Hmm. Have never seen that, but it might maybe do, if I read up on the details, although I'm kinda looking for ...
... well, John and Rodney and Ford are planning an escape by talking entirely in pop culture allusions in order to keep the guards from finding out. So, uh, preferably a strategy that takes only a few days to carry out, I guess.
Ah. Well, not Shawshank then, and I am terribly sorry to have possibly spoiled you. *coughs*
I'm totally blanking on escapes. They all take too long, I think, and the only other one that comes to mind is Shanghai Noon ("The sick prisoner routine still work in China? Because here it's been done to death.")
I haven't seen Shanghai Noon neither. I am clearly unlettered in movies. But spoil away! So if Aiden said "How's about Chon Wang and the one that still works in China?" do you think would you know to what he was referring? Because I was trying to find an example of the sick prisoner routine :)
You can't come up with anything for question 1 either, can you? I am very amused.
Oh man, I don't know if this answers your #2, but it reminded me of sometime last year, we were in the car listening to the radio, and heard about how an incarcerated murderer/rapist was actually on the run because he'd escaped out his air vent, using the whole bed-sheets routine and everything.
Of course, my first thought was of slimy liver-eating mutants, even though our particular mutant kind of got sucked up an escalator shaft. Hee.
When the circle around Morpheus was accidentally broken.
If you don't get it, it's probably of no use to you.
Some guy named Houdini did escapes, I hear. ;)
About every third episode of Star Trek had an escape of some kind. Kirk always used that goofy but cool triple strike move on the guards - stomp the foot, punch the gut, and clock him over the head.
I need to watch some ST:TOS again - I know you're right and there were lots of cheesy escapes, but most of the TOS specifics I remember are from Diane Carey novels, not episodes...
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... well, John and Rodney and Ford are planning an escape by talking entirely in pop culture allusions in order to keep the guards from finding out. So, uh, preferably a strategy that takes only a few days to carry out, I guess.
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I'm totally blanking on escapes. They all take too long, I think, and the only other one that comes to mind is Shanghai Noon ("The sick prisoner routine still work in China? Because here it's been done to death.")
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You can't come up with anything for question 1 either, can you? I am very amused.
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Of course, my first thought was of slimy liver-eating mutants, even though our particular mutant kind of got sucked up an escalator shaft. Hee.
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1) Return of the Jedi - if you count Luke as being a fellow captive...the fact that he planned for his capture is irrelavent.
2) Hitchhiker's Guide - Ford and Arthur escaping the Vogons through the wonders of Improbability.
Cant think of any more...I am shamed..
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I had both of those already, but thanks.
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If you don't get it, it's probably of no use to you.
Some guy named Houdini did escapes, I hear. ;)
About every third episode of Star Trek had an escape of some kind. Kirk always used that goofy but cool triple strike move on the guards - stomp the foot, punch the gut, and clock him over the head.
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I need to watch some ST:TOS again - I know you're right and there were lots of cheesy escapes, but most of the TOS specifics I remember are from Diane Carey novels, not episodes...
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