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Xavier Breath

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34. Just saw another: the action movie non-cleanup ending.

Reply to Dagstead Bumwood (Original post)

Tue Mar 30, 2021, 04:09 PM

Mar 2021

So, the hero of the movie has just saved the day. He thanks anyone that helped him save the day, tells his boss or the nearest authority figure to kiss his ass, then is reunited with him woman. All around him lie the ruins of whatever building/plane/ship he found it necessary to destroy in order to rid the world of the bad guys.

And then....he just walks away. No team surrounds him and peppers him with questions. No debrief that lasts for days. No army of insurance investigators wanting to crawl into each of his orifices. Nope, he's gonna have sex with his woman off-screen and leave to anyone else to pick up the pieces.

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Movie Cliches [View all] Dagstead Bumwood Jan 2021 OP

Everyone buys a baguette on every shopping trip underpants Jan 2021 #1

And said baguette is in a paper bag. nt Ohio Dem Jan 2021 #11

turn on TV, perfect picture pops up immediately Skittles Jan 2021 #2

Made me think of the radio cliche. Dagstead Bumwood Jan 2021 #3

yup Skittles Jan 2021 #7

When a character is being chased and gets away in a car, The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2021 #4

Credit to whomever invented the term years ago Dagstead Bumwood Jan 2021 #5

John Travolta used the bathroom, to his regret, Doc_Technical Feb 2021 #32

Until recently, the black guy always got killed. My husband and I... if a group with one black man Karadeniz Jan 2021 #6

The blonde floozy is always right there too underpants Jan 2021 #13

I forgot about that! Karadeniz Jan 2021 #20

The Black Guy getting taken out Doc_Technical Feb 2021 #31

They cock their guns repeatedly, or rack their pump shotguns over and over without firing captain queeg Jan 2021 #8

They can't fire. rsdsharp Jan 2021 #17

Exactly. I keep expecting to hear a shotgun round hit the floor captain queeg Jan 2021 #19

This message was self-deleted by its author rsdsharp Jan 2021 #18

When the bad guy captures the hero and explains his plot to him in great detail The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2021 #9

Any time a sharp blade appears, there's a *shink!* sound of the blade being Aristus Jan 2021 #10

"Fury" does this but it's a great tank movie underpants Jan 2021 #14

As a tanker, I love tank movies, of course. Aristus Jan 2021 #15

You, and maybe others here, would like the website Ohio Dem Jan 2021 #12

I often spend hours on TVTropes. Aristus Jan 2021 #16

Yeah, it's addictive. nt Ohio Dem Jan 2021 #21

Thought of another one: the bustling downtown. Dagstead Bumwood Jan 2021 #22

Our downtown was dead, but it came back. hunter Jan 2021 #27

When someone hangs up the phone, they immediately get a dial tone. bif Jan 2021 #23

And, no one ever says goodbye, unless it's for dramatic effect. Dagstead Bumwood Jan 2021 #25

This one bugs me the most, and is most frequent intrepidity Feb 2021 #33

First of all, movies actually should behave like shared dreams, not real life nuxvomica Apr 2021 #35

When a woman vomits, she's pregnant. bif Jan 2021 #24

Everyone is thin Dagstead Bumwood Jan 2021 #26

In the movies cars represent some kind of freedom. hunter Jan 2021 #28

2 Detective/cop movie cliches Mike 03 Jan 2021 #29

NYC. Dagstead Bumwood Jan 2021 #30

Just saw another: the action movie non-cleanup ending. Xavier Breath Mar 2021 #34