Practical Tips You Learned From Movies

[David]

Practical, useful, instructional or even inspirational tips you learned from movies:

1. Clemenza's pasta recipe in "Godfather II" is still the best. I've tried it, with a few of my favorite herbs & spices, & it's good enough for a king.

2. "Kramer vs. Kramer" taught me how to make great scrambled eggs.

3. "War Games" taught me how to make free phone calls.

4. "The Empire Strikes Back" taught me the importance of having light speed function regularly checked & serviced.

Post your own!

[DrummerDeanna]

-Gone with the Wind taught me to put off my problems until tomorrow - "I can't think about that now, I'll think about it tomorrow..."

-Moonstruck taught me that all men are wolves ;)

[SuzeQuze]

Threes Company (I know, not a movie) taught me how to separate the egg white from the yolk by juggling the egg between two halves of its shell.
:blob2: :blob1: :blob2:

[ontheEdgeof17]

Drop Dead Gorgeous showed me that being first runner-up is ok. You may just become queen due to a freak float accident.

[DrummerDeanna]

-Real Women Have Curves taught me that I should not panic and hate myself for the ten extra pounds I may be carrying around...I can still be attractive - because real women have curves ;)

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[skcin]

-Real Women Have Curves taught me that I should not panic and hate myself for the ten extra pounds I may be carrying around...I can still be attractive - because real women have curves ;)

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Amen baby! Woot! :woohoo:

Paula

[dissention]

-Real Women Have Curves taught me that I should not panic and hate myself for the ten extra pounds I may be carrying around...I can still be attractive - because real women have curves ;)

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OMG, that movie was hysterical. :lol: LOVED IT!!!!!!!

[Johnny Stew]

'The Wizard of Oz' taught me to never leave home without my ruby slippers, or else I'll have a bitch of a time getting back. ;)

[amber]

Diabolique and I Know What You Did Last Summer taught me that, if i'm going to kill someone, i better to a real good job making sure they're dead, because that kind of thing can easily come back and bite you in the ass.

[chiliD]

The Usual Suspects taught me you can't believe everything you hear. :lol:

[sparky]

Drop Dead Gorgeous showed me that being first runner-up is ok. You may just become queen due to a freak float accident.

Some become queens simply by birthright. :lol:

[DrummerDeanna]

Waterworld taught me that even though you may pour millions and millions of dollars into a project - it still may be a complete and utter piece of S**t.

[sparky]

Waterworld taught me that even though you may pour millions and millions of dollars into a project - it still may be a complete and utter piece of S**t.

Oh indeed. I have an eye doctor friend who does custom contacts for movies and tv. He went to the location to ostensibly do a fitting for Costner. The appointment never happened. He waited 6 weeks. My pal got a 6 week tropical vacation and 240k for his trouble.

[wondergirl9847]

Well, I learned from Toy Story (my fave movie) that your toys really do come to life when you aren't looking. :shocked:

I knew it!!!!!!

[pianogirl04]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation taught me that cats and Christmas lights don't mix.

Charlie Brown Christmas taught me that even ugly trees need to be loved. :xoxo:

Can't think of the name of this one but the one where the kid sticks his tongue on a flagpole in the middle of winter... never do that either! :laugh:

[SuzeQuze]

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Can't think of the name of this one but the one where the kid sticks his tongue on a flagpole in the middle of winter... never do that either! :laugh:

That's A Christmas Story, I love that movie :D Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo [after Santa kicks you down the slide]
:laugh:

[SuzeQuze]

Benny and Joon to make grilled cheese with an iron!!! :blob2:

[wondergirl9847]

A Christmas Story

Best Christmas movie....EVAH!

[Dreammms]

Diabolique and I Know What You Did Last Summer taught me that, if i'm going to kill someone, i better to a real good job making sure they're dead, because that kind of thing can easily come back and bite you in the ass.
:] :] :laugh: :laugh:

[madformac]

Back To The Future taught me to always carry spare enriched plutonium (well who wouldn't?)

I learned from Casino to make sure I check under the car before starting it... And to never wear pink suits..

I learned from Kingpin how to milk a cow properly, and what not to do... :shocked:

I learned from Rainman to always go slow on the driveway.

Found out what to do when you run out of hair gel from Something About Mary.. :eek: :eek: :laugh:

[Serrart]

Troy: Homer was wrong and Patroclus was in fact Achilles' long forgotten cousin :rolleyes:

Dogville: Be always kind with blonde runaways

The Towering Inferno: Never go to skycrapers' inauguration parties

The Remains Of the Day: Forget good manners if you ever fall in love with a butler.

Meet Joe Black: Don't trust cute guys who love peanut butter.

Romy

[gldstwmn]

Vanilla Sky- It's the little things.
Working Girl-Power to the people-the little people. And "You can't order me, I'm not steak." :lol:

[dissention]

Dogville: Be always kind with blonde runaways

No ****! :laugh:

I can't wait for Manderlay to come out in June, I'm dying to see it. Don't know how Ron Howard's daughter is going to step into Kidman's role, but we'll see.

Meet Joe Black: Don't trust cute guys who love peanut butter.

More like: even though Jake Weber and Marcia Gay Harden are in it, those facts alone do not make it a good movie and will remind why Brad Pitt is one of the worst actors in the history of film. ;)

Seriously, if I were to make a list of the worst films ever made, Meet Joe Black would be right at the top. Everyone involved was under the influence when they signed on. :laugh:

[dissention]

Working Girl-Power to the people-the little people. And "You can't order me, I'm not steak." :lol:

:lol: Possibly the best line ever, along with:

"Sometimes I dance around the house and sing in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna, never will." :lol:

[Nixxxed]

After seeing Crimes of the Heart, I never cut my birthday cake in little squares again. And forget plates. Just get a butcher knife, attack the cake with vigor, and grab the piece you want with both hands.

"OOH, how I do LOVE birthday cake..." :lol: :woohoo:

[GypsySorcerer]

It's a Wonderful Life taught me that what we do in life affects others, and that no (wo)man is a failure who has friends, and that every time a bell rings, and angel gets its wings.:)

[amber]

It's a Wonderful Life taught me that what we do in life affects others, and that no (wo)man is a failure who has friends, and that every time a bell rings, and angel gets its wings.:)
*barf* :laugh:

[GypsySorcerer]

*barf* :laugh:

There you go, spreading that holiday cheer again. :laugh: :wavey:

[amber]

There you go, spreading that holiday cheer again. :laugh: :wavey:
:laugh: :lol:

[gldstwmn]

:lol: Possibly the best line ever, along with:

"Sometimes I dance around the house and sing in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna, never will." :lol:

I love it! :lol:

[Serrart]

No ****! :laugh:

I can't wait for Manderlay to come out in June, I'm dying to see it. Don't know how Ron Howard's daughter is going to step into Kidman's role, but we'll see.

Poor girl... hope she knows what she's getting into... Lars "egotist maniac but brilliant" Von Trier can become quite scary with harmless creatures. :nod:


More like: even though Jake Weber and Marcia Gay Harden are in it, those facts alone do not make it a good movie and will remind why Brad Pitt is one of the worst actors in the history of film. ;)

Seriously, if I were to make a list of the worst films ever made, Meet Joe Black would be right at the top. Everyone involved was under the influence when they signed on.

And it seemed not to have an end. It's the only movie where I was anxious to see Anthony Hopkins die, to get out finally of that cinema.

Romy

[dissention]

Poor girl... hope she knows what she's getting into... Lars "egotist maniac but brilliant" Von Trier can become quite scary with harmless creatures. :nod:

John C. Reilly quit the day that Lars slaughtered a live mule on film for Maderlay. Can't say I blame him.

And it seemed not to have an end. It's the only movie where I was anxious to see Anthony Hopkins die, to get out finally of that cinema.

Oh, preach it. I'll elect to have Dubya and his clan over to my home for dinner before I have to view that flaming piece of offle again. Never in my life have I been so bored. There wasn't a single likable thing about that trash of a flick and Brad Pitt was at his most annoying. I couldn't bear it. And after it was all over with, I was just left sitting there, wondering what the point was. The main plot was uninteresting. The sub-plot about Jake Weber trying to get one over on Anthony Hopkins and his business was just plain dull. The one interesting thing about the movie was Hopkins' relationship with his older daughter (Marcia Gay Harden) and they did nothing with it except give us one dull scene between the two of them.

I wanted Freddy to come onscreen and claw every one of them with his hand.

[estranged4life]

practical tip (From the movie "Clerks") :

Randal: "You know which customers I can do without?"

Dante: "Which?"

Randal: "All of them...This job would be easier if it wasnt for the customers"

Brian j.

[Dreammms]

Found out what to do when you run out of hair gel from Something About Mary.. :eek: :eek: :laugh:

omg lmfao :]

[Serrart]

John C. Reilly quit the day that Lars slaughtered a live mule on film for Maderlay. Can't say I blame him.

:( I didn't know that... Lars strikes again! :rolleyes:

Romy