Game: Movies Only A Cinemaniac Would Love
Submitted by dgeiser13 on Sat, 02/09/2008 - 02:10
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- 3:10 to Yma Sumac (1957)
- I Walked Like a Zombie (1943)
Author Comments:
If you're like me you have a lot of movie titles and other pop cultural ephemera swimming around in your head. Feel free to suggest a funny or strange title that you think would make for an interesting viewing experience and I'll add it to the list. And let's please limit it to original material. I've added one to get us started.
I'm not sure if I understand what we're supposed to do.
Neither am I! :-)
Actually, I've been trying to think of a good second example to help clarify. It's sort of like...
Have you ever had a random movie title pop into your head? Something that is clearly not a real movie title but makes you think to yourself, wow, now that would be a great/weird movie?
Who knows maybe I'm the only one who's brain works like that, and this game will be a complete bust and then I'll have to skulk back into my cave, careful not to hit my head on the way back in.
The Gestation Agent?
That's close except what does Gestation mean on it's own? It doesn't really have any other meaning except the play on words.
That's true. However, I came up with some more...
Little Children of Men
Half Nelson Mandela
Roman Holiday Inn
From Russia with Punch-Drunk Love
An Officer and a Gentleman Prefer Blondes
Rescue Dawn of the Dead
Knocked Up in Smoke
The Sixth Sense and Sensibility
Nine Lives of Others
American Beauty and the Beast
Stranger Than Pulp Fiction
Death Proof of Life
Gone Baby Gone with the Wind
Broken Flowers in the Attic
American Psycho Beach Party
The Great Escape from New York
Inside Man on the Moon
Match Point of No Return
Braveliver
A Communist in King Arthur's Court
Pants-tanic
Lord of the Bling-blings
The Replacement Grain-millers
Finding Emo
Is that right?
Out of all of those I think I like Finding Emo the best. I assume Braveliver is a play on Braveheart? I have no idea where Pants-tanic and The Replacement Grain-millers comes from. I think there might be a little too much literal replacement of one word for another going on there.
Well, isn't this list just supposedly to be the addition of nonsensical titles into the list? I didn't add those I thought were good neccessarily, just the "pop culture ephemera" that has been floating around. In fact, the only one I think is even decent on that list is Finding Emo. The whole thing was just literal replacement.
Those ideas are the pop culture equivalent of junk DNA, just sort of strange, and sort of there.
All I can think of at the moment are terrible puns. I'll wait to see where other people go. I'm a little too obscure at times.
Actually Ambient I think you should throw up a few. Obscurity is good! :-)
I had to stop here. These is just awful.
A Trip to the Moon, Alice (1902)
Nostufatu, The Face of Terror (1922)
De Fantum of de Opry (1925)
The Jizz Flinger (1927)
Captains Courageous Cat (1937)
Stagecoach Stop (1939) There has never been a movie with this title.
Destry Rides First (1939)
Break of the Wind (1939)
His Girl Friday Night (1940)
I Walked Like a Zombie (1943)
Hurricane Smith & Barney (1941)
Oh My Darling Clementine (1946)
Beauty and the Breast (1946)
White Knuckle Heat (1949)
Slippin' in the Rain (1952)
From Here to Infinity and Beyond (1953)
Johnny Guitar Watson (1954)
Rebel Just Because (1955)
Invasion of the Body Scratchers (1956)
Some Like It In the Pot, Nine Days Old (1959)
Rio Bravado (1959)
Splinter in the Ass (1961)
Dude, some of these are freaking hilarious. I wouldn't say that's exactly what I was looking for but I think you're petty much in the ballpark. I'm gonna go through and pull out my favorites and through them up on the list.
In that case, do you accept self-invented odd porn titles? I have dozens of those floating around in my head, such as:
Oedepussy Rex (or there's also Eat-a-pussy Rex)
The Anahymen Mighty Dicks in: Zamboner
James Bondage, Double-O Threesome
My favorite of Ambient's list is definitely Some like it in the Pot, Nine Days Old.
Part of the misunderstanding here, I think, is that your example is somewhat hard to understand. I don't know what you mean by 3:10 to Yma Sumac. I know it's a play on 3:10 to Yuma, but I don't understand what the play on it means. (Maybe it's just me, and it makes sense to everyone else?)
Do you know who or what Yma Sumac is?
No idea, actually.