Dumbest things you've ever attempted/imitated after watching a movie (usually done as a kid)
Mar 4, 2019 1:15:46 GMT
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Post by kingkoopa on Mar 4, 2019 1:15:46 GMT
We've all done it. Could probably dump literature/music in with this, but hey...we've all done it. I have two good ones.
1) In the late 80's, we'd go to see movies at the inn my dad worked at. They had Pay-per-View (or the early version of it). I saw "Batman", "Aliens" and, several more classics in this manner. Seeing "Aliens" (not going to lie, a lot of it terrified me, as a kid), I took mental note and took home Bishop's knife trick. I stabbed myself clear through that webbing between your thumb and index finger. Having never been seriously injured and fairly athletic (so you don't go to the doctor, you just walk it off)...and clumsy enough to thumb my pre-pubescent nose at minor wounds on a regular basis, I was genuinely scared. My mom, a sainte, if one ever lived, just looked at me. My hand was now covered in blood...which is (I imagine) a little unsettling to see on a kid. She said something that I'll never forget. Perfect deadpan delivery. "Well, what the fuck did you think was going to happen?"
(Later on, we eyeballed the wound, decided against getting stitches ((she was an EMT)). I have no idea if we had insurance or access to a hospital at the time. She later said something else I'll never forget: "Let this be a lesson to you."). I still have the scar today (several years later).
2) Perhaps a bit more embarrassing, I practiced the dance from "Footloose" for a school talent show. Just wanted to get a dance date. At the time I was really into skateboarding (and not too bad at it). I should have gone for the Marty McFly. A lady friend (who I was crushing on hard) came over to work on a group project we had for school. Totally caught me dancing like nobody was watching. To this day, I get the goose pimples watching "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2."
Frank Zappa had a great quote in response to Tipper Gore's criticism of the influence of violence and miscreant behavior in popular entertainment:
"I wrote a song about dental floss, and nobody's teeth got cleaner."
I was pretty much shaped by movies/music/TV (all the while with hardworking, generous, and unbelievably great parents). I'm betting there are a lot of us who've 'tried something from the movies.' Something like punching through proper glass/taking a beer bottle to the head/wrecking a car/etc. (Can speak to being injured by all 3). I will say that "E.T." helped my BMX skills quite a bit. There's a lot of great stunt-work in that movie...
1) In the late 80's, we'd go to see movies at the inn my dad worked at. They had Pay-per-View (or the early version of it). I saw "Batman", "Aliens" and, several more classics in this manner. Seeing "Aliens" (not going to lie, a lot of it terrified me, as a kid), I took mental note and took home Bishop's knife trick. I stabbed myself clear through that webbing between your thumb and index finger. Having never been seriously injured and fairly athletic (so you don't go to the doctor, you just walk it off)...and clumsy enough to thumb my pre-pubescent nose at minor wounds on a regular basis, I was genuinely scared. My mom, a sainte, if one ever lived, just looked at me. My hand was now covered in blood...which is (I imagine) a little unsettling to see on a kid. She said something that I'll never forget. Perfect deadpan delivery. "Well, what the fuck did you think was going to happen?"
(Later on, we eyeballed the wound, decided against getting stitches ((she was an EMT)). I have no idea if we had insurance or access to a hospital at the time. She later said something else I'll never forget: "Let this be a lesson to you."). I still have the scar today (several years later).
2) Perhaps a bit more embarrassing, I practiced the dance from "Footloose" for a school talent show. Just wanted to get a dance date. At the time I was really into skateboarding (and not too bad at it). I should have gone for the Marty McFly. A lady friend (who I was crushing on hard) came over to work on a group project we had for school. Totally caught me dancing like nobody was watching. To this day, I get the goose pimples watching "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2."
Frank Zappa had a great quote in response to Tipper Gore's criticism of the influence of violence and miscreant behavior in popular entertainment:
"I wrote a song about dental floss, and nobody's teeth got cleaner."
I was pretty much shaped by movies/music/TV (all the while with hardworking, generous, and unbelievably great parents). I'm betting there are a lot of us who've 'tried something from the movies.' Something like punching through proper glass/taking a beer bottle to the head/wrecking a car/etc. (Can speak to being injured by all 3). I will say that "E.T." helped my BMX skills quite a bit. There's a lot of great stunt-work in that movie...