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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/-Ambassador- on 2023-12-26 20:57:35+00:00.

Or rather, tropes that tend to be used in a cheap/lazy way in order to get emotions out of the audience. I’ve been hearing “shock value for shock’s sake” for a long time now as a way of describing attempts to provoke negative emotions from the viewer without any substance, and it’s made me start to wonder what other devices have developed a negative connotation over the years for their misuse. Which ones come to mind in the movies you’ve seen, and how are they lazily used?