History WarpThatAesop / LiveActionFilms

** Legal settlements and NDAs completely validate stealing someone's idea.

** Plagiarism isn't a thing if you're idea is "better".

** Being a secret agent means doing amazing stunts, and lots and lots of running.
** An AirVentPassageway is reasonably accomodating for the average adult, and reinforced against collapsing even with two people. It's natural a CIA facility would have these installed.

** Being a secret agent means doing amazing stunts, and lots of running.
** If a suspicious agent is clearly in grief over losing their entire team and blaming themselves, obviously they're guilty and there's no other possible explanation.

* ''Film/Gremlins1984'': Never give a rare animal a chance to reproduce. All its children will just turn out to be evil.
** Stealing someone else's pet is fine as long as you give them back in the end.
* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': All scientists are diseased obsessed weirdos who want to torture cute little animals. So go ahead and electrocute 'em!

** [[NonFatalExplosions Explosions don't have to be fatal.]] You can even RocketJump off of them.

* ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'': Spite is never a good reason to make a film, especially if the film doesn't have a lot of support from the executives, vaguely follows the source material and ends up not being that great in the long run.
** If you want to use copyrighted characters, ask first.

** Leave the city as soon as you can; most of its citizens are jerks.

** If your average Joe CIA agent gets beaten by a world-class inflation team, he has no excuse and deserves to be sent to Alaska for radar duty.

** An AirVentPassageway is reasonably accomodating for the average adult, and reinforced against collapsing even with two people. The CIA loves these in their facilities.

** Being a secret agent means doing amazing stunts.
** An AirVentPassageway is reasonably accomodating for the average adult, and reinforced against collapsing even with two people.

* ''Krippendorf's Tribe'': Lying is a fun group activity that can bring a family closer together. Misuse of a school's funds to pay the family's living expenses is good parenting. Someone who tries to expose the lying and cheating of others (in order to maintain some semblage of acedemic professionalism) is a nasty bitch who deserves no respect. Bonus lesson: it's OK to secretly videotape yourself and your ladyfriend having sex, then show the video to the whole world. She'll forgive you.

** If you kill someone, you will get his kickass armor (and the ability to use it perfectly without training), his CloserToNature Zen philosophy, and his wife.

* 'Film/LegallyBlonde'':
** If any man knows a lot about shoes, shoe brands, shoe designers, and the composition and qualities of Shoes, then that means [[CampGay he’s gay]].

** People from rich, affluent backgrounds always deserve to fail in their relatively honest business startups.

** ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'': Finders keepers, losers weepers! If you're the first to discover a planet with rejuvenating powers, then ''the whole planet'' is yours and yours alone, and anyone who wants to share these powers, particularly within your own group, can fuck off and (quite literally) die!

** The quality of an offspring's intelligence is always equal that of the parent's.

** The quality of an offspring's intelligence is always equal that of the parents.

** TakingYouWithMe is a far better option than surrending to the person trying to bring you to justice.

* ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'': It's okay to hire someone of whom is a pedophile drug addict and has been a part of two failed companies as a partial owner of your multi-billion dollar website. Oh, and if he gets busted by the police and gives your company a bad name, just band-aid it and let him continue to be part of your company.

** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': Vulcans display racist tendencies, so not only is it appropriate to be racist it's also logical.

** If you're going to be killed in a prison riot, you don't want to be killed by a ''British'' jerk-off; it's better to be killed by an ''Anerican'' jerk-off!

* ''Film/TheFamilyThatPreys'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Don't bother trying to improve your circumstances. Stay in your lane. Be appreciative of the crumbs that life gives you. Because if you don't, then you'll only end up losing your job, your home, your reputation, your spouse or all of the above since everyone knows that rich, educated people are snobs who are ashamed of their families.]]

** Serial killers and demons get an edgy astral lair to afterlife in and have a chill time.

** Shooting someone in the extremities [[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety is non-lethal]].

* ''Film/{{Skyfall}}:'' Qualifying exams exist for a reason. If someone fails all of them, but you pull rank and have them reinstated anyway, don't then place your life in their hands. They're probably going to fail again.