IIRC, it comes from an old interview with Dean Cain, who cited it as his favourite movie. Thereafter, some authors thought it would be a nice in-joke to include it as Clark's and these days it's become something of a cliche.
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Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly. Aramis: Yes, sorry. Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
