1) If their is a bomb under your car, the best way to get rid of it is to ramp your car, doing a perfect spiral flip and scrap it off with a conveniently located hook.
2) After you land that(perfectly of course), just drive away...
3) Frank Martin actually drives K.I.T.T.
4) Helicopter following you? Couple of shots from a Glock will destroy it. Completely.
5) Jet Skis can slide on concrete for at least half a mile
It is true that the water came in through the shattered windshield, but then despite that the plane was sinking front first, during the fight the cockpit was not yet submerged and the glass was still intact. Clearly at that point in the production a collective decision was made to just *beep* it.
"I like to watch" Chauncey Gardiner, 'Being There'
5) Jet Skis can slide on concrete for at least half a mile And catch a bus. 8) Airplanes can freely spin in circles while flying Not sure what that means, but I saw a flat spin, which is one of the more difficult failures modes to recover from. 10) If a car crashes, it WILL explode And not just explode, but disintegrate. 12) All doors are bulletproof. But the hinges are so shoddy that the door will pop off if anyone bumps into it. And only office doors are bullet-proof: car doors are not.
25) At least one person has a car with a fancy computerized ignition lock but not a proximity alarm.
26) A 105-pound waif-like fashion model can fire two fully-automatic 9-mm pistols simultaneously, one in each hand, without any hint of muzzle rise.
27) If you are captured by the Bad Guys, they won't shoot you -- they'd rather blow you up, for some reason. ("You just don't get it, Scott, do you?")
28) If a bomb explodes under your car, you will certainly be killed, but if it explodes NEAR your car, you'll be fine.
29) Bullet-proof glass looks just like regular auto glass (and bullets not only don't penetrate, they don't even leave marks). The extra weight doesn't affect the car's performance or handling.
30) Parkour is good practice for chasing bad guys (but being an alumna of Cirque du Soleil is not so helpful).
31) A 1940s-era hypodermic syringe (with needle attached) can take any amount of abuse without breaking, leaking, or malfunctioning.
32) If arrested, you have a right to unrestricted use of any computer you find, without need for a password, and without anyone asking any questions.
33) Bad-guy scientists working in infectious diseases labs leave loaded guns lying around for anyone to pick up but never lock their doors.
34) Galileo was wrong: humans fall faster than vials of anti-virus -- but if the fragile glass envelope breaks, the antivirus somehow becomes useless, so you might as well throw it away.
35) Doctors make house calls and can diagnose "a minor viral infection" without any need for patient history or lab tests.
36) Frank can safely administer an intravenous injection of anti-virus without knowing the correct dose. (And, unless I missed something, one injection will cure mother, son, and Frank!)
37) If a pilot leaves the controls, an airplane will immediately go horribly out of control.
38) When an airplane is falling end-over-end through the air, the floor inside will remain horizontal, and people will be able to walk (and fight) on it.
39) Audi A8L W12 is a tough car: drive it through a concrete barricade, drop it a couple of stories (more than once), set off a bomb near it -- won't blow the tires, won't affect the suspension, won't even scratch the paint.
44) If you're in a plane going 500 miles an hour, nose first into the ocean, just shout " O SHTT" and jump away from the impact, and everything will be fine.
46. All buildings have easily removable ventilation panels which connect to all other rooms.
47. If you are trying to protect a child, the best way to do it is to cause a huge explosion nearby with an oxygen tank, which would be big enough to destroy the whole building.
48. If you are placing a bomb under a car, a) ensure that it has a handy flashing red light and b) make sure you park it over a puddle so that it can be clearly seen.
49. A car can launch itself off a building and fly neatly through a hole in an adjacent building.
50. Whenever something spectacular or strange happens, there will always be a drunk nearby who will look at his bottle in puzzlement.
51) Always have a spare outfit in the trunk of your car in case you run into trouble. You can change it in the street in front of an explosion and no-one will care.
Actually I think this one is great and reassures me that my fellow IMDbers were absorbing the same things about this flick as me, even while also enjoying it.
57) Cars can be sped across sand with the same tires used to zip along pavement.
58) The charms of a gorgeous blond crook can be resisted without switching sides & begging to marry her. Yeah, right.
Excellent thread! If any film needed one of these it's this one :-)
59) If you're a bunch of guys carrying a serious arsenal of automatic guns chasing another guy who has sneaked onto your boss's property and you are ordered to take him out, best thing to do is to mysteriously lose your guns in the next shot and instead pick up assorted hand weapons such as fire axes and garden tools, conveniently allowing the good guy to display his amazing hand to hand combat skills.
60) If you've just taken off in an aeroplane and have started a fight and the plane goes out of control, the plane's altitude will suddenly look like the fight started at 35,000 ft and will fall from there.
61) When the pilot gets shot and falls back in his seat, not even holding the steering column, the plane will quickly change from diving towards the earth to a pure 90 degree vertical climb, allowing even more fight sequence time. All the while, the fighting guys don't even think about saving their own lives before crashing.
62) If you've just been through a massive superhuman ordeal, one of the biggest adventures of your life, and you are visiting the family whose lives and son you saved in hospital, have made the trip specially and have even bought a bunch of flowers for them, if you hear the kid make some potato joke just before you go in the door, let this change your mind about seeing them at all. Instead, cooly utter the punchline to yourself and inexplicably walk away.
1. If you're a mother, you can scream, "I'M THE MOTHER, I'M THE MOTHER!", push past your husband, the police, and the bomb squad, and yank open the doors of a van that might be rigged to explode to save your son who's inside. Regardless of the fact that you might blow up your son, yourself and anyone else trying to save him.
2. You can can jump on the back of a jetski and flip the blonde in front of you over your head and she'll land perfectly seated behind you and not into the water.
3. Statham will never question a script he's given.
59) If you're a bunch of guys carrying a serious arsenal of automatic guns chasing another guy who has sneaked onto your boss's property and you are ordered to take him out, best thing to do is to mysteriously lose your guns in the next shot and instead pick up assorted hand weapons such as fire axes and garden tools, conveniently allowing the good guy to display his amazing hand to hand combat skills.
The bad guys had already stated that they were out of ammo and that the ammo was in the garage where our indestructible hero was already waiting. So they dropped the guns to grab other weapons because they were empty.
59) If you're a bunch of guys carrying a serious arsenal of automatic guns chasing another guy who has sneaked onto your boss's property and you are ordered to take him out, best thing to do is to use up all your ammo at the same time so you all have to convene in the garage where our indestructible, psychic hero is already waiting, dropping your guns to grab other weapons such as fire axes and garden tools, conveniently allowing the good guy to display his amazing hand to hand combat skills.
Yes, which leads to another thing: If, somehow, the bad guys do run out of ammunition, they won't have a single extra clip to reload with and will have to leave to get more ammo.