, chomping on a cigar—tries to buy the farm, but after the workers silently threaten him with a hangman's rope, he clams up, and the workers buy the farm themselves for less than two dollars.
open Survivor Theme Film
There's this form of survivor scenarios that I can't stop thinking of where two soldiers from opposing factions must work together in order to survive. What kind of trope is it and what movies have that like Into the White.
openFilm Noir page Film
Hi! I'm fairly new here and I've been enjoying my time. I noticed that the page for Film Noir has a list of actual noir in three folders and the rest are full of (unconfirmed?) noirs that may have adopted themes of the genre, but are not necessarily noirs. I wonder whether it would make better sense if the three folders (Proto Noir, Classic Noir, Post-Classic and Neo-Noir) should have its own genre list. Not only does it "confuse" the rest of the folders, but there's also the list of tropes above it, making the page too large (and the tropes and movies mix in with the index).
I suggest a page named "List of Films Noirs".
Edited by MarshyShonenopenFrom a film festival to theathers Film
If a movie first showed in a film festival, do we do tropes on that movie? Or do we wait until they come to big screen (cinemas) to start making a trope page?
openDo TV movies go on the Film index? Film
I added Magical Mystery Tour to the Television Movie Index as it ran on the BBC. Noticed that it's listed on the Film index as well. Thoughts? Don't really have an opinion myself.
Edited by jamespolkopenProper title for film page Film
There's a French-Canadian film called 'Ghostland'. In America it was retitled 'Incident in a Ghost Land', which is what the TV Tropes article calls it. Should the article be renamed to its original title?
Edited by MephistophelesopenWork's equivalent for CounterpartComparison? Film
Hey!
I put up a Counterpart Comparison example on the YMMV page for Christopher Robin, comparing it to another movie (and other people expanded it). It got deleted under the reasoning that this is for characters, not works.
Well, is there any equivalent trope for works?
I only saw the pilot. It’s a younger couple, and I think they had just gotten married. Then on the honeymoon, or shortly after, the new husband wakes up and his wife is gone. He finds a video in the freezer of her saying to not look for her, that there’s no money, etc. Then he’s freaking out to figure out why that happened. Then it cuts to his brother in an airport hitting on a hot girl, and then he finds discovers that it’s actually his brothers wife in a disguise.
WHATS THIS SHOW CALLED!