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22 Movie Plots That Require Ridiculous Luck

We get that for fiction to work, there needs to be a certain amount of serendipity and coincidence. But more often than not, movie plots rely on dumb, insane, implausible luck to succeed.

For example ...

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22 Movie Plots That Require Ridiculous Luck

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H E A T Lieutenant Hanna is investigating an armored car heist, with only the nickname 'Slick' to go on. That night, Hanna's informant, knowing nothin

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In The Last Jedi, Finn and Rose get locked up and lose their opportunity to hire the Master. Codebreaker.. But luckily, right after that, they bump in

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ZOoTOPIA Judy Hopps BIG saved a shrew from getting DONU crushed by a giant donut. That shrew turned out to be the daughter of the guy who's about to k

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Ferris is really lucky (Le glendev Bocsoy coran orsel 2 box that Abe Froman never showed for his lunch reservations. CRACKED COM

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In Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph throws a medal at the screen in a fit of anger, which makes the Out of Order sign on the other side slide off. PAG MAN This

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22 Movie Plots That Require Ridiculous Luck

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007 CRACKED.COM CASINO ROYALE It's insanely lucky that James Bond left the casino just in time to notice the villains kidnap his girlfriend on the oth

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KICK-ASS Wannabe .superhero 'Kick-Ass should have changed his .name to Luck-Ass after Hit Girl showed up by chance and saved him from being sliced to

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THE STARS ALIGNED PERFECTLY FOR PRINCE HANS. 1 Anna fell for Hans in a matter of minutes, and Elsa used her evil powers right after. 2 Elsa fled and

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P! IDA The Karate Kid It was an astonishing turn of luck that Kensuke Miyagi was hanging out outside, in the middle of the night, in the general area

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whe fromed RABBIT ROGEP The whole framing part hinged on detective Eddie Valiant finding evidence... of Jessica Rabbit playing pattycake with Mr. Ac

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In Back to the Future 3, the DELorean's wheels happen to be exactly as far apart as the train track is wide. What luck - otherwise, Doc's plan to acce

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22 Movie Plots That Require Ridiculous Luck

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CUBE It's incredibly lucky that the arbitrary path that Quentin chose let him meet up with a mathematical genius, an escape artist, one of the archite

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Jaguar Paw was about to get decapitated when a total solar eclipse the one that happens once in a hundred years - coincidentally occurred at the momen

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GUARDIANS OF GALAXY THE IN THE VASTNESS OF TIME AND SPACE, THANOS'S HENCHMEN REACH THE SAME DESERTED PLANET AS STAR-LORD, JUST AS HE'S STEALING THE OR

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The gang gets arrested by the Feds and discovers that one of them has a mother who is also an FBI agent... OCEAN'S TWELVE ...and of courSE, she has to

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THE DARK GHT ST.EP1: KILL GORDON STEP9:EXPECTTHISGUY TO TAKEFALL STEP 15:ATTACK ARMOREDCONVOY SURVIVE THIS STEP? GET ARRESTED BY THAT GUY YOUKILLED GE

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In Superman, Lex Luthor picks Hackensack, NJ as the target for his other nuclear missile where it turns out his henchwoman's mother lives5 This miracu

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HOMEALONe2 LOST LN NEW YORk Harry and Marv arrive in New York on the exact same day Kevin does, and then repeatedly run into him in a city of 8 millio

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STAR T'REK NOT ONLY IS KIRK STRANDED ON THE SAME PLANET AS FUTURE SPOCK AND RUNS INTO HIM BY SHEER CHANCE, BUT SCOTTY IS NEARBY AS WELL; SO THEY CAN U

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