Have you ever taken a film TOO seriously?

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Susan

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...Or do you know someone who has? There've been loaRAB of examples of this in the news media before now - the example that instantly comes to mind are the young school kiRAB cutting off their fellow classmates ear after watching Resevoir Dogs.

An old school friend once told me about the weird kid he was at college with a few years back. He was totally obsessed with 'Fight Club'.
"OK", you think, "that's understandable - it's a cracking good film". However, this guy was so obsessed that he'd written hundreRAB of quotes from the film over his bedroom walls in thick black magic marker!!! :eek: *COUGH COUGH FREEEEAK COUGH*

Are there any moments that you can think of from your own life or those of your family or frienRAB? I'm sure at least one person must have dressed up like a wookie or an ewok before now :D :)
 
when i was about 13 i saw the brat pack film "pretty in pink" and when i went clothes shopping i deliberately only bought clothes that the Molly Ringwald character would have worn and i started wearing "kooky" jewellery and about a million bangles.i have no regrets :cool:
 
BRAVO! I respect you so much .... in a weird kinda way. Nothing says look at me like endlessly jangly bangles :D :) Anyone else wanna 'confess'...
 
Y'see I couldn't take LOtR seriously at all - in fact, people got very annoyed when I kept bursting out laughing about the homoerotic undertones between Sam & Frodo at the end of ROtK.

I tend not to take many films seriously; I think the worst I ever managed was trying to imitate someones' trick in a skateboarding flick (can't remember which one - not Gleaming the Cube, but a late '80s one nonetheless) and ending up with a bloody knee and losing a few baby teeth :(
 
Quentin Tarentino Films. When people say ther'ye crap i have to prove them wrong.

And True Story Films like Saving private ryan when people laugh at them dying i always say shut the F*** up... etc...
 
I live in the real world and hack into a computer programme to jump between buildings, dodge bulletts and fight agents. Movies do not exist. I take nothing seriously apart from the immediate threat to the earth by machines.
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Not so that I actually do things to imitate, although I am sure I remember setting up Home Alone style traps when I was younger :)

Films get to me though, they can control how I feel for the next few hours... A little deep I know, but it's the way it is. Just hate watching those depressing films :(
 
Yeah, I kind of feel this way too - it's a bit like the national lampoon stuff that is silly funny and not funny funny; the only exception to this is the HIGHLY underrated 'OC and Stiggs' which is both laugh out loud funny and a little bit surreal too :)

Home Alone styled traps - what a cool idea! I'm gonna see if I can catch any of those thieves out with a tin of paint ;) :D :)
 
DamnDirtyApe dont be silly.

I'm way to obsessed with LOTR than is healthy. I had a 3 year love affair with Orlando Bloom but now I love Elijah, and I worship anything with the actors in it (like O2 adverts with Sean Bean etc.)

I have SO much merchandise, and have each film 2/3 times over in different formats (except ROTK obv.)

I have an obsessive nature. I love Moulin Rouge..... I even have a nighty saying 'DiamonRAB are a girls best friend' and went to visit the place in Paris.


I need help.
 
Awww! Spoil sport :D :p

Another story for the collection. A female friend of a friend went a little over the top watching 'Dirty Dancing'. When I last saw her in the early 1990s ('92-'93 time) she'd seen the film over three hundred times! Apparently she even went on to enrole in salsa dancing classes and everything!!!
 
Quick update on the Salsa gal:

I was talking to my friend on the phone earlier today, and this thread got me thinking about the 'girl in question'; I asked her about it and she said that the poor thing was really enjoying the classes until she broke her ankle whilst ice skating and had to give them up :( I feel a bit of an a** for dragging it up now. Her love for 'Dirty Dancing' is still in question though...
 
Not all all, I also get very obsessive when im into something, Titanic was a major one, I even did my History A Level dissertation on it...scary!!!
 
Bless, he was brought up in canterbury which is not far from me, i know someone who went to school with him!

I also used to be a huge michael jackson fan (silly me) and me and my sis used to do all the dance routines from Moonwalker, my mum made us do it whenever rellies came round as well, cringe!!
 
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