Have you noticed how many of these there are, particularly from the last 10 years or so? For some inexplicable reason, they bug me. Everytime I look at CDs or DVDs I come across new ones. Add to the list:
Chasing Amy
Regarding Henry
Killing Zoe
Killing Heidi
Saving Pvt. Ryan
etc…
Guarding Tess. That’s another one.
and Boxing Helena
Being John Malkovich
Educating Rita
Drowning Mona
Driving Miss Daisy
Eating Raoul
Raising Arizona
Finding Forrester
Capturing the Friedmans
Raising Helen
Deconstructing Harry
Raising Victor Vargas
Owning Mahowny
Watching Ellie
Saving Grace
Kissing Jessica Stein
Losing Isaiah
Saving Silverman
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Inventing the Abbotts
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Finding Nemo
Raising Cain
Playing Mona Lisa
This site also seems appropriate.
Smashing Pumpkins
“‘Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins’. ‘Homer Simpson, smiling politely.’”
Flogging Molly
Looking for Richard
:smack: I can’t believe I forgot:
Waiting for Godot
I just recently played Vladimir.
Hudsin’ Hawk
The movie is Hudson Hawk. Or did I just get whooshed?
In the case of rock bands, perhaps the ‘Verb/Name’ formula was adopted because all the cool ‘Adjective/Noun’ names were already taken.
The 1st three not mentioned yet that came to mind:
Breaking Benjamin
Running With Sally
Hating Brenda
Educating Rita
Bringing up Baby
The Killing of Sister George
Driving Miss Daisy
Sorry for two dupes there
How 'bout
Teaching Mrs. Tingle?
The Taming of the Shrew?
Sorry, the only other ones I yhought of were already named.
Can’t think of any bands, but one song that fits the pattern is REM’s “Exhuming McCarthy.”
See here for some more.
Opening next week is one called “Being Julia”.
There was also “Surviving Picasso.”
Don’t forget “Cuffing The Carrot.”
Seriously, its a convention that should be abandoned.
“Listing Schindler”
(these are impossible to NOT come up with dumb jokes for)