I can't believe people came up with the things I learned thread with other favorite films but not Cliffhanger its a perfect fit in the category so I will start it
1. if you fail to save your best friends girlfriend he will hate you for a year and threaten to throw you off a cliff but when terrists start to threaten you life thats when the chips are down and he will do anything to help you
2. treasury agents associate with terrorists
3. Mountain Rangers are the only ones that can stop a terrorist group
4. the rocky mountains is the best place to go Base-jumping
5. I can climb up a snowy mountain in a T-shirt and later swim in Ice water with no shirt on and I won't get hypothermia
6. Bolt Guns are best used under water
7. if a psico Terorist holds you girlfriend captive and threatens to kill her you threaten him back by saying you will drop the money and it will convice him enough to let her go
anybody else feel free to write what you learned please
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."
"21. You can point with a walkie talkie in your hand and still have your voice coming through, perfectly clear on it. "
Nothing odd about this. Anyone can do it, perfectly. You point with one hand, have a walkie-talkie (that is supposed to have a hyphen, by the way) in your other hand, and hold it close to your face.
I am of course attacking your wording, that makes your point null.
If you had said something along the lines of: "You can point with the hand holding a walkie-talkie, and have your voice transmit perfectly and clearly, even though the device is far away from your face and you are speaking normally, not shouting", you might be on to something.
But the way you said it, you left all the possibilities open..
22- You can run away in a straight line even it if it is pretty close in proximity - from a trained gunman with an automatic rifle which has a scope, and make it out unscathed.
Not to distract from all the fun, but #15 actually makes sense as to why they had the clothing on. They are flying over the rockies at 20,000' knowing they will have the jet doors opened for a while.
28. No matter how much damage you receive from a bad guy in one scene, as long as he dies you will completely recover in the next scene. You'll recover even faster if you're the one who killed him.
29. The "old guy who's about to retire" always dies while trying to help somebody.
30. John Lithgow's voice CAN sound funnier than it normally does.
35. After being in the freezing cold for a long time, shaking and almost unable to speak, a thin sweater (that just happens to fit) will warm you up and you will be perfectly fine within about 2 minutes.
36. Getting headbutted in the face at full force dosen't really hurt.
37. You can throw a heavy backpack right on the edge of a cliff and it won't fall off.
38. With a rope attached to your foot you won't get pulled off a mountain even when about 4 men are pulling on the other end with both hands and you are not actually gripping onto anything.
41. You can fall down a cave banging in to every rock on the way down and not break an arm or leg, then be able to lift a 6'2 man above your head and impale him on an icicle.
1. John Lithgow's british accent mostly consists of him pronouncing the word bastard "Baahstaahd". 2. John Lithgow can hold his own against Stallone in a fight. 3. A mountain rescue worker can find a case of money long before the group of professional thieves with the proper tracking equipment.
61- When you fall thru thin ice into a freezing pond, the first thing you do is take off your shirt 62- And you don't use your gun with the bad guy immeadiately, before that you make yourself fall down into that pond and give him enough time to shoot you (although he doesn't)
Hey, Mr. President! I campaigned for the other guy, but I voted for you!
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.
71 - When a plane crashes and the front has gone past the edge, 2 minutes later it will mysteriously go back 5 feet when none of the passengers have even left the plane.
72. That Michael Rooker looks real damn intense when the scene calls for it. 73. That homing beepers for metal suitcases will still beep for days even after falling thousands of feet, hitting the ground, and getting buried in snow without the batteries dying. 74. that when the old guy died it was real sad
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.
97. A free solo climber (with no need for rope or gear) still carries it. 98. Helicopters cannot pull climbing pegs out of cracks, even if they pull back the way the peg went in. 99. Stallone can climb a mixed route (rock and ice) without ice axes. 100. Stallone can survive the air-blast of an avalanche (which usually kills). 101. Frostbite and hypothermia can be averted by pulling on a thin woolen jumper. 102. Stallone can "dyno" 2 vertical feet without the use of his feet. On a cliff. In a blizzard
101. That Bill & Ted-esque Base Jumping Teens can drive parallel to you down a winding mountain road without watching the actual road and not drive off the edge. That's talent man.... Funnily enough, the passenger watches the road more than the driver.....
102. That Sly Stallone is the best actor in this movie......
103. That John Lithgow should stick to the likes of Third Rock from The Sun.
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!
106.Elderly Mountain Rescue workers will grin broadly with a sick glint in their eyes while a young woman panics over the slight problem of her equipment coming undone while she is 3000 above the ground,he will then go in to hysterics while she falls to her death!Check the scene out if you do not believe me!
107. Those mountain hikers can go from point A to point B (probably 30 miles of extremely rough steep terrain) and then 20 miles to point C within 1 hour.
108. That Hal shouldn't have taken that young girl up there who had no previous climbing experience......even if it was better than sex.
109. That Sly's weight on the line caused her to fall.
110. That Gabe and Jesse are quite happy to walk through their house in their boots after walking around in wet dirt outside as they have stain proof floors
111. Gabe hasn't lost his nerve, just the feel thankyou very much
112. Travers somehow didn't think Eric would wait around if he sent the money first.
113. Gabe was going round to Hal's for a meal until he foolishly killed his girlfriend.
115.When your safety equipment has come loose you are thousands of feet above the ground etc do not believe an upside down mouintain ranger when he tells you you are not going to die!
120. If you ever need the code for the tracking device then don't bother asking Travers - as he's already told you that there are 50,000 key code combinations, in fifteen second intervals!
Mountain rangers should be questioned as to why it is a good idea to sleep when psychotic villains are looking for you with intentions to kill!I love this thread!
127.If someone points a gun at you through the front of a helicopter dont run away just surrender becuase they will definetly shoot you through the front glass panel.
'120. If you ever need the code for the tracking device then don't bother asking Travers - as he's already told you that there are 50,000 key code combinations, in fifteen second intervals!'
Damn Travers has memorized all those combinations!
160 gear is only for style and weight so if you have to lift yourself, it looks better
161 when I have to chose between a 60 year old rope and a new one, I will definitly use the old one to rappel down a wall and put the weight of two people on it (some shoots later they can be seen carring a new rope)
162 you just use boltguns to penetrate the mountain. since you free solo everything, you cannot think of any other use of this handy thing (except shoting people from under water through ice)
163 walking boots are best for climbing, I will dumb my 110$ climbing shoes right away
164 you better never put the girlfriend of your climbingpartner in the last piece of *beep* harness your grandfather retired 80 years ago after thinking it isn't safe anymore
165 girlfriends that barley can climb are able to climb up very high and hard routes, without any belay but when they have to pull themselves up only a meter to grab a line to safe their lives, they will fail
166 you better not forget to use your second hand to safe that girlfriend of that climbingpartner of yours, what wouldn't be a problem as you are belayed by a carabiner and a sling which both could hold probably 10 people or more.
167. Sly can get to stranded climbers by free-climbing a complex route about as quickly as a rescue helicopter can fly to them.
168. Helicopter pilot girlfriends are in no way fazed by their boyfriends hanging thousands of feet above a valley floor . . . from an overhang . . . by one hand . . . unbelayed.
169. Helicopter pilot girlfriends find it difficult to identify their boyfriends by their face.
170. Helicopter pilot girlfriends find it easier to identify their boyfriends by their butt.
I haven't commented on this yet, there've been so many posts, but damn if you're not all correct. He looks like he's seeing Richard Pryor for the first time!
107 (?). Tomorrow morning's gonna suck. Wait, that's not what I learned from this movie. It's what I learned the last time I drank two glasses of scotch and an entire pint of Chimay.