Tuesday, 17 November 2020

Titles, taglines (and all that jazz) - Chapter 1

Previous instalments exist in an alternative timeline.

Hit & Run and The Simpsons: Hit & Run


Drive Hard and Drive Angry


Mercury Falling (Sting) and Mercury Rising


Hope to Die (James Patterson) and Left to Die


An Enemy to Die For and An Affair to Die For


Paperboy and The Paperboy


Herzog Zwei and Panzer Dragoon II Zwei


Z.W.E.I. (Soulcalibur V)
Formalities over. Cue the mayhem.

Shame the Devil
You lie. You die.
Dead Silence
You scream. You die.
The Master is synonymous with Doctor Who.

Character is also a much lauded 2012 psychological drama starring Joaquin Phoenix, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.

And.

Master (Battle Arena Toshinden 2)
On we go.

Byzantium
Beautiful. Seductive. Deadly.
Cat Run
Beautiful Sexy Deadly
Never Say Never is a song by The Fray.

Never Say Never Again is a track by The Bee Gees and Sean Connery's final on-screen appearance as 007.

R.I.P. Sir.

Guess what?

Neverdead and Neverlake


Nevermind (Nirvana) and Nevermore¹ (Paul Gauguin)


¹Final album from band of same name was The Obsidian Conspiracy.

Nevernight (Jay Kristoff) and Neverout


Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday and Alice Cooper Goes to Hell

Creators of 1985 Spectrum maze horror Go to Hell literally reproduced artwork.
No Rest for the Wicked (Ozzy Osbourne and New Model Army)


Oh, album(s) is a track by Saxon.

The Frighteners
No Rest for the Wicked.

No Rest for the Living is an expansion pack when Doom II was released on Xbox Live Arcade and Ain't No Rest for the Wicked forms part of Cage the Elephant's eponymous debut.

Storage
The deeper you go the darker it gets...
Mine Games
The deeper you go the darker it gets
Nightcrawler
The closer you look the darker it gets

Torneko and Star Ocean are The Last Hope for respective franchises.


Going further.

Chappie
Humanity's last hope isn't human
Dark Universe
The last hope for mankind
Pain is so close to pleasure.

Agony² (1992)
²When Dimmu Borgir album StormblĂ„st was originally released in 1996, then-keyboardist Stian Aarstad infamously plagiarised Tim Wright's theme for the track Sorgens Kammer.

Song was subsequently left out when album was re-recorded in 2005.

Agony (2018)
Now for learned friend.

Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy is adapted from short The Undefeated featured in novel Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.
Combining both.

The Agony and the Ecstasy³
³Partly adapted for 1965 film of same name.

Fans of Pokemon will have played X and Y on 3DS.

x&y (Coldplay) and x + y


You've heard of psychological law enforcement tactic 'good cop/bad cop', right?

Nice one.

Good Cop and Bad Cop

War on Everyone
Bad cop. Worse cop.
Bon Cop Bad Cop
Liam Neeson has a split personality in The Lego Movie.

Namely, Bad Cop/Good Cop.


This is quite odd.

The Bye Bye Man
Don't think it. Don't say it.
Evil Dead
Don't say it. Don't write it. Don't hear it!
Eric doesn't heed written warnings inside the Naturom Demonto and utters the incantation "Kunda... Estrata... Montose... Conda..."
Hmmm.

Girls Will Be Girls
Powder Room
Girls will be girls
What's this?

Viewtiful Joe
In this clever spoof of The Sting, Capcom reimagine 1973 classic as His Master's Dance (itself a play on His Master's Voice).
Anyway, Boys will be boys.
Awesome stuff.

Lights, Camera, Action! is a song by American rapper Mr. Cheeks.

The Last Showing
Lights... Camera.. Murder!
The Task
Lights. Camera. Death.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!
Animaniacs: Lights, Camera, Action!
The following wish to remain anonymous.

I respect that.

The Man With No Name Trilogy
The Sword With No Name
The Boy With No Name (Travis)
The Man With No Face
Mystery Places: The Town With No Name
Town With No Name
Buried within the Grail diary in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a map with no names.

Resident Evil
Survive the horror
Survive the Night
The Purge
Survive the night
Sick: Survive the Night
Dolph Lundgren starred in Welcome to Willits (a feature-length version of Welcome to Willits: After Sundown), which was renamed Alien Hunter on DVD.

Check out tagline.

They haven't come in peace.
Although completely unrelated, slogan is eerily opposite to title of 1990 sci-fi yarn I Come in Peace (aka Dark Angel).

Guess who played Det. Caine?

Yeah...

Two more.

Extraterrestrial
They do not come in peace
Man Vs
It has not come in peace
Next up, a cheeky trope.

The Butcher
Rest in pieces
The Final Destination
Rest in pieces
Life in Pieces is a TV series, and on a more light-hearted note:

The Lego Movie: The Second Part
They come in pieces
And.

Inbred
They came in peace...
They left in pieces
It Happens! is the first story of The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror 23.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Dyson's computer monitor is labelled bit happens.
CHiPs⁴
Chip happens
Based on Rick Rosner's TV series of same name.

Life Happens (Candi Station)
Love Happens
Sharknado 2: The Second One
Shark happens!
Stretch
Shift happens.
22 Jump Street
25 Jump Street: A Semester at Sea is one of the many fake posters featured during end credits sequence.
Don't like it? Ship happens.
Finally, an iconic line by Gold Tooth in Predator 2.

But you know what? I tell you what I believe: shit happens!
(Nods in agreement).

Until next time.

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