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How to Type Movie Titles

post #1 of 33
11/24/07 at 8:32pm
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I go all over the place when it comes to the format that I type the titles of films. I think it's time I settle down and choose. I'm going back and forth between the very clean and legible "Moltisanti method" of all capital letters and the slightly fancier and more formal "Greg David method" of going bold.

What do you think?
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post #2 of 33
11/24/07 at 8:35pm
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All I know is that quotation marks are for the birds and they end up making my posts all sloppy lookin'.
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post #3 of 33
11/24/07 at 8:38pm
I'm favoring the Greg David method of late. For I am a bold motherfucker.
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post #4 of 33
11/24/07 at 8:45pm
the MLA rule is that book/movie/magazine/newspaper/album titles are underlined or italicized (ie, long pieces)

Quotes are for articles, poems, stories, songs. (ie, short pieces that are collected in larger pieces)

the internet, of course, makes things crazy with all its HTML bullshit. but at least CHUD has an italics button.
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post #5 of 33
11/24/07 at 8:49pm
On CHUD I go bold for movie titles, italics for TV show and book/magazine titles and quotes for episode titles and song names.

That's my vote!
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post #6 of 33
11/24/07 at 8:49pm
"platoon"
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post #7 of 33
11/24/07 at 9:19pm
I've always been an italics man.
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post #8 of 33
11/24/07 at 9:25pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raspberry Leper
"platoon"
Don't you mean "PLATOON" (1986)?

I'm a bold man, myself.
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post #9 of 33
11/24/07 at 9:37pm
Italicizing makes you seem smoother than you may or may not actually be.
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post #10 of 33
11/24/07 at 10:02pm
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Originally Posted by KaPabLe
Italicizing makes you seem smoother than you may or may not actually be.
Speak for yourself. I am clearly one smoooooooooooth mother fucker.
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post #11 of 33
11/24/07 at 11:04pm
I'm an italics man, also.
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post #12 of 33
11/24/07 at 11:07pm
<<<<==={[PlatooN]}===>>>>
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post #13 of 33
11/24/07 at 11:54pm
Bold for movie and TV show titles, quotes for episode titles and song titles. Can't decide between bold or italic for album titles.
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post #14 of 33
11/25/07 at 12:11am
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post #15 of 33
11/25/07 at 1:02am
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post #16 of 33
11/25/07 at 1:19am
Definitely italics. That's just the correct way to do it, folks.
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post #17 of 33
11/25/07 at 1:35am
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Originally Posted by BTSMGL
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I think that's how you type Tool albums...
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post #18 of 33
11/25/07 at 2:37am
You can never go wrong with a big fat glaring typo. For instance:

Platooy
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post #19 of 33
11/25/07 at 2:41am
Italics are correct on paper, and are The Correct Way To Do Things, but all-caps is usually acceptable on the internet, where you might find yourself in a posting environment that doesn't support italics. However, all-caps doesn't allow for titles that play games with standard capitalization such as sex, lies, and videotape which is specifically all lowercase. But they're rare, and fuck 'em for ripping off e.e. cummings anyway.
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post #20 of 33
11/25/07 at 6:09am
I'm a bold man, myself, but I've always known the ALL CAPS method as the Harry Knowles method, since that was the first time I'd seen it back when I visited his site in 1999. And then fabfunk was always a big proponent of the CAPS. There's a good endorsement.
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post #21 of 33
11/25/07 at 6:28am
I always knew that sooner or later I'd get something named after me. I'd just hoped that "The Greg David Method" would be a term applied to a sexual act.

The main reason I favor bold type for titles is that I prefer to use italics to emphasize words, and I dislike underscoring. Sometimes I have trouble deciding whether to bold titles of episodes of TV shows, or song titles. I usually do, though.
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post #22 of 33
11/25/07 at 10:41am
On the site we use this format:

Movie/Tv shows/Game/comic book titles - bold/italics
Episodes - italics
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post #23 of 33
11/25/07 at 11:20am
I go for bold, if only because I don't like feeling like movie titles are being shouted at me.
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post #24 of 33
11/25/07 at 11:36am
The Greg David method: distract your friends with film scores while you fuck their female loved ones.
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post #25 of 33
11/25/07 at 12:29pm
Let's look at them together:


"The Godfather"
THE GODFATHER
The Godfather
The Godfather
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post #26 of 33
11/25/07 at 12:49pm
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The Godfather. Yup, that looks good. And who'd know better than the folks at the main page? Thanks Eileen! Now let's see if I remember to use it!
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post #27 of 33
11/25/07 at 2:03pm
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post #28 of 33
11/25/07 at 2:07pm
Moltisanti is the one true type. It's simple, you don't need to fuck around with faggot codes, and it gets the message across that these are not just nouns.

Any movie worth typing about is worth shouting about too, so if you can't handle shouting on the internet feel free to choose the limp-wristed italics/bolds.
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post #29 of 33
11/25/07 at 7:00pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Luca S.
The Greg David method: distract your friends with film scores while you fuck their female loved ones.
Sadly, not everyone is distracted by film scores. That's when I have to set something on fire.
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post #30 of 33
11/25/07 at 7:53pm
If my house really has to burn down, I'd rather it be set to some Alan Silvestri or something, you know?
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post #31 of 33
11/25/07 at 8:06pm
AP style is to put movie titles in quotation marks.
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post #32 of 33
2/14/08 at 1:40am
Kevin K's post earns this thread a Post-Revamp Bump.
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post #33 of 33
2/14/08 at 7:44am
What's up with all the bumpCIRCUIT CITY! CLICK ME CLICK ME CLICK ME!!!!!ing?
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