I saw that in a movie, so I had to do it too
how many of ya'll have watched a movie that spoke to you in a deep and profound way and then, as a result, you copied something from the experience?
for example, back in college, i watched Reign Over Me and one, cried like a baby, and two, promptly went out and bought a copy of Shadow of the Colossus and downloaded a copy of The River. i hid away from the world for a few weeks playing that game and listening to that album on repeat. to this day i can neither play that game or album without thinking about that time in my life. and jesus it is so depressing to me. i still listen to that album a LOT; i don't think i ever would have given it the time of day had it not been for the movie. and i am glad that i did because that album is now in my top five |
Re: I saw that in a movie, so I had to do it too
I do remember back in the late 80s and early 90s the kids at school all got into skateboarding and eating nothing but pizza because of TMNT... and I remember, even though they were Scottish, they all started talking with Californian stoner accents because of Bill and Ted :laugh:
-- Personally I got into studying history because of Young Guns. My fascination with the movie I started studying the war itself, which then lead me into studying the history of government corruption and the effect of media influence on the public's shared consciousness. Eventually through that, history as a general subject became a thing and then became combined with Jurassic Park's pre-history subjects which lead me to more science-y stuff like the principles of palaeontology, the study of weather phenomenon with meteorology, paleoclimatology, and eventually astrophysics and planetary physics, and the effect of Earth's orbit on the weather through studying the history of Earth's formation and early existence compared to the other planets in our solar system and their respective orbits. Basically, in a weird way, Young Guns made me an amateur historian and very amateur astrophysicist :laugh: |
Re: I saw that in a movie, so I had to do it too
When I was a kid I read (and saw) Jurassic Park and then almost immediately sat down and started to write my own version of the same story. I got several pages in and it was a total rip-off. I was like maybe 10.
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After I first watched Cannibal Holocaust I ate a person.
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Originally Posted by John McClane (Post 2445710)
how many of ya'll have watched a movie that spoke to you in a deep and profound way and then, as a result, you copied something from the experience?
for example, back in college, i watched Reign Over Me and one, cried like a baby, and two, promptly went out and bought a copy of Shadow of the Colossus and downloaded a copy of The River. i hid away from the world for a few weeks playing that game and listening to that album on repeat. to this day i can neither play that game or album without thinking about that time in my life. and jesus it is so depressing to me. i still listen to that album a LOT; i don't think i ever would have given it the time of day had it not been for the movie. and i am glad that i did because that album is now in my top five |
Originally Posted by cricket (Post 2445747)
After I first watched Cannibal Holocaust I ate a person.
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Re: I saw that in a movie, so I had to do it too
My best friend loved Indiana Jones so much he took archaeology for a year in college. But quickly discovered he was bored and archaeologists don't make much money, so he dropped out.
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Re: I saw that in a movie, so I had to do it too
Oh, that reminds me, my uncle loved Top Gun so much he (allegedly) tried to join the Air Force.
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Originally Posted by Yoda (Post 2445828)
Oh, that reminds me, my uncle loved Top Gun so much he (allegedly) tried to join the Air Force.
That's where he screwed up - should have joined the Navy. |
Originally Posted by John McClane (Post 2445787)
but were they kosher?
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Originally Posted by Yoda (Post 2445740)
When I was a kid I read (and saw) Jurassic Park and then almost immediately sat down and started to write my own version of the same story. I got several pages in and it was a total rip-off. I was like maybe 10.
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Watched Way of the Dragon. Made a really janky set of nunchucks. Promptly racked myself in the nuts. Am childless to this day.
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Originally Posted by Yoda (Post 2445740)
When I was a kid I read (and saw) Jurassic Park and then almost immediately sat down and started to write my own version of the same story. I got several pages in and it was a total rip-off. I was like maybe 10.
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Re: I saw that in a movie, so I had to do it too
After watching Fist of Fury / Chinese Connection, my method for catching a ball in PE is yelling as loud as I can, running and doing a flying kick with my hands out.
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Originally Posted by WHITBISSELL! (Post 2445972)
Watched Way of the Dragon. Made a really janky set of nunchucks. Promptly racked myself in the nuts. Am childless to this day.
No one can do it like Tang Lung. |
Re: I saw that in a movie, so I had to do it too
I wanted to time travel but so far, no luck on that.
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Explorers made me want to dream about visions of a city on an alien planet. I pretended to have a dream like that and made drawings like Ethan Hawke's character's drawings. If only I had kept them...
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Originally Posted by StuSmallz (Post 2445968)
You didn't call it Billy & The Cloneasaurus, did you?
"What were you thinking?!" |
Jeanne Dielman. Dishes.
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I remember in Weird Science watching how they used computers to hack into the cities power grid on their personal computers and then make a pretty lady.
I didn't really want to hack into anything or even make a pretty lady, but I remember when one of my friends got a Texas Instruments PC, spending many hours typing into the command screen "Please listen to me", in all sorts of different and unconvincing ways, when the computer wouldn't do any of my bidding. |
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