Entertainment For Lively Minds
Films you're glad they didn't make
Posted by PeteWingrave on 10 February 2012 - 8:29pm.
A recent misreading of a film title caused me to think of this:
Jedgar - Leonardo di Caprio plays Irish twins who head the CIA.
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Guilty
1 Angry Man - Van Morrison
Stop Making Tents
A camping supplies firm goes bust. For 90 minutes.
Also see 'Last Vango In Harris'
about a shortage of tents in the Western Isles
Fundamentalist Free Presbyterians do things with butter...
... Last Tango In Harris.
Also vaguely religious in theme
O Bother! Where Art Thou - Derek Nimmo is unable to find the vestry keys
Edit - plus - The Philadelphia Stottie - Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn decide to repent of their younger mistakes and try again with a healthier light cheese sandwich
Fridge Over The River Kwai - Irksome Radio 4 stalwart Tony Hawks takes electrical white goods on a whimsical trip through the worst of the 1944 Burma campaign - with hilarious consequences!
The Seventh Seal Album
Tedious studio-based documentary.
Close Lobsters Encounters of the Third Kind
.
The Zod Couple
Two flatmates do tedious impressions of Terence Stamp in Superman II.
One is obviously called
Neil.
Took me a while...
Took me a while...
The Crepes of Wrath
Tension in the kitchen of a Brittany restaurant.
Man endlessly tries to delete double post
and fails. Contains sexual swearwords.
Groundhog Zod
Two flatmates do tedious impressions of Terence Stamp in Superman II
Groundhog Day Afternoon
In which Al Pacino finds himself carrying out the same bank robbery every day, and becomes more and more hysterical with every confrontation with the cops, until there is no more scenery left to chew.
Reservoir Zods
A group of men rob a bank while dressed as Terence Stamp in Superman II
Children of a Lesser Zod
Middle-aged man alienates his kids with his continuous tedious impersonations of Terence Stamp in Superman II, and jokes about same
Zodrophenia
On Brighton beach a huge gang of Terence Stamp impersonators knock seven bells out of a huge gang of Christopher Reeve impersonators.
"Tedious"- Pauline Kael.
Brilliant!
The Mission - Impossible
Documentary on futile attempt to get legendary goth bsnd to reform
My Week With Marilyn
Reconstruction of Mark Ellen anecdote
The Eternal Sunshine
Of Simple Minds
The Bourne Lethargy
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) lives in a bedsit in Hounslow and has a temporary data entry job at British Telecom.
The Bourne Indemnity
Jason Bourne is forced back into government service whilst being pursued by a vicious gang of no win, no fee solicitors,
Bourne Free
Threequel title mistyped on to promo material by Essex-based PR company.
The Bourne Nonentity
Bourne goes out of Big Brother in week 4 and spends the rest of the film demanding to be let into nightclubs for free.
The Bourne EveryMinute
...hot on the heels of all of the above
The Bourne and Hollingsworth
Action packed time warp spy drama set in a landmark London department store that closed 30 years ago
The Eastbourne Inactivity
Secret agent retires and goes to live quietly at the seaside.
The Bourne End Titty
A glamour photography club in the small Bucks town is the unlikely cover for our hero...
I always get ridiculously pleased
When anyone has ever heard of anywhere in Bucks...
The Porn Ultimatum
Items have been found in a browsing history. Questions are asked. A marriage hangs in the balance....
The Bournville Supremacy
in which the chocolate manufacturer trys to maintain it's position as the market leading confectionery producer
Bourne End
was where my late grandmother lived so used to visit it a lot.
What
there's a place called Titty in Bucks?
The Norm Identity
Obscure American comic Norm McDonald uses his covert training as a Navy Seal to mis-appropriate the identity of Norm from now-defunct sit-com Cheers and uses it to audition for the part of Norm in a BBC4 docu-drama about loveable post-war buffoon Norman Wisdom.
No one notices but he doesn't get the part.
To the Manor Bourne
Matt Damon goes undercover as Penelope Keith's butler in an attempt to stop Peter "the Bounder" Bowles from taking over the World.
Jailhouse Socks
Skullduggery in the prison laundry.
Dances with Wolfmother
....Kill me. Please.
Ive Got the Power
Drama based on Apple designer Jonathan Ive.
Ive (Ewan MacGregor) faces a race against time. Can he increase the battery life on the iPad by twenty per cent, faced with an impossible deadline of seven months?
Chores..
a giant shark accepts his domestic responsibilities !
Carry On Remembrance Of Things Past
Oooooh madeleines
Also see
"Oooh, those knickers bring back so many memories..."
"Why?"
"They Madeleine's."
Woof
Jack Nicholson turns into Michelle Pfeiffer's golden retriever.
(Based on an actual local-paper misprint.)
Chuck Berry Falls
The Johnny B. Goode Friday
Sweet Little Rock n Rollerball
Brown Eyed Handsome Mant
The Year My Ding A Ling Broke
Roll Over Beethoven (y'know - the big dog)
Goodbye Lennon!
A woman awakes from a coma after 42 years and doesn't know that the Beatles have split up. Her family have to pathetically reshuffle tracks from Macca and Lennon's solo albums to make her think that they're still together.
Blue Triple Velvet
Sexual perversion and Roy Orbison lip-syncing in a toilet-roll factory.
The Del Amitri Code
Tom Hanks character looks into possibilty Justin Currie might be the second coming
The Del Illuminati
Aka The Del Amitri Code II.
Tom Hanks discovers Iain Harvie is the head of a secret society that faked the moon landings.
The Lost Cymbal
The third in the trilogy, wherein Justin's drummer misplaces a key piece of kit.
The Del Amitriville Horror
Newlyweds move into a house where a murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations of Justin Currie's late period solo albums which drive them away.
Del Iverance
Justin sings songs from 'For Emma, Forever Ago' while a kid sitting on the front porch of his shack accompanies him on banjo.
Beyond the Valley of the Del Amitri
Justin and the boys attempt to make it in LA, but are thwarted by Nazis, hermaphrodites and large-breasted women.
I Spit In The Wind On Your Grave
... even worse than Tim Vine's "Pen Behind the Ear" routine.
Del Amitri in St Louis
Tour doc.
9 2 5 2
Heavily urbanised sequel to Dolly Parton 80s office classic.
A Bridge Too Far
The Mahavishnu Orchestras latest noodlings send a drive time Kirk Douglas over the edge and on a spree of violence that culminates in a jazz fest
Willy Wonka's Factory Records
In which gangs of Oompa Loompahs, high on suspicious looking candies and thrashing around in the dark, accidentally produce some of the best music of the decade. Unfortunately overconfidence owing to the presence of "Charlie" in the Factory and the frankly foreseeable expense of sleeves containing golden tickets made from real gold results in closure. And now the Oompa Loompahs must keep re-packaging their greatest hits forever...
*edit*
My mistake, that should read Willy H. Wonka
Plenty of Mohicans
(The great prequel)
with a nod to ISIHAC
How the Vest Was Won
Starring Bruce Sprinsteen
Apocalypso Now
"I love the smell of plantain in the morning"
The Cannon & Ball Run
Mediocre mid-80's comedy double act try and follow up their Ken Russell debut 'Rock on, Tommy'
Quantum of Old Lace
Daniel Craig is trapped by two eccentric old ladies.
The Taking of Peckham 123
Walter Matthau gets on a bus
Bobby Elliot
A young Manchester kid dreams of a career in dancing but after meeting Graham Nash has those dreams dashed and spends his life as drummer in a pop group.
The Unbearable Lightness Of Beyonce
R'N'B songstress and a dog charter a hot air balloon over Prague.
The Social, Network
A suicidal TV exec berates a bunch of bemused coal miners who are on an outing
The Italian
Jobby
AKA Close Encounters Of The Turd Kind.
The Turd Man
Undiscovered documentary about sewage workers with cameo appearance by The Small Faeces.
Groundhog Dave
Bill Murray watches endless repeats of Mock The Week.
Casa Bianca
Will Humphrey Bogart's grizzled resistance veteran be able to win the heart of Mick Jagger's ex? Features Paul Henreid as a Boyzone-bothering twinkle eyed X-Factor judge and head of the police. "Louis, this is going to be the start of a beautiful friendship".
Or, Casa Bianca
After finally earning the big bucks in that Dubai, ex-resident of Walford, Richard Butcher, rejects the horrors awaiting him back East and instead sets up successful speakeasy in Morocco with first love Sam. However, he cannot escape his past as he discovers when a mysterious Titian-haired beauty wafts into 'Ricky's Place'...Sam's tasteful pole-dancing cabaret is rudely interrupted when the newcomer spots the owner of the joint trying to hide in the corner -
"RICKAAAAAAY!"
Wyatt Twerp
One man brings the UK brewing industry to its knees by going round pubs and putting Dondestan on the jukebox.
The Man With The Golden Knob
Because when you run out of veins in your arms...
Directed by Lars Von Trier.
Bwahahahaha!
Despite being bed bound with actual flu for the last four days, this made me laugh so much I had a coughing fit, as have many of the other entries here. Best comedy thread since Pop Stars Breaking Wind!
The Woman In Black
Fresh-faced ingenue with manly sideburns is spooked by ghost of cross-dressing Johnny Cash.
The Passion of the Chris
Mild-mannered Coldplay singer goes berserk when someone nicks his bike from outside the newsagent's. 12 mins.
The 39 Steps
H & Co try to find another 34 members to launch a new assault on the charts
Sliding Doors
Jim Morrison takes up ice-skating whilst falling helplessly in love wth Gwyneth
The Men Who Stare at Coats
Silent movie about hapless husbands out shopping with their wives.
Genius!
.
Stanley Kubrick's Chocolate Orange
Film director enjoys some chocolate in front of Columbo.
Dont Look Now
A documentary about Bob Dylan's 1960's tour of Venice aided by Alan Price and a small ugly dwarf.
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Biopic of Liam Gallagher
Bootsie
Unemployed actor finally gets work by dressing up as a funk bassist.
Return of the Jedward
A hideous post-apocalyptic nightmare - coming soon to a reality near you.
The Ex-Orb-cist
Ex-Orb and KLF alumni Jimmy Cauty performs exorcisms on thirty-something professionals still boring everyone they meet about how great the Rave scene was in the early 90's.
Ben Dover's Canal Junk Fest...
Enjoy Ben's escapades as he attempts to negotiate a Junk through Britain's canal network.
Once Upon a Time in the Vest
John MacLane travels to 1960's Italy for Christmas with his estranged wife and foils a cunning dubbing conspiracy in his bare feet.
Once Upon A Time In The West
Biopic of Dire Straits. Well I could hope. Except I've just realised I've given a gift to people who hate Dire Straits.
Thighs Wide Shut
Documentary about the Teenage Virginity movement in America.
The Goods, the Bed and the Uglis
Richard Briars and Felicity Kendal reprise their tv roles as Tom and Barbara, in an unreleased x rated film version involving exotic fruit.
I think you've misunderstood...
... it's - Films You're Glad They Didn't Make, not Films You Pray To God They Do Make - that said, I'm with you - I love Richard Briars.
WOAH.
That's a concept that will be hard to remove as I head to bed thank you very much. Much as I liked Felicity Kendall, that was THIRTY YEARS AGO. OAPPorn.....(shudders violently)
Apocalypse Sow!
It's a pig of a movie.
Close Encounters of the Turd Kind
Van Morrison gives us a tour of his Harmonica collection ...
The Man Who Fell To Perth
Alien from drought-plagued planet lands near the most isolated city on earth, and thinks he's landed back on his own planet.
Pink Floyd's "The Fall"...
... Roger, David and Nick get together at the O2 (televised live) and play (for 2 hours) some of Mark E. Smith's most-loved songs.
I'm surprised Patrick hasn't embraced this thread - it seems right up his street.
Shaft-ki
Funky Blaxploitation private dick John Shaft teams up with uber-noodler John McLaughlin to solve music crimes - usually their own.
The Captain only gives them 24 hours to solve the case - though it seems to go on for-f**king-ever.
P.T
...the extra-curricular
Aliens in gym-kit.
Bring me the Dreads of Alfredo Garcia ...
Radio 4 whacky funster Graham Garden travels to Jamaica to work in a hairdressing salon alongside the cousin of Grateful Dead's guitarist ...
The WALL-E
Animated story of a lonely & alienated waste-disposal robot named Roger and his futile attempts to get the band back together.
FALL-E
A cantankerous robot warms your heart while shouting abuse in a bus station
That should of course have read FALL-eh
Slade Runner
The wacky adventures of Noddy and co as they attempt to evade payment at the local curry house.
Brockie
Where a Hawkwind rockumetary disolves into a variety of punch ups.
Goodbye Mister Fish
Marillion sack their vocalist.
The Great Rock'n'Roll Swingle
Malcolm McLaren revolutionises the music scene with a sweary Jazz accapella group.
Ishmael and I
Bloke sits down to read Moby Dick. Several days later he finishes it. Directed by Andy Warhol.
Bridge on the River Jamiroquai
Funky-hatted dancing POW twat foils Japanese transport engineering plans.
The Lyin' King
An ex Oxbridge grad becomes a minor pop star and record producer.
This however is just a lop-sided face he uses to conceal his real identity namely that of a bloke who grooms and fiddles with young boys.
Funny.
But with a sharp satirical edge. You are on another level...
V for Venn Diagram
A futuristic London is terrorised by Maths teachers.
Philadelphia Light
One man's obsession with spreadable cheese gets him fired from a top law firm.
Half Iron Man, Half Biscuit.
Super Strong Megatron let down by crumbly lower half.
The Fretwank Redemption
The story of Rush.
Not-So-Dirty Harry
Not even the mighty HMRC could get between a man and his goal.
.
..
Three Dog Night Day Afternoon
"A very confusing film" Mark Kermode
Citizen Pat Kane
Ex-Hue and Cry singer inherits a fortune and becomes a terrifyingly powerful newspaper magnate. "Looking For Linda" becomes the UK's national anthem.
Mariah Carey On Camping
Melismatic singer documents her love of the great outdoors
The Traveller's Wife
Film about a woman with an Irish accent who lives an a caravan in Redditch and does lots of washing.
Debbie Does Douglas
Bambi Woods reprises her career defining role over a wet winter weekend in the Manx capital.
Aguilera:Wrath of God
Legendary German film maker Herzog finds challenge of filming doomed expedition nowhere near as challenging as getting semi-naked songstress to pick a note and stick to it during a song
Star Wars: The Slim Jim Phantom Menace
A long time ago, in a rockabilly sub-genre far, far away...
Fried Green Potatoes
A truck-stop cafe is closed after several customers are hospitalised with ammonia poisoning.
Brokeback Fountain...
... it's like Brokeback Mountain, except with a fountain.
Bridge on the River Kwai
Omar Shariff stars in a four-handed rubber played out on a river-boat in Thailand
The First Waltz
1960: some Canadian lads play very bad rhythm and blues in a garage.
Sproyston Green
In a dystopian future, the overcrowded inhabitants of New York fall upon a nutritious new foodstuff introduced by the shadowy Sproyston Corporation. But it's made of...recycled baggy corduroys!
The Wife Of Brian
Tedious long-form documentary following a year in the life of Anita Dobson
The Long Shrove Tuesday
A London gangster is defeated by contestants from the IRA in a pancake-tossing competition.
The Black Rebel Motor Cycle
The Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club Diaries: Some people sit indoors in dark glasses repeatedly listening to The Jesus And Mary Chain's Psychocandy and scribbling notes.
Strictly Ballroom Blitz: Ill fated star vehicle for The Sweet. By the same director who previously flopped with Crouching Tiger, Hidden T Rex.
Rage Against The Bull: Zach De La Rocha travels to Spain to protest against the unnecessary cruelty of their national sport
Doctor Robert's Strange Love: In the twilight years of his success the lead singer from The Blow Monkeys overcomes his initial distaste for the new wave of Acid Dance. a.k.a. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love D Mob.
Planet Of The Aphex: Really just the director's cut of the Windowlicker video. If you want to watch it it's constantly showing at Mu-ziq's emporium - Cinema Paradinas.
Four Bed-Ins and a Funeral
Fashionably disrespectful Lennon biopic.
Young Guns
Documentary of the little known feud between AC/DC and 80's singer, Paul. Inspired the end sequence to Reservoir Dogs.
Young Guns 2
Turns out Paul didn't really die at the end of the last film and is out for revenge. The scene where he catches up with Angus inspired the phrase "I'm gonna pop a cap in your ass".
Reservoir Doggs
Snoop & Nate take up watersports.
Pan's People's Labyrinth
Directed by Guillermo del Amitri.
When Harry Met Sally James
Woman ruins career by simulating orgasm while presenting TISWAS.
You've got Mael
Sparks menacing keyboardist makes forlorn attempt to interview unco-operative Meg Ryan. Based on an idea by Nick Broomfield.
Kill Bill...
... Mick, Keef, Charlie and Brian hatch a plot to get rid of their shag-happy bassist by, quite literally, killing him.
Pulp Fiction...
... biopic of Jarvis Cocker and his chums - but it's all bollocks.
Pulp Friction
A short public information film presented by Jarvis Cocker on the perils of wearing nylon suits.
Fast Tims at Ridgemont High
The lead singers of James and The Charlatans try out for the school athletics team.
Poppin Mary's
Fictional story about 3 members of an up and coming blues band set in 'swinging sixties London' The boys are smitten by a stunning young girl they spot at a gig but to their dismay find she is only 15.
Her 16th birthday is only 3 weeks away so who will be the one who wins her over?
(Spoiler alert! At the end we find it has all been pointless as the band's bass player got to her some 3 years earlier!)
Rear Window...
... Ben Dover remakes the Hitchcock classic - he strays from the original story-line slightly, by not having a window.
All the Residents Men
Robert Redford has a series of conversations in an underground car-park with a man with a large eyeball for a head.
The Magic Alex Roundabout
A bloke from Greece talks Zebedee into letting him soup up the roundabout. It never works again, and Dougal, Dylan, Ermintrude and Zebedee have to go and doss in a crisis shelter, before splitting up amidst legal acrimony.
3.10 to Zuma
After outlaw leader Will Young is captured in a small town, his gang continue to threaten. Small-time singer Willie Nelson is persuaded to take Young in secret to the nearest town with a railway station to await the train to the court at Yuma. Once the two are holed up in the hotel to wait it becomes apparent the secret is out, and a battle of Wills starts.
The film is made by Neil Young using a small hand held video camera and makes no sense at all.
Kind Hearts and Cornets
A devious ice-cream vendor bumps off his relatives one by one.
Hey Moose! I was going to do that
but it was Kind Hearts and Cornettos
Mmm. I was toying with
it being a film about a plot against Cannonball Adderley's relatives, but that's a bit obscure even by my standards.
Death In Vienetta
Deadly virus lurks in frozen dessert due to freezer malfunction
The Stationary Agent.
Peter Dinklage inherits a pile of envelopes.
The Hurt Blocker
A film about analgesics.
Mingle White Female
An unfortunate woman gets cornered in a room above a pub by a middle-aged man droning on about Nick Lowe.
"Welcome to my world"
Said Drakeygirl
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Kite Runner
Refugee decides he'd rather be in war torn Afghanistan than a black and white film, set in the 60s
Dammed Cold in Alex
After being shown Blur bass player's farm a group of visitors accidentally get locked in the big refrigerator used for cheese storeage......
Live and Let Dai
Roger Moore, as James Bond 007, is sent to infiltrate the Tonypandy branch of the National Union of Miners.
On Her Majesty's Egret Service
007 is drafted into the security section of the RSPB.
Dr. And The Medics - No!
Grizzled showbiz veteran Sean Connery attempts to dissuade larkish 80s student favourites from undertaking an ill advised a comeback tour
Casino Royle
Bond is fired once after all after losing all of MI6's money to Ricky Tomlinson.
Supersize Me
Ropey, has been, self publicist Katie Price, goes under the cosmetic surgeons knife once again in a bid to resurrect her flagging public profile.
The Madness of King Crimson
Fripp fires someone, again.
Stop Making Scents
David Byrne and Tina Weymouth close down their sideline business making knock off perfumes after a visit from Trading Standards
Stop Making Cents
Documentary about the inevitable demise of the Euro
Stop Making Sensi
"We grow copious amounts of ganja, yah? And you're carrying a wasted girl and a bag of fertilizer. You don't look like your average horti-fucking- culturalist! That's what I mean, Tina."
Crouch End Tiger, Hendon Dragon
Epic tale, spanning several miles of north London, about rival soft toy manufacturers.
My American Beauty*
Kevin Spacey has a midlife crisis, quits his job and takes to wearing a dress and crooning standards in his garage.
*Just obeying the unwritten house rule that all threads on this blog must at some point allude to this f***ing album
The Hen-forcer
Grizzled cop holds a Magnum 44 to the head of a hen because he forgot if it had layed 6 eggs or just 5 !
The Beer Hunter
three working class squaddies actually get served in a pub after 11.30 pm before being deployed to Afghanistan the next morning.
28 Cheeks Later
Greek man consumed with ultra libidinous sex virus shags his way across London.
The three aerials of Melquiades Estrada
A tale of revenge and competitive satellite TV channels on the Texas/Mexican border.
The Bank Dickhead
A BBC journalist with an irritating voice precipitates an economic crisis by scaring the shit out of everyone.
Strapline: "He's having the time of his life!"
I Love You Oral B Toklas
Hippy romp set in a toothbrush factory.
Thats really fantastic
Whole worlds of strangeness conjured up by that
How Green Was My Volley
Cliff Richard plays the over the hill, bitter, shallow, vain and gay Welsh tennis player Huw.
Huw wants one more crack at Wimbledon - he won it once many years ago but he can't accept he is now over the hill and he hates to see the younger players getting the fame and adulation he once enjoyed.
Deep Throaties
An unfortunate woman finds she can only have an orgasm while sucking a cough sweet.
Saturday Night Beaver
Much hilarity ensues when a young woman hits the dance floor only to find she has forgotten to put any knickers on!
Saturday Night Beaver, 2012 British remake
Hilarity ensues when a young woman hits the dance floor only to find she has forgotten to not put any knickers on
Mrs Broon
Ill-advised animated feature in which the widowed Queen Victoria shacks up with Granpaw Broon in the But an' Ben.
Flash Gordon's Trip to Ma's
Flash goes home to visit his mum.
Doctor! No!
James Bond tries to avoid having a rectal examination.
Diamonds Are Forever
Sparks' former drummer and Van Halen's lead singer enter a pact with the devil to become immortal.
My Fur Lady
A documentary produced by and voiced by Bryan Ferry about the sales woman he visits when his fox hunting trips are unsuccessful.
With Neil & I
Chris' home documentary of Pet Shop Boys' tour to Camberwell
Beef Encounter
Captain Beefheart falls in love with Noel Coward at a train station.
Tinker, James Taylor, Soldier, Spy
George Smiley is brought out of retirement to unmask the double agent responsible for supplying folk-rock to the Soviet spymaster, Carly.
Donnie Tabasco
FBI undercover agent exposes Mafia wars over table sauce trafficking.
The Dives of Others
an East German Stasi agent spies on a subversive playwright's fixation with synchronised swimming.
Low Fidelity
For no apparent reason, John Cusack transers his 180gm vinyl collection to some Sakura C60s from a charity shop.
Lord Lucan of the Rings
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all...
...oh bollocks, he's gone!
The Exerciseist
The Exerciseist -A young girl becomes possessed by the spirit of Mr Motivator.
Burger on The Orient Express -Agatha Christie Mystery about who killed "Big Mac"
Rashermon -A bacon Sandwich is eaten and four people give varying accounts of what they witnessed.
Dude, where's my cart? - medieval stoners lose their mode of transport,hilarity ensues.
On TV
Minder your Language -Arthur Daley opens a Language school and Terry pulls a French student whilst Chisholm investigates Racial Stereotyping in the Winchester.
Kramer vs Kramer Vs Godzilla
ALthough I wish they did make it.
Christiane KLF
Terry Gilliam follows "Brazil" with a film about a German junkie. As with his previous film the ending is ambiguous - does Christiane really buy an ice cream van and travel to Mu Mu Land or is this a stylised metaphor for od'ing face down in a pissy gutter...
The Cress File
Michael Caine stars in a tale of cold war psychological intrigue as vast numbers of damp patches of cotton wool are stolen from primary school window sills.
Gordon Jackson still gets shot at the traffic lights in a Ford Zephyr.
The Cressa File
Michael Caine is brainwashed into believing he is a roadie/dancer with The Stone Roses. Contains mild peril.
The Hip Cress File
Michael Caine stars in a tale of cold war psychological intrigue as vast numbers of damp patches of cotton wool are stolen from primary school window sills. In Hoxton.
Moby Dick
Bio-pic of a small, bald advertising jingle writer.
Biggins & Tupac
Documentary following the trail of evidence linking the ex-Porridge and Rentaghost actor to the murder of Tupac Shakur.
Good Night, and Bollocks
What Roger Mellie was doing in the McCarthy era.
Valley of the New York Dolls
Thunders, Sylvain and co star in gritty drama set in a Welsh mining community
Bean Streets
Rubber faced mute runs amok in the Lower Bronx
On the Toon
Three sailors sing and dance their way around Newcastle's landmarks, until they are beaten to a pulp by a gang of alco-popped-up lasses in the Bigg Market for being a bit puffy, like.
First Men in the Moon
In which a Del Amitri fan wakes up on the moon after falling asleep in a Victorian inventor's Cavorite-fuelled spacecraft. He refuses to believe he has been transported to our nearest heavenly neighbour in the company of Lionel Jeffries,claiming instead that it's a special-effects based conspiracy.
Summer Halal-day
A fresh-faced born-again Cliff Richard travels round Europe in a double-decker bus with a young Abu Qatada, played by a blacked-up Melvyn Hayes.
They go where the sun shines brightly, they go where the sea is blue, they go where they can ritually slaughter livestock whilst ensuring a swift, deep incision that cuts the front of the throat, the carotid artery, wind pipe and jugular veins but leaves the spinal cord intact.
Music by Cliff & The Shadows.
Torah, Torah, Torah
A tedious biopic in which Bob Dylan suddenly remembers his roots and rediscovers Judaism after a foray into Christianity.
A joyless account of the subsequent recording sessions for the making of the eponymous album.
Toyah! Toyah!Toyah!
An accident with a cloning machine results in surfeit of the punk warbler. Soundtrack by Robert Fripp.
Tory! Tory! Tory!
The last Conservative in Scotland is spotted hiding behind a tree.
When Dylan's live album in Tokyo
Was released in the 1970s (78/9?) - the headline to the NME review was Borah! Borah! Borah!
Lawrence Of Arabia
In which the Felt / Denim / Go Kart Mozart mainman joins Cheb Khaled to work on a new soundtrack to accompany the Lawrence Of Belgravia short film in the Egyptian market.
"Witless and tuneless; I expect to find hooky copies going for less than a dirham in the souks within days." - Kermode.
Last Tango In Londis
Marlon Brando pops out for a fizzy drink
Three Men and a Lidl Lady
Ted Danson, Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg unsuccessfully try to get off with the checkout woman at the local discount supermarket.
What About Knob?
Richard Dreyfuss plays a proctologist whose most prolific patient moves in with his family, resulting in hilairious inappropriateness aplenty
Dr Steve Strangelove
Heavily made-up nuclear scientist buys a synthesizer and destroys the world.
Carry On Up The Bungle
Frankie Howerd tries his luck with a man in a bear suit
Carry On Up The Cyber
A hearty British romp set in the early days of Amstrad
Carry On Cramping
Ooh-Er Matron - Call The Midwife!
Carry on up the Geiger
Fun and frolics in deserted Chernobyl
Carry On Don't Lose Your Ted
The travails of a harassed road manager in the heyday of Nugent's seventies success. Scenes of an adult nature.
Carry On Cold Lampin'
Public Enemy's Flavor Flav spends a fortnight in a tent with Charles Hawtrey.
Iron Lady
Set in the 1980s; the British Prime Minister creates a futuristic battle suit to combat the forces against her.
Lawrence Of Arabica
An unconventional army officer opens a gormet coffee cart.
Expresso Bono
Bespectacled Irish singer demonstrates coffee making for beginners.
Yes Man
Thrills, spills and laughs aplenty in a cinematic retelling of young Bill Bruford's rise to fame.
Grand Prix
Hardcore documentary set in a sleazy Brooklyn club during the New York Biggest D**k eliminators.
Who's Eating Gilbert's Grapes
Boyish singer songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan goes on the trail of a fruit thief.
London Evening Standard "Nothing Rhymed!"
This is so brilliantly daft
Still laughing a week later
Thanks FG!
Maybe I'm not brilliant, but I'm definitely daft!
Oh Brother Beyond, Where Art Thou?
Fruitless search for the bland 80s boy band.
I'd be surprised
if Justin Lee Collins hasn't already made that.
Stop Making Dents
David Byrne stars as a cop-killing panel-beater campaigning against unnecessary car chases.
Brilliant
Also
Stop Faking Cents - Tough cop David Byrne tracks down a very unambitious coin forger
Stop Shaking Hens
Documentary expose by an Animal Rights group of David Byrne & Brian Eno's experimental remix of traumatised poultry noises.
"An moving and elegiac hymn in which the chicken is obviously symbiologous of the Fall of Man." (Tom Paulin, Late Review, 1994)
The Devil Wears Primark
Sales Assistant tries to get promotion in cut-price clothes chain
The Codfather
Epic tale of a Sicilian family's unstoppable rise and eventual domination of the fish and chip trade. (Their rivals get a right battering along the way.)
The Bodfather
John le Mesurier narrates the spiralling spiritual depravity of the all-american hero and pre-school childrens TV animated character
In Her Majesty's Stationery Office
James Bond has to find a copy of a hard to get Statutory Instrument.
Stop Making Scents
David Byrne demands that his bandmates expel flatulence outside the dressing room.
Danny and Alexander
Ingmar Bergman's retelling of Jekyll & Hyde story starring red-haired Lib Dem MP.
Red Zulu Dawn
Bemulletted Californian teenagers take on Soviet-backed African tribesmen. With hilairious consequences.
The Madness of King George VI
Documentary tracking the erstwhile monarch's visionary, before it's time, but ultimately ill-fated, attempt to form a ska band.
Let The Right Wing One In
Tea Party Vampires [tautology alert]
Let the White One In
Same idea, different title.
Analyse This
Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro shove things up their bottoms.
Who Flares Wins
Lewis Collins commands a crack team of SAS trouser-wideners.
The Zodfather
"You come to me on the day of my daughter's wedding, you don't kneel before me..."
Yes I agree that really is enough.
Everything
You ever wanted to know about the Mahavishnu Orchestra.... but were too afraid to ask
Plan 9 From the Outer Hebrides
Unconvincing Scotsmen invade Earth using discarded porridge dishes.
Prince & The Showgirl
Pint-sized musician seduces members of his band
Rom-com/fantasy/biopic - who knows? , who cares?
Guess whose dinner is coming
Sidney Poitier meets meals on wheels
The Langoustine Fried-Egg
Heston Blumenthal's sci-fi shocker
Neapless in Seattle
Washington state suffers from a disastrous blight on its turnip harvest.
12 Angry Men
Arsene Wenger and his team fly home after 4-0 defeat in Milan.
It's not a wonderful life
An angel agrees with a compassionate but disillusioned businessman that life really is shit and helps him to commit suicide at Christmas.
.
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Pants Labrynth
About a crap maze which does not attract many tourists
No country for old men
The ageing male population is deprived of its favourite music
Citizen Keane
Movie classic charting rise and fall of Irish midfielder. Contains iconic Alf-Inge Haaland scene, dog walking scene and unforgettable prawn sandwich monologue. True genius !
Shidewaysh
Sean Connery & Roger Moore have a week in the wine region of California
Snideways
70s classic Kenneth Williams goes on a gay bachelor jaunt round the wine shelf in the Great Portland St Londis
Slideways
Two American men having a midlife crisis trip over the contents of a childrens playground in Walsall while off their tits on cheap wine
This is Spinal Tap
A documentary history of the lumbar puncture.
Rattle and Hummus
Bono and the gang discover a love of the bouzouki and visit Demis Roussos' House
The Sunshine (of Your Love) Boys
Jack Bruce & Ginger Baker star as two ageing and embittered ex-vaudevillle musicians lured out of retirement for one last show.
Jack (on Ginger): As a drummer, nobody could touch him. As a human being - nobody wanted to touch him!
Who's afraid of Virginia Wade
Virginia Wade and Andrew Castle bicker with each other over drinks in front of the horrified Andy Murray and Elena Baltacha
Who's Afraid of Virginia Plain
Documentary with Brian Ferry & Brian Eno in which they reminisce on the old days and both fervently deny that their best material is behind them.
Das Boots
Jurgen Prochnow is the manager of a chemist in Monchengladbach
Das Loot
"For sale, one German WW2 submarine. One previous owner"
The Battle of Little Britain
In which a host of much-loved characters are killed in WW2 fighter planes.
The Wizzard of Zod
Terrence Stamp IS the man behind the curtain.
Music by Roy Wood
Escape from Shoreditch
Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst invent increasingly elaborate schemes to escape from a Nazi prisoner of war camp in the London Borough of Hackney - one of which wins the Turner Prize.
The Fight or Flight Club
The Gallagher Brothers star as two ex-professional boxing champions who work as Cabin Crew whilst studying for their psychology exams.
Ellen of Troy
Stars a man in a blue shirt
Transformer: Dark of the Moon(age DayDream)
Leader of the Decepticons (Lou Reed) has a fight with Optimus Mime (David Bowie) over who will pay for dinner. Things get Vicious.
Escape to Victoria
The 17.18 from Redhill makes it to the big smoke with no rail related mishaps on the way.
Escape to Bigotry
FC Porto fans are transported back 30 years to a time when nothing was ever done about racist chanting
Van Morrison's Express
Attempt to emulate The Magical Mystery Tour but with a train journey. Interspersed with surreal fantasy sequences featuring Van and his music.
In Brogues
Two ladies in sensible shoes go on walking holiday, or , alternatively a grim but folksy 'Oirish' drama about poverty, sickness , drunken abusive fathers and high child mortality.
Hendon Can Wait
Woman exits tube train to find a sale on at Brent Cross!
Letter to Satnav
Liverpudlian woman falls in love with the voice of her satellite navigation system and writes an overheated letter to the manufacturers demanding to know the name and address of the voice artist. Unsurprisingly, they don't co-operate.
Contains references and other.
Letter From Brezhnev
Lots of stuff about the proletariat. And it's six hours long. With subtitles
Rimbaud
Sylvester Stallone plays French poet.
Dude, where's my Cars
Ric Ocasek loses his band
Dude, where's my jars
Jamie Oliver prepares for the new seasons jam making
Car, Where's My Dude?
Ric Ocasek is accused of nicking a DVD of the Big Lebowski
Big Brother, Where Art Thou?
In which Winston Smith (Dermot O'Leary) plays hide and seek with a tyrannical, ranting dictator (Davina McCall). Ends with him falling through a memory hole, forgetting about the whole thing, going for a pint with his illicit lover Julia (Brian Dowling) and ending up rat-faced.
Voice from Telescreen: "You are the dead! Please do not swear!"
National Lampoon,s Mingle
..Frat boys swap c.d,s and eat cake whilst having a toga party.
Pilates of the Carribean
Jack Sparrow tries to find his central core.
Not in Hull
International film star Julie Roberts moves to the North of England in the hope of meeting a charming posh englishman who appreciates old books and antiques.
Instead she gets punched in the face by John Prescott and burnt as a witch.
John Prescott does not live in Hull
and we haven't burnt anyone as a witch for nearly six years.
He was an MP there though
He was an MP there though and is now, according to his appearance on desert island discs this week, lord Prescott of Kingston upon hull. So it's not totally implausible that he might be up there from time to time for various formal punching duties, purely in a ceremonial capacity of course.
I have to say he came over as a really likeable sincere guy on that programme. I thought it was quite moving. But then, i was quite moved by the new muppets movie so that's not necessary a reliable guide for the average listener.
A pedant writes
... what I really meant was, like a lot of people who claim to live in Hull he actually lives in East Yorkshire. Doesn't stop him being an embarrassment to the city for ever more, as if we don't have enough to be embarrassed about already.
And once again I resent DiD for making me, at least temporarily, warm to someone that I don't like at all. The worst thing about awful people is that they don't even have the common courtesy to be awful all the time.
Except for Skeletor, of course.
I think it's more a case of
I think it's more a case of politicians proving to be quite likeable once they're free from power and Dont feel they need to watch what they say and do. Even the hideous cecil parkinson became almost likeable once he'd left office. Hard to believe if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. What that says about us and our culture is I guess debatable. But I think it's partly a case of the old adage - you get the politicians you deserve.
Agreed.
It's amazing how much more likeable Jacqui Smith is these days...
Quick! Leggit!
I tried to avoid that
I tried to avoid that thread. But in the interests of balance can I say how much more sexy john prescott has become since he ...-
No sorry, I can't finish that sentence and still keep down my dinner.
lovely man though, as I say.
Sutton
I thought he lived just outside Sutton?
He was at my 18th birthday party. Mind you so were a couple of hundred other people - it was at Westfield Social Club.
Actually Skeletor used to do lots of odd jobs for my Nan.
Great sense of humour too - he even helped her play a practical joke on that nasty old Mrs O Brien at number 46 by pretending to be The Grim Reaper..
And didn't he pick a Mahavishnu Orchestra track
on Desert Island Discs?
McAloonopolis*
The Prefab Sprout mainman keeps travelling back in time creating new realities in the hope that, in one of them, the song "When Love Breaks Down" cracks the top 20.
*It helps if you've seen the film, which you probably have not...
Peddlers on The Roof
Turtle-neck clad organ/bass/drums trio attempt to play live concert on a roof before The Police arrive and take over the charts.
Keddlers on The Roof
Topol attempts to persuade his recalcitrant family to stop tipping their chairs back at the table while eating al fresco on their new luxury balcony