Also, I can't imagine trying to work in a simulacrum of Quark's bar without something either really bad, or really good for business happening. It's already creepy that every time Nog reflects on his parenting, I am reminded that I was taught a lot of the same lessons as a kid. posted by griphus at 2:04 PM on October 31, 2012 [1 favorite]
Mos Eisley Cantina Bar from Star Wars. Which would give me a chance to decorate myself as Han Solo.
Or maybe a sticky, creepy parlor look, as in "Will you walk into my Parlor, said the Spider to the Fly . . ." posted by bearwife at 2:06 PM on October 31, 2012 [1 favorite]
i would then hunt everyone down methodically amidst much screaming and terror posted by elizardbits at 2:08 PM on October 31, 2012 [9 favorites]
and feed them little xenomorph cupcakes, ideally one of which would contain an actual chestburster. posted by elizardbits at 2:09 PM on October 31, 2012 [3 favorites]
I want to attend the Enchantment Under The Sea dance from Back To The Future. I really like the idea of hanging out in an aquarium all night for some reason. posted by jenfullmoon at 2:10 PM on October 31, 2012 [4 favorites]
Don Draper's office. Booze, cool cigarette holder, squared off leather furniture, buxom women, and booze. Also, booze. posted by allkindsoftime at 2:12 PM on October 31, 2012 [11 favorites]
We just decorated our bedroom as something that could maybe be a set from The Prisoner, but I'm not sure that counts.
This is part of that Oregon initiative to give subsidies to people who provide their own sunlight, right? posted by griphus at 2:34 PM on October 31, 2012
Then I can sit there like Lester Freamon, making bits of miniature furniture, occasionally glancing at screens showing various MetaFilter threads in real time while slowly muttering "All the pieces matter...". posted by Wordshore at 2:35 PM on October 31, 2012 [3 favorites]
This room, from Ridely Scott's Legend, with the spooky shadows, table of opulence and roaring fire. Not sure about the hooved demon. Pretty sure about the woman in the dress.
Sunnydale High School library (pre-really big snake).
I suppose that would be tempting fate, since it's quite possible Phoenix really is a Hellmouth. Still, I'm going with it. And I'd wear a shiny white dress, so even if things go south, I may be dead but I'll still be pretty. posted by Superplin at 2:37 PM on October 31, 2012 [7 favorites]
Moon landing posted by carsonb at 2:39 PM on October 31, 2012
Or Callahan's. posted by carsonb at 2:40 PM on October 31, 2012
My office would be the Klingon courtroom from Star Trek VI, and I'd draft a coworker to shout, "DON'T WAIT FOR THE TRANSLATION, ANSWER ME NOW" at anyone who walked in. posted by adamdschneider at 2:48 PM on October 31, 2012 [10 favorites]
I guess maybe some places they call that a judge. Or something. posted by adamdschneider at 2:49 PM on October 31, 2012 [4 favorites]
The TARDIS because it would be a very good explanation for why all the different costumed people are there. Or just because you could send people off in search of the swimming pool. posted by Mizu at 2:54 PM on October 31, 2012
If I get to keep this decor forever, I'll take Meg Ryan's little hideaway Lake Tahoe cabin in City of Angels, or the unbelievably gorgeous art-rich apartment Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow share in A Perfect Murder. posted by bearwife at 2:56 PM on October 31, 2012
Tara, and I would come down the stairs dressed in the dining room curtains, just like Carol Burnett. posted by Cranberry at 2:58 PM on October 31, 2012 [4 favorites]
Rivendell!
Or the captain's cabin on the Normandy. For the fish tank, the space hamster and the model ships. posted by rewil at 3:03 PM on October 31, 2012
I also want to live in the huge art-filled post-apocalyptic palace in the beginning(ish) of Children Of Men, except I want it not to be the apocalypse and I want to not be a total schmuck for owning Michelangelo's David. posted by Sara C. at 3:04 PM on October 31, 2012 [1 favorite]
Extreme closeup HD pr0n. posted by Burhanistan at 3:04 PM on October 31, 2012
I don't spend enough time in my apartment to care what it looks like. Future academic librarians, take note. posted by librarylis at 3:08 PM on October 31, 2012 [2 favorites]
elizardbits: "and feed them little xenomorph cupcakes, ideally one of which would contain an actual chestburster."
Ooor, the chestburster is actually a jalapeno pepper. posted by boo_radley at 3:09 PM on October 31, 2012 [1 favorite]
oh, but my answer is the secret hideout from Tron: Legends. posted by boo_radley at 3:10 PM on October 31, 2012 [1 favorite]
Tyrell's cavernous office from Bladerunner, complete with electric owl and strangely hot replicant lady. posted by Ghidorah at 3:10 PM on October 31, 2012
Don Draper's office. Booze, cool cigarette holder, squared off leather furniture, buxom women, and booze. Also, booze.
I hate to be that guy but women are not decoration.
For myself, I'd like Don and Megan's apartment, mostly because I want to investigate all their knicknacks in detail and wonder about the conversations behind the purchase of each one. posted by sweetkid at 3:46 PM on October 31, 2012 [3 favorites]
Nuclear command center with a Big Red Button sitting on the coffee table (of course there's a coffee table in the command center) daring people to push it. posted by backseatpilot at 4:04 PM on October 31, 2012
And since it's movies, then the command center from Dr. Strangelove. Or maybe the barracks, complete with grain alcohol and rainwater. posted by backseatpilot at 4:05 PM on October 31, 2012
The pale man's banquet hall from Pan's Labyrinth. I would be the pale man and try to kill anyone who tried to eat the spread. posted by oomny at 4:22 PM on October 31, 2012 [3 favorites]
I honestly can't tell if the guy next to me is wearing a Walter White costume or that's just what he looks like posted by The Whelk at 4:25 PM on October 31, 2012 [4 favorites]
The bowling alley in Streetcar Named Desire. posted by Devils Rancher at 4:28 PM on October 31, 2012
My office would be the Klingon courtroom from Star Trek VI, and I'd draft a coworker to shout, "DON'T WAIT FOR THE TRANSLATION, ANSWER ME NOW" at anyone who walked in.
I spent a lot of time wondering about the universal translators used in Star Trek, trying to retcon an excuse for the movement of the characters' mouths to be matching their translation into English, like why did it look like they were speaking English when they were actually speaking e.g. Klingon, and thought like maybe the translators has a little ocular-field-generator or something that in addition to translating also adjusted mouth movements to match because otherwise hearing the translation simultaneously to seeing other peoples' mouths move in ways that shouldn't produce those sounds would be super disorienting, and then I realized that I had personally watched dubbed movies and it wasn't that disorienting and probably they'd all get used to it, plus if the universal translators worked like that wouldn't they have mentioned it at some point?
Unrelatedly, I wasn't super popular in junior high. posted by davidjmcgee at 5:45 PM on October 31, 2012 [8 favorites]
Another vote for Serenity. Or maybe Merlotte's. posted by deborah at 6:17 PM on October 31, 2012
The air duct trunk room that Newt lives in, in Hadley's Hope. posted by dirtdirt at 6:38 PM on October 31, 2012
Maggie Gyllenhaal/Ana Pascal's house in Stranger Than Fiction.
I would actually like to live there all the time. posted by janepanic at 7:52 PM on October 31, 2012
The Hub from Torchwood. Screens, water, database access, morgue, coffee boy...everything right at hand.
The Whelk, your tumblr has a spelling error re: continues, unless that's intentional, in which case, 'splain me? posted by Cold Lurkey at 7:54 PM on October 31, 2012
Ha! HuronBob, I just came in to say The Swamp, hands down!
Me too! Great minds something something ... posted by dg at 8:05 PM on October 31, 2012 [2 favorites]
I spent a lot of time wondering about the universal translators used in Star Trek ...
I always wondered about things getting confusing when the name of your home planet is a synonym for dirt. posted by The Great Big Mulp at 8:21 PM on October 31, 2012
The spaceship from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The cryogenically sleeping crew members would have flatlined, and HAL's eerie silence would pervade the antiseptic atmosphere of death and hopelessness.
I want my lab to look like a cross between Tony Stark's home lab in Iron Man (complete with AI robot) AND the 'Jeffersonian' labs in Bones. Windows. I just want those giant windows with a view of the sky... **sigh**. posted by Alice Russel-Wallace at 9:36 PM on October 31, 2012 [1 favorite]
Oh, man, Dark City would be awesome. I love that film in the same way I love Bram Stoker's Dracula in that despite the plot, the script and the acting, it's still a well-made and completely enjoyable movie. posted by griphus at 7:59 AM on November 1, 2012 [1 favorite]
We can settle this easily. Quark is stranded when the Federation and Dominion forces both quit DS9, so you can imagine his relief when Mal shows up with Serenity. They load the dabo and tongo equipment onto the cargo deck of the Serenity. River, frightened by Quark's bumpy head and large lobes, hides behind a panel and finds a portal to the Black Lodge, where she meets and rescues Agent Cooper. posted by brina at 8:01 AM on November 1, 2012
I love Bram Stoker's Dracula in that despite the plot, the script and the acting, it's still a well-made and completely enjoyable movie.
Every effect was done in camera! If nothing else it's a beautiful homage to old school movie making. posted by The Whelk at 8:45 AM on November 1, 2012
From the NYT Review: "'Dracula' has the nervy enthusiasm of the work of a precocious film student who has magically acquired a master's command of his craft." posted by griphus at 8:50 AM on November 1, 2012
Actually, I would happily live in any Arts & Crafts or Prairie School house, even if all of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings are actually scaled too small for me. posted by TheWhiteSkull at 9:38 AM on November 1, 2012 [1 favorite]
Can I be genderbent Wash? Because I drive the way he flies. posted by cmyk at 9:38 AM on November 1, 2012 [1 favorite]
The landing pad from Close Encounters, with the organ and everything, and a giant, brightly lit space ship hovering over it. posted by marienbad at 3:50 PM on November 1, 2012 [3 favorites]
Pretty much anywhere in Stars' Hollow (from The Gilmore Girls), but particularly Luke's Diner (if it came with auto-refilling pastries and grilled cheese sandwiches) and Lorelei & Rory's living room. posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 8:31 PM on November 1, 2012 [2 favorites]
Really? Has no one said Videodrome? It's an actual TV set, in a movie! posted by Eideteker at 12:04 AM on November 2, 2012
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