# Messed-up movie titles - a game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054 "2003-01-16T20:50:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/1 "2003-01-16T20:50:43Z")
An idea I got when something popped into my head. Take a movie title, change one word, and describe the new movie. For instance: Full Sequin Jacket: Liberace’s autobiography. And that just popped into my brain. Frightening, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/2 "2003-01-16T21:04:55Z")
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Geezers: Next Cheech and Chong Movie. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/3 "2003-01-16T21:47:19Z")
Harry Potter and the Kidney Stone (It kind of explains itself) ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/4 "2003-01-16T21:51:45Z")
Star Trek: Exegesis. Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes comment on the script to the next episode of Enterprise. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/5 "2003-01-16T22:16:57Z")
Eating John Malkovich - It’s the next installment in the Hannibal Lecter series… ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/6 "2003-01-16T23:18:43Z")
Last of Them O’Hicans - an Irish clan gathers to bury their patriarch, and a grammar lesson ensues. (I actually saw this mistake in all its glory, up on a marquee). ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/7 "2003-01-16T23:27:19Z")
_ **A Beautiful Mime** _ Marcel Marceau’s life is profiled in this Acadamy Award nominated Ron Howard film. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/8 "2003-01-16T23:30:22Z")
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out The company softball teams for both the Empire and the Rebellion are in the playoffs. An action-packed sports adventure! ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/9 "2003-01-16T23:32:05Z")
The Empire Strikes Out: A British Football (soccer) team erroneously enters an American Baseball tournament, and does _not_ win first place. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/10 "2003-01-16T23:40:29Z")
\ Ei-uh-euh-euh-euh **That** ’s a hell of a simulpost… ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/11 "2003-01-16T23:56:33Z")
**Star Trek III: The Search For Skeezix** - Skeezix is lost in a Temporal Simulpost Anomaly, and the valiant crew must save him. But time is running out! (Okay, I **was** going to do a movie called “Dirty Rotten Skeezix”, but I decided to play nice… 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/12 "2003-01-17T02:47:03Z")
Okay, I’ll be the first … **Lord of the Blings** …Sauron _really_ wants his jewelry back. I did not make this up, I read it somewheres. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/13 "2003-01-17T04:06:55Z")
**Good Grief, Vietnam** - Charlie Brown gets drafted into the military ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/14 "2003-01-17T04:25:36Z")
**Lethal Whippin’** A dominatrix takes things too far with her clients (this could be a porn movie) **To Live and Lie in L.A.** The U.S. capital moves to the west coast. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/15 "2003-01-17T05:27:43Z")
**GoldFingolfin** James Bond is really a 50,000 yr old Elf with a liscence to kill. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/16 "2003-01-17T05:30:21Z")
**Numb and Number** : A dentist takes it to extremes with two patients. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/17 "2003-01-17T05:44:41Z")
The Hand that Builds the Cradle: an unabashed and uncensored look at life in a cradle manufacturing center. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/18 "2003-01-17T05:59:48Z")
**Star Trek - The Munchkin Picture** Kirk, Spock, and the gang replicate golden tickets to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Redshirts die. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/19 "2003-01-17T06:43:12Z")
**Back to the Furniture** : Michael J. Fox travels in time to save his parents’ business. **Sitter Act** : A witness to a mob hit hides out in a daycare centre. (Co-starring Arnold, maybe.) **Anna and the Swing of Siam** : A prim English woman joins an Asian dance band. Oh well, I have to say it. **Pie Noon** : A couple of animated eggs return for lunch. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054/20 "2003-01-17T07:04:59Z")
**Under A Hairy Moon** Prince and Jerome shave butts for a living, dreaming and planning for their big break. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messed-up-movie-titles-a-game/149054.md?page=2)