movie tropes that will never get old to me:
- a thing happens + two people exchanging money in the back
- fourth wall breaking
- “give up all your weapons” and that one guy that spends the entire evening taking his weights worth out his pockets
- *a terribly loud crash* meowing/ car sirens heard offscreen
- alternatively: a terribly loud crash and one of the characters going “oops” in the most casual voice
- “fuck you” “well if you insist”
character being all “you expect me to do X?” Gilligan Cut to character doing X
- the squad gets captured and interrogated separately, and they’re all telling equally terrible, completely contradictory lies
- people completely missing the completely unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them
- alternatively, people absolutely seeing the completely unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them and just not giving a shit
- bonus points if it’s a beleaguered minimum wage employee who just goes about their business like “yep same shit as always”
- someone pretending they don’t know another character is eavesdropping, only to casually reveal at the end of the scene that they know (*leaving* “tell tom that he can come out now” *tom drops from the ceiling in spy gear, irritated*)
- choosing to deal with the villain by just leaving them alone in a room with another character
- the “hands go down” trope
- example: “any questions?” *everyone’s hands go up* “…that AREN’T sarcastic?” *everyone’s hands go down*
how could all y'all forget “ACT NATURAL!”