films

I used to believe that we (the human race) was a movie and God was showing it to everyone.

Sean

I thought that there was a 'most handsome man on the planet' and that it was Christopher Reeve because my mother always told me that. Therefore, when someone was considered 'handsome', I thought it was because they looked a little bit like Christopher Reeve.

Anon

In the Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow tells Dorothy that the only thing he's afraid of is a lighted match. Then Dorothy tells him that the witch is after her, and he says "I'd face a box full of them" to get her to the Wizard. I thought he meant a box full of witches instead of matches

Anon

I believed that the film "Home Alone" was actually called "Homer Lone" and that that was the name of Macaulay Culkins character.

Anon

When I was 6, the movie 'Jurassic Park' came out and we rented it. I remember being particularily affected by the scene with the velociraptors (sp?) in the kitchen. That night, and many nights afterward, I would check all around my room to make sure there weren't any raptors hiding in there.

Anon

When I first heard "Saturday Night Fever" I thought that it was something about getting sick on a Saturday night

Anon

When my friend was little her and her brothers used to go to the video store to rent a movie and they always wanted to rent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which she hated. She would find a different movie but they would tell her "You have to find one with the movie in it otherwise they don't have it" so she would go down every aisle picking up every case to find one with a movie in it....needless to say they always ended up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

WeIrD fRiEnDs

I saw The Wizard of Oz on TV while very young and thought the Cowardly Lion was always talking about his "cabbage". The lack of logic didn't bother me, since I couldn't follow the plot anyway and was just watching for more flying monkeys and dancing midgets

jake

When I was 5, my parents inadvertantly took me to the drive-in to see Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". They didn't know about his films and didn't know a film called "The Birds" wouldn't be OK for kids. My uncle and Grandmother lived with us at the time. My uncle told me that if my Dad didn't brick up the fireplace, the birds would come in and peck me to death (as in the film). I was scared to death for weeks, and had to sleep in my Grandmother's room for protection.

LilyLizard in AZ

My sisters and I wanted to know why the Wicked Witch of the West dissolved when water was thrown on her at the end of The Wizard of Oz. My mom told us it was because she was made of brown sugar. Makes sense...right? I thought so until I was in my twenties.

HMM

When I was little, after seeing "The Wizard of Oz," my dad told me that Judy Garland had actually died in real life, in a tornado in Kansas. What a coincidence! Either he was messing with me or he didn't want to tell me the sad truth. Either way, I told friends for years about this amazing coincidence, and didn't find out the truth until I was well into my late teens. I asked my dad about it and he doesn't remember telling me this, but he thinks it's pretty funny.

Anon

when my sister was little she would never go in the bottom part of the movie theater like right in front of the screen because she thought there were alligators down there

Anon

When my parents took me to see my godfather I got really scared because I thought he would be a gangster and he would kill me. I think I overdosed on Hollywood.

Anon

When I went to the pictures as a child, there would be trailers before the film for things that were coming soon. At the end of some of them, the announcer would say "Coming soon, only in theatres," or "To a theatre near you".

I used to think "Wow, that film isn't even out yet and already they're making a play out of it? It must be REALLY good!"

I must have been twelve or so when I read that the first cinemas were called "Electric Theatres" and it suddenly clicked that they must be using old-fashioned terminology for cinemas. Until then I actually thought that all these kids' films were getting made into stage shows.

silverstar1809

Once while watching a video with my grandmother, i saw that warning about copyright infringement but the only word i recognized was WARNING. I asked my grandma what the warning said, and she replied "oh, That's not for kids." Naturally, i assumed it must be something really bad and she just didn't want me to be scared. I spent the whole movie worrying about what terrible danger the video was trying to warn me about and wondering how my elderly grandmother was supposed to protect me from it. Eventually i decided it was a tornado warning and every time we watched a video after that i'd mentally plan my escape from the tornadoes that were out to get me.

Oh no! Tornadoes!

My family and I were stranded in Delaware when our international flight was canceled. My parents took my brother (age 6) and me (age 8) to the movies...they picked Pretty Woman, not knowing what it was about. I thought throughout the whole movie that Julia Roberts was Richard Gere's secretary. Needless to say that when I grew up and realized what she really was, I was shocked!

Sarah

When I was very young, whenever I would watch a video, there would be this nagging worry in the back of my mind that I was inconveniencing the actors by making them come over and act out the movie all over again.

Asymptote

I waited for the mail to come on my 11th birthday so that I could get my letter to Hogwarts... It never came.

Charlie

I also used to believe that America's Independence Day was the actual liberation of America from aliens thanks to the movie Independence Day. I was quite young at the time, if that's any excuse.

Lauren

I believed that everytime I kissed my David Cassidy poster he'd feel it back home in Hollywood.

Marie M