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I Apocalypse Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

woj — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:09:17 -0800

A cheesy little page I made to mimic a game that my friends and I like to play where we combine two movie titles for (hopefully) comic results.

Sometimes it produces a title for a movie I'd love to actually see get made, for example "You've Gothika Mail!". Sometimes it produces funny gibberish. Sometimes it produces unfunny gibberish. Refresh the page or click the link to generate a new title.

By: hellojed

hellojed — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:26:40 -0800

My favorite so far: Song of the South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

By: xorry

xorry — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:04:40 -0800

I love these things:
Rules of The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Daddy Day Care of the Dead (!!!)

By: Locative

Locative — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:47:13 -0800

My favorite so far: Chariots in the Line of Fire.

I like it, but some of the titles had "The The" in them. I guess that's the "unfunny gibberish" part.

By: Memo

Memo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:57:43 -0800

Someone should tell Shyamalan: "Stop Making The Sixth Sense".

By: Lemurrhea

Lemurrhea — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:16:14 -0800

8 Million 100 Ways To Murder Your Wife to Die - Everybody knows 8,000,000, but we have 8,000,100!
Father of the Bride of the Bride Part 2. - "Help my daughter's getting gay married!"

By: Lemurrhea

Lemurrhea — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:20:12 -0800

I couldn't not add this one:

Phenomena + Phenomenon = Phenomenonomena

Do doo, doo do do. Phenomenonomena!

By: cog_nate

cog_nate — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:34:25 -0800

Under The Cherry Moon 2000

By: netbros

netbros — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:28:01 -0800

Cute app. Work on the text formatting some.

By: HaloMan

HaloMan — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:54:03 -0800

Down to Earth + Doin' Time on Planet Earth = Down to Doin' Time on Planet Earth

Porn-tastic.

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:58:51 -0800

Some of the unfunny gibberish is so unfunny as to be funny again:

Star Wars: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith I - The Phantom Menace

Other less gibberishly funny titles:
Over the Top Gun - I can smell the testosterone already.
Kindergarten Beverly Hills Cop II - The "II" is essential.
The Last Dragon of the Mohicans - Technically, this one started "The The", but I took artistic license.
Freddy Kramer vs. Kramer Jason
The Mummy Superman Returns

Fantastic! I love it.

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:00:02 -0800

I promise I won't post any more, but I just can't help it one last time:

"Everest + Ever After = Ever Afterest"

By: grobstein

grobstein — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:21:31 -0800

I had the experience that it was much more fun to read funny results other people had found than to actually use the tool myself. This could be addressed by implementing some kind of collaborative filtering mechanism, like Hotornot I guess. Offer users the ability to vote on the quality of a movie title and display the higher-rated titles preferentially. Tweak the algorithm so this doesn't eliminate variety.

By: woj

woj — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:13:45 -0800

grobstein...

I totally agree. If I had a ton of free time to work on this, I would definitely add a feature like that. I also wanted to have it fetch the plot summary from IMDB and try to generate a new combined plot. I actually got a prototype of that feature working, but it hardly ever made any sense due to the different writing styles in the summaries, etc.

I'm sure there's a lot of improvements I could make, but for a simple little program it worked well enough to make me laugh occasionally, and I didn't really feel like it was that big of a deal to refresh the page until I hit something funny.

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:51:38 -0800

Very amusing. I'd still sink some time into striking the 2nd "The" in any combined instance.

The First Wives Club + The Breakfast Club =
The First Wives The Breakfast Club

...kills the funny in The First Wives Breakfast Club. Which is actually quite funny and seen daily at a Starbucks near me.

By: woj

woj — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:33:28 -0800

DarlingBri...

Yes, but what about something like this:

The Sum Of All Fears + Jingle All the Way =
The Sum Of Jingle All the Way Fears

Automatically stripping the second instance of "the" won't always work. We understand what would make the sentence sound correct, but getting a program to do that correctly is not a simple matter (at least for someone like me).

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:15:55 -0800

There are certainly some complex issues involved in making each one sound clean, but I think there are a few easy wins. Simply removing words that appear twice in a row would be very easy and would clean up a lot of results. Also, disqualifying pairs of alternate titles for the same movie and pairs of movies in the same sequel sequence would also be a (relatively) easy win.

By: woj

woj — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:38:38 -0800

ErWenn...
I agree fully on the duplicated words. I actually had that in my code at one point and when I made a change at some point stopped scrubbing the duplicated words. I've remedied that, and it should be a bit cleaner now.

Alternate titles for the same movie are simply a problem in the file where I store all the movie names. I scrub them out as I find them, but there are upwards of 1500 titles in the file, and I'm sure there are some I've missed. Please do let me know if you spot any though!

As for the sequels, again, I don't think is as simple as it might seem. How can my program tell the difference between a sequel and a movie that simply shares common words (which is the crux of this whole thing). Take some examples:

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets + Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The Dark Knight + The Dark Crystal

Each of those share two words. How would one determine that one is two related movies, and the other is two movies that are unrelated but with similar titles?

Thanks for the suggestions, BTW.

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:26:24 -0800

You might try eliminating movies that start with the same 2+ words (ignoring "the") where at least one of them has an Arabic or Roman numeral in it. Won't catch everything, but it might clean out some of the more egregious examples. It might also catch a small number of non-sequels, but I don't think it'd be that many.