Do you get "in character" when watching films? (1 Viewer)

[Dennis Nicholls]

Do you use props to help set the mood when you watch your favorite films? For example, I'll get out my Turkish 8mm Mauser to hold across my lap when I watch Lawrence of Arabia. I have cointreau, brandy, and whiskey available during Casablanca. I have bottles of water available during Dune. I have my sword out for Henry V. And I have my .357 magnum on hand when I watch hard-boiled detective films like The Maltese Falcon.

 

[Brad_W]

I try to have pizza every time I watch the begining of Deep Impact and my wife around every time I watch Nymph.

 

[Paul Richardson]

I arrange with the morgue to deliver 7 corpses to my house every time I watch SE7EN.
I hire a perky kid to booby trap my HT area when I watch Home Alone.
I take off my shoes and bust my windows while swinging from a firehouse when I watch Die Hard.

 

[Steve Christou]

Nice one Dennis.
Ok yeah when I watch my Showgirls dvd ...I'm wearing a thong and writhing suggestively all over the tv, until Sandra pops into the room sees what I'm doing and quickly bashes me over the head with a baseball bat, takes out the dvd and uses it as an ashtray while I lie there unconscience...
When I watch the Godfather I stuff my mouth with orange peel stick a pillow up my jumper and mumble the lines along with Brando...
When I watch Braveheart I wear my best kilt and at the bum waving bit I erm wave my bum at the tv, I'm usually alone in the room when I do this...
Watching Gladiator gives me a chance to wear my favorite floral patterned toga and during the arena scenes I'm wrestling with Sandy on the rug, I get carried away sometimes and try to strangle her, but she usually wins the battle with a forward thrust towards my crotch, and I quickly give up, but Evil Hand doesn't want to give up and continues to grasp at her face and neck...

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

As soon as I posted this I had nightmare visions of Christou's response posting..... :p)

 

[Rain]

I'm wearing a thong and writhing suggestively all over the tv...

Thanks for that disturbing mental picture, Steve. Mind you, if you were 20 years younger and not clinically insane, I might be turned on.
Seriously, though, I can't say I do much getting into character....
I do smoke like a chimney whenever I'm watching Bogie movies.
After Episode I, I annoyed all my friends by trying to impersonate Ewan MacGregor's impersonation of Alec Guiness. "Not even Master Yoda has a midichlorian count that high!"

 

[Matthew Chmiel]

All of a sudden, whenever I watch Hedwig and the Angry Inch, I have an urge to dress up like a woman.

 

[Steve Christou]

Hey blame Dennis for starting a thread where I can go nuts in.
Come on Rain, I'm only 22, gorgeous and of sound mind (whatever that is), ask my nurse.

 

[Rain]

I have an urge to dress up like a woman...

I'm sure your mom would be very proud.
Hey, I know a bar where you can get free drinks for doing that (and no I haven't, thank you very much). Let me know when you're 19.
Plus, you're covered if Rini Bell turns out to be a lesbian.
Damn, I think I'm catching Christouitis.

 

[Matthew Chmiel]

 

[Andrew W]

I dressed like Dr. Frank-n-Furter for Halloween.

 

[DaveF]

Dennis - Ignore these unappreciative heathens! I think you're a genius (or at least have got a nifty idea).
I'd never thought about that before, but a themed movie presentation party could be fun. I'll have to try that out.

 

[Seth Paxton]

I was watching Requiem for a Dream, but then I sold my TV for drug money...

:p)

 

[Sean Conklin]

Yep, Terminator or T-2, always wreaks havoc in my HT, it's getting expensive buying a new TV everytime I blow it away with my Shotgun!

 

[Max Leung]

I make sure to wear my white jumpsuit with the explosive bloodbags sewn in when I watch my copies of John Woo's Hard Boiled and The Killer.
It is very therapeutic and relaxing twhen the bags go off...aahhhh....just like having a personal uzi-toting masseuse in the house.
Oh, I used to have white doves fluttering about, but cleaning the fake blood off of them when my bags go off just got too tedious!

 

[Brad_W]

my bags go off

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

I'd never thought about that before, but a themed movie presentation party could be fun.

I've done this with the DVD of the recent Dune miniseries. We had a tub full of ice and bottles of water plus lots of "spice" themed appetizers. Also I've served all the drinks ordered in Casablanca to party watching that film.
Somehow this thread isn't turning out to be a serious discussion...... :rolleyes