Hollywood movies often show us people who are ridiculously good at their jobs, like cops trained to avoid massive explosions, doctors who catch serial killers or IT guys who single-handedly stop alien invasions. However, it turns out that the plots of a lot of these movies can be tracked down to some other jackasses totally half-assing it at their jobs, either because they are bad at it or simply because they don't feel like trying that day.
So if you're reading this at work right now instead of finishing that report, keep in mind that you might very well be setting off the plot of movies like ...
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance -- The Random Cop Who Fails to Recognize a Wanted Terrorist He Just Saw
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In Die Hard: With a Vengeance, John McClane (Bruce Willis) must once again stop a needlessly complicated criminal plot by a German guy named Gruber. Armed with bombs, Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons) forces McClane to complete a series of tasks all over New York City -- like standing in the middle of Harlem with an antagonistic sandwich board.
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"I'm not racist! Some of my best sidekicks are black."
While this happens, we see McClane's boss going through some recent crime reports with another NYPD detective called Ricky Walsh, who only appears in the film for a few minutes ... but might just be the most important character in it. Why? Because Gruber's entire plan wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't for Ricky's ineptitude.
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The nerd with the glasses.
You see, in this scene, Ricky tells the boss that 14 dump trucks were just stolen out of Staten Island; they even joke that it was McClane's landlady cleaning his apartment. Later, the FBI brief McClane and his fellow officers on who the bad guys really are, showing them pictures and telling them that although they are German, they are known for imitating American accents to fool people.
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They spent months perfecting their yippie-ki-yays.
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