# Movies You Could Step Into And Live Happily **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 2, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964 "2011-09-02T15:42:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/21 "2011-09-02T19:58:55Z")
I’d like to live in the Star Wars universe. Assuming of course that I’d be a Jedi, or a smuggler, or if I owned a really nice vest. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/22 "2011-09-02T20:06:14Z")
_Dark City_ looked pretty cool at the end, but might be a bit claustrophobic. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/23 "2011-09-02T20:20:07Z")
Another vote for porn world. Let’s face it - porn takes place in a perfect world. There’s no death or health problems or poverty or serious crime or wars or natural disasters or villains or monsters. The people in porn world just spend all day having great sex with attractive people. ---
**Author:** ![slitterst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@slitterst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slitterst)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/24 "2011-09-02T20:21:38Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > I’d like to live in the Star Wars universe. Assuming of course that I’d be a Jedi, or a smuggler, or if I owned a really nice vest. Really? I think the Creator rearranging history every ten years would get on my nerves. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/25 "2011-09-02T20:31:38Z")
**Miller’s Crossing** ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/26 "2011-09-02T20:41:22Z")
Any of the Pokemon movies. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/27 "2011-09-02T21:34:08Z")
_ **Amelie** _. I’d have to learn French, though. \*\*\*Micmacs \*\*\*would be a nice runner up. Not so much the other Jeunet movies, though–while the whimsy of \*\*\*Delicatessen \*\*\*appeals, the cuisine leaves a bit to be desired. And the \*\*\*City of Lost Children \*\*\*would be, at best, an interesting place to visit. The furry in me’d sign up for _ **The Secret of NIMH** _, too, though only with the promise of being one of the rats. Do TV shows count? \*\*\*Pushing Daisies \*\*\*and _ **Firefly** _’d both have me stepping through the rift in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/28 "2011-09-03T06:14:57Z")
As a passenger in the back seat of the car driven in Trains, Planes & Automobiles, laughing, “I LOVE that song,” at every one playing on the radio. The scene where they’re screetching between the semi’s…flashing from skeletons to freaked out faces & back again…living faster than the speed of the life. Is good. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/29 "2011-09-03T06:51:49Z")
I would be happy as a man in the street in a Hal Roach comedy in sunny Los Angeles circa 1932. At least until I got covered in roofing tar or had the top punched out of my boater hat. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/30 "2011-09-03T07:33:15Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > The Thin Man. Everybody looks like they’re having a ball in that movie. Hah! I came in to say the same thing! I watched _The Thin Man_ for the first time a few days ago and _After The Thin Man_ tonight. I’d have to married to Myrna Loy though, 'cause booze, Art Deco furnishings, tailored clothing, servants and limitless money can take you only so far. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/31 "2011-09-03T16:24:48Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Another vote for porn world. Let’s face it - porn takes place in a perfect world. There’s no death or health problems or poverty or serious crime or wars or natural disasters or villains or monsters. The people in porn world just spend all day having great sex with attractive people. Yeah, and no STDs either. No regrets, no commitments, no worries. If I were going to live in Casablanca, I would want to be Ferrari. After all, three days in and everyone you like has left, except for Carl and the other folks at Rick’s. And as Ferrari, I would then own Rick’s. I could always lose weight 😉 I’m thinking maybe 2012, as long as I and my loved ones all survived. I think it would be good to do a re-boot on the whole world. Although I’m not really particularly optimistic about how it would turn out. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/32 "2011-09-03T16:56:07Z")
I want to live in Hobbiton. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/33 "2011-09-03T17:05:35Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Hah! I came in to say the same thing! I watched _The Thin Man_ for the first time a few days ago and _After The Thin Man_ tonight. > > I’d have to married to Myrna Loy though, 'cause booze, Art Deco furnishings, tailored clothing, servants and limitless money can take you only so far. 😃 Well William Powell was married to Carole Lombard and at one stage was shagging Jean Harlow, so you would have a reputation to live up to. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/34 "2011-09-03T17:13:10Z")
Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly… Yes, the Wizard of Oz would do me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/35 "2011-09-03T17:24:17Z")
_Gattaca_. That’s the world for me. We’re at the point where one can apparently travel to Saturn with less hassle (and more style) than I would experience flying to Vancouver, we’re apparently pretty well off medically, and we’ve come to grips as a society with some cleaner energy sources. I liked the way the lack of necessity for fuel efficiency leads to bigger, gaudier styles of car bodies, very clever. Or maybe _Moon_, although we don’t really see what that world’s like. A big corporation seems to have a lock on the Helium-3 market and it acts like a dink and talk radio still exists - both drawbacks - but it’s implied that world is on its way as well. Artificial intelligence, cheap energy, well established routine travel throughout the solar system, we’ve got it made. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/36 "2011-09-03T18:51:31Z")
I think people are misreading the OP. The question isn’t what character you’d like to be; it’s what movie you’d like to live in. Just because you’re stepping into _The Lord of the Rings_, don’t think you get to be Aragorn. You’re more likely be one of those Rohanian militiamen who gets killed by an Orc. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/37 "2011-09-03T19:07:37Z")
The first one I thought of was Casablanca. But that was done by the OP, so I have to say Top Hat. I’d love to be Ginger. What’s not to love–great clothes, lots of money, tap-dancing, horseback riding, trips to Italy with drinks by the pool. Not shown in the movie but apparently even mountain climbing was a possibility. Heaven! ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/38 "2011-09-03T19:13:20Z")
I’ve always wanted to live in Kenneth Branagh’s _Much Ado About Nothing_. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/39 "2011-09-03T19:30:26Z")
_Cannonball Run_. Finally, some people who drive like me. Outside of movies, I’d say the [Folgers Commercials](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZzQfdBWhCk&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964/40 "2011-09-03T19:43:52Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Well William Powell was married to Carole Lombard and at one stage was shagging Jean Harlow, so you would have a reputation to live up to. Once more unto the breach, dear friends… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-could-step-into-and-live-happily/594964.md?page=3)