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If no one minds me bringing back the dead (I missed Frodo's reply last time):

Spoiler

Setting:

You're going too far back

Nope. Shouldn't give you the wrong idea of the kind of movie:

(hopefully not too obvious)

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And a new one:

The silly puns and fantasy theme make me think Companions of Xanth

...but I'm not sure the old graphics match

That might work if you use it as a running gag in a comedy, but only if you also add some individual twist or reaction to it.

Seeing the same lame pun on a common subject in Every. Single. Comments. Section. where said subject is mentioned is just frustrating,
it feels just like seeing somebody give a thourogh and unprompted explanation of an obvious joke just so they can laugh at their own explanation of the joke.

I guess I was looking at it more as a personal thing. Like I have a friend who does the whole "That's what she said" joke, which is so obvious and so overdone and so tired, but his persistance at it just makes it so hilarious for me, so much so that now when he hears something where it could possibly apply, he just raises his eyebrows at me and I slap my head in groany laughter.

Talking about horror films, I'm not really a fan either- not because I don't want to be scared, but because they never DO scare me, so they seem quite pointless. I can appreciate a good movie that's a horror movie (someone mentioned Heriditary, and then there are things like Silence of the Lambs or The Shining and the like), but that would usually be in spite of it being a horror movie. The most they achieve is jumpscares, and when a movie has to resort to that, it just feels cheap.

But piggybacking off something Stupot said, something that DOES grind my gears is people using pre-conceived notions to outright reject or dismiss something with little to no knowledge of it. Taking the example of movies, I got annoyed when a friend rejected my suggestion to watch Shawn of the Dead because "Zombie movies are stupid", and they wouldn't listen that this wasn't that- I mean, yes, I can understand not wanting to watch zombie movies, and I can understand the perspective of someone who thinks that sort of movie is uninteresting, but to be so totally close-minded to just a label is weird.

When people repeat jokes that have been run into the ground. In particular:

"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."
"Actually, it's only X if it's from the X region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling [description of X]."

Isn't that sometimes the point of such jokes (I suppose not in the examples you gave, though)? To overdo something to the point of hilarity?

It grinds my gears whenever someone who doesn't understand the appeal of a certain type of gameplay, decides that it's because that type of gameplay is now dated and a good example of bad game design, rather than because it's not to their taste.
Two really good examples are the inventory item puzzles on Adventure Games and the turn-based combat prevalent in JRPGs.

I think the problem is that there are so many go-to bad examples for both that are much more famous, that people aren't aware that it doesn't make them intrinsically bad.

The mechanics of a touchless 'urinate' step have me confused.

I...this conversation is weird now. I just went to the restroom now to make sure what I was talking about (and washed to make you all happy, although again, I hadn't touched anything- still at least I know the office bathroom is cleaned regularly).
I don't really need to "direct" or aim, since my neutral position already aims at the base of the urinal. At what point would I need to be touching?

At the risk of shaming myself  , if I simply need to use the urinal, I try my best not to touch anything in the bathroom- I elbow open the door, walk to the urinal, unzip, urinate, zip up, and not having handled anything (on myself or in the bathroom, sometimes skip the handwashing (avoiding touching more stuff).

Oh, I do that anyway, I thought it was the best strategy to get answers in the minimum time.

I read somewhere that TRACE or CRATE are very effective starting words.
What are hard mode rules?

Nope. Shouldn't give you the wrong idea of the kind of movie:

(hopefully not too obvious)

You're going too far back

Setting:

I'll go with the obvious answer first...Dune?

Nope, it is not Venice, but it is often compared to it.
And nope, it is not Spiderman.

Lorenzo got it!

Nope. Kinda moving thematically away from the movie compared to the first guess. Going yet a few more moments earlier in the movie:

Video creator I kinda follow mentioned AGS. And I think it's time to update our site 
Link with timestamp

Not Se7en, and I didn't notice the tint. If it takes longer to guess, I'll try to look for some less blueish images.

Nothing else? How about another image from a few moments earlier:

Wow, that's a very interesting guess! Wrong, but interesting.

Here you go. I suspect it has featured here before.