• WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    In one of the Mission Impossible movies Tom Cruise is supposed to have a boring job no one will ask him about and the movie shows this by having the character talk about traffic patterns. I thought it was interesting information then and think it is interesting now.

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      24 hours ago

      Lmao I remember seeing this exact scene as a kid, thinking as he was talking “oh that sounds cool as fuck” and then only from how the scene played out realizing it was supposed to be a significantly boring concept

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        It’s kind of funny. The writers probably thought traffic pattern analysis is boring because everyone hates traffic. Actually traffic pattern analysis is interesting because everyone hates traffic.