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Originally posted by BaftaBabe

In light of recent posts - no names, no packdrill - I'm completely baffled by these half-dozen rejections. I spent precious time on all of them. I don't believe any is boring or irrelevant, they all comply with 4 words, non-generic, accurate, and aren't duplicating anyone else's review.

Your collective experience, expertise, and generous spirit are welcome in the interests of helping me improve. TIA.

1] 12 Angry Men = Fonda sides with patricide.
A patricide is someone accused of patricide. The defendent in the film is accused of being a patricide. Jury forman Fonda refuses to condemn him out of hand. It is the pivotal point of the film.

2] Bridget Jones's Diary = Bridget Grants Darcy's wish.
Okay, it ain't Shakespeare but it's a wordplay on main character/star names that logically recounts an important, even seminal aspect of the film.

3] Fried Green Tomatoes = Ninny Thread[s]goode stories.
Ninny Threadgoode is the narrator of the stories threaded together to enliven the narrative.

4] Nothing To Lose = Steve LOSEs Oedekerk plot.
Again, not the greatest wordplay in the Hubble universe, but it's uniquely relevant to the film, written and directed by Oedekerk, who didn't contribute any other film with the word LOSE in its title.

5] The Thing From Another World = 'Matt Dillon' on ice.
I don't normally refer to characters in one film using their character roles from another, but I did here because James Arness's performance starring as Marshall Matt Dillon held the US in thrall back in the 1950s. In the film, The Thing is discovered encased in a block of ice by the scientists who later regret reviving him. The pun, of course, refers to the Dillon character being "held over" to the film. Held over, as is "on ice."

6] The Hobbit = Bilbo's ring shapes trilogy.
Even Tolkein is on record as saying that it was Bilbo's first journey in the Hobbit which engendered the Lord of the Rings trilogy. There's a small wordplay with ring and shape.

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Originally posted by Se�n
3] Fried Green Tomatoes = Ninny Thread[s]goode stories.
This style is becoming more prevalent, but IMO some people are perhaps pushing their luck. Would a newspaper allow you to use this as a headline for an article? You are essentially using the [] to remove the 's' from the word to make it look like someone's name, but if you do that it no longer makes sense. So you then have to put the 's' back in AND add a space AND drop the 'e' in order to make it make sense, and by the time you've done that you are no longer using the name 'Threadgoode'. Specifically, "Ninny threads good stories" is a statement, but the name has disappeared, and "Ninny Threadgoode stories" makes no sense. So you've attempted to go for a happy medium and ended up nowhere, IMO.

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