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Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

"Oh, this? A picture of my sweetie back home in Iowa. We're gonna get married just as soon as I get back!"

This was also in Platoon.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

follow that car!

stet (stet), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Look! A parking spot right at the front door of the building I want to enter!

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

pages of a calendar blown away by the winds of time...

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

montage of protaganist being interviewed on Larry King.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

cell phone used as plot device

kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Nocturnal thunderstorm in Los Angeles.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

hired goons grabbing folks by the upper arm area

also, all men wearing hats

kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

bartenders with bowties and dark vests

kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

"C'mon, let's live a little"
(turns on jazz)

JTS, Monday, 12 December 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

ambient bellhops

nein Socken (nein Socken), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Married couples sleeping in separate beds. (Has such a thing ever truly existed?)

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Exaggerated direction-changing skidding-to-a-halt approach to a streeet corner during a chase scene, often accompanied by protagonist having to hold onto his hat to stop it falling off as he careers off in his new direction.

ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Married couples sleeping in separate beds. (Has such a thing ever truly existed?)

Far more common (especially among middle-aged couples) than I ever imagined.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Well! I never. All the nerve.

D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

kid to a dog that has to leave:
Go on. Git outta here. No one wants you around anyway. sniff Go on.

D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, mine should also have the chaser waving a rolled-up newspaper menacingly at the chasee.

ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

gooood eevennning.

why hello there mister so and so!

how doooo you do?

Kim (Kim), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

"Say, what gives?"

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

racism

Chris L, Monday, 12 December 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

"take a hike, buddy"

Slumpman (Slump Man), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

All the cops are Irish.

detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Exaggerated direction-changing skidding-to-a-halt approach to a streeet corner during a chase scene, often accompanied by protagonist having to hold onto his hat to stop it falling off as he careers off in his new direction.

Ha ha "The Sting" is one of my fave movies

Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

banana peels

detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Have we really not had "heroine tied to railroad tracks" yet?

ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Tracks tied to heroin, railroaded.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

"hey kid, how'd you like to make a fast buck?"

bsj30 (bsj30), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

"what's in it for me?"

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

"sorry pops, i look out for number one!"

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

really lanky british bobby blowing whistle

Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Scruffy street youths who all turn out to be fantastic tapdancers.

Garbage can lid used as percussion.

Mayor of Dutchtown (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

its funny how lots of these quotes can immediately be attributed to a specific sex.

AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

"I like you kid, ya got SPUNK"

Slumpman (Slump Man), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Exotic music is used to signify femme fatale.

Or a gay man, as in The Maltese Falcon.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

Overlong scene in apartment of bubbly wife/girlfriend trying to tell husband/boyfriend about some funny story or movie or friend of hers and husband being bored and sarcastic.

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

Fred Astaire is a big fan of "Now listen here a minute".

The Other Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

"Leave me go!"

Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

extensive use of stock footage (even in for-the-time-big-budget hollywood movies) for anything miltary-related.

latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

A mixture of innocence and passion make up what Ball of Fire is about. At times, this is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with a giant ball of fire.

latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Film of countryside shown through the window of a 'moving' car or train.

Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

frame flutter

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

everything is either mysteriously devoid of color or somehow three times as colorful as the real world

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Children always behave well, except in presence of an evil person.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

Jovial, fat policemen who can only run about 10 feet before stopping for breath. (UK films only)

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

Unpublished writers can afford personal servents who work out of their penthouses.

Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Constant drinking.

Falling in love with the singer at The Kit Kat Club.

Four single girls living in a room with a double bed with stockings draped over every surface.

Going for a night on the town by walking down a conveyor belt as neon signs flash tantalisingly by.

Men standing about with their hands in their trouser pockets.

Typewriters.

accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Journalists are witty, quick-talking, cynic, and charming.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

b-b-but WE ARE!!

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

the word "town" to mean "city"

Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)


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