What rather very specific scenario do you really enjoy seeing in movies?

# Make sure it’s not too general, please!

I love seeing movies where an apartment/house previously seen as inhabited turns out to look completely different without the implication of someone freshly moving out or be completely abadonned for too long to had looked like this at the time of previous insepction.

Movie I know of where it has happenedThey Cloned Tyrone had this happen and I loved it so much.

I think I remember seeing this trope at least twice in some horror movies, but I don’t remember their titles. It always gets my attention.

PotentiallyAnApricot,

I love those silly scenes where someone has to take a dozen weapons out of various parts of their outfit before entering a room for a high stakes conversation.

Also kind of love when villains get adopted into the protagonist’s group.

And whenever there’s any kind of mini-universe/layered reality.

Seconding the comment about closed loop time travel.

Edit: also NONLINEAR STORYTELLING. I love that shit. Arranging plot points for symmetry and emotion or thematic resonance rather than just focusing on “what” happened.

starman2112, (edited )
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The end of John Wick. You’d expect him to make the douchebag suffer, but nah. Walks up, pop, walks away.

Alt: The absolutely wild over-the-top fight choreography in Equilibrium. “Not without incident.”

Alt: The indomitable human spirit. The last fight in Gurren Lagann hits like absolutely nothing else. The only part in that series that approaches Simon’s speech at the end is ______'s big last speech. “This is Simon’s soul… Team Dai-Gurren’s soul… Humanity’s soul… And actually, it’s my soul! Do you really think it’s gonna be wiped out by the likes of you!?”

magnetosphere,
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I especially enjoyed the subversion of the tired, old “compromising position” trope in the film State and Main (a very funny movie that I highly recommend, BTW)

An actress was trying to seduce a writer (who was in a relationship) while the two of them were in a room alone. The writer’s girlfriend suddenly walked in. I sighed. I was ready for the tiresome argument, tears, the “it wasn’t what it looked like” explanation, and eventual reconciliation that we’ve all seen a million times. A boring, overused plot device.

Instead, the writer’s girlfriend recognized the situation immediately. She knew what her boyfriend was like (shy and naive) and knew the actress had a reputation for aggressively pursuing casual flings. Instead of reacting like sitcoms would have you believe, she behaved like an adult with a brain. The writer was even surprised that she wasn’t more upset. The whole thing was pretty funny, and the story went on.

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OP, you remind me of something I noticed watching the Dahmer miniseries on Netflix. It’s not mentioned directly, but you do see his apartment get messier over time. It’s like he just gives up all but the most basic cleaning, and lets the mess get worse. At one point, he gets some fish, but eventually the tank is just filled with a gross sludge. What happened to the fish is never explained.

ivanafterall,
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I like when movies work in scenes in which there are too many girls and too few cups.

Mothra,
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This is very stupid but I have to admit I enjoy when the MC in an action/thriller movie just blows shit up and kills the bad guys etc AND… All cops are cool with that. Nobody arrests them, no questions asked, they just walk away at the end like it happens in Die Hard for example. I find it strangely ridiculous and satisfactory somehow.

Thorny_Insight,

I love all sorts of gearing up/building/getting ready scenes.

For example in the movie “Shooter” the scene where they go thru walmart buying supplies. In the movie “A bugs life” the scene where they’re building the fake bird. In “Chicken Run” the scene where they build the airplane to escape with. In “Dawn of the Dead” where they’re prepairing the two busses to escape the mall.

Bizarroland, (edited )
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I like the subtle call.

The things that presume that the audience has a little bit of intelligence and can put things together with appropriate context.

Examples are the guitar scene in Yes Man, and the wolf whistle in hotel Transylvania.

People like me that were paying attention notice that 15 minutes before Jim Carrey gets a call to action to prevent Luis's suicide that the very song that he was learning in guitar class was jumper.

I was watching that movie in the theater and the instant he ran by the guitar on his way up the stairs it clicked in my head I knew exactly what song he would be singing.

I was laughing my ass off, and I was the only one in the movie theater laughing, because no one else had got the joke yet.

Cue 5 seconds later when he actually goes into the song and everyone else gets the joke and they join in on the laughter I've had the whole time.

The same thing happened with the wolf whistle in hotel Transylvania.

The exact same thing.

As soon as the werewolf went into the whistle pose and it was dead silent to us I started laughing my ass off.

Then the wolf pups showed up on screen, the rest of the audience got it and they started laughing too.

I love that shit.

It makes me feel so clever and it becomes such a memorable experience and all it did was leave just enough clues for the quick people to pick up on so that they could get the joke 5 seconds before everyone else but by the end everyone has gotten the joke and is enjoying the spectacle.

shinigamiookamiryuu,

QPR’s, but I’ve only ever seen one happen in a movie.

Bizarroland,
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As in the suicide prevention method?

shinigamiookamiryuu,

No, these things.

Bizarroland,
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Depending on the person that could technically be a suicide prevention method.

shinigamiookamiryuu,

How so?

Bizarroland,
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Because if you have platonic friends you relate to you are less likely to kill yourself

shinigamiookamiryuu,

True. Was confused at first as all this was starting to sound like a meme that was going over my head.

I could go for some right now.

Bizarroland,
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I'll be your friend, no worries

shinigamiookamiryuu,

Thanks :)

scytale,

When characters actually say “bye” before hanging up the phone. I don’t even remember the last movie I saw where a character did this.

ShimmeringKoi, (edited )
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Good gravy!

cabbagee,

I love it when movies show deep friendships between men/women that don’t inevitably become a romance. Not every situation is Harry met Sally and it’s okay to have fulfilling, close relationships with people in your romantic orientation.

Sprite,

On that topic, I deeply appreciate when movies don’t add romances which add nothing to the story.

cabbagee,

YES. Main characters don’t have chemistry and a romance adds nothing? Let them be, it doesn’t have to be forced.

YourFavouriteNPC,

I love it when sequels DON’T include that the couple that fell in love towards the end of the first movie has now broken up again, just for the sake of some kind of forced tension between two character that’ll just end up together all over again anyway.

On a side note, that’s also one of the things I loved about Brooklyn 99: once Jake and Amy got together, it stayed that way. There wasn’t this boring “they’re together again, oops, now they’re not” so many other otherwise good sitcoms used to death for their main cast (looking at you, Scrubs)

ada,
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Closed loop time travel. Where the results of someone travelling back in time are already there for us to see, even before we get to the point where they jump back.

joelfromaus,
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This was something I really enjoyed about the series Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. It’s so batshit confusing to begin with but is actually well thought out. As the series continued it all came together and you could see the threads woven throughout. It was still a pretty eccentric series but it was certainly interesting.

ada,
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I never read that series, but you’ve got me keen to give it a try now :)

Sprite,

Sounds cool! Any examples of movies with it?

nooneescapesthelaw,

Predestination!

photonic_sorcerer,
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Tenet, for one

raptir,

spoilerPrimer

AFallingAnvil,
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The third harry potter movie, prisoner of azkaban

Bananigans,

When a woman needs a plumber. Even better when they the younger brother can get involved, but not really necessary for every scene, I’m just a Luigi fan.

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

As a plumber I haven’t yet seen a movie/commercial with a realistic plumbing scene and the inaccuracies drives me crazy.

My two “favourite” ones are when they’re using a giant wrench to tighten the p-trap under the sink and then water starts spraying everywhere as if there’s pressurized water in the sewer lines. Another one is when smoke sets up spriklers and usually all of them at the same time. Also that the water coming out of those is always clean (it’s black sludge in reality)

Bananigans,

I love watching doctors really about how stuff in movies doesn’t like up with realty. Thinking about your comment, now I’m pretty sure I’d enjoy watching any profession explain that sort of thing.

PlexSheep,

I study Cybersecurity. Media getting IT topics, especially security right, is the exception

Nusm,

As a musician, most scenes with characters “playing” an instrument are ridiculous. I mean, they do all this research for rolls, but they can’t be bothered to figure how to put their mouth on the instrument and some basic things that make it look like they’re really playing?

comrade_pibb,
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I want a plumbing scene to look like a hacking scene.

Extremely plumberman voice: I’m in

Thorny_Insight,

Plumbing can be intense at times. Water is kinda like fire and there’s potential for very expensive damages.

CorrodedCranium,
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Movies where there’s a prolonged feeling of spiraling and being helpless as things around you fall apart before your eyes. Mother, The Fall, and The Father all at least had moments of this.

They’re great movies I’d highly recommend and it can be a bit hard to explain the scenes especially without spoilers and a general plot summary so I’ll leave it at that.

It’s more than the horror movie trope of accidentally killing someone and it feels deeper in a way and more attention grabbing.

Railison,

Basically the part of movies where the characters come to realise their whole life or perception of the world was a deception.

Example Spoilers:

  • Truman show at the end when the boat hits the studio wall
  • The Island when EM and SJ run out of their compound and they realise it was a hologram
  • The Matrix when Neo wakes up in the power plant
comrade_pibb,
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I knew nothing about The Island and that reveal was amazing

Sprite,

Gonna watch the movie thanks to your comment. :3

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