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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

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To: lowbridge
And to continue w/cars & driving. If driving thru a city at night the streets are ALWAYS wet. On cloudless, full moon nights it's especially noticeable.
121 posted on 09/29/2001 6:48:45 PM PDT by Mary-Bayou
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To: Dan Day
ROTFL....... you are such fun. That is hilarious.
122 posted on 09/29/2001 7:59:45 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: Cagey
Your number 19 on the list...oh yessss. giggle But I always tale my Teddybear in one arm and a gun in the other. tee hee.
123 posted on 09/29/2001 8:02:36 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: what's up
All French and German characters speak with BRITISH accents!

A hispanic friend of mine pointed out that in the movies all Mexicans are Jewish.

124 posted on 09/29/2001 8:03:12 PM PDT by Richard Kimball
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To: Cagey
ALL phone numbers in any film or TV the phone number is always..... 555-????
125 posted on 09/29/2001 8:04:11 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: Cagey
I have been reading these to Mr. Snow Bunny and he is laughing so hard. He loves your thread and says thanks .
126 posted on 09/29/2001 8:10:28 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: mercy
Any well written movie will have at least one seeming plot inconsistency that forces you to watch the movie two or three times to pick through it.

Don't know if it qualifies as well-written, but did anybody else notice in Terminator 2 we discover that the thinking computer chip that was used as a model for the supercomputer that was destroying mankind and sending Terminators back came from the first Terminator that got sent back? If the guy who invented it stole the idea from the one in the future, where the H*** did the original chip design come from?

127 posted on 09/29/2001 8:18:13 PM PDT by Richard Kimball
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To: Snow Bunny
ALL phone numbers in any film or TV the phone number is always..... 555-????

Oh man, seriously showing my age here. Back in the way olden days, when telephone numbers had a word prefix, all the phone numbers were KLondike5-????, which, of course, is 555-????. The reason for this is because the 555 exchange is reserved for non-residential customers. Seems people actually call phone numbers given out on movies and TV shows, so film-makers use the 555 exchange to keep residential customers from getting crank phone calls, or calls from fourteen year old boys who think they REALLY gave out Kirsten Dunst's phone number in the movie.

128 posted on 09/29/2001 8:26:13 PM PDT by Richard Kimball
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To: Richard Kimball
Thanks.
My husband has just retired from being a stuntman in movies and TV for 34 years. He is really loving this thread.

That was a good post explaining about the phone number. Thanks again that was great. I bet you are right too, about people and kids trying to call the numbers. LOL Soooo funny.

129 posted on 09/29/2001 8:33:15 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: Dan Day
But the Replacement killers didn't really do that well in theater did it? More of a video release sort of flick.

Could that be because the majority of the audiences don't want something new, they want something they have seen before (and therefore can understand because someone has explained the plot to 'em!)

But I personally like the gun toting kind of character that brings an arsenol...makes a lot more sense rather than trying to reload with presumably sweaty fingers and typically in scenes with bullets zinging past the ear, in the grey-dark lighting... and is more likely to convince me. I find myself counting shots just because I know Hollywood thinks no one knows how much bullets a clip can hold.

130 posted on 09/29/2001 10:10:14 PM PDT by Viktra
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To: Dan Day
But the Replacement killers didn't really do that well in theater did it? More of a video release sort of flick.

Could that be because the majority of the audiences don't want something new, they want something they have seen before (and therefore can understand because someone has explained the plot to 'em!)

But I personally like the gun toting kind of character that brings an arsenol...makes a lot more sense rather than trying to reload with presumably sweaty fingers and typically in scenes with bullets zinging past the ear, in the grey-dark lighting... and is more likely to convince me. I find myself counting shots just because I know Hollywood thinks no one knows how much bullets a clip can hold.

131 posted on 09/29/2001 10:10:20 PM PDT by Viktra
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To: Viktra
HEY SORRY ABOUT THAT...MUSTA BEEN TOO FAST ON THE POST BUTTON OR SUMTHIN'...SURE DIDN'T MEAN TO SEND TWO OF THE SAME POSTS...
132 posted on 09/29/2001 10:12:19 PM PDT by Viktra
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To: Deb
No doubt.

The thing I always found funny was the black Vulcan on Voyager(?). PC at it's finest.

133 posted on 09/30/2001 2:49:47 AM PDT by He Rides A White Horse
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To: Snow Bunny;Billie
"I have been reading these to Mr. Snow Bunny and he is laughing so hard. "

I bet he is now thinking of getting back into films! LOL

We now need a photo of you holding that Teddy Bear in one hand and the gun in the other. Where's Billie, now that we need her?

134 posted on 09/30/2001 7:18:36 AM PDT by Cagey
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To: Cagey
A shadow cast across someone's forehead usually means the character has hidden thoughts, but if it's Warren Beatty it means he's hiding his thinning hairline.
135 posted on 09/30/2001 10:10:15 AM PDT by babylonian
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To: Cagey
Oh, and one more.

Right before someone gets eaten by a monster in a dark house, they get scared by a cat.

136 posted on 09/30/2001 10:21:27 AM PDT by babylonian
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To: Cagey
giggle... funny but that did happen once. hahhaa

Mr.Snow Bunny was working on location downtown Los Angeles and they were shooting from 11 pm till 7 in the morning for a night shot and less traffic.

I was upstairs in our home and heard a noise, it was about 1;30 in the morning. I grabbed my teddybear, got one of the guns and headed down the staircase.

Heart beating so fast I was sure it could be heard at the front door. Then when I got downstairs, it was our dog and cat playing under the piano and they had knocked off a lamp on a nearby table.

I gave them a hug and sat there on the floor laughing and so relieved. LOL

137 posted on 09/30/2001 10:33:38 AM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: Nea Wood
Even though all Westerns take place in the 1800s, the female characters always sport hairstyles and makeup reflecting the year the movie was made. In other words, if a Western was filmed in 1968, all of the women, whether schoolmaarms or saloon girls or pioneer settlers, will have long flowing hair that is teased on top, and '60s makeup.

Also, before it was fashionable for men to wear their hair long, all the cowboys had short "white sidewalls" haircuts. Then, all of a sudden, somewhere in the mid-60s, cowboys all wore their hair long.

138 posted on 09/30/2001 10:59:00 AM PDT by Aeronaut
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To: Snow Bunny, Cagey
Great post, Cagey! Very funny - but so true! Bunny, also the women in the movies always WAKE UP in the morning with full makeup on, not smeared, but applied perfectly and "ever so slightly tousled hair" - just enough to be sexy.
139 posted on 09/30/2001 2:33:47 PM PDT by Billie
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To: caddie
There is no level to which they will not stoop.
140 posted on 09/30/2001 2:36:09 PM PDT by Sophie
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