films

I also used to believe that America's Independence Day was the actual liberation of America from aliens thanks to the movie Independence Day. I was quite young at the time, if that's any excuse.

Lauren

I always thought that the Hulk was based of Hulk Hogan.

Vijay

When I was little, I would watch action movies with my dad. I used to think that people who were shot died for real, and always wondered why an actor would agree to die for the sake of a movie. I then concluded that the director must pay them millions of dollars and let them live for a little while with big houses and fancy cars so they wouldn't be sad when they had to die at filming.

pyromaniak

When a grown-up is shown as a child, it was actually them, and the film took 20+ years to produce

Anon

I used to believe that the actors in movies were all acting live behind those big curtains in the cinema.

Courtney

When I was younger I remember asking my grandmother why old films were in black and white. She said that ppl used to see in black and white, now in colour and in the future we would be able to see through things. I was so excited about this!

NIc

When I was little I used to believe that when movies portrayed an actor in many stages life, they started filming when the actor was younger and then resumed filming when the actor was grown up.

Heather

I waited for the mail to come on my 11th birthday so that I could get my letter to Hogwarts... It never came.

Charlie

When I was a child I used to believe that Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang was the most amazing movie ever - when I went back and watched the film as a teenager and realized that the entire film had been a dream sequence, my heart broke a little.

Batley.

...that everything was black and white pre-1950's and that's why movies from that time weren't in color.

Anon

I was convinced that disney movie characters were real people. After watching the Little Mermaid, I would always try opening my eyes and singing underwater, and was so sad when i couldn't do it! The weird thing was that it was only disney movies, never television cartoons.

Lacy

I used to think that when I was watching a movie, it was happening live. For example, I use to think they always shut down the city of New York everytime I wanted to watch Home Alone

Diana

I used to believe that whenever someone got shot in a movie, they really died. They sacrificed their life for their art.

Anon

When I was little I believed that old movies were in black and white, because the world used to be black and white.

Anon

I used to believe that there were little tiny men in the VCR that moved the wheels around the tapes I watched...This led to many destroyed VCRs while I tried to meet them.

Ben Mares