Movies that I must watch due to their titles becoming neologisms

I know I use it every time I’m at a concert and the drummer explodes. :slight_smile:

TV Time, not only did “Fail Safe” predate the movie, but I suspect that most instances of its usage have nothing to do with the movie, either. That’s just a movie being named after an expression that has been and continues to be used widely in the appropriate fields.

Want me to pull a Jack Bauer on you? :dubious:

And get medieval on his buttocks? :wink:

Spending a lot on home renovations? It’s a “Money Pit”.

That movie flopped, pulling a “Heaven’s Gate”.

Whenever RIDE drivers look for where to tie down the back of my chair, I say,“Sorry but I can’t go Linda Blair to help you.”

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I don’t think this one caught on, but I thought it was funny: in an episode of Supernatural, when Dean is temporarily in ghsst mode, he manages to get mad enough to knock a glass or something off of a tray as a means of ending a fight between his brother and father. His line: “I full-on Swayzed that mother…!”

A Svengali is a Machiavellian patron of a perfromer. And a Trilbyis a [hat](Trilby - Wikipedia hat), so you get two for the price of one.

Fail Safe has been covered but does anybody below the age of 75 still refer to a sordid hypocritical small town or neighborhood as a “Peyton Place”? I think the book, movie, and TV show dropped off the pop culture radar years ago.

When I see a particularly buxom lass (a la Sherilyn Fenn), I sometimes go “Whoa! Twin Peaks!” :cool:

Actually, Sicilian mobsters did use the term padrino (literally, “godfather”) to describe those that ranked above them. It wasn’t a fixed status, though, so “The Godfather” doesn’t make sense.

Stepford is now used to describe any type of robotic behavior. “He acted all Stepford on me.”

Bébé’s Kids describes out of control children perfectly.
I’ve heard shawshank and brokeback used as verbs.

Maybe so, but nobody in the English speaking world called a mob boss a godfather until the movie, now that’s just about all they’re called.

It’s (blank) on a plane. Pops up in everyday conversation a lot.

Any incompetent group, especially if they engage in a lot of pointless chaotic activity, can be known as the “Keystone Cops” (or “Keystone Kops”) after the Mack Sennett series of film shorts.

It’s mofo (blank) on the mofo plane! :smiley:

You’ll like this guy! He’s a Goodfella!

Not Svenjolly?:smiley:

Good question! This ngram suggests its peak was a bit before the movie and was actually declining in 1960. There looks like a bit of a blip upward in the years after the movie, but the trend was definitely downward. I’m surprised.

“The only way for me to solve this crisis is for me to be Superman 4: The Quest For Peace”