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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:
thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 10/02/2017 23:54

Biggins Trouble in Little Chinatown - Action movie starring Christopher Biggins and his fallout with a local triad gang.

ErrolTheDragon · 10/02/2017 23:57

Falling Downing - the tragic collapse of a Cambridge college

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 11/02/2017 00:18

Sister Acting - pair of siblings go to stage school

Babe: Pigging in the City - a gorgeous girl goes to New York and hits every fast food joint

The Godfathering - his friend's baby is being baptised and he agrees to look after its immortal soul

Homing Alone - racing pigeons get separated in transit

contemporaneouscontemps · 11/02/2017 00:45

The spacing between us - Isolated Martian colonist becomes obsessed with word formatting errors
Hacksawing ridge - tense drama about a lumberjack who morally objects to felling trees
Once upon a timing in the west - cowboy musical with perfectly integrated harmonica solos
Dr Strangeloving - Indescribably deviant

MommaGee · 11/02/2017 00:59

A Knights Tailing - a live action pin the tail on the Knight

MommaGee · 11/02/2017 01:01

The Girl on the Training - one girls fight to survive 8 hours of office skills training

ohfourfoxache · 11/02/2017 01:12

The Life of Ping

A fast paced table tennis drama

HopelesslydevotedtoGu · 11/02/2017 03:04

In The Naming Of the Father - tense courtroom drama; key evidence emerges from the accused's Father's Christening

HopelesslydevotedtoGu · 11/02/2017 03:11

The Fault In Our Staring - documentary following convicted Stalkers on a victim awareness rehabilitation programme

HopelesslydevotedtoGu · 11/02/2017 03:18

The Madness of Kinging George - Republicans make the case for abolishing the monarchy within the next two generations

user1440873379 · 11/02/2017 03:56

Snowdogging

seadragonusgiganticusmaximus · 11/02/2017 04:20

True Gritting

Council workers fight to keep roads open in subzero temperatures.

HopelesslydevotedtoGu · 11/02/2017 04:37

Pointing Break - coming-of-age drama about a toddler taking a break from pointing incessantly at aeroplanes

WalkingInTheAir13 · 11/02/2017 05:03

Mrs. Doubtingfire
When her firefighter husband returns after staying out all night, claiming to have been working, can she really believe him ....or will sparks fly?

WalkingInTheAir13 · 11/02/2017 05:18

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kidding:
Butch is devastated when Sundance reveals that he was "only joking" when he offered to come along for the ride.

BikeRunSki · 11/02/2017 07:58

Inside Outing - emotional prisoners go on a day trip

ArchNotImpudent · 11/02/2017 08:07

Carry On: Don't Lose Your Heading - The trials and tribulations of formatting a Word document.

St. Elmo's Firing - A naval officer gets sacked for gross misconduct

crapfatbanana · 11/02/2017 08:13

Milking - history drama about the lives of a herd of dairy cattle.

Twirlstwirlstwirls · 11/02/2017 08:16

Happy Gilmouring.

Adam Sandler is a confused amateur golfer who'd like to be in Gilmour Girls so sets off on a joyful journey to reinvent himself.

crapfatbanana · 11/02/2017 08:52

The Graduating - art house movie about a young hairstylist tackling a bob.

LunaJuna · 11/02/2017 09:09

Really funny ones. Love the thread Grin.

The seven year itching: real life documentary about a woman's life long struggle with trush

Snakes on a planing: sci-fi about snakes plotting to take over the world

BikeRunSki · 11/02/2017 09:14

Truly Madly Deeping - Five go mad in Peterborough.

Gwilt160981 · 11/02/2017 09:26

Beetle juicing

ErrolTheDragon · 11/02/2017 09:38

One flew over the cuckoos nesting - Prince Charles reveals how in his helicoptering days, came across an unprecedented case of cuckoos breeding non-parasitically.

M0stlyBowlingHedgehog · 11/02/2017 10:02

One for the fanfic enthusiasts out there:

The fellowshipping of the ring.

In which the quest to get rid of the one ring is entirely secondary to setting up romantic relationships and/or hot sex scenes between any or all of Sam and Frodo, Legolas and Gimli, Boromir and Aragorn and possibly (for those who like the idea of first cousin relationships - and trust, me there are many of them out there on Archive of Our Own), Pippin and Merry.

Brain bleach not supplied.

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