This is another game from the poetry site Eratosphere. Contest, really. Drop one letter from a movie title and make a summary of what results.
In this link you have to scroll down a ways before the fun begins.
http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=18283
Anybody wanna play?
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Podcast: Talking Images (Episode 22 released November 17th * EXCLUSIVE * We Are Mentioned in a Book!!! Interview with Mary Guillermin on Rapture, JG & More)
Polls: 1998 (Results), DtC - Ratings (Apr 26th), Coming of Age (Apr 30th), 1933 (May 12th)
Challenges: Doubling the Canon, Animation, Middle East
Film of the Week: Moya lyubov, May nominations (Apr 30th)
Lose a letter, make a summary
Lose a letter, make a summary
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I thought about John Ford, and came up with these:
The Searches -- The heroine sits at her desk, hunting through databases for 60+ hours a week. (This one is autobiographical.)
The Quit Man -- Unlike Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain, this guy knows how to...
Stagcoach -- Bambi gets a new ride.
The Searches -- The heroine sits at her desk, hunting through databases for 60+ hours a week. (This one is autobiographical.)
The Quit Man -- Unlike Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain, this guy knows how to...
Stagcoach -- Bambi gets a new ride.
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Lots of good ones in these threads:
http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments ... _1_letter/
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comme ... whole_new/
http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments ... _1_letter/
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comme ... whole_new/
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Plane of the Apes - Charlton Heston gets on board an aircraft and discovers all the staff and passengers are apes. Hijinks ensue.
Shun of the Dead - dead people re-emerge as zombies who proceed to ignore everyone.
The Genera - Buster Keaton takes on the rich comic territory of biological taxonomy.
Vampy - Carl Dreyer does Russ Meyer.
Shun of the Dead - dead people re-emerge as zombies who proceed to ignore everyone.
The Genera - Buster Keaton takes on the rich comic territory of biological taxonomy.
Vampy - Carl Dreyer does Russ Meyer.
Good ones, Burney and Broken.
Magician, I'm partway through the first link and am crying with laughter.
Magician, I'm partway through the first link and am crying with laughter.
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Lien - Ripley learns that if you don't pay back your loan they take your stuff.
Having read those threads in a blur I'm prolly repeating some....
Well, let's see. Some silent films:
Robin Hod - Douglas Fairbanks steals bricks from upscale construction sites and gives them to poor Irish immigrants
Go wet - Buster campaigns to repeal Prohibition
The docs of New York - drama from when they still made house calls
Daddy-Log-Legs - A WW I veteran returns to his family
Sifting sands - The Sheik sets his minions to finding jewels from a lost caravan
Seedy - Harold Lloyd on skid row
Well, let's see. Some silent films:
Robin Hod - Douglas Fairbanks steals bricks from upscale construction sites and gives them to poor Irish immigrants
Go wet - Buster campaigns to repeal Prohibition
The docs of New York - drama from when they still made house calls
Daddy-Log-Legs - A WW I veteran returns to his family
Sifting sands - The Sheik sets his minions to finding jewels from a lost caravan
Seedy - Harold Lloyd on skid row
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3eyes on Aug 10 2012, 07:41:47 AM wrote:Daddy-Log-Legs - A WW I veteran returns to his family
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Closely watched rains - Anxious autist kid runs away from home to the woods with a tent and a video camera.
Night of the Living Dad -
Separated from his wife, a single father struggles taking care of his toddlers
The Iron Hose -
Turn of the century story of America's first garden sprinklers
True Heat Susie -
Susie gets a bad stomach
Separated from his wife, a single father struggles taking care of his toddlers
The Iron Hose -
Turn of the century story of America's first garden sprinklers
True Heat Susie -
Susie gets a bad stomach
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3:10 to Uma -
Tarantino's new Western rip-off
A Tar is Born -
Drama about a rookie at a construction site
Tarantino's new Western rip-off
A Tar is Born -
Drama about a rookie at a construction site
Laurence Anyway - same film, different title
A New Laf - A girl is ostracized from society until she comes up with a new laugh.
A Royal Sandal - People are sandalized when a woman who is a shoe-designer marries a king and becomes royalty.
A Tale of To Cities - a story of gypsies who wander from city "to city".
After Ours - a couple breaks up only to reminisce about the time they spent together.
Another Ear - A man goes in for a hair transplant and comes out with Another Ear.
Billy adison - About the man who discovered Adison's disease - the inability to pass high school.
A New Laf - A girl is ostracized from society until she comes up with a new laugh.
A Royal Sandal - People are sandalized when a woman who is a shoe-designer marries a king and becomes royalty.
A Tale of To Cities - a story of gypsies who wander from city "to city".
After Ours - a couple breaks up only to reminisce about the time they spent together.
Another Ear - A man goes in for a hair transplant and comes out with Another Ear.
Billy adison - About the man who discovered Adison's disease - the inability to pass high school.
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Barfy - an even more honest Bukowski story
Lust, Cation - a love story about chemistry, literally.
Anal (Wajda, 1957) - self explanatory.
(have I lowered the tone?)
Lust, Cation - a love story about chemistry, literally.
Anal (Wajda, 1957) - self explanatory.
(have I lowered the tone?)
Days of Heave (1978) Two guys have got to move a piano up the stairs... to the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2082197/brokenface on Aug 14 2012, 02:53:52 PM wrote:Barfy - an even more honest Bukowski story
Got so close
The Tailor of Pan Am - period piece about the days when air travel provided meals and everything.
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themagician wrote: ↑August 9th, 2012, 4:31 pm Lots of good ones in these threads:
http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/kvdc5/movie_titles_minus_1_letter/
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/x96t2/choose_a_movie_title_change_one_letter_whole_new/
This!
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Lol!Lammetje wrote: ↑March 23rd, 2021, 12:45 amthemagician wrote: ↑August 9th, 2012, 4:31 pm Lots of good ones in these threads:
http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/kvdc5/movie_titles_minus_1_letter/
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/x96t2/choose_a_movie_title_change_one_letter_whole_new/This!
Forgot about this one.
Fish tan - that “rotten mackerel by moonlight” look (think Mitch McConnell)
Twin peas - popular series clones itself
Mach point - Chuck Yeager meets Sonic the Hedgehog
Gags of New York - Audience retches at Woody Allen festival
Fish tan - that “rotten mackerel by moonlight” look (think Mitch McConnell)
Twin peas - popular series clones itself
Mach point - Chuck Yeager meets Sonic the Hedgehog
Gags of New York - Audience retches at Woody Allen festival
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