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Author Topic: Movie Malapropisms Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2004 01:07 PM                     We have noticed that the public never gets the movie title right at the box office. Here are a few of our most recent ones, please add to the list. Under the Tucson Sky = Under the Tuscan Sun Station Master = Station Agent Open to Interpretation = Lost in Translation 42 Grams = some dilettante who wanted 2 tickets to 21 Grams Wings of Immigration = Winged Migration That Girl for the Gold Bracelet = Girl with a Pear Earring It’s Colder = The Cooler The Madeline Sisters = The Magdalene Sisters Rabbit Climbing Fence = Rabbit Proof Fence Sexy Bitch = Sexy Beast (Considering that they were Seniors who said it, we were particularly weirded out.) Frieda = Frida Champ = Camp Dirty Little Things or Dirty Movie = Dirty Pretty Things Whale Migration = ?  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-25-2004 02:00 PM                     Ian, this was discussed previously in this thread ... -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2004 02:15 PM                     The Girl With a Pearl Necklace?!  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-25-2004 06:34 PM                     "Wet dreams may cum"  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-26-2004 02:43 AM                        Goats of The Abcess = Ghosts of the Abyss  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 01-26-2004 07:31 PM                     The Lords of The Samurai - The Last Samurai Captain Nemo - Finding Nemo Wage Slip - Paycheque The Elves - Elf Snowy Mountain - Cold Mountain The League of Gentleman, The League of Sean Connery, The Extraordinary League of Gentlemen, -The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and.. Dogs from Outer Space - Good Boy. This down to the fact that whoever designed the UK posters put the films tag line in a larger font and a more prominent place on the poster. EDIT: And today at work I had: The Last of The Samarai The Running Jury [ 01-27-2004, 10:50 PM: Message edited by: Michael Brown ]  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 05-14-2004 01:44 PM                     Seriously. Customers need to stop trying to buy tickets for "Van Hesling". Whatever that is.  |  IP: Logged Brian D. Whitish Expert Film Handler Posts: 103 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-14-2004 03:09 PM                     We have some real cinema snobs here in Seattle and we get lots of them because our company runs lots of art and independant film. One day I had a woman in her best french accent ask fo a ticket to that new french film La Confidencial. We were running that really good American film L.A. Confidential.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-14-2004 05:37 PM                        my favorite one recently, from a spry old codger: "the flagellation of gaaawd" = the passion of the christ carl  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 05-14-2004 05:58 PM                     Regarding Tess (mixing up Guarding Tess with Regarding Henry) Palos Verdes (Pacific Heights) Bill & Ted's Excellent Journey (or Bogus Adventure) and my favorite: Dancin' With The Woofs (I'm not kidding) and frequently-spotted spelling errors: Howard's End (it's Howards End -- no apostrophe) Rustler's Rhapsody (more than one Rustler.... Rustlers' Rhapsody... made this mistake recently, in print no less. Doh!) And when I hear people refer to trilogies, I cannot tell you how many times people screw up the word "trilogy." Tri-ology is pretty common.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-15-2004 01:12 PM                        I noticed that many people were reluctant or unable to say the correct title of "The Passion of the Christ." They would either say "that movie about Jesus" or "the Mel Gibson movie" or "that movie." I don't know how many times I've heard recently, "How did that movie do for you?"  |  IP: Logged Ron Keillor Expert Film Handler Posts: 166 From: Vancouver, B.C. Canada Registered: Jul 2003 posted 05-15-2004 03:18 PM                     Lingering in the memory...the marquee that read "SWEAT DREAMS" instead of "SWEET DREAMS"  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-15-2004 06:37 PM                        There was a movie once called FRESH HORSES....our marquee kid put up: FRESH HORES Fortunately I caught it before any arrests were made.  |  IP: Logged

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