I see you have a fine library of such journals! I remember that dramatic article in which a humanoid alien life form of the Don Martin genus was also shown.

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When someone uses superhuman strength to run through a wall, it leaves a neat, man-shaped hole, instead of a bunch of smaller square-shaped holes where the bricks would have been pushed through.

Do you have any examples of movies doing this? The only ones I can think of are cartoons, which by definition rely on visual gags for humor.

And cartoons are not necessarily animated. IMO, The Mask fits this category.

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'The Burbs' when he falls through the shed roof after cutting the power.

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My favorite scene in the pilot for "The Greatest American Hero" is where he tries to burst through the wall, doesn't exert enough force, and only succeeds in pushing some of the bricks in slightly. I think that the wall was made of concrete blocks, but it is the same principle as house bricks.

David.

A meta-movie-cliche:

Popular movies have a high probability of either being sequels or remakes of moves a decade or more ago. (It could be saying something about the ability of the movie industry to come up with anything new that people want to watch)

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trhThat also kind of depends on how you define "popular." A movie based on a well-known property should attract a decently large audience simply because they recognize it.

Additionally, you forgot old TV shows, Todd.

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..and the male version would be Rupert Giles?

"Experts" who are interviewed on TV will have funny accents.

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The "enhance image" feature. "We have this grainy photo taken from 1 mile away in the dark and the negative was lit on fire". Enhance! And suddenly the picture is 90 times sharper than it could ever be and usually even shot from a different *angle*.

BladeRunner is not included - that was a hologram image he "enhanced".

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Graphic designers refer to that software as "Photoshop CSI."

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What's even funnier is the "We took this video off a security camera..." and what is shown is fully edited film.

Kudos to the Doctor Who episode "Forest of the Dead," though; not only was the camera work justified, but the results were heavily underscored in a louder, faster, and definitely cheesier way than the same scenes from the usual POV.

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Or fastforward/rewind buttons that stop exactly at the proper point in the tape.

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Look-alikes trading places. The Prince and the Pauper formula, as it were.

When they did this on the cartoon Johnny Bravo though, the writers did something that made me respect them: they made fun of the cliché. Samuel Clemens showed up at the end of the episode and he said, "I'm Samuel Clemens, the author of The Prince and the Pauper, and I beseech you to let this tired story die!"

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I'd like to see a similar treatment of A Christmas Carol. I'm sure even Dickens would be aghast at how much that story gets reinterpreted and retold, over and over and over and over and over again. Enough, already!

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Yes, they laughed at Einstein, but only because of his silly hairstyle; no one was actually laughing at his science.

Since he wrote A Christmas Carol out of desperation for some money, he'd probably demand royalties instead!

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Actually, I've seen that happen to two people in a single incident and it just leaves round (ish) holes in the wall about a foot and a half across.

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By 1843, he was comfortably well off, I should think. However, he probably would try to get royalties, yes.

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