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In reply to the discussion: Movie Cliches [View all]hunter
(38,309 posts)27. Our downtown was dead, but it came back.
Covid has taken some of that away, but downtown has become a cool place to live.
Our old downtown office buildings and upstairs retail spaces are being converted to apartments, some reserved for low and fixed income people.
My adult children, who now live in big cities, don't recognize the place they grew up in, when downtown was a place you really didn't want to be after dark unless you were looking for a recessed doorway to sleep in, a fight, hookers, or drugs.
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Until recently, the black guy always got killed. My husband and I... if a group with one black man
Karadeniz
Jan 2021
#6
They cock their guns repeatedly, or rack their pump shotguns over and over without firing
captain queeg
Jan 2021
#8
When the bad guy captures the hero and explains his plot to him in great detail
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jan 2021
#9
First of all, movies actually should behave like shared dreams, not real life
nuxvomica
Apr 2021
#35