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Once more, the halls of the Outpost will echo with the sound of… arguments! It’s the weekend, what the hell else have you got to do? Spend time with family? Actually go outside and talk to people? Uuurggh! Sounds horrific. Much better to just stay here and argue about the minutiae of movies with your fellow Outposters. Today, we get into the details.
The real details. Today we are going to debate movie cliches, but not the big, obvious ones. Nobody is interested in observations about girl-bosses beating up five men their size, or some newly recruited punk with all of fifteen minutes of training managing to use a special move to triumph over a master opponent.
Any noob and normo can name that kind of thing. You are Outposters. You are superior online movie beings. Do better. We are talking about the kind of low-level, pernickety details that only an Outposter recognises. Things that only happen in movies.
For instance, why is it that everyone coming home from a grocery store in a movie seems to carry the same brown paper grocery bag, and has always bought a baguette, some milk, and some greens that hang over the side of the bag?
Why do all telephone numbers in every movie and TV show ever start with 555?
How come, in reality and against all known rules of space-time and physics, every time you try to put a USB in, you always manage to get it the wrong way round TWICE? Yet in movies, they always go right in, every single time?
These are the things we are talking about. Today’s debate is:
What is the lowest-level trope, or cliche, that always (and only) happens in movies?
The most obscure and surprising wins the Outposter the admiration of his fellows until the end of time, or until another website apocalypse, whichever comes first.
Gentlemen, start your arguing!
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