Silly game: Movie titles
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musicjill's yesterday, the movie Hoosiers came up, and it made us start trying to think of movies that have one-word plural titles.
Goonies (Disqualified, heh. It's "The Goonies". I claim ignorance as I've never actually seen it...)
Gremlins
Stripes
Aliens (courtesy ofdarlene_ford!)
Antz
Heathers
Clerks
Mallrats
Beaches
Mermaids
Showgirls
Signs
Flatliners
What else? (...And does it seem that this construction was particularly fashionable in the '80s?)
musicjill's yesterday, the movie Hoosiers came up, and it made us start trying to think of movies that have one-word plural titles.Gremlins
Stripes
Aliens (courtesy of
darlene_ford!)Antz
Heathers
Clerks
Mallrats
Beaches
Mermaids
Showgirls
Signs
Flatliners
What else? (...And does it seem that this construction was particularly fashionable in the '80s?)
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 05:54 pm (UTC)Heh.
Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 06:02 pm (UTC)Goodfellas
Ghostbusters
Tremors (you didn't say they had to be good ones...)
(the) Birds (maybe a stretch?)
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 06:06 pm (UTC)Bananas
Freaks
Hoosiers
Reds
Wings (first movie to win Best Picture, 1927)
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 06:10 pm (UTC)Species
are the only ones off the top of my head.
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 06:15 pm (UTC)Kids
$ (a.k.a. "Dollars") (oh, come on)
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 06:20 pm (UTC)There've been at least five movies (all of them bad and pretty much unknown) with the name "Monsters."
Would Se7en count? It's one word, and sorta-kinda plural.
"Sideways" sounds as though it works, but falls short.
Ones that I know work:
Heroes
Spaceballs
Robots (OK, this one hasn't actually opened yet, but it will soon)
Bandits
Reds
Cool game! I'll contribute more if/when they come to me.
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 06:41 pm (UTC)How about:
Bats
Runners
Wizards (Ralph Bakshi)
Boys (with Winona Ryder and John C. Reilly)
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 06:50 pm (UTC)Spiders (ditto)
Quills
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 07:00 pm (UTC)(And someone already said "Transformers")
Huzzah!
The Vortex
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 07:04 pm (UTC)Them! (1954)
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 07:14 pm (UTC)Anacondas
Snakes
Boys (already listed, but:)
Men
Women
Girls
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 07:53 pm (UTC)Parents
Sci-fighters (obscure, and with good reason)
Thieves
Police
Assassins
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 07:55 pm (UTC)Meatballs
Hm, I thought I could think of more...
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 07:58 pm (UTC)And was there ever a Sliders movie?
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 08:00 pm (UTC)Clockwatchers
Clockstoppers
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 08:00 pm (UTC)Killers
Trekkies
ah-ha!
Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 08:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 08:13 pm (UTC)A big favorite of mine.
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 08:13 pm (UTC)Sheep (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438421/)
Phenomena (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087909/)
Grrr. I can't believe there is no movie called Criteria, or Data.
Do collectives count?
Class (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085346/)
Coffee (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421122/)
Ice (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107182/)
Oh I like this one. Is it plural is it singular?
Pants (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160629/)
I'm not even sure this one is even a word:
HOTS (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079257/)
I don't think I've seen any of these.
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 08:30 pm (UTC)…which is sorta a collective noun.
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Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 09:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, February 28th, 2005 09:51 pm (UTC)(imdb claims there were 5 of them)...
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Date: Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 12:20 am (UTC)But I stand by my Them! :-)
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Date: Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 01:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 01:08 am (UTC)X-Men
Vampyres
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Date: Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 01:17 am (UTC)Screamers
Seconds
Trancers
(Yay, bad SF!)
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Date: Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 02:20 am (UTC)Sneakers. (Which I haven't even seen.)
And there's another one like "Aliens," that's the plural of the name of the move to which it is the sequel, but I'm not coming up with it.
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Date: Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 02:55 am (UTC)Scanners
Supervixens (Russ Meyer cult film)
I wish I could include Porky's, but that's a contraction, not a plural. Meh.
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Date: Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 06:18 pm (UTC)-- I realize the futility of challenging you to a duel of pedantry, but I must defend my turf. >:-)