100 things I learned from Eagle Eye - Eagle Eye (2008) Discussion

[–] ahmed3_e 15 years ago

43. The guy and the girl HAVE TO get together by the end of a movie, they cant stay "just friends who went through a traumatic experience together"

I mean, at least in SPEED or other movies there's flirting between the 2 leads during the action, but here it was like "OK, threat's over, movie almost done, let's kiss"

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[–] KnightKobra49 15 years ago

44. Human Being is proven that they are smarter than the all-powerful supercomputer.

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[–] crazyhellboy 15 years ago

45. Julianne Moore as a supercomputer voice is a lot more irritating than her saying "Dr. Lecter" 100 times.

I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy.

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[–] mindcontrols 15 years ago

46. Only 2 people in the world notice messages and hacked images on various public screens and displays from a government super-computer that, apparently lazy, genius programmers did not thoroughly test and could not tell it had serious bugs.

47. The writers watched WarGames, The Matrix, Final Destination, Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War and Saw during the screenplay production.

48. A super-computer can almost convince a peaceful woman to kill a man, who's been helping her to try to save her son, in order to save her son.

49. Your friends will never call you to find out where you went and if everything is alright after you randomly receive a phone call and leave the bar to never return. Your job won't try to call you either when you randomly don't show up or call.

50. Apparently, an eagle has only 1 good eye. That eye can of course see, hear and control all.

51. Ariia is built by Google and it's real name is CADIE.

(#26 is my fav. BTW)

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[–] slipzen 15 years ago

52. For some reason it's important to teach a super-computer the entire US constitution instead of just giving it a simple algorithm to follow.

53. Only women need motivation to help evil super computers.

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[–] mal karma 15 years ago

54. Uniformed guards protecting the POTUS can wander around with a +3 day beard and don't raise suspicion.

55. Doesn't mather if you found the chief of security, whom you are suppossed to tel a secret emergency code, you just go towards the same room the POTUS is as long as you have an uniform.

56. Don't kill the Supercomputer. Instead drive from the Pentagon to the Congress and save the POTUS in person.

PS: I knew what POTUS meant before the film. It's just a funny word that also means a plant. http://images.google.com.ar/images?hl=es&q=potus&gbv=2&aq= f&oq=

"That was a courtesy flush. I'm not actually done yet"

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[–] cawimmer430 15 years ago

57) A Porsche Cayenne V6 (the manual transmission gave it away) can outrun lighter and quicker Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors and also take a sh_tload of abuse but still keep on going and going and going.

Sign me up for one...

-CW

http://imdb.com/title/tt0105643/
Give it a 1/10

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[–] Zacef 15 years ago

58. Americans dont actually enjoy killing muslims!

"You're a Mormon. Compared to you we ALL have a drinking problem"

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[–] mia-beach 15 years ago

59. Hollywood still manages to let movies like this ooze out of their disgusting asses and they think we, the public, like them.

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[–] kimbrys 15 years ago

64. When you finish watching the movie, you suddenly feel an urge to smack the person who recommended it.

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[–] sth128 15 years ago

65. When you jab a metal crowbar into a electrical-spark-shooting eye while drenched in water, you will receive no injuries whatsoever at all.

66. No matter how smart a computer gets, it will always refer to women as "female".

67. When broken sounds play on the subway PA system saying "Jerry Shaw is a terrorist", point to the white kid and accuse him.

68. A Porsche with keys in the ignition parked on a busy street will NEVER get stolen.

69. When you are disguised as an CIA operative, you automatically gain the ability to overpower a guard protecting the president.

70. All junkyard cranes have internet connection.

71. Don't use your brother's first name as password.

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[–] kriss3d 15 years ago

72: FedEx wont mind delivering huge amounts of guns, explosives, high-tech warfighting equipment into a poor guys appartment and then forget about it so its untracable.

73: There is internet in the strangest places and machines..

74: A computer in a building will have a camera accurate enough to read sound vibrations off a coffee mug through a window glass.

75: Scriptwriters who write about computers with human (or superhuman) intelligence have all seen 2001 - A space oddyse.

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[–] TheDuckofDeath 15 years ago

76. An ultra-intelligent supercomputer is not above stealing the assassination plot from the GET SMART movie.

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[–] sidbananana 15 years ago

77. I watched this after watching Untraceable (2008), this was less plausible but had hotter women.

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[–] gunterve 15 years ago

78. When a supercomputer advises you to abort an assassination, you'd better comply or it will plot against the government and try to assassinate the president in an extremely complicated and ridiculous way. Or even better, if you comply but the president doesn't, there's a good chance you'll become the new president!
79. When you get caught speeding, tell the police a supercomputer took over your cruise control. Any car would deactivate cruise control if you hit the brakes or clutch, but a supercomputer can override that. It's true officer!
80. Even if your phone is off but with the battery still in it, the government can tune in and listen to nearby conversations.

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[–] leetron 15 years ago

81. Japanese Tourists are the most trusting people in the world. They'll let panicky, sweaty strangers being pursued by the police get on their private charter bus after one phone call from a supercomputer.

82. You can eject a pilot out of an F-16 via remote control.

83. The Secret Service aren't very good shots.

84. The latest high-tech explosives look so much like diamonds, they can be disguised as jewelry.

85. You can go through hours and hours of physical toil and abuse and still look dynamite in evening wear.

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[–] Jen_AS 15 years ago

86: Cell phones have ridiculously long lasting batteries that have just been fully charged prior to being taken over by a supercomputer to recruit innocent citizens for complicated terroristic plots.

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[–] citizen_conn 15 years ago

87. The TVs at circuit city are all individually connected to oc1 lines that can stream hd quality video and audio! Sweet!

It isnt enough to tell us what a man did. You've got to tell us who he was.

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[–] raypdaley182 15 years ago

82. You can eject a pilot out of an F-16 via remote control.

Don't worry, I've logged that "goof" now.

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[–] WorldSacred 11 years ago

"80. Even if your phone is off but with the battery still in it, the government can tune in and listen to nearby conversations. "

What exactly is so surprising about this. I learnt some years ago, with my police officer friend telling me that people can listen in to your conversations using your phone. She told me to turn my phone off and make sure that it is off. Then we had a conversation for about 10 to 15 minutes. Then I received a phone call from an unknown person, despite having turned my phone off, with audio of my previous conversation from 10 minutes ago being replayed for my own edification. Her co-workers (the police) were demonstrating what they could do with modern technology available. They could turn my phone on (probably can't do that if my phone alarm is switched off, though) and silently call my phone and listen in on conversations. This isn't rocket science knowledge.

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[–] lifeonloop-2 15 years ago

and afford to drive a Porsche Cayenne!!

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[–] erose001 15 years ago

88. If you're going to make a political-military-intelligence allegory in the form of an action movie, you better get Schlesinger, Pollack, Kubrick, Redford, or Spielberg to direct. Oh, wait, three of those guys have gone to the great HAL in the sky. And producer Speilberg was apparently MIA.
89. If the movie has four screenwriters to write the potentially good story of one person, expect to spend some time counting plot holes, contrivances, manipulations, and implausibilities that probably turned an originally decent story into swiss cheese. Ah, Hollywood!
90. #26 ROCKS, and this list had me ROTFLMAO.

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[–] Ozpunk 15 years ago

91. Billy Bob Thornton will take any role that pays his alimony without reading the script first.

Ozpunk
"No Murray its not a real hawk, just life-like hawk sounds."

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[–] leetron 15 years ago

92. Now is a very bad time to be a terrorist.

93. A Porsche Cayenne is tougher than a tank.

94. Military aircraft can ignore airport shutdowns by the FBI.

95. TSA is still missing important stuff in carry-ons.

96. If you can draw well, you can pick up cute girls on the EL train.

97. If you are an American Citizen, own a music store, and vote Republican, you are clean as a whistle in the eyes of the FBI.

98. Gangstas hold their guns incorrectly in music videos.

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[–] UncleArthur 15 years ago

100. Gunshots are the only way to distract a President
giving a State of the Union speech.

100a. The security guards in the capitol building
all have uniforms that're "one-size fits all".
Just knock 'em out cold, & run freely throughout the building.
It's like magic!

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[–] various3232 15 years ago

100b. It's easier for a supercomputer to create an intricate plot to get you to come to it that includes hiding in a military plane, blowing up power lines, framing you for terrorism, etc. than it is to send you an email with a plane ticket and say, "I have information about your brother's death, and if you want to know come here."

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[–] various3232 15 years ago

100d. This movie brought up the fact that once again, as stated by 100c, we the movie goer should just accept unbelievable concepts and ideas that are marketed as Science-Fiction and Suspense but should actually be labeled Fantasy or For the Stupid.

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[–] koris-guy 15 years ago

100e. Filmmakers know that all you need to make a good film is explosions, car chases and sexy women. Things like plot and characterisation are for pretentious people.

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[–] [email protected] 15 years ago

100d Flimakers know that if you add enough explosions, car chases and sexy women, many people will accept being treated like idiots.

100e Visitors passes are imprinted with pictures?

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[–] BrazilDandyDude 15 years ago

104 super computers are basically thousands of yellow spheres surrounding a big red one.
105 copy shop employees can easilly overpower trained security guards, fbi agents and presedential guards.

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[–] trevor_ferevor24 9 years ago

100. If your waring a suit, you apparently have light beer written all over you! lol

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[–] celestialtreat 15 years ago

101. 56th Street in Indianapolis is actually downtown. (Huh, I guess that explains why I keep getting lost.)

102. Julianne Moore has sure been in a lot of stinkers.

"Hey, that's right... We're supposed to sing about pirate-y things!" - Mr. Lunt

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[–] chris-guy 15 years ago

103. When there's a big explosion in a tunnel and you duck behind a car, it's actually possible for the explosion to stop 20 yards short of the car, meaning that your quick evasive action was unnecessary. Refreshing -- I like a movie that confounds expectations.

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[–] violent_woman 15 years ago

104. Wearing a baseball cap is sufficient enough to "change one's appearance".

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[–] JPMerola 15 years ago

105. Supercomputer Aria planned the same method of assassination that Yosemite Sam used to try to kill Buggs Bunny changing the instrument to a trumpet, knowing that the kid could never get a piano wired with dynamite through security, no matter how precociously cute he was. I wished she kept the same song, though. (Hmmm, President: "No! Dang'd rabbit, er, kid!" President plays the correct note and blows himself up. Might have been a better ending. Certainly less predictable)

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[–] lordredblue 15 years ago

106. Singularity will be a real bitch once achieved. Thus, plug it into the nearest available high speed internet connection ASAP.
107. TSA will let you through unmolested as long as you prominently display a firearm and loudly yell "FBI".
108. Airport X-ray scanners have a 'net connection so that the staff can twitter when not too busy.
109. If you are a muslim-American and vote non-Republican, you are probably a terrorist according to the police.
110. At Stanford you learn to build killer applications.
111. The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution are the mortal enemy of the legislative and executive branches of the US government, when interpreted in a sane logical manner.
112. In Republic of America, machines drive you.
113. Insist on having your vehicle's GPS guidance system connected to the cruise control. It might be the difference between life and death if you have to run the stop light on a busy intersection.
114. U.S. cities have missile equipped Predators on standby, just in case they have to unblock rush hour traffic.
115. If you have a secret level 36 in your building, always put a button in the elevator labeled '36' in case someone important forgets about it.
116. Reclusive high value targets of BF-istan travel in a convoy of expensive vehicles.
117. If you and (presumably) everyone in your vicinity receive an anonymous phone call proclaiming that a random stranger in your midst is a terrorist, you should immediately assume a threatening demeanor toward that stranger. It's called Citizen Watch and only a terrorist loving traitor will defy this common sense approach.
118. A real-time voice/image/univeralfoobar recognising AI does not know what morse code is.

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[–] joolztoolz 15 years ago

119. Never trust a supercomputer with one shiny lightbulb "eye"--(HAL 9000, Wall-E, Eagle eye)...

..."Daisy...daisy..."

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[–] cludinsk 14 years ago

105. a supercomputer will place the ONE person it needs to complete its plot in split-second life-threatening situations over and over, rather then just having CIA agents grab, hood and fly him to the pentagon to be brought before it.

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[–] cinemajunky 14 years ago

* An All-Knowing Super Computer who knows everything about you and your personality will provide a car for you that you can't drive.

* Super Computers are obsessive-complusive. Even though the plan to kill the President and all of his cabinet is totally in effect and going smoothly, the super computer just doesn't feel right until a certain code-phrase is spoken and it can make a Kill List.

* Your landlady has no problem opening your door to FedEx employees carrying boxes labelled "poison" and other highly suspicious words.

* Locking a super computer is hard work. You can either disengage it or dismantle it - not both.

* The guards outside the 36th floor won't pass on any information so it's best not to tell them that the super computer has gone into kookoobananas-let's-kill-everybody mode.

* Random civilians care more about their kids than trained professionals so it's easier to get them to do your bidding.

* If the US government makes a mistake that results in less than 30 innocent people dying, it totally makes sense to initate a plan that kills a couple dozen innocent people in traffic accidents.

* A Super Computer can take control of fighter jets and missile launching little spy planes, but only in pursuit of Jerry and not when attempting to abort a mission that is ill-advised.

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I ain't your friend, palooka.

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[–] wPatriot 14 years ago

"* If the US government makes a mistake that results in less than 30 innocent people dying, it totally makes sense to initate a plan that kills a couple dozen innocent people in traffic accidents. "

I loved your contributions, but this one isn't really fair. Aria didn't go 'kookoobananas-let's-kill-everybody mode' (irlol'ed when I read this) because of those innocent lives, but because in her eyes it showed how incompetent the current leaders were. Letting them live would mean even more people would die due to future decisions..

Although, if killing was allowed to prevent people from dying, she should've just nuked the entire planet. Nobody can die if everyone's dead.

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[–] 1hitwonder 14 years ago

* For once it is cool to be a Minute-man.

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[–] mooseboulders 14 years ago

The US military ships extremely powerful and top secret explosives to the field via FEDEX, because it's obviously the safest way to prevent a catastrophe or the product from falling into enemy hands... (And despite FEDEX having a firm policy of not shipping explosives)

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[–] Sabracad 14 years ago

136. Some Eagle Eye moviegoers have trouble counting. (if 100a comes after 100, it's pretty safe to say 101 doesn't follow 100e)

138. Even the most sophisticated computers in the world lack accurate countdown clocks - final countdown with helpful beeps to mark the seconds is out (mentioned in bloopers), final countdown from 4:58 only lasts 4:08 despite remaining with the chase scene the whole time.

137. Evil computers lack a plan b should the critical note from their detonation sequence song fail to be played.

139. Some people, author included, are a little too anal to get through a fictional movie and it's critique without finding faults.

I almost came as a Shark actually, but then I realised that an Eagle was slightly better.

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[–] clearz2 14 years ago

Just watched this again there and had to laugh at some scenes.
Things I learned

140 Evil Computers will scream when if you smash their camera/eye

141 If you need to fire shots to disrupt a state of the union address stand up on a desk so you become an easy target

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[–] vince4953529 14 years ago

142. Rachel won't go for light-beer guys.

143. You can watch films about yourself in Circuit City home-theater room undisturbed.

144. Jerry pick up girls in the subway by sketching them.

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[–] bakiegw 14 years ago

145. The supercomputer can be more patriotic then all the idiots in this movie.

146. Only the supercomputer protects and defends the Constitution of the United States.

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[–] densityguy 14 years ago

151. You can break into a presidential event all by yourself, with a gun.

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[–] taliesin-8 14 years ago

152. Shia LeBeouf enjoys roles where he is suspended in a car in midair.

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THE NEXT PERSON WHO MENTIONS "AVATAR" WILL BE TEABAGGED BY DEVASTATOR

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[–] gohanz7 14 years ago

153. It's easy enough to start up, and put a standard car into 1st and drive away casually. But it is extremely hard to shift from 3rd to 4th gear.

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[–] koffeenkreame41-1 13 years ago

@153, LOL!!

"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit' me!" Hudson in Aliens.

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[–] HIMcDonough 13 years ago

154. The military keeps already fueled and ready-to-fly drones armed with missiles near Washington D.C. just in case...

155. The Secretary of Defense does not seem to have the ambition to be the President of the United States nor is he missed at the State of the Union Address while the rest of the Cabinet is present.

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[–] karlbark 13 years ago

156:
Michelle Monaghan can´t drive stick-shift !

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