Or getting the result one digit at a time? This aint a tumbler lock.

1-2-3-4-5 ? I got the same combination on my luggage.

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Yes very few Movies make encryption a real problem -

Of course in Dr Strangelove the inability to get the right code in the time allowed was a critical part of the story.

Then again in Enigma some of the difficulties were at least touched on.

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The skeptic that's wrong and is killed by the monster, ghost, whatever.

The teenage boy who dreams of dating the "coolest girl in school", later finds out she's another word for female dogs in estrus and sees that his best friend, who's female, was his ideal match all along. Sometimes after seeing her under mood lighting, with her glasses off, hair down, or something trivial along these lines.

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I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.-Albert Einstein
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.-Tom Waits

Oh, I HATE that one!

It seems that the only people who can say it's "not a ghost" and live are those meddling kids (you know the ones)

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Offical Battlestar Galactica Apologist

Named Time Magazine's 2006 "Person of the Year"

*cough*WarGames*cough*

Reminds me of X2. Striker's commandos use some sort of device with 4 rotating "tumblers" to defeat the retinal scanner on the Cerebro chamber door.


Here's mine: Complete misunderstanding of what EMP does to electronics.

Broken Arrow: Only damages electronic devices which are turned on a the time.
Superman Returns: Electronic devices only temporarily disabled. <pulls hair out>

Eta: Oh yeah, what was the backstory of Dark Angel? EMP knocks out every tansistor in North America?

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DataCable^2008 A+

And that's another one, everywhere their van broke down, there was someone in a moster mask trying a real estate swindle.

It's like Murder She Wrote, everywhere Angela Landsbury went someone was murdered. In real life, she'd quickly become the main suspect...

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

And that's another one, everywhere their van broke down, there was someone in a moster mask trying a real estate swindle.
Well it taught kids a valuable lesson; never trust a realitor who wears a swampthing/ghost pirate/insectoid/big foot suit. I mean, if it weren't for that show, we'd all be penniless and there would be no ammusement parks/bed and breakfasts/schools/parks, it'd all be strip malls.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

Come on now. You spend all that time, effort, and sometimes the blood of others to build, or acquire the dingus, you are going to want and show it off.

I'm pretty sure that the throwing star is suppose to have poison on it. Otherwise, like you said, it is just an inconvenience.

David.

Ah, that one really gets on my nerves (when one character refuses to believe something is happening, even as others are dieing around him). It's like, if they're really that dense, just let the bad whatever kill him and get on with it. [edit: ooh! exception; "T'is but a scratch!" "What?! Your bloody arm's off!" "No it isn't!" "what's that then?!" "...it's just a fleshwound. HAVE AT YOU!"]

I also hate when they spend 40 minutes explaining something along the lines of "Don't move, it can't see us if you stand still and don't make a sound" then the guy starts running around frantically screaming the second he gets a chance. The whole "don't do this, it will kill you" "i'm too macho for that, I'm gunna do it anyway. [dies]" cliché. Blech!

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

The woman who's only unattractive because she actually wears something that improves her day-to-day life, like glasses?

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Oh my g/f watches those [grumbles] movies all the time. Every time I make the comment "Why is that drop-dead gorgous girl a "nerd" just because she has glasses?". And of course in the final scene where she's "suddenly hot" she doesn't have the glasses on.

I mean, learning that beauty is not looking like the head cheerleader is a commendable moral for a story. But not when the "unattractive" girl is just the head cheerleader with glasses. That, and it just further crams Hollywood's version of beauty down the American gullet, which is soo far off (at least in my personal definition) from what beauty really is. Okay I'm starting to sound like a feminist guess I should stop here.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

Parodied in "Not Another Teen Movie", the film's male leads are girlwatching, and picking "The Albino Folksinger" and "Twins Joined at the Head" as hotter than the lead actress because, "look at her, she's wearing glasses! And her hair's in a ponytail! And look, her clothes have paint on them!"

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

And then at the end, when they want to make her better looking, the female asked to do this says she is going to try somthing radical but to trust her. She then takes the glasses off, lets the hair down and concludes she is done and a genius and now the main character is a hottie.

I seem to remember seeing this sort of addressed in a few movies where the "nerd" gets their glasses taken off to make them cooler. When they first lose their glasses, they squint at everything as if they cannot see. After that and for the rest of the movie, they see just fine. I suppose they could have got contacts but the next scenes usually take place right after their glasses are removed and they have no problems seeing. I just wish it were that easy.

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<<Broken Arrow>>

You forgot the most important gaffe in that scene--how could the EMP affect anything when the detonation was deep underground? That, IMO, was unforgivable.

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As for men dressing as women.

there is a great tradition of this in British comedy. usualy the biggest hairy bloke in the cast Someone like bernard Braslaw), puts on a dress and wig and suddenly becomes irisistible to all the other male members of the cast

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Monty Python rarely used women in their skits. It is somewhat funnier when the voice is a male falsetto rather than a female alto. But the punchline of those skits rarely included the crossdressing itself. I do think MP would have been less funny using women in those roles.

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I wonder if they and their British fans understand the fact that a large percentage of Monty Python's appeal to their American fans is not the intended humor, but just the fact that so many things sound funnier in British.

This is an older one, more common from movies in the 50s and 60s:

The (mad) scientist who says the reason he invented the incredible machine, or airship, or Nautilus submarine, or spaceship, was to: "end war" or "bring world peace". --- (To which the hero usually responds with: "Why, you're mad!")

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"Insignificant molehill sometimes more important than conspicuous mountain." - Charlie Chan

"You'll never get away with this!"

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A Geek with think he can use that to pick up a girl in a bar.
A Dork knows he can't pick up the girl with it, but will hang around for hours anyway, just in case she asks.
She might. You never know.