Movie titles that don't make sense
09-27-15, 10:18 AM
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Re: Movie titles that don't make sense
Brazil is another good one.
09-27-15, 11:15 AM
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Re: Movie titles that don't make sense
Or - stay with me here, because this is just a crazy theory - they might have meant for the title to have two meanings.
I'm just guessing, the only things I know about this movie is the title and that it has six people in a dining group, but I'm 10,000% certain that's at least a possibility.
I'm just guessing, the only things I know about this movie is the title and that it has six people in a dining group, but I'm 10,000% certain that's at least a possibility.
I'll take it a step further and wager that in the 1960's Chinese restaurants didn't do the order by number type of menu.
I vote for Alien: Paradise Lost
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09-27-15, 08:53 PM
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09-28-15, 11:27 AM
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09-28-15, 02:15 PM
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Re: Movie titles that don't make sense
I recall Tarantino saying in an interview that he choose the title because he liked how the words went together, it was about the way it sounded rather than what it meant. One of his favorite movies at the time was Au Revoir Les Enfant, and either he thought it sounded like"reservoir" or he thought it was pronounced like "reservoir". I think it was the latter.
EDIT: I tried google and can't find Tarantino actually saying this, only other people saying it about Tarantino, so it's probably not true. Never mind.
EDIT: I tried google and can't find Tarantino actually saying this, only other people saying it about Tarantino, so it's probably not true. Never mind.
09-28-15, 06:35 PM
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Re: Movie titles that don't make sense
The Final Countdown - No countdown in the movie... and if there had been, there would have been nothing final about it.
09-30-15, 12:41 PM
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Re: Movie titles that don't make sense
G.I. Jane - the title character is in the Navy; G.I.s are Army soldiers.
Any of the Thin Man movies after the first one; the "thin man" was a murder victim and had nothing to do with the rest of the films, and star William Powell was certainly not he.
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess gave several varying explanations of what this meant, but none of them are in the book or movie.
Scarecrow - it's been a while since I've seen this 1973 movie, but I don't think the title has anything to do with its content.
Troll 2 - well known for having no trolls and not being a sequel to Troll.
It's an awkward metaphor for ... something, but if I remember correctly it's mentioned in the film (the 1940s version anyway), so there is some justification for it as the title.
Any of the Thin Man movies after the first one; the "thin man" was a murder victim and had nothing to do with the rest of the films, and star William Powell was certainly not he.
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess gave several varying explanations of what this meant, but none of them are in the book or movie.
Scarecrow - it's been a while since I've seen this 1973 movie, but I don't think the title has anything to do with its content.
Troll 2 - well known for having no trolls and not being a sequel to Troll.
It's an awkward metaphor for ... something, but if I remember correctly it's mentioned in the film (the 1940s version anyway), so there is some justification for it as the title.
I think they did talk about scarecrows in the movie and Hackman calls himslef a scarecrow.
I read something somewhere that He is like a scarecrow in the way he was always dressed.
Yeah, mentioned already.
