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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:
BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 10/02/2017 13:09

Ground Hogging Day
People randomly parking on other's drives

RoseCuntedGlasses · 10/02/2017 13:11

Fuck, these are brilliant. Top marks for Midnight Expressing and This is Spinal Tapping. Bloody hell Grin

WingMirrorSpider · 10/02/2017 13:11

Black Hawking Down : After an ill advised turn as a Samuel L Jackson lookalike, the eminent physicist is pushed out of his wheelchair by an angry mob.

ThePurpleOneWithTheNut · 10/02/2017 13:12

Beetlejuicing: 200 New recipes with a twist from NutriBullet.

blueskyinmarch · 10/02/2017 13:13

Days of Thundering. An epic storm movie.

ErrolTheDragon · 10/02/2017 13:13

Star Trekking - A-lister goes for a long walk.

Rabbit12345 · 10/02/2017 13:14

Kindergarten coping - how to survive the early years and toddler tantrums.

EssieTregowan · 10/02/2017 13:15

Abigail's Partying - we follow Abigail on a wild night out.

Cannaeshoveyergranny · 10/02/2017 13:15

The Dark Knighting

A fearful and gory tale of a royal ceremony gone wrong, perhaps featuring a princess and two pop stars.

Rushing

The saga of a harried mother and the trials and tribulations of hurrying from school to swimming to football to ballet to athletics to brownies...a high octane thriller!

JorahsMissus · 10/02/2017 13:15

Polar Expressing.

One mother polar bear's battle to raise a young family in the arctic while also searching for a job to make ends meet. When she is offered a job in the frozen fish section at Iceland she realises she can't possibly breastfeed her newest cub and has to juggle expressing milk with her hectic family and work life.

minesapintofwine · 10/02/2017 13:16

This thread is superb. Vote for classics.

The Secret Life of Petting. Mildly pornagraphic.

Ghosting. A film about being ignored.

EssieTregowan · 10/02/2017 13:16

Snowing White - about a blizzard.

Rabbit12345 · 10/02/2017 13:17

Fasting and furious - The side effects of 5:2 that nobody ever told you about.

ErrolTheDragon · 10/02/2017 13:17

Dirtying Dancing - Strictly in a field

blueskyinmarch · 10/02/2017 13:18

Carolling. A Christmas musical using traditional tunes.

JorahsMissus · 10/02/2017 13:18

The land before timing

A comedic look back at people doing things at completely wrong times.

dorothymichaels · 10/02/2017 13:18

I am past myself about the Girl on the Training. Been there!

Calendering Girls. The tale about a group of middle class women desperately trying to find a mutual time to meet for lunch.

Meaning girls. The thrilling tale of a group of linguists.

Inside Outing. A group of friends were going on a day trip but it rained so they had to stay inside.

RoseCuntedGlasses · 10/02/2017 13:18

Kindergarten Coping - bloody hell Rabbit!

Heating - The trials of a broken boiler

Snatching - That difficult toddler stage as imagined by Guy Ritchie

SprinkleOfInsanity · 10/02/2017 13:19

Ironing man.

A tale of fantasy.

ErrolTheDragon · 10/02/2017 13:19

West Siding Story - trains parked in the setting sun.

Crunchyside · 10/02/2017 13:21

MetallicBeige I love Girl on the Training Grin crapfatbanana Greasing is brill too.

Wondering Woman - A thought-provoking feminist film about a lonely female Philosophy professor and her struggles with her patriarchal faculty.

EssieTregowan · 10/02/2017 13:21

Hunger Gaming.

What happens to teenage boys if they're not reminded to log off and eat.

blueskyinmarch · 10/02/2017 13:21

Fight Clubbing. Set in a nightclub to trance music.

EssieTregowan · 10/02/2017 13:22

Jacob's Laddering - a sad tale of a man's struggle with hosiery.

minesapintofwine · 10/02/2017 13:24

The Blair Witch Projecting- a witch takes her problems out on others, with dire consequences (cos she's a witch)

Ghostbusting- a ghost struggles to find a public toilet.

Hopping- about a rabbit with one leg.