Humans in a Shipping Container

[gwyn]

You know, I didn't think it was possible to get more prosaic than Snakes on a Plane for a movie title, till I started noticing ads everywhere for Lifetime's Human Trafficking. Beats the snakes, if you ask me.

Whatever happened to creativity? Whatever happened to the gerund phrase titles like Finding Neverland and Chasing Amy, or prepositionals like Into the Blue or In the Heat of the Night? Man, even loser action titles like The Eraser or The Island look good next to Human Trafficking.

(ETA: Sigh. I think I really, really need that red blinking neon that says I'm joking.)

Comments

[elina.livejournal.com]

But...Snakes on a Plane! That's genius, right there. It lets you know what you're gonna get: there's going to be a plane, and there are going to be snakes on it. And, if you know that Samuel L. Jackson is the star, you know that he's going to kick those snakes' collective ASS!

*g*

Sorry, I just love the unapologetic cheesiness of it all. :)

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know -- I was just kidding. I love Snakes on a Plane -- I even posited back when it was first talked about that Ice Cube will be the star of the sequel. I just think they missed the boat with Human Trafficking -- it really should be People in a Shipping Container or something like that. If they're not going the creative route, that is.

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Humans in a Shipping Container is better, imo. But then, one of my favorite pasttimes with my friends is coming up with excellent rock/punk band names out of conversation. My current favorite is Gross Median Pig Fatality.

[merricatk.livejournal.com]

The first thing I thought of when I read your title was my favorite line from ST:TNG. It's when Worf's wife...uh, girlfriend?...Alexander's mother! first shows up. She arrives in a Class A probe, & when she gets out, she says, "Whoever said getting there was half the fun never travelled in a Class A probe."

If it was my movie, I'd be tempted to go the ironic route & call it "Getting There Is Half the Fun." Or! We use your title & mine as the subtitle! What do you say?