Many times on The Movie Breakdown, we have complained about movie tropes and cliches. We prefer movies that are original, creative and fresh. But sometimes there is some charm and pure enjoyments you can get from a trope that is used effectively There is the belief that there are no new ideas but rather just reworkings and alterations of the good ones. This week we are looking at trope that were once very popular in movies but now are rarely used. We've realized we missed them.  We will explore four different movie tropes, explain why we miss them and look at movies that used them effectively. It is a fun stroll down the lane of nostalgia. We have loads of fun movies to talk about. As always it was a great time recording this episode for you, and if you really love it, please help us out by spreading the word on social media, so other movie fans can find us. Reminder that you can subscribe either to The Movie Breakdown feed (a subscription link is at the top right hand of this site), or subscribe on sites like Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, CastBox, and Amazon Music.