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I used to believe…

After I saw Beetlejuice when I was 6, I went to school and told everyone that Beetlejuice (not Michael Keaton the actor who plays him) was my uncle.


— Teresa

I used to believe…

When I was a kid, I was terrified of scary movies and new nothing about the differences between Freddy Kruger and Jason. To me, they were all the same thing. After realizing, that I was born on the 13th and that I lived on Elm Street, I was horrified at the thought that Freddy Kruger could potentially be my father.

— J.

I used to believe…

When I was little, I thought that if I labelled a videotape, I'd be able to see what I labelled when I played the tape. For example, I wrote "Minnie and Me" on the label and stuck it on an empty tape, but my mother told me it wouldn't play anything.

— Yoji

I used to believe…

A couple of years ago when the Excorsist of Emily Rose came out, one of my friends saw a sceen from it. It was the one wear she wakes up around 3 A.M. and the devil enters the building and posses her. I thought that could actually happen to me. It still freaks me out to leave my room at 3 A.M.

— Moose Man is the friend who told me that

i used to watch those old movies halloween with micheal myers.. they would scar me so bad as a child. SInce i really didn't know his name i would say "mommy help! micheal jackson is under my bed!" (:

— sSsSs

I used to think that the movie ratings stood for:

G - Good
PG - Pretty Good
PG-13 - Pretty Good (if you're over 13)
R - Really Bad

It wasn't until I was 9 or 10 that I actually took the time to read what they stood for.

Anon

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I used to believe…

My brother somehow got the idea that Daley Thompson played Gus in Superman III, & that Superman was drinking vinager in the bar scene.

— Richard Davies

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i used to think disney princesses had such white teeth because they had oreos in their mouths and they're lips hid the black cookie

Anon

I used to believe…

When I first started to hear about sci-fi movies, I thought that when two people kissed in a movie it was a special effect because they were not lovers in real life...

— VB

I used to think that in movies when a character starts out as a baby/kid and then it goes into the future that they actually had to wait for that baby/kid to grow up before they could film anymore. I remember watching forest gump and thinking that it must have taken 50 years to make that movie!

— han

I started believing in this when i first saw Stuart Little(the first one). I watched it, and i had bursted into tears! I started thinking that every rat was Stuart!
One day my dad had found a rat in the house. I had believed it was Stuart! Lol when my dad smashed it I cryed my eyes and lungs out!! Lol i stoped beilieving in that wen i was 7. lol

Anon

I used to believe…

When I was small I used to believe that movies were actually real and that the movies were just caught on tape by mistake, but then I heard about actors and how it's fake.

— Missa

I used to believe…

After watching Titanic my small sister kept crying because she thought that the director killed those people in the ship just for the sake of making the movie..!!
After that i had to explain her how movies are actually made.

— Shirin

I used to believe…

When I was little, I was very afraid of the movie E.T.-Extra Terrestrial. I thought that if I flushed the toilet at night, if I had woken up to use the restroom during the night, then E.T. would pop out of the toilet and eat my butt. I had to call my mom to flush the toilet for me at night!

— Sophia

I used to believe…

When I was little, I used to love the Wizard of Oz. My favorite part was when they would sing "Cosby, Cosby, Cosby, Cosby, Cosby..... Because of the wonderful things he does!" How great it was that the munchkins loved the Cosby Show just much as I did!

— Paul

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I used to believe…

When I saw movies or t.v. show had a character who aged significantly, such as from a child to adult, I thought they were filmed over a long period of time.

— Amanda

I used to believe…

When I was around eight or nine years old, I always used to hang out with my "favorite" cousin who was three years older than me.

One night, my cousin, his friend, and I were outside of his house playing around and talking when suddenly his friend called me a "fag". Being older than me and trying to act cool, they wouldn't tell me what it meant. A few minutes later, they told me that the "Candyman" (from the popular horror film) would get me. Being absolutely terrified, I ran in the house to my mom.

"Mom! The Candyman is going to get me! Does he only come after fags?" I was terrified.

Looking back at that now, mom probably laughed about that with her friends for hours after I went to bed - knowing that I was safe from the Candyman because I wasn't a fag.

— James R

I used to think that in movies or TV shows with flashbacks to the character's youth, that they had actually begun filming the show back when the actor was a child and resumed filming the rest of it when he or she was grown up. I always wondered how they knew that person was going to grow up to be an actor and want to do the rest of the movie. Or I marveled at the foresight of the filmmaker to start making the movie before he knew the rest of the story.

— Pasha

I used to believe…

When I was 9 I watched Jarassic Park. It was the first film I ever saw when people die. So I thought of this theory that what happened was that they got paid lots of money then a year later the scenes were shot and they died. I asked my mum about this and she assured me they didn't die and she showed me the 'Making of the film' extra which explained the special effects.

— Helena

I was a huge fan of the Harry Potter films when I was little and I believed that all the magic and stuff was true!When I was nearly 11 years old I asked my mum to ask Dumbledore to send me a school aplication!!I'm 14 now, and I know it isn't real...but I still want to go hahaha!!

— Natalie