Movies that would be interesting if they were more literally connected to their titles?

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  1. tharpdevenport

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    "xXx"
    A porno where the beginning is light Playboy Channel porn, the middle is hard core, then ends with more light fluff.


    "Snowpiercer"
    A movie about a dude peeing hard into the snow.


    "Terminator: Salvation"
    The Terminator prays for salvation at church.


    "50 Shades of Gray"
    Just a film that shows us 50 shades of gray.

    "50 Shades of Gray 2"
    Another 50 shades of gray.

    "the Grey"
    Just one shade of gray.


    "Non-Stop"
    Just playing a movie, any movie, other than "Non-Stop", non stop.


    "The Running Man"
    Just a guy running.
     
  2. The Day The Earth Stood Still
    - a dramatic film about the cataclysmic event as the earth stop spinning, luckily it only last for a day so happy ending.

    The Man With The Screaming Brain.
    - this movie does not end well.



    The Man With The Screaming Brain.
    - this movie does not end well.
     
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  4. Jayson1

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    Cabin Fever: A Cabin becomes alive and wouldn't you know it the first thing it does is get sick and starts to run a fever.

    Dirty Harry: A movie about a guy named Harry who refuses to take a bath.

    Mallrats: a local mall is filled with tons of rats, driving it's customers away.

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  5. Owain Taggart

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    The story behind the name is actually quite fascinating in itself, seeing as it's not PKD that had coined it. Story goes that a 50's era physician, also a writer on the side, wrote a story called The Blade Runners, about black-market doctors offering illegal medical help to citizens in a dystopian society, then William S. Boroughs was hired to turn it into a movie. His screenplay ended up being unfilmable, but he had decided to novelize it. When it came to PKD's movie decades later, while writers were working on the screenplay, the producer came into the writing room, asking who and what Decker was. A Detective? But what kind of detective, he asked? Writer looks around and sees the Borroughs book on his shelf. "A Blade Runner. He's a Blade Runner." The producer liked the name, and it sounded cool, so it stuck. So, the Blade Runner we know actually has nothing to do with the actual title.
     
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  6. tharpdevenport

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    "Trainspotting"
    I spy with my little eye ... a train!

    "Norm of the North"
    Finally, a movie about comedian Norm MacDonald.


    "The Flintstones"
    A movie about stones made of flint for starting fires. Yabba dada burn!


    "Milk Money"
    Another movie about Harvey Weinstein...


    "Jingle All the Way"
    Just a movie with Festus walking the entire time.

    (some of you got that, most of you didn't)


    "Cop and a Half"
    One cop, half another cop. It doesn't go well.


    "3 Ninjas"
    Three actual ninjas. Even if they stand there and do nothing, it's superior to the original film.


    "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid"
    This explosive film is not for children.
     
  7. The Silence of the Lambs
    - A documentary about wolves killing livestock
     
  8. Greg Cox

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    There was a cool article about the history of the title at Slate recently.
     
  9. Mojochi

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    Harry Potter And The Chamber of Secrets - The tale of an inordinately harry man who makes taboo pottery, which he has to hide away in a secret room

    The Hunt For Red October - The chronical of a man's search for a calendar that has the month of October displayed in red

    Saturday Night Fever - Story of a sick person whose temperature becomes dangerously high throughout the night hours of a Saturday

    I Am Legend - Biopic about soulful R&B singer John Legend

    The Color Purple 90 minutes of this on the screen
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  10. Jayson1

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    "The Wizard of Oz" What happens when Harry POtter makes a mistake with magic and gets someone killed. He is sent to the prision OZ from the tv show with the same name and the movie shows how he has to adjust to new new life. "Wizard" becomes his nickname because of the magic stuff and he makes friends with Beecher only to learn he was being setup and then Potter uses a magic spell to bring Verne Schillnger back from the dead to protect him, only to learn he is a even worst person to get involved with.

    Jason
     
  11. tharpdevenport

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    "Blade Runner"
    The delivery truck has died and those skater absolutely, positively have to have their skates today! Run, Forest, run!
     
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    "Blazing Saddles" : A movie were horses are forced to run races with saddles that have been caught on fire attached to them.

    "Iron Man" : A story about a hero who fights crime with nothing but his trusty iron and then uses it at night to prevent creases in his superhero outfit.

    Jason
     
  13. "The Pelican Brief"
    A short film about Pelicans. You learn that they are birds and eat fish.
     
  14. tharpdevenport

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    "Commando"
    Arnold running around naked for two hours. Jingle all the way!


    "Jingle All the Way"
    Arnold ringing a bell the while film. Still better than the original film. And the sequel.


    "True Lies"
    Various instances of Obama saying, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor!"
     
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    Followed by Trump's entire campaign and presidency I assume.

    Matchstick Men

    Small figures of men composed of matches glued together. A documentary about a guy who collects them.

    Pulp Fiction

    An expose on common myths about orange juice.

    Office Space

    The office is moving, and they are looking at different locations, analyzing whether each possible space meets their business needs.
     
  16. tharpdevenport

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    "Dick"
    Rated X.
     
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    Mrs. Doubtfire

    About a woman who liked to set fires and how people continued to doubt that it was her setting them.
     
  18. Timewalker

    Timewalker Cat-lovin', Star Trekkin' Time Lady Premium Member

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    The Sun and Alpha Centauri get into an argument over who has the better solar system. When it's all over, there aren't any planets left.

    Or they could just make a movie about the neutron stars that crashed into each other (was in the news yesterday). Apparently this sort of thing results in the formation of lots of heavier metals, so the B plot could be the resulting gold rush (imagine a pile of newly-formed gold as big as Jupiter).

    Heh, we had something similar here, many years ago. I still miss the Shouting Spock thread, where every post was supposed to be in all-caps.

    An elderly woman who is convinced that fire doesn't exist, that it's just a hoax perpetrated by anthropologists.
     
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  19. Mr. Laser Beam

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    The Men Who Stare At Goats: Just a bunch of guys standing in a field...staring at goats.

    Men With Brooms: The story of guys sweeping the kitchen floor.

    Star Trek Into Darkness: A power blackout interrupts a Trek marathon.
     
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  20. tharpdevenport

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    "American Pie"
    A film about making a pie in America. Hopefully the cook is played by Gordon Ramsay.


    "Cheaper by the Dozen"
    "We need a price check at register three!"


    "The Hot Hick"
    Just a movie about a hot girl.


    "The Hangover"
    Starring David Hasselhoff on the floor with a cheeseburger.


    "Big Fat Liar"
    Starring Al Gore.


    "Frozen"
    Just an hour of the scene from "Back to the Future" repeated over and over again: "I was frozen today!"
     
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