Minority Report

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Movies that end well and all the main characters "lived happily ever after"

The villain stands over the hero with his gun pointed menacingly at him. We cut to the hero who has closed his eyes waiting for the inevitable, there is a bang - but wait! The hero is okay?? He opens his eyes to see the look of surprise on the villains face as he crumples to the floor, and behind him is SOMEONE ELSE with a smoking gun - they actually fired the shot and killed the villain!

The entire police department is crooked... except for one man. That's why you get so many speeding tickets.

I know the future is bleak, with the ice caps melted, sunlight choked off by industrial smoke and all the forest animals hacked to death for meat, but does the weather have to be lousy all the time? Take an umbrella and slicker if you're traveling to 2025.

Chief John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is totally consumed by guilt for the kidnapping of his son.

Pretty much every single year, money goes down in value (be it the euro, pound, or dollar). Yet in cinematic futures where everything sucks, money has the exact same amount of value as the year it came out. I, ROBOT is a noticeable exception.

Future crime tech allows Tom Cruise to realize he might be a future criminal.

The hero is framed for a crime he didn't commit, and now must escape the police and the villain...all while trying to prove his innocence.

A character tells his or her comrades to escape immediately so that they can be safe.

In which Anderton is locked up in that crazy cyber jail.

Alice doesn't know that Bob is a villain, and tells him an important piece of information. Bob asks, "Have you told anyone else?", and the answer is invariably "No," thus leading to Alice's demise.

Usually in action films the Hero is fighting a villain and they bust into a room where a couple are "getting it on." They are never main, or even side characters.

You see the protagonist looking down a hallway, the music begins to lower, just as she's about to open the door at the end of the hallway BOOM a cat jumps out followed by a loud stinger.

Just like real life, sometimes marriage doesn't turn out as such a happy dream after all.

Despite all the unbelievable things occurring, no one believes the hero and their explanation/solution.

This phrase is usually uttered just before some event, such as a ringing telephone, makes it completely clear that everyone knows they're there.

A character is calmly in the middle of a sentence when suddenly they are shot or stabbed by something off-screen. Examples of this are Wash from Serenity or the Doctor from 3:10 to Yuma.

A portmanteau of "Retirement" & "Irony", in reference to the unfortunate tendency of movie cops to die horrible deaths just days before their retirement. The term has expanded to mean any situation in which a side character is given a little bit of substance just before being killed off.

Sure, most REAL programs might be dull to look at in a film. But all those extraneous readouts/dials/random graphics can't do anything but hinder your tech-crime spree/government investigation/robot suit.

Also known as "retirony", when a police officer/detective/agent has only a short time left in their career they will be killed in the most gruesome way possible, or perhaps only forced to go through absolute Hell before their retirement.

A cast composed entirely of young white people will include one black person in an effort to claim the producers aren't racist. Better known as the "token minority". In older thriller and horror movies, this person is almost guaranteed to die.

The bad guy isn't such a bad guy. He may do terrible things, but he has legitimate reasons. If only people would understand.