- a really stupid character says “Hang on, I’ll save you!”
The new kid on the team wants to show you pictures of his wife and kid.
You beam down in a red shirt.
…Samuel L. Jackson calls you a motherfucker.
The danger’s over… but the movie has another twenty minutes left.
You are an old crotchety (perhaps insane) scientist that happens to be the only person on earth that knows everything about the bizarre events happening. And the heroes have just arrived on your doorstep looking for answers.
You breathe a sigh of relief when you realize that noise you heard was just the cat.
Or the first bout of moderate turbulence has just passed and the businessman next to you leans over and says “Don’t worry, that’s perfectly normal - happens all the time.”
No, AFAICT that means I’m going to be just fine. But if I’m relaying a discovery to the new guy, and he earnestly asks whether I’ve told anyone else about this…
You catch sight of yourself in a mirror, and realise you are being played by Sean Bean
You’ve made camp for the evening, and you’re sitting around the fire when the person with you says, “It’s quiet out there - TOO quiet…”
You hear scattering footsteps and cries of, “Omar comin’!”
When Clint Eastwood asks you if you feel lucky.
The loose-cannon detective who plays who plays by his own rules wants to aska few simple questions about the shadowy guy you know.
If, on page two of the script, your character is supposed to cough for no particular reason - yet.
If you are walking to your car and the camera is far, far away from that car, and you are told to turn, smile and wave to your loved one standing way, way far from the car next to the camera when you open that car door.
When, for no particular reason, they show a little girl bouncing a ball on the sidewalk in front of her house and the ball goes into the street…and the mother/father is told to look out the window at that exact moment.
You really know you’re in trouble when you bought that Malibu mansion the day after you signed a three-picture deal to star in that hit series, John Carter of Mars.
You’re two weeks from retirement
… someone says “that was too easy”.
you’re about to head out on a training cruise with nothing but cadets …
Also when he politely requests that you apologize to his mule.
…you lose your virginity when a crazed killer is on the loose in your town.