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26 Things the Movies have taught us (Thread Two)
a friend | 9-29-2001

Posted on 09/29/2001 10:47:10 AM PDT by Cagey

1. Large, loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people--whether they are employed or not.

2. At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.

3. Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don't worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.

4. Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communications system of any invading alien society.

5. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts: your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.

6. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.

7. If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.

8. Honest and hard-working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement.

9. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

10. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach the armpit level on a woman, but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.

11. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.

12. It's easy for anyone to land a plane, providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.

13. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off--even while scuba diving.

14. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

15. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German or Russian officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German or Russian accent will do.

16. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.

17. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

18. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.

19. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.

20. Word processors never display a cursor on screen but will always say: "Enter Password Now."

21. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.

22. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

23. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

24. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps.

25. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

26. When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak to each other in English.


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Some incredible FReeper replies on thread one.

Thread One

1 posted on 09/29/2001 10:47:10 AM PDT by Cagey
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To: Cagey
Every futuristic spaceship never has a toilet. AND, Nobody ever needs to use one.
2 posted on 09/29/2001 10:55:41 AM PDT by RandallFlagg
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To: Cagey
This may have been posted, but...

A cop with a one-inch barrel, .38 snub nose revolver, can hit a perp dead center in the chest from a mile away, when both of them are running, full gallop, on the edges of rooftops of tenements, in opposite directions, wearing black, at night, with the cop shooting sideways...,

3 posted on 09/29/2001 10:57:29 AM PDT by caddie
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To: Cagey
The bad guys can never hit anything with full-auto fire, and yet the good guys can use two machineguns/shotguns/pistols at once with great accuracy.
4 posted on 09/29/2001 10:59:06 AM PDT by Double Tap
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To: Cagey
All mafia types prefer baseball bats for their light duty work.
5 posted on 09/29/2001 11:00:25 AM PDT by Double Tap
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To: caddie
But only at the end of the movie.
6 posted on 09/29/2001 11:01:07 AM PDT by El Sordo
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To: Cagey
No matter how advanced the technology, it always has something so goofy, it at once is reduced to the level of a Rube Goldberg contraption. (I.E., in "The Matrix", the machines use energy based on a combination of human body heat - and nuclear fusion! Why even have the people involved at all?) Or like transporters: can be used for almost anything - reverse aging machines, confinement cells, stasis chambers.....
7 posted on 09/29/2001 11:04:22 AM PDT by JenB
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To: Cagey
If one character A asks character B "What happened?" or "Why do we need to do XYZ?"--character B will never answer. He will say, "There's no time to explain" or "I'll tell you on the way"--i.e., off-camera.
8 posted on 09/29/2001 11:06:12 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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Whenever someone is ducking from fire in a gunfight, it is always drums of fuel or a gasoline tank.
9 posted on 09/29/2001 11:07:41 AM PDT by chemicalman
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To: Cagey
All 95 pound women can beat up 250 pound guys.

All female protagonists are feminists.

All alien cultures never before encountered speak English.

All rich people are cold and evil.

All women fall down when running from a monster.

All attackers can get their victim to drop a gun by just saying "you can't shoot me" in their best Hannibal voices

All action heroes spend most of the movie sneaking up on terrorists until the moment before he jumps them, that's when he starts shouting so they turn around and see him

10 posted on 09/29/2001 11:08:13 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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Firearms are almost never effective means of self-defense, except when used by local LEO/FBI/Military.
11 posted on 09/29/2001 11:09:50 AM PDT by Double Tap
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To: JenB
Jen, it's funny you should mention Rube Goldberg and Time Machines in the same post. A fellow FRreeper can get you one.

See Post#35

12 posted on 09/29/2001 11:10:10 AM PDT by Cagey
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To: Cagey
women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.

Strange noises in their underwear? Like right before they crap their pants?

13 posted on 09/29/2001 11:11:06 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: Cagey
When going through a time/space portal that will close within 10 seconds, rather than jump through, the man and woman (usually a married couple on the verge of divorce) will stand in front of it and french-kiss for 30 seconds.

Things that kill the villian in 10 seconds will take a minute and a half to kill the hero, thereby giving him time to figure a way out or be rescued.

14 posted on 09/29/2001 11:12:10 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Double Tap
When the hero of a horror flick does use a firearm to stop the bad guy/monster, they will then drop/throw down the gun in disgust, only to have the same bad guy/monster attack again.
15 posted on 09/29/2001 11:12:25 AM PDT by Double Tap
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To: Paul Atreides
All heroes throw the gun at the bad guy when they run out of ammo.
16 posted on 09/29/2001 11:14:32 AM PDT by Rocko
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To: Double Tap
Multiple Freepers will post the same idea within the same three minutes.
17 posted on 09/29/2001 11:16:35 AM PDT by Rocko
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To: Rocko
Some people (including me) have seen WAY too many movies.
18 posted on 09/29/2001 11:22:21 AM PDT by SurferDoc
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You never see a Tv or radio in the living room on any of those soap opras, and its always dark.
19 posted on 09/29/2001 11:22:26 AM PDT by Husker24
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To: Dan Day
Yeah, what's with that? I've done informal tests, and have yet to find a pillow I can't breathe through.

Funny you mention that, I made sure right before I posted that. LOL I surveeved as Andy Kaufman
would say. :^)

20 posted on 09/29/2001 11:25:19 AM PDT by #3Fan
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