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Add 'ing' to a movie title, tell us what's it about now?

537 replies

Hushabyelullaby · 10/02/2017 11:43

This just popped up on my news feed on FB. The example was

'Jurassic Parking' - Teaching Dinosaurs how to drive.

My contribution is;
'Fifty shades of Greying' - One man's struggle to stop dyeing his hair and accept his age.

Can you come up with any?

OP posts:
LoveDeathPrizes · 10/02/2017 17:36

Jacob's Laddering - Hilarity ensues when this jaded ex-Soldier learns the true horror of a saggy stocking and a gathered gusset.

ArchNotImpudent · 10/02/2017 17:32

Charlotte's Webbing - One woman's quest to re-upholster a 1960s three-piece-suite.

LoveDeathPrizes · 10/02/2017 17:32

Bee - ing Movie - Quirky animation exploring the existential crisis and sense of encroaching ennui of a bumble bee.

whatsthecomingoverthehill · 10/02/2017 17:32

Raining Man - sadly the Weather Girl's feature film was a budget affair

LoveDeathPrizes · 10/02/2017 17:31

Layering Cake - Documentary detailing the method of surreptitiously stealing cake by slicing layers from the bottom rather than quarts or halves.

whatsthecomingoverthehill · 10/02/2017 17:27

SWATting

Avant garde film following one woman's efforts to rid her kitchen of a fly.

whatsthecomingoverthehill · 10/02/2017 17:25

Grosse Point Blanking

Playground politics in smalltown USA

ArchNotImpudent · 10/02/2017 17:15

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Eventing - It all goes wrong in the dressage competition.

ArchNotImpudent · 10/02/2017 17:08

Flashing Gordon - Biopic of a man in a dirty raincoat

SapphireStrange · 10/02/2017 17:03

Dead Calming. A documentary about relaxation music.

MissTakesOurMaid · 10/02/2017 16:58

Girl on the Training - docu-drama about a 2yo girl and potty training

Nannie McPhee and the Big Banging - er, no comment Confused

New Mooning - a man discovers many new thrilling ways to moon others

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 10/02/2017 16:52

Hooking - is it a story of one woman and her crochet habit, or an altogether more unsavoury occupation?

Greasing - how Mary Berry gets her cakes to turn out with ease.

TondelayaDellaVentamiglia · 10/02/2017 16:47

A Shark's Tale-ing

Lost footage from Jacques Cousteau shows a shark following a turtle around under the sea.

ArchNotImpudent · 10/02/2017 16:44

The Truth about Cats and Dogging - Cat owners in a suburban town find a novel way to spice up their evenings

BiscuitMillionaire · 10/02/2017 16:29

Little Housing on the Prairie

  • hard-hitting documentary about the lack of affordable accommodation in Wyoming
CigarsofthePharoahs · 10/02/2017 16:29

Child's Playing - A heartwarming story of life working in a pre-school. Winters Boning - Well it's either porn or about the decline of the corset industry! Laboring Day - Kate Winslet is about to give birth. Ghosting - A woman tries to drop her boyfriend by refusing to contact him. The Firming - 90 day workout shred. The Man in the Ironing Mask - Household chores become a new kink. Totalling Recall - Meet the man who works in a shop and can remember every transaction ever made. I'd better stop now as I can't think of a good plot for Gone Girling.

ArchNotImpudent · 10/02/2017 16:24

A Clockwork Orangeing - A mechanical tanning machine goes horribly wrong

KatieScarlett · 10/02/2017 16:09

The Waying
Weight watchers group battle it out for slimmer of the month.

AradiasDaughter · 10/02/2017 16:06

Northing by Northwest.

An inside documentary to the trials and tribulations of being Kanye Wests child.

AradiasDaughter · 10/02/2017 16:04

Wizard of OzIng.

Gent who doesn't need scales to weigh his produce

TondelayaDellaVentamiglia · 10/02/2017 16:02

Scenting of a Woman

Employees in a Department store go crazy and spray an innocent passerby with all the samples on display.

FeistyUnicornsCanKill · 10/02/2017 15:58

Dirtying Grandpa - A coprophiliac kidnaps an elderly gentleman Wink Shock

SilenceOfThePrams · 10/02/2017 15:58

Steeling Magnolias - cutthroat gardening competition and thievery.

TondelayaDellaVentamiglia · 10/02/2017 15:56

True Grittings

A harrowing story of a cowboy who had to give up his life and Home on the Range, move across the world to keep the A-roads of the UK free from frost and snow.

FeistyUnicornsCanKill · 10/02/2017 15:55

The Crafting - Film about all the Facebook tat for sale. Grin

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