Lessons that I have Learnt From Watching Movies

#1 – Never build a thermal exhaust port right above the main port – Star Wars IV

#2 – You need three things pressure, time and a big goddamn poster – Shawshank Redemption

#3 – Better dead then smeg – Red Dwarf

#4 – You don’t always need music to dance – The Notebook

#5 – Always have a plan for what your going to do if you come up short – The Great Escape

#6 – You don’t always stick the landing – The Great Escape

#7 – Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition – Monty Python’s Flying Circus

#8 – Sometimes all you need is a rose – Fled

#9 – Be excellent to each other – *- Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

#10 – Never stop, never stop fighting till the fight is done – The Untouchables

#11 – If your head comes away from your neck, it’s over! – ** – The Highlander

#12 – Get up you son of a bitch because Mickey Loves you – Rocky V

#13 – Bar room philosophy :

  • Coughlin’s Law: Bury the dead. They stink up the joint. As for the rest of Coughlin’s Laws, ignore them. The guy was always full of shit.
  • Coughlin’s law: never tell tales about a woman, she’ll hear you no matter how far away she is.
  • Coughlin’s law: never show surprise, never lose your cool.
  • Coughlin’s Law: anything else is always something better.
  • ‘Coughlin’s diet: cocktails and dreams.’ – Cocktail

#14- life doesn’t always work out according to plan so be happy with what you’ve got, because you can always get a hot dog. – Bulletproof Monk

#15 Always apologize for summoning a demon from hell *** – Knights of Badassdom

#16 The Rule for potential government cover ups: If at first you don’t succeed try to use a low yield nuclear strike to destroy all the evidence – the Philadelphia experiment (2012)

#17 Never fire a shotgun at a gas tank in a meth lab — Pawn Shop Chronicles

#18 Never Judge a girl by her Gucci Boots **** — Need For Speed

#19 You don’t go looking for revenge, it just happens —– Ghett’a Life

#20 Writing, and the pursuit of a woman, like any impossible dream, are not about immediate results. They’re about telling the truth*****  —– The Right Kind of Wrong

#21 Don’t fuck with the man’s dog cause it’s not going to end well for you. ——- John Wick

#22 Q’s Lessons: —– The World is Not Enough
-Never let them see you bleed
-Always have an escape plan******

#23 Eventually you get to choose which parts of your parents you want to keep — Two Fists, One Heart

#24 Basic Shotgun safety:- when your told to put a shotgun on the floor point the barrel away from your body

#25 Doug Coughlin’s advice on drinking :- It hasn’t breathed for fifty years, it’s dead. Let’s just drink it. ——- Cocktail

#26 We determine who we are by what we do —– Hitman: Agent 47

#27 It’s not the shit we face that defines us, It’s how we react to it —- Red Sky

#28 It only takes four or five moments to be a hero******* —— Deadpool

#29 Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage******* —– We Brought a Zoo

#30 If we do less than our best with the whole world watching it will kill us inside. —- Eddie The Eagle

#31 ‘R you going to lay there, swollen and blood in your mouth or you going to stand up spit it out and go spill theirs? —– Hardcore Henry

#32 It is not such bad thing if you go down in flames and end up back where you started. Sometimes all you have to do is try — Tin Cup

#33 You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure. And I learned a long time ago you cannot achieve success if you fear failure. If you’re not afraid to fail, man you have a chance to succeed. But you’re never gonna get there unless you risk it, all the way. ******** — Paul E. Heyman — The Rise & Fall of ECW

#34 Always check the box — War Dogs

#35 Whatever People Call Me, I’m Me — – Rudolf the Black Cat *********

#36 “Your cause is doomed to failure because its built on the stupid ruthless persecution of innocent people. Your policy is worse than a crime it’s a tragic blunder” – Something all Dictators need to be told at least once — The Great Dictator

#37 All things are ready if our minds be so —- Henry V

#38 Remember one thing: Life has to be lived within the time that nature allows — Godzilla Tokyo S.O.S

#39 Remember no Man is a failure who has friends —- It’s a Wonderful Life

#40 The only chance we have to reach our true potential is when we rise to the challenge life throws at us —- Arthur & Merlin

#41 Your focus determines your reality —- Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace

#42 This is heaven. Right here. We’re in it now. — Live by Night

#43 We always have choices about what we make of ourselves, but we don’t always know where those choices will lead. — My Name is Modesty

#44 Good things do happen when you shut the fuck up for a minute or two. — Acts of Vengeance

#45 Remember, no matter where you go, there you are. — The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension **********’

#46 Most things in life, good and bad, just kinda’ happen to ya’ — Cocktail

#47 Love, peace and chicken grease — The Pest
#47a Peace and chicken! — The Simpsons — The Greatest Story Ever D’ohed***********

#48 There’s a rule in sports, “don’t do anything great if you can’t handle the congratulations” — The Replacements

#49 Bourbon and Poor Choices — London Has Fallen************

#50 If Something is to be good to be true, it’s best to shoot it just in case – Burn Notice ‘Shot in the Dark’
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#51 Reputation is what people think of you. Character is what you are. — The King’s Man

#52 Happiness isn’t Happiness without a violin playing Goat — Notting Hill




  • A simple philosophy maybe, but it is something everybody needs to remember

** Considering My head is still attached to my neck I am taking this one on faith

*** Granted I have only seen the Trailer for this movie, but still you should Always apologize for summoning a demon from hell

**** To My Knowledge I don’t know anybody who owns Gucci Boots. But its an important rule. One I have all ready learnt but as I said its an important rule.

***** This is true even if you haven’t pursued a woman

****** Final film appearance of Desmond Llewelyn as Q.

******* I might not be a hero or have insane courage, but there are just some things i am certain about

******** I go to these words when I am feeling a little depressed

********* We all know this but it helps to be reminded

********** Maybe not as Profound as some of the other lessons, but I like the line

*********** Okay its not from a movie, but there was a Simpsons movie

************ As good an excuse as any

************* Okay Okay Tv Episodes are going to be added to the list

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