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- #32 - At least 3 times in the movie, demonstrate a blatant lack of physics in your movie world.
- #33 - Be extremely inconsistent with your rules about a) vampires, b) ghosts, c) witches or d) super powers
- #47 - Now that Sam Raimi’s big, shaky handheld camera work is all the rage — cram it in, especially when it’s not appropriate.
#47b - If the camera work doesn’t bring on nausea, you aren’t shaking enough
#47c - see Bourne Supremacy for best practices here - #66 - Any big muscle guy should be sleeveless
#66b - Arms should be sweating even in the frozen arctic (ala cliffhanger) - #79 - At least one martial artist should be using cables to make him look really bad-ass, even though he can’t kick over his own head.
- #87 - Tattoos = bad guys. More tattoos = even badder bad guys.
- #88 - Same as 87, but with piercings.
- #97 - Bullets should NEVER affect the bad guys and good guys the same way.
- #132 - More explosions.
- #133 - crappy pop song by unknown artist that has nothing to do with movie in the credits
- #189 - When in doubt, use an old TV actor from the 1970s or 1980s.
- #233 - Hire Steven Seagal has a script consultant