We play this game when driving by the local GoogulPlex – read out movie titles that are above each other on the marquee (it works pretty well looking at offerings on the Guide on your cable box, too). Usually the offerings are only moderately funny, or you have to work at them. Rarely do you achieve the greatness of one preserved in one of those National Lampoon books I have:
Alien
Meatballs
Escape From New York
But yesterday I saw a wonderful triple play at the theater on my way home from work: Her
Nutjob
Jack Ryan
Not quite the same thing, but I recall a theater in Paris advertising Steven Spielberg’s Hook based on two well-known stars who were listed on the marquee as:
A multiplex I used to go to had one of its theaters right next to the restrooms, and all the signs used to be at the same level and size. So when the movie “Other People’s Money” was playing, the signs read:
“Men – Women – Other People”
But playing a bit loose (though that happens on marquees) since the titles would be
THE FLY
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY
ALIENS
Seems unlikely, even with the looseness, to have happened since The Gods Must Be Crazy came out in summer 1984 and the other two in summer 1986. So, if it was just made up I demand titular rigor.
