Things I learned from Cliffhanger

11) It is acceptable mountain practice to put your life and that of your ex in the hands of a sixty-year old rope you have admitted yourself probably won't hold.

12) English hooligans are considerate enough to use the term 'soccer', so that the people they're mauling can at least understand their sense of humour

13) The easiest way to steal $100m is to winch it between two in-flight jets over the Rocky Mountains, rather than, say, dropping them in a parachute over Nebraska and nipping along to collect them on the gorund.

14) As an international terrorist gang member, it is standard practice to use the 20mm canon launcher at a target directly above you on a mountain face, especially with a huge avalanche potential.

15) English bank robbers are really stupid, but although they claimed "you didn't see this coming" when lost in the Rockies, they all seem to have appropriate thermal clothing.


"He's a bit of a rough diamond but his heart's in the right place."

money makes a good campfire.




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25. Bat crap looks like mud.

26. Mountain climbers use the same lingo as amusement park attendants, "...keep your arms and legs in the vehicle at all times..."

27. Rocks can be used to open anything. From jars of pickles to steel suitcases.

63 - Never trust the new guy who just transfered over from the FBI,

64 - Shoot your co pilot in the head for no real reason at all except that everyone else on the plane is shooting so I might as well too!!

65 - Small planes handle like a 747 at slow speeds,

66 - Three suitcases full of money dropped from a plane inevitably fall onto the very tops of highest inaccesable mountains that require two experianced mountain climbers to go fetch them, instead of falling onto a road or into some log cabin.

67 - Teddybears bail on you if you are in a life or death situation.

68 - John Lithgow encourages teamwork by calling eveyone "BAASTAHHDS" and regularly shooting members of the team,

69 - The names Tucker and Walker sound like characters from an eighties TV show and will arouse suspician.

70 - The black guy after being impailed by a stalegtite had the respect and manners not to drop half of his intestines onto Sylvester Stallones head.

87. If you're running across a booby-trapped bridge, and snag the trip-wire, stay calm. Take a breath, turn and run back to the other side. Most killers will inexplicably use a 3-5 second delay, so you should be able to get away.

88. As long as you're one of the main characters, the bad guys will never simply shoot you, even though that would be the easiest course of action. They'll try to make some grand statement, or ask you to throw the money into the chopper instead of shooting you and the chick, then taking off again. Use this time to develop a carfeully planned strategy.

89. Attaching the chopper's winch to the mountain ladder, then jumping of said cliff and holding onto said ladder is a carefully planned strategy.

90. Mountains tend to have ladders for getting up the face of a cliff without all of that messy "rock climbing", though many don't reach all the way to the bottom of the cliff.

91. A helicopter will only pull out about half the bolts of a cliff-mounted ladder before it is unable to fly anymore (every mountain rescue worker should know the "helicopter pull rating" of their cliff-mounted ladders). However, the ensuing fight on the body of the crashed chopper may cause more bolts to come loose.

92. A simple treasury department helicopter contains enough equipment to track and triangulate a single emitted from a walkie-talkie that is no longer broadcasting.

93. Federal agents hunting murderous thieves will believe you if you claim to be mountain rescue.

94. Federal agents also don't mind it when civilians kill a bunch of people. In fact, they seem to like it.

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104. Even after getting your shin ripped open with a climbing blade you can jump down in to a cave and beat the hell out of someone without limping walking strangely or appear to be in any pain at all!Amazing!