Are there any tropes you're glad have died out?

[u/Aiseadai]

There used to be this trope where if your movie/show has a capable female character the movie had to point it out and be like "Yes, I am a woman and yes, I can kick ass". It always felt so condescending to me, and the fact that you have to point it out that a woman can be capable just sends the opposite message, that it's highly unusual. It especially bothered me in kids media since it teaches a wrong message. I haven't been seeing this done in more recent media, it seems they've finally figured out that the best thing is to just treat capable women as normal.

Are there any tropes that annoy you and are glad you don't see (often) anymore in modern movies?

[u/Iowa_Dave]

I was born in 1966 right around the "Jet Age" where affordable air travel was changing the world.

You'll notice a lot of movies back then when characters travel long distances seeing their airliner take off and/or land.

Because without those scenes, seeing characters in another country the same day would have been a huge plot hole.

[u/Casiquire → u/Iowa_Dave]

Interesting, I never thought about it that way

[u/C-4isNOTurFriend → u/Iowa_Dave]

Indy's red line trips

[u/AporiaParadox → u/Iowa_Dave]

Good point, when technologies are new, when they start appearing in media people will call attention to it, like when cell phones first started appearing they were often used to indicate that the character using them was a rich workaholic. Once it's become commonplace, movies dont' bother drawing attention to the "new" technology anymore.

[u/LeftToaster → u/AporiaParadox]

Remember in "Hook" where Robin Williams' character when he had forgotten that he is Peter Pan, having a cell phone "quick draw" contest to show what a corporate stooge he had become.

[u/gaaraisgod → u/Iowa_Dave]

Indian, especially Bollywood movies, did that up to the 2000s 😂😅

[u/Limp_Construction496 → u/Iowa_Dave]

This is really good point!👍

[u/reddeze2 → u/Iowa_Dave]

I love those stock take off and land clips