Movies that make you want to.....

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#1

I’ve noticed recently that everytime I watch the extended edition of Lord of the Rings (any of the three really) I get the overwhelming urge to smoke a pipe and eat like a viking. No seriously, just for kicks a few weeks ago I had my nephews over and we had a guys night. I went to the store and stocked up on beef jerky, beef stew, ciabatta bread, and even bought a pack of Captain Black and had a smoke on the back porch with an old pipe. (nephews excluded)

But I rather like manifesting emotions from a movie into regular life. It’s kinda thought provoking and fun.

Other movies we have fun with:

Casablanca - my wife and I like to sit on the back porch and have a nice candle lit dinner (we have a TV feed outside)

Under the Tuscan Sun - Italian food. Nice bottle of Chianti.

Deer Hunter - Grinders… Just kidding :slight_smile:

Sixteen Candles - potato chips and sandwiches…

Ok it’s possible this summer humidity is getting to me…I may need help…But does anyone else like to eat a certain thing during a certain move…or something of the like.

#2

Whenever I watch A Christmas Story, I get this incredible urge to make meat loaf, mashed potatoes, and very lightly steamed cabbage for dinner. Does that count?

I also won’t watch Chocolat unless I’ve made a visit to either the Godiva store or Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory ahead of time.

#3

You are not alone. Just about any Medieval movie makes me want to break out the goblets and start quaffing. Working class movies make me want to find a store that carries Iron City or Gennesee. :smiley:

#4

Heh…me too. Except I usually buy MGD, instead of Gennesee.

Oh and the Christmas Story tends to make me want mashed potatos for sure…:slight_smile:

#5

I once made the horrible mistake of watching Eat Drink Man Woman in a city that didn’t have a good chinese restaurant.

-lv

#6

Rope always makes me want to have some pate; I now make sure to have some ready with toast and red grapes before I watch the movie because I know I’ll want it once the guests start to arrive for the party scene.

#7

I’ve noticed that I make more bread after watching any of the LOTR movies. I also eat a lot of bread and cheese while watching them.
Every time I watch a Harry Potter movie, I crave anything pumpkin.
Those are the only movies that do it to me though.

However, the game Stronghold makes me crave herbal tea ginger snaps and a cigarette. I have no clue why.

#8

I’m not having dinner at any of your houses if Silence of the Lambs is that night’s feature…

#9

This may be the most obvious thing in the world, but when I watch The Big Lebowski, I always want to go bowling afterward.

#10

And I want to drink white russians. 'Though I usually cave and make 'em black russians instead.

#11

It is IMPOSSIBLE to watch “Tampopo” and not (madly) crave a bowl of ramen !! In fact, you will start salivating for one about halfway through !

#12

I once held a dinner for five of us that were big fans of the show Babylon 5.

We had “breen”(Swedish meatballs), bagna cauda, fresh fruit(red plums, oranges, and peaches, along with a few accompanying items.

Wasn’t able to get Centauri brivari to drink, but there was a nice brandy for after.
No fried tubeworms either, the store was out.

#13

The LOTR films make me want to hop on a plane and spend a year in New Zealand, if not move there. Plan B is packing up and moving home to Humboldt. It looks a lot more like Middle Earth than Atlanta, and has some darn good halfling’s leaf of its own. :wink:

Like water for chocolate makes me want to eat…a lot.

I’m a movie whore, so I’m having trouble picking anything else specific out of the heap at the moment.

#14

HIGHLANDER makes me look at the family ceremonial KofC sword & wish I had a sword partner to throw down with.

#15

You said it. I bought the DVD one night and had to wait a whole day before I could get to a decent ramen restaurant and finally have some. I don’t recommend watching the movie to anyone who’s not near a good Japanese restaurant.

Although, I can see how some viewers might go away craving raw oysters or eggs…

#16

The Fellowship of the Ring actually got me to take up the pipe again (after 25 years) and enjoy a nice civilized smoke – for about half an hour until I remembered why I gave it up in the first place. (Besides the obvious tongue cancer angle.)

Alternatively, when I need to work on my SCA armor, I pop in a medieval (or medievalish) movie – El Cid, The Warlord, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, etc.

#17

Every time I watch Plunkett & Macleane or Master & Commander it renews my urge to get into historic costuming and take my flintlock pistol out to the range.

The Big Sleep makes me want to put on my black-veiled 1940s hat and smoke cigarettes darkly.

#18

THat movie <i>Parents</i> always gives me a craving for sausage.

#19

Sorry 'bout the shitty coding. Should read Parents, of course.

#20

It’s not the whole movie, but that one scene in Fellowship of the Ring where they’re having a meal and stuffing around (right before the Crebain from Dunland spoil everything) and you get to see what’s in the frying pan – that always makes me want to have bacon, eggs and sausages right then and there.