I’m remembering a segment from either a sketch show, or a comedy movie - all I can remember about it is that it comprised a series of trailer-type clips for movies with very formulaic (and repetitive) names along the lines of:
Basic Proposal
Analysis of a Disclosure
Indecent Passion
Analysis of a Proposal
Improper Disclosure
etc…
Can anyone remember what I’m describing?
I just remembered another detail. The context was a movie award ceremony. The list of similar sounding titles was the nominees for some award.
Pretty sure it was in something of the Hot Shots / Naked Gun genre of comedy.
OK, I racked my brains some more and I think it was at or near the end of Naked Gun 33⅓ - the climax of the movie takes place at the Academy Awards ceremony.
Can’t find a clip of it online though.
Related, there’s the real film Fatal Instinct, a sight-gag spoof of the adult-thriller genre. Underrated, I always thought.
Fatal Instinct, with Armand Assante, maybe?
Son of a bitch! Shouldn’t have taken the time to link IMDB.
I just found out the title had been reused for a 2014 cop thriller that looks deadly earnest and far less entertaining.
That’s really saying something, considering that the most entertaining part of the original was the Van Morrison song they played over the credits.
Hey, c’mon. They loved it in beautiful Haiti.
Or Tahiti, whatever.
It belatedly occurs to me that the Haiti/Tahiti bit was in a different movie; Ruthless People.
That’s why I type the answer and post it first, then edit in the link afterwards. 