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Ride Along

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Ride Along is a 2014 action comedy starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. It was directed by Tim Story.Hart plays Ben, a high school security guard that aspires to be a cop and to propose to his girlfriend Angela. When he gets accepted into the police academy, he tells Angela's disapproving brother James (Cube), and he decides to take Ben on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta to mess with him and break his spirit, all while searching for a notorious gangster.A sequel, Ride Along 2, was released on January 15, 2016, with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart reprising their roles as James and Ben. Another sequel is now in production.
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Villain Opening Scene: The sequel opens with Antonio Pope holding a party on his yacht and his hacker A.J. discovering that Pope's money had been stolen. Pope accuses Griffin of stealing his money and has him killed in his apartment.
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Title Drop: "I'ma take you on a ride along."
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Good Is Not Nice
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Good is Not Nice: James can come across as being rough around the edges, but he's still one of the good guys.
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Chekhov's Gag
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Chekhov's Gag: Ben getting blown out by Runflat's little brother gives another clue for James and his Omar case.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: A literal gun from the hostage situation — Ben takes one of the bad guys' guns from the scene and later uses it while helping James interrogate a different criminal. There's also his headset still picking up conversations when he's not wearing it.
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Guile Hero
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Guile Hero: Ben tries to do this to compensate for his lack of combat prowess, but he's not as good at it as he thinks he is. He does manage to talk a kid out of cutting class at the beginning of the movie, but in every situation he's put in from then on his attempts to talk his way out of problem situations only gets him in more and more trouble. He only has any success at the end where he manages to convince the criminals that he's Omar, and that mostly only works due to sheer audacity.
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The Dreaded
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The Dreaded: Omar, a Bad Boss who is basically The Ghost to everyone in the film, even his own henchmen. Until the end.
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Despite the above-mentioned Pac Man Fever, James' ringtone comes from an actual video game: it's the World 1-1 music from Super Mario Bros..
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Bad Boss
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Bad Boss: Omar, who has a reputation for killing his own men, shoots one of his own men solely to prove that he is in fact Omar.
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Every Car Is a Pinto
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Every Car Is a Pinto:
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Delayed Reaction
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Delayed Reaction: Ben when he realizes he got shot in the leg... long after the shootout happens. Granted, the adrenaline after the shootout at Omar's base would've definitely numbed the pain.
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Masquerading As the Unseen
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Masquerading As the Unseen: Ben pretends to be the mysterious crime lord Omar in an attempt to rescue James. It works until the real Omar shows up.
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Impersonation Gambit
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Impersonation Gambit: To save James from Omar's thugs, Ben decides to go in and masquerade as Omar himself since nobody before that moment has actually seen Omar before. Surprisingly, it works. That is, until the real Omar shows up.
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I Have Your Wife
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I Have Your Wife: Omar takes Angela hostage.
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Big Brother Instinct
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Big Brother Instinct: James, big time.
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Reckless Gun Usage
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Reckless Gun Usage: Ben's improper usage of his gun when interrogating J with James leads to him accidentally shooting J in the shoulder.
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Motor Mouth
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Motor Mouth: The first thing Ben does in almost all his situations is talk his way out of them.
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Red Oni, Blue Oni
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ben's red to James' blue.
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I Know Mortal Kombat
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I Know Mortal Kombat: Ben knows a lot about weapons, enough that he can identify different firearms just by hearing their reports, from his video game. Actually using them, however, is a different story. Until the shootout in the warehouse, where he does put other, non-shooting skills from the game to good use assisting James, such as scavenging ammo and throwing back live grenades.
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Misidentified Weapons: FAMAS assault rifles serve as the "Serbian submachine guns" that are the apparent focus of Omar's gun deal at the warehouse. Said Serbian smgs are real weapons, but in reality look more like cut-down AK-47s.
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Confronting Your Imposter
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Confronting Your Imposter: Ben pretends to be the crime lord Omar to get out of a situation with his gang, and it works until the real Omar shows up.
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Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life
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Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life: Ben predicts a student about to cut class will end up going through a series of events, ending with him living on the streets with no legs.
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Grenade Hot Potato
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Grenade Hot Potato: One of the skills Ben picked up from his game. Omar immediately notes this and tells everyone to stop throwing grenades, only for Santiago to tell him he can't stop because "I've already pulled the pins!"
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Faux Affably Evil
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Faux Affably Evil: Omar comes off as this when offering James a spot in his crew.
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Shotguns Are Just Better
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Shotguns Are Just Better: Ben thinks so... at first.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Omar, Atlanta's most feared and mysterious gangster (which is really saying something). Antonio Pope in the sequel.
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Indulgent Fantasy Segue
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Indulgent Fantasy Segue: James has one where he immediately shoots Ben without a word after Ben tells him of his plans to propose to Angela.
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Given the "skill" Ben showed at the firing range, it's no surprise that when he pulls a gun on a suspect to try and help James interrogate him, he starts wildly waving it all around and ends up accidentally shooting said suspect in the shoulder.
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Blown Across the Room
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Blown Across the Room: Ben does this to himself by not bracing before firing a shotgun.
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Hero Insurance
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Hero Insurance: Ben faces no consequences for accidentally shooting someone while interrogating them.
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Over the course of the film, geeky police hopeful Ben's gaming skills gradually prove to be more of an asset than a liability, culminating in the final fight where he literally uses moves/tactics from multiplayer shooters (like scavenging unspent ammo and Grenade Hot Potato) to great effect.
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: Ben's knowledge of guns from playing his video game.
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Deadpan Snarker: James.
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Ms. Fanservice
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Ms. Fanservice: Angela is frequently quite scantily clad and filmed with a lot of Male Gaze.
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Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000
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Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000: Ben's game is basically Call of Duty with Soldier of Fortune-style dismemberments.
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Shout-Out: At one point toward the end of the film, James says "Today was a good day." That's the name of one of Ice Cube's (who plays James) most famous songs. Despite the above-mentioned Pac Man Fever, James' ringtone comes from an actual video game: it's the World 1-1 music from Super Mario Bros..
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The Napoleon
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The Napoleon: A signature of Hart's comedy, it shows up here, too.
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Girls with Moustaches
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Girls with Moustaches: Ben mistakes a biker's wife for a man because of her beard, which only worsens his situation.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: Ben's gaming buddies turn out to be very useful when they inform him and James that Omar is holding Angela hostage at his home.
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Television Geography
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Television Geography: State Farm Arena, home of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, doubles as the fictional Highlands High School. What makes this more egregious: another scene has James showing up at the CNN Center, which abuts State Farm Arena.
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Manchild
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Manchild: Ben.
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Gangsta Style
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Gangsta Style: Downplayed; James only does this at the firing range, for two out of the seven or so shots he took, and still manages to hit the target with both such shots. In the head, at that. Ben, on the other hand...
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The Mole
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The Mole: Miggs and Santiago turn out to be working for Omar.
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Dirty Cop
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Dirty Cop: Turns out Omar's got some guys on the inside.
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Product Placement: Though it's never actually given focus, Ben and Angela have a Mass Effect 3 poster in their apartment.
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