# The Movie Name Chain Game! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 5, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-name-chain-game/462238 "2008-09-05T20:56:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hogwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-name-chain-game/462238/1 "2008-09-05T20:56:28Z")
A challenge for you dopers, which is to come up with the longest movie name chain you can. Basically, you chain movie names together that share the same last and first words, e.g. Die Hard Rain. This is a chain of the movies Die Hard and Hard Rain, which share the common word ‘hard’. Geddit? Some rules: - You can drop leading (in)definite articles if you want (good luck finding a movie title ending in ‘a’ or ‘the’) So ‘Man with a Golden Gun’ is allowed. - The movie has to have meet some yardstick of popularity. I think an entry on IMDB with no fewer than 5000 ratings is a good tentative benchmark to start with. - You can only use each title once, even if there are several movies with the same title. - Single word titles are allowed, as long as they work with the adjacent links. e.g. “Super Pi Man” would count as three, as long as the movies ‘Super Pi’, ‘Pi’ and ‘Pi Man’ met the criteria. To get the ball rolling, here’s my first lacklustre attempt: They Live and Let Die Hard Rain Man Without a Face/Office Space Jam Now, I come unstuck on the above because I chain Face/Off with Office Space which involves a partial word, and allowing these would make things too easy so I believe that we should make it a rule that only whole words can be chained. So use my effort only for illustrative purposes. One thing I am unsure of is plurals, e.g. chaining Notting Hill with Hills Have Eyes. My initial reaction is to disallow this, just to make things more challenging. So exact words only, folks, at least to start with. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-name-chain-game/462238/2 "2008-09-05T21:28:23Z")
I’ll have a go. You didn’t say we couldn’t refer to IMDB for assistance. The Unbearable LIghtness of Being There Goes the Bride of the Monster in Law of the Land of the Dead. The Unbearable LIghtness of Being Being There There Goes the Bride Bride of the Monster Monster in Law Law of the Land Land of the Dead ---
**Author:** ![Hogwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-name-chain-game/462238/3 "2008-09-05T21:39:07Z")
> [@photopat](#): > > I’ll have a go. You didn’t say we couldn’t refer to IMDB for assistance. True, but it would be nice if people weren’t trolling the IMDB search function to fudge random nouns together. A good effort, but I can’t help but feel that the ‘Dead’ at the end is somewhat of a loose thread. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-name-chain-game/462238/4 "2008-09-05T23:12:04Z")
Top Secret Garden State Fair Game of Death Becomes Her Alibi for Murder on the Orient Express Top Secret Secret Garden Garden State State Fair Fair Game Game of Death Death Becomes Her Her Alibi Alibi for Murder Murder on the Orient Express ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-name-chain-game/462238/5 "2008-09-06T15:57:46Z")
The Female Trouble Man, in the Iron Mask of the Red Death, Wish 3 Men and a Baby Dollman Things to Come Back, Little Sheba Baby. _The Female_ _Female Trouble_ _Trouble Man_ _Man in the Iron Mask_ _Mask_ _Mask of the Red Death_ _Death Wish 3_ _3 Men and a Baby_ _Baby Doll_ _Dollman_ _Man-Thing_ _Things To Come_ _Come Back, Little Sheba_ _Sheba Baby_ ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-name-chain-game/462238/6 "2008-09-06T16:25:09Z")
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They Shoot Horses, Don’t They Shoot Horses, Don’t They Shoot Horses, Don’t They… They Shoot Horses, Don’t They (1969) ad infinitum