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Films - It's 'Gone with the wind' meets 'Scooby Doo'

  
  

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COG
17:45 / 15.01.08
Bump - I love this thread so much so get your thinking caps on again.

Cloverfield of Dreams If you build it, it will come. A farmer hears voices telling him to build a baseball field. He does, and a terrifying monster is summoned that destroys Iowa. Heartwarming and redemptive.
 
 
Feverfew
17:58 / 15.01.08
Freddy got Goldfingered; James Bond is back, and faces his deadliest foe ever; will he submit to the farcical and inane humour of Tom Green, or join forces with his father in the climactic sequence in Pakistan?

The Asphalt Jungle Book; Mowgli's finally free, and has a big score on his mind; everything goes more or less to plan, until Bagheera beats Kaa into confessing, and things go downhill from there.

Cross-genre action also with Everything is Illuminatus!; the first film in the trilogy sees Elijah Wood travelling to the Ukraine to find out more about his ancestors, but an ancient and unknowable conspiracy hinders his every turn. Also starring Gogol Bordello.
 
 
Twice
18:29 / 15.01.08
Well if cross genre is permissible;

Friendsy - Atmospheric and claustrophobic thriller in which a group of young New Yorkers fall victim to a mysterious strangler. Kipper ties.
 
 
grant
18:55 / 15.01.08
BELOW the Tuscan Sun - Diane Lane stars as a recently divorced novelist learning to love again by leaving her old life behind and starting over aboard a U.S. submarine facing a terrifying adversary in the icy North Atlantic during World War II.
 
 
grant
19:01 / 15.01.08
The Quick and the Furious: Outlaw street racer Vin Diesel meets his match in outlaw gunfighter Sharon Stone.
 
 
Ex
19:13 / 15.01.08
I Am Legend of the Overfiend - Will Smith is the last man alive, and now wanders through the ruins of New York, trying to avoid getting molested by tentacles.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
19:24 / 15.01.08
It's on!

Bleach Blanket Bingo: zany, wholesome 1950s teenagers enjoy a caper while trying to cram in studying at a Japanese high school and raising their spirit power levels high enough to fend off a rapacious biker gang of inexplicably Mexican origin. Ninety minutes of mirth (two hours with filler).
 
 
Mug Chum
19:45 / 15.01.08
COG, genious prequel.
Just genious.
 
 
Mistoffelees
19:57 / 15.01.08
Cloverfield of Dreams If you build it, it will come. A farmer hears voices telling him to build a baseball field. He does, and a terrifying monster is summoned that destroys Iowa. Heartwarming and redemptive.

  
 
grant
20:01 / 15.01.08
Casino Royale - James Bond wakes up on a remote island with an exploding collar locked around his neck. He must kill an entire class of Japanese middle schoolers if he wants to survive. Stars Christopher Lee as the coach.

(I can't remember if anyone has already done the ones I'm thinking of - I have trouble distinguishing memories sometimes.)
 
 
grant
20:10 / 15.01.08
I love that poster and just submitted it to reddit.

I, Claudius, Am Legend: Simple-minded man lives life of luxury in post-apocalyptic Rome; feasting by day, fighting zombies by night.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
21:57 / 15.01.08
No Country For Old Men In Black

When Agent J accidentally finds 1000 bars of gold-pressed latinum in an illegal alien's stomach, he decides to keep it to himself and goes on the run, pursued by a weary Agent K and the terrifying alien bounty hunter known as Greedo...
 
 
Mug Chum
22:42 / 15.01.08
No Time For Passing Out, Old Man
Three hunts begin simutaneously in Gotham when Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) goes after the mysterious man who stole his $2 million in his trademark coins. Batman (Tommy Lee Jones) must find the two before more blood is spilled, while unaware he's being chased and steered by the Joker (Tommy Lee Jones) -- who set out the entire plan with the stealing of the Coins of Fate (who knows why? He's evil encarnate, a force of fate and doom).

A gritty tale of how gritty greedy grittiness can get...

...

(from the writers of 'Greasy Greedo greets you in Greek grit')
 
 
Dead Megatron
23:20 / 15.01.08
Batman Begone with the Wind


After the death of his parents, rich kid dresses in leather suit to fight crime during the US Civil War with the help of Colonel Gordon.
 
 
grant
00:48 / 16.01.08
The Orphanage of Innocence - Martin Scorcese directs a (frankly disappointing) atmospheric period piece in which Daniel Day-Lewis discovers unspeakable secrets of his past in fin de siecle New York.
 
 
Mistoffelees
19:51 / 16.01.08
And now there´s even a trailer for Cloverfield of Dreams!
 
 
Evil Scientist
20:07 / 16.01.08
Little Miss Sunshine

A small girl and her outlandish family set out in a camper van to re-light the sun. Comedy and solar radiation ensues.
 
 
Shrug
22:44 / 21.01.08
C.S.I. love you.

When popular author Celia Ahern is murdered, the investigating detective uncovers an as yet unproduced film script and gradually learns to love again.
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:48 / 22.01.08
Stuart Little Miss SunShine

A small girl, her even smaller talking mouse, and her outlandish family set out in a camper van to re-light the sun. Comedy and solar radiation ensues. And there's a piano player.
 
 
Evil Scientist
12:40 / 23.01.08
Stuart Little Miss Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Umm...I forget.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
13:38 / 23.01.08
Stuart Little Voice Miss Congeniality Sunshine Confessions of the Spotless Beautiful Dangerous Mind Your Language
 
 
Evil Scientist
13:51 / 23.01.08
I think we better call in an airstrike before this monster destroys us all!

Perhaps we ought to call:

Betty Blue Thunder

Beatrice Dale is the waitress yearning for a better life who finds it as the pilot of the LAPD's newest weapon in the war on inner city crime, Blue Thunder.

But can Roy Schieder teach her to do a helicoptor loop-the-loop before Malcolm McDowell makes them paint 500 shacks?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
14:11 / 23.01.08
Alien vs Kramer
 
 
Panic
15:49 / 24.01.08
ALIENS VS KITE RUNNER

The heartfelt and tragic story of two Afghan boys struggling with the tumultuous changes in their country and society. Then exploding from the inside out with xenomorphic larvae.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
15:08 / 25.01.08
It's cheating if the two original titles don't have at least one word in common. Stop this anarchy!

Stuart Little Miss Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

OK, I can do this …

A bespectacled little girl and her talking mouse cross America with her kooky family to enter a beauty pageant. Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend (Jim Carrey), heartbroken at their split, undergoes an experimental treatment to wipe his memory of her. Her coke-snorting grandfather (Kirsten Dunst) dies after having an affair with Tom Wilkinson, prompting Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson to adopt the girl and her gay uncle before setting off on a hazardous space journey to relight the sun, at which point she is reunited with Cillian Murphy and everybody dies, or gets married, or something.
 
 
Mistoffelees
15:25 / 25.01.08
It's cheating if the two original titles don't have at least one word in common. Stop this anarchy!

But is it really cheating? Nowhere in the thread summary or in the OP is this sharing requirement mentioned. And there is an example in the OP, where the two movie titles also don´t share one word (The Mallrats of Nimh = Mallrats + The Secret of Nimh).
 
 
Alex's Grandma
15:42 / 25.01.08
'Dirty Dancing Downfall'.

An inspirational guy who's been misunderstood by many rediscovers a sense of joy in life, via the power of classic soul. The rednecks don't understand. Or perhaps they do, all too well. Will the hero marry that girl, or will his mind, perhaps, be nudged towards darker imaginings?

Either way, everyone would do the Mashed Potato at the end.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
16:11 / 25.01.08
Mist: well, if not cheating I would say that the A + B = C formula is certainly not as amusing or clever when there's no shared word. Where is the unlikely link, if not in the titles? Why not just jam any two movies together? The apparent connection offered by the recurrence of part of a title is what makes the game fun and silly. A single word'll do it - or a homophone - give me that at least.

(The Mallrats of Nimh = Mallrats + The Secret of Nimh).

Also, I think you'll find that the Secret of Nimh was also known as The Rats of Nimh - or perhaps that was the title of the book. Or something. But yes, it's an atypical example.

*pushes glasses up nose, albeit uncertainly*
 
 
Whisky Priestess
16:12 / 25.01.08
AG, stop proving me wrong. It should be called "Dirty Downfall", clearly.
 
 
grant
16:19 / 25.01.08
Watership Downfall if all parts replaced by actors in rabbit costumes.

Falling Downfall if main character replaced by flat-topped Michael Douglas. Lost his job due to sudden outbreak of echolalia.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
16:23 / 25.01.08
Aria 88

Unwieldy, dated anthology with various heavyweight directors taking turns at a classically-soundtracked tale of intense, lovelorn Japanese fighter pilots in a Middle Eastern combat zone. Warning: Julien Temple may be involved.
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:34 / 25.01.08
Mist: well, if not cheating I would say that the A + B = C formula is certainly not as amusing or clever when there's no shared word. Where is the unlikely link, if not in the titles? Why not just jam any two movies together? The apparent connection offered by the recurrence of part of a title is what makes the game fun and silly. A single word'll do it - or a homophone - give me that at least.

I agree. When there is no challenge, it takes away most of the fun. I just object to calling it cheating. To me, it´s more in the sense of lazy gameplaying.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
16:41 / 25.01.08
Watership Downfall

This has legs, as an idea.

Hazel and Fiver sit in the burrow, seething with amphetamines;

'Aren't we the ones who are supposed to be doing the gassing?'
 
 
electric monk
18:04 / 25.01.08
Thank You for Smoking Aces

When a stage magician-turned-Big Tobacco exec decides to testify against his former employers, tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor puts out a $1 million contract on the snitch's head. Every gun lobbyist in America joins the hunt. Hilarity and gunplay ensue.
 
 
Dutch
01:07 / 26.01.08
28 and 9 1/2 weeks later

A zombie-apocalypse soft-core porn film, in which Mickey Rourke tries to seduce Kim Basinger via an airborne virus, only to have England (the place of love) run over with fast zombies. Ice-cubes, bikini-lines and semi-pornographic horror-movie music included
 
  

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