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100 things I learned from D.O.A.


1. Even if you cannot fight at all, you still stand a chance to get invited to an international fighting tournament. (Max)

2. If a crazy madman holds you prisoner for a year, he will shave your head.

3.Everytime you fall, a purple haired ninja will be there. (begining when the three girls are climbing the tower thing, and end when brother falls)

4. Do not drop your high tech sunglasses, you will get beat down directly afterwards.

5. When jumping from a 300 foot building into water (which will act as concrete from that high), you will sustain absolutely no injuries, and philipino pirates will be there shortly to unwillingly hand over there boats.

6. There are cameras everywhere, shooting from all angles, even though you cannot see them.

7. 5 girls with katanas can take on hundreds of trained ninjas, all the while arguing over who gets the majority.

8. If your dad suspects you of homosexuality, beat his ass.

9. If a group of Philipino pirates boards your yacht, and your the captain, don't bother grabbing a gun or calling authority, simply stand there with an extremely stupid face, this should resolve itself.

10. Wrestling does count as fighting. (Nah, I'm only kidding, it's still acting to me.)

11. If you punch a monster of a man in the face, and it does nothing, wait a few seconds and try it again, the next time it will render him stunned. (Leon vs. Kasumi)

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12) when there's only three minutes left until the "Island" blows up, beat the *beep* out of the conman until the last second.

13) landing hard on a raft will send a girl flying..

There are few things fetching as bruised ego on a beautiful angel.

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14. As a male when you enter D.O.A it is absolutely necessary to wear an outfit which normaly would only be used at Halloween.

15. Being repeatedly kicked and hit in the face will not result in any visible injuries or bruises.

16. Female fighting champions fight best wearing little or nothing at all.

17. Ugly female fighting champions DO NOT excist.

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about 17: but look at Nasumi...I think she not only got slapped with the ugly stick, she just plain out got her ass beat with it.

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LOL! I just LOVE that comment! It's hysterical!XD


"Who are you to decide who's special and who's not?" - Claire Bennet

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LMAO that is mean man. Good one though.

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18.) Everything in visible sight has the material consistency of a spring loaded floor board. So anything that bounces off of anything else is going to be thrusted to an abnormally elevated height.

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19.) A High Security vault containing millions of dollars should be protected by a Puzzle directly out of a Resident evil game.

20.) The passcode to said vault should be tatooed behind the neck, so anybody besides you can read it.

21.) Kevin Nash was a dad at the age of 18 years old

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26. Black people should never watch action movies expecting great things.

27. This movie was so terrible Dennis Rodman refused to play a role designed after him.

28. FBI agents will stop at the request of a professional assassin, pick her bra up with their own gun, and put it within kicking range of said assassin then be surprised when the gun is removed via kicking motion.

29. Kevin Nash looks terrible with a black beard.

30. Hayate, despite being a known redhead, has black hair because the one logical fact chosen here was that asians don't commonly have red hair, even if their sister does.

31. Ninja Princesses don't have to be remotely attractive as long as they are an expert at hang gliding and generally every other method of jumping off of a mile-high surface.

32. Buddha's head is full of money.

33. Christie decided to randomly bleach her hair and let it down.

34. Leon forgot his turban.

35. Top-secret fighting tournament competitors will risk their lives infinitely to prove their worth, even though nobody other than the people involved know it even exists.

36. Professional Opera Singers will willingly give up their career to roller blade around a secret island as the spokesman for a fighting tournament.

37. Nerds have a thing for the one girl who would be hardest for them to obtain.

38. Women who fight have no problem being completely naked in areas with hundreds of cameras.

39. Professional Wrestlers who set out to prove their worth at a fighting championship of the world's top fighters are afraid of needles.

40. Zach is annoying.

41. A movie based on a game featuring ridiculously large busted women found it silly and far fetched to feature actresses with even D-cup breasts, however could not resist the urge to involve a Volley Ball scene.

42. Leifang can't fight on stairs.

43. Hayabusa can.

44. A ninja warrior with a katana prefers to kill swarms of enemies with poisonous needles rather than so much as drawing the sword.

45. Despite everything, DOA was still a reasonably decent movie.

46. Ayane wears a wig.

47. Bass is sexually attracted to his daughter sleeping with another woman.

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48. The proper way to put on a bra...



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50. Great fighters also own in volleyball

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51. Paul WS Anderson doesn't mind how much rancid, cinematic excrement he puts his name to.

52. Evil Lair Islands have no beaches, because escaping ninjas who jump into the sea land in at least 30 metre deep waters.

53. Rural Queensland (Australia) contains heat, dust, crocodiles, Cain Toad plagues, and 1 international black-market buyer for new weapons technology.

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50. Everyone can be a ninja, even Norwegians and Filipinos.

51. When you are prey, the predator will be everyone, even in your mirror.

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49. A movie based on a videogame can never even hope of nearing halfway past a "100" list when no bouncing breasts are featured.

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50: There is always a back door to the secret Lair.

51: Theifs are always a fan of Mimis makeup.

52: When there is Ninjas fighting your girlfriend, If you take 4 steps to the left no harm will come to you

53: If you have mold on your Goatee and hair, you should probaly be a DeeJay.

54: For Donavin, a year is a really really long time to wait.

55: By downloading a fighters moves you can defeat any fighter that attacks you .

56: I would let a hot assasin, roller disco chick, purple haired secret society ninja, renagade princess warior, kick my a$$.


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They weren't poison needles, they were acupuncture needles used to paralyze the bad guys.

"Hey Ken, wanna see my impression of Ghandi?"

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Bonus time:
101: You can easily slice through Bamboo canes with your katana unless the protagonist is using it as a weapon, then you're pretty much screwed.


Groin Fire Attack!
Lowpinion: It's not a word.

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I watched it again just to make sure, but if those pirates were Filipino, they were speaking a Filipino language/dialect that I didn't recognize ... not that I can recognize all the languages and dialects of the Philippines, but I digress.

Not that I don't see anything wrong with having Filipino pirates, but what made you think they were?

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Why does everyone keep saying they're filipino? Where are they listed as that? Aside from them speaking Chinese in the movie, I don't recall any designation to their origins and nationalities.

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"Why does everyone keep saying they're filipino?"

They were Chinese speaking Mandarin. The leader was none other than Robin Shou of Mortal Kombat fame.


"A good lashing with a buggy whip would benefit you immensely." ~ Rhett Butler

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Theyre not filipino... :)

they were speaking a language other than filipino or any of the philippine dialects... :)

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Theyre not filipino... :)


I never said there was on my comment. I said anybody could be ninjas.

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I've only know two pure blood Filipino's in my life, but those guys did look Filipino too me. And as any know, who hasn't seen Rambo, Filipino's make the best pirates.

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159. If you're a ninja, the words "No weapons are allowed in a DOA tournament, except the human kind" do NOT apply to you.

160. Even if you didn't bring any change of clothes to an island in the middle of nowhere that you never knew existed, you'll still be able to wear something different and clean each day you're there.

161. Ninja's are given the CRAPPIEST dialogue in a movie like this (It annoyed me everytime Kasumi spoke).

162. A young girl thrown into two hard walls by an adult male mercenary, will still be able to get up, run, and fight (Then kick your butt the rest of the time).

163. It is totally overrated to address a ninja princess by their first name ONLY, even though their game counterparts do it all the time.

164. If you're a master at thievery, your partner in crime will always automatically know how much money is TRULY being held somewhere on a remote island without any explanation of how they obtained this information.

165. All fighting styles are the same, with the exception of Pi Qua Quan.


I'd list more, but I don't want to take up everything that's left to say. I'll probably post more later.


"It seems you still haven't realized who I truly am." - Christie (Dead or Alive 4)

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I've only know two pure blood Filipino's in my life, but those guys did look Filipino too me.


I'm married to a Filipina, her parents live with us, most of her friends I've met are Filipino.

Those pirates looked *nothing* like Filipinos.

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They spoke Chinese.. (though quite poorly) so I believe they are of the Chinese race.

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56. Although it is called 'Dead of Alive' - for heavens sake, dont kill anyone!

57. A trained roller disco ninja chick can kill 20 ninjas without spilling a single drop of blood to the floor or on the blade.

58. Chicks allways win against men.

59. People would really pay loads of money and invest in the fabrication of a new over-the-top fighting style instead of just buying a gun.

60. Everyone knows how to parachute. Of course everyone knows how to land as well, even the old Kung-Fu Guru who probably saw a plane for the first time in his life.

61. It is possible to put on a bra by tossing it into the air and doing spectacularly sexy moves. (How can one get his girlfriend to do this? ;) )

62. You can produce a martial arts-/fighting- movie without a plot (which I didn't expect anyway), no reasonably acceptable acting (well, I didn't count on that one either) but most important: Without any martial arts and fight scenes which are worse than what I come across in kindergarden and primary school. What remains? Tits, correct.

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63. You can make a bad video game to movie port without your name being Uwe Boll.

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(since the count got a little messed up)
72. Getting thrown into a puddle by your hair to end a fight will ultimately finish with you lying in wet sand and your opponent 15 feet away.

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73. You can win a hard-core fighting round, then pose like a model with random wind blowing your hair and all that jazz. (Christie)

74. Every world-champion fighter wears a hideous cosplay costume.

75. A pro-wrestler can wield a katana like a master.

76. A Japanese princess who lived her whole life deep in the mountains can speak perfect english. and speaks english with her fellow Japanese friends. (Kasumi, Ayane, Hayate, Ryu)

77. Being a loser-nerd will get you a hot martial arts chick.

78. Sunglasses = WORLD DOMINATION

79. Running away from your palace at home automatically makes you a ninja.

80. Ninjas don't try to disguise but instead wears a bright blue cosplay getup.

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81. If you're a great fighter, what looks like a dangerous throwing weapon will come out of nowhere and land right next to you without hurting you, inviting you to DOA.

82. If you can fight you automatically know what DOA is.

83. If you're a hot chick fighter, you have a killer jump serve.

84. No matter if you just got out of the shower, if you're fighting in the rain, etc, your eye makeup still looks flawless (Christie)

85. Never trust someone giving you a shot with mysterious fluid...fluid that happens to track you like big brother.

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86. if you are a cop and you are being ask to give someone brow it's best to hand it with your gun , nothing bad will happen ...

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87. A French native also has perfect english with no trace of French accent.

88. Ninjas enter fighting tournaments.

89. throwing a shuriken into a volleyball in the middle of a game of four crazy fighters will totally keep your cover.

90. Ninjas are acupuncture pros.

91. It's the twenty-first century and ninjas still exist.

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92, the bodyguard tracking you for leaving your clan and becoming a ronin, has purple hair for some reaon, and no one mentios it at all...even though it's phusically impossible

93, the same ninja will track you to the death but not your elder brother because she was in love with him

Thunderbirds Aren't Slow

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92) If you are a leader of a ninja clan, merely leaving the villiage means you totally abandon your leadership role, and must be assassinated.

93) Shinobi somehow means "outcast ninja"

94) If you jump out of an airplane too early, you'll have much farther to travel once you land.

95) Practicing rollerskating is a great way to prepare for a martial arts tournament.

96) Never trust a thief, especially one who chides you for not sleeping in the nude like they do, yet they still wear their bra and panties in bed.

97) Green hair doesn't look good on black men. A tiny mohawk doesn't either.

98) Never trust a nerd with a secret he'll probably spill to pretty girl. Especially if that secret concerns that pretty girl he has a crush on.

99) If you are going to transmit a program worth millions of dollars to someone, use a file manager with file completion so you can retry it if the first attempt fails.

100) Girls who can kick ass and look good will make any movie fun to watch!

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haha nice one for 100, its a good ending note.

"gee dont take it so personally"
"I AM A PERSON, HOW ELSE AM I SUPPOSE TO TAKE IT?"

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We all love DOA no matter how bad it is

"Them ain't yo' Funyuns! Them's Foxxy Funyuns!" Foxxy Love

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I have to agree with that one poster. "It's the 21st Century and ninjas still exist." LOL! Gold!XD


"Who are you to decide who's special and who's not?" - Claire Bennet

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103. "Not since Bruce Lee was alive have you seen martial arts like in this movie. It'll take your breath away." -Eric Roberts, special features

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81. The crazy 88 from Kill Bill got a new job, and they still suck at it.

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79...laugh about that one all the time, lol!XD


"Who are you to decide who's special and who's not?" - Claire Bennet

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hahah I love this post :D I laughed so much at some of the posts hahahah " its the 21st century and ninjas still exist. " " ninjas enter fight tournaments " hahaah so *beep* funny

haha yea DOA is a fun movie...

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@ skertoker, I had to give this one an honorable mention. I laughed so hard at this I damn near *beep* my pants HAHAHA

63. You can make a bad video game to movie port without your name being Uwe Boll.

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Extra Credit 102: It might be cool to date a roller-skating ninja chick, however, 30 seconds after escaping a deadly explosion with you she'll already be checking out other guys.

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Congratz on making it to 100 so fast :)
Guess movie had lots of funny stuff in it....wait...it did, i saw the movie
Funny movie tho.


"Cry for all those who choose light over darkness"

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The Chinese pirate spoke terrible chinese with an accent!

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Not nearly enought.
114: Shotgun and plane sond effects are what martial arts fights need.
115: Ninjas have a monarchy system.
116:Getting away from your ninja palace=bad. Getting away from same ninja palace to catch escapee?=good
117: If your subservients warn you running away makes you their target, but they will serve you as long as you remain, killing them or sneaking out is not a good option.
118: Tina is a wrestler...who DOESN'T wrestle.
119: Tina is a female Johny Cage.
120: Evil E-auctions are more fun if everyone's showing their mugs in a videoconference and the auctioneer has not fuly secured his invention.
121: Hitomi is either invisible or a man.
122: If they had released this movie on theatre, I'da watched it.

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123: Movies like this make you realize that not paying for a movie and just downloading it isn't a bad thing purse.

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per se

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124. white people are ninjas. who hang with azn ninjas.

125. winning 10 million for an underground fighting tournament is just not at all suspicious.

126. You make an invention that will dominate the world, and forget to secure it properly to your head. An extra band to keep it in place just doesn't cross through your head.

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127. When dreaming of the girl of your dreams, computerised flower pedals will rain on you. Then you'll dream about praying to god in advance

128. You happen to enter an arena at the same time from a distance, then have your figure walking towards the arena split-screened (Tina & Zack)

129. If you hear fighting from 2 stories above, expect a man to fall perfectly into your spa, while you've stolen the clothes of an annoying fighter. This will teach that fighter a lesson, cos you totally planned this

130. When discussing how to divide 300 ninjas running towards you, everytime you talk, there will be complete silence from everyone.

131. If you get your head smashed into a keyboard, your forehead will act like a strong suction cap, and pull the keys out of the keyboard

132. When escaping a Hong Kong hotel, just leap off a set of stairs and you'll be sure to land on a motorcycle that takes half a second to start

133. When you see a sharp DOA object get lodged into an item near you, just say a witty punch-line to yourself and don't bother what damage the object could have caused

134. If you use a fire exit to escape a building, it will somehow lead you to the middle of the ocean. In perfect sight of your friends

135. After you throw a female ninja off a flight of stairs from about 5 metres high, you'll celebrate by jumping off the flight of stairs yourself, then just defy physics and just pause in mid-air with a cool ninja pose....even if you're 60

136. You always wear a hand-glider, because you're prepared to get into an argument with about 300 ninjas, so you can steal their sword, throw it 50 metres to your right, over every ninja without it dipping so it stabs into a wall, then you run across all their backs, jump off the last guy who gives you an amazing 5 metre boost, then land perfectly on a sword, bouncing you 20 metres over a wall. Once you get the height of a wall, you'll somehow be able to just thrust forward so you don't land back in the castle, then just hand-glide to no-where in particular

137. When your enemies friends are coming, you can just kick a sword stuck in a bamboo tree straight up, as you jump onto another bamboo tree, which will spring you up, and you'll have ease catching the sword. You may of swung up of the bamboo tree, but a new scene helps you not have to think off a way to escape from the top of the tree. At this point, you're friends enemies have not bothered to find you in the tree that's in front of them and goes back to the dance party

138. It's easy to land on a water-wheel, after getting springboarded from a light raft bared-footed while trying to watch a fight below you

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139. Jaime Pressly has a rockin' body

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140. If you have absolutely no fighting experience and you enter a fight situation you will be knocked into a bush in which you can hide until the situation resolves itself...

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141. Banging your head two times on the keyboard doesn't assure you that you'll hit the ENTER key.

142. If you got 10 million dollars to give away as a prize in a fighting contest, don't bother hiring lots and lots of guards even if you got an underground business to run. I guess the prize money is better off as part of your budget for "research and development."

143. Keep your security personnel few, just enough that your business partner's daughter can defeat.

144. Ninja princesses do not always get the royal treatment.

145. Right after you win a match, make sure that you got a really good pose for the "KO, (your name here) wins!" part.

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150. NEVER make a movie based on a video game.

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Also love #141!XD


"Who are you to decide who's special and who's not?" - Claire Bennet

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"Hitomi is either invisible or a man." LOL!XD


"Who are you to decide who's special and who's not?" - Claire Bennet

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Again...60 is hilarious as well!XD


"Who are you to decide who's special and who's not?" - Claire Bennet

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151. Apparently my Sony mp3 player doubles as a super awesome spy camera that takes pictures from the headphone jack.

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"Hey, what was that big bang?"

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Sorry if any have already been done.

152. When you slice people with swords there are no cuts and no blood but they will drop dead anyway.

153. Time will handily stop in order for you to run a prediction of the future fight in your sunglasses.

154. The worlds top fighters are all without exception trained parachutists.

155. Always wear emergency extendible wings on your back. You never know when you may need to jump off a mountain.

156. Japanese princesses seemingly stuck in feudal times are fond of sunbathing and bikinis and are pretty handy at vollyball too.

157. The best design of emergency exit you can have is a metal laundry chute that leads directly into the ocean.

158. Female fighters never remove their make up. Ever.

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I may be a tiny chimney-sweep but I've got an enormous brush.

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166. If you want the CIA to show up at your location, all you have to do is drop them an e-mail.

167. Thin blonde white girls with little to no muscle tone will always be able to beat up well trained Asian henchmen and black men almost twice their size.

168. Getting beat up by one of the said blonde girls and having a terrible green haircut will not get you laid.

169. Setting your self-destruct countdown to only 3 minutes is never a good idea.

170. 3 minutes is actually almost 5 minutes long in movie time.

171. Building your evil island fortress on the side of a mountain is never a good idea.

172. Going through the trouble to set up an elaborate competition like DOA just so you can sell advanced technology to peoples doesn't make sense when you can afford to build an expensive island fortress and advanced nano computers that would bankrupt most billionaires.

173. Doing complex fighting moves in tight jeans will not restrict your legs.

174. Eric Roberts's stunt double had more screentime than Eric Roberts.


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LOL to 174!!!

I just want to add a few more real quick.

175) Max claims to care about Christie, but yet, he won't help her out when she's trapped in a pod of some sort as he'd much rather be going after the money.

176) A pro-wrestler, an opera singer, and an assassin will instantly know how to wield a sword when faced with an army of ninjas.

177) Christie and Kasumi had a personality swap somewhere along the line.

178) Kicking your shoe at a trained assassin will be enough to knock him out.

179) Tina is afraid of needles, but not of foreign pirates invading her yacht.

180) When being pulled toward someone on a chain in the air headfirst, you'll somehow manage to be pulled feet first seconds later.

181) Assassins and pro-wrestlers can defy the laws of physics when climbing up a tower to get to an island compound.

182) When you use bamboo in a fight against someone with a sword, it is invulnerable to any attacks except an aerial one.

183) There is no such thing as a close call in the movie world.


"It seems you still haven't realized who I truly am." - Christie (Dead or Alive 4)

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* 184 -> I've learned that someone can be "kept in superb fighting conditions" despite being probably rendered unable to move freely for about a year.

* 185 -> Also, that Charlie's Angels meets Mortal Kombat can be quite tongue-in-cheek fun.



|: |: Another stroke of the chisel :| :|

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...............bump :)

I haven't even seen this movie but this thread is hilarious, in fact, I'm gonna watch it for the comedy factor alone and come back and post here, if and only if we're up to 200 by that time.

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#186 A movie featuring hot girls wearing bikinis and... sun oil.. doesnt need to worry about such meesly things as Dialog, plot, character development and script.

#187 If you're an evil villan with your own Dr. Evil fortress making a tournament for the best martial arts fighters, make sure your army of guards will be completely rendered unconsious by really simple things such as a legsweep.

#187 Having your evil henchman guards of both genders all fight from one side and never coordinate their attacks when outnumbering the heroes.

#188 Have lots of guards with various weapons but not a single gun.

#189 Its perfectly OK for a fighter to enter the suite of the combatant by taking down two innocent guards first.

#190 If Tina helps you up from being stuck after she kicked the socks off you. She is really just wanting to be nice to you.

#191 This movies SFX were made around a bet of the creators of the movie. Whoever bet they could make a movie with more cheesy effects than Max Knight - Ultra Spy.. Won..

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192) "Diamonds are forever."

193) You can shove a grown man into a suitcase in an elevator with no resistance from said person.

194) Saving two fellow fighters from a fatal free fall with a ladder will not cause the ladder to fall from your hands despite the huge impact it would receive.

195) Any raft Tina is on makes it hers. therefore, it's her rules.

196) When someone states that you couldn't have "killed my brother" right in front of you and you have no idea what they're talking about, you shouldn't get confused or upset by this.

197) "lying" and "hiding the truth" is not redundant.

198) When fighting a horde of guards on stone stairs, despite being one person, you'll have an advantage after obtaining a second sword because they're too stupid to attack you all at once even though they've got you surrounded...and you keep stopping every few seconds.

199) the "best fighter in the world" can fight and defeat many other fighters to claim such a title. but, techology is far too much for him to handle.

200) Kasumi had a bigger role than Helena and made it to the semi-finals, but Helena is the one who had ALL her fights on-screen.

201) Weatherby isn't a good last name to have.

202) Sadly, however, Weatherby has no FIRST name.


"Who are you to decide who's special and who's not?" - Claire Bennet

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203. D.O.A. means Dead On Arrival

www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=23949572 - vote history (>8500 titles)

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1) Kevin Nash always takes Hulk Hogans left overs since in the game Bass is so obviously based on Hulk Hogan.


2 scantily clad women will always help sell and give appeal to both movies and games.


3) people always expect movies based on games to be exactly like the game even when the game has no real script (like the DOA game)

4) Eric Roberts always plays every character in exactly the same way .

5) movie makers always seem to adapt only lesser or lightweight games into movies while leaving games that seem ripe to be turned into movies (gta for example) alone.




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