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Mark J. Marshall
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posted 01-11-2008 09:26 AM

For some reason, any time I see this stupid movie title printed anywhere, it pisses me off. I just want to ship the trailers and posters and everything else back to the studio with a message that says, "Hey, Jackasses...," (ironically yet not surprisingly, the studio is Paramount), "...you need to fix this, then send it back to me."

Now I know the studio didn't name the movie. Well maybe they did. Or maybe they had some say, or made the suggestion.

Maybe it's actually not grammatically incorrect. Maybe I'm missing something. Or maybe it's just cool to be wrong.

Maybe I'm turning into an old fart.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 01-11-2008 10:03 AM

The only titles that piss me off are ones that have the word "movie" in the title. Scary Movie, Date Movie, A Goofy Movie, etc. Movies with "Movie" in the title tend to suck.

I also don't like titles where the entire joke of the movie is in the title. Like "Balls of Fury." You knew that movie was going to suck just by reading the title.

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Bruce Hansen
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posted 01-11-2008 12:06 PM

If we do not wish to look like total trash to the rest of the world, we should at least learn to use our own language correctly. "How She Moves". Let's face it, the rest of the world already hates us for our arrogance, let's not let them think we are unbelievable stupid as well.

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Tom Mundell
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posted 01-11-2008 12:07 PM

The titles that annoy me the most are the ones that for no readily apparent reason need to be advertised by their ridiculous abbreviation (like ID4 for Independence Day). But yeah, I'd agree there has to have been a better title than How She Move!

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Ron Funderburg
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posted 01-11-2008 12:20 PM

Since the movie is about the manner in which the girl moves her body and not the move she makes in her life the title is most certainly not grammatically correct. However, the film does have a move of location in it as well. Perhaps a better title so we can piss the most of us off would be "How She Move: Another Dumb Dance Movie".

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 01-11-2008 01:55 PM

Well I know nothing about this movie but looking at the stills on imdb.com, it's quite obvious the title is, shall we say, "ebonics inspired." If they changed it to "How She Moves," it loses all hipness, edginess, and street-ness.

Remember the movie "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka?" If they'd changed it to "I'm Going to Get You, You Fool" it would have done even less business than it did.

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Darryl Spicer
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posted 01-11-2008 02:12 PM

but there is a point here....would you remember the title How She Moves in a few years or How She Move. Basically you will remember the How She Move title because it was so stupid in the spelling. It did it's job.

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Aaron Mehocic
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posted 01-11-2008 03:16 PM

Yes, I too am irritated by titles like this. I'm also irritated when the letter Z is substituted in place of the letter S, the number 4 is used in place of the word "for" (2 for "to" included), and other transgressions against the King's English.

I'm also pissed when people abbreviate phrases into acronyms such as IMHO, FWIW, LOL, and BRB.

Its texting and internet chat that makes us stupid. But what really causes me to flip out is when somebody in conversation calls my beloved state of Pennsylvania "PA" [fu]

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Ron Funderburg
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posted 01-11-2008 03:26 PM

Aaron Mehocic actually I do use the letter z in place of s often in certain words and sometimes the other way round. This is due to the fact I read what my wife writes and it rubs off she is from England by way of Australia. Which is to say she was born in England spent a good deal of youth there and migrated to Australia. For just so you understand my meaning in this country we do not use Kings English sir it is American English which is a far cry from the Kings English my wife actually does use!

Oh and she finds our use of the word color instead of colour to be a oh so silly!

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James Westbrook
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posted 01-11-2008 03:28 PM

I may be part of the problem: I can't just muster up any indignation over grammar or spelling anymore. Some of my fellow citizens get irate over the mispronounciation of "Lubbock". That does not annoy me. (It rhymes with "Buttock", if your are curious.)

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Paul Mayer
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posted 01-12-2008 02:11 AM

It doesn't piss me off - it's just an example of the Hip Hop idiom of American English. The title will do what it's supposed to do - reach it's target audience.

People who get angered by such things are old and mentally enfeebled and silly and need to be sent to a home. [evil]

Now back to watching my Wild in the Streets, Logan's Run, The Ballad of Narayama triple feature.

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Lyle Romer
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posted 01-12-2008 08:58 AM

quote: Tom Mundell
The titles that annoy me the most are the ones that for no readily apparent reason need to be advertised by their ridiculous abbreviation (like ID4 for Independence Day).

I believe the reason that Independence Day picked up the "ID4" nickname was due to legal concerns about the title "Independence Day". The line in the "President's" speech about today is our Independence Day was put there due to the same concerns.

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Mark J. Marshall
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posted 01-12-2008 10:42 AM

quote: Paul Mayer
People who get angered by such things are old and mentally enfeebled and silly and need to be sent to a home.

Wow, I guess that explains it.

Thanks, Paul! [Big Grin]

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 01-12-2008 01:09 PM

quote: Lyle Romer
I believe the reason that Independence Day picked up the "ID4" nickname was due to legal concerns about the title "Independence Day". The line in the "President's" speech about today is our Independence Day was put there due to the same concerns.

WHere do you get that information? What legal concerns? The ID4 was created just to give the picture a cool sounding nickname. We have KFC, BK and etc for the same reason.

I always thought ID4 was totally stupid because there is no "4" in the title. But I guess "ID" sounded even stupider.

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Sam Graham
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posted 01-12-2008 02:09 PM

quote: Mike Blakesley
The only titles that piss me off are ones that have the word "movie" in the title. Scary Movie, Date Movie, A Goofy Movie, etc. Movies with "Movie" in the title tend to suck.

They should make one called "Pornographic Movie"...an actual porn flick done in the same satire style.

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