Things movies have taught me
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Haha :D Just wondering, what is the top film?
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I have no problem with that first one. ;)
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Hahahaha :p
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Originally Posted by Justified123 (Post 793710)
Haha :D Just wondering, what is the top film?
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Cheers bouncingbrick :)
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Originally Posted by akatemple (Post 793713)
I have no problem with that first one. ;)
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I learned: when looking around a corner for a bad guy, always, always point your gun up in case they come in through the ceiling.
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If you run really fast and jump away from an impending explosion, and you're the good guys, you'll survive. If the bad guys try the same thing, they're usually toast.
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Haha nice thread.
I'm going to go with this: No matter your personality type, if you geeky or athletic or a superhero or have murdered someone or basically anything--you always get the girl by the end of the movie. Hehe! |
I'm sure we have a thread like this somewhere.
Anyway, I like that the lead actor/actress in a movie will always find a free stool at the bar, regardless of how packed the place is. They'll also be served straight away. In a horror film, if you open a medicine cabinet, when you close it, whatever it is that's after you, will be standing behind you. Regardless of the make and model, an alarming amount of cars sound as if they have a V8 engine. Again, if you go by the sound, all shields and scabbards are made of metal. |
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I always get peeved when a 20-something's residence is super high-class with tons of cool furniture and lighting fixtures. It's almost as if the movies are trying to tell you you're completely failing at life. I don't know ANYONE under the age of 35 with apartments/houses like this:
http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/uploa...3UldVv03_c.jpg Tom's [Joseph Gordon Levitt] apartment, "(500) Days of Summer" http://assets.flavorwire.com/wp-cont.../07/molly1.jpg Molly's [Brittany Murphy] apartment in "Uptown Girls" http://blogs.babble.com/the-new-home...-stone-051.jpg Jake's [Ryan Gosling] house in "Crazy, Stupid, Love" Yeah...my place doesn't look like that. So what do I learn? I learn from the movies that I'm a total loser who's dirt poor with a crummy apartment. |
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The most obvious one; shooting at cars blows them up. So does crashing them.
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I learned that if you feed a stray cat to an ATM, you will get a free pass on mass murder.
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I've learned that if you're a good guy trying to disarm a bomb, and you're on the phone with the bomb-disabling expert, something will go wrong and you'll be forced to guess which wire to cut and you'll always choose the right one.
I've learned that if you're really cool, you'll walk slowly away from an explosion (usually at film's end) and not even flinch while a huge fireball goes up behind you, staring coldly into the camera. This, despite having your butt handed to you several times in the movie. In relation to honeykid's horror film scenario about the mirror, I've learned that you can also look into a refrigerator with a ridiculously high door and when you shut it, the killer is standing there. Or sometimes of late, it's a fake-out and they're not there. I've learned not to tell your new detective partner how long you have till retirement. This is a sure death sentence. |
Originally Posted by filmgirlinterrupted (Post 793771)
I always get peeved when a 20-something's residence is super high-class with tons of cool furniture and lighting fixtures. It's almost as if the movies are trying to tell you you're completely failing at life. I don't know ANYONE under the age of 35 with apartments/houses like this:
http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/uploa...3UldVv03_c.jpg Tom's [Joseph Gordon Levitt] apartment, "(500) Days of Summer" http://assets.flavorwire.com/wp-cont.../07/molly1.jpg Molly's [Brittany Murphy] apartment in "Uptown Girls" http://blogs.babble.com/the-new-home...-stone-051.jpg Jake's [Ryan Gosling] house in "Crazy, Stupid, Love" Yeah...my place doesn't look like that. So what do I learn? I learn from the movies that I'm a total loser who's dirt poor with a crummy apartment. |
I learned that if you really put your mind to it, you can outrun a 20,000 feet-per-second explosion.
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Two things I've learned from films:
#1: If somebody in the film is driving a car, no matter how fast or slow they are going, or even if they are going in a perfectly straight line, they always swing the steering-wheel wildly left and right. #2: Cars and motorbikes in movies have an infinite amount of gears, but only during chase scenes. Especially John Connor's dirt bike in Terminator 2. |
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I've also learned that in movies, everyone has their phone in hand 24/7 because whenever somebody needs to make a call it rings once and the person on the other line immidiately answers.
Also, they must talk at the speed of light because the convo goes like this: Main Character: "hello" Person on Phone: **half of millisecond for them to have a chance to speak** Main Character: "ok i'll be there as soon as possible" Which is crazy because 1. nobody answers that fast and 2. you can't give a person information that quickly. |
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2 other things I've learned from films:
#1 Pistols, particularly six barrelled revolvers, often shoot twice as many bullets as they can physically hold. #2 When left alone in a room, a group of foreign speaking characters will speak English to each other, but in a foreign accent. |
In the movies when you get shot you will be able to carry on as normal and will most likely survive.
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Movies thought me how to think about life differently and motivated me to explore and visit exotoic lands. What they didn't teach me is how to fight, gamble, and be a better lover. I got that all on my own:D
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Originally Posted by SharingFilm (Post 793904)
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. Computer monitors 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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Did film girl miss the very first post?
People who are homeless or in medieval times, have perfect teeth. The more a woman and a man hate each other, the more likely they will fall in love. Nearly everyone speaks English, no matter where they are from. Photos, no matter how grainy, can always be enlarged and made more clear. The only people who use bathrooms, are the ones who are about to die. |
In a drama, nobody ever menstruates or farts.
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Learned that women are always dressed when getting out of bed after sex or that they are covering their breast when speaking with the guy they just had sext with.
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With very rare exceptions, all movies carry a message of some sort or other, and they're open to various interpretations by various people.
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1. Always check the back seat before getting in a car - especially at night.
2. If you hear a strange noise, never, ever go looking for the source. 3. In the future, especially if you live/work in space, it will be necessary to have a giant spanner. Oh, I just thought of another one. When you run out of bullets, throw the gun. |
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Point one - Never say you'll be right back, whether they die or not, they wont be straight back.
Point 2 - DONT RUN UP THE STAIRS FFS!! Point 3 - The guy always gets the girl (with the exception of Die Hard where he just loses the girl everytime haha) Point 4 - Token black guy always dies. Point 5 - Its usually the person who isnt a main character to begin with, but usually the first person someone seems to trust. Point 6 - The girl will screw you over, but hey, you'll forgive her, shes hot. Point 7 - If theres a bath scene, you know something bad is coming. Point 8 - Double tap! Always always get the double tap when killing, those F**kers always stay alive after being shot or stabbed. |
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Something I thought of last night was in america, when people dial a telephone number they always dial 555 first.
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If you are in a vehicle and chasing someone who's on foot, you will always run them down because they run straight down the middle of the street. They never think to go behind parked cars or run into a rocky field or jump into a nearby body of water (applicable where available) to evade you. Fear not, the victim is yours!
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In any movie containing car chases, there will be, be some point, a villain who makes his getaway in a multi-storey carpark.
The hero will inevitably have to, at some point, jump out of the way of the villain's speeding car and land between some parked vehicals, and will then be able to make it to the ground floor on foot, before the villain gets there in their car. The villain will still though make his getaway, after all the exhausting running down stairs the hero has just done. |
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There's a pretty good list here that has some things we haven't covered yet!
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Originally Posted by bouncingbrick (Post 803617)
There's a pretty good list here that has some things we haven't covered yet!
I love number 9: If extra-terrestrials ever come to Earth, they will already speak perfect English and know all about human culture. But there will be something basic and obvious — like the custom of handshakes, or the use of sarcasm — that they won’t have heard of and will be totally baffled by. |
Different coloured liquids in various glass bottles = Sciencey stuff. Coloured lights can also mean science is happening.
Forensic labs, despite needing prescition and accuracy will be as dark as possible, with the exception of a blue hue and/or an exceptionally strong hallogen bulb lamp. When squirted with Luminol any and all substances fluores, regardless of the light level. In a hospital, any level of security can be breached by someone wearing white coat or carrying a clipboard. |
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Also, any liquid that has anything to do with science, will inevitably have something living thrown into it.
What's weirder, is that when this happens, a strange ground-hugging smoke will come out of it and green and red lights will flash from within the liquid. |
One thing's for sure, this has got to be one of the funniest threads ever.
To put myself in a better mood, I try to read a few posts from it almost daily. |
Originally Posted by honeykid (Post 803699)
In a hospital, any level of security can be breached by someone wearing white coat or carrying a clipboard. |
Dead on! I hate those places.
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Originally Posted by The Rodent (Post 803754)
What's weirder, is that when this happens, a strange ground-hugging smoke will come out of it and green and red lights will flash from within the liquid.
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After watching American movies, I now realise that British homes are tiny.
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Originally Posted by Ash_Lee (Post 803922)
After watching American movies, I now realise that British homes are tiny.
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Just sat and watched Demolition Man, and it got me thinking.
The hero can always outrun an explosion. Bearing in mind, depending on the explosion catalyst, a fireball can expand at anywhere from 2000-8000 metres per second. |
Originally Posted by The Rodent (Post 804043)
Just sat and watched Demolition Man, and it got me thinking.
The hero can always outrun an explosion. Bearing in mind, depending on the explosion catalyst, a fireball can expand at anywhere from 2000-8000 metres per second. If you fire a gun in a car, it almost always has no effect whatsoever to the hearing of those inside. Even the dead person's hearing is uneffected. :D |
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This happens more often in older, cheaper flicks, but many cars have no rearview mirrors and often it's because the car also has no windshield!
Some action heroes dive into the water to save someone, and when they come out, they have blown-dry hair! (I'm lookin' at you, Stallone!) |
Originally Posted by mark f (Post 804241)
Some action heroes dive into the water to save someone, and when they come out, they have blown-dry hair! (I'm lookin' at you, Stallone!)
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If the hero/heroine is walking/creeping through a dark house/building alone and is hit/jumped on by the villain of the piece, they'll lose their grip on whatever weapon/torch they were carrying and it'll skid along the floor. This'll usually result in a scramble/grappling contest toward said item, though sometimes it gets 'forgotten' about while a fight breaks out then, at the last moment, the hero/heroine will recover it and use it.
Both villains and heroes/heroines have one shot knockout punches until they fight each other. If the police go into a suspects house and it's dark, they won't bother with the lights unless they don't work. This'll also happen in dark houses during the day, when the police/whoever won't open the curtains/blinds, but instead walk around with a torch. |
Originally Posted by filmgirlinterrupted (Post 793771)
I always get peeved when a 20-something's residence is super high-class with tons of cool furniture and lighting fixtures. It's almost as if the movies are trying to tell you you're completely failing at life. I don't know ANYONE under the age of 35 with apartments/houses like this:
http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/uploa...3UldVv03_c.jpg Tom's [Joseph Gordon Levitt] apartment, "(500) Days of Summer" http://assets.flavorwire.com/wp-cont.../07/molly1.jpg Molly's [Brittany Murphy] apartment in "Uptown Girls" http://blogs.babble.com/the-new-home...-stone-051.jpg Jake's [Ryan Gosling] house in "Crazy, Stupid, Love" Yeah...my place doesn't look like that. So what do I learn? I learn from the movies that I'm a total loser who's dirt poor with a crummy apartment. |
Direct bullet holes in the windshield, no exit holes in the back window. That always irritates me.
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Movies have thought me to smile a bit more.
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Even the most minute choices you make can have an enormous impact on your life and those around you
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