Life is a D.C. Cabaret, my friends

[sigma7]

We've done this two or three times now, be it us at work in Topeka or on various fora frequented by m'self and rewil, but since ravenskye8 reminded me....

It's the old game of mashing movie titles together: ravenskye8 contributes An Inconvenient Truth About Cats and Dogs, The Empire Strikes Back to the Future, Children of a Lesser Godzilla and The Muppets Take the Manhattan Project ("I have become Beaker, destroyer of worlds....").

Now I'm not even going to try to come up with any new ones; I'm migraine-y and exhausted, so I leave that up to y'all. I just dug the old database out of the archives so I could toss up the few we had oh those many years ago. Though I still don't know that we can improve on D.C. Cabaret or Children of a Lesser Godzilla.

From us at work (we came up with several pages; these were the keepers):

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Air
Cannonball Run, Lola, Run
Riding in Cars with Boys 'N the Hood
Phantom Menace II Society (also mentioned by me in a column long, long ago)
The Blue Lagoonies
Someone to Watch Over Me, Myself & Irene
A Few Good Men in Black
American History X-Files
The Killing Field of Dreams ("if you build it, they will die")
Total Recall of the Wild
The Cable Guys 'n Dolls
Blue Velvet Goldmine
The Scorpion King & I
Gods and Monsters' Ball
Can't Hardly Waiting For Godot
Dead Man Walking Tall
Gone with the Windtalkers
Meet Joe Blacksheep
Road House on Haunted Hill
Who Framed Roger & Me
The Kingpin & I
Quigley Down Under Siege
Six Feet Under Siege
Howard's End of Days
Gosford Jurassic Park
Operation: Swordfish Called Wanda
Groundhog's Day After

From daethkow and clan:

Star Wars of the Roses
The Spy Who Shagged Me, Myself, and Irene
Hudson Ladyhawke (in memory of James Coburn)
The Wedding Jazz Singer
The Neverending Philadelphia Story
The Empire Strikes Back To The Future (I'm sure this was already thought of, and rejected, by sigma7) [edit: I can't even begin to remember]
All The President's Men of Honor (this is so wrong on so many levels)
-or-
All The President's Men In Tights
9 1/2 Weeks to 5
Deuce Bigalow: Male American Giggolo
And The Band Played On The Road to Wellsville
The Blackboard Jungle Fever
Bring It On The Waterfront
Noth Dallas Forty Days and Forty Nights
Glory Days of Thunder
Office Spaceballs
White Men in Black Can't Jump
Manhattan Murder Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Better Off Dead Again
Prom Night Of The Living Dead
(and, of course, the classic:)
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I can't remember who contributed these (ODB? Cris?):

Major League of Their Own
Kiss of the Spider-Man (Kirsten, wet t-shirt, nuff said)
Pumping Iron Eagle (is this a porn movie?)
While You Were Sleeping With the Enemy
Night of the Living Dead Poets Society
Red Dawn of the Dead (commie zombies)
Thirteen Days of Thunder (a theme from daethkow's list)
Henry the Fifth Element (Branugh and Willis together-finally!)
Die Hard to Kill (redundant?)
and while we're here...Hard To Kill a Mockingbird
Unbreakable Durham
or for the Costner purists...The Untouchable Durham
The Blues Brothers McMullen
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragonheart
Wag the Dogma (isn't that the 700 Club?)
Tombstone Cold
Hookers at the Point Break (I don't even know what to say...)
Kazaam and I (a mentally challenged genie starring, who else, Shaq!)
Steel Magnolia (from the makers of Boogie Nights, a film about a superhero in body armor, played by Shaquille O'Neil, who talks to John C. Reilly and his motivaltional speaker brother, Tom Cruise, about the death of their sister, played by Julia Roberts, who died from diabetes)
American Giggolo Down Dirty Shame
Some Like it Hot Shots
Godzilla 2001: A Space Odyssey (Godzilla is in the heart of every Hal)
The Godfather of the Bride (no one thought of this?)
Best In Showgirls (there was a best? Oh! The nudity!)
and finally...
Silence of the Lambada: The Forbidden Dance (Hannibal doing gyrate, gyrate, gyrate motions. I just gave myself the willies...)

Maybe this was ODB, as the Fellini reference leads me to believe.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Lies
Jennifer 8 Mile, or if you wanna get Fellini-esque....8 1/2 Mile
Lord of The Ring
I Spy Who Loved Me
My Big Fat Best Friend's Wedding
or My Big Fat Greek Wedding Planner
Femme Fatale Attraction

Comments

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

Well - I'm not the one who started it... you have to check out reannon's CultureGeek blog...

http://bellevillenewsdemocrat.typepad.com/culturegeek/

[phrogg.livejournal.com]

How about...
Bill and Ted's Bogus Incredible Journey
Strangeland that Time Forgot
The Day This Island Earth Stood Still
An American Psycho in Paris
House of 1000 Corpse Brides
Spiderman in the Iron Mask
Die Hardboiled
Sam and Maximum Overdrive (well, Sam and Max is actually a game, but...)
13 Going on 30 Days of Night

I could come up with more, these are just off the top of my head...but i'm tired, so that's all i've got for now.

[kansel01.livejournal.com]

My all-time favorite is still 28 Days Later, the sequel to the Sandra Bullock rehab romp where she fights zombies (and Dr. Who!)

[nute.livejournal.com]

• Blue Thunderball (Bond needs more kickass helicopters)
  
• Across the Universal Soldier (Jean-Claude Van Damme sings the Beatles!)
  
• Courage Under Fire Down Below (Meg Ryan & Steven Segal. Hilarity ensues.)
  
• A Boy And His Dog Day Afternoon
  
• The Dark Knight Moves
  
• A Civil Action Jackson (Carl Weathers in a courtroom drama? Sold!)
  
• Friday The 13th Warrior
  
• Nightmare on Elm Streets of Fire (now that's scary!)
  
• Con Air Bud
  
• Fight Club Dread or
  
• The Breakfast Club Dread
  
• The Fisher King Kong
  
• Lawnmower Man Of The Year
  

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Me, I'd be at Blue Thunderball on opening night. And probably A Civil Action Jackson. A Boy And His Dog Day Afternoon might be the most depressing movie ever.

[beagle1971.livejournal.com]

Oh come now. Wouldn't you want to see:
(apologies if any are repeats, I'm just too lazy to look)

Cloverfield of Dreams
Dancer in the Dark Knight
Iron Man on the Moon (quite plausible?)
Marked for Death Race
Henry and Juno (OK, a stretch)
I am Legends of the Fall
Lars and the Real Girl Next Door
A Mighty Heart like a Wheel (Vrooom?)
Charlie Wilson's War of the Worlds
Gone Baby Gone in 60 Seconds
Knocked Up in Smoke - or - Knocked Up the Academy
Some like it Hot Fuzz
There will be Blood Diamond (Work, Simple)
Michael Clayton (Travolta?)
No Country for Old X-Men
12 Angry X-Men

(OK, I cheated by looking at a list of 2007 films)