These were my contributions to the recent Twitter trend #DemotedMovies, where movie titles were altered to something less. These appear in chronological order rather than the reverse chronological order Twitter for the web likes so well. Some entries include comments.
- The Natural (with added ingredients)
- 5 Leagues under the sea
- The French Corporal's Cleaning Woman
- The cook, the thief, his wife, or her lover (Your Choice)
- Sprainedankle Hill
- It may or may not have happened, and if it did, it may or may not have been at night
- Field of daydreams
- Born on the First of July (RoyalCanadianAirFarce [The RCAF once presented a skit about this movie])
- 59 MIN.
- Fritz Lang's Suburbs
- Gun about halfway up to the Top
- Black Hawks Game
- The 3:10 to Yuma has been delayed and will be departing about 5:30
- Most of the King's Men
- Selective recall
- A room with a view of the garbage dump
- The story that will end in about 100 minutes
- Cat in a tree next to the hot tin roof (1 retweet)
- Anna and the customs agent of Siam
- The Mosquito Pond
- Licence to carry a concealed weapon
- Chariots of hot coals
- Any given Sunday, except for any the rest of this month
- Breakfast at Denny's
- To have not
- Double indemnity less a $5,000 deductible
- Midnight in the garden behind Pam's house
- North Dallas 35-E
- The Englishman who went up a hill and came down the other side of the hill
- 1490: Waiting for a sponsor
- The treasure of the Sierra Nevada
- The ballad of Cable TV
- West Fargo
- The second-to-last Boy Scout patrol leader
- Nothing interesting happened on the way to the Forum, why do you ask?
- Sweet Home at the Crystal Sugar plant in Grand Forks, North Dakota
- Almost out of breath
- Darn Tampa Yankees! (Gulf Coast League rookie ball)
- The Lion House at the Zoo in Winter
- Being John Doe
- Mr Smith goes to the County Courthouse
- Herbie gets an oil change (sequel: Herbie gets a tire rotation)
- The Bridge over the Chicago River
- Charlie's Angels tickets to see the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
- Retired, Tenured Poetry Critcs Society
- Black and white cats in color
- Time Magazine in a bottle
- To Wong Foo -- You dropped your library card -- Julie Newmar
- Breaking a bike chain
- Nightmare on 4th Street
- K-7 [in French, K-7 = ka-sept = cassette]
- Ugly in Brown
- American Graffitti Cleanup
- A passport from India
- The road to Dulles Airport
- 50 first dates with 50 different girls
- The cabin on the cattle ranch
- Direct deposit advice (Non-negotiable) [instead of a paycheck]
- A couple of unfortunate events that probably aren't connected(1 retweet)
- The Fifth Chemical Element: Boron [Bore on?]
- Master and Commander : The Lower Thames
- The Men who Milk Goats (1 retweet)
- Mystic Take-out
- Judo Koala (1 favorite)
- Driving Daisies and other FTD flowers
- Throw Momma a softball from the train
- Tootsie Roll
- The People of the State of California vs. The Fight Club
- Close Encounters with another automobile
- Swearing in the rain
- Saturday Afternoon without lights
- Lost on the way to Yonkers
- Stand anywhere you want, I don't care
- The hunt for Red Leaves in October (1 favorite)
- The not-so-great bicycle theft
- The Jazz Saxophonist who can't sing
- South Atlantic
- The W-Files
- Mad Max at Tropicana Field [previously known as the ThunderDome when the Lightning played there; 2 favorites]
- Spy Novelists' Kids
- Scent of a woman who's been working out for the last three hours (1 favorite)
- The night they raided the club next to Minsky's by mistake
- 10:00 PM Cowboy
- Sarah, Plain and not so tall
- The gun he hasn't bought a holster for yet [and that's why the gun is naked]
- Georgia Rules Committee
- Raiders of the Los Angeles Coliseum
- On the smelly part of the Waterfront
- The Bridges of Madison County, Illinois [where I-270 crosses the Mississippi River just north of St Louis]
- The Bachelor and the White Sox Game
- Starship Collectors
- Jakob the Forger
- Rear Window Defroster
- Mr Blandings mortgages his house
- Seven-story parking garage off Sunset Boulevard
- The address books of others
- The 45,003rd Man
- Some like it in the pot, nine days old
- Indiana Jones and the Last Sequel
- Becky
- No Heavy Metal for Old Men
- Life of Brian Williams
- Selenium and old lace (1 favorite)
- An Affair to Forget
- My second-favorite wife
- That touch of raccoon pelt
- The grass isn't growing on the other side of the fence, either (1 favorite)
- Strangers on a Trending Twitter Thread
- I confess, but I'll deny everything later because my lawyer's not here yet
- The Silence of the Plush Lambs
- The color Fuschia
- The Golden Parachute
- Blood-red synthetic ruby
- Seven years of red tape trying to get into Tibet
- He Got No-Game
- Finding a Forester [either in the forest or at a Subaru dealer]
- Plan 8 from the space research lab
- Falling to one knee
- Turk 179.99
- A river ran through it before they built that hydroelectric plant
