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26 Things the Movies have taught us
a friend | 9-29-2001

Posted on 09/29/2001 6:47:22 AM PDT by Cagey

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To: Cagey
http://www.moviecliches.com
81 posted on 09/29/2001 8:19:19 AM PDT by Dan Day
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To: GWfan
While driving at 70+ mph, it is very easy to jump out of one vehicle and land on another vehicle, but be careful you don't end up holding on to the hood ornament. If you do, you will have to grab for the bumper and hold on to the exhast system while going under the car until you can grab the back bumper, get dragged a bit, and pull yourself up to get back in the vehicle and get the bad guy!

And luckily, when you begin this maneuver while the speedometer does say 70+, it's impossible for the vehicle to do much more than 15 as seen by the speed of the roadway relative to the vehicle with the camera angles. Must be some quantum mechanics going on there.

82 posted on 09/29/2001 8:19:23 AM PDT by #3Fan
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To: Cagey
The bad guys always shoot at the hero's feet.

The hero can shoot around corners without looking and plug 'em everytime.

The little old grandma that can't quite see the gunsite at the end of the barrel will accurately take down a rampaging indian on horseback at 200 yards.
83 posted on 09/29/2001 8:20:47 AM PDT by balrog666
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To: #3Fan
Wow, you must be way up north. Was that on one of those ten-foot dishes that were popular in the rural areas?

(I always thought they looked best in the front yard):^)

84 posted on 09/29/2001 8:21:11 AM PDT by budwiesest
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To: pettifogger
You can escape any modern building by hoisting yourself into a ceiling vent and crawling through the HVAC system.

ROFL!! And the weird thing is, whenever I am in an office building I have not been in before, I usually look for one of those vents thinking of an escape route.

85 posted on 09/29/2001 8:21:43 AM PDT by Cagey
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To: Cagey
Cars always squeal their tires on dirt.

You can outrun an explosion.

When being pursued by a car in a parking garage, always run down the middle, never try to run between the parked cars.

Getting shot at point blank range will cause the victim's body to fly backwards violently.

You can have the living crap beat out of you, but you will not usually have bruses the next day, let alone have a broken jaw or ribs.

Shooting a car will make it explode.

Kids are always smarter than adults; women are smarter than men.

86 posted on 09/29/2001 8:23:25 AM PDT by TroutStalker
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To: #3Fan
Scary looking people have the ability to be perfectly quiet when they walk up behind you in the dark, and they have perfect vision, they can maneuver through the dark without any light whatsoever.
87 posted on 09/29/2001 8:25:48 AM PDT by #3Fan
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To: All
Even Macintosh computers have a C: prompt.

Tires squeal even on dirt roads.

When backed into a corner with only one bullet left, the shot will always hit it's mark.

88 posted on 09/29/2001 8:26:04 AM PDT by tdadams
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To: TroutStalker
All fish are trophy size. Noone ever catches a fish that is too small to keep.
89 posted on 09/29/2001 8:26:33 AM PDT by LibKill
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To: Cagey
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.

But if you are me, odds are it will be some disgusting coconut/raspberry jelly mixture gone stale.

90 posted on 09/29/2001 8:27:18 AM PDT by Hugh Akston
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To: TroutStalker
When a car explodes, one tire will roll out of the flames.

The number of bullets a gun can shoot is determined by an equation with variables D = danger level, V = number of villains and S = whether the shooter is the main character or a sidekick. It has nothing to do with the number of bullets the gun actually has.

Fists break car windows easily. And without hurting anyone.

If the villain has a daugher, she will fall for the good guy.

People can fall off of roofs and not get hurt.

91 posted on 09/29/2001 8:28:08 AM PDT by JenB
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To: Dan Day
This one's from your link:

High-powered female executives always wear miniskirts and five-inch heels to work.

thanks........

92 posted on 09/29/2001 8:28:32 AM PDT by budwiesest
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To: Cagey
Even the baddest bad guys always buckle their seatbelt. Horses NEVER crap in public!
93 posted on 09/29/2001 8:28:44 AM PDT by Waco
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To: TroutStalker
It is possible to have long sexual encounters in showers without ever slipping and falling down. And we women really love it when our men just rip our favorite designer clothes in the heat of passion.
94 posted on 09/29/2001 8:29:09 AM PDT by GWfan
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To: budwiesest
Wow, you must be way up north. Was that on one of those ten-foot dishes that were popular in the rural areas?

Illinois, in the country, no cable. Yeah, one of those ten footers. It's still in the yard unused and obsolete (my Dad's yard), I guess it's a memorial to bygone technology. LOL

95 posted on 09/29/2001 8:29:36 AM PDT by #3Fan
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To: pbear8
and all housewives working in the kitchen are shelling peas or snapping beans and never a tv or radio to seen or heard.
96 posted on 09/29/2001 8:29:40 AM PDT by liliana
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To: Cagey
TOP TEN OVERUSED DIALOGUE LINES IN SCI FI MOVIES
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10. "Let's split up so we can search more quickly."

9. "ARGHHGGGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGGGHHHH-KKKKKKKHHH!"

8. "Let's stick together so no one else gets eaten."

7. "So you mean, we could go back in time and undo everything that's happened?"

6. "I didn't do it! It was an evil alien who took my form!" (NOTE: Also overused on Court TV.)

5. "According to these readings, it appears to be a thingamabobber of some kind -- and a highly advanced one at that!"

4. "We killed it. It's dead. It's all over now. We're safe now and we can finally relax and -- ARGHHGGGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGGGHHHH-KKKKKKKHHH!"

3. "So you mean, we could go back in time and undo everything that's happened?"

6. "No, I'm all right with it, I just didn't expect the chief scientist of a top secret government research project to be so . . . beautiful."

5. "Okay, so there are interdimensional time-traveling alien ghost vampires after all! Just don't say, 'I told you so!'"

4. "Well, Timmy, the universe has been saved -- thanks to you and your furry little friends!"

3. "So you mean, we could go back in time and undo everything that's -- ARGHHGGGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGGGHHHH-KKKKKKKHHH!"

2. "I'm afraid there's absolutely no hope, they're dead . . . no, wait, they're alive! No, they're dead. I'm sure now. No -- wait!"

And the ***NUMBER ONE*** Overused Dialogue Line in Sci Fi Movies . . .

1. "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE THE WHOLE THING BLOWS!"

97 posted on 09/29/2001 8:31:12 AM PDT by 537 Votes
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To: coteblanche
Good guys that serially kill bad guys will be let off and sent to other cities to kill some more perps. (Deathwish I, II, III & IV)
98 posted on 09/29/2001 8:31:19 AM PDT by Paulus Invictus
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To: aomagrat
Semi-automatic pistols only work properly when held sideways, if they are held upright they'll jam.
99 posted on 09/29/2001 8:31:35 AM PDT by norton
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To: Cagey
Great post Cagey. Thanks from those of us who didn't see it the first sixty-seven times!

In a car chase, in a city, there will be the omnipresent pile of wooden crates, filled with fruits and vegetables, to be followed by stacks of cardboard boxes ... meanwhile, no innocent women or children will be injured.

100 posted on 09/29/2001 8:31:48 AM PDT by 2Trievers
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