This thread was inspired by my recent viewing of the original Wolf Man movie with Lon Chaney, Jr....
Bela the gypsy has no problem taking in a palm reading customer 50 seconds prior to turning into a werewolf. What was he thinking? If he wasn't concerned about the potential hazards, then he wouldn't have told her to get out/ run away... palm reading in the woods at night as a lycan less than a minute before 'go time' was a BAD idea.
It was like having explosive, recurrent diarrhea and you're pinching back the next erruption, yet decide to take the girl of your dreams out in white slacks with no place to run to when the clock strikes doomsday...
Anyone else view a film where they said 'that was a bad idea....'?
How about the kid in Jeepers Creepers? - "Phew, we just got away from that backwoods homicidal maniac, I know lets go BACK TO HIS HOUSE and then crawl down the hole we just saw him throw a corpse into...."
How about the whole premise of Phantasm??? One bad idea(choices) after another
but love the movie!
Renfield (Dwight Frye ) ignoring the warnings of the villagers and headin' on up to Dracula's Castle after sunset.
(http://images.movieplayer.it/2009/06/18/dwight-frye-in-una-scena-del-film-dracula-1931-121297.jpg)
Sending this gent out to get the brain:
(http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/files/Young%20Frankenstein.jpg)
What about Wilfred Glendon? Ignoring the warning of the Priest who tells him "You are foolish... "
"E" ededed
How about the two graverobbers in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman...brillant...
or how about the countless ditzy females who open the door after Madman or Monster is trying to break down the door...
"Oh it's quiet now, he must be gone.." Yeh, right...
The Mummy--reading the scroll of Thoth out loud after being told not to open the casket
The Thing--Putting the electric lanket on the block of ice (trying to set in on fire inside the barrackes wasn't the best idea either)
Texas Chainsaw--"Let's pick up this hitchiker. He seems fine..."
Quote from: long live kong on June 08, 2010, 12:40:47 PM
How about the kid in Jeepers Creepers? - "Phew, we just got away from that backwoods homicidal maniac, I know lets go BACK TO HIS HOUSE and then crawl down the hole we just saw him throw a corpse into...."
Yeah... like drive by IF YOU must-----but don't stop... don't get out... don't go down the flipping pipe. Call the cops tell them what you saw. Go home.
Not 'sticking to the road' on the Yorkshire moors....
Advising your neighbour to bury his cat in an Indian burial ground....
on the same line as long live kong...
burying yer son in an Indian burial ground, and then even still...burying yer wife in the Indian burial ground..
How about buying a house on an interstate where 18 wheelers go 80 mph all day past your house... with 2 young kids in the 1st place. Then lounging around a picnic table as your 2-3? year old runs towards the road after a kite....
Could you be more careless?
off topic: I dont live near an interstate, and people out this way, drive anywhere from 70-100mph...(mostly young teenagers heading to the lake)
Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 09, 2010, 07:54:31 PM
off topic: I dont live near an interstate, and people out this way, drive anywhere from 70-100mph...(mostly young teenagers heading to the lake)
Right past yer house though? Like you pull out of your driveway and you're automatically pulling onto a road where people drive 70-100 mph?
Quote from: Sean on June 10, 2010, 08:36:31 AM
Right past yer house though? Like you pull out of your driveway and you're automatically pulling onto a road where people drive 70-100 mph?
yes, and some trees block the left side, so you have to inch forwards into the road, to make sure it's clear :)
Quote from: Sean on June 10, 2010, 08:36:31 AM
Right past yer house though? Like you pull out of your driveway and you're automatically pulling onto a road where people drive 70-100 mph?
Doc exaggerates..........I KNOW the Amish don't drive that fast.
How about every weed smoking, beer drinking teenager that refuses to hold summer camp any place but Camp Crystal Lake--
Come on man--I'm pretty sure the killings made the papers and the news the 1st time--nevermind the other 8 times those dopes couldn't leave well enough alone.
Ya know what, actually that's such a bad idea, serves em right!
The blockhead photographers, popping those bright, blinding flashbulbs at Kong & his woman. Get that picture! Get that picture! "Oh, go ahead and let'em roar!" Ohhhhhhhhhhhh-kay!
Doing a Ouija board with your ten year old daughter....better get some clean bedsheets ready....
Quote from: Scatter on June 10, 2010, 07:33:05 PM
Doc exaggerates..........I KNOW the Amish don't drive that fast.
Hehehe....
Quote from: Unknown Primate on June 10, 2010, 10:41:00 PM
The blockhead photographers, popping those bright, blinding flashbulbs at Kong & his woman. Get that picture! Get that picture! "Oh, go ahead and let'em roar!" Ohhhhhhhhhhhh-kay!
I always say that when I see Kong, UP.
it was a bad idea for those punk rockers to go party in the cemetery....
Quote from: Sean on June 11, 2010, 08:55:44 PM
I always say that when I see Kong, UP.
Me too............along with "Geez, why don't you just grab Fay Wray's boobs in front of him and finish this death wish of yours.
Yeah! And they (the walking dead men) are standing right next to the giant brute!?!
Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 11, 2010, 11:26:40 PM
it was a bad idea for those punk rockers to go party in the cemetery....
Yes, yes it was! By the end, they
really lacked "brains"!
Dwight Frye, again, this time as, "Fritz"... take a guess at what was a bad idea!
It was a bad idea to tell your therapist that you're heading over to Midian!
Quote from: Unknown Primate on June 12, 2010, 12:29:11 PM
Dwight Frye, again, this time as, "Fritz"... take a guess at what was a bad idea!
Taunting a gigantic resurrected corpse quilt with a torch repeatedly at close quarters?
what about the guys who ignore the Egyptian curse.
Quote from: Scatter on June 10, 2010, 07:33:05 PM
Doc exaggerates..........I KNOW the Amish don't drive that fast.
Yeah, but:
What goes clip-clop clip-clop clip-clop Bang clip-clop clip-clop clip-clop?
An Amish drive-by shooting.
Back on topic:
ANY TIME anyone goes upstairs or downstairs or outside to check something out. The really big mistake? Saying, "Its OK, I'll be right back!"
When an Entity in a house purported to be possessed says "get out...." one does not go upstairs
Any monster that picks a fight with Godzilla,always a BAD idea!
Going downstairs to check the fusebox after the lights mysteriously go out after you get a strange call where they hang up / or while an odd glowing mist is outside/ or after you hear strange childlike laughter.
An emo girl falling in love with a vampire that sparkles. Almost as bad as writing a book about it.
Any time anyone co-stars with Bruce Campbell.
He'll survive, but you won't.
1. Inserting a giant lever in a lab that can "blow us all to atoms" with no mention as to what its purpose is, no glass case to protect it from being accidentally nudged and no lock out tag out in place to prevent misuse. ;D
2. Choosing a small town to drink it dry instead of a large metropolitan area where your crimes could go rather unnoticed for a few weeks at least. (Salem's Lot)
3. When your house starts speaking, and its first words are "Get out"...you stay.
4. Going after an extremely ticked off and hungry shark with the little tug boat that couldnt (Jaws)
5. Accepting an offer from Vincent Price to spend a night on the house on haunted hill for a measley 10,000 pre taxes.
6. Taking a torch to the Frankenstein monster or cattle prodding the Creature to make them "mind". Yup. works like a charm.
Ignoring any letter signed, OG.
Digging up and re-animating a patchwork corpse (after you and your pal buried it after your pal shot it in the eye) you couldn't contain the 1st time you re-animated it. (Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Hammer)
Informing your new neighbour of a novel way of burying his daughter's recently deceased cat.
Quote from: long live kong on October 25, 2017, 11:49:01 PM
Informing your new neighbour of a novel way of burying his daughter's recently deceased cat.
I like it better when we don't name the film(s). Most of us know what most of them are anyway---and if you don't know... it's fun trying to figure it out.
Deciding to mix work with pleasure, by flying your light aircraft to a quaint Scottish island for a spot of weekend detective work.
A lot of these that I see aren't nearly the same thing. When a person doesn't believe in the supernatural, that's the reason they did that. The point is that Bela the Gypsy knew he was a werewolf, knew he would turn into a wolf when the moon was full (or maybe just if it was Autumn), and still went out that night to read people their fortunes. Larry Talbot seems to have this problem of not knowing when the next full moon is, too. It seems like that should be #1 on any werewolves to-do list.
Quote from: YoungestMonsterKid on October 26, 2017, 04:29:06 PM
A lot of these that I see aren't nearly the same thing. When a person doesn't believe in the supernatural, that's the reason they did that. The point is that Bela the Gypsy knew he was a werewolf, knew he would turn into a wolf when the moon was full (or maybe just if it was Autumn), and still went out that night to read people their fortunes. Larry Talbot seems to have this problem of not knowing when the next full moon is, too. It seems like that should be #1 on any werewolves to-do list.
Indeed. Larry Talbot, for all of his "sympathetic" points, was utterly careless. I'm more mindful of my dues for the German Club I belong to than he is of THE one thing he must remember to take care of. Larry seems nice enough (though frankly he was a bit creepy/ jerky/ pushy in The Wolfman before getting bitten), but a GREAT guy? In retrospect? No. Not so much.
Don't have a lot of great pictures of this but here it goes. (And normally I'd agree with not giving away what the film is but I think this picture helps explain.)
(http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/0d2028cbff5d4fef9a404387867c7fc3/phantom-of-the-opera-1943-claude-rains-susanna-foster-phan-014p-bke11c.jpg)
So there's this part of the cellar with the lake. (By the way, I believe this was reused from the Green Hell temple set (which was also reused in The Mummy's Hand, just imagine that giant statue where the lake would be). But anyways, there's this big wide walkway to go accross to safely get to the other side. And that's what Claudin uses. So what do Roaul and Anatole do? They go on the thin side that's falling apart and nearly have falling rocks break their heads open.
Quote from: long live kong on October 26, 2017, 03:38:31 PM
Deciding to mix work with pleasure, by flying your light aircraft to a quaint Scottish island for a spot of weekend detective work.
Such a great movie. Especially the 1st viewing. The eye candy just added to it.
Quote from: Sean on October 27, 2017, 08:40:28 PM
Such a great movie. Especially the 1st viewing. The eye candy just added to it.
Seen it loads of times, never get bored of watching it!
Quote from: long live kong on October 28, 2017, 05:31:38 AM
Seen it loads of times, never get bored of watching it!
Agree. As a matter of fact, I may watch it tonight. :D
As if poking a smoldering meteorite with a relatively short stick wasn't questionable behavior enough... stabbing the goopy core and letting it ooze down the stick an inch from your hand crosses the line of prudent decison making...
Quote from: Sean on October 29, 2017, 01:48:50 PM
As if poking a smoldering meteorite with a relatively short stick wasn't questionable behavior enough... stabbing the goopy core and letting it ooze down the stick an inch from your hand crosses the line of prudent decison making...
Always thought that the guy who picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue in "Airplane" looked lke the old man.
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRyj2eEccJUn71F6QK3kTZWJqeyeOsdhBL6S88h8nfckriwy-mo)(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTWh-fp92nmciJQxeudegcznRG_rirNEs89zHNshGffWouuCofi)
Taking a shot at $10,000 if you merely spend the night with other people in a suppposedly haunted house isn't so bad an idea. But sleeping in separate bedrooms especially when sH1t starts to happen is a bad idea. Everybody stay in the living room. Stay awake. Make coffee. DRINK the coffee. If you fall asleep in a room full of other people trying to stay awake, so be it. But for petesake----don't GO to bed.
When the two caretakers (grave diggers) return to the London cemetery that's been hit by a German bomb, they find one coffin splayed open with a skeleton inside, and they think it's shrapnel - that large wooden shard stuck in the skeleton's chest.
I have wondered if the Gravediggers Union didn't readjust their training methods for apprentices: "DO NOT remove wooden protrusions from skeletons in coffins. Never."
And, speaking of training, in the Zombie Apocalypse, I'm going to approach any vacant-looking town or building, sit in my car and blast away on the horn for 5 minutes or so. I'm not going to creep thru dark halls, trying to be silent. I'm going to draw all the zombies outside, into the open, and make decisions then.
You're out joy riding in a boat with an inside cabin with your young wife. The 2 of you are sunbathing out on the bow when she goes below deck to get you a beer. You see a strange cloud of mist/fog moving quickly towards you from a distance. Do you go below deck to avoid it? Or do you stay above deck like a jackass to get immersed in it?
Remaining in an apartment building where a blind priest stares out a window high above. :)
Turning your back on the guys who saved your city from a 100 foot marshmallow man.