Damn, Jilli. Seriously.
Mighty fine shindig.
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Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2010 9:33:42 am PDT #9316 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Frankenbuddha - Jun 28, 2010 9:35:25 am PDT #9317 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Heh, and now we hit Buffista conversation #62.5 - what was your most traumatizing formative movie-going experience.
Atropa - Jun 28, 2010 9:37:48 am PDT #9318 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It was kind of awesome, if extremely scary. My mom's best friend had a huge crush on Kurt Russel, and my best friend and I were precocious horror/SF geeks. It seemed like a good idea.
tommyrot - Jun 28, 2010 9:38:37 am PDT #9319 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Let's see... when I was about four or five, I saw some version of A Christmas Carol - the scene where Scrooge went to hell kinda' traumatized me.
I wasn't allowed to see R movies when I was a kid, so no traumas there....
Laga - Jun 28, 2010 9:42:29 am PDT #9320 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Saturday morning creature feature- THEM.
Oh wait, movie-going? I guess Taps. I don't mind tanks when they're stationary, like the ones at military museums you can climb on are awesome. But when they're moving or the cannon pivots I get totally skeeved.
Jessica - Jun 28, 2010 9:43:45 am PDT #9321 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The goo-comes-out-of-the-bathtub scene in Ghostbusters 2 scared the shit out of me. I didn't take a bath for over a year after that.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 28, 2010 9:44:17 am PDT #9322 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Let's see... when I was about four or five, I saw some version of A Christmas Carol - the scene where Scrooge went to hell kinda' traumatized me.
Heh, was that the musical one with Albert Finney? Because I saw that right around the same age. The hell part didn't quite come across to me (and they usually cut it during the annual TV airings), but the reveal of the Ghost of Xmas Future freaked my shit out the first time around.
I think watching The Haunting ('63 version) in a house with the lights out and my parents gone probably was the most traumatic (around age 9) in terms of sleepless nights.
Seeing Suspiria at 13 probably freaked me out the most, though (as I'm sure I've posted many times before). It also changed forever what it would take to scare me.
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2010 9:47:56 am PDT #9323 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
what was your most traumatizing formative movie-going experience.
Santa Sangre. Ruined a perfectly good date with a guy who was just months away from realising he was gay, so very narrow window of exploitation there.
Wait...okay, perhaps that's how things should have turned out, but I'm hardly that good a person.
Am I the only Buffista that's seen that movie, or just the only one to be scarred by it?
Frankenbuddha - Jun 28, 2010 9:49:45 am PDT #9324 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Am I the only Buffista that's seen that movie, or just the only one to be scarred by it?
I saw it on home video, so while it was undeniably freaky, it wasn't especially scarring. I also found it horribly sad in the end.
tommyrot - Jun 28, 2010 9:51:17 am PDT #9325 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Heh, was that the musical one with Albert Finney?
I don't think so. It was an old B&W version.
But I remember we saw it in the Shawano WI theater....