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Top [...] Things We All Learned from Paycheck

posted 14 years ago by Greth_of_D
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I realize that this movie came out such a long time ago but I recently watched this movie (for the second time) and noticed that some of the delivered lines and action sequences were completely unbelievable and sometimes just plain arbitrary.

With that, I announce the arrival of the Top [whatever number] Things We All Learned from Paycheck.

[My list]
10. It is possible to avoid an unavoidable and disastrous future.
9. Cargo crates have more than one opening.
8. Hot spies look like your saggy, old girlfriend no matter what because they have the same eye color.
7. Crossword puzzles are really maps of computer chips.
6. Paul Giamatti truly CAN act in any rule he is given. (NO, this is not sarcastic)
5. Hundred million dollar lipstick exists!
4. It is possible to outrun a speeding train.
3. Everything explodes. Period.
2. When people are armed and ready to shoot you, they won't. Rather, they will explain their reason for threatening you in the first place.
1. DEKKER DIED!
[/List]

If there is anything on this list that you think should be changed to something better, please tell me. :)

Lastly, I hope you enjoy this list. That's what it's here for; please don't troll someone because their views are not the same as yours.

... all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll whisper "no."

[–] JosuLeeJou 10 years ago

LOL'd at:
>15. I AM THE FUTURE
>23. In the future, birds no longer defecate.
>55. some people are so self obsessed that even their own memories are looking at themselves

17 I would say: When you take a peek at your future, then relize that you're about to be blown-up that very second, do the exact same move you just saw yourself doing. It'll work out pretty good for you.

And my own:

61. When you're investigating a crime scene and are looking for a guy in particular, if in the first minute someone says "I'm afraid he didn't make it", that's it, case closed, no need to look for his body (or absence of it).

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[–] arete_1 10 years ago

Ben Affleck doesn't look utterly ridiculous shooting up a bunch of henchmen with a machine gun Rambo style. No, really. *sarcasm*

[–] Misko195 9 years ago

11. the OP doesn't know to enjoy the good movie. Rather he complains.

[–] Serva 9 years ago

62. Extremely advanced machines of the future use gigantic 80's style arcade game-circuit boards instead of making them microscopic in size.

63. Liquid nitrogen, when shot will explode in a FIERY explosion because that makes perfect sense.

[–] chilone 8 years ago

I think he said it was liquid hydrogen.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

[–] Don-the-Lamplighter 8 years ago

64. Ben Affleck's favorite baseball team is the...um...er, uh...man, just drawing a complete blank here. Milwaukee Brewers? Seattle Mariners? Oh, wait. The New York Yankees! Yeah, that's it. The Yankees.

[–] Don-the-Lamplighter 8 years ago

65. When given the power to see the future, really, really smart engineers will use that ability to see a future winning lottery number so they can buy a ticket and win that lottery, but they won't be smart enough to do this for more than 1 lottery drawing.

[–] chilone 8 years ago

66. A super high powered company hires you to make a machine that sees the future because they don't know how to make one, but somehow they do know, (and are right) that it will take YOU three years to make one.

67. If you know your future, you have no future.

68. Padlocks in movies, can be broken with almost anything.

69. Apparently machines that see into the future have some sort of camera man involved as evidenced by the shown, future "views".

70. If you have a gun in a bad guy's face and he has one in yours, NEVER just go ahead and shoot him. It wouldn't be sportsman like.

71. You're done!

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!