Over at Vocabulary the "Terms with Numbers" thread inspired a thought about movie numbers (that is "films," in British).
How many more can we add?
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Two of a Kind Three Weddings and a Funeral 3:10 to Yuma Four Musketeers Five Easy Pieces Se7en Seven Samurai 8 10 10 Things I Hate About You Ocean’s 11 Twelve Angry Men Friday the 13th 13 Going On 30 Fourteen Hours 15 Minutes 16 Candles 21 Grams 24 25th Hour 39 Steps 101 Dalmatians Farenheit 451 1001 nights 1776 2001 2010 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Million Dollar Baby
RJA
September 04, 2008, 05:21
Valentine
Off the top of my head:
The Magnificent Seven The Dirty Dozen Stalag 17 8 1/2 One Million Years BC PT 109
and wasn't there an X wives for X somethings?
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September 04, 2008, 05:28
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Seven Wives for Seven Brothers
September 04, 2008, 07:13
BobHale
Wasn't it "brides"?
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
September 04, 2008, 07:23
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Wasn't it "brides"?
Perhaps at one time but then they became harridans ..... excuse me, wives.
You're right, Bob. That came off the top of my head. I didn't check any books and Val's "wives" stuck. Considering the movie is about 50 years old, I think I came pretty close.
September 04, 2008, 08:17
Hic et ubique
What a fun movie! I think I'll rent it this weekend.
Where else would you find countrified hicks break out in a rousing song about the Rape of the Sabine Women?
Tell ya 'bout them sobbin' women who lived in the Roman days. It seems that they all went swimmin' while their men was off to graze. . . .Well, a Roman troop was ridin' by . . .And saw them in their "me oh my", . . .So they took 'em all back home to dry. Least that's what Plutarch says.
Them a-woman was sobbin', sobbin', sobbin', fit to be tied. Ev'ry muscle was throbbin', throbbin', from that riotous ride. . . .Oh they cried and kissed and kissed and cried . . .All over that Roman countryside . . .So don't forget that when you're takin' a bride. . . . . .Sobbin' fit to be tied . . . . .From that riotous ride!
September 04, 2008, 12:05
Robert Arvanitis
Valentine's fraction reminds me to include 9 1/2 Weeks.
Does this mean we've leapt from integers to rational numbers?
Are there in fact irrational movies?
RJA
September 04, 2008, 12:56
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There must be dozens and dozens more.
Forty-second Street 15 Malden Lane 52nd Street 13 Rue Madellaine 711 Ocean Drive 99 River Street Ten North Frederick 13 West Street 10 Rillington Place 11 Harrowhouse 84 Charing Cross Road 102 Boulevard Haussman 29th Street 1900 1918 1984 Terror from the Year 5000 Panic in the Year Zero Invasion Earth - 2150 AD One Million BC (First 1940 version) Summer of ‘42 Dracula AD 1972 Class of ‘44 Class of ‘63 1941 Class of 1984 1990: The Bronx Warriors 2010 ‘68 Class of 1999 1871 The Spirit of ‘76
Not to mention those such as this:
You Only Live Twice Once Bitten
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September 04, 2008, 13:16
Valentine
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Are there in fact irrational movies?
Pi, made in 1998. Plot summary:
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
And there was a TV series called Magnum, P.I.
September 04, 2008, 13:30
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Ocean’s 11
. . . 12 and 13 Apollo 13 30 Seconds Over TokyoThis message has been edited. Last edited by: <Proofreader>,
September 04, 2008, 13:36
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Pi, made in 1998. Plot summary:
If that's a foreign film, then for the US we have American Pie.
September 04, 2008, 16:48
Myth Jellies
THX 1138
Looks like ordinal numbers are fair game as well
Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Fifth Element The Sixth Sense
Myth Jellies Cerebroplegia--the cure is within our grasp
Here are tonight's movies on cable locally (and probably nationally):
The Cheetah Girls: One World Single White Female One Way Passage Two For the Money
Just thought of one of the worst movies: Three Amigos
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September 04, 2008, 20:35
Myth Jellies
Mentioned to my wife how we had cardinal gaps with six and nine, and she riffed off the following...
6 Days 7 Nights 9 Months 9-1/2 Weeks
and how can we forget
8 Heads in a Duffle Bag
I mean that movie is nothing more than the title
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September 05, 2008, 10:32
arnie
Then there are all the sequels to other movies, such as Rocky II, III, IV, and V ...
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
September 06, 2008, 08:50
zmježd
There's Billy Wilder's funny, Cold War comedy One, Two, Three with Jimmy Cagney.
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
September 06, 2008, 11:36
Valentine
300 The 400 Blows 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
September 06, 2008, 19:27
Robert Arvanitis
Alas, the numbers continue to demand attention, just as in the Jim Carey flick "23."
Then there's the nearby "28 Days" and the somewhat longer "28 Weeks Later."
Not to mention the "Saw" series, which unlike "Rocky" used Roman rather than Arabic numerals.
Finally, there was the truly unfortunate re-naming of "The Madness of King George III." They removed the III, lest American audiences think they missed I and II. No clue about counting of monarchs. Or perhaps that's just an urban myth...
RJA
September 07, 2008, 04:57
Robert Arvanitis
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Pi, made in 1998.
Valentine replied brilliantly to the question on irrational movies.
But of course Pi is also a transcendental number.
There is a new film in production now which is "merely" irrational, "The Square Root of 2."
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
September 07, 2008, 06:37
Valentine
Urban Myth That article also mentions Naked Gun 2 1/2.
September 08, 2008, 18:32
Robert Arvanitis
Is Wordcraft covered, in case a thread like this induces a certain...mania in members?
I'm beginning to seek qualifying titles everywhere...
10 Items or Less Shrek the Third 48 Hours Murder 101 12 Monkeys U-571 (especially interesting, since prime) House of 9 The 10
RJA
September 09, 2008, 05:44
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Flight 93 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Seven Samurai
Academy Award Nominees Henry V Seventh Heaven The Seventh Cross Miracle on 34th Street It Happened on Fifth Avenue Twelve O’Clock High Mr. 880 Million Dollar Mermaid Three Coins in the Fountain The Seven Little Foys Around the World in 80 Days Three Faces of Eve The Defiant Ones Butterfield 8 Seven Days in May A Thoussand Clowns Anne of a Thousand Days One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest It Happened One Night