Day #3 of the 30 Day Film Challenge...

[shadowkat]

Day #3 of the 30 Day Film Challenge -

A Film that has more than Five Words in the Title

Well, that's not easy. Hmm.

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1. Eternal
2. Sunshine
3. Of
4. The
5. Spotless
6. Mind

It doesn't say that "of" and "the" don't count. In fact I looked it up and others use them in other titles. This was the first that came to mind without googling or anything.

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[cjlasky7]

Doctor Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

(That's the title. It's all up there on the poster!)

https://youtu.be/jPU1AYTxwg4

Is this Kubrick's best movie? A savage political satire and pitch black comedy, filled with great actors playing vivid, hilarious caricatures to the absolute hilt. Who's better here? Sterling Hayden? George C. Scott? Slim Pickens? Peter Sellers? The scene where Sellers tries to calm a sobbing Soviet premier on the Hot Line kills me every time.

"There's no fighting in the War Room!"

[shadowkat]

Oh I know, I saw it when I googled to see if Eternal Sunshine met the criteria. ;-)

No, I still think A Clockwork Orange is Kubrick's best film. It's the one that I find the most fascinating in its complexity - of social satire, political satire, morality satire, and coming of age.

Doctor Strangelove kind of goes over the top in places and lacks subtlety. That said, it is brilliant satire of the war film, and the whole arms race. I almost picked it but decided not to - mainly because I thought it was cheating googling the title, when Eternal Sunshine just popped in my head.

[cactuswatcher]

I saw in a reference a title with 16 words, no colon. But I never saw that one. So one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen - The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK4za8v8_YI

[shadowkat]

I remember that one. I was trying to remember the title of it. I kept getting it confused with "The House on the Left", which I haven't seen. I did see The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane - with a young Martin Sheen and Jodi Foster. It's very creepy.
The 70s were a great decade for creepy psychological horror films.

[petzipellepingo]

All the Money in the World .

[shadowkat]

I've been meaning to see that one. It's the one that Ridley Scott literally reshot frame by frame to insert Christopher Plummer and remove Kevin Spacey from every frame. He brought all the cast and crew back, paid them out of his own pocket and reshot the movie completely.

(frozen)

[wpadmirer]

I really disliked this movie. I know a lot of people love it, but it just didn't click with me at all.

[atpo_onm]

Huh. Up until this moment (or moment-approximish) I had never really realized that the overwhelming number of movies ever made had four words or less in their titles! What a revelation! How mind-blowing! A revelation in need of a movie of it's own!

Or not. Budget's really tight these days.

In the meantime, I present for your consideration...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cif6XNH5sKM

Yaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!! Roger Ebert screenplay! Yes, that Roger Ebert!

Disclaimer: No drugs or alcohol were harmed in the making of this post.

[shadowkat]

Lol! I didn't realize it either, until I sat and thought about films. And started counting the words in them. We could probably do it with the Harry Potter films, but that felt like cheating somehow.

[cactuswatcher]

It felt that way to me too. I thought of "Indiana Jones and the..." movies but decided either it was too easy or cheating.

[shadowkat]

Agreed. Thought the same thing. I tried to stay away from Sequels and Superhero franchise films...too easy.

[atpo_onm]

I didn't realize it either, until I sat and thought about films. And started counting the words in them.

Yes, exactly! When I first read the prompt, I thought, "Seriously, there's got to be plenty of films with more than five word titles."

So up to the library, started scanning through the DVDs, and... huh. How about that.

I also figured it would be kind of cheating to do the Indiana Jones, Harry Potter etc. flicks, and so excluding those, out of over 600 DVDs, came up with all of FOUR!!

BTW, on my DVD copy of BTVotD, there is an alternate audio track where Roger Ebert comments on the film, and of course how he got involved with it.

In the back cover, there is a blurb by Time magazine film critic Richard Corliss, that states "One of the 10 Best Films of the 1970s!" For-- keep in mind-- an NC-17 rated movie.

The copyright date on the DVD is 2006, and I know it's been over a decade since I last watched it, but now I have this sudden urge to see it again ASAP. I'm liking this here ol' film challenge!

:-)

[shadowkat]

One of the 10 Best Films of the 70s

Really? Wow. Interesting, the 70s was an excellent decade for film. I mean we have Five Easy Pieces (oh, I could have picked that one for the "number" in the title), The Shining, Halloween, Star Wars, Jaws, Godfather, The Conversation, The Exorcist...The Wild Bunch, etc. I mean the 1970s was a decade that film students studied to death.

[wendelah1]

I love that movie.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is funny and dark.

If articles count, all of the Harry Potter movies qualify.