# Silly Movie/Book/Song/Etc Title Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548 "2002-08-12T15:34:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/21 "2002-08-14T14:00:11Z")
\*\* Miracle on Elm Street \*\* - Santa’s an undead nightmare psychopath that takes over teenagers’ dreams! \*\* It’s a Wonderful Life of Brian \*\* - Messiah gets a little help from his Guardian Angel. Gets crucified anyway. \*\* Bridget Jones’ Diary of Anne Frank \*\* - Little girl hides from nazis, agonizes over weight, family and love. One I can’t summarize: \*\* How Stella Got Her Groove Back to the Future \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/22 "2002-08-14T14:04:42Z")
Hmm. Just looked at **gonzoron** ’s link and saw this > [@](#): > > **How Green Was My Valley Girl** Why do I feel this one _has_ to star Catherine Zeta Jones? ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/23 "2002-08-14T14:07:44Z")
Oh, \*\* atreyu \*\* beat me to use Back to the Future. Damn. Here’s another I can’t summarize: \*\* The Blues Brothers Karamazov \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/24 "2002-08-14T14:17:05Z")
“No, Mr. Green, I expect you to die!” – **Freddy Got Goldfingered** Tolstoy takes 1000 pages to say what Sun Tzu did in 150 pages – **The Art of War and Peace** ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/25 "2002-08-14T14:22:02Z")
Secret Service agent assigned to guard spirited English country girl – **Guarding Tess of the D’Urbervilles** ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/26 "2002-08-14T14:59:42Z")
Fighter pilots enter arm wrestling contest – **Over the Top Gun** [sub]And I STILL can’t come up with a combo for “The Neverending Story”[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/27 "2002-08-14T15:30:52Z")
Here you go **Atreyu** , [http://www.movienamegame.com/titles/title\_554.asp](http://www.movienamegame.com/titles/title_554.asp) [http://www.movienamegame.com/titles/title\_457.asp](http://www.movienamegame.com/titles/title_457.asp) Oh and for sheer ludicrousness: The Muppets Take Manhattan Murder Mystery Science Theater 3001: A Space Oddysey ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/28 "2002-08-14T15:47:45Z")
Here you go **Atreyu** , [http://www.movienamegame.com/titles/title\_554.asp](http://www.movienamegame.com/titles/title_554.asp) [http://www.movienamegame.com/titles/title\_457.asp](http://www.movienamegame.com/titles/title_457.asp) Oh and for sheer ludicrousness: The Muppets Take Manhattan Murder Mystery Science Theater 3001: A Space Oddysey ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/29 "2002-08-14T15:52:09Z")
Ah, thanks **gonzoron**. 🙂 And another one for the thread: 80s teen comedy with surrealistic touches set on Death Row: **Better Off Dead Man Walking** ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/30 "2002-08-14T15:52:18Z")
oops… sorry for the double post ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/31 "2002-08-14T15:55:37Z")
Secret Service agent attempts to foil extraterrestrial Presidential assassination attempt: **In the Line of Fire in the Sky** ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/32 "2002-08-14T15:56:06Z")
How about, Jesus saves us all with the help of a furry dog-like dragon in **The Neverending Story Ever Told**. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/33 "2002-08-14T16:59:48Z")
\*\* gonzoron \*\* - Loved your 3001 title. Gorgeous! some more (I can’t stay away either, \*\* atreyu \*\* ) : \*\* What Ever Happened to Baby Jane Eyre? \*\* \*\* American History X Files \*\* \*\* The Earrings of Madame Bovary \*\* ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/34 "2002-08-14T17:00:37Z")
A Chicago teen plays hooky and must run from killer plants: **Ferris Buller’s Day of the Triffids** ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/35 "2002-08-14T21:27:49Z")
A government agency recruits a bunch of rebellious mutants to help bring down a Czech madman in **xXx-Men**. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/36 "2002-08-14T21:37:36Z")
Three lusty but dim chain-gang escapees share erotic adventures while trying to make their way home in the deep south in **The Story of O Brother Where Art Thou?** ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/37 "2002-08-14T21:53:27Z")
A group of middle-aged friends who used to offer human sacrifices to He-Who-Walks-Behind-the-Rows get together for the funeral of their former leader, and wonder where their youthful ideals went in… The Big Chill-dren of the Corn ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/38 "2002-08-14T22:14:35Z")
Early 80s new wave band that writes philosophical and metaphorical songs – **Flock of Jonathan Livingston Seagulls** ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/39 "2002-08-14T22:30:21Z")
A nasty divorce in a galaxy far, far away… – **The Star Wars of the Roses** ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548/40 "2002-08-14T22:31:21Z")
Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) tries to save Fantasia in time for Christmas, without shooting anybody’s eye out in **The Neverending Christmas Story** Actors are drawn into space by technologically advanced primitives, in the ultimate struggle for survival in **Galaxy Quest for Fire** Ape janitor goes to Mars and saves the day in **Red Planet of the Apes** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-book-song-etc-title-game/123548.md?page=3)