"Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" -- really?

[KneadToKnow]

I’ve never seen the movie. Is this really the way the title appears on screen?

Because it comes across like the biggest whoring out of all time.

“Hey, y’all, we got nominated for an Oscar. Go out and buy the book! You didn’t see the book at the store? Oh, that’s probably because it’s not called Precious, it’s called Push. It’s by Sapphire!”

[melodyharmonius]

Well, actually, when it was first advertised it was Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry present Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire.

And evidently, the reason why they changed the name was because there was already a movie called Push that was scheduled for release in 2009.

In my opinion, it should be called Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry present Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire starring Mo’Nique and a dowdy Mariah Carey and a bunch of other people whom you should really care about because this is a real movie about real people and we gotta support our peeps, y’all

But that might be hard to fit on a t-shirt.

[Ferret_Herder]

I don’t know what the film’s title screen looks like, but I do know that before release, it was renamed from Push to avoid confusion with the other 2009 film named Push. I think it had the book mention at release to clue people in that it was the drama, not the action film.

[KneadToKnow]

@melodyharmonius

But that might be hard to fit on a t-shirt.

Must resist hypocritical comment about the main character.

[lissener]

No, it appears on the screen something like, “PRCS BAYZ BUK POS SFARE” or something.

It’s really stupid.

My theory, a bigger budget mainstream scifi film called ***Push ***came out last year, and they decided to change the title to avoid confusion.

My boss gets Oscar screeners, so I watched the DVD a couple weeks ago. All the acting praise has been earned, but the director needs to find another career. Precious was almost as hamhanded as his last movie that mindbogglingly bad in every possible sense Shadowboxer.

In Shadowboxer, Cuba Gooding is fucking Helen Mirren, over and over again in some very TMI closeups. They are a team of assassins. Helen is dying of cancer. They go out on a hit, to waste drug kingpin Stephen Dorff’s woman. Helen, swathed in black, comes gunfirst around the corner into the moll’s bedroom, takes a bead, and stops: the moll is pregnant. Having cancer has given Helen a new appreciation for life, so rather than kill the woman, she rescues her. The baby drops. Helen, Cuba, mother, and son rent a big suburban home and spend several sweetly fuzzy montages watching the baby grow into a boy. All living together, in a house in the suburbs.

Then Daddy Dorff finds out his family is still alive, and act iii is all ridiculous faux-Woo gunfights, ending with the little boy picking up a gun and shooting his own father the end.

One of the most entertainingly atrocious movies I have ever seen. It’s available on Nutflakes streaming. Enjoy.

[Ferret_Herder]

Just adding that this distinction can be very important, even going forward - an incident I posted about previously explains why:

@Ferret Herder

A friend of mine complained about the Oscar-nominated film selected for his wife’s workplace’s outing was really awful. (IIRC it was rented and shown on a big screen somewhere.) He’d heard it was so good but everyone was horrified. Turns out that instead of renting the 2004 film Crash, about racial tensions in intersecting stories, whoever was in charge of getting the film must have gotten the 1996 film Crash, a David Cronenberg film about car crash victims who now find crashes to be sexually arousing.

[lissener]

@melodyharmonius

Well, actually, when it was first advertised it was Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry present Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire.

And evidently, the reason why they changed the name was because there was already a movie called Push that was scheduled for release in 2009.

In my opinion, it should be called Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry present Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire starring Mo’Nique and a dowdy Mariah Carey and a bunch of other people whom you should really care about because this is a real movie about real people and we gotta support our peeps, y’all

But that might be hard to fit on a t-shirt.

I keep wanting it to be* Push: Based on the novel Big Momma’s House by Martin Lawrence, starring Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy, with a special appearance by Eddy Murphy as Norbit.*

[KneadToKnow]

I just learned this at IMDb, and LOLed:

When the novel was republished in 2009, it was as a movie tie-in edition with cover art from the film, a common enough practice regarding books that have been turned into movies. What is unusual about the movie tie-in version of the book is that the book’s title had also been changed to the movie’s - which means that the book is now called “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” even though it is the novel “Push” by Sapphire.

Silly rabbits.

[melodyharmonius]

@KneadToKnow

Must resist hypocritical comment about the main character.

she was on the welfare and couldn’t afford it anyway, silly.

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

@KneadToKnow

I just learned this at IMDb, and LOLed

Possibly this seemingly ridiculous title was applied to the movie tie-in edition to avoid confusion with another novel titled Precious, published by Random House just a few months earlier.

[RickJay]

@lissener

In Shadowboxer, Cuba Gooding is fucking Helen Mirren, over and over again in some very TMI closeups. They are a team of assassins. Helen is dying of cancer. They go out on a hit, to waste drug kingpin Stephen Dorff’s woman. Helen, swathed in black, comes gunfirst around the corner into the moll’s bedroom, takes a bead, and stops: the moll is pregnant. Having cancer has given Helen a new appreciation for life, so rather than kill the woman, she rescues her. The baby drops. Helen, Cuba, mother, and son rent a big suburban home and spend several sweetly fuzzy montages watching the baby grow into a boy. All living together, in a house in the suburbs.

You’re making this up.

[The_Hamster_King]

I prefer Precious: Based on the Novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien.

[melodyharmonius]

@Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew

Possibly this seemingly ridiculous title was applied to the movie tie-in edition to avoid confusion with another novel titled Precious, published by Random House just a few months earlier.

bangs head on counter

It just gets worse, doesn’t it?

[lissener]

@RickJay

You’re making this up.

Am I? Man, you know what a relief it is to hear this? I wanted to unwatch it, but if it didn’t really happen to me then I feel a little less traumatized.

[garygnu]

Don’t use one-word titles, people!

[lissener]

I can’t believe I went back in to confirm your claim, RickJay, because I have been traumatized anew.

The following link is sponsored by Acme Eye-Brain Bleach.

N!S!F!W!

[lissener]

And here’s a SFW, but NSFHMC (not safe for Helen Mirren’s credibility).

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI2ODc2MTk0MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwOTIyNDI3._V1._SX485_SY323_.jpg

And I’m reminded, when I was searching for images, that in the movie, when Mirren and Gooding are given their assignments, they’re given them by a mysterious man in a wheelchair.

[pepperlandgirl]

I shouldn’t have C&Ped that link into my browser and then hit enter. Now I too am traumatized.

[Justin_Credible]

@lissener

No, it appears on the screen something like, “PRCS BAYZ BUK POS SFARE” or something.

It’s really stupid.

My theory, a bigger budget mainstream scifi film called ***Push ***came out last year, and they decided to change the title to avoid confusion.

My boss gets Oscar screeners, so I watched the DVD a couple weeks ago. All the acting praise has been earned, but the director needs to find another career. Precious was almost as hamhanded as his last movie that mindbogglingly bad in every possible sense Shadowboxer.

In Shadowboxer, Cuba Gooding is fucking Helen Mirren, over and over again in some very TMI closeups. They are a team of assassins. Helen is dying of cancer. They go out on a hit, to waste drug kingpin Stephen Dorff’s woman. Helen, swathed in black, comes gunfirst around the corner into the moll’s bedroom, takes a bead, and stops: the moll is pregnant. Having cancer has given Helen a new appreciation for life, so rather than kill the woman, she rescues her. The baby drops. Helen, Cuba, mother, and son rent a big suburban home and spend several sweetly fuzzy montages watching the baby grow into a boy. All living together, in a house in the suburbs.

Then Daddy Dorff finds out his family is still alive, and act iii is all ridiculous faux-Woo gunfights, ending with the little boy picking up a gun and shooting his own father the end.

One of the most entertainingly atrocious movies I have ever seen. It’s available on Nutflakes streaming. Enjoy.

How was Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Good enough to make an otherwise horrible movie not a waste of time?

[TWDuke]

I want to write a book called “The Novel by TWDuke” so it can be adapted into a film called The Novel by TWDuke: Based on the Novel The Novel by TWDuke by TWDuke.