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THE ISLAND
McGregor and ScarJo are on part of a building's giant logo that gets knocked off, and they ride it down, landing them safely on the ground.

Bystander: Jesus must LOVE you! That was the craziest mess I ever seen!

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SAHARA
After having blown up an helicopter with an Civil War-era cannon using a fuse lit cannon ball aimed from an ironclad in the middle of the African desert.

Dirk Pitt, Al Giordino: [at the same time] There's no way that should've worked!

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There's a similar moment in Sahara - after their desperate improvised plan turns out to save the day, Steve Zahn and Matthew McConaughey say "There's NO WAY that should have worked." 

A lot of things in Sahara don't work, but that line is gold.

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Lol, Ash - we should hang out.

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Great minds smile

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Sahara is all about hanging lanterns and is a guilty pleasure movie of mine smile

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This one just came into my head the other day, from the first NuWho episode:

Rose Tyler:  If you're an alien, how come you sound like you're from the North?
The Doctor:  Lots of planets have a North!


Christopher Eccleston has a strong Manchester accent, and it's a nice little indirect callback to the fact that, up until relatively recently in the grand scheme of things, if you wanted to work as an actor in the UK you had to lose your regional accent.  Many people who you think of as having very typically plummy Received Pronunciation British accents didn't grow up speaking that way.  Tom Baker, for example, is from Liverpool and Patrick Stewart is from Yorkshire.  (And actually the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, was also from Manchester.)

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Shme about Thor 2, eh?

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Marcus wrote:

Black Adder the Third - "Duel and Duality"

Edmund: I want to be remembered when I'm dead. I want books written about me, I want songs sung about me. And then hundreds of years from now I want episodes from my life to be played out weekly at half past nine by some great heroic actor of the age.

Baldrick: Yeah. And I could be played by some tiny tit in a beard.

...both of whom have knighthoods now! *

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that bit in Jumanji where monkey-boy rushes to the shed to get that much need axe, only to find it locked, so he picks up something to help break in, he winds up to take a swing, only to realize he is holding the very axe he was after, he looks into the camera and rushes off.

though not sure if this is a lantern hanging  smile , or just breaking the 4th wall  sad

Jason doesn't teleport.

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Just watching Where Eagles Dare (1968), the WW2 movie with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. Because it's a war movie, you'd expect the cast to be principally male, but Burton's character has a couple of game female agents posing as servant girls behind enemy lines.

When Eastwood meets the second one after climbing in a window off a cable car, he wearily observes "You seem to have a lot of women stashed around this country, major."

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Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End. The keys to the Pirate code are given to Keith Richards by the dog from the jail in the first film when one of the comedy sidekicks points out that it makes no sense he is told simply "sea turtles".

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Also from Pirates 3: Jack is about to escape from Beckett's ship by tying himself to a rope slung over a yardarm and tied to a cannon, in an attempt to launch himself over to the Black Pearl.
Beckett catches him in the act, exclaiming "you're mad!"
Jack responds, "Thank goodness for that! If I wasn't it would probably never work."

Also a more subtle one from Pirates 1: Gibbs introduces Mr. Cotton, whose tongue has been cut out. So, Gibbs says, "He trained the parrot to speak for him......no one's yet figured out how."

Now that I think about it, Pirates did this a lot.

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Edge of Tomorrow

Cage gets the rundown on the time reseting situation from Emily Blunt and the scientist aided by a highly advanced and superfluous hologram presentation, presumably created by this one guy in secret.

http://www.digitalmedia-world.com/images/stories/July-14/1/Prime-focus-edge-tomorrow8.jpg

Cage's first reaction after hearing he's going to need to die every day until they can save the world:

"First of all, this is a terrific presentation.... Terrific."

Then on with the plot.

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From Archer
The complete lack of subtlety about it just makes this funnier to me.

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Avengers 2

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The city is flying. We're fighting an army of robots, and I have A BOW AND ARROWS! None of this makes any sense!

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Sam F wrote:

Avengers 2

Spoiler (unless you've seen a Marvel movie before) Show
The city is flying. We're fighting an army of robots, and I have A BOW AND ARROWS! None of this makes any sense!

I saw the movie tonight, and when this happened, I almost yelled out hanging a lantern!

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Great moments in saving the cat, this one from a Reddit comment in a thread about protecting yourself against burglary. Steal this, make it your character introduction, boom.

When we moved my sister to an apartment years ago, the landlord was out while we were sitting on a moving van full of stuff. Friendly neighbor walked by, saw us and offered to 'let us in'. He took a thin flathead screwdriver and in the kitchen window used it to pry open the flimsy turn-lock, climb in and unlock the house.

He then told her to put a nail through the window to seal it against burglars, since the units all came with AC anyways.

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"For the next year, we'd see him going through other windows in the neighborhood. He'd wave, and we waved back. Nice man. Very helpful."

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I imagine reddit would be an amazing place for character inspiration. But I'm reluctant to spend time there. Are there any subreddits that specialize in interesting life stories?

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I don't know of one, but that's an outstanding idea for a subreddit. I think I've seen at least a thread about that before, though.

EDIT: There's this, but it seems pretty dead. https://www.reddit.com/r/lifeinapost

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