Movies that know they're good always end with a stylized image of the movie title before the main credits. See: "The Dark Knight," "Children of Men," "If..." and "Slumdog Millionaire." Movies that know they aren't good gently fade to the tech credits, hoping you'll forget the movie title and won't be able to warn people against it.
Rhys Southan, Brooklyn, N.Y.
In any war movie where you get to know a character who isn't the hero, he gets killed.
Legendary director Sam Fuller, 1980
A helicopter has the ability to hover. Many action movies do not realize this. They have their helicopters perform strafing runs against ground targets instead of assuming a relatively stationary hover, thus making an otherwise trivial shooting job much more difficult (see: "The Thing," "Blue Thunder").
-- Andy Hutton, Fremont, Calif.
When a character intends to confess something and says, "There's something I have to tell you," the other person immediately confesses, "I have something to tell you first," prompting the original character to say, "Oh, never mind."
Mike Smith, Pittsburgh
Archeologists in movies always work in pairs: a beautiful young woman and a grizzled old man. No movie ever made has featured a grizzled old woman and beautiful young man.
Keith Hiatt, Emeryville, CA
Whenever a character sneezes or coughs for no apparent reason, they will die. There are no exceptions.
Agatha Jadwiszczok, New York City
Any movie with "Beverly Hills" in it ("Beverly Hills Cop," "Beverly Hills Ninja," "Troop Beverly Hills," "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," "Slums of Beverly Hills") will feature a fish-out-of-water scenario in which a poor, uncouth or slovenly main character tries to fit in with the rich, elitist and snobby citizens of 90210.
Joshua Finkelstein, New York City
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