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openNo Title Film
Hey! Well, yesterday, I got a private message from a mod, I think, telling me that my recent edit for Kindergarten Cop had Zero Content Example. The only two tropes I added for that movie were Have You Told Anyone Else? and You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. He said they needed context so that anyone who hasn't seen the movie can understand it. Well, what do you guys think? Any ideas on how to add more detail? Here's the link.
openNo Title Film
Academy Award got made into a Useful Notes page. Which is fine, I guess, but it doesn't appear to be indexing anymore. It used to be an indexed list of all the films that have ever been nominated for Best Picture. Now the index is not showing up on the films listed. I think this used to be on the "Set Page Type" tool but that's no longer available.
openNo Title Film
Does a Busby Berkeley Number refer to any elaborately staged musical number, or does it have to have the trademark overhead "kaleidoscope" shots, as in the page image for the trope? (I don't know enough of the examples on the page to tell whether they all have the overhead thing.)
For example, does "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee qualify?
EDIT: If a BBN does have to have the kaleidoscope shot, is there another trope for elaborately staged musical numbers?
Edited by jayoungropenNo Title Film
Can Informed Attractiveness apply to a live-action movie? The wording of the trope seems to imply it's about animated works and books, but I'm seeing it used in regards to films, where it seems to be used primarily as Complaining About Characters You Dont Find Hot.
openNo Title Film
I just discovered a work page in main and was going to add it to the index Work Pages In Main but it's not an index any more I guess? So what to do about it?
The page in question is Women Of The Prehistoric Planet.
openNo Title Film
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.AvengersAgeOfUltron
People still keep adding anti-Man of Steel stuff to this page. I don't care about either movie but it's getting ridiculous. I think another example is/was on the Awesome page, too.
Edited by lalalei2001openNo Title Film
Namespace Question: Came across Main.Hey Cinderella while typing a subpage I made elsewhere. Obviously, it doesn't go in the Main namespace, but my question is where does it go. From what I've found it looks like it was a one hour TV Muppets special. Does that mean it goes under Series since it was TV? Another such special, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, is listed in Series so that makes me think yes but I want to ask before I move it.
Edited by sgamer82openNo Title Film
I apologize for the unusually poor style in the example for Twilight: Los Angeles I left on Keep Circulating the Tapes; right now, I feel screwed over due to not just my DVD recorder refusing to capture it at all but also PowerDirector dropping frames on an attempted recording of the last broadcast for the foreseeable future. Times like these, I really wish my favorite programs would be released on DVD. I also apologize if I'm not making any sense; I feel so angry about the situation, I don't know if I'm even making sense to MYSELF.
openNo Title Film
I was just looking at Forever War, and the Star Wars example kinda sounds like Conversation In The Main Page. It's only really obvious with the last addition ("Well, it's Star Wars, not Star Peacetime...") but even the other bullets sort of sound like different people trying to top each other.
- Star Wars: How long have the Jedi and Sith been going at it? While the cause has not been forgotten (their basic philosophies require each to destroy the other, what with the Sith being a Religion of Evil and the embodiment of The Dark Side, and the Jedi opposing them on principle), the origin presumably has.
- Due to the supernatural elements, the war has been raging since before either group actually existed.
- The thousand-year New Sith Wars definitely take the cake, though. Whoever was there to see it start wasn't there when it ended (obvious, considering most people's lifespans). A family could have participated in that war for roughly fifty generations if they were in it from start until finish. Even exceptionally long-lived aliens like Hutts and Yoda's unnamed species would've been unlikely to live long enough to see the entirety of the war.
- And even not including the Jedi and Sith, war is still the most common event in the series - the Empire, even after Palpatine and Vader's deaths, kept on fighting the New Republic for decades. And then the Yuuzhan Vong came along.
- Well, it is called Star Wars, not Star Peacetime...
Is this the kind of style that should be revised for better uniformity? There's a part of me that likes the feeling of being part of an ongoing conversation, even the obvious "Well it is..." kind of comments, especially if they're moderately amusing.
openNo Title Film
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Trivia.FantasticFour2015
Some questionable edit removing and natter on admittedly questionable edits.
openNo Title Film
Over on Mad Max: Fury Road, BlastHardcheese is edit-warring over what I would call, at best, a distorted interpretation of the facts presented by the movie, claiming it's an "opinion". It's been removed three times by different tropers and keeps coming back longer than before. The last troper to remove it cut it down to the nub of a vaguely logical interpretation (though I still don't think the movie supports it, I'll leave it be), but I'm drawing attention in case it rises again. It seems a persistent idea.
Edited by NanoMooseopenNo Title Film
Since Age of Ultron hasn't received a uniformly positive reception, would anyone mind if I removed the entry on YMMV.Ant Man for Tough Act to Follow?
openNo Title Film
Hello, I am trying to find a film that came out in the 80s/90s.
I only remember a few things from some scenes.
• Genre: Horror/Thriller • Setting: Factory • Scenario: A woman is working with a large rolling machine, she accidentally drops her ring on a conveyor belt that leads to the roller. She gets caught and pulled through the Machine. •The main character is a agent/police officer who does an investigation into the factory after the accident •The agents love interest is the daughter of the factory
Any help is much appreciated!
Edited by ThatDylanBrayopenNo Title Film
The Wizard doesn't show up as being indexed. I've attempted to add it, but to little avail.
openNo Title Film
First, it's orphaned, without an index. Second, do we need an Alfred Hitchcock page, and then a second page listing his films? Couldn't we just put them on the Creator page, perhaps within a folder? I'd like to do a cut-and-paste and put Films By Alfred Hitchcock on the cut list, but that would be a Large Change edit, and it would require admin assistance to make the Alfred Hitchcock page do indexing.
openNo Title Film
Could a mod please do a revert on the latest edit on Avengers: Age of Ultron? I'm not too sure of what has been done — from the look of it, it's probably accidental — but I'd rather not manually reverting it since I'm unsure of what has been removed or not.
openNo Title Film
In Hot Fuzz I'm trying to work out under which Loyalty Tropes and/or Contrived Stupidity Tropes the supermarket workers actions fall under during the supermarket battle. UK supermarket work is pretty much a "bottom rung" career - your average Tesco employee doesn't have a great deal of loyalty or investment in their job or the company that employs them. A supermarket manager isn't really the kind of person who could inspire a group of low paid unskilled workers to face off against armed police in riot gear with fruit and thrown cutlery.
openNo Title Film
Lots of vitriol in this review's
comment section. Personal attacks, people telling eachother to fuck off, trolling accusations... Could use a mod warning.

Was there a consensus somewhere that I am not aware of to move The Avengers to Film.The Avengers 1? Because it strikes me as a completely unnecessary move that is only going to complicate things further.
Edited by Tuckerscreator