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Cat on a Warm Tin Roof
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Everything these days is hyped to the nth degree. I suggest we try to tone down this love of excess by coming up with books, films, plays and songs that are a bit more restrained.
How about, Audrey Hepburn starring in Breakfast at Starbucks
All Quiet on the Home Front
Before I forget it – Above-Average Balls of Fire
The Mediocre Escape
'SAll right
Ladder to Heaven - Led Balloon
The Nearly-New Testament
Drizzle Man
The Undergraduate
You came a long way from St Albans
The stallholder of Venice
The Deer Mouse Hunter
The Court Jester and I
Crouching Pussycat, Hidden Dragonfly
Annoyed Max
The Good Gatsby
On a Clear Day You Can See My House From Here
The Speedy and the Miffed
It's A Mildly-Eccentric, Mildly-Eccentric, Mildly-Eccentric, Mildly-Eccentric World
Dances With Pomeranians
The Appeasement of the Shrew
Apocalypse Soon
Possibly One Of The Greatest Stories Of The Last Two Millennia, Or Thereabouts
Very Pretty
Influence, Britannia
Mack The Spoon
Those Fair-to-Middlin' Men in Their Flying Machines
Gone With the Zephyr
To Mildly Maim a Mockingbird
The Texas Chainsaw Owner's Manual and Safety Guide
Towering Warm Spell
Stubbed Toe on the Orient Express
Oh What A Lovely Diplomatic Faux-Pas
The Mouse That Squeaked
Napping Attractive
Herbie Goes to Bingo
Relative Novices
Set Up A Meeting With Alfredo Garcia
The Man Who Knew Just a Little
For Whom the Bell Tinkles
Two Brides for Two Brothers
The Masque Of The Red Feathers
Those Adequate Chaps In Their Flying Machines
The Catching of Pelham 123
Around The Inner Ring Road in 80 Minutes
Heckraiser
The Credible Hulk
Brokeback Hillock
The Brook Runs Through It
A Tale of Two Hamlets
Vegeburger Hill
So-so Expectations
Passable Woman
The Poseidin Lark
The Quite Big Escape
Babette's Snack
The Englishman who Climbed Up A Mound and Came Down a Hill
Silent Protest on the Bounty
The Hitchhikers Guide to Wales
The Restaurant at the End of the M5
So Long, And Can I Just Say That the Fish Wasn't Very Fresh?
From Russia With Fondness
Heptapussy
Pebbly Balboa
The Cub in Winter
Annie Get your Slingshot
Normal Activity
Skirmishes and Peace
The Viscount of Tides
The Hunt for Red September
The Sorcerer's Apprentice of Oz
McKenna's Copper
Sois gentil avec moi Bit obscure, this one.
Bunfight at the OK Corral
Nurse No
Like Water for Bouillon
One Hopped Over the Sandgrouse's Nest
The Jungle Pamphlet
Octokitten
The Spy Who Was Fond of Me
200 Leagues Under the Sea
Multi-ethnic Christmas
Where Pigeons Dare
The Catapaults of Navarone
Not Exactly The Longest Day, But It Felt Like Aaaaaages!
Quite A Big Boat With Leonardo diCaprio and Kate Alsoranslet.
Not So Rowdy on the Western Front
The House of the Six Gables
Investigation of a Dodgy-Looking Citizen
The Day the Earth Slowed Down
Illegal Aliens in the Attic
The Partial Monty
Sex and the Suburb
Sisterhood of the Travelling Shorts
The Slightly Soiled Half-Dozen
The Phantom of the Operetta
Jesus Christ, Quite Well-known on the Messiah Circuit
The Very Good Seven
Priscilla of the Desert
Full Suede Jacket
Joseph and his Nice Grey Parka
The Maltese Finch
Raw Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe
A Streetcar Named "23"
Irked Max
Same Time Tomorrow Then, Mr Chips?
Perhaps Not The Greatest Story Ever Told, But It's Certainly Up There With The Best. Call It Third. Or Fourth If You Count "Avatar".
Who's Discomfited By Virginia Wolfe?
Born on the Third of July
Ill Met By Candlelight
Von Ryan's Shunter
The Damnudgers
Blade Jogger
Bored In The USA
Chartered Accountant of Dune
Biplanetary
The Accent of Man
The Utilitarian Objects of the Sierra Madre
The Seamstress Bride
The Boat That Bobbed About A Bit
Dr Maybe
Please Summon Mr Carter
Jog Lola Jog
The Sword in the Scabbard
A Man for Some Seasons
Buns in the Afternoon
How Green is my Dip
Last Man Lounging
Blake's 4
Silverfinger
You Only Live Once
Pearls are Forever
Just Before the Valley of the Dolls
The Credibles
[irach] You missed The Man With The Nickel-Plated Steel Gun
And I'd offer Cubic Zirconias are Forever.
Njarl's Anecdote
The Cotswolds At War
The Valliant Month-and-a-Half
On Her Majesty's Inconspicuous Service
The Monoble
Star Tiffs
"She Loves You (Not, Not, Not)"
Another Bond: Thunderhemisphere
And, of course, Heptopussy
Corporal Scarlet
One of the Greatest Shows on Earth
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
[UK] 'How Green is my Dip'? Like it! The cookery theme is an unexpected bonus.
[SM] Ta! :-) Daleks: Vacation Earth 2150AD
The Valley That Time Mislaid or The Valley That Tim Forgot
When the Vicars Go Marching In.
Mack The Spoon.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, please sit up straight for The Regional Anthem
Ferris Buehler's Hour Off
A Couple of Dalmations
Dozing Beauty
Snow White and the Three Dwarfs
I'll Tell You Who's Coming to Dinner
Angles And Denominators
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The M4
The Dallaglio Code
The World According To James May
I, Robert
The Flip-flops of the Fisherman
Little Shop of Scares
Dolphin Rider
Thunderbirds Have Gone
Indigestion On The Nile
Some Fuss Over Some Nonsense
The Cook And No-One Else
T. the Terrestrial
Somewhat Distant Encounters of the Second Kind
Lord of the Fleas
Octokitten
Batman For a While
The Dim Knight
Armadillos in the Mist
The African Dyke
Where Eagles Convene a Committee
Have a Jar
Jack the Sipper
Ahmed of Arabia
All the Vice-President's Men
A Passage to Indiana
The Sheilas dircted by Jock Strap
The Man Who Worked in a Bank in Monte Carlo
Puppy Day Afternoon
A Bridge Not Quite Far Enough
The Stepping Stones of Madsison County
The Affable Wives of Windsor
Hold Back Tears, the Beloved Country
Midnight in Nižnij Novgorod
You Make Me Wanna Speak A Little More Assertively
Henry IV Part I, Subsection (b)
Maybe It's Because I'm A Resident Of SE25.
From Here To Just Over There
Some Like It Luke Warm
Blow Warm Blow Cool
And the Band Packed Up Their Instruments
The Absent-Minded Tutor
James Cameron's Avatar has been toned back to The N'avi Lark
To Sir, With Nods of Acknowledgement
Ice Station Jackass
My Average Lady
I'm Not Bad, Jack
Cleaned-up Harry
Hidden textWe seem to be straying off topic here. How many of these are toned down versions of over-egged titles?
10,000 Leaves Under the Sea
Jesus Christ Support Act (Phil) I tend to agree. Hope this one will do. :-)
The Man Who Won A Few Quid At Monte Carlo
1 Year BC
The Good 4
Joseph and the Amazing Beige Cardigan. Thanks to the late Willie Rushton.
The Man Who Would Be In Burke's Peerage
Jesus Christ Fairly Well Known
Drizzle Man
Hamburger Helper Hill
The Thirteenth Chartered Accountant
The Boston Jostler
11:45 pm in the Garden of Good and Evil
Plan 8 From Inner Space
Spamabit
My Fuller Figure Greek Wedding
Intellectually Challenged and More Intellectually Challenged
Babette's Snack
Little Trouble in Little China
The Edgehill Sanction
The Edging Tool Man
Weetabix Reloaded
The Man With Two Red Shoes
Star Trek: The Colour Slide & Champion The Wonder Slug I can remember from one of the ISIHAC books
Kelly's Lads
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Canoodling (But Were Wary Of Asking)
Star Wars V: The Kingdom Strikes Back
Indiana Jones and the Penultimate Crusade
Ordinary Measures
The Okay, the Morally Questionable, and the Not Particularly Attractive
A View To a Flesh Wound
Gulag Island
A Room With A View Over The East Cheam Gasworks
Self Esteem and Subjectivity
To Eliminate A Mocking Bird
Camelittle
Wotcha, Dolly
The Seven Percent Problem
The Phantom of the Odeon
Mr. Smith Goes to Terre Haute
A Modicum of Trouble in Little China
At the New London Theatre, and well worth seeing – War Pony
He-Man, Master of the Universal Joint
Crime and a Slap on the Wrist
Fists of Displeasure
Dr Doonothing
Those Business Men in their Airbus 320s
Tickle On Precinct 13
Journey To The Centre Of The Room
Mad Max: Beyond Chunderdome
The Longish Day
The Human Loo
Percy Hood, Baronet of Thieves
Off the Road
Cider House Protractors
One of the Better Shows on Earth
A Nice Happening on 34th Street
One Hundred Minutes of Solitude
Love in the Time of a Common Cold
Like Water For Orange Squash
Old Moore's Fridge Magnets
What Women Say They Want
Monte Carlo or Not
The Charge of the Featherweight Brigade<
Blood Cubic Zirconia
King Solomon's Quarries
Romancing the Pebble
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Wolfenstein 3D
Star Ramble II: The Grumble of Khan
Hawk the Slapper
I Bought A Vampire Unicycle
Gnat on a Hot Tin Roof
Thousand Dollar Baby
A Reasonable Amount of Information About Eve
Birth of a Notion
Stairway To Devon
Missing In Acton
Single Indemnity
The Land That Time Sort of Recalled
Little Miss Partly Cloudy
In Golden Pond
The Lord Of The Rings: The CD Club Of The Ring
The Lord Of The Rings: To Tower Hamlets
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The Empties
The mini job
The Raisins of Wrath
The Bevel in the Crown
Sleepless In Settle
Nosferaone
Legally Bland
With The Bentfin Boomer Boys On Little Old New Chipping Sodbury
The Lost Buoys
Kickboxing Helena
Celsius 232 ¾
Wag the Puppy
The Bridge on Kwai Creek
Thatch on a Hot Thin Roof
Austin Powers: Local Man of Mystery
Crime and ASBO
So That's What Happened To Baby Jane
The Mild Boys
A Gift From Earth (Postage Due)
Patience on the River Kwai
Then there's that new multimedia extravaganza in what used to be the Millennium Dome, a fictionalized account of the evolution of soap flakes - OMO
Parole Willy
Partial Metal Jacket
Mars Invites Itself For Tea!
[Kim] *rofl*
The Outlaw Josey Cardiff
A Man Called Pony
A Streetcar named Desirée
The Name of the Tulip
The Runaway Bridesmaid
Brideshead Visited
Remains of the Afternoon
About a Girl - Sorry, ladies, it wasn't me - the devil forced me to do it. Honest, cross my heart and all that.
The Tram Children
Children of An Even Lesser Demi-God
The Witchfinder Brigadier
Knitting Circles of New York
The Land That Time Occasionally Overlooks
Carrying Miss Daisy
My Left Leg
No-Pulp Fiction
The Beast With Five Toes
When Worlds Miss Each Other
Prosaic Voyage
The Day The Earth Moved Rather Slowly
Air Force Two
Stop, Or My Mom Will Shout!
Alice in Notmuchcopland
Night Of The Living Dad
Average Gun
The Macrame Man
Two Flipflops for Sister Sara
Finnegan's Hospital Bedside
When Worlds Collude
The Texture Of Things To Come
It Came From Weston Super Mare
Midnight Local
Keeping a Vague Look Out for Susan
Mutiny on the Kit Kat
Torah, Torah, Torah.
Fun-Size Mars Attacks!
Keep Quiet, Don't Surface
The Parolee of Zenda
The Recount of Monte Cristo
Emmerdale Allotment
Most of the President's Men
The Lion In August
Scranton Story
Imitation Grit
The African Gender-Bender
Asteroid-struck
2001: A Space Outing
Planet of the Prosimians
You Only Live Once
Bill and Ted's Perfectly Acceptable Adventure
Le Raisonnable Destin d'Amélie Poulin
The Day of the Kit Fox
Partial Recall
I Have an Inkling of What You Did Last Summer
The League of Gentlemen
Altercation of the Titans
Badly-Injured Poets Society
The 3:10 to Yuma has been delayed and is expected to depart at 5:30
2012: Nearly Quarter Past Eight
The Day It Rained For Quite A Long Time
Time Considered As A Helix Of Cubic Zirconia
Aye, and Cleethorpes
The Stars In My Pocket Like Balls Of White Hot Gas
Driftgas
The Agony and the Slight Pleasure
The Penultimate Emperor
How About We Do This In July Next Year?
Is Watford Burning?
The Ballad of Cable TV
The Interminable Easter Sunday
Last Tango in Cynwyd
Homely Girl and the Beast
The Stroll of the Penguins
Hot from this year's Oscars, The Twinge Locker
Mr No, MSc
From Russia, With Fondest Regards
Okay, You Can Stop Now, Lola
Bladestroller
There Aren't Many Mohicans Left
Medical Student Zhivago
North by West Nor'west
A Tad Unpredictable, Behaviourwise
There's A Couple Of Other Niggles Concerning Mary
Realistic Expectations
Rebel Without Much Of A Reason
Goodbye Mr. Crisps
[irach] I saw the Spanish version of that one just the other day: Adios Senor Nachos
Reg Blattersly: My Part in His Downfall
Band of People Who Get On With Each Other, Mostly
Flash Gordon's Trip To Ma's
Robert Downey Jr. stars in Marvel's Corby Trouser Press Man
Before moving on to Sherlatch Shedds
Some Like It Lukewarm [SM] Que bueno. Como saber nachos de sabor Senor?
Maim Bill
I got nothin'
Alice in Slough
The truth About Kittens and Pups
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Sunderland
Mr. Smith Goes To Washing Room
There Aren't Many Samurai Left
The Penultimate Emperor and its prequels, The Antepenultimate Emperor and The Preantepenultimate Emperor.
Canoodling, Fibs and 8mm Cine
On reflection, that sounds more salacious than the original...
Was that the follow up to: Canoodling, Mild Stimulants and a Nice Bit of Mantovani?
There Aren't Many Temptations of The Christ Left
Never Cry Fox
The Somewhat Wavering Gardener
One Flew Over The Knacker's Yard
[irach] The Intermittent Gardener?
My contribution for today is RoboPCSO
The Unbearable Lightness of Helium
The "Dangerous Cliff - No Climbing" Signs of Navarone
The Day The Earth Slowed Down Slightly
The War of the World Tiddlywinks Championship
Village of the Decidedly Unpleasant / VT The Midwich Turkey Vultures
Dawn of the hungover
Das Provincialkapital
Das Raft
Das Lifeboot
Das Shoe
GBH on the Orient Express
The Ipcress Expense Voucher
Smiley's Rolodex
The Knitter of Panama
Tinker, Tailor
Magistrate Dredd
Doctorandus Who
Oh! What an OK War
The Daleks: Invasion Brighton 2010
The Da Vinci Code - by Gordon Brown
All right then,

David Cameron's

Avatar

I Am Rather Well-Known
Russell Crowe stars in Master or Commander
Principia Arithmetica
Ben Who?
Carrying on from Simon's myth, I give you...
The Imaginarium of Nick Clegg
Murder on the 10.48 Par to Newquay all stations.
Now that the Tories are back, wouldn't it be Murder of the 10.48 Par to Newquay all stations?
Flesh Wound on the Stoke-on-Trent Express
The Mirror Chipp'd A Bit On One Side
Pronoun
A Tale of Two Suburbs
Annie Get your Handbag
Just William Hague
Where Eagles Preen
Heckboy
Chiropterologist
Trouble in China
The Middleclasscats
Lady and the Tram
Chihuahuas on a Plane? Just imagine Samuel L Jackson saying "I've had enough of these motherf***ing chihuahuasd on this motherf***ing plane"
Cuboid
Animal Allotment
The Flat of the Seven Gables
Holocene Park
This lady came up with The Girl with the Temporary Dragon Tattoo, which I think is wonderful.
Lord of the Fly
Worry and Minor Dislike in Kansas City
Acula, MA(Hons)
The Large Cat, the Batty Old Lady and the Corby Trouser Press
Norwegian Ninja Which is real.
Rio Pequeño
Le Ladies (please tell me if someone gets this)
Good Expectations
Wicket Keeper
Wicket Keeper Begins
Wicket Keeper Forever
FGZ Nope, not me.
I intended it to be a play on Le Mans.
Beodog
The American Series
The TopFour League
Stairgate SG-1
Around the Block in One Hour
Oliver Slight Kink
The Name of the Daisy
He-Man, Master of the Unicycle
The Rumor of One Township
The Cruel Boating Lake
The Street Theatre of Dr. Lao
20 Centimeters Under the Puddle
A Chinese Goat Story
Audience
shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Simons Mith
The Mediocre Mid-Sized Whorehouse in Texas
Hidden textSorry, I had to when I saw this one and checked and it wasn't here in any form!
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