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bife 
"Winners never quit ... fwfr ... "
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 Posted - 08/15/2007 : 21:47:12
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Originally posted by duh
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Originally posted by zulu
All too frequently! 
For example, for 'What would Jesus drive?'(2005) I immediately thought of "A covertible", but it was promptly rejected as too similar to another review. For the record, Baftababe's top slot review for that film is superbly original and I love it!    
I think you should resubmit that one. I don't see any on that page that look the same. Yours is very funny.
Although I think it, along with almost all the reviews for the film, is inaccurate. The movie is an environmental anti-car documentary, but the reviews are just a pun on the movie's title. |
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 08/15/2007 : 23:06:11
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zulu 
"Resisting the Bay lobotomy"
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 09:40:27
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Originally posted by bife
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Originally posted by duh
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Originally posted by zulu
All too frequently!
For example, for 'What would Jesus drive?'(2005) I immediately thought of "A covertible", but it was promptly rejected as too similar to another review. For the record, Baftababe's top slot review for that film is superbly original and I love it!
I think you should resubmit that one. I don't see any on that page that look the same. Yours is very funny.
Although I think it, along with almost all the reviews for the film, is inaccurate. The movie is an environmental anti-car documentary, but the reviews are just a pun on the movie's title.
There is a good deal of this on the site and these pun-on-the-title reviews do deliver lots of inventive humour. I could bang out hundreds of literal descriptive reviews about the content of films ...but I cannot see the point. Personally, I would rather write and read reviews that are funny or clever or zany or thought provoking or outrageous. Does anybody spend time trawling through the literal descriptive reviews on the site? Does anybody actually vote for them? 
Some people might be thinking that the rules say that reviews have to conform to x,y and z or they are not reviews. Well, things evolve; if the community are writing pun-on-a-title reviews, MERPS are approving them and Benj is not deleting them, then from my point of view they are perfectly acceptable.
Right, I have just thought of a great review for 'The Terminal', which I just know you will love and vote for: "Hanks lives in airport." What a scorcher...I have not checked, but I hope nobody actually has done that review. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 11:31:13
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Originally posted by zulu
Right, I have just thought of a great review for 'The Terminal', which I just know you will love and vote for: "Hanks lives in airport." What a scorcher...I have not checked, but I hope nobody actually has done that review.
What a spoiler!
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bife
"Winners never quit ... fwfr ... "
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 12:52:04
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
[quote]Originally posted by zulu
Right, I have just thought of a great review for 'The Terminal', which I just know you will love and vote for: "Hanks lives in airport." What a scorcher...I have not checked, but I hope nobody actually has done that review.
Or how about "Cherie Blair wins audition" for the Blair Witch Project  Okay, it wouldn't have been very funny anyway, but seriously where is the cleverness or humour in writing a review for a film in four words or less that has nothing at all to do with the film?
Not trying to pick on this review in particular, but
Q What would Jesus drive?
A A convertible
sounds like a bad christmas cracker joke. It certainly isn't a review of a film.
Sorry, I am much more impressed with a review that as well as saying something funny also manages to review the film:
"The Talented Ms Ripley" for Alien (Conan)
"Luke back in anger" for Empire Strikes Back (Joe Blevins)
"Smells like pre-teen spirit" for Casper (Mr Stupid)
"Messiah leaves holey Trinity" for Matrix Revolutions (Rovark)
"A farewell to farms" for Of Mice and Men (Lemmy)
"It's a bird" for Supergirl (Obie)
"DeNiro's moving. Then not." for awakenings (Mguyx)
"Child smuggling ring discovered" for Fellowship of the ring (benj)
"Said he'd be back" for Terminator 2 (foxy)
"DeNiro kills mocking bird" for Jackie Brown (zulu)
By far from an all-inclusive list of great reviews, just a few that I remember. Now those are fwfrs worth voting for. Average puns about things that don't happen in the films being reviewed? Now that I don't get.
Not pciking on you personally zulu, you are one of the better and more entertaining reviewers in our little group, but I just don't get the point of a Four Word Film Title Pun site.
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 13:35:58
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Just as an aside on this, well pre-Baffy's review I submitted for "What Would Jesus Drive?" George Bush from office, which is far more appropriate for an environmentalist documentary given W's record in that respect.
Naturally it was declined. Maybe it was not irrelevant enough? 
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 14:08:08
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Just as an aside on this, well pre-Baffy's review I submitted for "What Would Jesus Drive?" George Bush from office, which is far more appropriate for an environmentalist documentary given W's record in that respect.
Naturally it was declined. Maybe it was not irrelevant enough?
Shame - I would have voted for that one. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 14:08:52
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Originally posted by bife
"DeNiro's moving. Then not." for awakenings (Mguyx)
"DeNiro kills mocking bird" for Jackie Brown (zulu)
De Niro still isn't one word.  |
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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 16:16:52
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by bife
"DeNiro's moving. Then not." for awakenings (Mguyx)
"DeNiro kills mocking bird" for Jackie Brown (zulu)
De Niro still isn't one word.
He HAS worked under that name, he was credited as Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver. He's also worked as Robert Denero, and Robert Di Nero, Jr. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 16:19:27
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by bife
"DeNiro's moving. Then not." for awakenings (Mguyx)
"DeNiro kills mocking bird" for Jackie Brown (zulu)
De Niro still isn't one word.
I believe there's a posting somewhere which quotes benj as allowing name elisions. Before that I didn't. Now I do
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 16:20:33
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Just as an aside on this, well pre-Baffy's review I submitted for "What Would Jesus Drive?" George Bush from office, which is far more appropriate for an environmentalist documentary given W's record in that respect.
Naturally it was declined. Maybe it was not irrelevant enough?
It's already been established that benj doesn't care for reviews that serve as a "reply" to the film title and together form a dialog. I don't even bother submitting them anymore. Maybe the Jesus one was an exception since the title really DOES ask a question. |
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Rovark
"Luck-pushing, rule-bending, chance-taking reviewer"
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 17:48:43
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Originally posted by zulu
There is a good deal of this on the site and these pun-on-the-title reviews do deliver lots of inventive humour. I could bang out hundreds of literal descriptive reviews about the content of films...but I cannot see the point. Personally, I would rather write and read reviews that are funny or clever or zany or thought provoking or outrageous. Does anybody spend time trawling through the literal descriptive reviews on the site? Does anybody actually vote for them?
Right, I have just thought of a great review for 'The Terminal', which I just know you will love and vote for: "Hanks lives in airport."
Puns-on-the-title reviews do deliver lots of humour, absolutely no argument there.
But they rarely Review the film or have anything at all to say about any aspect of the film.
I'm as guilty as anyone in voting for the funnies as opposed to the mundane descriptive reviews. But take
Naked States Most of the 100+ reviews are along the lines of bad puns on US place-names. I submitted, amongst others "Dallass" It's all great fun and there's some heroically dreadfull puns in there. But they say nothing about the film itself.
The example of "Hanks lives in Airport" for "The Terminal" isn't hilarious, thought provoking or witty. What it is however, is an accurate distillation of the plot in to 4 words |
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 18:43:25
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hmmmmmm. A more clever FWFR would be
"Hanks ETA? Always."
I call it!!!!!
Seems to me if you can get the whole plot in 4 words and make it funny then is a great review.
The review "Are we then yet" I gave a vote for. Now that I think about it. It seems also to be a play on the title of the movie. |
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zulu
"Resisting the Bay lobotomy"
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 22:21:51
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Originally posted by bife
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Sorry, I am much more impressed with a review that as well as saying something funny also manages to review the film:
I am most impressed by those too Bife! No argument about that. I just find SOME of the title puns amusing too. Sometimes it seems like there are not enough amusing reviews for us to be too picky.
Meanwhile, I am delighted that some of my reviews amuse you. |
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zulu
"Resisting the Bay lobotomy"
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 22:32:23
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Just as an aside on this, well pre-Baffy's review I submitted for "What Would Jesus Drive?" George Bush from office, which is far more appropriate for an environmentalist documentary given W's record in that respect.
I like this review and can see your environmentalist angle with George Bush (and his oil buddies). Okay, perhaps it is not absolutely literal to the film, but it would get my vote...unlike Bush. |
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Originality sorely lacking.
