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Posted by armornut on Saturday, July 15, 2017 11:47 AM

I have learned everything I know for a successful life from the movies

The Force is with me, I am one with the Force

Super beautiful heroins have equally beatiful evil counterparts.( hence being satisfied with my average wife).

For every rouge drone fighter plane there is an evil manned aircraft that is flown by voice commands....but only if you speak Gaellic.

Here is one from physics, WWII documantaries will always have explosions and sound at the same time....from altitude, meaning logically sound and light travel at the same speed ESPECIALLY in black and white.

All bombs dropped whistle.

Every dive bomber sounds EXACTLY like a Stuka.

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Posted by the Baron on Friday, July 14, 2017 11:58 AM

PFJN

Hi,

This may not be what the OP had in mind when starting this thread, but I know that from watching movies I've learned that I personally couldn't care less about what happens to some worm studying scientist and his ex, when Godzilla is supposedly on his way to some big city, nor do I really care to see a story about some random guy and his family, plus the few random people that they encounter along the way, when the entire rest of the world is about to be destroyed in some sort of Mayan Doomsday event, especially if those people end up putting other people at risk along the way.

Indifferent

 

 
Well, yeah, I don't think there are many of us who deliberately watch movies about stories we don't like.  Inadvertantly, perhaps, but not deliberately.

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Posted by the Baron on Friday, July 14, 2017 11:57 AM

Zzzzzip!  "Ah!  I'm hit!  Go on without me!"

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Posted by modelcrazy on Thursday, July 13, 2017 9:17 PM

If you only have 24 hours to solve a complex intricate plot to destroy a government you can drive across LA in 3 minutes and never have to eat or use the bathroom.

A flight P-40s can attack a force of 109s twice their size, shoot most of them down, make several 50 cal strafing passes on their airodrome, destroying everything on the ground, including armor and only suffer 1 plane with a smoking engine.

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Posted by ikar01 on Thursday, July 13, 2017 8:04 PM

After getting a serious injury by being pinned to teh ground by an alien bug and with a very large blood stain on your shoulder, you can still walk with your friends in a crowd of soldiers and not show any signs of pain.

The F-16 fighting Falcon is so simple that even a civilian teenager can have access to one and fly it like a trained pilot, especially if your Father is flying in another aircraft with you.

Just because your Father works in the base Command Post, you can get acces to the inside and also handle classified material. 

Space military uniforms were of the same design in several movies and T.V. episodes.

Space suits in the 50s didn't require gloves.

When a spacecraft in the 30's to the 50s fired its engine, why did the smoke always go up?

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Posted by disastermaster on Thursday, July 13, 2017 7:12 PM

Important Things We've Learned in the Movies.......

Not to believe half of what you hear ~ nothing that you see.

Sherman-Jumbo-1945

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

 

 
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Posted by PFJN on Friday, June 23, 2017 6:28 PM

Hi,

This may not be what the OP had in mind when starting this thread, but I know that from watching movies I've learned that I personally couldn't care less about what happens to some worm studying scientist and his ex, when Godzilla is supposedly on his way to some big city, nor do I really care to see a story about some random guy and his family, plus the few random people that they encounter along the way, when the entire rest of the world is about to be destroyed in some sort of Mayan Doomsday event, especially if those people end up putting other people at risk along the way.

Indifferent

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Posted by the Baron on Friday, June 23, 2017 11:41 AM

Devil Dawg

 

 
Justsomerandommodeller
  • A 9mm pistol doesn't have any recoil and can easily be dual-wielded by anyone.

 

 

Clint Eastwood is the only actor that I know of who actually shows weapon recoil when he fires that weapon.....every time, regardless of the weapon being fired. Watch any of his movies (the ones with weapons), and see if I'm wrong!

 

You're right, that's a good point!  Certainly in "Dirty Harry", and in "The Outlaw Josey Wales".

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Posted by templar1099 on Friday, June 23, 2017 10:24 AM

Plenty of open parking spaces in New York.

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Posted by Devil Dawg on Thursday, June 22, 2017 7:57 PM

Justsomerandommodeller
  • A 9mm pistol doesn't have any recoil and can easily be dual-wielded by anyone.

Clint Eastwood is the only actor that I know of who actually shows weapon recoil when he fires that weapon.....every time, regardless of the weapon being fired. Watch any of his movies (the ones with weapons), and see if I'm wrong!

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Posted by Hodakamax on Thursday, June 22, 2017 7:57 PM

Hmm, try as I might , I can't think of anything I've learned from movies, lol. Ok,  in Wonder Woman I was reminded how stupid humans are and that war will go on forever. But I already knew that. I guess I learned from movies that Mel Brooks was silly. I already knew that also. Hmm, I learned in the movie Airplane that jets can sound propeller driven. What else? How about that coyotes and road runners can survive falls from any altitude or that you can ride your nuclear payload to the target via Slim Pickens with hat. I learned to attract women you need to be a hot F-14 pilot. Ok, enough for tonight. I guess there are things to learn from movies.

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Posted by damouav on Thursday, June 22, 2017 5:43 PM

NO one can carry an Australian accent like and Australian! 

Space craft dont make any sound in the void of space.

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Posted by Jim Barton on Thursday, June 22, 2017 5:27 PM

A tip for members of motorcycle gangs: If you beat up a truck driver in a roadside cafe, the truck driver will run over your motorcycles with his rig.

"Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"

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Posted by Griffin25 on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 10:53 AM

An RPG-7 weighs about 1.5 lbs.

 

 

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Posted by Bish on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 9:00 AM

All Brits are very posh or are cockney's.

If posh, they are probably the bad guy.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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Posted by Tanker - Builder on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 8:00 AM

Then there's this ;

 Scenario ; Hidden Russian Air base . Steal the most modern aircraft they have . The original story popped up in a Science Fiction Book years ago . This fellow stole the ship even though he wasn't built to fly it !

    Next theres the scenario of crashing the spaceship and there's no boiling water where the Bay comes in contact with the re-entry hot hull . All climb out and go their way with not even a melted shoe sole ! T.B.

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Posted by Gamera on Monday, June 19, 2017 12:33 PM

Lol, the good 'ol 'atomic grenade'!

 

If anyone is shot or otherwise killed on something high up like a roof they will never just slump down dead there. Nope, they will always fall no matter how far they are from the edge. Most of the time screaming all the way down... 

If you need to sneak into a German base during the Second World War you don't need to know how to speak German. Just speak English with a bad fake German accent- they'll never know the difference. 

If you knock-out or kill a guard no matter how much taller, shorter, fatter, thinner they are their uniform will always fit you perfectly. 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by tonka on Monday, June 19, 2017 12:09 PM
  • Grenades have same explosive power of small yield tactical nuke   Somehow we never got issued those
  • The 1894 & 1892 Winchesters were actually invented in 1855
  • Cowboys in 1874 actually dressed and wore their hair in 1950s styles
  • Space crewmen were actually MOD hippies from the 1960s (Star Trek)

 

  • And my favorite ---- THERE IS NEVER A NEED TO USE THE BATHROOM...no matter how long you are in space, in combat, riding the range, at a hotel, on the beach, Etc. etc etc

 

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Posted by Gamera on Monday, June 19, 2017 12:01 PM

the Baron

 

 
GMorrison

Showed this to my IT guy.

he added 31. 

Hackers finish while talking to themselves, ending with "and we are...in".

 

 

 
Big Smile
 
I'm just reminded now of the original "Jurassic Park", and the scene in the control room, where Lex sits down at a terminal and says, "It's a Unix system!"  Yeah, great, that explains everything to everyone in the audience.
 
JP also has a great example of the text on a monitor burning itself onto a face, albeit the face of a raptor.
 
 

Reminds me of the old Dilbert comic where his boss asks if they have any of those 'eunuch' programmers. 

 

Great stuff guys- please keep 'em coming!!!!!

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Posted by the Baron on Monday, June 19, 2017 11:43 AM

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Having any part of your body beaten badly and still being able to stand up and fight back or run. WTH?!?!

 

 
Sometimes that scenario flows into a "comeback trail" montage, where the hero spends time re-training, be it boxing or gunfighting.

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Sunday, June 18, 2017 9:41 PM

Having any part of your body beaten badly and still being able to stand up and fight back or run. WTH?!?!

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Posted by oldsalty on Friday, June 16, 2017 12:28 PM

Ahhhhh, "That's Entertainment!!!"

 

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Posted by the Baron on Friday, June 16, 2017 11:54 AM

GMorrison

Showed this to my IT guy.

he added 31. 

Hackers finish while talking to themselves, ending with "and we are...in".

 

 
Big Smile
 
I'm just reminded now of the original "Jurassic Park", and the scene in the control room, where Lex sits down at a terminal and says, "It's a Unix system!"  Yeah, great, that explains everything to everyone in the audience.
 
JP also has a great example of the text on a monitor burning itself onto a face, albeit the face of a raptor.
 

The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.

 

 

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Posted by GMorrison on Friday, June 16, 2017 12:16 AM

Showed this to my IT guy.

he added 31. 

Hackers finish while talking to themselves, ending with "and we are...in".

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Posted by Phil_H on Thursday, June 15, 2017 11:40 PM

the Baron

In a similar vein, here is a list that I first saw back in '95 or '96, after I got into IT :

Thirty Things We Know About Computers From Watching Movies
 
26. Whenever characters look at monitors, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto their face.

 

The projected image is also often reversed so the audience can read the output properly on the person's face...  
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Posted by Justsomerandommodeller on Thursday, June 15, 2017 5:44 PM
  • A .50 caliber round can hit someone's head and leave a nice clean hole.                      
  • When following someone in a vehicle make sure that your directly behind them no matter what.
  • A 9mm pistol doesn't have any recoil and can easily be dual-wielded by anyone.
  • All tables are bulletproof.
  • F-22's carry external ordinance.
  • Every member of the special forces is a 250 lb+ bodybuilder.
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Posted by Pawel on Thursday, June 15, 2017 5:09 PM

Hello!

There is that cool scene in one of the later James Bond movies, where 007 is suited up for a HALO jump, oxygen mask and bottles, and so on. So he puts on the mask and the ramp opens into the sunset. The loadmasters don't need this kinda crap, no oxygen, no nothing. What do we learn - the low atmospheric pressure is only OUTSIDE of the aircraft!

Have a nice day

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Posted by fermis on Thursday, June 15, 2017 12:43 PM

Gamera

A 5 foot 1, 90 pound bikini model can take on a half-dozen professional wrestler/bodybuilder type guys three times her size and whip them all.

 

There it is!!!

That's the first thing that came to my mind...worded a bit different, but same/same!

 

-A girl can do anything a man can do....and better!

-A girl can take an arrow, a bullet or two, a sword to the gut and a 300 foot fall into 6 inches of water...and wash up down stream...and her horse will be right there waiting for her to wake up. She'll also make a full recovery! Meanwhile, a 250lb. brute of a man will take a glancing blow which results in instant death.

-Women are smart and can deal with situations, using logic and reason!

 

-Pilots and crew of unpressurised aircraft don't seem to need oxygen at high altitudes.

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Posted by the Baron on Thursday, June 15, 2017 11:42 AM

In a similar vein, here is a list that I first saw back in '95 or '96, after I got into IT :

Thirty Things We Know About Computers From Watching Movies

1.      Word processors never display a cursor.

2.      It is unnecessary to use the spacebar when typing long sentences.

3.      No one ever makes typing errors.

4.      All monitors display 2-inch-high letters.

5.      The high-tech computers used by NASA, the CIA, or other governmental agencies, have easy-to-understand graphic interfaces. Those without have incredibly powerful, text-based command lines that understand plain English. Corollary: Anyone can access any information by simply typing "Access all secret files" on any keyboard.

6.      You can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "Upload virus." Just as they do in humans, viruses raise a computer's temperature. Soon smoke will billow out of disk drives and monitors.

7.      All computers are connected.

8.      You can access information on any desktop computer, even when it's turned off.

9.      Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the screen output to reading speed. Really advanced ones emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer as characters appear on-screen.

10.  All computer panels have thousands of volts and flash pots just beneath their surface. Malfunctions are always indicated by bright flashes, puffs of smoke, showers of sparks, and explosions that throws people backwards.

11.  After typing on a computer, you may safely turn it off without saving the data, naming the file, or specifying its location.

12.  Hackers can easily break into the most sensitive computers before intermission. They only need a few tries to guess secret passwords.

13.  Any "Permission Denied" message has an "Override" function.

14.  Computers take approximately two seconds to boot up.

15.  Complex calculations and uploading or downloading huge amounts of data take about three seconds. Movie modems transmit data at about two gigabytes per second.

16.  When the power plant/missile site/main computer overheats, all the control panels explode shortly before the entire building does.

17.  If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the screen. There are no backup files. There is no undelete.

18.  All computers interface with all other computers regardless of manufacturer or galaxy of origin.

19.  All computer disks are readable by all computer systems.

20.  All computers can use any application software.

21.  You are asked for a password when you just look at a disk containing encrypted files.

22.  The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it needs.

23.  Operators of high-tech computers must be highly trained because the only labeled button reads, "Self Destruct."

24.  Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying, three-dimensional, real-time, photo-realistic, animated graphics capability.

25.  Laptops all have real-time videophone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY-MP.

26.  Whenever characters look at monitors, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto their face.

27.  Computers never crash during important, high-intensity activities. Humans operating computers under stress never make mistakes.

28.  Programs are fiendishly perfect and never have bugs that slow down users.

29.  Internet searches always return what you seek no matter how vague your keywords.

30.  All photographs can be enhanced simply by pulling minute details out of the grain. You can zoom into any picture as far as you want. "What's that fuzzy thing in the corner? Enhance." "Look! It's the murder weapon!"

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