Comments on: Pun’s labyrinth

By: Notaturkeybone

Notaturkeybone — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:46:56 +0000

Can we now add “Witless Protection” to this list?

I haven’t seen it, but based on Eric’s review, I gonna take a wild guess and say it falls into the “bad pun/bad movie” category.

By: David Manning

David Manning — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:28:58 +0000

Oh! And one more, for anyone who’s still reading this:

“Home of Phobia” (Homophobia)
http://www.ericdsnider.com/movies/home-of-phobia/

By: Heli

Heli — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:51:36 +0000

I would also posit, based on David Manning’s list, that “Dr. Jekyll and ____” movies that aren’t the actual Jekyll/Hyde story are automatically bad.

By: David Manning

David Manning — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:34:45 +0000

“The Beautician and the Beast” (“Beauty and the Beast”)
“Adam and Steve” (Adam and Eve)
“Blades of Glory” (“Blaze of Glory”… or is that just a coincidence?)
“Juwannaman” (Ummm… yeah)
“Dead and breakfast” (Bed and Breakfast)
“Fahrenheit 9/11″ (Fahrenheit 451 + the events of 9/11)*
“The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas” (Las Vegas–proving there IS something worse than “Lost Wages”)
“Dr. Jeckyl and Mrs. Hyde” (Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde)
“Spy Hard” (“Die Hard”)

*-You CANNOT call this one a pun (obviously), because it’s not trying to be funny; I don’t know if I’d even call it “wordplay.” Either way, I’m putting it here, even though its intentions are steered towards referencing another title rathing than being clever.

By: GWGumby

GWGumby — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:42:02 +0000

Dead & Breakfast (Bed & Breakfast) – Eric rated C+
Deliver Us From Eva (Deliver Us From Evil) – Eric rated C+
Delta Farce (Delta Force) – Eric rated F
Happily N’Ever After (Happily Ever After) – Eric rated D
Legally Blonde (Legally Blind) – Eric rated B
Lucky Number Slevin (Lucky Number Seven) – Eric rated B-
Maid in Manhattan (Made In Manhattan) – Eric rated C
The Man Who Knew To Little (The Man Who Knew To Much) – Eric rated B+
Me, Myself and Irene (Me, Myself and I) – Eric rated B+
Miss Conginiality 2: Armed & Fabulous (Armed & Dangerous) – Eric rated D+
Shaun of the Dead (Dawn of the Dead) – Eric rated A-
Who’s Your Caddy (Who’s Your Daddy) – Eric rated D-
The Work and the Story (The Work and the Glory) – Eric rated D+

I would say there’s a fairly wide range of ratings represented there. A pun in the title is probably like a movie that the studio refuses to preview to critics. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad film, but it sure does raise a lot of red flags.

By: Rob D.

Rob D. — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:07:33 +0000

Good explanation on the difference between clever wordplay and a bad pun. Your puns are actually pretty good and we know that inside, is a funny blog. Since you know that pun movie titles usually means a bad movie, that’s why you hate pun movie titles. If they were usually great movies, you would like pun movie titles. If your blogs weren’t great, we wouldn’t like your pun blog titles. Since we know that your blogs are usually great, we can learn to love the titles as well.

By: David Cornelius

David Cornelius — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:17:50 +0000

Taking David’s lead, “Daze” as a replacement for “Days” should be banned from everywhere. EVERYWHERE.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:44:02 +0000

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?

By: David

David — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:58:41 +0000

There was a Jason Biggs/Isla Fisher comedy out here a few months ago called ‘Wedding Daze’ that was only a few steps up from total garbage. I guess that might count, although it had a different title in the US.

By: ClobberGirl

ClobberGirl — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:34:37 +0000

“Me, Myself and Irene”.

Haven’t seen it, but Eric gave it a B+, which is slightly better than Legally Blonde’s grade.

“The Nightmare Before Christmas” kicked ass. One of my favorite movies.