After seeing the South African film The Second Sin and its' horrific ending, I will never go up here:
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For the sake of marital harmony, When Harry Met Sally has put me off ever acquiring a wagon wheel coffee table, much as I want to.
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The 1982 turkey Megaforce made me swear off of my childhood ambitions to one day build/own a motorcycle that could fire rockets off of the front. :wink:
Haven't bathed since I saw I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE.
Cannibal Holocaust made me not eat tomato based pasta for a while.
Honestly, after watching Psycho (1960), I became very wary of showering in strange places... I think I only bathed for about 2 weeks.
The Evil Dead put me off going near trees for a day or two.
Society (1989) made me stop eating soft food for months.
Quote from: Torgo on January 13, 2011, 03:35:40 PM
The 1982 turkey Megaforce made me swear off of my childhood ambitions to one day build/own a motorcycle that could fire rockets off of the front. :wink:
Heyy, Torgo: you have been missed, old friend!* :teddyr:
* The master is also complaining that the place hasn't been looked after. :wink:
Ugh.. the movie SLUGS made it difficult for me to think about salad. The scene where the gal is slicing up the lettuce and slugs are getting sliced in it.. yuck!!!
Quote from: ChocolateChipCharlie on January 13, 2011, 04:41:11 PM
Haven't bathed since I saw I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE.
Ewwww........ :buggedout: :buggedout: + :teddyr: :teddyr:
The Brood made me always want to check under the bed before putting my feet anywhere near it. :wink:
Quote from: Trevor on January 14, 2011, 08:37:44 AM
The Brood made me always want to check under the bed before putting my feet anywhere near it. :wink:
I have to check the missus daily for exterior amniotic fetal birthing sacs, presumably also due to The Brood. It's a powerful film. :drink:
Soylent Green put me off eating people for nearly a week. :buggedout: :bouncegiggle: :twirl:
WAXWORK (1988) put me off steak tartare forever :buggedout: :teddyr:
And as dumb as I know it is, every time I watch JAWS (or Shark Week on tv) I get nervous around any kind of standing water for a few days afterward - yeah, even swimming pools.
I didn't go near the ocean for years after seeing Jaws. Of course that's kind of easy when you live in Minnesota.
Godzilla, King Of The Monsters (the very first 1954 movie) had me scared to walk home from school when I was little.
I was afraid Godzilla would rear his head over the mountains like he did in that classic scene from the movie, when the scientists were walking up the hill.
Sure, there were houses on both sides and lots of people around, but I was scared anyway.
THE EDUCATION ON CHARLIE BANKS put me off watching any other movie directed by Fred Durst.
Quote from: ulthar on January 17, 2011, 03:32:57 PM
THE EDUCATION ON CHARLIE BANKS put me off watching any other movie directed by Fred Durst.
I honestly didn't know that that limp biscuit :wink: had directed a film.
Quote from: Trevor on January 18, 2011, 01:25:22 AM
Quote from: ulthar on January 17, 2011, 03:32:57 PM
THE EDUCATION ON CHARLIE BANKS put me off watching any other movie directed by Fred Durst.
I honestly didn't know that that limp biscuit :wink: had directed a film.
Yep, a couple (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004890/#Director) believe it or not. But CHARLIE BANKS is the only one I've seen.
A lot of critics and fans liked CHARLIE BANKS, but I didn't. Here's my review. (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,132491.msg377443.html#msg377443)
Thanks for that, ulthar.
I got put off sky-diving forever after seeing the South African film Die Eensame Vlug [The Lonely Flight] - a love triangle drama where two brothers are in love with the same lady. The one brother decides to do away with the competition and ends up killing his girlfriend when he messes with her parachute. :buggedout: :buggedout:
Quote from: Jack on January 17, 2011, 01:59:32 PM
I didn't go near the ocean for years after seeing Jaws. Of course that's kind of easy when you live in Minnesota.
That reminded me that Creepshow 2 put me off swimming in lakes for a really long time! I'm still a little nervous about it.
To be honest "The Ring" made me nervous about televisions for a long time. I couldn't sleep in rooms that had tv's in them for quite some time. Kind of sad since I was well into my 20's when I saw it.
I also remember poltergeist 3 giving me the jibbilies about mirrors when I was a kid.
In the same vein as "bad movies directed by rock-stars" Seeing "house of 1000 corpses" definitely turned me off from seeing other films directed by Rob Zombie. I was a huge fan of Zombie's music when I was a teenager (less so now, guess I'm mellowing out in my old age) and eagerly awaited the release of this movie. What ruined it was when one of my friends told me the whole storyline at the start of the film. What doubly ruined it was my friend had never seen the movie before either, he was just guessing it would follow the old "dumb teenagers getting killed by rednecks" formula and he was completely correct(I quote my friend, "4 dumb kids named "victim fodder #1-4" with 2 female and 2 male will find themselves with a flat tire and then decide to check out the creepy house and then spend the rest of the movie being chopped up by rednecks" he was about 90% correct). Sadly unimaginative compared to what it could have been especially given how long it took to produce.
I remember seeing "Swamp Thing" when I was very young. There's a scene at the very start of the film where Alec Holland (was it true enough to the comic to name the scientist Alec Holland?) is doused with a glowing yellow liquid. Anyway, he goes screaming into the swamp and becomes the Swamp Thing.
My very, very young mind made a connection with that horror and apple juice. Apple juice is yellow, a yellow liquid turned that guy into the Swamp Thing.
I didn't drink apple juice for years.
Poltergeist kind of freaked me out with regards to the TV once the channel shuts off for the night and there's the white static fuzz on the TV set. Avoided having my TV showing that static for years afterwards...
Quote from: Jack on January 17, 2011, 01:59:32 PM
I didn't go near the ocean for years after seeing Jaws. Of course that's kind of easy when you live in Minnesota.
True, but what about all the shark-infested lakes you have there?
Citizen Kane putted me off watching GOOD movies for about 2 weeks!
Watching the Disney version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea put me off going anywhere near water for a while...
Quote from: SPazzo on January 19, 2011, 10:16:16 PM
Watching the Disney version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea put me off going anywhere near water for a while...
Welcome back! :cheers:
Not that I ever hitchhiked, but seeing what happened to the boy scout in "Lair of the White Worm," who was trying to thumb a ride, put me off of hitchhiking.
Seldom do you hear about people trying to thumb a ride anymore, but some forty or more years ago, I had alot of good friends who thought nothing of hitchhiking. And my advice to them was always not to do it. It was just too dangerous. And it was equally dangerous to pick up a hitchhiker.
The first Harry Potter film put me off even considering reading the books.
Quote from: Wag on January 28, 2011, 07:55:39 PM
The first Harry Potter film put me off even considering reading the books.
I didn't need the movies to do that. Never read any of the books, and I'll probably never will, as I just have no interest in reading them.
Quote from: BoyScoutKevin on February 13, 2011, 03:36:55 PM
Quote from: Wag on January 28, 2011, 07:55:39 PM
The first Harry Potter film put me off even considering reading the books.
I didn't need the movies to do that. Never read any of the books, and I'll probably never will, as I just have no interest in reading them.
Me as well. And it makes my wife sooooooo mad. I will read most any kind of sci-fi or sword/sorcery book, but I won't get near Harry Potter. She made me watch the first movie and now I will never, ever read those books.
"American Pie" put me off ever picking up someone else's beer!
As a youngster, after I saw Night of the Living Dead (original version) and being scared to death by it, I was wary of going up any staircase by myself...afraid there would a mutilated corpse at the top.
Braindead made me not want to go to the zoo.
The movie 'Zoo' made me decide the entire human race is doomed, and rightly so.
Hell Raiser made me forever afraid of puzzle boxes. In fact, when we are out shopping my wife will bring me puzzle boxes off the shelf just so I can announce that I don't complete puzzle boxes because I don't like to be tortured.