# Rewrite a well-known movie by first subtly altering the title... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906 "2003-11-01T23:15:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/61 "2003-11-02T19:45:33Z")
**Freddy Loves Jason** A self explanatory romantic comedy. ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/62 "2003-11-02T19:53:06Z")
This isn’t so much a subtle alteration as a complete fusion of two titles but… **Me, Myself, The King and Irene** Wherein, a multiple personality disorder sufferer and his crush travel to 19th century Siam and teach the ruler about the western world. … this may or may not turn out to be a gang-bang porno. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/63 "2003-11-02T20:06:49Z")
**Raiders of the Lost Art** Indiana Jones joins forces with George Costanza in Egypt to track down missing architect Vandelay. Hilarity ensues when Costanza demands refund on “bad” dates that kills Ross’s monkey. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/64 "2003-11-02T20:27:46Z")
The Pink Panter Carson from _Queer Eye for the Straight Guy_ takes men on the search for the perfect pair of trousers. ---
**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/65 "2003-11-02T21:10:18Z")
**Star Wards** A documentary. Sir Alec Guinness, Mark Hamill, and Harrison Ford visit Carrie Fisher in a rehab clinic. **Itanic** A romantic period drama about Intel’s unsinkable 64-bit processor, which runs into an iceberg named Opteron. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/66 "2003-11-02T21:13:00Z")
**Star Trek II: The Wrath of Con-Ed** Capt. James T. Kirk meets his toughest nemesis yet – the iron grip that Consolidated Edison holds over the U.S.S. Enterprise, in the form of arbitrary electricity rate hikes and the lousy level of service provided by the ConEd-subcontracted workers responsible for maintaining the ship’s power plant. **Withnail & M.I.** M.I.-5 taps the questionable talents of the wasted alcoholic, chronically unemployed thespian (and closeted homosexual) Montague Withnail, by sending him to a rural cottage in Northern Ireland to monitor the pub-crawling of IRA members. Filmed through a whiskey bottle, darkly. **Match Me If You Can** A precocious and sexually frustrated teenage boy from New York constructs misleading profiles of himself with matchmaking agencies around the world, and embarks on a whirlwind global tour of speed-dating under false pretenses. **Whiner** This spinoff sequel to Barry Levinson’s **Diner** follows the doomed marriage of the Steve Guttenberg character, picking up his story from his Colts-themed wedding reception in early-1960’s Baltimore. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/67 "2003-11-02T21:40:43Z")
**Chicken Fun** This documentary, narrated by Mel Gibson, takes an anthropological look at the ways that boys and [mostly] young men the world over play dangerous games of “chicken” – from gang-affiliated Latino Los Angelinos in low-riding hot rods, to rural Yemeni boys charging each other on camels, to ice-skating Laplander youth on frozen lakes, and seemingly every point in between. Strangely compelling. **Requiem for a Cream** A tragic fantasy tracing the intersecting mishaps of three people whose lives are ruined by their obsessive interest in locating (in the tri-state area) the perfect egg cream (as recalled from happier days in Boston). **Bridget Jones’ Prison Diary** After a whirlwind evening celebrating her improbable one-year anniversary with her barrister boyfriend leads to a fatal drunk-driving accident, Bridget is sent to prison, during which she keeps a diary in which she duly notes her daily caloric intake, cigarettes (never enough!), prison yard exercises (oof!) and lesbian sexual advances (all spurned, so far). Sobering. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/68 "2003-11-02T21:54:07Z")
The Iraqi Horror Picture Show-- In which the Bush administration attempts once again to prove that the Middle Eastern country posed a seious and credible threat to the United States. He fails. ---
**Author:** ![Nanook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nanook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanook)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/69 "2003-11-02T23:03:35Z")
Get Hur! ``` Two boyhood friends in ancient Rome grow up to be sniping arch-rival interior decorators. Movie culminates in a dueling makeover of the Pantheon. ``` ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/70 "2003-11-03T00:49:27Z")
**Nibbles** At a resort town in the summer of 1975, swimmers are unpleasantly surprised to find that the tiny lake minnows will occasionally peck at a bather, apparently out of curiosity, and only occasionally drawing blood. Nevertheless, the tourist trade shifts to the casino in the neighboring township for the remainder of the season. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/71 "2003-11-04T00:24:06Z")
**Lord of the Rinks** An epic trilogy telling the story about a man that tries to corner ownership of all the nations ice arenas. **Glad He Ate Her** I think you can guess what that would be about. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/72 "2003-11-04T00:31:28Z")
Gone With The Schwinn: The epitome of the Italian neo-realist movement, directed by George Cukor and King Vidor; set in the Old South after the civil war. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/73 "2003-11-04T00:41:34Z")
**My Cuisine Vinny** The long-awaited sequel to _Eating Raoul_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/74 "2003-11-04T00:56:30Z")
**A Room With a Hue** While having a nervous breakdown, a museum curator expresses her latent hostility against the all-white walls by painting them in a melange of earthy hues, pastel tints, and vibrant jewel tones. **A Padded Room of One’s Own** The sequel to **A Room With a Hue** , in which museum curator-turned-mental-patient wages war against the tufted putty-colored padding in her cell. **A Hard Lay’s Night** The story of a rock band and the groupies who love them. Unrated. **Bellini Satyricon** The Canadian comedic troupe “The Kids In the Hall” reunite to reinterpret the Petronius classic, with their “Bellini” character encountering a panoply of KITH characters, such as “the chicken lady,” in the milleu of decadent Ancient Rome. **Butterfingers 8** Elizabeth Taylor plays the owner of a struggling baseball franchise. To raise millions needed to sign a ringer, she turns out her players as male gigolos in the off-season. Hilarity ensues. **My Left Testicle** A Hollywood comedy writer (Tom Greene) is ravaged by a rare neurological disease which paralyzes every muscle in his body, save one. [No stars]. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/75 "2003-11-04T01:05:00Z")
**Finding Nimoy** Spock is hidden in an underwater prison and only an alien cult of blue lesbians can figure out a way to flush him out. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/76 "2003-11-04T01:54:28Z")
**Pollock** An iconoclastic, irascible but genius fishmonger creates an uproar when he simply dumps his pollock on the shaved ice, rather than arrange them in tidy, rectilinear rows. **The Get** After her Orthodox Jewish husband refuses to grant her a divorce, the wife (Melanie Griffith) finds herself embattled by all the intrusive, controlling aspects of their Chassid community. **Shakespeare in Lust** A bodice-ripper, in which the bawdy Bard of Avon (Ron Jeremy) invents the casting couch. Perhaps the pen is not mightier than the sword, after all. **American Stupor** In which the high-concept documentarians turn their attention from Harvey Pekar to the surprisingly humdrum life of Florida Governor-turned-presidential-candidate Bob Graham, as based on the Gov’s daily log (with entries recorded at five-minute intervals) of his every waking hour during the past thirty years. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/77 "2003-11-04T01:57:43Z")
Acch, that should read “_Senator_ Bob Graham”. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/78 "2003-11-04T02:39:43Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by KiethT_ > **Oh Bother, Where Art Thou** > Winnie the Pooh’s Homeric quest to be reunited with his wife and children in the 1930’s South. This is _awesome_. **Under a Tucson Sun** A newly-divorced Italian woman re-invigorates her life by buying and fixing up a villa in suburban Arizona. **Fahrenheit 45** An oppressive futuristic government plans to eradicate the written word by making all printed materials slightly chilly to the touch. **Hanniball** In the future, governments settle disputes not via military engagements but with the ultra-violent futuristic sport of Hanniball, combining the thrill and agression of roller derby with the refined elegance and sophistication of dining on a defeated opponent’s brain while he still lives and speaks. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/79 "2003-11-04T02:55:39Z")
**Ethel Weapon 1, 2, 3, & 4** Fred Sanford’s ugly sister-in-law goes on a one-woman crimefighting crusade. Features Grady in a supporting role as an annoying real-estate agent. **The Mumy** Former _Lost In Space_ actor returns from the dead demanding royalties for umpteen millions of reruns. **Take the Mooney and Run** Lucy goes nuts and kidnaps her oppressive boss for a huge ransom. **Who Framed Bunny Rabbit?** Was it Mr. Moose? the Captain? Mr. Green Jeans? Danicing Bear will not sleep until the answer is found! ---
**Author:** ![mrsface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@mrsface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsface)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906/80 "2003-11-04T03:40:56Z")
\*\*The Blair Bitch Project \*\* Political conspiracy thriller in which Tory vamp played by Uma Thurman tries to seduce the British PM **Reservoir Blogs** Tarantino uncovers the bloody truth about web-culture **The Postgraduate** Mrs Robinson’s awful revenge **Rebel Without A Pause** James Dean has problems with his video-remote [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-a-well-known-movie-by-first-subtly-altering-the-title/210906.md?page=5)