Movies Teach us
Movies teach us: During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.
Movies teach us: The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No-one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building you want without difficulty.
Movies teach us: Kitchens don’t have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead.
Movies teach us: When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.
Movies teach us: Most dogs are immortal.
Movies teach us: Although in the 20th century it is possible to fire weapons at an object out of our visual range, people of the 23rd century will have lost this technology.
Movies teach us: All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.
Movies teach us: Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames.
Movies teach us: During every fight there should be a head-butting. The one executing it will not get hurt.
Movies teach us: It’s easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
Movies teach us: The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
Movies teach us: A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
Movies teach us: If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.
Movies teach us: The Chief of Police will always suspend his star detective - or give him 48 hours to finish the job.
Movies teach us: All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they’re going to go off.
Movies teach us: A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
Movies teach us: 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.
Movies teach us: When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
Movies teach us: 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.
Movies teach us: Aliens always look basically like humans (have limbs, eyes, ears) but unlike them, they are always covered with mucus.