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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 03/30/2006 : 00:03:38
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Originally posted by R o � k G o 1 f
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I know how you feel. My review of "The Most Fertile Man in Ireland", which from the reviews is exactly what you'd think, was rejected as not factually accurate either. The review: "Reason why population's Dublin"
That sounds like a good review, but IMDb suggests the whole movie takes place in Belfast. Perhaps that was why?
Or does he travel around to service the lasses? 
I recognize that Belfast is in the North, but he's not called The Most Fertile Man in Ulster, so I think Dublin is "fair use". So might "Cork popping", as far as that goes.
This kind of review has come up for discussion before, and I think comes under the category of "movie-title play". Eg, it's correct if one assumes that the movie title describes the movie, but in this case it appears not to (correct me if I'm wrong, never seen the movie.) E.g., if that exact same movie happened to be entitled The Most Fertile Man in the Universe then reviews making reference to Andromeda / Alpha Centauri etc aren't acceptable as they have nothing to do with the plot.
To turn that around the other way; if the movie was renamed The Most Fertile Man in Belfast would your review make any sense? I'd say not. Which makes it a review of the movie title, not the movie. Dublin and Cork aren't even in the same country as the movie.
I don't have a strong view on that review, I'm just trying to come up with a reason for it's being declined. And I'd guess that this is the reason, simply because it has often been the reason in the past. E.g., remember the "Nude York" review that was initially posted then subsequently declined for Naked in New York (twice from different reviewers if I remember rightly), it was a "title-play" and had little to do with the movie.  |
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Yukon 
"Co-editor of FWFR book"
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/30/2006 : 09:57:27
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There's a significant difference between the New York review and the Ireland one. Like other disallowed Naked reviews, I assume that that film contains no actual nudity. Ireland is not a misleading word in the title of the other film; the film is actually in Ireland. Thus, the review is actually equivalent to the numerous reviews that interchange breeds of dog, makes of car etc. Sometimes, these are not even referred to in the title, so they are, I would say, worse (in the sense being discussed here) than the "Dublin" review. (I particularly flinch at the endless ones that refer to apes as monkeys and rabbits as hares, as well as at a particularly offensive example I've mentioned in the past).
With regards a film called The Most Fertile Man in the Universe, if it were actually about a very fertile man I think one certainly could refer to Andromeda in reviews like "More fertile than Andromedans". (Please forgive the fact that I cannot come up with a more entertaining example... "More numerous than moonies", perhaps.)
However, the review may possibly be changed by presenting the other side of the pun � "Reason why population's doublin'." It might be labelled 'too generic', but I'd give it a go. |
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silly 
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 03/31/2006 : 15:20:07
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I submitted "bend over, clover" for Most Fertile Man in Ireland and it was rejected as "factually inaccurate"
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Sludge 
"Charlie Don't Serf!"
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Posted - 03/31/2006 : 15:51:42
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Originally posted by silly
I submitted "bend over, clover" for Most Fertile Man in Ireland and it was rejected as "factually inaccurate"
...probably by one of you blokes
Maybe try it as:
bend over, (c)lover |
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Sean's FYCTH #182
