If movie titles were literal...what would they be called?

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05 Oct 2016, 11:38 am

^ 1. The sixth sense
3. I remember a Twilight Zone episode about that theme, but since this is about movies.... Is it one of the Planet of the Apes movies?

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The boy who just showed up and started living with a couple and soon withered because he was a actually a plant
The killer robot from the future whose mission it was to prevent a man from being born and the man who was his best friend's father who set out to stop it
Elderly couple experiences nuclear war and make everything even worse due to their own ignorance
Exciting park is ruined by human greed and ignorance

1 - AI?
2 - The Terminator
3 - When the winds blows
4 - Jurassic Park

My one...not exactly taking the plot of the film literally, but taking the title literally

A group of transvestites check into the hospital and undergo sex reassignment surgeries together.

2-4: Correct.
1: The odd life of Timothy Green

I don't know which movie you are referring to.

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05 Oct 2016, 11:56 am

"A group of transvestites check into the hospital and undergo sex reassignment surgeries together."

X-men

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05 Oct 2016, 6:34 pm

He DOES go Back to the Future, but first, he travels to the past.

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07 Oct 2016, 5:04 am

^...Spaceman from Pluto?

davidmcg wrote:

If movie titles were literally based on the what the movie was about, what would they be called?

Examples...

Man With Subpar Intelligence Has a Lot of Random Luck (Forrest Gump)
Ship crashes into a iceberg and sinks (I'll let you guess that one)

I think you're thinking about movie titles being more HONEST (and spoiler-laden), not necessarily literal. If they were literal, for example, Dark Shadows would just be a bunch of shadow puppets or something like that.
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07 Oct 2016, 2:55 pm

Skilpadde wrote:

^ 1. The sixth sense

Correct!

Skilpadde wrote:

3. I remember a Twilight Zone episode about that theme, but since this is about movies.... Is it one of the Planet of the Apes movies?

Sorry, I'm afraid my literal title wasn't very accurate. :/
That'd be the first Planet of Apes (1968) so, correct.

The others were:

2 - Fight Club
4 - Citizen Kane
5 - Blue is the warmest colour

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08 Oct 2016, 12:08 pm

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08 Oct 2016, 12:09 pm

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1 - The shrink is dead from the beginning.
2 - The bloke is mental and actually slaps himself.
3 - The astronaut never left Earth.
4 - Posh geezer takes control of the press, dies like everybody else.
5 - Boring story about two lesbians who fall in love and eventually part ways. People come for the nudity.

1) pass

2) pass

3) Babylon Five

4) Citizen Kane

5) pass

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08 Oct 2016, 12:42 pm

1) Girl Goes To Ballet Academy And Is Beset By Witches (alternatively, This Film Has Little Plot But A Lot Of Art Direction)
2) Nine Guys Hit The Road And Sean Bean Dies
3) Teen Girl Has Her First Period, Murder Ensues
4) Teen Pregnancy Leads to Cheerleader Bank Robbery

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08 Oct 2016, 1:29 pm

lidsmichelle wrote:

1 - Suspiria?
2 - Fellowship of the Ring?
3 - Carrie?
4 - Sugar & Spice?

My list:

1 - Man dies with a boner
2 - An educational video of how to make a citrus powered clock.
3 - A movie shot in complete blackness. No lights of any kind. Everyone would just go about their day bumping into walls.
4 - A documentary about an apparatus used for reducing or increasing the voltage of an alternating current.

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08 Oct 2016, 1:50 pm

davidmcg wrote:

lidsmichelle wrote:

1 - Suspiria?
2 - Fellowship of the Ring?
3 - Carrie?
4 - Sugar & Spice?

All correct but 3, my boyfriend guessed Carrie as well though. It's actually Ginger Snaps.

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