# Movies that make you want to..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328 "2004-08-04T19:12:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/1 "2004-08-04T19:12:57Z")
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_🙂 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. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/2 "2004-08-04T19:16:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/3 "2004-08-04T19:23:32Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/4 "2004-08-04T19:30:17Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 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. 😃 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…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/5 "2004-08-04T19:54:16Z")
I once made the horrible mistake of watching Eat Drink Man Woman in a city that didn’t have a good chinese restaurant. -lv ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/6 "2004-08-04T20:28:28Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/7 "2004-08-04T20:36:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/8 "2004-08-04T20:55:42Z")
I’m not having dinner at any of your houses if _Silence of the Lambs_ is that night’s feature… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/9 "2004-08-04T20:56:48Z")
This may be the most obvious thing in the world, but when I watch _The Big Lebowski_, I always want to go bowling afterward. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/10 "2004-08-04T21:14:59Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > This may be the most obvious thing in the world, but when I watch _The Big Lebowski_, I always want to go bowling afterward. And I want to drink white russians. 'Though I usually cave and make 'em black russians instead. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/11 "2004-08-04T21:19:48Z")
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 ! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/12 "2004-08-04T22:02:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/13 "2004-08-04T22:10:20Z")
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. 😉 _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. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/14 "2004-08-05T03:41:44Z")
HIGHLANDER makes me look at the family ceremonial KofC sword & wish I had a sword partner to throw down with. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/15 "2004-08-05T04:07:33Z")
> [@cormac262](#): > > 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 ! 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… ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/16 "2004-08-05T04:09:44Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/17 "2004-08-05T04:36:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/18 "2004-08-05T05:18:29Z")
THat movie \Parents\ always gives me a craving for sausage. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/19 "2004-08-05T05:19:49Z")
Sorry 'bout the shitty coding. Should read _Parents_, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328/20 "2004-08-05T06:22:36Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-want-to/258328.md?page=2)