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openDescribing suicide as Film
Okay, I know awesome and comedy are supposed to subjective, but...
In YMMV.The Butterfly Effect, under Crosses the Line Twice, there's an entry that says Evan going back in time to kill himself as an fetus is unintentionally hilarious and awesome. Also, in Awesome.The Butterfly Effect, there's a whole entry that goes into detail about just why said event is so awesome.
This just seems... wrong. It's not just me, is it?
Edited by ChaoticQueenopenQuestionable example Film
From YMMV.The Force Awakens:
- Franchise Original Sin: The Force Awakens introduced the first female lead in a Star Wars film; while this was a highly praised move by many fans, later films ended up focusing too much on the feminist aspect, to the detriment of their public perception and financial success. Rey was widely beloved for being a strong, badass and lovable female protagonist in a franchise that had relied on the White Male Lead trope for years, ended up moving a ton of merchandise,note much of which suffered from low supply and high demand broke the Girl-Show Ghetto, and only raised the ire of a Vocal Minority of He-Man Woman Hater fans (and let's end it at that). Owing to Rey's popularity, The Last Jedi went further in its feminist messages and themes, and introduced characters such as Rose or Holdo whose main purpose were to add diversity and progressiveness to the movie and who came across as less organic than Rey's role in TFA. While it was a given that such a move would upset Rey's previous haters, Rose and Holdo were very polarizing with fans, and many otherwise progressive viewers were upset by the nail-on-head nature of the movie's social justice themes. TLJ ended up performing somewhat below expectations (even if it was still a success) and merchandise sales went way down, and many fans stereotyped Kathleen Kennedy as an obsessive "social justice warrior" willing to use the Star Wars films as a means of spreading socio-political messages rather than delivering fun entertainment. The much greater success of Disney's subsequent Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, namely the still-very-progressive-but-more-focused-on-entertainment-value Black Panther (2018) and the largely apolitical Avengers: Infinity War, only drove more nails into the coffin.
Is this valid? At the very least it could use some condensing.
open Some scene from an action/thriller movie Film
It should be from an English movie (might be from a tv series but I dont think so?).
The particular scene is about this guy with another guy in a wheelchair and the police(may be the fbi) heading into an underground pathway.(there is water in the middle in the huge tunnel at the start, but they turned into the smaller paths that has no water) The guy and the guy in the wheelchair don't get along really well. They were following this map to find something underground, which was a trap cuz the map was actually a fake. Doors then suddenly shut, and everyone was trapped in different parts of the underground. Water started filling up to drown them. The doors were too thick to break down. There was a way to escape above, so the guy actually helped the wheelchair guy to escape first even though he found him a burden. The guy then almost drowned.
Later on, someone then placed the fake map over the real one, and the path that overlaps is the path to the thing they were looking for.
If you can't think of the movie, then it might be a tv series instead. I'm also 99% sure it's not a Chinese or Korean movie/drama. Well, from my instinct anyway. Thanks a lot in advance. :) This has been bugging me for months. Research has been proven useless.
Edited by undeadopenMathematician's Answer or not? Film
Two examples on the page that I don't think count, so I'm here to make sure.
1. Terminator 2 Judgment Day. Sarah asks how many police have arrived. John answers "All of them, I think." This gives Sarah the information she wanted. It's not precise, but John answered to the best of his ability.
2. Casino Royal. "How did he die?" "Your contact? Not well." Bond doesn't go into detail, but he gave the guy the information he wanted. He could have said, "I almost drowned him in a toilet, then shot him" which would be more complete, but Bond told the guy enough that he got the general idea that his death was unpleasant.
I removed the examples, but then someone undid my edit, so I want to make sure, one way or the other.
Edited by WillKeatonopenBlue Beard in The Black Cat Film
On the page of the Lugosi movie The Black Cat, one of the tropes, Blue Beard, links to a removed page. What was this trope about?
openEdit war on Avengers: Infinity War Film
In the category "edit warring over a really minor, stupid thing", troper Sheffield has been steadfastly removing spaces after ellipsis on this page. This has been breached on the discussion page, and the general consensus is that we prefer a space after each ellipsis, like with any other punctuation, to avoid unrelated words sticking together at the end of a line.
Thus my latest edit of ellipses included an edit reason pointing this, and yet Sheffield removed them once again.
Edited by StFanopen Playful Flirting Trope Film
Is there a trope for when two individuals get playful with each other in a "we like each other" kind of way? Like splashing each other with water while laughing and playing with each other? If not, make one; these exist in movies and other mediums.
open ShoutOut discussion. -Infinity War Spoilers/Discussion- Film
Someone added several Shout-Out entrees on the Avengers: Infinity War main page and after reading them, I cut a few that felt very flimsy. One I removed stated;
- Dr. Strange asks Tony if Peter is his ward.
After I removed it, troper Mr Death readded it stating; "The comparisons between Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark are clear and have been made for ages, and so have comparisons between the Robins and Spider-Man. Taking a ward is just something that is not really done anymore in the modern world. So you have a deliberate phrasing here (Strange could have said protege, or made a crack about Tony having a kid), about a wealthy industrialist who fights crime with cash and his youthful kinda-sidekick. I don't see how it could be anything BUT a reference to Batman and Robin."
I don't think this is strong evidence of a Shout-Out since the whole point of the line was to setup a joke about Iron Man "knighting" Spiderman as an Avenger after the discussion. I'm not too savvy on comic books, but it really feels forced.
Edited by keyblade333open Searching for trope Film
Is there a name for the trope where there is action happening outside the window but it goes unnoticed by people inside the restaurant or cafe or whatever? I'm specifically thinking of the latest Ant Man trailer, as well as the fight scene in Vice Principals (on HBO).
open Trope Name? Film
I'm looking for a trope constantly used in Marvel movies, where the villain is a more powerful version of the hero. Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and The Incredible Hulk are movies that use it. Could anyone help me?
open Tv show for little kids Film
There was this show that I watched in the early 2000s (around 2004-2008) and there was puppets and they always had a white background. If I can remember correctly, little to no words were spoken and they taught you things like the shapes. Does anyone know the name?
openCharacter-Bashing Edit in Civil War YMMV Page Film
A few months ago I noticed a character stanning Tony rather intensely in the Captain America: Civil War page. Now I'm seeing edits bashing Natasha and Clint for what are honestly rather dubious reasons (very blatant case of Ron the Death Eater here). Should someone write them up a warning? They're also regularly adding to Avengers: Infinity War and its various subpages, which people are debating should be locked down in the meanwhile for the potential of spoilers.
open Old Trippy cartoon Film
Hi, I have scenes of a specific cartoon stuck in my brain but can't figure out what the plot was because of how old it is and how long ago I watched it. The scenes and plot lines I think I remember: It's about this boy that lives with his mother and isn't really rich, some how he ends up adventuring and goes into another world and one of the scenes in that other world is of a field of talking trees. There are Ruby trees with red apples dangling from them, Yellow sapphires as apples dangling from the trees and emerald apples. They all offered the boy their apples and he took a taste of them and loved them. I also remember that some of the scenes that he was in of him entering places or the other world was very colorful and really beautiful.
openUncooperative and Edit-warring Troper Film
Sahelanthropus doesn't seem to have any conpunctions adding back entries that were deleted with valid reasons of misuse on YMMV.Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom and VideoGame.Destiny 2. The latter case I have commented out and told them to come to discussion to explain why they added it back, but they're flat-out refusing to do so. Not helping matters is the lazy edit reason for reaadding ("K") on the former YMMV page.
openEdit War Film
Madius added a second example under Internet Backdraft on Ready Player One (2018), it was removed by Luigisan98. Madius later re-added the example with some citations added, and whilst he did go the discussion page to talk about it – it was only after he re-added the example not before.
The other people who’ve commented on the discussion page both agree with Luigisan 98 that the example should be removed, and have pointed out that one of the articles cited actually contradicts the point the example was trying to make.
Also when Madius added the example they violated Example Indentation by placing the example as a second-level bulletpoint underneath a first-level bulletpoint, Eagal corrected it, but Madius re-adding the example has undone Eagal‘s correction.
open What was this show/movie Film
Ok so when I was younger I saw this episode (I think it was a tv show) about a man who is like a serial killer and he kidnapps woman and slowly kills them by draining them of all their blood. And he’s in a police station telling the detective that he has to find her before like 6ish or she’ll die. And he trick the killer into thinking it was too late so he would tell him where she is and he saves her. Idk why but that’s been stuck in my head ever since I saw it but I can’t for the life of me remember what the show was I think bulivard I’d broken dreams by green day was in the episode too but I’m not 100% sure
open really well animated animals with a little kid in a hot air balloon ?? Film
God i can't remember if this was a show but I KNOW it was a game. It was like ... these human - like tigers and rhinos and they lived in this village place and this little boy came in and had a hot air balloon to travel around i think ?? Don't get me wrong the graphics were amazing. I just can'T REMEMBER I LOVED THAT OH
What I am thinking about is when the (usually male) protagonist is talking to the NEW boyfriend/girlfriend of his love interest. The protagonist happens to mention specific things that the love interest likes such as "She really likes it when you fold the toilet paper this certain way, and her fries to be slightly burnt at the edges" or some other very specific things. It is usually done to convey that the original protagonist truly cares for the love interest and knows specific things that they like. The love interest is usually listening to this, and comes round and falls back in love with the original protagonist.
Has this been documented?