A few nice Movies, Music & Games images I found:
So You Need to Title Your Movie
Image by Profound Whatever
First things first: if your movie is based off a book, just use the book’s title. You’ve taken everything else, anyway.
The Reader, No Country for Old Men, The Godfather, Pride & Prejudice, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, Mildred Pierce, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Fight Club, The Silence of the Lambs, Watchmen, Double Indemnity, The Shining, Requiem for a Dream, The Manchurian Candidate, Psycho, Jaws, The Grapes of Wrath, Rebecca, Gone With the Wind, I Am Legend, the James Bond series, High Fidelity, Twilight, The Devil Wears Prada, Jurassic Park, Sphere, The Andromeda Strain, A Clockwork Orange, The Shawshank Redemption, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Catch Me If You Can, V for Vendetta, Angela’s Ashes…
There’s also the option of naming the movie after one of the main characters. Very direct; very to-the-point.
Michael Clayton, Juno, Max Payne, Batman, Leon, Superman, Wall-E, Sweeney Todd, Forrest Gump, Amelie, Amadeus, Spiderman, Bambi, Donnie Darko, Ali, Rob Roy, Kinsey, Michael, Ben-Hur, Elizabeth, Rudy, Carrie, Spartacus, Milk, Robin Hood, Iron Man, Lawrence of Arabia, Kick-Ass, Annie Hall, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Gandhi, Scarface, Ed Wood, Harvey, King Kong, Rocky, Bonnie and Clyde, Barry Lyndon, Patton, Shrek, Zoolander, Napoleon Dynamite, Crocodile Dundee, Dracula, Frankenstein, Bowfinger, Roxanne, Charlie St. Cloud, Salt…
No good character names? Just use the movie’s location.
Orange County, Casablanca, Laurel Canyon, Sunset Blvd., Mulholland Dr., State & Main, Sleepy Hollow, Wolf Creek, Moulin Rouge!, Notting Hill, Dante’s Peak, Appaloosa, Titanic, Chinatown, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Moon, Rashomon, Metropolis, The Apartment, Network, Fargo, District 9, Casino, Shutter Island, Manhattan…
…or its time.
1941, Friday the 13th, High Noon, Groundhog Day, 11;14, Evening, 10,000 B.C., 2012…
You know what’s popular? Verbs in the present progressive tense followed by names.
Being John Malkovich, Serving Sara, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Raising Arizona, Copying Beethoven, Chasing Amy, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Raising Helen, Drowning Mona, Killing Zoe, Finding Nemo, Waking Ned Devine, Driving Miss Daisy, Becoming Jane, Saving Private Ryan…
Music has a whole collection of titles to borrow.
American Pie, Stand by Me, Brazil, Walk the Line, Boyz n the Hood, Across the Universe, Drive Me Crazy, Pretty Woman, Mamma Mia!, Bad Boys, My Girl, Yankee Doodle Dandy…
If there’s an object of significance within the narrative, something around which the plot revolves, just make that the title.
Gran Torino, Rear Window, The Terminator, A Fish Called Wanda, The Birds, The Conversation, The General, Quiz Show, Ratatouille, Backdraft, Rope, The African Queen, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Matrix, The Game, 44-Inch Chest, The Red Violin…
No significant object? Then what kinds of jobs to the characters have?
The Exorcist, The Pianist, The Hustler, The Killers, The Wrestler, The Illusionist…
If your movie can be summed up in one general term, go ahead and use that.
Atonement, Good, Defiance, Fear, Pride, Doubt, Glory, Misery, Vertigo, Suspicion, Earthquake, Volcano, Alien, Up, Heist, Poltergeist, Piranha, Inception…
If you’re not into the whole brevity thing, it also helps to be devastatingly literal.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Strangers on a Train, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Man With Two Brains, Beverly Hills Cop…
When all else fails, when you can’t offer any hints to the film’s content, when there is no source material, when the characters’ names don’t fit, when there’s no overall theme, just open a dictionary and pick a word or two at random. People will think you’re clever…
Reservoir Dogs
…or not.
Quantum of Solace
*Feel free to add any more you think of.
Second Life: beach sports
Image by ▓▒░ TORLEY ░▒▓
The continuing adventures of Torav (Torley & Ravenelle) only in… Second Life! We’re a power couple who incite delight and love to show the fun places we travel inworld. We’re not conventionally glamorous, but we sure are nice.
In these videos, he is in a wuxia-like outfit with his big sword by Perefim Cao, the slop chopper. She is a kitten-headed lovecat, head powered by Achamo Paine. And we are having fun with the *EXPERIMENTAL* shadow-feature while WindLight-powered skies burst on overhead… google fer more lush info ’bout it k?
Featured music:
* "sports" from tim & eric awesome show
* "god moving over the face of the waters" by moby
* "transformers movie theme" by lion (i think)
* "greatest american hero" theme
* "just as you imagined" by nine inch nails
* "little fluffy clouds" by the orb
Filmed in:
* Silverscreen
* Galonge
Thanx to the kewl makers for breaking the boredom.
DO add tags and whatnot to make this more usefun! ;D
