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

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?

There must be dozens and dozens more.

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Seven Wives for Seven Brothers

Wasn't it "brides"?

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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.

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!

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?

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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

Please pardon any repetition.
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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.

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Ocean’s 11

. . . 12 and 13
Apollo 13
30 Seconds Over Tokyo

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Pi, made in 1998. Plot summary:

If that's a foreign film, then for the US we have American Pie.

THX 1138

Looks like ordinal numbers are fair game as well

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Fifth Element
The Sixth Sense

lThe Seventh Seal

Was that a Walt Disney?

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

And one of the better John Wayne movies (though a bit dated by today's standards):
3 Godfathers

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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

Then there are all the sequels to other movies, such as Rocky II, III, IV, and V ...

There's Billy Wilder's funny, Cold War comedy One, Two, Three with Jimmy Cagney.

300
The 400 Blows
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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...

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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."

See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1238846/

How about imaginary numbers?

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Urban Myth
That article also mentions Naked Gun 2 1/2.

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

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