Things I Learned from No Way Out
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — No Way Out
brianveitz — 16 years ago(May 08, 2009 09:22 AM)
- Apparently the Secretary of Defense doesn't have any kind of security detail, and walks around Washington freely. He also has no assistants constantly telling him where to go and what he's doing next.
- The Secretary of Defense also gets paid beep and likewise has a beep car.
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sonofbeach-sheet — 16 years ago(January 23, 2010 06:19 AM)
- It's possible for a random 20-something woman at an inauguration party and with no visible means of employment to live in a Georgetown home and have the Secretary of Defense and an 04 in the Navy who work together as her lovers
- The CIA director in this movie tried running for President in real life
- A man is completely absolved of being a suspect because he's gay
- It's possible for a man to be in the U.S. Navy for over 10 years with no suspicion of being a KGB agent
- Breaking a coffee cup in your hands is supposed to scare the person in question
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golden-24 — 14 years ago(July 14, 2011 01:30 PM)
- If you are Secretary of Defense and you need to hire someone to act as a CIA liason in connection with a highly sensitive military project, you may want to hire someone you know and trust instead of a random navy officer with no relevant experience whom you met briefly at a cocktail party six months ago, even if he just accomplished a heroic rescue at sea, because in addition to the fact that his heroic rescue has no bearing on his qualifications for the job, there is little likelihood he will know what he his doing, he also may not help you out if in the future you happen to murder your mistress and want to conduct a hastily conceived cover-up.
- If someone introduces you to two men and explains that they are "associated with the Special Forces" the obvious conclusion is that they are in fact secret government hit men.
- If you suspect that two secret government hit men have been sent to kill someone you know, instead of warning the person by phone, you should steal a car, chase them and crash into them.
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dkgambler — 14 years ago(August 06, 2011 05:02 PM)
- When a room-by-room search is underway for a killer, and a uniformed Navy officer spills coffee on himself, no one will say "Hey, this is important, you can do that later" when he says he has to go change. Also, the several people in his immediate vicinity who watch him clearly grasp the cup and spill it on himself won't call BS.
- There's nothing a computer egghead in a wheelchair can't do, whether it's making a perfect copy of an underdeveloped picture, hacking into the office of protocol computer system or any other computer problem.
- Limousine drivers in D.C. are perverts who get all giggly when their passengers are getting ready to beep.
- A woman who is the mistress of a powerful D.C. bureaucrat will leave a ball with another guy without hesitation to go off and beep.
- D.C. whores have such loyal friends they can in a matter of seconds throw their friends out of their own apartments so they can go in and have a beep with their latest conquest. It's important that they be able to beep alone even though their intentions are clear from the first second.
- Secretaries of Defense have photographic memories, which come in handy when they discover a guy they blow off at a party later commits an act of heroism and such act is briefly mentioned in a publication.
- Homosexuals are immediately dismissed as suspects in the murders of women for the sole reason that they are homosexual.
- It's remarkably easy to talk a dock worker into renting out his boss' boat.
- When a guy who works at a hotel and wears a ridiculously cheesy uniform needs to come to the Pentagon to identify a suspect, he shouldn't change clothes beforehand. It's not like anyone should be concerned about tipping off the perp that someone who could identify him is in the building.
- When two government goons need to rub out a witness, they go right to the witness' place of work at a shopping mall to get the job done. No compelling reason to wait until the witness is out of the view of hundreds of shoppers, co-workers, etc..
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siltom1962 — 9 years ago(September 21, 2016 07:43 PM)
You're obviously too stupid to realize that Pritchard's homosexuality disqualified him because it had been established that the suspect was dating the woman. Last I checked homosexual men don't date women, now do they?
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dubyahsrobotminion — 14 years ago(December 11, 2011 06:10 PM)
"7. The CIA director in this movie tried running for President in real life"
And he used to be an Airport Flight Director, a Battle Group Commander and a District Attorney, not necessarily in that order.so?
"8. A man is completely absolved of being a suspect because he's gay"
In a crime of passion between a male and a female, that would likely remove him from most Homicide Detectives suspect lists.
"9. It's possible for a man to be in the U.S. Navy for over 10 years with no suspicion of being a KGB agent"
Have you ever hear of John Walker?
"10. Breaking a coffee cup in your hands is supposed to scare the person in question"
I bet it would scare you. -
lreed7950 — 13 years ago(May 17, 2012 03:45 PM)
Lol.
Contributionanyone foolishly contemplating the unwelcome interjection of debate into a "things I learned thread" is now forewarned.
Perhaps - dare I presume - even
you
might think twice the next time.
Ironically, though, I hope not. If you so easily abandon obstinace and willful ignorance you'll have even failed at trolling.
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lreed7950 — 13 years ago(June 04, 2012 01:39 PM)
Lol.
The last word.
You can have it - that's why you've revisited this again, right?
I know. You feel slightedashamed
embarrassed
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Truthfully, you can hardly be faulted. After all, who wouldn't? To suddenly be exposed as a fool is a painful thing.
What's worse - you don't even fully realizeand it's probably best that way. Ignorance is bliss.
Just call that cock a lollipop and pucker up. -
Cate1956 — 12 years ago(August 03, 2013 06:21 PM)
I HAVE watched the movie a thousand times and I can NOT understand or rationalize the plotholes. I know Yuri is there to "stir things up" and I understand the supposed motivation behind it, but there are just a couple of things that don't make senselike having a glass table underneath your stairwell or hitting the floor dead.
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eastcoastguyz — 14 years ago(August 12, 2011 09:35 PM)
- Sperry mainframe computers are so slow they take many hours or days to render a single small photo.
- Top government installations have very slow line printers which take most of the day to get a single print-out of text with no graphics.
- Sperry mainframe computers have specialized software to perform magic calculations on a film negative which takes a very long time to "develop" in real-time.
- Guys who work in wheelchairs in computing centers have a Phd, even though they basically perform very low level computer operation tasks.
- All computer terminals in the 1980s had the ability to connect to any other computer system.
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Captain_Augustus_McCrae — 14 years ago(August 17, 2011 11:19 AM)
Anyone who's ever been "associated" with Special Forces is, ergo, a former member of the Nicaraguan death squads, even if he looks like Dan Aykroyd.
"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae