# Truth in Movie Titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359 "2008-05-15T00:06:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/1 "2008-05-15T00:06:44Z")
Rename your favorite (or not so favorite) movies with a new title that literally describes it: The Mist = 50 Assholes Trapped in a Supermarket The Sentinal = Jack Bauer vs Michael Douglas The Devil Wears Prada = Welcome to Work Bitch Transformers = Michael Bay’s Fantastical Awesomatronic Robotarium ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/2 "2008-05-15T00:40:36Z")
“Snakes on a Plane”= “”…uh. Mhhm, this one’s hard. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/3 "2008-05-15T00:47:16Z")
_Lost in Translation_= Middle aged man meets girl; both whine _Godfather 3_= Coppola’s back, and he’s broke! _The Phantom Menace_= Stepin Fetchit and Ben Hur in Space _Into the Wild_= Man versus Nature; Nature 1: Man 0 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/4 "2008-05-15T02:05:10Z")
Saw V: _Holy Shit They’re Still Paying For It!_ ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/5 "2008-05-15T02:20:30Z")
_Angel Heart_= Fuck you, Bill Cosby SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/6 "2008-05-15T02:31:14Z")
_Alien 3_ : Watch Us Pee On The Memory Of _Aliens_ ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/7 "2008-05-15T02:37:56Z")
Cloverfield- The Blair Giant Monster Project (and I liked it!) The Blair Witch Project (Shaky cams, a chick with a great ass & her friends who say “fuck” a lot in a fake ghost story) (I also liked that!) A Clockwork Orange (A Moral Lesson with Psychedelic Ultraviolence & Beethoven) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/8 "2008-05-15T02:48:21Z")
_Ten Things I Hate About You_ Let’s rewrite Shakespeare to be a contemporary romantic comedy _West Side Story_ Let’s rewrite Shakespeare to be a contemporary romantic tragedy _Forbidden Planet_ Let’s rewrite Shakespeare to be futuristic sci-fi _Kiss Me Kate_ Let’s rewrite Shakespeare with Cole Porter doing the music _Ran_ Let’s rewrite Shakespeare to be Japanese _A Double Life_ Let’s rewrite Shakespeare as film noir _Shakespeare in Love_ Let’s rewrite Shakespeare so Judi Densch gets an Oscar This is fun. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/9 "2008-05-15T03:16:28Z")
I haven’t seen it, but since it is recent I’ll spoiler: **The Ruins** Carnivorous plants eat annoying drunken twenysomethings, but not all of them, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/10 "2008-05-15T03:30:07Z")
Along those lines, I could add: **Friday the Thirteenth** (doesn’t matter what part)= Smoke pot, get laid, die gruesomely. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/11 "2008-05-15T08:52:29Z")
Well, the [“Sex and the City” movie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_City:_The_Movie) hasn’t yet been released in the US, but it’s **really** hard to imagine that it won’t be, in the [immortal words](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_City#Pop_culture_references) of [Stewie Griffin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewie_Griffin): > [@](#): > > a show about three hookers and their mom. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/12 "2008-05-15T11:36:07Z")
Amelie: Cuteness, then Tedium ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/13 "2008-05-15T12:30:50Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] Well, the [“Sex and the City” movie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_City:_The_Movie) hasn’t yet been released in the US, but it’s **really** hard to imagine that it won’t be, in the [immortal words](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_City#Pop_culture_references) of [Stewie Griffin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewie_Griffin): [/QUOTE] It was Brian Griffin who said that, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/14 "2008-05-15T12:33:35Z")
Gone With The Wind: Love triangle set against the Civil War Dr. Zhivago: Love triangle set against the Russian Revolution ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/15 "2008-05-15T17:41:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Ten Things I Hate About You Let’s rewrite Shakespeare to be a contemporary romantic comedy > > West Side Story Let’s rewrite Shakespeare to be a contemporary romantic tragedy > > Forbidden Planet Let’s rewrite Shakespeare to be futuristic sci-fi > > Kiss Me Kate Let’s rewrite Shakespeare with Cole Porter doing the music > > Ran Let’s rewrite Shakespeare to be Japanese > > A Double Life Let’s rewrite Shakespeare as film noir > > Shakespeare in Love Let’s rewrite Shakespeare so Judi Densch gets an Oscar And don’t forget _The Hottie and the Nottie_: Let’s make the worst Shakespeare rip-off in film history. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/16 "2008-05-15T18:23:48Z")
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Time for a Nap ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-in-movie-titles/449359/17 "2008-05-15T20:13:27Z")
_Mrs. Henderson Presents_: Judi Densch’s skills are wasted, but at least we get to see Bob Hoskins’s dick