These elements are by no means the only things in good movies, but they are all things that great movies include.

10. Getting Away With Murder
The good guy in movies is always allowed to shoot, maim, mangle, or lay the smack down on anyone they want, but the bad guy gets thrown in jail for it. When the cops come at the end of the movie, the main character is always absolved of all wrongdoing.

9. Comic Relief
Every type of movie has its own kind of humor that can be applied to the story to make it hilarious. Look at Schindler’s List, it had some funny parts! Also Braveheart was funny, like when they slit that girl’s throat or made Braveheart’s intestines come out at the end.

8. A Dynamic Duo
Just think about how many movies there are with a white guy and a black guy teamed up. You can basically throw in any two dudes of different races and you’ve got instant cinematic gold. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. Yoda and Samuel L. Jackson. Tim Robbins and Samuel L. Jackson. Wait, that was Morgan Freeman.

7. A Lovable Villain
In a lot of awesome movies, the bad guy is much cooler than all the good guys combined. Look at Darth Vader and Darth Maul for example. They rule, and their Sith powers are far more awesome than the Jedi powers, not to mention they carry red lightsabers and red happens to be the best color ever invented. And Sauron definitely has better armor than that tree-hugging freak Aragorn. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be best friends with the huge, evil lord who can kill 80 guys with one swipe of his gigantic mace than the loner who sits in the corner of the inn with his emo cloak wallowing in his own self-loathing for not having the cojones to take the throne as the rightful King of Gondor! What a chump, ya know?!

6. A Heartfelt Moment
You might be asking yourself what a “heartfelt moment” is, exactly. Well, this is that moment in the movie where no matter if it’s a romantic comedy or a sci-fi horror slasher, two of the characters are sitting there and one of them starts telling a boring personal story filled with emotional baggage that no one cares about, that starts with ‘when I was a kid’ or ‘my father this, my father that’ or something else that is dumb and meaningless. It’s really stupid and I hate it, but almost every movie has one of these scenes so I practically was forced to put it on this list.

5. Guitar Solos
Can you think of even one great movie that doesn’t have a guitar solo in it? I mean come on - Top Gun? Wayne’s World? And the list goes on.

4. Explosions, Weapons, and Violence
Even though this is really three categories I thought it would be best to put them all in the same category because they are interconnected on so many levels. Weapons sometimes make explosions, which cause violence. So they’re practically the same thing.

3. Chicks
It’s basically not even a movie if there isn’t at least one chick in it. She doesn’t have to be an actual character in the movie though - it might be that the TV’s on in the background of a scene and there is a woman on the TV at that very moment. Or maybe there’s a crime scene photograph of a dead lady. Perhaps somebody in the movie says a girl’s name. She doesn’t have to be some babe-alicious dudette or anything, but if she is, you get extra points. Your movie probably sucks if you don’t even put a single lady in there.

2. Cool Traps
Anybody worth their salt knows that cool traps just make a movie destined for greatness no matter what it’s about. I mean look at Indiana Jones, for example. All the Indiana Jones movies have great traps. Same with Pirates of the Carribbean. Captain Jack is always trying to get himself out of some stupid trap he’s gone and got himself into. It makes for a funny yet gruesome part of the plot that’s potentially deadly at the same time, like in SAW. Plus it gives you ideas for how to surprise your friends on birthdays and holidays.

1. The Best Moves
Without sweet moves, you can never become all that and a bag of chips. But moves aren’t just moves - they come in six different types. The types of move you can do are martial arts moves, stunt moves, vehicle moves, dance moves, weapon moves, and girly moves. Most of these are self-explanatory except girly moves. These are the kind of ones that are used all the time by those such as Hugh Grant, George Clooney and Austin Powers. They really know how to work it with the ladies for the most make-outs of anybody. That’s why they pay those guys the big bucks to be in awesome movies, duh.