tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707040.post8477361082683119295..comments2024-02-25T12:47:03.941-06:00Comments on Johnny LaRue's Crane Shot: BulletproofMarty McKeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084642122976337263noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707040.post-31961619191951271872016-02-21T09:40:35.413-06:002016-02-21T09:40:35.413-06:00Back in the day I used to have a Sunday-Monday wee...Back in the day I used to have a Sunday-Monday weekend and adopted Sunday night as the night that I'd stay up late and watch a cheesy action movie on video cassette. I saw scads of the things, there are actually few from the video action era that I seem to have missed. <br />I remember this one very well, but not because of the film itself. <br />Because everyone else in the house had to get up early on Monday morning, while I watched I listened to the movie on headphones. <br />And there was a scene with the most blatant "subliminal" comments I've ever heard or heard about.<br /><br />There is a scene where the characters take refuge in a church, which I believe comes under attack. In a lull in the action a voice whispered softly on the soundtrack- "There is no God." Happened a couple times.<br />This seemed blatant enough to me to qualify more as a prank than a genuine subliminal message, and I found it creepy as hell. It's not that the whisper had any effect on my religious faith or lack thereof, it was just disturbing to think of somebody taking the time to do such a thing.<br /><br />As a lifelong devotee of late night movie watching, often using headphones, I've never bumped into anything like that before or since. I've never heard anyone say anything about noticing it, but then this may be the first time I've seen a write-up on the movie. It seems you didn't notice it, so I wonder if the 'subliminal' appeared only on the video cassette, or maybe even only on some the cassettes. I know it was there, however, as I went back the morning after watching the movie and listened to it again.Peter Collinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13537118158194489589noreply@blogger.com