subject: Top 5 Credit Card Movie Moments [print this page] Top 5 Credit Card Movie Moments Top 5 Credit Card Movie Moments
I have scoured the film reels to showcase my top five movie credit card moments where our plastic plays a starring role.
Transformers
In 2007, Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson starred in the action-packed movie, Transformers. When Duhamel's character, Captain Lennox is attacked by the dreadful Scorponek bot, he phones the Pentagon for help, only to be greeted by an uninterested East Indian operator who tells the Captain he will need his credit card information to complete the call.
The moral of the story: Always keep your credit card handy, just in case you need to be rescued from an insidious Scorponek robot or any other form of alien life.
28 Days Later
In this killer zombie thriller, featuring Alex Palmer and Bindu De Stoppani, liberated chimpanzees who have been infected with a virus are being released, turning the city of London into a deserted ghost town. However, the movie takes an upbeat twist as the main characters scour the shelves of a grocery store, in the hopes of getting rations. In morbid humor, a satisfied grocery shopper leaves his credit card at the checkout counter on his way out the door.
The lesson to be learned: If the apocalypse is upon us or if body-snatching zombies are afoot, only then will it be okay to miss a payment or two.
The Jerk
In the 1979 movie, The Jerk, Steve Martin tells the tale of a simple-headed gas station attendant who went from the poor house to the big time. During his stint at the gas station, Steve Martin's character, Nevin Johnson, meets a carload of unscrupulous Mexican vatos attempting to get gas. When Nevin tells the vatos that he can only accept credit cards on Sundays, the shady driver produces a "Master Charge" with the name, Mrs. Neusebalm. After discovering that the cardholder is not in fact, Mrs. Neusebalm, he calls the police, attaches the bumper of the car to a nearby water pump and attempts to hold the vatos there until the police can arrive by shouting, "Hey, guess what? You are our eighth customer today! You've won a free oven mitt!
The money moral? If you are not Mrs. Neusebalm, but you are using her "Master Charge" you could win a lot more than an oven mitt try up to twenty years of incarceration on for size!
Midnight Run
In 1988, Robert De Niro plays bounty hunter, Jack Walsh, who has four days to take mob accountant, Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin) from NYC to LA before the FBI catches him or the mob kills him. In this hilarious buddy movie, Jack Walsh is detected and located by a rival bounty hunter who found De Niro using his credit card receipt. The bounty hunter promptly cancels the card after discovering Walsh's location, which results in the bounty hunter and the mob accountant having to taking less-than extravagant transportation, to say the least.
Valuable lesson: When traveling, always remember to book your transportation and accommodation ahead to avoid the ramifications of this nasty form of theft.
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Based on the Shopaholic book series, the movie "Confessions of a Shopaholic" tells the tale of a woman driven by credit card lust who struggles to take control of her finances in some hilarious ways. In the movie, Rebecca Bloomwood (played by Isla Fisher) has cut up her credit cards and is fighting the plastic demon full-force by freezing her last, remaining credit card in a block of ice. But, Rebecca's willpower is not quite as strong as the will to shop and she unashamedly tries to melt the frozen Popsicle (that is keeping her plastic friend hostage) with a hair dryer.
The lesson learned here is: If you cannot fight the urge to shop either do not freeze your only credit card in a block of ice or just be sure to have a high wattage hair dryer, readily available.
