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Things Learned From Against All Odds


1) Men who drive fancy cars like to race each other on normal city streets with normal traffic.

2) Head coaches like to get football players they don't like injured.

3) Always shove your backstabbing lawyer into musical instruments during a public event.

4) If you fix a football game with someone, never cheat the other guy of his cut.

5) Sully can leave the team in mid-season to take trips to Mexico to find Jessie and Terry.

6) Only Terry liked Sully. When he disappears, the other coaches, players, owners, the press don't really notice or care.

7) When in trouble, fugitive heiresses always run home to their abusive boyfriends instead of their disapproving mothers.

8) If you expect conflict with environmentalists, give yourself some cover by contributing money to the Sierra Club.

9) Sully could have been head coach of the Outlaws. Instead, he's just Jake's errand boy.

10) Rich people with helicopters can land them on the field where the football team practices.

11) Kid Creole's backup singers don't shave their armpits.

12) Samoyeds are friendly and loving. Dobermans are mean and dangerous.

13) Los Angeles belongs to people like Caxton.

14) When setting up your ex-friend for murder, be sure to leave a nasty note for him in the files that he's supposed to steal.

15) Even the client you screwed can give you useful advice.

16) Security guards are nasty people.

17) Though Caxton controls Jake, he makes no effort to get Jessie away from him.

18) If you have sex with an attractive woman in a foreign country, she'll become everything you're about and the love of your live.

19) Football players are enlisted to help sell real estate.

20) Never, ever pay an attractive-looking friend to go find your attractive girlfriend in some exotic locale.

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21) Jessie hates football players, therefore Jake can trust Terry.

22) Caxton owns 75% of the book and 75% of the club.

23) And because of this, Jake takes the heat while Caxton sits on his ass in Century City.

24) No one, and I mean no one, in Beverly Hills will ever do business with a black man.

25) Terry has a busted shoulder and two bad knees, but he can carry a 275-pound dead man on his shoulders down a huge flight of ancient steps without anyone noticing and then proceed to dump his body from a cliff into a remote lake.

26) Jake wants Tommy clean.

27) According to Jake, Terry was the one who blew their friendship, especially when Jake was ready to be his friend for life.

28) Jessie can't believe how shady Ben is even though Jake had earlier told her that he works for him.

29) Caxton is a corrupt old man.

30) Never tell Mrs. Wyler you won't spy for her or she will have you thrown out of the country club she belongs to.

31) Terry already has problems, he doesn't want trouble, too.

32) Jessie is also known in ceratin circles as the "knife lady."

33) Terry doesn't have enough of a bullsh*t personality to work for a network.

34) Terry is a player; he isn't ready to be a coach like Sully.

35) Sully is old and tired, and he may have lost his mind, too.

36) If Sully doesn't succeed, Wise will send somebody tougher than he is.

37) Sully obviously had a great relationship with Mr. Wyler, since he would have been named head coach if he was still alive.

38) Terry doesn't want to be Jake's friend anymore, he just wants Jake to "eat it."

39) Terry and Steve Kirsch aren't at the same table by accident.

40) Terry should call Hal Schumacher; he's a nice man.

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41) People who have sex on the beach within minutes of their first conversation will also fall deeply into heartfelt love within "2 weeks."

42) Typical Hollywood screenwriters who want desperately to seem like they're not typical Hollywood screenwriters will set up foreshadowing--"Dogs will KILL for the one they love"--without ever writing a pay-off scene for it.

43) When you want to make your male lead read "Wholesome and Trustworthy," give him a full beard. When you want your female lead to read "Classy and Mysterious," make sure she doesn't wear a lick of makeup or jewelry and has a short, rough and tumble gamine haircut.

44) Sexually adept women who revel in their sensuality are wicked femme fatales whose raison d'etre is to exploit and destroy any men they come into contact with.

45) Black male secondary characters make the best Faithful Sidekicks.

46) When at first you couldn't refuse an evil man's request made under threat of blackmail, you can later, after you've now killed someone and done other illegal things, cavalierly reject his demands of you.

47) In a car race, the person who plays Chicken more ruthlessly than the other is a Villain and cannot be trusted.

48) Doughy plump men in their mid-50s are the logical choice of hitman/kidnapper to send after your prey.

49)When one is a fugitive from an evil man who wants to hunt one down, it makes perfect sense to stop for an extended sexual interlude in a public tourist attraction.

50) Two male best friends + one woman = bad woman comes between two friends.

51) If you jump fully clothed into the ocean, that proves you are truly madly in love, you crazy kids, you.

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52) Swimming to the depths of an underwater canyon is good therapy for your shoulder.

53) Players who have been cut from their teams break into said team's training facility to run laps since there is nowhere else to do this in the Los Angeles area.

54) Jake loves to gamble so much that he takes action on beach volleyball.

55) Tequila with no ice is just fine for Terry.

56) Miraculously, Jessie's home was the only one on the island to survive a hurricane.

57) Jessie must have known Terry was an idiot in light of his former girlfriend cleaning out his pad when he was on the road with the Outlaws.

58) That idiot football player that Jake was going to "get" has Caxton by the ba**s.

59) Edie likes to hang out at the Gingerman.

60) Terry has the time and Jake has the money.

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61) Apparently secretaries know about Agent's boxes of secret information that could nail you to the wall.

62) Bathroom doors cracked open with the light on in an empty building at night means, dead body and an attacker is on the way.

63) If you want to screw Jake's girlfriend, just visit his home while he is at the club.

64) Being able to throw your voice comes in handy if you are being pursued in the woods at night by 3 dirty business men in suites.

65) Never trust the emotional mess of a woman you love with a gun as she will always inappropriately shoot someone, get away with it, and in the meantime mess up your life.

66) Always walk in a straight line when marching in a parade!

67) The Sierra Club can be bought off with appetizers at a fundraiser.

68) Terry Brogan will always be there for you in court.

... End of line.

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69) Lawyers don't know *beep* about football

70) Terry was down there lookin' for Jessie. He was worried, he thought something might have happened to her

71) But no... she came back to this *beep*

72) No need for roses in the jungle. You just take her out and show her which tree they're gonna do it under

73) Terry doesn't like Jake's stink on him

74) Terry hates it when fluffy white dogs jump all over his leather seats

75) There are probably people in the world who care what Jessie believes, but none of them are in the room with Terry

76) Terry knows how to kick himself out of country clubs

77) Terry's Porsche is most certainly NOT paid for

78) It's not out of line for Edie to lie to Kershaw's former clients

79) It's none of Terry's business whether Jake has found Jessie yet

80) Brogen is a Dolphin come next season

81) There's nothing for Brogen in LA but *beep*

82) They will kill Edie too

83) Brogen was missing the show when he was upstairs talking to Jake

84) Terry didn't think too highly of the job he had in Mexico

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85) Nothing sums up romance like a cheesy montage that looks like footage from a travelogue intercut with a soft-core porn film.

86) When trying to prevent your former boyfriend from shooting your current one, tell the former that you love the latter. That will definitely not incense him further.

"Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out". Chekhov

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87) just when you're ready to jump in your porsche for a getaway there'll be a big dog in your seat.

88) the best place on the island has no electricity but does have propane.

89) hot broads in mexico like beer and tacos but not football players

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90) Terry is a bad checkers player
91) ex football players can't run fast enough down docks
92) Terry doesn't mind getting his pants wet but NOT his polo shirt


I drive real f'ing fast so try to keep up!!
Winston Wolfe

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93) IF you're hunting a missing girl, forget the white powder and follow the white dog



drugs...changed...everything..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8MGBn3KawM&feature=related

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Man you guys is a tough crowd.

Can't argue a lick w/ any of the points but I still like this flick A LOT.
Woods Bridges Ward & atmosphere a go-go.
I don't CARE if its plot don't hold up to reason - neither did Bogie's Big Sleep!

Or - come to think of it - did the original source material and THAT movie IS
THE definitive film noir if you ask me.

Peace out you movietime nit-pickers Against All Odds ROCKS! Rachel Ward F-T-W!

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A tough crowd, maybe? I actually really like this movie, it "ages" well and by that I mean it is dated but still holds well. Good acting all around, especially by James Woods, he was great back then.
People are just having fun with many scenes in it. You could do the same with pretty much any movie.


I drive real f'ing fast so try to keep up!!
Winston Wolfe

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94) If you have a confrontation with Jessie and Terry, make sure there isn't a gun lying on the ground Jessie can pick up and shoot you with.

95) Edie is good to have with you if you need a guard dog neutralized.

96) Edie is dangerous with a letter opener.

97) If Mrs. Wyler does not get Ben (Caxton), Jessie will embarrass her by going into the reception and being her sweet self.

98) Edie is sorry about having to lie to Terry

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103. This movie was a remake of the noir film " Out of the Past " from 1947
( with actors Robert Mitchum , Jane Greer , and Kirk Douglas )  .

104. Actress Jane Greer who played character Kathie Moffat in the original film also played a cameo appearance as Mrs. Grace Wyler the mother of character Jessie Wyler in this film  .

105. The end credits movie theme song -
" Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) " by Phil Collins
was truly the most memorable hit of this film  .



( Thanks dcavalli for your subject post  . )

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Hilarious !!! And all so true and so very clever!! I enjoyed reading all your comments.. Wish I was so gifted!! Thanks for the laughs!!! ?????

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