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Three Men and a Baby. (now on netflix)
Posted on 6/16/14 at 9:26 am
Posted on 6/16/14 at 9:26 am
Couple of thoughts:
-I can't believe my dad let us watch this movie as much as he did. It's not really kid friendly. This is the same dude that wouldn't let us watch The Smurfs because Gargamel practiced black magic.
-That opening song
-I thought Steve Guttenberg was so funny when I was a kid, but the dude is a hack in this movie. He didn't make me laugh once.
-How did I never know Spock directed this?
-Ted Danson's face looks like a catchers mitt, even at a young age. Birds follow him around and salvage his eyebrow hair for their nest.
-I can't believe my dad let us watch this movie as much as he did. It's not really kid friendly. This is the same dude that wouldn't let us watch The Smurfs because Gargamel practiced black magic.
-That opening song
-I thought Steve Guttenberg was so funny when I was a kid, but the dude is a hack in this movie. He didn't make me laugh once.
-How did I never know Spock directed this?
-Ted Danson's face looks like a catchers mitt, even at a young age. Birds follow him around and salvage his eyebrow hair for their nest.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 9:33 am to Patrick O Rly
The most interesting thing about this movie, IMO,is the ghost story. It turned out to not be true, but it was still some crazy shite.
Three Men and a Baby Ghost Video
Three Men and a Baby Ghost Video
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In the final cut of the movie, there is a scene, just over an hour into the film, in which Jack Holden (Ted Danson) and his mother (Celeste Holm) walk through the house with the baby. As they do so, they pass a background window on the left-hand side of the screen, and a black outline that appears to resemble a rifle pointed downward can be seen behind the curtains. As the characters walk back past the window 40 seconds later, a human figure can be seen in that window. A persistent urban legend began circulating August 1990 (shortly before the film's sequel, Three Men and a Little Lady, premiered) that this was the ghost of a boy who had been killed in the house where the movie was filmed. The most common version of this rumor was that a nine-year-old boy committed suicide with a shotgun there, explaining why the house was vacant because the grieving family left. This notion was discussed on the first episode of TV Land: Myths and Legends in January 2007[3] and was referenced in "Hollywood Babylon", a second season episode of the TV series Supernatural.
The figure is actually a cardboard cutout "standee" of Jack, wearing a tuxedo and top hat, that was left on the set. This prop was created as part of the storyline, in which Jack, an actor, appears in a dog food commercial, but this portion of the story was cut from the final version of the film. The standee does show up later in the film, however, when Jack stands next to it as the baby's mother comes to reclaim her child. The website snopes.com contends that the figure in the first scene looks smaller from its appearance in the latter scene because of the distance and angle of the shot, and because the curtains obscure its outstretched arms. As for the contention that a boy died in the house, all the indoor scenes in the film were shot on a Toronto sound stage, and no residential dwellings were used for interior filming.
This post was edited on 6/16/14 at 10:43 am
Posted on 6/16/14 at 9:34 am to abellsujr
So yeah, it turns out it was a cardboard cutout, but what the frick was it doing in that scene?
Posted on 6/16/14 at 9:36 am to JumpingTheShark
Some people think the cutout story is bullshite. There are a lot of conspiracy theorists out there.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 9:38 am to JumpingTheShark
One more thing: the drug story is really stupid. You mean to tell me that you're going to put yourselves and the baby in possible danger of being killed just to get some drug dealers busted? Give them the freaking drugs and be done with it.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 9:42 am to abellsujr
I remember seeing Guttenberg on the talk show circuit promoting the film. He said that going out in public with Tom Selleck was pretty sobering for him and Danson. They were used to ladies being impressed with their stardom, but they were invisible to women when they stood next to Selleck.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 9:46 am to Fewer Kilometers
The greatest mustache in the history of man kind.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 9:52 am to Patrick O Rly
$5 says this movie gets remade in a couple of years and at least 2 of the 3 men will be re-written to be gay.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 10:03 am to Fewer Kilometers
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I remember seeing Guttenberg on the talk show circuit promoting the film. He said that going out in public with Tom Selleck was pretty sobering for him and Danson. They were used to ladies being impressed with their stardom, but they were invisible to women when they stood next to Selleck.
I can believe that 100%. Women fricking LOVE them some Tom Selleck.
And I love how easy it is to find shite on the internet...I'll never forget how weird it was when the story of the "kid ghost" came out. And people straight up believed that shite. But now, a 5 second google search can destroy that myth, when back then it was damn near real because why would someone make it up? IIRC, wasn't the story that the kid's mom was watching the movie in theaters and saw him and freaked the frick out?
Posted on 6/16/14 at 10:11 am to abellsujr
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The greatest mustache in the history of man kind.
I can't disagree.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 10:17 am to Patrick O Rly
I'll go thru life never seeing this movie again.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 10:20 am to CocomoLSU
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IIRC, wasn't the story that the kid's mom was watching the movie in theaters and saw him and freaked the frick out?
I heard it was a kid that killed himself on set.
..and you are so right about urban legends having more legs back before the internet. I remember it being to fricking hard to pause the VHS tape at the right moment to where I could even see the kid in the first place.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 10:40 am to biglego
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I'll go thru life never seeing this movie again.
Boooooo this man
Posted on 6/16/14 at 10:41 am to Patrick O Rly
Goodnight sweetheart well it's time to go....
Posted on 6/16/14 at 10:46 am to Neauxla
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This post was edited on 6/16/14 at 10:50 am
Posted on 6/16/14 at 11:15 am to LesMiles BFF
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I heard it was a kid that killed himself on set.
Not on set...just in the apartment that they used or whatever. What I meant was that it was the kid's mom who was watching the movie at the theater and saw her son by the window and freaked out.
That's definitely how I remember hearing about it...like the rumor was that the mom saw her son in the movie, and that's how the story of the ghost came out.
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