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Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 01-25-2004, 01:07 PM:

We have noticed that the public never gets the movie title right at the box office. Here are a few of our most recent ones, please add to the list.

Under the Tucson Sky = Under the Tuscan Sun
Station Master = Station Agent
Open to Interpretation = Lost in Translation
42 Grams = some dilettante who wanted 2 tickets to 21 Grams
Wings of Immigration = Winged Migration
That Girl for the Gold Bracelet = Girl with a Pear Earring
It’s Colder = The Cooler
The Madeline Sisters = The Magdalene Sisters
Rabbit Climbing Fence = Rabbit Proof Fence
Sexy Bitch = Sexy Beast (Considering that they were Seniors who said it, we were particularly weirded out.)
Frieda = Frida
Champ = Camp
Dirty Little Things or Dirty Movie = Dirty Pretty Things
Whale Migration = ?

Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 01-25-2004, 02:00 PM:

Ian, this was discussed previously in this thread ... [Smile]

-Aaron

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 01-25-2004, 02:15 PM:

The Girl With a Pearl Necklace?! [Big Grin]

Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 01-25-2004, 06:34 PM:

"Wet dreams may cum"

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 01-26-2004, 02:43 AM:

Goats of The Abcess = Ghosts of the Abyss

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 01-26-2004, 07:31 PM:

The Lords of The Samurai - The Last Samurai

Captain Nemo - Finding Nemo

Wage Slip - Paycheque

The Elves - Elf

Snowy Mountain - Cold Mountain

The League of Gentleman,
The League of Sean Connery,
The Extraordinary League of Gentlemen,
-The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

and..

Dogs from Outer Space - Good Boy.
This down to the fact that whoever designed the UK posters put the films tag line in a larger font and a more prominent place on the poster.

EDIT: And today at work I had:

The Last of The Samarai
The Running Jury

[ 01-27-2004, 10:50 PM: Message edited by: Michael Brown ]

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 05-14-2004, 01:44 PM:

Seriously.

Customers need to stop trying to buy tickets for "Van Hesling".

Whatever that is. [Big Grin]

Posted by Brian D. Whitish (Member # 825) on 05-14-2004, 03:09 PM:

We have some real cinema snobs here in Seattle and we get lots of them because our company runs lots of art and independant film. One day I had a woman in her best french accent ask fo a ticket to that new french film La Confidencial. We were running that really good American film L.A. Confidential.

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 05-14-2004, 05:37 PM:

my favorite one recently, from a spry old codger:

"the flagellation of gaaawd" = the passion of the christ

carl

Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 05-14-2004, 05:58 PM:

Regarding Tess (mixing up Guarding Tess with Regarding Henry)
Palos Verdes (Pacific Heights)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Journey (or Bogus Adventure)

and my favorite:
Dancin' With The Woofs (I'm not kidding)

and frequently-spotted spelling errors:
Howard's End (it's Howards End -- no apostrophe)
Rustler's Rhapsody (more than one Rustler.... Rustlers' Rhapsody... made this mistake recently, in print no less. Doh!)

And when I hear people refer to trilogies, I cannot tell you how many times people screw up the word "trilogy." Tri-ology is pretty common.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 05-15-2004, 01:12 PM:

I noticed that many people were reluctant or unable to say the correct title of "The Passion of the Christ." They would either say "that movie about Jesus" or "the Mel Gibson movie" or "that movie." I don't know how many times I've heard recently, "How did that movie do for you?"

Posted by Ron Keillor (Member # 1790) on 05-15-2004, 03:18 PM:

Lingering in the memory...the marquee that read "SWEAT DREAMS" instead of "SWEET DREAMS"

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 05-15-2004, 06:37 PM:

There was a movie once called FRESH HORSES....our marquee kid put up: FRESH HORES

Fortunately I caught it before any arrests were made. [Big Grin]