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[http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/ Cleolinda Jones] is the author of ''[http://community.livejournal.com/m15m/tag/parodies Movies in 15 Minutes]'', which began as a series of Internet parodies and eventually led to [http://www.amazon.com/MOVIES-FIFTEEN-MINUTES-BIGGEST-BOTHERED/dp/0575076879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220888289&sr=8-1 a book]. The parodies frequently engage in [[Lampshade Hanging]] or subverting common tropes. She is also known for her hilarious [http://cleoland.pbwiki.com/Twilight#Bookdiscussionentries recaps] of the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' books and the popular [[Mega Crossover]] series, ''[http://cleoland.pbwiki.com/The+Secret+Life+of+Dolls The Secret Life of Dolls]'' (Which has a series page that can be found [[The Secret Life of Dolls|here]].).

{{tropelist|Tropes pointed out or parodied in ''Movies in 15 Minutes'' or other writings in her [[LiveJournal]]}}
* [[Actor Allusion]]: [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|Snape to Peter Pettigrew, with Bellatrix present]]: "Begone, Wormtail! Go fetch us a meat pie or something."
* [[Emo Teen]]:The Phantom is portrayed as this, with a bit of [[Jerkass]] thrown in for good measure.
* [[Fox Chicken Grain Puzzle]]: One of her ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' descriptions references it:
{{quote|Yeah, it's like, Bella wants to be a vampire but she doesn't want to be a vampire before she's had sex as a human, and Edward doesn't want her to be a vampire but he wants to get married, but Bella doesn't want to get married unless she can be a vampire, but Edward won't have sex with her until they get married, and then you put the fox and the grain in the boat and you leave the goose back on the riverbank.}}
* [[Good Name for A Rock Band]]: Outragous Flavour and Furious Kitten. Both actually come from [[Midnight Sun]] ([[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]).
* [[Guilty Pleasure]]: Cleo describes the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' series as this, with a metaphor:
{{quote|''A lot of people are really passionate about these books. Some of them love and defend them passionately; others... well. I'm not going to defend them any more than I'm going to defend Twinkies--you go and get yourself a Twinkie when you have a very specific kind of craving <s>SUGARRRRR!</s>. If you want gourmet pastry, or even a homemade cake, you know where to get that. If you're eating a Twinkie, you clearly know what you want and why you're eating it, and you know that it's not good to eat very many of them, but... you know... sometimes you just want one. <s>And then when you're done you read it all over again.</s> Apparently there are people who think that Twinkies count as fine dining, but... well, live and let live, I guess.''}}
** Of course, during her summary of ''New Moon'':
{{quote|''Where are my lulz? My sparkly, sparkly lulz? MY TWINKIE HAS GONE BAD. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY COULD DO THAT.''}}
* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Erik's "Sunburn O' Doom" is the subject of much mockery.
* [[Just Between You and Me]]: [[Harry Potter|Voldemort]] in ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Goblet Of Fire]] in Fifteen Minutes'':
{{quote|'''Voldemort:''' I'm going to kill you, Harry Potter. Just as soon as I finish this monologue. Any day now.}}
* [[Littlest Cancer Patient]] ([[Trope Namer]])
* [[Manly Tears]]: "Raoul, how come *you* never cry when I kiss you?"
* [[Money, Dear Boy]]: Cleo mocks two Oscar nomniee actresses for being in Eclipse in the Fifteen minutes of the movie.
* [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]]: Frequent in her Twilight recaps. As she says [http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/630150.html in the beginning of her Breaking Dawn recap,] "Hand to God, I did not make one word of that up. [[Memetic Mutation|Twilight means never having to say you're kidding.]]"
** And again with ''[[The Happening]]'', in response to the line "it may be an act of God which we may never fully understand".
* [[One of Us]]: Cleo is thrilled to be a [[Trope Namer]].
** Not to mention, ''[[The Happening]] in Fifteen Minutes'' has a [[Pothole]] that leads to the [[Anvilicious]] page.
* [[One-Woman Wail]]: She refers to it as "Our Lady of Soundtrack Sorrow".
* [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: She describes the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' series as "the best series starting with a teenage girl in love with a mysterious boy in her class that ended up with a teenage girl defending her growth-accelerated mutant hybrid baby from an ancient clan of evil vampires with her magical psychic shield that I ever read."
* [[Retirony]]: King Arthur [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades it]] in ''King Arthur in Fifteen Minutes'' ("Awww, dude! Look what you went and did! Now you're totally going to have to die, so we can dispose of your body in that precise manner. It's like, a rule.") and given a [[Call Back]]-slash-[[Actor Allusion]] in ''[[Clash of the Titans]] in Fifteen Minutes'' ("But it is not my time to meet her yet. Unless it is, in which case I intend to go down smiling like a badass." "Well now that you've SAID THAT, it is! Didn't you learn anything from Lancelot?")
* [[Rousing Speech]]
* [[Running Gag]]: Most of her Movies in 15 Minutes will have a running joke throughout the entry. Example of a series-wide one that can be found in her Harry Potter series: [[Compressed Adaptation|(This scene has been cut for time)]]
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: "[[The Silence of the Lambs|Lecter is giving his final Please Hire Me, I'm Totally Not a Fugitive Cannibal presentation]]"
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"QED, BITCHES."]]
* [[Your Other Left]]: in ''[[The Matrix]]''. ("Go forward! No, your ''other'' forward!!")

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