Things I Learned from No Way Out
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dkgambler — 13 years ago(May 10, 2012 03:57 PM)
<<51. If this film is ever remade, one of the villains will not be gay in order to avoid offending the influential gay community, and to apologize for previously offending gays with the film, the remake will have a positive gay character or characters. >>
The Secretary of Defense will be gay, and he will have a gay lover who also falls in love with a gay Navy man. The SOD will go crazy when he discovers his gay lover is doing it with another guy, and kill his gay lover by accident, after which his intensely loyal but straight right hand man will immediately get the cover up going and give off vibes the whole movie long showing the audience how straight he is and trying to get the SOD to start dating women. Then when someone mentions the straight assistant might have something to do with it, he will be dismissed immediately because he's straight.
Yes, I realize this means two good gay guys and one bad gay guy, but it's still a huge improvement over the original, right? Or will the gay lobby demand that the SOD part be re-written to make him at least plausibly defensible? -
Peterdeter — 13 years ago(January 01, 2013 04:05 PM)
- The assistant to the secretary of defense can order up assassinations at any time, even right in Washington.
- An obese guy can walk several times around one of the world's biggest buildings, without any problem.
- So there's a search party looking for you in the Pentagon? Just hide in the vents in your office ceiling, no one looks there.
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rickumali — 13 years ago(March 15, 2013 07:30 PM)
- Whenever something doesn't look right on your computer, mutter "the Eigenvalues aren't right."
I rewatched most of this terrific movie tonight on MGM HD. I still like it!
Rick (
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- Whenever something doesn't look right on your computer, mutter "the Eigenvalues aren't right."
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ksagendo-1 — 12 years ago(November 20, 2013 01:16 PM)
- When the Secretary of Defense is about to go up to his mistress's apartment and sees a man in the dark from a seemingly short distance, he doesn't think about asking him something like who are you or why are you watching me?
- When Farrell meets with Brice and Pritchard and Farrell realizes it was Susan that was killed and excuses himself to go to the bathroom, you might notice something is amiss and would want to question him further right then and there.
But this remains a great movie and this thread is quite entertaining!
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MovieBuffMarine — 10 years ago(May 15, 2015 08:55 AM)
- The best way to identify a Pentagon employee who is a "person of interest" in a murder/espionage case is a room-to-room search instead of letting him see photos of employees on a computer terminal. (Again, the search pool could have been narrowed by pointing out that he was male, young, wearing a Naval uniform, and possibly which male naval officers signed in for work that particular shift or day.)
I was 16 when I saw No Way Out and even then, I thought it was ridiculous that they didn't ask the dock worker what the "Son of a bitch who rented my boat" was wearing.
- The best way to identify a Pentagon employee who is a "person of interest" in a murder/espionage case is a room-to-room search instead of letting him see photos of employees on a computer terminal. (Again, the search pool could have been narrowed by pointing out that he was male, young, wearing a Naval uniform, and possibly which male naval officers signed in for work that particular shift or day.)
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Cinemaskype — 10 years ago(July 13, 2015 08:52 PM)
The only thing missing from "No Way Out" was a Kenny Loggins soundtrack. That being said:
59. Witnesses perceive Kevin Costner as "average."
60. The Secretary of Defense has a hair-trigger temper (good for the electorate to know). And is jealous and proprietary. YET the sight of a man staring at him on the sidewalk in front of the alley behind his mistresses' house fails to enrage him. -
crockett_john — 10 years ago(March 18, 2016 09:51 PM)
- You can earn a Navy Cross and an Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal as well as spending six months or more on a deployment without being awarded a Sea Service Deployment Ribbon.
- The US Navy's Summer Service Whites have the same protective properties as personal body armor (Farrell performs all kinds of stunts and never gets hurt).
- Any unsolved crime in DC can be blamed on "Yuri." Dead hooker? Yuri! Dr. Hessleman is killed? Yuri!
I'm just expressing my opinion.
You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.
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Critomaton — 9 years ago(May 16, 2016 08:59 PM)
- When reaching out to strangle your mistress, if she's just out of arm's reach the first time, draw back and reset like it was all a big misunderstanding, then lunge at her for the second try.
- If you're an undercover Soviet agent who's dating the mistress of the Secretary of Defense, make sure to rocket down the George Washington Parkway in a bright red Alfa Romeo convertible together, eating bugs off the windshield. Nobody would notice or remember that.