# Movie Marathon (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 17, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780 "2019-08-17T02:03:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 471
**Author:** ![Mike\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mike\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_H)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9406 "2021-02-17T17:03:07Z")
**Badly retitled foreign releases of US films** : 1. _Rita Hayworth - Avain Pakoom_ (Finland) – “Rita Hayworth: Key to Escape” ( _The Shawshank Redemption_ ) 2. _Faster, Bus Girl, Faster_ (S. Korea) - (Speed 2) 3. _Mr. Cat Poop_ (China) - _As Good As It Gets_ 4. _The Spiders_ (Sweden) - _Them!_ - The critters in the movie are, of course, ANTS. 5. _No Worries, Mate_ (Australia) - _Dr. Strangelove (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)_ 6. _I Will Marry a Prostitute to Save Money_ (China) - _Pretty Woman_ 7. _Just Send Him to University Unqualified_ (China) - _Risky Business_ 8. _Many Peoples Live Many Places In Many Times But They All Have The Same Faces_ (Vietnam) - _Cloud Atlas_ 9. _He’s a Ghost!_ (China) - _The Sixth Sense_ Talk about a spoiler in the title! Cited from here: [51 funniest movie title translations](https://www.shortlist.com/news/funniest-movie-title-translations) . Can’t vouch for its accuracy. Many of these are probably bad back translations to English. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9407 "2021-02-17T17:37:30Z")
**Badly retitled foreign releases of US films** : 1. _Rita Hayworth - Avain Pakoom_ (Finland) – “Rita Hayworth: Key to Escape” ( _The Shawshank Redemption_ ) 2. _Faster, Bus Girl, Faster_ (S. Korea) - (Speed 2) 3. _Mr. Cat Poop_ (China) - _As Good As It Gets_ 4. _The Spiders_ (Sweden) - _Them!_ - The critters in the movie are, of course, ANTS. 5. _No Worries, Mate_ (Australia) - _Dr. Strangelove (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)_ 6. _I Will Marry a Prostitute to Save Money_ (China) - _Pretty Woman_ 7. _Just Send Him to University Unqualified_ (China) - _Risky Business_ 8. _Many Peoples Live Many Places In Many Times But They All Have The Same Faces_ (Vietnam) - _Cloud Atlas_ 9. _He’s a Ghost!_ (China) - _The Sixth Sense_ 10. _The Unbelievable Trip in a Wacky Aeroplane_ (Germany) - _Airplane!_ Next category: **Write your own badly-retitled foreign releases of US films** 1. _Diana is Dead and I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass_ (Slovenia) - _The Queen_ ---
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**Write your own badly-retitled foreign releases of US films** 1. _Diana is Dead and I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass_ (Slovenia) - _The Queen_ 2. _Secret Ingredient: You_ (Ukraine) - _Soylent Green_ ---
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**Write your own badly-retitled foreign releases of US films** 1. _Diana is Dead and I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass_ (Slovenia) - _The Queen_ 2. _Secret Ingredient: You_ (Ukraine) - _Soylent Green_ 3. _The Giant Fish with Really Big Teeth That Tried To Eat Everyone, And Did, Except Two_ (Maldives) - _Jaws_ ---
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**Write your own badly-retitled foreign releases of US films** 1. _Diana is Dead and I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass_ (Slovenia) - _The Queen_ 2. _Secret Ingredient: You_ (Ukraine) - _Soylent Green_ 3. _The Giant Fish with Really Big Teeth That Tried To Eat Everyone, And Did, Except Two_ (Maldives) - _Jaws_ 4. \*Ace Tree Space Man Has Trees In Space (Japan) - _Silent Running_ ---
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**Write your own badly-retitled foreign releases of US films** 1. _Diana is Dead and I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass_ (Slovenia) - _The Queen_ 2. _Secret Ingredient: You_ (Ukraine) - _Soylent Green_ 3. _The Giant Fish with Really Big Teeth That Tried To Eat Everyone, And Did, Except Two_ (Maldives) - _Jaws_ 4. _Ace Tree Space Man Has Trees In Space_ (Japan) - _Silent Running_ 5. _Rich Man Can Buy A Lot_ (Lower Slobovia) - _Citizen Kane_ (fixed italics on 4) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9412 "2021-02-17T20:29:38Z")
**Write your own badly-retitled foreign releases of US films** 1. _Diana is Dead and I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass_ (Slovenia) - _The Queen_ 2. _Secret Ingredient: You_ (Ukraine) - _Soylent Green_ 3. _The Giant Fish with Really Big Teeth That Tried To Eat Everyone, And Did, Except Two_ (Maldives) - _Jaws_ 4. _Ace Tree Space Man Has Trees In Space_ (Japan) - _Silent Running_ 5. _Rich Man Can Buy A Lot_ (Lower Slobovia) - _Citizen Kane_ 6. _The Ninja, The Drunkard and the Giant_ (Florian) - _The Princess Bride_ ---
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**Write your own badly-retitled foreign releases of US films** 1. _Diana is Dead and I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass_ (Slovenia) - _The Queen_ 2. _Secret Ingredient: You_ (Ukraine) - _Soylent Green_ 3. _The Giant Fish with Really Big Teeth That Tried To Eat Everyone, And Did, Except Two_ (Maldives) - _Jaws_ 4. _Ace Tree Space Man Has Trees In Space_ (Japan) - _Silent Running_ 5. _Rich Man Can Buy A Lot_ (Lower Slobovia) - _Citizen Kane_ 6. _The Ninja, The Drunkard and the Giant_ (Florian) - _The Princess Bride_ 7. _A Dream of Dead Witches_ (Emerald City) - _The Wizard of Oz_ ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9414 "2021-02-18T04:41:38Z")
**Write your own badly-retitled foreign releases of US films** 1. _Diana is Dead and I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass_ (Slovenia) - _The Queen_ 2. _Secret Ingredient: You_ (Ukraine) - _Soylent Green_ 3. _The Giant Fish with Really Big Teeth That Tried To Eat Everyone, And Did, Except Two_ (Maldives) - _Jaws_ 4. _Ace Tree Space Man Has Trees In Space_ (Japan) - _Silent Running_ 5. _Rich Man Can Buy A Lot_ (Lower Slobovia) - _Citizen Kane_ 6. _The Ninja, The Drunkard and the Giant_ (Florian) - _The Princess Bride_ 7. _A Dream of Dead Witches_ (Emerald City) - _The Wizard of Oz_ 8. “There’s One Born Every Minute” (Moldova) – Forrest Gump ---
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**Write your own badly-retitled foreign releases of US films** 1. _Diana is Dead and I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass_ (Slovenia) - _The Queen_ 2. _Secret Ingredient: You_ (Ukraine) - _Soylent Green_ 3. _The Giant Fish with Really Big Teeth That Tried To Eat Everyone, And Did, Except Two_ (Maldives) - _Jaws_ 4. _Ace Tree Space Man Has Trees In Space_ (Japan) - _Silent Running_ 5. _Rich Man Can Buy A Lot_ (Lower Slobovia) - _Citizen Kane_ 6. _The Ninja, The Drunkard and the Giant_ (Florian) - _The Princess Bride_ 7. _A Dream of Dead Witches_ (Emerald City) - _The Wizard of Oz_ 8. “There’s One Born Every Minute” (Moldova) – Forrest Gump 9. _“Typical Sibling Rivalry in Amerika”_ (Russia) - _What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9416 "2021-02-18T16:43:36Z")
Don’t need quotation marks if you italicize. **Write your own badly-retitled foreign releases of US films** 1. _Diana is Dead and I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass_ (Slovenia) - _The Queen_ 2. _Secret Ingredient: You_ (Ukraine) - _Soylent Green_ 3. _The Giant Fish with Really Big Teeth That Tried To Eat Everyone, And Did, Except Two_ (Maldives) - _Jaws_ 4. _Ace Tree Space Man Has Trees In Space_ (Japan) - _Silent Running_ 5. _Rich Man Can Buy A Lot_ (Lower Slobovia) - _Citizen Kane_ 6. _The Ninja, The Drunkard and the Giant_ (Florian) - _The Princess Bride_ 7. _A Dream of Dead Witches_ (Emerald City) - _The Wizard of Oz_ 8. _There’s One Born Every Minute_ (Moldova) – _Forrest Gump_ 9. _Typical Sibling Rivalry in Amerika_ (Russia) - _What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?_ 10. _Chewbacca, Furry Master of Really Fast Interstellar Journeyings (And Featuring Some Other People Too)_ (Botswana) - _Star Wars_ Pass. ---
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**Favorite movies from the 70s** 1. Jaws ---
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**Favorite movies from the 70s** 1. Jaws 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail ---
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**Favorite movies from the 70s** 1. Jaws 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 3. Tora! Tora! Tora! ---
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**Favorite movies from the 70s** 1. Jaws 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 3. Tora! Tora! Tora! 4. Star Wars: A New Hope ---
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**Favorite movies from the 70s** 1. Jaws 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 3. Tora! Tora! Tora! 4. Star Wars: A New Hope 5. Kelly’s Heros ---
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**Favorite movies from the 70s** 1. Jaws 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 3. Tora! Tora! Tora! 4. Star Wars: A New Hope 5. Kelly’s Heros 6. Escape to Witch Mountain ---
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**Favorite movies from the 70s** 1. Jaws 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 3. Tora! Tora! Tora! 4. Star Wars: A New Hope 5. Kelly’s Heros 6. Escape to Witch Mountain 7. Slapshot ---
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**Favorite movies from the 70s** 1. Jaws 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 3. Tora! Tora! Tora! 4. Star Wars: A New Hope 5. Kelly’s Heroes 6. Escape to Witch Mountain 7. Slapshot 8. The Goodbye Girl ---
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**Favorite movies from the 70s** 1. Jaws 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 3. Tora! Tora! Tora! 4. Star Wars: A New Hope 5. Kelly’s Heroes 6. Escape to Witch Mountain 7. Slapshot 8. The Goodbye Girl 9. American Graffiti [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780.md?page=470) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780.md?page=472)