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Esmeralda
Ship's token UK Mennonite
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Simple - just take the title of a film and change, remove or add one letter to make something new.
For example:
That well known Coen brothers epic about lost car keys: Oh Bother, Where Art Thou?
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Dal Segno
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The famous horror film about a giant kitten that terrorises a community: Paws
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Jack o' the Green
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The famous prison drama about an inmate who is falsely imprisoned and who has terrible taste in lipstick: The Green Smile
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Jack o' the Green
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A film about domestic violence too sordid to relate: Sleeping with the Enema
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Jack o' the Green
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The heart warming film of a young man who manages to be part of the most important events of the late 20th Century and get some serious lurrrrve action: Forest Hump
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Bacchus
Ship's Sommelier
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The popular movie about a corporate raider who hires a hooker who's always critizing things:
Petty Woman
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Gill H
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I will have to cheat slightly, as the film title is spelled with a y not an i, but:
The musical story of a green Teletubby who scandalously removes his hat in front of audiences ...
Dipsy
(Features the songs "Ya Gotta Get A Scooter" and "Everything's Comin' Up Custard")
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Bacchus
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Famous Hitchcock movie about a large flock of murderous poets: The Bards
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jacobsen
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Tragic epic of a man whose permanent sore throat turned him into The Hoarse Whisperer , a condition which led to his life imprisonment on a trumped up charge of telephone stalking.
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MSHB
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A young woman in Georgian times rejects a wealthy suitor because she could see through his wet shirt after he had been swimming: "Prude and Prejudice"
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Esmeralda
Ship's token UK Mennonite
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Weepy story of a doomed love affair involving a refrigerator salesman:
The Fridges of Madison County
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Ariel
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Gone With the Wand - the sequel to the famous, er, prequel. Scarlett O'Hara, desperate to win back the affection of the man she loves, resorts to witchcraft.
(Unfortunately, shouting "Accio Rhett Butler!" doesn't have quite the result she expects...)
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Dafyd
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Up in the Hair: A film starring George Clooney as a jet-setting barber.
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andythehat
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A moving action-drama about the trials, tribulations and entwined love-lives of a group of the hottest young chefs patissiere as they go through their final training, each hoping to be the best....
Top Bun.
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Lyda*Rose
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The Lost Boy
RIP Corey Haim
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Ariel
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"Shaving Private Ryan". A group of bored WW2 soldiers in a remote outpost in North Africa decide to have some fun with the newest, hairiest recruit.
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Jack o' the Green
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
"Shaving Private Ryan". A group of bored WW2 soldiers in a remote outpost in North Africa decide to have some fun with the newest, hairiest recruit.
That's very nearly a real film! I believe the proper title is "Shaving Ryan's Privates"!
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Bacchus
Ship's Sommelier
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Musical drama about a mail carrier with a recurring role: The Postman Always Sings Twice
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Bacchus
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Epic story of a chariot-racing back-alley dog:
Ben Cur
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Gill H
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quote:
Originally posted by Yonatan:
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
"Shaving Private Ryan". A group of bored WW2 soldiers in a remote outpost in North Africa decide to have some fun with the newest, hairiest recruit.
That's very nearly a real film! I believe the proper title is "Shaving Ryan's Privates"!
My mum-in-law is prone to the odd verbal slip, and recently she referred to the film "Privates of the Caribbean". What's the betting there's a real film with that title? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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andythehat
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A sprawling epic covering the story of 3 generations of a family, the youngest son desperately trying to escape the family "business", as he knows that a fish & chip shop is not his destiny - The Codfather.
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Bacchus
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Famous Orson Welles production of a newspaper magnate turned philosopher: Citizen Kant
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Dafyd
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Avita: Madonna plays the wife of the blue-skinned alien President. (Don't cry for me, Pandora.)
(Might not work if you pronounce your rs.)
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andythehat
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In pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish peasant must contend with marrying off his three daughters while antisemitic sentiment threatens his home, at the same time as training as a jockey and entering the Grand National / Kentucky Derby (delete as appropriate): Fiddler on the Hoof.
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Alaric the Goth
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Epic animation about a group of rabbits who make a long migration to a new home, only to succumb to a bout of diarrhoea: Watersh!t Down.
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Dal Segno
al Fine
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Film about big oil companies competing to plunder the tar sand deposits in Canada:
Tar Wars
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Leaf
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Movie about the dangers of trying to establish privacy within a small Mongolian tent:
The Yurt Locker
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Benny Diction 2
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And intrepid band of canines attempt to rescue a damsel in distress from under the nose of the Nazis:
Where beagles dare
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Leaf
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A charming animation about a crotchety old man seeking personal protection from a small boy recklessly practicing soccer kicks:
Cup
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Dal Segno
al Fine
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Sequel to Tar Wars, which ends with the companies agreeing that everything should be given to the indigenous population:
'ave a tar
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Ariel
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Stir Wars - the finalists for the National Porridge Making Championship resort to some desperate measures to win an antique spurtle hand-carved from a block of eighteenth-century porridge, and a year's supply of oatmeal.
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Curious
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Star Wears: The odyssey of a space-bound fashonista
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Curious
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Stare Wars: an exciting face-off between two wide-eyed contenders
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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How David Attenborough's seminal work on migrant ungulates of the veldt established him as the wildlife documentarist par excellence -
The Man With the Golden Gnu
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Bacchus
Ship's Sommelier
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Famous western about a late-morning repast that got out of hand:
The Wild Brunch
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Dal Segno
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Rather odd western movie about the west of England:
The Magnificent Severn
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Sandemaniac
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Giant ape with halitosis terrorises New York:
King Pong
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andythehat
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Ace Spy James Bond comes up against possibly his deadliest enemy yet. A top surgeon who moonlights as a street-wise rapper from the Bronx - Dr Yo!
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Sandemaniac
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Disney goes all Chinese chop-sockey:
Crouching Tigger, Hidden Dragon
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andythehat
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A rogue carp carrying a Magnum .44 metes out summary justice to poachers on the riverbank, if they feel lucky enough: Death Fish.
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Benny Diction 2
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Waterman, Cross, Mont Blanc et all bring you this interesting documentary on writing implements used in the Oval Office of the White House
All the president's pen
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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by andythehat:
Ace Spy James Bond comes up against possibly his deadliest enemy yet. A top surgeon who moonlights as a street-wise rapper from the Bronx - Dr Yo!
Bond saves Australia from a terrible stomach upset:
Chunderball
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kingsfold
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Popular with meteorologists world-wide:
Reservoir Fogs
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Sandemaniac
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A dreadful bladder infection keeps a photographer from murdering women and photographing them as he does so:
Peeing Tom
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lilBuddha
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quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
Giant ape with halitosis terrorises New York:
King Pong
AG
Not to be confused with the same name documentary about an early video game champion.
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andythehat
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Martin Scorcese directs the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island's more fortress-like hospital for the verbally challenged.
Stutter Island.
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Leaf
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Blackface, whiteface, married, single - Al Jolson says, "Bring 'em on!"
The Jazz Swinger
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kingsfold
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A musical tale of the Little Apocalypse
Olivet!
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