# \[GAME\]  the Movie Title game thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 15, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122 "2008-08-15T18:17:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/201 "2008-08-22T15:33:53Z")

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An updated alphabetized list, to cut down on repeats:

Agent Cody Banks  
Air America  
Airplane  
All About Eve  
Alvin and the Chipmunks  
Always  
Anaconda  
Arachnophobia (I assume that was what Annie meant!)  
Bad News Bears, The  
Batman Begins  
Being John Malkovich  
Bell, Book and Candle (the movie that ‘inspired’ the TV show “Bewitched.”)  
Bloodsport  
Breaker Morant  
Breaking Away  
Bullets Over Broadway  
Captain Corageous  
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin  
Casablanca  
Castaway  
Chasing Amy  
Clockwise  
Croupier, The  
Cry, the Beloved Country  
Dazed and Confused  
Deliverance  
Destry Rides Again  
Dirty Dancing  
Dog Soldiers  
Dogma  
Dr. Zhivago  
Earth Girls Are Easy  
East Is East  
East of Eden  
Easy Rider  
Elephant Man, The  
Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett.  
Ernest Goes to Camp  
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)  
Falling Down  
Fargo  
First Knight  
Freaky Friday  
Freaky Friday  
French Connection, The  
Frenzy  
From Here to Eternity  
Gamera  
Ghost World  
Glengarry Glen Ross  
Godzilla  
Godzilla!  
Gone With the Wind  
Gone With the Wind (repeated)  
Guns of Navajo  
Halloween  
Halls of Montezuma  
Handmaid’s Tale, The  
Hannah and Her Sisters  
Hardcore  
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle  
Help!  
How to Succeed In Business without Really Trying  
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang  
In America (simulpost)  
In the Line of Fire  
In the Line of Fire  
Incredibles, The  
Indian in the Cupboard, The  
Innerspace  
Insomnia  
Ishtar  
J’Accuse  
Jailhouse Rock  
JFK  
Jumanji  
Jumanji (repeated)  
Jumpin’ Jack Flash  
Jumpin’ Jack Flash (‘nother simulpost)  
Jumpin’ Jack Flash (repeated)  
Jupiter (1971 French movie)  
Kalifornia (again)  
Kangaroo Jack  
Kill Bill  
Killer Clowns From Outer Space  
King of Hearts  
King Solomon’s Mines  
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects  
K-PAX  
Lambada: the Forbidden Dance  
Last Tango in Paris  
Lawrence of Arabia  
Leaving Las Vegas  
Liar, Liar  
Lion in Winter, A  
Little Man Tate  
Live Free or Die Hard  
Magnificent Seven, The  
Mandingo, a dumb safari movie  
Meatballs  
Men In Black  
Mighty Joe Young  
My Little Chickadee  
Mystery Men  
Never Say Never Again  
New York Stories  
Nightmare on Elm Street  
Nil by Mouth (British drama directed by Gary Oldman)  
No Country for Old Men  
Nosferatu  
Nuts  
O Brother, Where Art Thou?  
Oliver Twist  
On the Waterfront  
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  
Only the Lonely (simulpost)  
Orange County, with Colin Hanks  
Orgazmo  
Oscar  
Pale Rider  
Paris, Texas  
Pay it Forward  
Peter Pan  
Peyton Place  
Pretty Woman  
Pump Up the Volume  
Quadrophenia  
Quantum of Solace  
Queen,The, with the incomparable Helen Mirren.  
Quest for Camelot  
Quest for Fire  
Quick and the Dead, The  
Quiz Show  
Rashomon  
Rashomon (repeated)  
Red Violin, The  
Return of the Secaucus Seven  
Rocky  
Rudy  
Rush Hour  
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad  
Sexy Beast  
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas  
Sleeper  
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.  
Superman  
Swimming to Cambodia  
Take the Money and Run  
Time Bandits  
Time Machine, The  
Training Day  
Trainspotting  
Tron  
Trouble with Angels, The  
Ulee’s Gold  
Unbreakable  
Uncle Buck  
Under the Cherry Moon  
Under the Sand  
Under the Volcano (simulpost)  
Unforgiven  
Until September  
V for Vendetta  
Vampire’s Kiss  
Verdict, The  
Vertigo  
Victor Victoria  
Virgin Spring  
Virgin Suicides, The  
Walk the Line  
War of the Buttons  
Water World  
Weeds  
When We Were Kings  
When We Were Kings (repeated)  
Wings  
X Marks the Spot  
X: the Unknown  
Xanadu  
Xavier  
X-Files, The  
X-Men  
xXx  
Yearling, The  
Yojimbo  
Yongari, Monster from the Deep  
You Can’t Take It With You  
Young Frankenstein  
Young Man with a Horn  
Youngblood  
Zardoz  
Zebra in the Kitchen  
Zelig  
Zombie Strippers  
Zorba the Greek  
Zorro, the Gay Blade  
Zulu

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**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/202 "2008-08-22T15:42:28Z")

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Mr. Magoo

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/203 "2008-08-22T15:50:20Z")

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Noises Off

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**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/204 "2008-08-22T15:55:53Z")

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Out of Africa

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**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/205 "2008-08-22T15:58:52Z")

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The Player

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/206 "2008-08-22T16:25:03Z")

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_The Quiet Man_

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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/207 "2008-08-22T17:33:50Z")

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Revenge of the Nerds.

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**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/208 "2008-08-22T17:52:39Z")

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St. Elmo’s Fire

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**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/209 "2008-08-22T18:04:37Z")

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Tropic Thunder

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/210 "2008-08-22T18:47:03Z")

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_Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ (at least nine silent film adaptations of the novel were produced)

For future copying and pasting of the master list, note the following corrections:

Captain Corageous should be _Captains Courageous_  
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) should be _Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)_  
Guns of Navajo should be _Guns of Navarone_

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/211 "2008-08-22T19:09:49Z")

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_Under Milk Wood_

> **[Under Milk Wood (1971) ⭐ 5.8 | Comedy, Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070854/)**
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> 1h 27m | PG

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/212 "2008-08-22T19:16:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]  
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) should be _Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)_  
[/QUOTE]  
My original post did include “Always” but there is a difference between whether the parentheses are included (imdb doesn’t (nor the movie posters); wiki does).

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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/213 "2008-08-22T19:24:07Z")

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Any way,  
V – Vera Drake.

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/214 "2008-08-22T19:28:36Z")

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Anyway (no space),

_Why Worry?_

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**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/215 "2008-08-22T19:29:18Z")

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X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes

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**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/216 "2008-08-22T20:28:59Z")

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Young Einstein

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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/217 "2008-08-22T23:10:58Z")

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Zabriskie Point

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/218 "2008-08-22T23:52:53Z")

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_All Quiet On The Western Front_

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/219 "2008-08-23T00:04:08Z")

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**The Blob**

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**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-the-movie-title-game-thread/460122/220 "2008-08-23T00:20:32Z")

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Carrie

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