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Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 01-25-2004, 01:35 PM:
I have noticed in my 20-years in the business that given a chance, projectionists will put a funny title on the tail of the film in their booth.
I run an Art Cinema so some of my titles will be a little obscure.
My Big Fat Gay Italian Wedding = Mambo Italiano
Say What = Lost in Translation
The Lounging Dick = Singing Detective
Eat at Subway = 21 Grams (Joke the staff told that 21 Grams is the amount of fat in 3 Subway low fat sandwiches.)
The Ruined Dress = The Human Stain
The Revolution will not be televised but we will charge you $9 to see it
Casserole de Baby = Casa de los Babies
There she Blows = A Mighty Wind
Anything but this Movie = Anything but Love
2 Ass Tango = Assassination Tango
2 Hours out of my Life = Out of Time
Real World Spain = L’Auberge Espanol
East Butter Knife = North Fork
Bisquick = Seabiscuit
Battered Clams = Shattered Glass
The Penis…t = The Pianist
What were some of the ones you have come up with?
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 01-25-2004, 02:08 PM:
Trouser Snake = Anaconda
Or simply add, "...In my pants", to the end of any movie title:
Titanic... In my pants.
etc., etc., etc...
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-25-2004, 02:50 PM:
We did this usually on movies we didn't like or were tired of playing over and over (it was a repertory house). From my days as a projectionist, I can recall labelling reels with:
Casablanka
Koyaaniwhatsis
The Old Grey Fart
Queerelle
Harold and Mud
Raiders of the Lost Arc
The Song Remains THE SAME!
Adam's Tit
The Rocky Whore Picture Show
Let it Go (Let it Be)
Flush Gordon
Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 01-25-2004, 06:38 PM:
An Orifice and a Genital
Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 01-25-2004, 10:35 PM:
Back in my post house days we did many press screenings of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" so started referring to it as "The Unbearable Length of this Movie."
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-25-2004, 10:40 PM:
Oh c'mon Ian! Can't you remember some of the creative titles we came up with at Greenwood? Me nither. Anyway I usually come up with pretty good ones when I think about it. It's been awhile, though.
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-26-2004, 01:35 PM:
Harry Pothead
Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 01-26-2004, 05:29 PM:
The English Must Have Lots Of Patience
Pearl Harbore
My Cat Skip
Kirsten Beautiful
Dracula's Christmas (for Dracula 2000, which came out the week before Christmas)
A Few Good Overpaid Actors
Your Worst Enemy's Divorce (direct opposite of My Best Friend's Wedding)
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-26-2004, 05:29 PM:
Hard to remember some of the older labels. Most of what I can recall are from the last year or so.
What A Girl Flaunts (What A Girl Wants)
Poke Your Mom (Pokemon)
Decor (The Core - must say with Jamacan accent)
Butt Pirates of the Caribbean (Pirates of the Caribbean)
A Gay Thing (A Guy Thing)
Upchuck Girls (Uptown Girls)
Once Upon A Time There Was A Really Bad Movie (Once Upon A Time in Mexico)
Pigvomit (Piglet)
Cold Cuts Manor (Cold Creek Manor)
Angry Management (Anger Management)
This Movie Is Intolerable Cruelty (Intolerable Cruelty)
Shit (Shout)
Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 01-26-2004, 06:19 PM:
My God They're Aweful Sisters = Magdeline Sisters
Shit Stain = human Stain
My Fat Ass Greek Wedding
Winnie The Poop
Never Famous
Thats about all I can think of
JJ
Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 01-26-2004, 07:51 PM:
"Butt Pirates of the Caribbean (Pirates of the Caribbean)"
Actually, the "porno" (both gay and straight) rip-offs of the legit titles are really funny!
Ummmm... NOT that ***I*** would know about such things... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
>>> Phil
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-26-2004, 08:17 PM:
Poke Your Mom (Pokemon) was one of mine.
Brad did the splicing work.
Oh! Just remembered:
The Family has the Runs (It Runs in the Family)
Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 01-27-2004, 12:19 AM:
I have been doing this since the early 80's- rather than the tail tags we used a piece of taqpe at the sound rack with lens and format/fader info. When I returned to the biz in 1996, it was a sheet of paper stuck to the back of the console.
Some from the 80's I can remember off hand:
Dumb Asinine Retarded Yucky Lamebrain -D.A.R.Y.L.
Bimbo: First Blonde XXXVIII -Rambo: First Blood II
Flush Dunce -Flashdance
Evasion I.R.S. -Invasion U.S.A.
Star Drek... -Star Trek...
Daryl Does Disney -Splash
The Muppets Waste Manhattan -Muppets Take Manhattan
Mr. X-Acto and his friends Colt & Uzi -Terminator I
Dolt-A-Farce -Delta Force
Nat'l Lampoon's European Fiasco -European Vacation
Cokespoon -Cocoon
Mind Rape -Mindscape
Zombies On Parade -Return Of The Living Dead
Sex Spores -Explorers
Cremator -Creator
Joyless Sex -Joy Of Sex
Q.T: The Quasi-Terrestrial/E.T: The Extra Testicle -E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Kremlins (in radical red Eastmancolor) -Gremlins
Star Bores/Star Warts/Star Whores -Star Wars
The Umpire Strikes Out -Empire Strikes Back
Re-Run of the Jedi -Return Of The Jedi
Crapped! -Zapped!
...there were hundreds of them on the walls after a while... ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
From the 90's we had:
Truth About Bats and Frogs -Truth about Cats & Dogs
Shaq Attaq from Iraq -Kazaam
The 'Black' movie from the 'White' Director -The Preacher's Wife
enCOURAGE UNDERwear FIREs -the caps say it all
Boogity Nights -Boogie Nights
Wild Wild Worst -Wild Wild West
...among others
and I prefer THIS Pokémon tail myself:
-Aaron
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-27-2004, 04:41 AM:
A few more that came to mind (these moreso along Phil's train of thought):
Cock Star (Rock Star)
Boning Lisa (Mona Lisa Smile)
Monster Balls (Monster's Ball)
Servicing Sara (Serving Sara)
Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 01-27-2004, 09:51 AM:
I wasn't one to alter tails of prints ... but that would have been too much fun.
Nor could I place tape on the tail of the print to scribble a new title - as tape on the prints confused the bejesus out of the cue readers.
Alternate titles did end up on the loops (made from old trailers) we put around the prints to keep the tails in place.
The few that I can remember off-hand:
Glad He Ate Her (Gladiator)
Annoying Moose And Squirrel (Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle)
Britney Sucks! (Crossroads)
I'm sure there must have been others, memory is foggy.
Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 01-30-2004, 09:11 PM:
I can't say as I've gotten as whacky as you guys, but I've been one to abbreviate to my liking such as:
Fat Greek = My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Trix II = Matrix Reloaded
Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 01-31-2004, 04:27 PM:
I once got a used print of "Elizabeth" that was labeled "Betsy". (I always took the tail ID's off when breaking down prints.)
Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 02-24-2004, 02:07 PM:
Lethal Passion
Kill Christ
Bloody Chunks of Christ
Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade
The Goriest Story Ever Told
Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 02-25-2004, 01:53 PM:
Religious Splatter Art Film Ky
Posted by Cory Isemann (Member # 2517) on 01-20-2005, 09:17 AM:
The Whore Next Door
Lemony Suckit
Van Helsuck
that's all I can think of right now.
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-20-2005, 10:05 AM:
Some more mainly arthouse examples:
From Here to Maternity
Leon the Pig F***er
The Bland Girls
The Horse Shagger
Good Will Humping
Dead Man Wanking
Gone With the Wind Up
The Sum of All Farts
Everyone Says It's Self-Indulgent Shite (on the tail of Woody Allen's 'Everyone Says I Love You')
Whining Man Blues (you can tell we did't like Woody Allen in that theatre)
The Lizard of Oz (on the tail of 'Godzilla')
Harry Poofter & [insert rest of title here]
Not exactly sophisticated humour, I grant you.
Then there was the Photoshopped 'Blair Witch Project' poster with tagline changed to 'The scary thing is that you never get to see Cherie' [Cherie Blair - wife of British Prime Minister Tony]
Posted by Nate Anderson (Member # 2711) on 01-20-2005, 02:33 PM:
Being John Holmes (Being John Malkovich)
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 01-20-2005, 04:14 PM:
"Beating John Malkovich"
Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 01-20-2005, 04:24 PM:
Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade
The Horse Shagger
Good Will Humping
Dead Man Wanking
You guys are nuts! Those are hilarious!
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-20-2005, 05:32 PM:
Oops, I forgot - The Blues Buggers & Shitanic.
Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 08-18-2009, 09:48 PM:
It has been 1671 days since the last post.
Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 08-18-2009, 09:48 PM:
Harry Potter and the ˝ Bloods & Crips
Posted by Jon P. Inghram (Member # 4125) on 08-19-2009, 12:00 AM:
When we had film with one of the previous HP movies: Harry Potter In A Coal Mine (the splices seemed to all be at very dark or completely black scenes.)
Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 08-19-2009, 01:30 AM:
for "Hotel for Dogs", I wrote down "Hostel for Canines" for the print tail end label.
Posted by Sally Ann Burgess (Member # 4746) on 08-20-2009, 07:48 AM:
"Shaving Ryan's Privates"-Saving Private Ryan
"Harry Pothead and the Half Decent Script"-Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
"Journey to the Centre of my Arse"-Journey to the Centre of the Earth
"I Want to Believe This Is A Good Movie"-X Files: I Want To Believe
"Gerbils in Rodanthe"-Nights In Rodanthe
"Body of Pies"-Body of Lies (Crowe was pretty big!)
Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-22-2009, 07:59 PM:
I've seen Ponyo become both "Boneyo" and "Totoro with Fish".
Posted by Jonathan Althaus (Member # 5042) on 08-22-2009, 08:12 PM:
The Half Hairy Bloodied Prince (HP 6)
Harvey Gets Milked (Milk)
Mexicans Upstairs (Aliens in the Attic)
This Movie Sucks (Spiderman 3)
The Lady In Red/Pubic Enemies/Public Enemas (Public Enemies)
Tick Tick Tick Kaboom (Hurt Locker)
I could go on, but I'll stop
Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 08-22-2009, 08:32 PM:
Please, dont stop! ![[thumbsup]](graemlins/thumbsup.gif)
Posted by Jarret Chessell (Member # 5077) on 08-22-2009, 09:33 PM:
Cat in the Flat - Cat in the hat (was flat)
Posted by Jonathan Althaus (Member # 5042) on 08-22-2009, 09:38 PM:
Ok heres some more
GI Hoe (GI Joe)
Hardbody (IronMan)
Doughboy Eleven (Hellboy 2)
Worst Movie Ever (Disaster Movie)
Dubya (W)
Cleaners (The Women)
Yet Another Sam Jackson Film (Lakeview Terrace)
Rats on Roids (G-Force)
I Broked It (Not Easily Broken)
Angles And Derivatives (Angels and Demons)
Hard Cox (Walk Hard)
I Drink Your Milkshake (There Will Be Blood)
British BJ (Bank Job)
Needless to say, my projectionists hate me, especially when we have prints sharing a screen. I try to have nicknames for all our films.
Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 08-22-2009, 10:41 PM:
Thats great. I think I Drink Your Milkshake if my fav. ROFL
Posted by Joseph Pandolfi (Member # 223) on 08-23-2009, 09:47 AM:
Ben-Jammin' Butt-on (Benjamin Button)
I Know What Killed My Career (This was my tail)
Superman Regurgitates (my boss did that one)
X-Men: I Can't Stand (The Last Stand)
Dull Vinci Code (DaVinci Code)
Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 08-23-2009, 09:09 PM:
Bobby Jones: Stoke of Genius = BJ/Stroke
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-13-2009, 04:41 PM:
So is everyone afraid to post this for fear of being in bad taste, or is it just SO OBVIOUS that nobody else thought of it?
"Michael Jackson - This is Shit"
Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 11-13-2009, 05:01 PM:
I put two of them for 2012:
* 2112 (since I'm a Rush fan)
* Disaster Movie
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 11-13-2009, 05:36 PM:
I must be the only person who is unfamiliar with this practice. I've not seen any evidence of it at any place where I have worked or on prints that arrive from other theatres. Weird.
I usually just do something like "A Clockwork Orange - flat/1.66 - mono" and leave it at that. Boring, but effective.
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 11-13-2009, 05:46 PM:
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