# Things you learned from movies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785 "2013-09-27T06:08:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/121 "2013-10-02T18:18:02Z")
I know, I saw that. I was just giving an example of one of the exceptions. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/122 "2013-10-02T18:21:21Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > In every desert, there lives an invisible eagle, whose job it is to call, once, in the middle distance, while people look out at the vista. That’s not an eagle call, it’s a red tail hawk. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/123 "2013-10-02T21:22:24Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > I know, I saw that. I was just giving an example of one of the exceptions. Sounds like a good one. I’ll have to check it out sometime. I saw Tarantino’s _ **Django** _ last winter, and I understood it was a take on Spaghetti Westerns, but the Franco Nero connection went completely over my head! D’oh! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/124 "2013-10-02T21:28:15Z")
If you’re looking for a murder suspect, a strip club is a pretty good place to start. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/125 "2013-10-02T21:44:38Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > If you’re looking for a murder suspect, a strip club is a pretty good place to start. That’s…actually very true. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/126 "2013-10-02T22:07:03Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > If you’re looking for a murder suspect, a strip club is a pretty good place to start. Phil! Phil-Lip! ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/127 "2013-10-02T22:48:03Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Phil! > > Phil-Lip! Hey Philip, gimme a kiss baby! Hey! A banana in the tailpipe can disarm a car. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/128 "2013-10-02T23:20:37Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Nitpick: Red-Tailed Hawk Ah, thanks, it was surprisingly hard to find out what the bird is, especially as it’s generally… well… invisible. I’m from a non-desert area, so we don’t get the visible or invisible kind here. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/129 "2013-10-02T23:27:02Z")
If The Hero says he’ll kill you last, he’s lying. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/130 "2013-10-03T06:34:13Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Elderly black people have magical powers. And, none of them ramble on…if they are saying something, it is sage advice, that is relevant. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/131 "2013-10-03T11:38:48Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > A helicopter can hover forever just beyond the ridge of a hill without you noticing it at all … until it rises and becomes visible; only then do you hear the deafening sound of its engines! Also, all helicopters make the chirp-chirp-chirp sound when powering down…which, as I understand it, is only produced by the rubber drive belts. Of a [Bell 47G.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_47) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/132 "2013-10-03T12:26:01Z")
Krakatoa is east of Java. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/133 "2013-10-03T16:33:45Z")
> [@sentrix](#): > > from ‘pulp fiction’ ezekiel 25:17. > > The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee. > > first time i memorized anything from the bible. You know it’s not accurate though? Ezekiel 25:17 doesn’t say exactly like that. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/134 "2013-10-04T02:05:39Z")
The only way to be sure is to nuke it from orbit. You can build a robotic hand from a medieval armored gauntlet. Remember to say, “Klaatu, barada, nikto” exactly. (A two-fer.) ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/135 "2013-10-04T02:12:10Z")
If you show up at the office/jobsite/crime scene with a hangover, the first person to see you will say “You look like shit”. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/136 "2013-10-04T02:41:56Z")
It is trivially easy for mobsters, or sometimes even well-connected street gangs, to obtain all the weapons they want, including full-auto assault rifles and submachine guns, grenade launchers and RPGs. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/137 "2013-10-04T02:58:10Z")
> [@solost](#): > > \*exception: unless you happened to decide to put on a Kevlar vest under your shirt that morning on a hunch, even though you otherwise never wear them. And if you do don a kevlar vest you _always_ wear it under your shirt so your partner/ love interest doesn’t know you have one on and revenge-kills the bad guy in a moment of grief and rage because they think that you are dead. Oh, and it’s the special kind of armored vest that thin enough to be worn under clothing undetectably and not the usual kind that is really bulky because it has 10 layers of padding, ceramic strike plates and weighs 30+ pounds. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/138 "2013-10-04T04:02:58Z")
> [@Peanuthead](#): > > If you show up at the office/jobsite/crime scene with a hangover, the first person to see you will say “You look like shit”. Well, this _has_ happened to me before. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/139 "2013-10-04T06:52:53Z")
> [@Carl\_Corey](#): > > Remember to say, “Klaatu, barada, nikto” exactly. Of course, you will remember this and anything else you were told once to memorize (telephone numbers, addresses, safe combinations, etc.) with complete accuracy long after the fact and under circumstances where anybody else would be shitting their pants. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-from-movies/669785/140 "2013-10-04T13:46:18Z")
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