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post #51 of 67
8/5/12 at 9:49am

I had a friend who thought Christimas Vacation was called Yule Crackup.

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post #52 of 67
8/5/12 at 9:58am

Being Flynn.

 

Fuck you.

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post #53 of 67
8/5/12 at 10:12am

Being Flynn just might replace Chasing Papi as my least favorite quirky indie move title.

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post #54 of 67
8/5/12 at 1:26pm
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Originally Posted by Virtanen View Post

Oh, that's probably the best title for anything in the history of universe.

 

 

I'm partial to Sgt Kabukiman NYPD but I understand the appeal of TCM. 

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post #55 of 67
8/5/12 at 1:30pm
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Being Flynn.

 

Fuck you.

 

Especially when you consider it was an adaptation of a book called "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City", which whether or not you like it, sure as hell is memorable.

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post #56 of 67
8/5/12 at 1:33pm

For some reason:

 

The Matrix Revolutions

 

always makes me think:

 

The Vagina Monlogues

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post #57 of 67
8/5/12 at 1:51pm
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Originally Posted by mcnooj82 View Post

For some reason:

 

The Matrix Revolutions

 

always makes me think:

 

The Vagina Monlogues


 Which Lana Wachowski can participate in now!

 

(Sorry. I'm really not transphobic. But that segue was un-pass-up-able.)

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post #58 of 67
8/5/12 at 1:54pm

Generally (there are exceptions) any title beginning with a gerund is a red flag.

 

...Never mind, Bucho covered this. Forgot.

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post #59 of 67
8/5/12 at 3:04pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Blank View Post

Generally (there are exceptions) any title beginning with a gerund is a red flag.

 

...Never mind, Bucho covered this. Forgot.

 

 

I'm no English professor (at least not a licensed one) so I might be off with my terminology, and this also doesn't really matter since we're on the same page in spirit, but I always thought a gerund is when the -ing version of the verb becomes a noun. Like Singing In The Rain. Which is a title I love. In that case "singing" is the verb turned into the name of an activity. But Singing Welcome To The Jungle would be the present participle, because it's the verb being a verb. Same form, different function. Or maybe I'm confused. It's been known to happen.

 

So for me this debilitating condition is more specific to present participles and also more specific to personal nouns than non-personal nouns. I don't mind Raising Arizona, Finding Neverland or Romancing The Stone anywhere near as much because Arizona, Neverland and The Stone aren't people. Worst of all though is when the personal noun is some kind of pun. For example, in Saving Grace or Nearing Grace. Or Chasing Liberty, where although the character's real name isn't Liberty, her code name is. So cutesy. So evil.

 

I have a similar rage against male bands who go cutesy with the use of girl's names in the band name. Even with bands I liked, like Alice In Chains, Jane's Addiction, Flogging Molly or Tripping Daisy (the last two of which are double offenders with that present participle horsehit), I never liked what they called themselves. Thin Lizzy get a pass though. Again, I don't know why.

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post #60 of 67
8/5/12 at 3:24pm

Paging professor Parker.  (Which would be a terrible title for a movie.)

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post #61 of 67
8/5/12 at 3:26pm
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Paging professor Parker.  (Which would be a terrible title for a movie.)

 

"Professor?  Why do you still use a pager?"

"Because unlike you, I haven't given up on these youths!!!"

 

(cue Oscar bait music)

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post #62 of 67
8/5/12 at 3:29pm

The Happening is a gerund.

 

What's Happening? is not.

 

"His drunken driving caused the crash" is a gerund.

 

"Driving drunk caused him to crash" is not.

 

 

I think.  I'll just stick to apostrophes and spelling.

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post #63 of 67
8/5/12 at 3:35pm

Your right, Dahlia!!!

 

I know what I'm talkin'bout!

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post #64 of 67
8/5/12 at 4:30pm

How about Rachel Getting Married?

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post #65 of 67
8/5/12 at 4:36pm

I submit Teaching Mrs. Tingle, which loses points for the gerund, for being a cowardly change from Killing Mrs. Tingle, and for being one of the worst movies there is.

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post #66 of 67
8/6/12 at 10:05am
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Originally Posted by Waaaaaaaalt View Post

And another quote about titles that I agree with Patton on "I like a title that tells you exactly what the movie is going to be. The best? Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

 

I know folks who were disappointed by how few people actually get killed in that 'massacre', and moreso, how few of those are specifically killed with a chainsaw.

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post #67 of 67
8/6/12 at 10:22am
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I know folks who were disappointed by how few people actually get killed in that 'massacre', and moreso, how few of those are specifically killed with a chainsaw.

 

Sticklers.  

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