I amused myself by making a list of surprisingly specific tropes in bad films, most common of which was Woman Assaulted in Parking Garage
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I don't have stats on how common it is IRL but I figured these filmmakers liked it so much bc you can film in garages without a permit
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Anyway it's draining having to watch and rate a bunch of horror/thriller shorts w nearly identical scenes of parking garage rape/murder
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I actually wrote on the form for the 3rd one "Do film school students just not want women to park"
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Anyway, that said, if I could delete just one sexist trope from amateur short films it wouldn't be that one
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It would be the one where the whole short film is a dinner date and the guy wins over the girl by being Radically Honest about himself
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There were only two movies that did that that added up to a total 20 minutes of watching that but boy oh boy did it feel longer
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Hell is an unbroken single take closeup of a white dude monologue that begins "Every day at work I feel like screaming THIS ISN'T LIVING"
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Office Space itself is a good movie but man is it responsible for a legion of copycat crimes
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I think all the lowest scores, on principle, were ones I gave to movies where I was like "Why isn't this just a blog post"
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Although the one dude who put on a crown of thorns and did a full frontal nude shot of himself on a cross while he ranted I gave props to
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I wrote on that form "I don't want this film in this or any festival but I want you to keep doing what you're doing"
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That was a long time ago, he probably has a lucrative YouTube career now
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