I require bad movie puns.
February 22, 2012 3:28 PM   Subscribe

I am looking for creative, pun filled categories for a home version of The Leonard Maltin Game.

In short, the contestants are given a choice in categories, then must guess a movie based on the category, a year, and some basic clues. I will explain the categories to the contestants after they have picked it. Depending on how obscure the answer is, the categories can range from an essential clue to no help at all.

The more pun filled the better. Since it will be with my friends, I hope to make the categories hilarious but annoying in that they have no idea what they are getting into when they choose one.

For pun related reasons, categories will be read aloud to the contestants and not written down.

Some examples:

- Ice, Ice, Maeby (movies featuring Ice Cube, Ice-T, or Arrested Developmentā€™s Alia Shawkat).

- Super Hiro Movies (Movies where Masi Oka worked on the special effects).

- Graphic novel movies (Movies that are very gory and are based on a novel).
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Best answer: Ooh, ooh! I love the Leonard Maltin Game. (I am usually the moderator for LMG battles between my boyfriend and his brother. It can be fairly epic.)

I need to get a copy of the LM guide to movies (really, why don't I have one already?) and I will be back with suggestions.

Until then, I've got one:

Why, Damme, It's Too Bad: This pun is mainly funny for people who like Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta, as it's a line from HMS Pinafore. Movies can include anything bad with Jean-Claude Van Damme (i.e. nearly the entirety of JCVD's oeuvre) and any films that are at all Gilbert and Sullivan-related, even tangentially (The Pirate Movie, which is horrible, Topsy-Turvy which is delightful, and Chariots of Fire which shows a bit of a G&S operetta would all suffice).

(Once I've got the LM guide, I'll be able to come up with some that aren't for such a narrow audience, I promise.)
posted by ocherdraco at 4:52 PM on February 22, 2012


Another Kubrick in the Wall -- the films of Stanley Kubrick and Alan Parker.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 4:55 PM on February 22, 2012


Never Say Diet: Films where the lead actor shed/gained over 30 lbs for the role.
posted by carmicha at 5:14 PM on February 22, 2012


Best answer: I Scream Social - Films featuring the Wilhelm Scream
posted by carmicha at 5:16 PM on February 22, 2012


I had never heard of the game and would be quite terrible at it, so it's possible I'm doing this all wrong. But how's about some Silence of the Lambs-quotes for categories to throw them off the scent? Not puns, but perhaps still useful?

Hello, Clarice: Movies featuring Julianne Moore or Jodie Foster

Clean him up and get him ready to go: Movies featuring a shower or bathtub scene.

Toughened your nipples, didn't it?: Movies featuring a topless scene.

Rule 404: Movies about the Internet.

Was she a great big fat person?: Movies featuring a rotund main character.
posted by brentajones at 6:15 PM on February 22, 2012


Not a pun, but how about "Paxton, Pullman, Mcdermott, Mulroney: Movies starring of Bill Paxton, Bill Pullman, Dylan Mcdermott, and/or Dermot Mulroney"?
posted by mhum at 10:37 AM on February 23, 2012


Best answer: X Marky-Marks the spot: Films featuring Mark Wahlberg
What's the Porpoise: movies featuring dolphins or other marine mammals
Irritable Vowel Syndrome: movies whose title starts with a vowel
Holocaust jokes aren't funny Anne Frankly I don't find them entertaining: movies about or referencing the holocaust

I stole all of those from punny friends or memes, pretty much.
posted by sarahnade at 11:30 AM on February 24, 2012


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