# Rewrite the movie title to be more "honest" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650 "2007-01-12T02:34:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650/41 "2007-01-13T18:34:43Z")
Ridiculously Expensive Sex – Indecent Proposal ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650/42 "2007-01-13T20:25:34Z")
A Quick Paycheck for Me and My Friends - \*Ocean’s 11-20[/I ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650/43 "2007-01-13T20:48:48Z")
“She’s a He” - The Crying Game ---
**Author:** ![Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650/44 "2007-01-14T02:16:58Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] “It Was His Sled” [/QUOTE] No, it was her clitoris. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650/45 "2007-01-14T02:22:37Z")
This one’s not original with me, I think Roger Ebert or another movie reviewer came up with it, but it’s great: “The Japanese bomb an American love triangle in Hawaii” – Pearl Harbor ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650/46 "2007-01-14T02:25:55Z")
Francis Ford Coppola’s Craptacular Vampire Action Movie (With _Explosions_! And Badly-Faked Accents! And Lots of Yelling! And Enough Quick Cuts to Make You Queasy!): Bram Stoker’s Dracula ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650/47 "2007-01-14T22:21:16Z")
Just When I Thought I Was Out they Pull Me Back In-- Carlito’s Way ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650/48 "2007-01-14T22:47:58Z")
_ **Prostitute Offended Because Client Treats Her Like A Whore** _ – _Pretty Woman_ _ **Cheap Attempt To Squeeze More Profit And Revise Classic Cinema** _ – _Star Wars Special Edition_ And for the father of a friend: _ **Living Inside The Head Of John Malkovich** _ – _Being John Malkovich_ “You see the world through John Malkovich’s eyes. Then after about 15 minutes, you’re spit out into a ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike!” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650/49 "2007-01-14T22:53:36Z")
Death by Snoo-Snoo – Body of Evidence ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650/50 "2008-02-14T20:34:44Z")
A nice little bit from the New Republic: > [@](#): > > I haven’t seen the recently released Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson vehicle _Fool’s Gold_, and will avoid it as long as I can. But given that it was the number-one grossing movie in the country last weekend despite the critical consensus that it is “stupid, slack, and sexless,” “life-sucking,” and “like Raiders of the Lost Ark, only for retards,” it occurs to me that it is among the most perfectly titled films in cinematic history. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650/51 "2008-02-14T20:44:38Z")
_Yes, You Do Get to See His Huge Dick, and No, It’s Not Real_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rewrite-the-movie-title-to-be-more-honest/387650.md?page=2)