Mine was Eastern Promises, what about you?
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franzkabuki — 11 years ago(March 26, 2015 02:19 PM)
I gave up the "sport" (that's how I generally regarded it never occurred to me to feel guilty about it. Different story with stealing from an individual - which, I guess, is why I never did that) of shoplifting about a dozen years ago - around the same time I gave up gambling. Now THAT was a serious problem - whenever I got some money, the first priority was a trip to casino, usually with decidedly negative results - and even when I won initially, I'd often wind up getting drunk and going back and losing all winnings + more. Which is why one of the cardinal rules is never to gamble with alcohol - makes you emotional and you'll never be able to confine yourself to the amount of money you'd decided to "invest" in that damned slot machine prior to going in (machine poker was my poison). Fortunately, one day I just got fed up with it and quit. No real reason, it just wasn't fun anymore - I guess the way I played, with small bets, contributed there because it meant that I could never hope for a really big win while the losses were frequently comparatively large.
I'm still not sure how much of an aviophobe I am. That last time on EasyJet was, well, easier than I expected though - was only nervous upon takeoff and even then not overly so. It was a great feeling actually when I realized, walking around the terminal before boarding, stuffing my face with cheese, sausage and bread drinking cawfee liqueur, that I could probably handle it all well enough. And indeed the prevalent emotion during the flight was boredom. Consequences of the years-long obsession with the minutiae of plane crashes weren't quite 'that' drastic - especially as that obsession led to a wider aviophilia of sorts and a better understanding just how astonishingly safe flying is this day and age, how greatly things have improved (reading the columns of that Patrick Smith fella of Ask The Pilot fame was also very effective in making it all seem quite unthreatening). As that same Mr Smith once noted, since most mechanical/design/etc problems have been engineered out, today's crashes tend to be more complex and mysterious - or feature an unforeseeable human element like some bastard deciding the best way to end his life is to fly an A320 full of passengers into the mountain (pretty obvious that the Malaysian that's been MIA for over a year now, didn't experience any mechanical/electronic malfunction, either).
Valium's a sedative, right? Never took it, but I think I have some brief experience with Diazepam; not sure if they're 'exactly' the same.
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bradwbaumann — 10 years ago(May 24, 2015 09:05 AM)
The Brood.
I was 6. My mom rented it for her and my dad and told me to head to bed, it was for adults only, she said.
Secretly, I watched from the top of the staircase.
I didn't sleep for weeks.
This Town Needs an Enema!
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johnwills3 — 10 years ago(July 12, 2015 10:14 PM)
The Fly but weirdly I had a poster for Rabid before seeing The Fly at a very young age on First Run.
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canuck2 — 9 years ago(September 07, 2016 12:46 PM)
I'm the same. Rented Dead Ringers on VHS when I was about 13 or 14. It was a new movie then. Didn't like it at all. Seeing it again many years later, I really appreciated it.
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Robbmonster — 10 years ago(March 10, 2016 07:44 AM)
Scanners, I think.
Never defend crap with 'It's just a movie'
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apeneva — 9 years ago(May 29, 2016 09:42 AM)
Dead Ringers. way back in time, I was 15. I didn't even know who he was.
What a movie though kept me thinking for days.
Years after that I watched EP and A history of violence and thought they were excellent.
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DeadandBuried81 — 9 years ago(September 19, 2016 07:10 AM)
The Fly, when it came out in the 80s.
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