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Old 07-13-04, 02:25 PM
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It's called In The Good Old Summertime but it all takes place around the Christmas holidays.

It's called Krakatoa, East of Java but Krakatoa is west of Java.

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Old 07-13-04, 02:37 PM
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I thought "Good Will Hunting" was going to be a documentary about hunting at Good Will stores for 8-tracks!
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Creature From the Black Lagoon....Lagoons are usually crystal clear blue water not black as pitch.
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naked lunch
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The characters in Chinatown are only there for a few minutes, but the scene could have taken place anywhere.
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"Fargo" doesn't take place in Fargo.
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Women in Love (The sight of seeing 2 naked guys rolling around the floor with each other will have you questioning the title)
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Originally posted by Groucho
The characters in Chinatown are only there for a few minutes, but the scene could have taken place anywhere.
Though, the line "Forget it, Jake. It's Albaquerque." just doesn't have the same weight . . .

And my default answer to this thread's question is The Exterminating Angel.
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Abbot and Costello Go To Mars - Nope, they went to Venus.

Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein - Nope, they met Frankenstein's monster.

Private Eyes - With Tim Conway & Don Knotts. They played investigators from Scotland Yard, so they weren't private eyes.
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I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.
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The Neverending Story (obvious)
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A View To A Kill.

I still have no idea what that's supposed to mean...
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Blade
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Swimming with Sharks

and...

Raiders of the Lost Ark. (I know a lot of people thought it was about Noah's ark)
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William Friedkin's "Wages of Fear" remake Sorcerer (1977) starring Roy Scheider. Sorcerer conjures the idea of some 1980's sword & sorcery fantasy flick. Sorcerer is even a worse title if you consider too that this was Friedkin's first directorial effort coming after "The Exorcist".
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer


Should be:

I Know What You Did Two Summers Ago
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And my default answer to this thread's question is The Exterminating Angel.
Gotta agree with that one. I wonder if anyone ever rented it, expecting some kind of violent revenge action film or something? Boy, would they be in for a surprise.
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I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.
HAHA! nice Simpsons quotation.
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: the title would have you believe it has something to do with a popular video game series.
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Rambo III

First Blood followed by Rambo: First Blood Part II followed by First Blood Part III, right? Wrong.
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Office space.... There was NO space in their office... They kept having to move poor Milton
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Future War

It wasn't in the future, and there was no war.
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The Last House on the Left

WAS it the last house?

WAS it on the left or the right?
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Gigli

was misleading the viewer into thinking there could be possible a movie somewhere, should have been called

Cr*appier than a cr*pped out piece of dog cr*p sitting on a sh*t pile
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