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[Dirst]

You mean like the two or three laugh tracks used during the entire run of Happy Days?  I was a little kid and I noticed it.

Edit: To clarify, this was in re-runs.  I'm older than most around here, but not quite that ancient.

You do know that the Cunninghams have the mummified corpse of Richie's older brother stashed in the attic, right? He went upstairs in one episode, then was never seen or mentioned again.

To be fair, he was mentioned again.  And was even allegedly on the other end of a few phone calls.  But you are correct that the actor was never brought back.

To me, though, it will always be the show that invented jumping the shark.

[scriver]

...But it is the show that invented "jumping the shark"... Literally. By jumping a shark.

[Bohandas]

Not really a nitpick, but I rented a bunch of DVDs this week and two of them had the Willhelm Scream in them. The Hobbit has a Wilhelm-screaming goblin in Moria, and I'm watching Aeon Flux right now and there's a Willhelm-screaming guard. Sound editors especially like this scream when someone falls or is flung off a high place, like off a bridge or a ledge.

Pro-tip: do not research the Willhelm scream if you don't like your suspension of disbelief to be challenged. Once you're aware of these stock sound effects everyone uses, you start noticing them all the time, which can slightly ruin enjoying the moment.

You mean like the two or three laugh tracks used during the entire run of Happy Days?  I was a little kid and I noticed it.

Edit: To clarify, this was in re-runs.  I'm older than most around here, but not quite that ancient.

If done right though, that kind of thing can positively enhance a comedy by creating a subtle running gag. Spongebob comes to mind with it's running gag of every time there's any sort of altercation or accident or disaster there's the same clip of someone yelling "My leg" or on Aqua Teen Hunger Force where just about every time something gts set on fire it's the same stock footage of a campfire

[Bohandas]

Sequel foreshadowing that doesn't pan out is always disappointing. Like they when they set up for a sequel at the end of the film and then the sequel never gets made.


EDIT:
Also, have you ever encountered something in a movie where it could either be a deliberate callback to something earlier in the film or series or a weird and careless oversight, and it's totally unclear which is which. For example, in Austin Powers II Scott Evil suggests that his father should use his time machine to "go back and kill Austin Powers when he's sitting on the toilet or something", and in the first film there was a scene where Austin was attacked in a bathroom stall, and I cannot for the life of me tell whether Scott's line was meant to be some kind of weird callback to a scene in the first film that had nothing to do with that character, or if it was just a result of the writers having a limited repertoire of gags.
(intentional or not though my headcanon for the series is that after inheriting the time machine in the third film Scott sends the assassin back to try to kill Austin Powers in the first film)

[Neonivek]

Sequel foreshadowing that doesn't pan out is always disappointing. Like they when they set up for a sequel at the end of the film and then the sequel never gets made.

It is kind of worse when the Sequel Foreshadowing is better then the actual movie you got.

Like Jem and the Holograms movie (don't watch it is terrible! and dishonest to the cartoon) for example has the Misfits show up at the end sequel bait...

And it is KESHA! Pizzazz is being played by Kesha! Is there anything more perfect? Why wasn't that our movie?

[Reelya]

Been watching more movies recently because I can rent DVDs really cheap near where I live.

Started Starship Troopers II because, I think, how bad could it be? Well I got my answer, really fucking bad. The acting is amazingly bad, the special effects are utter shit and it looks worse than a low-budget TV action show. There's supposed to be a huge bug attack going on but most of the scene is close-up head shots of talking marines who don't really seem all that to stressed out. The directing and cinematography is so shite it's almost like it's created a new level of shite. And that's just for the big opening battle scene. I dread to think how bad the rest of this movie is going to be. But I'll gonna get my $1 worth goddamit. The nitpick is: this entire movie and I can already tell that within a couple of minutes into the thing.

[Arx]

That's not so much a nit as a headcrab, I think.

[Reelya]

I'm at the 10 minute mark now, and I'm really starting to think "god I hope the bugs eat all these annoying people really soon" and I never normally do that.

[Dirst]

Started Starship Troopers II because, I think, how bad could it be?

I remember after seeing Robot Jox thinking that the sequel Robot Wars couldn't possibly be worse.

Within the first five seconds I knew I was wrong.

[Reelya]

imdb ratings:
Robot Jox: 5.3
Robot Wars 4.0
Starship Troopers 1: 7.2.
Starship Troopers 2: 3.5

Well, it had a really low budget and mostly terrible actors. But the main story that developed in the movie involves a whole lot of gore, and was actually different from the first movie. I can sort of see now that they skimped on the effects for standard bug attacks to focus on this other story rather than just repeat the first film. Works ok as a cheap gory action horror, but unfortunately all the humor from the first film is missing, except for a couple of recycled movie #1 jokes at the start and end.

[Starver]

imdb ratings:
Robot Jox: 5.3
Robot Wars 4.0
Starship Troopers 1: 7.2.
Starship Troopers 2: 3.5

That made me think to check...
1986: Highlander (1986): 7.2
1991: Highlander II ('The Quickening'): 4.0 (not quite the SsT level of drop, for a movie that is famously ignored in canon!)
1994: Highlander III ('The Magician'/'Final Dimension): 4.3 (surprisingly low, for the 'rebound one that isn't ignored')
2000: Highlander IV ('Endgame'): 4.5 (still struggling!)
2007: Highlander ('The Source'): 3.1 (uh oh!)

Also, the TV series...es:
1992: Highlander: 7.3 (good!)
1998: Highlander: The Raven: 5.2 (not so good)

...more...

1978: Superman: 7.3
1980: Superman II: 6.8
1983: Superman III: 4.9
1987: Superman IV: 3.7 - no wonder there was no V.  Or was there?
2006: Superman Returns: 6.1 Reboot v1
2013: Man Of Steel: 7.2 Reboot v2

(1966: Star Trek TOS: 8.4) * putting TV series in ()s, for clarity *
(1973: Star Trek TAS: 7.7)
1979: Star Trek: The Motion Picture: 6.4 (odd number, low expectation, and that's the last time I use the official movie title)
1982: Star Trek II: Kaaahhhhhhnnnnnnn!!!: 7.7 (even number, high expectation)
1984: Star Trek III: Doctor/Spock: 6.6 (odd number low)
1986: Star Trek IV: Whales!: 7.3 (even number high!)
1989: Star Trek V: God!: 5.4 (odd, low)
1991: Star Trek VI: Those aren't his knees!: 7.2 (even, high)
(1987: Star Trek TNG: 8.7)
(1993: Star Trek DS9: 7.9)
1994: Star Trek (7): That Nexus Thing: 6.6 (un-numbered but odd and low)
(1995: Star Trek Voy: 7.7)
1998: Star Trek (8): Conspiracies: 6.4 (un-numbered, but broken the patter)
(2000: Star Trek Hidden Frontier: 5.6)
(2001: Star Trek Ent: 7.5 - good!  Expected worse, but I quite liked it...)
1995: Star Trek (9): The Borg Queen: 7.6 (should be low... unless we just forget Insurrection @ #8)
2002: Star Trek (10): Romulans!: 6.4 (yes, forget Insurrection.  Or Generations, but at least they redid that ending.)
(2007: Star Trek Odyssey: 6.3)
2009: Star Trek: The Reboot: 8.0
(2012: Star Trek Genesis: 6.7 - ??? what? when?)
(2013: Star Trek Continues: 7.7 - ??? again, what?)
(2014: Star Trek Begins: ?? - looks like nobody has heard of this one...)
2014: sTAR tREK: tHE rEBOOT ii: 7.8
(2015: Star Trek Renegades: 5.0 - but I've not seen this, so I don't know how fair it is...)

1979: Mad Max: 7.0
1981: Mad Max 2: 7.6
1985: Mad Max 3: 6.2
2015: Mad Max Reboot: 8.2

1968: The Love Bug: 6.4
1974: Herbie Rides Again: 5.6
1977: Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo: 5.5
1980: Herbie Goes Bananas 4.8
1997: The Love Bug: 5.2
2005: Herbie: Fully Loaded: 4.7

...that should do for now...

[Bohandas]

In The Giver the sappy talk of love and stuff is kind of unnecessary and beside the point. The lack of compassion is a far more pressing issue, and the fact that they prescribe the death penalty for things that even Josef Stalin or Vlad the Impaler wouldn't is far worse than both of these issues combined; The main issue is simply that with or without love they are far far worse than the things that they are trying to avoid.

[Neonivek]

Here are two!!!

Big Hero Six and Hotel Transylvania 2 and both for their ending

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Big Hero Six

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So our hero has a robot built by his brother as a basically a caretaker for the sick and elderly. Something that could help thousands if not millions of lives around the world. He learned what it is his brother wanted and now feels his presence always. It is time... to help all those in need...

SCREW THAT!!! No one is having a robot except me! sucks to be you paralysis patients!

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Hotel Transylvania 2

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So we have basically a story about racism and a very well done one at that. So this child is half-vampire and half-human (A Dhamphir) except he will either manifest as a human or vampire. They are afraid that the hotel is too dangerous for a human and that it is too anti-human for a child so she wants to move away. The father gets a "sure fire" way to turn his grandson into a vampire and decides it isn't worth it. Creating a scene where the entire family have to fend together

SCREW THAT NOISE! he is fully vampire! now there is no dilemma at all. Wasn't this whole racism analogy just tired? Thank goodness he wasn't "Half-vampire" or a "Human" that would have give the movie stakes. Phew!

What sucks is I COULD have accepted him being full vampire... If they decided to stay before it happened. It is what I call the "The Beast was beautiful the whole time clause", sure the beast isn't ugly anymore but Belle chose him anyway now it is just bonus.

[Greiger]

Pixels:

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 Ok so the aliens saw how the game was played by watching the video of the competition right?   But Tyrieon* cheated during the competition. which probably should not have been able to happen in a real tournament environment anyway but whatever. I'll blame it on the 80s....or 70s....or whatever year that was. ^{_{(God I hope that wasn't 90s, that would make me feel old.)}}  Nobody took this shit seriously back then.

But....isn't that on the tape too?   Him cheating?  So why do the aliens know that cheating is against the rules if the only knowledge of these games they have to go on includes someone cheating and not getting caught?  Why don't they just think of that as normal play?

[Neonivek]

Pixels:

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 Ok so the aliens saw how the game was played by watching the video of the competition right?   But Tyrieon* cheated during the competition. which probably should not have been able to happen in a real tournament environment anyway but whatever. I'll blame it on the 80s....or 70s....or whatever year that was. ^{_{(God I hope that wasn't 90s, that would make me feel old.)}}  Nobody took this shit seriously back then.

But....isn't that on the tape too?   Him cheating?  So why do the aliens know that cheating is against the rules if the only knowledge of these games they have to go on includes someone cheating and not getting caught?  Why don't they just think of that as normal play?

Don't worry because

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Adam Sandler cheats at the end anyway... The aliens basically just wanted to make Adam Sandler the hero