Topic: The Silly Title Game

Alright, so I couldn't think of a better name. Sue me.

Here are the rules. I come up with a silly, stupid-sounding movie title. (Clash of the Leather Blankets, Ghost Dench, The Phantom Menace, etc.) The person who posts below me uses that title to construct what the plot of that movie might be. Then they come up with a new title for the next person. Of course, these can't be real movie titles, and they have to be randomly assembled. Try not to make ones that imply a specific plot; make them as vague as possible. In other words, don't make them good titles.

I'll get us started.

Assault and Batteries

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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Happy Madison proudly presents Assault and Batteries!

Smip Parph (Dana Carvey) is an idiot with a heart of gold, working as a copper smelter.  His life is made up of slipping on things and constantly accidentally(?) peeing on his grandmother(Sharon Stone), until one day when he accidentally discovers an illegal AA battery counterfeit ring.  These batteries stink!  They don't even last 5 minutes!  Smip is brutally, and understandably gunned down and peed on, until his smoking body is discovered by Dr. Rex McPkAnk (John Hurt), an Army General AND a Laser Scientist.  He rebuilds the bumbling, lovable idiot Smip, into a Cyborg armed to the teeth with revenge and lasers that shoot chainsaws.  After a cybernetically enhanced love scene with his childhood crush, Emma (Ruth Buzzy) Smip heads off for one last case.  On his way, he trips.

Your movie is: Memories of a memory

Eddie Doty

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You've read the book! Now see the movie: Memories of a Memory....

Anne Hathaway is Janet Kewlgate, a custom dressmaker's dummy maker from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne who suffers amnesia from the same accident that claims the life of her husband, Tobb (Tony Jaa). Janet throws herself into her work but is repeatedly bothered by a stranger named Spartacus (Neil Patrick Harris). Flashes of the accident and her life before it soon disrupt her sleep and include a mysterious and menacing woman (Nicole Kidman).

After sleeping with Spartacus, Janet goes to memory expert Dr. Rex McPkAnk (John Hurt), only to discover the mystery woman is his colleague, Dr. Renee Schwizhle. Confronted, Schwizhle explains that the accident is an implanted memory of her own personal tragedy, given to Janet as experimental therapy to curb her psychopathic desire to murder her real husband: Spartacus, whom Janet caught having an affair with an underage fashion model (Elle Fanning). Janet snaps and must be subdued by Spartacus... while Dr. Schwizhle prepares to perform a lobotomy.

Your movie is: The Bald Black Bones

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I like the trend of John Hurt as Dr. Rex McPkAnk being in all of these.

Eddie Doty

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The Bald Black Bones is the name of a girl's favorite poem, which turns out to have convenient meaning in her life over the course of this film sharing its name.

The poem has something to do with a poem-girl's pet poem-bird, which was left in its cage by the fire for too long and poem-girl was devastated by the discovery of a cage containing naught but a few bald, black bones.

The film tells the story of this girl (who likes the poem, not who is in the poem) as she deals with her various indie film bullshit, something something relationships, and is thematically trapped in everything she does. Perhaps job, therapy, school, social circles, blah blah, indie film bullshit - and believing the story is of a bird trapped too close to such a destructive thing that dies before escaping, extricates herself thusly. It is only near the end that she realizes the second meaning of the poem, which is not written here but would be presentably stirring to the Notebook crowd.

Just add sentimental unknown piano-based indie band and attractive, sharp-witted unknown indie actress and you've got yourself a ticket to SXSW.


Your movie is Signal.

Teague Chrystie

I have a tendency to fix your typos.

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Steve Signal is a telephone developer working for a popular mobile phone company but goes on the run when his prototype for the new model (iSignal - product placement opportunities!) is stolen and he is suspected of selling it to a rival telephone vendor.

He teams up with a beautiful swedish computer programmer (Scarlett Johansson) and a bumbling telephone enthusiast (Jonah Hill) to hunt down the missing iSignal

This leads them to a hollowed out Fjord in norway where the evil Dr. Rex McPkAnk (John Hurt) is using it to make long distance phone calls on our heroes account.

Our heroes get the prototype back after defusing a bomb, freeing slave children and doing some exciting parkour.

The DiF commentary will no doubt complain about the lack of stakes in the third act.

Your title is Day of the Dentist

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Dr. Rex McPkAnk, DDS (John Hurt) is a simple dentist who just got out of jail after twenty years, having been framed for a crime he didn't commit. After teaming up with a private eye named Jack McJames (Michael Keaton), he decides to find the man who framed him and bring him to justice.

But when the villain (Tom Hanks) murders Dr. McPkAnk's entire family, he realizes that the time for justice is over. The time for revenge has begun.

In an excruciating fifteen minute scene, Dr. McPkAnk slowly tortures the villain using an entire table's worth of dentist's tools.

This summer, see the movie that's sure to have everyone screaming in their seats. Don't forget your floss...

Day of Evil. Day of Terror. Day of the Dentist.


Next up: The Boy in the Big Bee Fields

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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You've waited all summer! Now it's here! The Boy in the Big Bee Fields

Nathan Smelts (Haley Joel Osment) is a young Missouri man who dreams of bringing back the bees, whose colonies have collapsed. From an American Indian friend named Calma (Gabby Sidibe), Nathan learns the secret of "bee calling" and conducts nightly rituals that require dancing in a loin cloth and body paint under a waxing moon in the open fields. Local townsfolk begin complaining, and Nathan clashes with his father (William Hurt) a no-nonsense ironwork artist who goes by the professional name "Dr. McPkAnk".

Things come to a head when Nathan, with Calma's encouragement, robs a liquor store with his father's tools and uses gallons of corn whiskey to fill a wading pool to attract bees. Drunk and pursued by townsfolk on his electric scooter accompanied by banjo music, Nathan spies Calma dancing in a field and goes to her. As the townsfolk close in, bees begin to arrive, and Calma reveals herself to a be a great Indian queen bee spirit who needed the townsfolk to be distracted until she could call the bees back. Great swarms of bees cover everything, and all the townsfolk are badly stung and run away as Calma floats into the night sky.

Nathan is reunited with his father in a touching tandem electric scooter ride.

Coming soon: Hang the Red Clown

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In a world where everyone is colour-blind...

In a time when laughter is forbidden...

In a costume that fits a little too poorly...

One man is on a mission to save himself from the gallows before time, and the rope, runs out.

On trial for his life, Bonzo the Accountant (Jeff Goldblum) stands accused of making colourful fun of the head of the Church of Lyingtology, a crime punishable by DEATH!  BY HANGING!!

In a series of tense courtroom battles, the Church's founder, and chief Lying Officer, Dr Rex McPkAnk (Tom Cruise) hits Bonzo with one damning pie after another, but Bonzo refuses to laugh.  Despite the best efforts of Bonzo's team of defence chimpanzees (all played by Helena Bonham-Carter), Bonzo eventually crumples on the witness stand.

The jury is forced to consider just how large Bonzo's shoes are, just how aggravated bulls are by his allegedly bright red make-up, and just how many billiard balls can fit into his mouth at once.  Finally, with the startling proclamation: "YOU CAN'T HANDLE DULUTH!", McPkAnk makes Bonzo confess to being red, funny and a little bit creepy, all at the same time.

The jury themselves are so incensed, they drag Bonzo out into the street, string him up from the nearest unoccupied gallows, and leave him twisting in the wind, a warning to all who would be funny, or red, or Jeff Goldblum.


Coming soon: The Night After Alaska.

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It is the distant future. Apocalypse has obliterated nearly all human life. Conventional measurements of time no longer have any meaning. Time is now measured by how long it takes to cross a location.

Our story starts with a group of varied individuals: A biology professor with a secret past (Sean Penn), a a greengrocer with a secret past (Tim Roth), and a seven-year-old boy with a secret past (Zac Efron, with some makeup). We meet them the night after they finish crossing Alaska, when an evil doctor who goes only by McPkAnk and his evil gang kidnap the boy. Penn and Roth must put confront their secret pasts and work to get the boy back...before it's too late.

Next up: Pulse of the Green Foot

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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After losing his wife,job, keys, house and sanity in an unfortunate fishing accident, a man's foot turns into a clump of cabbage during a night of heavy drinking with Dr. Rex McPkAnk. It's up to this insanely intoxicated, divorced ,homeless, produce footed man to find out what is happening to him.

Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Hurt

From the same studio that gave you:
Dudes and Platitudes

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It's the feel-good stoner comedy of the decade! It's Dudes and Platitudes!

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page are Grant Heckleman and Hattie Plankmeme, two graduate students who get paired up to write a paper on the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Thinking his cryptic proverbs must have been made while stoned, they venture out with Grant's burn-out roommate Hilgy (Jonah Hill) and into the stoner night life around campus, where they meet two English brothers/drunks (Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe), a dwarf drug connection with OCD (Peter Dinklage), a pair of slutty sisters (Hayden Panettiere and Michelle Williams) who go around in a pantomime horse costume, a foul-mouthed cougar professor (Emma Thompson) with two undergrads, and handlebar-mustachioed "doctor feel-good" Rex McPkAnk (John Hurt).

They spend the night in drug, sex, and philosophical debauchery, and Grant and Hattie wake up naked together only to discover Dr. McPkAnk's dead body in Grant's living room. Hung over, they watch a video Dr. McPkAnk made philosophizing about his imminent death from liver cancer, then stuff the overdose victim in Hattie's SUV and—after a wild chase thru town to evade the cops—dump him in front of the public library before bailing Hilgy out of jail for public intoxication and fighting with the dwarf.

Coming soon: The Sandals of Empire

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Based on the popular line of action figures, it's The Sandals of Empire!

Rory Davenlee (Joel Courtney) is an introverted teen dying of soul cancer. He's secretly in love with his Step-Cousin, Jenna Vossten (Emma Stone), but his remaining days are numbered. One day, Rory's single Dad, Tom (Ryan Reynolds) is at work as the local Dog Catcher and finds a friendly, overweight Welsh Corgi named Empire, abandoned in an empty community pool. The dog was born without legs.

Tom brings the dog home to his son. Boy and dog form an immediate friendship. With the help of their eccentric neighbor, Dr. Rex McPkAnk (John Hurt), the Davenlees invent two pair of electric sandals and mobilize the happy dog. This reignites Rory's willpower to live. He beats his cancer and helps Empire win Best In Show at the National Dog Show!

Next Up: The Umpteenth Watermelon.

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At last, the joint sequel to Watermelons Galore! and Attack of the Ribosomes sprays the silver screen with the juiciest clumps of mirth and recombination you've ever seen!

Following in the wet footsteps that are all that's left of their mentor Dr Rex McPkAnk (John Hurt), this year's intake of genetic engineering lunatics at Pips-R-Us Food-n-Monsters Inc proves to be the most careless yet.

In the midst of her project to create the world's most carnivorous watermelon, Dr Susie 'Sue' Soo (Zooey Deschanel) falls madly in lust with lab supervisor Herr Doktor Professor Fritz 'Ritzy' Witzensteinerhassenpfeffer (Ewen McGregor). But their technically illicit affair causes bigger problems when Susie's previous squeeze, the world's second-most carnivorous watermelon, comes looking to wreak squishy revenge for being jilted before all its results were published in the New England Journal of Fairly Apocalyptic Experiments.

Pip-based pandemonium ensues as Susie and Fritz mostly avoid being eaten while singing and dancing their way to a slushy, romantic ending surrounded by a veritable smorgasbord of almost-believable human-fruit hybrids.

Don't miss the witty banter of the self-juggling pumpkin sisters (Janeane Garofalo and Sarah Silverman)!

Coming soon: No Wood for Old Men

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From the acclaimed director of "Geezer with the Saggen Tattoo" comes "No Wood for Old Men" :

In the near future, no over 60 can get an erection ,vital Viagra supplies have run out and the only thing erupting is chaos. All hope rests precariously in the hands of Dr. John Johnson (Tom Cruise),his colleagues Dr Rex McPkAnk (John Hurt) and Dr Fallon Cane (Michael Caine). Together, they must solve this growing epidemic of doddering dicks. As humanity falls, as hope shrinks, a hero will rise.

Also coming soon:
Ghost Hoarders

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Terror knew no name like Ghost Hoarders!

Randee Hilk (James Marsden) and Sally Nepfelski (Rachel McAdams) are a young couple in the prime of life—until a power line snaps in a windstorm and kills them both during a picnic. They wander the earth as lost souls and visit their own funeral, where a strange man (Dustin Hoffman) seems to react to them.

Randee and Sally flee as the man and his cohorts (Robert Duvall, Dokota Fanning, and Vanessa Williams) track them with sophisticated paranormal equipment and try to imprison them in their own personal collection, used to entertain a group of wealthy occultists (the Casey Anthony jury). One by one, the hoarders capture Jake, a timid neurotic (Robert DeNiro), Mook, a retired wrestler (Michael Clark Duncan), and even Myra, a little girl (Justin Bieber).

The spirit couple try to get help by contacting Randee's brother John, but he has no sensitivity to the Great Beyond and is completely normal, a great comfort to his family, probably the nicest person you would ever meet, and not creepy in any way (Steve Buscemi).

Coming soon: The Hat Not Fit for a Head

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Adapted from the Indonesian martial arts epic of the same name, it's The Hat Not Fit for a Head!

Jenny and Penny Whutzit (Dakota and Elle Fanning) are sisters, suddenly orphaned by the mysterious disappearance of their inventor Father, Kenny Whutzit (Johnny Depp). The only thing he left behind was a vast fortune and the prototype for his latest invention, The Whutzit Fit Hat, a spiral designed cap that is literally one-size-fits-all, no matter what! What the sisters soon discover is that the hat is actually a wormhole into a parallel dimension! With the help of their no-nonsense guardian, Miss Emily Klide (Olivia Williams), the girls venture through the Whutzit Hat in search of their Dad and the missing half of a glass medallion, said to have mystical powers that can...write someone out of any movie pitch!

Coming soon: Death By Public Transit

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Based on the Award Winning Japanese Neon Noir Film "公共輸送による死" which was released earlier this year.

In the near future in the futuristic city of San Francisco, John Lynch (Will Smith) is a hard edged cop on the edge. With his partner (Seth Rogan) dead at the hands of a one of many Hover Transit system failures he finds himself involved in a murder plot, little does he know he is about to discover something much bigger then he could have ever imagined, a plot to destroy the entire transit system by a madman (John Malkovich), but then he finds himself in something much bigger then he couldn't imagine before, that it was planned by the mayor (Liam Neeson), but then an ever bigger plot emerges that is so big even we can't talk about.
But its really big.

"Well its a movie" says Ain't it Cool News
"I guess it has nice art design, and Seth Rogan dies pretty quickly" says Roger Ebert
"Will Smith delivers a performance" says The New York Times

In Theaters now!

Coming soon: Keeping Bronzeberg

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PAWS 2012

Tagline: His bark isn't as worse as his bite!

It's a hot summer on Calamity Island, a small community whose main business is its pet shops & beaches. When new Sheriff Barton Roadie discovers the remains of a dog attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to all dog walkers. This doesn't sit well with new Mayor Barry Prawn and several of the local pet shop businessmen. Roadie backs down to his regret as that weekend a young boy is killed by the predator. The dead boy's mother puts out a bounty on the dog and calamity is soon swamped with amateur dog wardens hoping to cash in on the reward. A local dog walker with much experience walking dogs, Splint, offers to hunt down the creature for a hefty fee. Soon Splint, Roadie and Matt pooper scooper from the veterinary Institute are on the beach hunting the Great white dog. As Roadie succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the creature, they're going to need a bigger stick.

Maybe to intense for younger viewers.

Director : George "ive killed Star Wars" Lucas
Release date: June 20, 2012
Running time:  4hr 22mins
Country:    United States
Language: English
Budget: 700 million

They're only noodles Michael.

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You have to use the title that the last person gave you. You also have to give the next person a new title. You also have to use proper grammar.

Next Title: What Kyle Said

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"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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Doctor Submarine please don't be jealous of the film PAWS! because it has a bigger budget than yours. We both know it will become a 2012 summertime blockbuster. And it will change how we feel about taking our dogs for a walk on a beach forever.

You yell Paws!, and we got a panic on our hands on the twenty sixth of September.

They're only noodles Michael.

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Keeping Bronzeberg

In the summer of 1974 mankind will meet their maker, and put a pin in it!

Young Idahoan, James Walker, lives with his grandmother on the family farm after a tragic accident which took the lives of his parents. James struggles at the local school, the anger he feels at his parents deaths makes him lash out at all around him. Eventually he is befriended by Emily Taylor, an introverted girl and keen lepidopterist who brings James out of his shell via her love of butterflies.

Their friendship blossoms and James notices his feelings towards Emily begin to change. Keen to impress her, he sets out into the fields of Idaho intent on finding the perfect butterfly to pin, and thus capture her heart.

James walks for hours and eventually stops by a pond under the shade of a tree. There he feels a sense of profound peace and wellbeing, and is approached by god. God introduces himself as Bronzeberg; a tiny winged man and creator of all things. They talk about life, how being a god doesn’t mean omniscience, and how pretty Emily is underneath the glasses and hair, Bronzeberg wants to help his young friend, and creates a butterfly for James to capture.

James realises that while butterflies are neat, presenting Emily with the creator of the universe is likely to be far more impressive. James nets him, puts him in the killing jar, and drops in the ether-soaked cotton wool.

The next day James presents Emily with his prize, a mounted god, pinned and framed. Emily loves the gift and they walk together into the sunset.


As the Doc said, Next Title: What Kyle Said

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Based on the popular first person shooter video game, it's What Kyle Said.

Intrepid reporter, Kyle West (Ryan Gosling) stumbles upon a conspiracy behind a chain of fast food restaurants called Boomer's Burgers. It seems the owner, Ben "Boomer" Bessinger (John Goodman) has been putting marijuana in his meat. Problem is, West's credibility is shot. He's a laughing stock at his job and in the local community.

When his ex-wife (Amanda Peet) is murdered for starting a Vegan campaign and boycott against Boomer's, Kyle must find Bessinger's reclusive, drug-free daughter, Drea (Michelle Williams). Together, the two use their collected evidence and information to bring down the Bessinger Pot-Burger empire, culminating in a thrilling legal trial!

Next up: Key Lime Sky.

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The summer's romantic-est romantic comedy in decades! Key Lime Sky

Florida girl Trisomy Wardlow (Ellen Page) has tried her whole life to keep the lid on her wacky family: mother Chalice (Elizabeth Berkley), father Myrmidon (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), older brother Tequesta (Tom Felton), younger sister Apostrophe (Abigail Breslin), and youngest brother Axel (Jaden Smith). They make their living raising Key limes and putting on an annual wet T-shirt contest for spring break tourists.

One day, Miami investment banker Thief Endicott [pronounced "tife" like "knife"] (Paul Walker) washes ashore after a storm and is nursed back to health by the Wardlow family. Entranced, Thief invites Trisomy to meet his family. Trisomy charms his father's friend, the President of the United States (Abe Vigoda) but discovers that mother Mariana (Natasha Henstridge) has numerous lovers, father Raytheon (John Hurt) is attempting to overthrow the government, and adopted brother Zuzumel (actual Namibian orphan) is a communist. Worse, Trisomy's provincial ways and amazing key lime pie make Thief's friends think she's one of the hired help, and she flees.

Thief follows her back home and finds the wet T-shirt contest in full swing. Trisomy's mother wins it over several college girls, and Thief scoops Trisomy into his Ferrari sportsboat and declares his intention to marry her and make her key lime pie a national sensation.

Coming soon: Professor Winklefarber's Calabfinaubinous Hooklesnort

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Amazing Sets!  11mm Lenses!  Impractically Retrofitted Televisions!

"On June 12th 20xx, You Can't Spell 'He Looks Torn' Without Hooklesnort."

Set during the American Civil War of 2130, Terry Gilliam's latest visionary masterpiece follows an urban beet farmer's struggle to survive and save his country.  After an enemy UAV crashes into his 700ft tiered beet farm platform in New Jersey, Gash Petunia (Shia Labeouf) discovers the West Coast's secret doomsday device blueprints for... The Hooklesnort.  With the Cali Special Forces in hot pursuit, Gash must risk life and limb get the plans to the President before it's too late.

Also, at some point, a love interest.

Coming soon...  Briefcase 2: The Briefcasening

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