Things You Wouldn't Know Without Movies

[Iain]

-It is always possible to park directly outside any building you are visiting.

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

-If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.

-Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alien civilization.

-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.

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

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

-Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

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

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

-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.

-An electric fence, powerful enough to kill a dinosaur will cause no lasting damage to an eight-year-old child.

-Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment you turn the television on.

[RETIRED]

Corrugated iron or a car door stops a bullet from anything bar a rocket launcher.

[Ben from Vic.]

The bad guy's mode of transport is always faster than the good guy's.

Even if it's bus versus motorbike.

[DaveInOz]

All computer security shows up to hackers as a wall with signs and sculls etc on it. When they get through it explodes all over the screen, rather than notify someone.

All shopping must include a bread stick poking out of the bag

[Iain]

My personal favourite is the girl being chased by a zombie, staggering along at a lethargic snail pace with pieces falling off, the girl sprints off at a blistering pace and falls over after 500 metres only to look up, and who's there?
Truly amazing.

[johnmc]

I love it when in car chases, if you need to go faster, even if you're already going as fast as you can, you can put your foot to the floor to get that extra boost

[HappyHammer]

That the General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard can automatically regenerate it's suspension and bodywork after jumping a creek.....don't even get me started on the A Team, Duck Tape and a bloke covered in gold can build a microlight aircraft in about 10 minutes...

[RETIRED]

Or, in car chases when the baddies get level why not slam the brakes on instead of speeding up.

Or, why do people being chased always go into dark alleys away from crowded places.

Or, always go up to the top floor ( a place of limited escape) instead of out the front door?

Oh too much pondering.

[Iain]

Exploding cannon balls, not bad for a lump of cast iron.
I must admit though, in Raiders of the Lost Ark, I did appreciate the end of the scimitar swirling giant, that had some credibility
Or the compare of a show with a musician guest, why don't we do a song together, what shall we do?, how about the one we have been practising all week.

[Dendot]

You missed out the one that says that no matter fast you are going in a car chase, you always have another gear to change up to!

[gold leader]

The longer you fire a belt fed machine gun, the longer the belt gets. Now I ask you, even if you're only firing blanks, surely you still have to reload?? Why edit it out??
And in a great scene from Under Siege, a bandsaw will cut through an RSJ like balsa wood

[E. maculata]

I'd never buy a half million $$ ferrari, lambo, or the like when fiat bambino's, lincoln continentals and chevy caprices' & everything else in between is just as quick.

[Christopha]

Don't forget how accurate a nail gun can be.............
or why building sites are always a mass of falling sparks........

[Cliff Rogers]

42 ? :confused: