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The Most Physically Painful Movie Title Ever

Posted by Brian Fairbanks


Like you, we're on every mailing list that could possibly tell us what's going on this weekend and presumably make us cooler than everyone else. Once in a while, this can backfire. Besides receiving over 900 e-mails per weekday, we often have to ask ourselves why we still subscribe to mailing lists from organizations that have no common sense...

"Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision" is a title almost too painful to type... and it's the name of a movie playing at Manhattan's Jewish Community Center on Tuesday. Ouch. Just check out the description below... our balls retracted violently at the mere mention of "cutting edge research." Ow. Ow. Ow.

Here are the rest of our nominees for most painful movie title in history. Can you think of other ones we may have missed?

  1. Octopussy
  2. Shaft Goes To Africa
  3. The Hudsucker Proxy (perhaps the next "Santorum," a.k.a. made-up dirty sex phrase?)
  4. Free Willy
  5. Bend It Like Beckham (We'd never heard of David Beckham when this came out, so we thought it meant... you know...)
  6. Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
  7. How To Stuff A Wild Bikini (insert imagined comment "I'd know how to stuff that bikini" here...)
  8. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (yuck-- we don't want to know what's in this obviously old-perv's closet) 
  9. and, for shits, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!

 And from the JCC e-mail:

Film: Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision

Dir. Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon (70 min, USA, 2007)
A new documentary examining male circumcision from a religious, scientific and ethical perspective. Using cutting-edge research, in addition to interview footage of rabbis, philosophers, and scientists, Cut challenges the viewers to confront their biases by asking difficult questions about this long-standing practice.
   
Tue, Mar 25, 7:30 PM
$8/$10,
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Comments

jwebster8 said:

You just listed all my FAVORITE movie titles, in the correct order at that!

Gigli is pretty painful, but mainly in hindsight.

March 26, 2008 4:37 PM

About Brian Fairbanks

Brian Fairbanks, the Senior National Political Correspondent for Nerve, is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn or New Orleans, depending on the season. He is a heavily-armed advocate of gun control.

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Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook will be published in fall 2008. Emily lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her cat, but just one . . . so far.

Brian Fairbanks is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker. He won the Williamsburg Spelling Bee once. He loves cats, women with guns, and burning books.

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