Well... that article was a waste of space.

For fark's sake, as titles go, how is "Tower Heist" or "The Social Network" any different from "Casablanca" or "Annie Hall"?

Jaysis, that author is a farking douche. Would fit right in with the Fark Movie High Council^TM

FishyFred: Well... that article was a waste of space.

For fark's sake, as titles go, how is "Tower Heist" or "The Social Network" any different from "Casablanca" or "Annie Hall"?

Not to mention The Excorcist, Jaws, The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The French Connection, Rocky, Young Frankenstein.

And that's just off the top of my head.

Snakes on a Plane, FTW.

karl2025:

Attack of the 50 ft Woman.

E.T., Poltergeist, Gremlins, Platoon, Predator, Robocop, Batman...

We could probably do this all night.

alwaysjaded: karl2025:

Attack of the 50 ft Woman.

E.T., Poltergeist, Gremlins, Platoon, Predator, Robocop, Batman...

We could probably do this all night.

Citizen Kane, The Seven Samurai, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Bridge on the River Kwai, Midway...

Gyrfalcon:

Citizen Kane, The Seven Samurai, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Bridge on the River Kwai, Midway...

Hell, I'll just look over at my stack of DVD's over here.

Schindler's List
Goodfellas
The Sopranos
Saving Private Ryan
Fargo
Shawshank Redemption
Sling Blade
The Usual Suspects
Reservoir Dogs
Barton Fink
Seven
The Green Mile
Being John Malcovich
Terminator 2
L.A. Confidential
Fight Club
Unbreakable
Casino
Three Kings
Dr. Strangelove

And that's all I'm willing to list right now.

no ow, my balls?

12349876:

Only two of those (Saving Private Ryan, Fight Club) tell anything significant about the plot. Lots of description of characters and location in there, but no other literal plot points.

And how the hell do you make any sort of educated guess at all on a plot from the words "Sling Blade"? It's a freaking garden tool. How do you make the leap to it being used in a murder without knowing the plot of the movie?

Only two? So what did you think Schindler's List, Goodfellas, The Sopranos, The Usual Suspects, Being John Malcovich, Terminator 2, Casino and Dr. Strangelove were going to be about? A musical about a Chocolate Factory?

I'll grant you Sling Blade may be a stretch but when I went to go see Batman Begins, I wasn't expecting the life story of Batboy.

Apropos of something, maybe*, the following are my favorite theatrical/television titles** to date:

Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)

Your Vice Is A Locked Room and Only I Have The Key

99 and 44/100% Dead

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Bad

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?

Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?

I Woke Up Pregnant!

Satan's School For Girls

Frankenhooker

Spanking the Monkey

Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 3 (2005)

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (1965)

The Man with the Smallest Penis in Existence and the Electron Microscope Technician Who Loved Him (2003)

Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend

I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney (1993)

Caffeteria, or How Are You Going to Keep Her Down on the Farm after She's Seen Paris Twice (1973)

Long Strange Trip, or The Writer, the Naked Girl, and the Guy with a Hole in His Head (1999)

The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957)

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)

I Could Never Have Sex with Any Man Who Has So Little Regard for My Husband (1973)

The Fable of the Fellow Who Had a Friend Who Knew a Girl Who Had a Friend (1915)

Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)

The Fable of the Good Fairy with the Lorgnette and Why She Got It Good (1916)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Pierrot's Problem, or How to Make a Fat Wife Out of Two Lean Ones (1900)

The Fable of How Uncle Brewster Was Too Shifty for the Tempter (1914)


*probably not, though
**speaking to that aspect and that aspect alone.

FishyFred: Well... that article was a waste of space.

For fark's sake, as titles go, how is "Tower Heist" or "The Social Network" any different from "Casablanca" or "Annie Hall"?


Or hundreds of other flicks of varying quality since the dawn of motion pictures.