# What movies do you wish you could jump into? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122 "2005-08-29T17:18:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/21 "2005-08-29T19:41:48Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > I think maybe I’d like to jump into an old film noir story and give away the plot. Maybe something like **Double Indemnity** where I could slap Fred MacMurray in the face and say “The dame’s makin’ a sap outta ya! She’s settin’ ya up for a fall. Wise up!” I’ve had the exact same thought, and even talk to the screen sometimes… Of course, my favorite line from a noir that I always look for a chance to use: “Get up, Mahoney. People’ll think you’ve never been socked by a dame before.” ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/22 "2005-08-29T19:55:55Z")
**Hellboy**. Partly so I could be an ass-kicking weird agent and partly so I could _ahem_ seduce Abe. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/23 "2005-08-29T20:02:35Z")
The Matrix…“I know kung fu!” Sweet. Just the first movie though, none of that sequel garbage for me. -rainy ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/24 "2005-08-29T20:04:30Z")
It would be kinda fun to be a Ghost Buster. My first choice would have to be Star Trek. I would like to be a ship’s engineer or maybe science department. There should be enough room for many of us. I would have loved to be part of the Laser Research group in Real Genius. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/25 "2005-08-29T20:09:10Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > **Hellboy**. Partly so I could be an ass-kicking weird agent and partly so I could _ahem_ seduce Abe. 😃 I find Abe very attractive, also. But it has occurred to me that his idea of a sexy date may be to swim over a clutch of eggs and release his sperm onto 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/26 "2005-08-29T20:09:17Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > > [@cruel butterfly](#): > > > > Get out much? > > Sure I do. What’s your point? I think he’s trying to insinuate that you don’t get in much. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/27 "2005-08-29T20:09:18Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > **Debbie Does Dallas** > > Oh, c’mon, like nobody else was thinking something like that… Oh yeah? **Behind The Green Door**. 😃 😃 😃 What movie. Hmmm. \*\*Time After Time. Woodstock. Walkabout.\*\* 🙂 Hey, they don’t call her the **Amazing Floozy Goddess** for nothing !! Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/28 "2005-08-29T20:15:34Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > I think he’s trying to insinuate that you don’t get in much. So my choices are that fucked up, compared to everyone else’s here? And so far, neither of you raconteurs have even bothered to add anything original to the thread, but just come in and pissed on mine. So get bent. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/29 "2005-08-29T20:23:37Z")
> [@rainy](#): > > The Matrix…“I know kung fu!” > > Sweet. Just the first movie though, none of that sequel garbage for me. > > -rainy Me, too! But, I like the sequels. Especially that little scene between Neo and Trinity in **Reloaded** …except, ah, you know, I’d like it if it was me and him… I think I’ll stop right there. :o Other movies I’d like to jump into: **Harry Potter** , **Constantine** (you can see where this is coming from, right?), **Star Wars**. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/30 "2005-08-29T20:30:36Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I find Abe very attractive, also. But it has occurred to me that his idea of a sexy date may be to swim over a clutch of eggs and release his sperm onto 'em. That still sounds pretty hot…_rushes out to fishing store to buy egg packets_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/31 "2005-08-29T20:40:27Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > That still sounds pretty hot…_rushes out to fishing store to buy egg packets_ 😃 Be careful, hon. Abe may not be the kind of guy who will pay tadpole support if he gets you in the hatchery way. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/32 "2005-08-29T20:51:03Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > So my choices are that fucked up, compared to everyone else’s here? Chill, baby. 😉 Just a little good natured ribbing. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/33 "2005-08-29T20:58:02Z")
> [@drm](#): > > Rachel McAdams could have used a love interest in Red Eye. Okay…she didn’t really need one so much as I want to be one. I’ll distract Cillian Murphy, and she’s all yours. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/34 "2005-08-29T21:04:57Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > So my choices are that fucked up, compared to everyone else’s here? And so far, neither of you raconteurs have even bothered to add anything original to the thread, but just come in and pissed on mine. So get bent. Geez, no offense intended; I was just punning on the other guy’s remark. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_of_the_Lake)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/35 "2005-08-29T21:57:26Z")
1. The end of Pirates of the Caribbean. Captain Jack Sparrow and I would drink, steal and charm our way across the Caribbean. We wouldn’t really need a ‘quest’ or have a bad guy to defeat or necessarily know where our ship is, but I’m sure we’d have fun! I’m thinking dressing up as a male member of his crew would be the way to go here, as Jack doesn’t strike me as the best type to be in a romantic relationship with… 2. Never ending Story. I would be the main character, except it would be a girl reading the book in the attic. Not only because I had a crush on Atreyu _ahem_, but because it was such a sweet story. A perfect fantasy world to visit and explore, but one doesn’t have to leave the real world behind. 3. Anime. Ranma ½. I think being a newly created female best-friend to Akane would be fun. I’d help her out and get to watch all the fun scenes as they unfold. It would be hours of entertainment, plus I might get to make a play for Ryoga or Moussu, as both make me laugh. As a bonus, like everyone else there, I’m pretty sure I’d be great at martial arts! ---
**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:** [August 29, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/36 "2005-08-29T22:06:02Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > A musical, like \*Swing Time \* or _American in Paris_. Everyone dresses in gorgeous clothes, knows the words to every song, and dances gracefully at the drop of a hat. Bonus points for Technicolor ballgowns. Sounds swell. Need a date? ( **Please note:** You must be female.) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/37 "2005-08-29T22:30:24Z")
_Blues Brothers,_ right at the end: I’d use a rifle to shoot at their fuel line, stalling the car before it did a Kristallnacht on the mall. _Mighty Joe Young:_ Just as the exhausted Joe finished wrecking the Golden Safari, I’d block the fat bald drunk from leaving (after he got free from the lions) and grab the nape of his neck so he’d walk on his tippy-toes up to O’Hara, and threaten to punch the tosspot out unless he confessed about touching the cigarette to Joe’s skin. _Zapped!:_ At the prom, I’d pick up a silver platter and deflect Baio’s psychokinetic force–like a mirror deflecting light–so that he would denude Willie Aames instead of Heather Thomas–including slacks and undershorts! 😃 _Airplane!:_ After the stewardess strolled down the aisle smacking people in the head with her guitar, I would have yanked it away from her and parted her hair with it. _Back to the Future:_ Granted I’ve come under fire for my comments on this movie, but what I suggest for it uses no violence at all: I would ask the cops (whose car Fox hitched a ride on with his skateboard) to wait at the house until the tow truck trundled the family car onto their driveway, prodding the cops to ask the tow driver for the written report–which would ensure the Neanderthal employer a jail term, and possibly (status as sole defendant in) a whopping lawsuit. _Rear Window:_ “Jeff, here’s the window shades you ordered…” ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/38 "2005-08-29T23:23:14Z")
The Marvel Universe (X-Men, Hulk, Daredevil, Blade, Spiderman et al) so long as I’m one of the superpowered and don’t have some lame-ass power like Cypher or Jubilee’s. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/39 "2005-08-30T00:25:16Z")
Lessee… Star Trek - I’d like to be a helmsman on an Excelsior or Miranda starship during the Dominion War, or a pilot of one of the Federation Fighters during the same conflict. Star Wars - Preferably a Rebel pilot of some sort, perhaps at the Battle of Endor. Failing that, an officer in the Republic Navy (Navy of the Republic? Army of the Republic Navy? did they ever come up with a canon name for that?) before the Jedi Purge. Those Venator Star Destroyers were just cool 😃 Wing Commander - I’d like to be a pilot of one of those Rapiers from the movie. I don’t care what you say about them being ugly, it’s just more fun to blow up a badguy with an autocannon than it is with a laser gun 🙂 Wing Commander 3/4 (They count as movies, right?) - I wouldn’t mind flying and fighting alongside such pilots as Vaquero, Panther, or That Guy From Star Wars™ Actually, I wouldn’t mind trying to put the moves on either Velina Sosa or the BWS Intrepid’s helmswoman, they were both cute. Empire Records - That store would freaking rock as a workplace. Let’s ignore that I’m not a big music kinda guy, the people there are just cool. Babylon 5 (TV movies count, yes?) Either a Starfury pilot, Ranger, a crewman on an EarthForce starship, or personal Masseuse for Lyta Alexander or Commander Ivonova (Hey, they lead stressful lives, they could probably use massages! ;)) Once Upon A Time In Mexico - It’d be cool to be one of El Mariachi’s guitar-case coting sidekicks (who, unlike the ones in Desperado, don’t wear proverbial red shirts under their black jackets) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122/40 "2005-08-30T00:53:22Z")
**Pirates of the Caribbean** excellent call! **Ocean’s 11** and **Snatch** cause I luffs cons and Brad Pitt. I would have to mention a rather obscure Tommy Lee Jones pirate flick **Nate and Hayes** that is a rollicking good time that I adore. Oooooh, and howzabout **Buckaroo Bonzai** I’m not sure if I would be a hero or a groupie or possible on John Worphin’s side. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-do-you-wish-you-could-jump-into/319122.md?page=3)