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wyvrn
03-06-2000, 03:09 PM
a.. During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.

b.. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English
to each other.

c.. If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in
a passing St. Patrick's Day parade - at any time of year.

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

e.. The Chief of Police will almost always suspend his star
detective - or give him 48 hours to finish the job.

f.. All grocery bags contain at least one stick of French Bread.

g.. It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is
someone to talk you down.

h.. The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding
place no one will ever think of looking for you in there and you
can travel to any other part of the building undetected.

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

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

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

l.. If you need to reload your gun, you will always have more
ammunition, even if you haven't been carrying any before
now.

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

n.. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it
will not be necessary to speak the language - a German accent will
do.

o.. If your town is threatened by an imminent natural disaster or
killer beast, the mayor's first concern will be the tourist
trade or his forthcoming art exhibition.

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

q.. When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you
take but a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will
always be the exact fare.

r.. Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a kitchen
at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light
instead.

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

t.. Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their
family every morning even though their husband and children never
have time to eat it.

u.. Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames.

v.. All telephone numbers in America begin with the digits 555.

w.. A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the
size of RFK stadium.

x.. Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.

y.. Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and
pant.

z.. It is not necessary to hello or goodbye when beginning or
ending phone conversations.

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

ab..It is always possible to park directly outside the building
you are visiting.

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

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

ae..When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head,
they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.

af..No-one ever involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion,
volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock.

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

ah..You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.

ai..Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in
seconds - unless it's the door to a burning building with a
child trapped inside.

aj..Television news bulletins usually contain a story that
affects you personally at the precise moment that it is aired.

LOL. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Toadman
03-06-2000, 03:34 PM
LOL. Funny stuff and all true. And no one ever excuses themselved to go to the bathroom either, let alone hearing a flushing toilet. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
I save my 8 or 9 bucks and catch the condensed movie version here: http://www.rinkworks.com/movieaminute/

Barney
03-06-2000, 04:25 PM
In Startrek no one dies in a awaymission except for the unknown starfleetofficer.

Ronald the Notorious

Bill Kunert
03-06-2000, 07:08 PM
Good stuff. Re the 555 phone numbers-I guess they do that because there are no 555 numbers except for information. Keeps people from dialing a number they might see on tv or in the movies.
Bill

Paul V
03-06-2000, 08:04 PM
In Star Trek, the Next Generation, any ensign walking anywhere during a battle will be killed by a shower of sparks from some panel. If I was ever an ensign I'd sit in the middle of a cargo bay until my tour was up or I was promoted.

U-96
03-07-2000, 01:50 AM
also:

only a small percentage of armed combatants have the ability to pick up and use other people's weapons, even if they are out of ammunition themselves

thrown knives always stick in point first

if you are a lone woman, the subway is always deserted

if you are a man in a hurry, the subway is packed, and the "jump off as the door closes" trick always works for the hunted.

to be a bad guy, you must be Arab or Russian

to be an REALLY bad guy, you must be English

stick with the cat. the cat always lives

if you are a teenager, don't go up the old house and NEVER have sex there.

all computer experts wear white coats and glasses, or are overweight, eat pizza and have no friends.

there's always a towel in reach of the shower

people only run out of gas when it's vital that they don't

NEVER get on a plane with a nun

don't annoy the Israelis. Someone always works for Mossad, and they always make it look like an accident.

the KGB/CIA always try to make it look like an accident, but it turns out like the shootout in "Heat"

carjackers and escapees always have a Porsche or TransAm to hand

the song that you liked in the film (and you went for) is the last one in the end titles, after the instrumental love song reprise

America fought and won WW2 by itself. Because it wanted to.


U-96

wyvrn
03-07-2000, 10:10 AM
LOL U96. If I was an ensign, I would try to stay on the bridge at all times and never go on an away team-- they are instant death. Hey, somebody has to be Kirk's bodyguard.

UncaDanno
03-07-2000, 10:34 AM
Bill, your guess is right about the 555 prefix for phone numbers. The FCC required it at one point.

Also,

Everything always goes slightly out of focus when looking at the female lead. If she's "almost past her prime."

The male leads are the fastest healers in the universe. They can be burned, smashed, slashed, squished, lacerated and abraded and the next day they have a butterfly bandage on their eyebrow/cheek/nose. If an arm has been dislocated/broken/torn from the body, the next day the hero MIGHT be wearing a sling.

Brakes only fail when going downhill. And the road is cut into a cliff.

And nobody ever kills the engine or runs off the "uphill" side of the road to stop the car.

Paul V
03-07-2000, 10:36 AM
But don't do that on the Enterprise-D, ensigns on the bridge THERE are killed quite often when a panel decides to explode in a shower of sparks every time anything hits the ship. On Picard's ship I stick to my cargo bay idea, stay away from those dang panels. And never, ever go on an away mission.

Banti
03-07-2000, 10:46 AM
D*mn Enginners placed plasma ducts behind all the panels.... Star Fleet Engineer's do not like Ensigns.


Banti

Paul V
03-07-2000, 11:09 AM
Well, they took one look as Wesley, who at about age 15 and as an acting ensign can outdo Geordi or Data at times, and they realized that the young'uns mustn't be allowed to steal their jobs.

Exploding plasma conduits = job security.

oblivion
03-07-2000, 11:48 AM
d.. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up
to the armpit level on a woman but only to the waist level on the
man lying beside her.

I dont know what kind of movies you are watching.

alpha
03-07-2000, 11:52 AM
Nifty! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

DaveLewis
03-07-2000, 11:54 AM
1. Nobody ever runs out of ammunition. I watched Schwartzenegger run around with an M-60 and a 20 round starter belt, mow down a couple hundred bad guys, and still have the same belt of ammo in his gun. This is a spin off of the "Roy Rogers effect".

2. All bad guys are killed instantly - even when the good guy is shooting a .22 - and all good guys get creased - even when the bad guy shoots a .44 magnum.

3. Pistols work better when you hold them 90 degrees to vertical - but only if you're a gang banger.

4. When a bad guy is shot he'll be pushed back into the next county by the force of the impact.

5. When you're shooting at a monster - mummy, vampire, mutant, or other unsavory character - and you put 6 solid hits into that monster and the shots don't have any effect, then throwing the gun will REALLY help.

I could go on but won't. Just wish I could find one of those Roy Rogers pistols ....

Eli
03-07-2000, 04:58 PM
How about...:

The good guys almost always have a far superior shot than the bad guys, who have more weapons anyway.

wyvrn
03-07-2000, 09:01 PM
LOL oblivion. Just watch daytime soaps, you will get the idea.

RobRich
03-07-2000, 10:11 PM
I like my movies completely redone and "hacked" up:

http://www.detonate.net/matrix/

http://www.detonate.net/hackers/

http://www.detonate.net/rants/zealotry.php3

Paul V
03-07-2000, 10:40 PM
To anyone who is a fan of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, you MUST see Eva Thumbnail theater at:
http://www.toastyfrog.com/docs/ma/evangelion/index.html

jadinolf
03-08-2000, 12:12 AM
Even when looking through a 4 inch thick phone book it still only takes two seconds to find the number you were looking for.

Not only do medievil peasants have perfect teeth, they also have vaccinations.

nilknarf
03-10-2000, 10:09 AM
I don't really watched a movies for their technical accuracy, although everything here is true and I've seen it all in many movies and TV shows.

I just don't care! Movies are for entertainment and moviemakers tend to take some liberties, even in the most technically accurate movie.

Don't take this the wrong way, because it can be fun finding all the inaccuracies in a movie or TV show, and sometimes interesting.

BTW, even if you reload, you will always have more bullets than you loaded.

Fighters and bombers always take off and land with the same load, even if they used everything they had.

Subs rarely go down with all hands (the only one I know of is in 'The Abyss').

The good guys usually live when fatally wounded, while the bad guys always die before they can tell anyone anything of importance.

It only takes a few minutes to get anywhere.

The 'Enterprise' is always the only ship in the quadrant.

'Voyager' has traveled halfway across the Delta quadrant and is still no closer to home.

'Enterprise' and 'Voyager' will always survive a Borg attack while all other ships are destroyed.

The bad guy isn't dead until they've either been incinerated, melted, vaporized, poisoned, dismembered, decapitated, gutted, electricuted, blown up, crushed, run over, chopped up, and/or shot a dozen times at point blank range. And, even then they, or their closest family or friends, will come back later in the movie or in a sequel!

nilknarf
03-10-2000, 10:13 AM
Oh yea, I forgot...

Aliens and foreigners can always speak and read english, while English speaking people can never speak or read any alien or foreign langauges without a translator.

Barney
03-19-2000, 05:24 PM
Paul V,as an ensign I wouldn't go to a cargobay.
1.the cargobaydoor might open,
2.a barrel might fall down on your back.

BTW these plastic barrels look like they weigh about 5lbs,but they weigh about a 1000.

I would say the safest place to stay is to stay with Data's cat,Spot.Cats always survive.Or maybe the captain's chair.The captain always seems to survive the worst accidents.LOL http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif .

Ronald the Notorious