Things We've Learned From Movies

[Aelia Jusa]

Originally posted by Melusine: People know all the telephone numbers of any person they might need to call by heart and they never need to specify a date, location or time when they make appointments.

The reason people have no trouble remembering phone numbers in American movies is that they invaribly start with 555. No matter what city or state they're in

If you're set upon by a group of baddies who know martial arts, don't worry. Each will attack separately while the others wait their turn so you have a chance to pick them off one by one.

[Nerull]

Okay, some more:

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• When fighting evil Chinese martial artists, the only to defeat them is to learn their fighting style or to learn the "secret style" that is better than their style.</font>
• Women always have orgasms when having sex.</font>
• Serial killers are the most versatile killers in the world; they know how to kill anyone with anything from garden shears to toothpicks.</font>
• Whenever you have car trouble on a rainy night, there will always be a house nearby that you really do not want to visit, but will anyway (i.e. most of the group will not be leaving).</font>
• In any group of friends that are going to be killed by a serial killer, there is at least one slutty girl, one nerd, one jock, and one "good girl" (i.e. birds of a feather do NOT flock together).</font>
• All robots, monsters, and other creatures that are terrorizing you are all immune to bullets. Without exception. It is a fundamental law of the universe that guns can kill you but not anything that that is hunting you. Don't even bother to pack the gun, just run away.</font>
• Anyone who uses tarot cards can tell the future with perfect accuracy.</font>
• All people in high school look like they are in their twenties.</font>
• Bartenders are always the greatest source of knowledge you can get.</font>
• When you need to find out something about a past event involving a person, there is always an old newspaper clipping on microfilm that you can find.</font>

[Xen]

Also the main guy&gal always end up in bed the same eve they meet eachother...

[Faceman]

Originally posted by Nerull: Some additions: </font> ...</font> Whenever bad things are about to happen, it is always stormy/lightning outside. ...</font>

This is why I love some of the Hitchcock movies. He manages to convey tension and fear even in broad daylight or in a public place, in an enviroment generally considered totally safe.