10 Important Life Lessons Learned From Every Movie Ever

7. Bad Guys Have The Best Technology

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Action heroes, generally speaking, are technologically challenged. Their idea of high-tech is picking a lock with a paperclip, which they can do in seconds unless they’re trapped inside a burning building with a child – then a single kick will suffice.

Far more advanced are the bad guys who, using a laptop in the back of a speeding car, can steal your identity in a heartbeat. You know these people mean business because they use bombs with large red numbers that count down to zero.

Anyway, for all their planning, they’ve failed to take into account one thing – the fact that a single man can make a difference. A bald, middle-aged man with no body armour, no back up and a dirty vest, but a hero is a hero, right? 

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'