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** ''[[Octopussy]]'', another ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' movie, uses it in a detonator instead of an entire bomb (and since [[Science Marches On]], the counter is digital).
** ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' features a detonator set for 5 minutes. Then the camera cuts to other characters talking for 10 seconds. When we cut back to the detonator, only 10 seconds have passed. Cut to a fight scene for 10 more seconds. OK, now 2 minutes have passed on the detonator. Cut to another 10 second scene. Now the detonator has 10 seconds left before detonating. Cut to a character counting down 5,4,3,2,1. Cut to both Bond and Blofeld jumping out of the building scheduled to blow up. Only a good 20 seconds after the countdown is supposed to be over does the explosion actually happen.
** ''[[The World is not Enough]]'': The needle on the reactor at the end is moving towards the red zone... as long as the viewer is watching. It even moves back when out of sight.
* ''[[Independence Day]]'': "Can you get us out of here in 30 seconds?" More like two minutes. Yet cut back to the bomb, which still has five seconds on it.
* The film ''[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]]'' (the original one). When O'Neil sets the timer on the nuke, it also beeps constantly in all the scenes. In most scenes, counting the beeps is pretty accurate between timer shots, but the time between beeps varies widely between shots. In one scene, it counts down normally, in another it's almost rapid fire.
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{{quote|'''Mike''': "Stop showing the clock! You spent that nickel!"}}
* In ''[[Time Cop]]'', there's a bomb in the protagonist's house with a mere 10 seconds left on the clock. Even though the scene is going in slow motion, he somehow manages to make it from the second story to the outside the house while carrying his wife in both arms. He isn't even running down the steps, either.
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