When someone shoots a bullet at a car and it instantly blows up in a massive inferno.
If a bad guy is holding a gun at the protagonist, then a gun fires, and then the bad guy falls! revealing the other previously-thought-dead protagonist.
If someone gets off a motorcycle with a dark helmet, and then, after taking off the helmet, is revealed to actually be a sexy woman with long blonde hair rather than a man like everyone thought!
Someone's heart stops in a hospital, and then after approximately 2 seconds of trying to revive him, everyone says "no, stop, it's over."
If it's a buddy film where someone walks in on the buddies doing something that looks "gay" and then backs out of the scene going "I don't even want to know" or "None of my business".
When the two leads run twoards the camera and jump just as a massive fireball erupts behind them, propelling them forward into water/ditch/cliff. Extra points for when the leads are male and female and the subsequent entanglement of their bodies is their first (stilted) erotic moment.
When anytime police or military action of any sort takes place it's accompanied by people shouting "GO! GO! GO!"
If there's an elaborately edited "arming sequence" wherein the hero, finally pushed too far, gets geared up for retribution via a montage of zippers being zipped, buckles being pulled snug, ammo magazines slammed home, and sinister looking black metal things being clicked and rotated.
If an awful, terrifying sequence comes to an end with the protagonist suddenly sitting upright with a gasp, covered in sweat, light shining on his face through the blinds in his bedroom window.
After a prolonged sequence of sacrificial secondary character creeping through darkened space while "suspense" builds, the film literally goes "Boo!"
by having cat jump out. Pause a beat while SSC goes "Oh, Mr. Critters, you scared me!" followed by abrupt disembowelment by madman/creature who has crept up behind.
Mano a mano confrontation ends with challanger suddenly backing away, his eyes wide with terror. As the first guy begins to celebrate his badness, camera pulls back/tilts up to reveal actual reason for fear: giant whatever rising up behind.
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If you find yourself thinking about mundane chores back home - doing dishes... the laundry...
If the plot makes strange jumps, as in from being in a hostage camp in Cuba to shopping for groceries in the US (i.e. Red Zone Cuba).
If your thinking begins to resemble that of the Mystery Science Theater's cast.
If a bad guy is holding a gun at the protagonist, then a gun fires, and then the bad guy falls! revealing the other previously-thought-dead protagonist.
If someone gets off a motorcycle with a dark helmet, and then, after taking off the helmet, is revealed to actually be a sexy woman with long blonde hair rather than a man like everyone thought!
Someone's heart stops in a hospital, and then after approximately 2 seconds of trying to revive him, everyone says "no, stop, it's over."
Originally posted by pfflam
if Mel Gobson has anything to do with it
its funnier with the spelling error.
i happened to like the mad max series, but then again that was before he hit mainland us.
If there is a segment where the film is speeded up.
(yeah yeah...CLOCKWORK ORANGE........there are exceptions to all these rules.)
Originally posted by SpcMs
If Sandra Bullocks is in it
Be especially careful if Sandra Bullocks and Mel Gobson are in the same movie.
When the two leads run twoards the camera and jump just as a massive fireball erupts behind them, propelling them forward into water/ditch/cliff. Extra points for when the leads are male and female and the subsequent entanglement of their bodies is their first (stilted) erotic moment.
When anytime police or military action of any sort takes place it's accompanied by people shouting "GO! GO! GO!"
If there's an elaborately edited "arming sequence" wherein the hero, finally pushed too far, gets geared up for retribution via a montage of zippers being zipped, buckles being pulled snug, ammo magazines slammed home, and sinister looking black metal things being clicked and rotated.
Sorry 007.
by having cat jump out. Pause a beat while SSC goes "Oh, Mr. Critters, you scared me!" followed by abrupt disembowelment by madman/creature who has crept up behind.
Mano a mano confrontation ends with challanger suddenly backing away, his eyes wide with terror. As the first guy begins to celebrate his badness, camera pulls back/tilts up to reveal actual reason for fear: giant whatever rising up behind.