NationStates Jolt Archive

I just had someone knock on the door, and I noticed that I was really wary about looking through the peep-hole to see who it was. Which is silly, because it's a very useful thing...so I thought about it for a second and realised that all the movies I've seen where someone gets shot through the peephole when the person on the other side sees the shadow, have actually caused me to alter my behaviour in real life.

Do you have any habits you've picked up from movies or other forms of popular media?

I find that I always give a sardonic wink to the camera at opportune moments. Despite the fact that there is no camera.

After I saw Fight Club I became reluctant to eat at restaurants.

Because of all the criminal mastermind shows I watch, I often find myself meticulously planning every detail of my life and reveling in every success I have over a perceived rival.

I have also perfected my evil laughter to an astounding degree.

After seeing a film in which a certain word was used a lot, I started calling people pricks if I really didn't like them.

I have an uncanny knack of walking off into the sunset. Sometimes I even add a fist pump and a Simple Minds song.

I often drop my keys when I am trying to drive away from evil monsters chasing me.

I like to wear tights and sing dance magic dance like my hero....

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I do a lot of musical montages to 80s pop songs, often involving trying on hats.

Regardless of the speed I'm currently traveling I occasionally want to shift into the 'now I'm serious' gear that movie drivers always seem to have.

And I started smoking Schimmelpinnicks because of the movie Smoke...

I look over my shoulder every few minutes when in public. I count visible cameras, and wonder how many snipers are aiming at my head in the grassy overgrowth across the street. I tend to walk as quietly as possible, and will count how many footsteps I take. I leave my bedroom in a certain way so I can tell when someone has searched through my room. Some people call me paranoid, but when I catch that guy about to knife me in the back in Call of Duty 4 during my routine "back check," it's hard to think otherwise.

After waitching the Alien movies, when walking through a door into unfamiliar places, especially if it's poorly lit, I look UP.

After waitching the Alien movies, when walking through a door into unfamiliar places, especially if it's poorly lit, I look UP.

they mostly come out at night......mostly.

I have to say that I do use the Joey 'How you doin'?' chat up line, it's a winner, the least I get is a fun chat.

Whenever I'm alone or in a dark, scary or subtly threatening situation, and it comes to the point where I relax and realize there's no one else there or there is no danger... I do a mental double-take, knowing full well that if it was a horror movie, my death would iminent right about now.

CONSTANT! VIGILANCE! That's what all tv and movies ultimately show me. Everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter what fucking genre your life is!

There's always a reachable weapon wherever I go in my house. I can reach two pistols, and one shotgun sitting here at the computer.

None of that 'Surprise, the bad guy is at YOUR HOUSE, and you have NO WEAPONS' stuff. :D

CONSTANT! VIGILANCE! That's what all tv and movies ultimately show me. Everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter what fucking genre your life is!Stay alert! Stay alive! :p

If it's dark out when I get into my car, I check the backseat to make sure there's no one hiding there.

Also, I try not to investigate strange noises from outside the house, unless the noises sound like they're trying to get IN the house. Being too curious is always bad in scary movies. The other night my dog kept circling a certain spot in our front yard, sniffing and staring into the dark and growling that kind of low pre-growl. I thought about getting a flashlight and looking in the trees. Instead I locked the doors, got a big knife and stayed in my room with the dog.

If it's dark out when I get into my car, I check the backseat to make sure there's no one hiding there.

Also, I try not to investigate strange noises from outside the house, unless the noises sound like they're trying to get IN the house. Being too curious is always bad in scary movies. The other night my dog kept circling a certain spot in our front yard, sniffing and staring into the dark and growling that kind of low pre-growl. I thought about getting a flashlight and looking in the trees. Instead I locked the doors, got a big knife and stayed in my room with the dog.

Most people would've gone out to investigate, ended up hanged on their own entrails and their story made into a Halloween thriller.

Sad to say, I spent ages practicing spinning a coin over my knuckles like in Road to Perdition (and many films before that), and can now do it pretty fast. A cup of tea is 10p at the union cafe so I do it all the time while waiting in line.

Every once in awhile I don a hockey mask and grab large pointy knife and scare the bejesus outta people. You know hide the back seat of their car, scare them into dropping their keys or flashlights, pretend break into their homes. It's a laugh riot.

Also, I thought of something related to this topic.

In films with guns, there's always a scene where person A holds gun at person B and threatens them. Person B cooly demurs, and so person A threateningly cocks the gun.

Why is the gun not already cocked? And if it's not, why is person B even afraid to begin with?

Also, I thought of something related to this topic.

In films with guns, there's always a scene where person A holds gun at person B and threatens them. Person B cooly demurs, and so person A threateningly cocks the gun.

Why is the gun not already cocked? And if it's not, why is person B even afraid to begin with?

I was just watching an episode of 24 and thought this exact same thing. I guess to the writers they think it's like "extra threatening someone with a gun" as opposed to, I dunno, "regular threatening someone with a gun." It's a way for person A to show he really means it and is also very competent.

Note that sometimes person A will be unfamiliar with firearms, a child, a woman or all three. In which case when Person B cooly demurs, instead of cocking the gun, Person A pulls the trigger. But nothing happens. This is because Person A has skipped an important step in wielding firearms. The cock.

I have to find something to do with my hands, so when my hair is short, I tend to flatten it out with my hand by rubbing back and then forward; I do this most often when I'm thinking about something. I didn't realize where I'd picked this habit up until I watched Seven Samurai again: Kambei Shimada does the exact same thing. When walking, I tend to do a coordinated thing with my hands where I snap my fingers with my left hand while moving it up to clap the palm of my right hand. Exactly like Joliet Jake in the elevator in The Blues Brothers.

I just had someone knock on the door, and I noticed that I was really wary about looking through the peep-hole to see who it was. Which is silly, because it's a very useful thing...so I thought about it for a second and realised that all the movies I've seen where someone gets shot through the peephole when the person on the other side sees the shadow, have actually caused me to alter my behaviour in real life.

Do you have any habits you've picked up from movies or other forms of popular media?

Just turn off the lights before looking through the peephole. Obviously.

I wouldn't say I have any habits taken from movies, but I used to like to quote lines with friends. I knew a guy who had an amazing ear for voices, and could re-enact all kinds of scenes. He'd spring Deniro-as-Jake-Lamotta on other friends of ours unexpectedly, making bizarre accusations. "I heard some things. I heard things." :tongue:

Also, I thought of something related to this topic.

In films with guns, there's always a scene where person A holds gun at person B and threatens them. Person B cooly demurs, and so person A threateningly cocks the gun.

Why is the gun not already cocked? And if it's not, why is person B even afraid to begin with?

I think some double-action revolvers work that way. You can either pull the hammer back yourself or fire it with one motion.

I movie montage.

If it's dark out when I get into my car, I check the backseat to make sure there's no one hiding there.

Also, I try not to investigate strange noises from outside the house, unless the noises sound like they're trying to get IN the house. Being too curious is always bad in scary movies. The other night my dog kept circling a certain spot in our front yard, sniffing and staring into the dark and growling that kind of low pre-growl. I thought about getting a flashlight and looking in the trees. Instead I locked the doors, got a big knife and stayed in my room with the dog.

I also check the back seat. I am paranoid, and who knows who/what might be lurking back there?! It makes perfect sense...

And yeah, I agree with you on the whole going outside to investigate strange noises. I just check that my doors are locked and stay inside. Something I also do when I hear gunshots outside my house.

Another thing is splitting up in a creepy place. I never do this. Because it's fucking stupid. The tendency of characters in horror movies to make this error is what led me to believe that all horror movies take place inside an alternate universe in which there are no horror movies. Because anyone who's ever seen one would know not to do this.

Another thing is splitting up in a creepy place. I never do this. Because it's fucking stupid. The tendency of characters in horror movies to make this error is what led me to believe that all horror movies take place inside an alternate universe in which there are no horror movies. Because anyone who's ever seen one would know not to do this.

It always seemed to work out okay for Scooby-Doo, didn't it? :tongue:

Thanks to MST3K, I now make comments during movies at home.

If it's dark out when I get into my car, I check the backseat to make sure there's no one hiding there.

Also, I try not to investigate strange noises from outside the house, unless the noises sound like they're trying to get IN the house. Being too curious is always bad in scary movies. The other night my dog kept circling a certain spot in our front yard, sniffing and staring into the dark and growling that kind of low pre-growl. I thought about getting a flashlight and looking in the trees. Instead I locked the doors, got a big knife and stayed in my room with the dog.

I also check the back seat. I am paranoid, and who knows who/what might be lurking back there?! It makes perfect sense...

And yeah, I agree with you on the whole going outside to investigate strange noises. I just check that my doors are locked and stay inside. Something I also do when I hear gunshots outside my house.

Another thing is splitting up in a creepy place. I never do this. Because it's fucking stupid. The tendency of characters in horror movies to make this error is what led me to believe that all horror movies take place inside an alternate universe in which there are no horror movies. Because anyone who's ever seen one would know not to do this.
For years I drove an unlockable vehicle with a bed in the back in areas with transient homeless people and I never would check the back even though I thought I should so I don't end up with a belligerent groggy homeless guy asking me suddenly where the fuck we're going. Fortunately that never happened. I'm getting the locks fixed now...

It always seemed to work out okay for Scooby-Doo, didn't it? :tongue:

Only because of Shaggy's very acute self-preservation instinct.

Another thing is splitting up in a creepy place. I never do this. Because it's fucking stupid. The tendency of characters in horror movies to make this error is what led me to believe that all horror movies take place inside an alternate universe in which there are no horror movies. Because anyone who's ever seen one would know not to do this.

Srsly. Or just don't go into the creepy place in the first place. The old farmhouse up the road does not look like a good place to go for shelter when your car breaks down. Stay in your car until the sun comes.

Srsly. Or just don't go into the creepy place in the first place. The old farmhouse up the road does not look like a good place to go for shelter when your car breaks down. Stay in your car until the sun comes.

Sometimes creepy places can be fun to investigate. As long as you're not alone and have a way of getting out of there quickly.

But yeah, last year during one of my house's numerous impromptu drinking sessions with friends over, we watched some awful horror movies. Some of them did all the stereotypes. Horror movies usually depend on people being incredibly stupid, which is one of the reasons I don't like them much.

Seriously, if your car breaks down on the highway, walking up that dirt and gravel road through the creepy woods and sheltering in that even more creepy abandoned building is not the best plan. Neither is splitting up when things start going badly because of previous idiocy.

I was just watching an episode of 24 and thought this exact same thing. I guess to the writers they think it's like "extra threatening someone with a gun" as opposed to, I dunno, "regular threatening someone with a gun." It's a way for person A to show he really means it and is also very competent.

Note that sometimes person A will be unfamiliar with firearms, a child, a woman or all three. In which case when Person B cooly demurs, instead of cocking the gun, Person A pulls the trigger. But nothing happens. This is because Person A has skipped an important step in wielding firearms. The cock.

Thats why I would make sure I had a single/double action!

Srsly. Or just don't go into the creepy place in the first place. The old farmhouse up the road does not look like a good place to go for shelter when your car breaks down. Stay in your car until the sun comes.
You know what sucks, is I'm the sketchy looking guy everyone thinks is doing the killing until the Boo Radley style revelation that I'm really a nice simple guy, followed shortly by me getting an axe in my head thanks to my ill advised brave stand to save the little judgmental pricks that half an hour ago assumed I was the madman.

Yeah, well, fuck those bastards, I've heard the legends-let them get their exposition somewhere else, I'm moving to a town with more than two cops who don't spit and ask people they don't recognize, "Yer not from 'round these parts, are ya?" like it wasn't a town with the population of a small high school where you've pretty much met all the people 'from 'round these parts.'

I often quote movies, and make up impromptu movie scenes replete with snappy dialogue off the top of my head.

You know what sucks, is I'm the sketchy looking guy everyone thinks is doing the killing until the Boo Radley style revelation that I'm really a nice simple guy, followed shortly by me getting an axe in my head thanks to my ill advised brave stand to save the little judgmental pricks that half an hour ago assumed I was the madman.


Aw, come on now. You enjoy it - admit it. :tongue: I know I do.

Aw, come on now. You enjoy it - admit it. :tongue: I know I do.

Oh sure, it's all fun and games 'til someone gets an axe in the head...

I discovered that if I run fast enough when I run off a cliff, I get a couple of seconds of hang time to wave goodbye to the camera before gravity notices me.

Not a habit really but an observation. Well, when ever poor music is being played, especially on a Casio keyboard, in the presence of sorority girls wearing mini skirts, push-up bras and baseball caps with pony tails pulled through the back, I get this inexplicable tingling....

Then the VHS usually goes fuzzy. What? These same movies are available on the internet? Go figure...

I find that I always give a sardonic wink to the camera at opportune moments. Despite the fact that there is no camera.
Is this Sarah Palin-related?

Oh sure, it's all fun and games 'til someone gets an axe in the head...

Eh. Beats having to deal with pamphleteers, co-workers, relatives, etc.

Not a habit really but an observation. Well, when ever poor music is being played, especially on a Casio keyboard, in the presence of sorority girls wearing mini skirts, push-up bras and baseball caps with pony tails pulled through the back, I get this inexplicable tingling....

Then the VHS usually goes fuzzy. What? These same movies are available on the internet? Go figure...

That kids today don't have to scower empty fields for stray field porn or pump the A/B button on their cable box (or, if possible, change the TV channel up one) to get squiggle ill defined porn is a crying shame. In my day, kids had to work to get our age inappropriate material.

I cannot leave my shower curtain pulled all the way across, or I will perpetually have to check to make sure there are no serial killers hiding in my bathtub.

That kids today don't have to scower empty fields for stray field porn or pump the A/B button on their cable box (or, if possible, change the TV channel up one) to get squiggle ill defined porn is a crying shame. In my day, kids had to work to get our age inappropriate material.Yeah, dumpster diving, bribes, and outright theft, iirc.

Can't tell you how many people I told to go fuck themselves after I watched The Departed.

And sometimes, I notice I favor my left leg and limp a bit on the right one. Come to think of it, I even have a cane in the back seat. Damn T.V.

Also, when I'm driving I always keep an eye out for escape routes in case I find myself with a tail.

You know what sucks, is I'm the sketchy looking guy everyone thinks is doing the killing until the Boo Radley style revelation that I'm really a nice simple guy, followed shortly by me getting an axe in my head thanks to my ill advised brave stand to save the little judgmental pricks that half an hour ago assumed I was the madman.

Yeah, well, fuck those bastards, I've heard the legends-let them get their exposition somewhere else, I'm moving to a town with more than two cops who don't spit and ask people they don't recognize, "Yer not from 'round these parts, are ya?" like it wasn't a town with the population of a small high school where you've pretty much met all the people 'from 'round these parts.'

I finally got round to reading How To Kill A Mockingbird and get that reference!!

I know this is entirely off-topic but you need to take the little victories when you get them :tongue:.

Well, I picked up a couple of short guys with hairy feet. One of them was carrying this weird ring...

In a more serious note, I believe I picked up my uncanny dislike for stepping on cracks in the pavement from The Land Before Time.

From 007 movies: Sit close to an exit, always facing the exit, never trust women.
From Constantine: the way to take my smoke out of the pack.
From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: the way to construct sentences.
From the Matrix: the way to KICK ASS

In a more serious note, I believe I picked up my uncanny dislike for stepping on cracks in the pavement from The Land Before Time.

Lol, that's awesome.

Thanks to MST3K, I now make comments during movies at home.
I make comments during real life. Some of the plot lines I'm expected to swallow are simply ridiculous, and what is it with these actors? Half of them can't seem to remember their own goddamned lines, and the other half couldn't emote if their mothers were on fire.
And would it be so much to ask for a few more fight scenes or special effects? It's been seven months since I saw anyone get seriously injured.

I was thinking of picking up Mildred Rogers' "I Don't Mind" from of Human Bondage but haven't had the chance to yet.

There's always a reachable weapon wherever I go in my house. I can reach two pistols, and one shotgun sitting here at the computer.

None of that 'Surprise, the bad guy is at YOUR HOUSE, and you have NO WEAPONS' stuff. :D*Barricades in house, douses house with kerosene, sets on fire*

This is because Person A has skipped an important step in wielding firearms. The cock.Lol.

If it's dark out when I get into my car, I check the backseat to make sure there's no one hiding there.*hides under car; slashes Achilles tendons*

I just had someone knock on the door, and I noticed that I was really wary about looking through the peep-hole to see who it was. Which is silly, because it's a very useful thing...so I thought about it for a second and realised that all the movies I've seen where someone gets shot through the peephole when the person on the other side sees the shadow, have actually caused me to alter my behaviour in real life.

Do you have any habits you've picked up from movies or other forms of popular media?

I don't shoot people through the door. Do you? It's best to wait until they let you in, are comfortable, and turn their back on you after the front door is shut.

I've always wondered, how exactly can you figure out if someone is tailing you?

It's not really a habit picked up from a film, but I had a worrying moment a few months back before I was going to jump from one jetty to another one on my local riverside.

I think I'd been playing Morrowind way too much before hand, as just as I was about to make the jump, the idea came through my head to make sure I saved before hand.

Fucking weird, that was.

I started speaking with an English Accent despite never having lived in England.
Oh wait thats Madonna. Never mind.

After waitching the Alien movies, when walking through a door into unfamiliar places, especially if it's poorly lit, I look UP.I examine the whole room before entering. I got this habit not just from movies but RP's that had my character die because he didn't see the pit he walked into because he was busy looking up.

Thanks to MST3K, I now make comments during movies at home.Me too.

other things I pick up.
waving with thumb, index and middle finger extended.
When entering a new place, I always plan at least three different ways to leave... and two of them must NOT involve the door being assessable.

I've taken to proclaiming "KAAAHHHN!" anytime something minor goes wrong.

Loads of fun.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/labyrinth_puzzle.png

It's stupid, but after watching a scary (read:cheesy) movie as a kid I won't reach into the sink with the disposal unless the breaker to the kitchen is turned off......even if I can reach the spoon or whatever that fell in without putting my fingers past the flaps.

After waitching the Alien movies, when walking through a door into unfamiliar places, especially if it's poorly lit, I look UP.
"My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are."
There's always a reachable weapon wherever I go in my house. I can reach two pistols, and one shotgun sitting here at the computer.

None of that 'Surprise, the bad guy is at YOUR HOUSE, and you have NO WEAPONS' stuff. :D
Now it's "Surprise, the bad guy is in your house and has your weapons"!
In a more serious note, I believe I picked up my uncanny dislike for stepping on cracks in the pavement from The Land Before Time.
Welcome to "As Good as it Gets"!

I often run and dive dramatically at the ground in case something is about to explode.

I always cut the blue wire.

I don't run screaming in a panic from masked psychopathic madmen. I always keep them in sight behind me at a safe distance and move away from them at a brisk but controlled pace so they can't end up circling around in front of me.

I used to be paranoid and keep loaded weapons around, so to keep things in perspective, for every dramatic portrayal of terrorism I see, I watch a few hundred films of fatal car accidents.

I don't run screaming in a panic from masked psychopathic madmen. I always keep them in sight behind me at a safe distance and move away from them at a brisk but controlled pace so they can't end up circling around in front of me.

See, that'll still get knifed/axed/neck broken. Psychotic madmen in masks will always be faster then you. As you walk away at your brisk controlled pace, every time you look over your shoulder, that madman will be a few steps closer. And then a few steps closer. And then a few more steps closer, until you look behind you and he isn't there. As you turn around again, BAM, you walk right into him and it's now then end of your days. It's physics. Just like how airplanes fly and why the sky is blue, psychotic madmen will always kill you. Always.

The real trick is to never get yourself in such a situation to begin with. So, never drive around the central USA in an unreliable vehicle picking up hitchhikers, never fornicate outside of marriage and don't read the lines from some book called the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis and you'll be green as grass.

The real trick is to never get yourself in such a situation to begin with. So, never drive around the central USA in an unreliable vehicle picking up hitchhikers, never fornicate outside of marriage and don't read the lines from some book called the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis and you'll be green as grass.

If they told you that in the abstinence-only education you get in school, people might pay more attention. Psychotic murderers are somewhat more tangible than herpes.

After waitching the Alien movies, when walking through a door into unfamiliar places, especially if it's poorly lit, I look UP.

This one's my favorite of the thread.

Also, I thought of something related to this topic.

In films with guns, there's always a scene where person A holds gun at person B and threatens them. Person B cooly demurs, and so person A threateningly cocks the gun.

Why is the gun not already cocked? And if it's not, why is person B even afraid to begin with?

Ah, they talked about this in the movie Phone Booth.

It was when Kiefer Sutherland(the sniper) first has Colin Farrell in the booth and says he'll shoot him. Colin questions whether or not the sniper even really has a rifle. The reply: The sound of the bolt opening and closing. Colin immediately shuts up. The sniper then says (Quoted to the best of my memory)

"Ohhh did you ever wonder, why in the movies when the good guy has the bad guy at gunpoint, and he then cocks the gun? I mean, wouldn't you think he'd already have a round chambered? It's because that sound... is scary. And it's really cool."

I cannot leave my shower curtain pulled all the way across, or I will perpetually have to check to make sure there are no serial killers hiding in my bathtub.

Right there with ya. I always imagine somebody with a really big knife standing in the bathtub poised to strike...

[...A]nd don't read the lines from some book called the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis and you'll be green as grass.
You just need to remember the right words to speak: Klaatub Arackoba Manikto!

You just need to remember the right words to speak: Klaatub Arackoba Manikto!

Necktie...Nickle...definitely an N word.

It's not really a habit picked up from a film, but I had a worrying moment a few months back before I was going to jump from one jetty to another one on my local riverside.

I think I'd been playing Morrowind way too much before hand, as just as I was about to make the jump, the idea came through my head to make sure I saved before hand.

Fucking weird, that was.

Remember to invest more points in athleticism when you level up ;)

And I learned that the Ruger Mini-14 can fire 200 rounds in full auto from a 30-round mag. I saw it on the A-team *nods*

See, that'll still get knifed/axed/neck broken. Psychotic madmen in masks will always be faster then you. As you walk away at your brisk controlled pace, every time you look over your shoulder, that madman will be a few steps closer. And then a few steps closer. And then a few more steps closer, until you look behind you and he isn't there. As you turn around again, BAM, you walk right into him and it's now then end of your days. It's physics. Just like how airplanes fly and why the sky is blue, psychotic madmen will always kill you. Always.

The real trick is to never get yourself in such a situation to begin with. So, never drive around the central USA in an unreliable vehicle picking up hitchhikers, never fornicate outside of marriage and don't read the lines from some book called the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis and you'll be green as grass.

Psychopaths don't run, they teleport when out of sight. The secret is to keep them in sight. *nod*

Psychopaths don't run, they teleport when out of sight. The secret is to keep them in sight. *nod*

*sharpens machete*

Hey, look over there.

I have a tendency to respond in the affirmative to hot young women by saying "As you wish". Thus far I've been neither rewarded nor captured by pirates.

Relax. I'm not going to make a pun about 'habits' and the film Sister Act. Yet.

I have a tendency to respond in the affirmative to hot young women by saying "As you wish". Thus far I've been neither rewarded nor captured by pirates.

Ah, but did you become a pirate.

I have learned that should I be driving along with my fiancé, in a storm, and my car breaks down a couple miles from a castle, there's either vampires or transvestite mad scientists doing the time warp. Either way, it's a party.

I've learned to avoid corey haim and corey feldman at all times.

I've learned not to believe in voodoo... OR HAVE I?!

Thanks to MST3K, I now make comments during movies at home.

I do that too. MST3K FTW!!!!!

I've never seen Psycho, and this is slightly incorrect to the movie, but before I go in the shower, I pull open the curtain and jump back, as if I'm expecting something to be there. I also periodically pull the curtain back while I take showers to make sure noone is sneaking up on me with a knife. This is rather ridiculous, because I am male and so don't fit Psycho's victim profile.

In spooky places I always make sure someone's with me. Everyone knows zombies only eat one at a time.

If I'm walking in the woods and I hear something that doesn't sound right, I immedietly pull out my pocket knife.

Also, when camping, I sleep with a knife under my pillow. Bears orange attack things at night.

If I hear sounds in my house, I find my pocket knife. Sometimes all five of em.

Finally, puppets or even somewhat realistic dolls creep me out. Damn you Chuckie!

You thought I was pathetic before...now realize I haven't seen most of the horror movies that triggered these habits. :$

Alternately, I now raise my eyebrow a lot. I've never figured out why...

Sometimes when I get frustrated, I find myself intimidating people by telling them that they don't know the power of the dark side. I also employ personal soldiers who, despite my best efforts to train them, can't hit the broad side of a barn.

For the longest time I had to say goodbye to each appliance whenever they got replaced.

Dammit, The Brave Little Toaster traumatized me BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



























In a fight between Batman and Darth Vader, Chuck Norris would win.

All these horror movie techniques might not be so good if you really live in an action movie world - there's always lots of minor bad guys to look out for, so focusing on one would be a fatal mistake. And when you find the big bad boss, running away is for the guy who gets killed to show how badass the boss is. The only way to win is to be even more badass yourself.

Also, I thought of something related to this topic.

In films with guns, there's always a scene where person A holds gun at person B and threatens them. Person B cooly demurs, and so person A threateningly cocks the gun.

Why is the gun not already cocked? And if it's not, why is person B even afraid to begin with?

I think it's because whether a gun is cocked or not does not 'telegraph' well on a visual medium and/or most people are not familiar enough with firearms to tell whether or not a gun is cocked. So they add in the sound to let the viewer know that the gun is cocked. That, and it's more dramatic.

Ah, they talked about this in the movie Phone Booth.

You know what got me about that movie? Where, in all of Manhattan of all places, are you going to find an old school fully enclosed phone booth? You're not, that's where! Phone booth space has been converted into apartment housing for struggling NYU theatre students since 1960.

Money shots.

Oh....we're not talking about those kind of movies, are we?

I have a tendency to respond in the affirmative to hot young women by saying "As you wish". Thus far I've been neither rewarded nor captured by pirates.
Hold it, hold it. What is this? Are you trying to trick me? Where's the sports? Is this a kissing book?

I've always wondered, how exactly can you figure out if someone is tailing you?

"Dry cleaning." Don't you read spy novels? :tongue:

All these horror movie techniques might not be so good if you really live in an action movie world - there's always lots of minor bad guys to look out for, so focusing on one would be a fatal mistake. And when you find the big bad boss, running away is for the guy who gets killed to show how badass the boss is. The only way to win is to be even more badass yourself.

it's easier in an action movie...

after all, Minor minions die when a stiff wind blows on them hard. so a couple of shots fired in their general direction will bring them down.

and if you're the hero, then you can be caught in an exploding building and still survive.

now if you're the corny sidekick... you're screwed...

Hold it, hold it. What is this? Are you trying to trick me? Where's the sports? Is this a kissing book?

Just listen, some day, you might not mind so much.


That's a great movie...and it's gotten me laid a time or two as well.

now if you're the corny sidekick... you're screwed...

What about Jar Jar Binks? The only more whinily annoying movie character that deserved to meet a grisly fate involving a wood chipper and an angry wolverine in their pants AND DIDN'T is the guy that doctor kid from Scrubs played in Garden State.

I've always wondered, how exactly can you figure out if someone is tailing you?

Simple. if walking, turn and look for the guy staring in the window of a shop. that's him. What person window shops these days?

if in a car, the cops will be driving black cars with wrap around head lights while the thugs will be in limos and Gov agents will be in black SUV's.

Bears orange attack things at night.


I had to look at this like 5 times before I could work out why it didn't look right.

What about Jar Jar Binks? The only more whinily annoying movie character that deserved to meet a grisly fate involving a wood chipper and an angry wolverine in their pants AND DIDN'T is the guy that doctor kid from Scrubs played in Garden State.

Ahem... I said Corny Sidekick... not pathetic irritant. :p

I always let the wookie win now.

I always let the wookie win now.

Words of wisdom.

Words of wisdom.

Words I live by.

I must say, horror films have taught me to do the opposite to what they do in those things.

When in doubt, leg it like hell.

Thanks to movies, every major life-changing dilemma that happens to me is always concluded in under two hours.

I have a tendency to respond in the affirmative to hot young women by saying "As you wish". Thus far I've been neither rewarded nor captured by pirates.

I've done that before too...

I also have a tendency to answer my cellphone by saying "Hello... my name is Inigo Montoya... you killed my father... prepare to die"

The usual ones: As you wish, which was mentioned before.

The "KHAAAAAAAAN!" thing, which was also mentioned before.

I'm now in greater awe of the trident as a weapon, and rarely choose milk.

I hate the Queen of Diamonds, and don't use Heniz tomato sauce.

When pretending to die, I gasp "Rosebud..."

Thanks to movies, I wave without my ring or pinkie extended, as was described earlier.

I now have to make a witty one liner after passionate sex, and carefully drape the sheet between my legs, and over my lovely's breasts.

I'm sure there's more, but I can't remember.

I just had someone knock on the door, and I noticed that I was really wary about looking through the peep-hole to see who it was. Which is silly, because it's a very useful thing...so I thought about it for a second and realised that all the movies I've seen where someone gets shot through the peephole when the person on the other side sees the shadow, have actually caused me to alter my behaviour in real life.

Do you have any habits you've picked up from movies or other forms of popular media?
Instead of speaking properly, I SHOUT.... EVERY... WORD.... SEPERATELY, much like Charlton Heston in the Omega Man.