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Culture: Movie: Title
Moratorium on Gerund and Gerund Phrase Movie Titles   (+3, -2)  [vote for, against]
Some of them are great films -- but come on... Getting Old

Saving Private Ryan
Driving Miss Daisy
Raising Arizona
Blazing Saddles
Towering Inferno
Raging Bull
Coming Home
Killing Fields
Working Girl
Crying Game
Crouching Tiger...
Chasing Amy
Boxing Helena
Eating Raoul
Breaking Away
Falling Down
Being John Malkovitch

and many more... sheesh!
-- globaltourniquet, May 29 2001

Or take it the other way and require a gerund phrase for a title:

Playing Rollerball

Dancing With Wolves

Sinking Titanic

Pearling the Harbor

Shreking

Surviving Apocolypse Now

Going With the Wind
-- globaltourniquet, May 29 2001


Starring Wars
-- centauri, May 29 2001


Ep 1: The Menacing Phantom
Fighting Club
Clerking
Entering the Dragon
...?
-- MrWrong, May 29 2001


Dirtying Harry
Trafficking
Erring Brockovitch
Thinning the Red Line
Hunting Good Will

-- globaltourniquet, May 29 2001


Playing Child
Backing To The Future
Blobbing
Attacking The Killer Tomatoes
Acing Ventura
Broadcasting News
Networking
Corning Of The Children
Giggling Doctor
Hunting Deer
Exorcising
Godfathering
Flashdancing
Flatlining
Ghosting
Graduating
Rocking The Cradle With Your Hand
Screaming
Losing The World
Knowing What You Did Last Summer
Moonraking
Acting Sister
Raging Silent
Entering The Dragon
Speeding
Suspecting
Throwing Momma From The Train
Coming Back Again Sometimes

-- thumbwax, May 29 2001


Actually, I always assumed that the 'Blazing' in 'Blazing Saddles' was adjectival.
-- gravelpit, May 29 2001


terminating the two,judging the day

returning the jedi,to the video shop[my brothers joke]
-- technobadger, May 29 2001


OK verbals in general then.

Present participles included: (Raging Bull, Killing Fields, Crying Game, Crouching Tiger, etc)

(cf gravelpit's correct annotation)
-- globaltourniquet, May 29 2001


max being mad
-- technobadger, May 29 2001


landing the high
-- technobadger, May 29 2001


King Kong
-- beauxeault, May 29 2001


this is one of one of my pet peeves, movie titles (also titles of any other conceptual thing: raves, clubs, other events, fine art works, books, et cetera) that are actions being performed. towering inferno, the crying game, working girl, and crouching tiger hidden dragon, don't fit in this category, because the words in them that look like verbs are actually adjectives that serve to modify the nouns in the titles. so i say there is nothing wrong with that. but the action titles really need to end.
-- dj_photon, Oct 19 2001


Some would have been liking it hot
Rearing window ... Rear winding ... Rear windowing ...
-- hippo, Oct 19 2001


Lording It Over The Flies Malting The Falcon Tora! Tora! Boring! (that one's wrong, but what with Tora Bora and all....)
-- kai_g, Dec 16 2001


Looks like I need to learn how to start
new-lines here. Let me see if this worked.
-- kai_g, Dec 16 2001


That'd be "new-linING", kai
-- bristolz, Dec 16 2001


This is a rant, not an idea. I do agree though...
-- snarfyguy, Dec 16 2001



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