Name 3 things you have learnt from the movies!

[anthony2302749]

Just for fun, this one has been kicking around on MelbMeadeScope Group.

Name three things you have learnt from the movies!

I get to go first.

1. No matter how technologically advance invading aliens are, they can be defeated either by a virus/bacteria (War of the Worlds) or computer virus (Independences Day).
2. An assault rifle or Nuke killing bugs quicker then Mortein (Starship Trooper).
3. It is always handy to equip a drilling platform with a machine gun, particularly when one of your employees will go psycho (Armageddon).

Anthony

[wavelandscott (Scott)]

I'll play...

1. If you are a pretty girl do not go swimming alone at night (JAWS)...the related part of this is if you are a person that is not of light skin...do not agree to stay by yourself in a haunted house (any B grade horror flick)...

2. With the exception the Alamo, if there is going to be a fight/battle/war, make sure that John Wayne is on your side...

3. Fraternity life at US colleges is exactly like how it is shown in Animal House...an alcohol fueled frenzy...

I'll stop at 3...

[cahullian]

Nice one
1. midgets can be the heavy weight champion of the world ( Rocky)
2. Good guys always wear black (Chuck Norris) I do Hapkido and we have a black Dobok
3. Nurses' are sexy (American werewolf in London)

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

There is sound in the vacuum of space

To overcome hundreds of terrorists send in Steven Segal. Why don't they do this in real life instead of sending the whole nation's military over?

Aliens are not very bright. Humans always win.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Aliens can grow from kitten size to human size in less than an hour and not require food to do it.

That if you are lost thousand of lightyears from home hundreds of opportunities to take shortcuts will appear but you'll never be able to make use of one.

That its all the apes fault for learning how to pick up a leg bone.

[rumples riot]

I'm in.

1. All crisis usually hit American soil either totally or from the start. Armageddon and Deep impact.

2. Lots of American soldiers seem to be able to avoid a hail of bullets, this makes them very tough. The reality is that they are the most undisciplined soldiers on Earth (I speak from experience).

3. You can use a worm like vessel to go the the centre of the earth and nothing will destroy the shell expect giant diamonds, not even lava that is over 5000 degrees. Thats cool.

[avandonk]

All female stars walk around scantilly dressed while fighting aliens.

When there is a major threat in the old castle/mansion the heroine runs around
scantilly dressed !

When the hero saves the maiden, she is scantilly dressed !

This is good stuff!

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

1. In American Disaster films, the dog always survives
2. There will be Coke or Pepsi shown somewhere in the film
3. Most guns have an unlimited supply of bullets, & America will usually save the world.

[slice of heaven]

Aliens always speak English.
Cars always burst into flames after crashing.
Dogs always know who the bad guy is.
The bad guy in the American action movies comes from the same country America is in conflict with at the time.

Donkeys and dragons can be cross-bred...Shrek 3D

[mickoking]

1, Australians are always from the bush, wrestle crocodiles and speak with a butched pommie accent.

2, Americans always win wars, are always right and all live in big beautifull houses in some suburban paradise.

3, Aliens always land in/or attack America. And even though they have mastered intersteller travel never have enough brains to conquer America/The Earth.

In the movie airport 80 the pilot flies his concord inverted, open the cockpit window and fire flares out of it (hoping the missile will lock onto the flare rather than the aircraft ). But this is the crack up, towards the end of the movie the pilot casually opens up his cockpit locker and retrieves his jacket still hanging up.

In the series V aliens come to earth (from Sirius if I remember rightly) to take our water (which they have obviously run our of). Wouldn't it be much easier to raid Europa's H2O.

[Lee]

I've learnt that if you shoot or otherwise seem to have defeated some baddy - before you turn your back on the "corpse" - make sure it is a corpse by pumping it full of an extra clips worth of ammo.....

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

Three other things i have learnt:
1. Never let science get in the way of making a movie
2. Plots are optional for many big budget films & lack of a plot can be overcome by lots of special effects
3. Aliens almost always appear first, to someone that no one else will believe.

[Roger Davis]

Okay:
1. That you can open a landed UFO using the frequency generated by an electric shaver (The Bamboo Saucer 1951).
2. That you can pull a house of its stumps using a Ford F250 (Lethal Weapon II).
3. Curiosity killed the cat and a stack of humans too. Independance Day the group on the roof of the building (Bring Back Elvis), War of the Worlds (gathering around the landed spacecraft). The humans all gather and get zapped.

There's a stack more, but thems my three!

[Striker (Tony)]

1) I have learnt I too can be a successful gigolo as I am as ugly as duce bigalow and also own a marine fish tank.

Another 2 will come once I think up something even more stupid....hehehe

[33South (Chris)]

A light year is a long time.

The.44 Magnum is the most powerful handgun in the world.
[at least in the 1971]

Thats about it really.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

1. Minimal effort in a very short time beats seasoned Pros!!! - Karate Kid.

2. If a woman wants to get a man out of her life she just has to wash her hair - South Pacific

3. Jocks look better worn on the outside - Superman

[MiG]

Aircraft trouble always results in lots of noise, rocking and falling like a rock.

Hardcore computer stuff always has big, ugly, annoying, and blatently obvious status messages and lots of beeps.

If you are a good guy, getting completely and utterly bashed results in an instant health and capability boost back to 100% due to angryness. For some reason full contact fighting sport people are too lame for this to occur

[RapidEye]

One clip of bullets is enough to defeat an entire armed gang...

Kung Fu bad guys are always polite in that they take turns attacking the hero - that way he can fight them off one at a time...

Tom Cruise is a BIG flake, but with really good taste in women =-)

Sean Penn thinks just because he can do a good stoned surfer imitation he is smart enough to solve ALL of the worlds problems!

[acropolite (Phil)]

You can never have too many Smiths..Matrix Reloaded.....
A movie's no good without a car chase; the more cars destroyed the better....
McGuyver can make anything out of nothing, The phrase "McGuyvered one up" should be in the dictionary...