P.Y.T.
― Vinnie, Monday, 11 January 2021 23:42 (yesterday)
Of course!
― 10percent Discocunt (jed_), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 02:07 (three years ago) link
why are little and big so essential to this weird phenomenon?
― 10percent Discocunt (jed_), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 02:17 (three years ago) link
Curb Your Enthusiasm Apathy
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 03:35 (three years ago) link
xp is it linked to :
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/sentence-order-adjectives-rule-elements-of-eloquence-dictionary
― Ole Blueyes Solskjaer (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 03:39 (three years ago) link
Big little lies is the worst of these, maybe the worst title for anything
― Yelp for gyros (wins), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 07:09 (three years ago) link
does Very Bad Things (1998) count as one of these?
― soref, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 07:54 (three years ago) link
Not the same thing but related is the kind of stupid gibberish titles that bond films and oasis albums have like definitely maybe, don’t believe the truth, the forgetting of memory, if tomorrow was yesterday
― Yelp for gyros (wins), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 07:59 (three years ago) link
Never Maybe Sometimes Always Things
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 08:01 (three years ago) link
I guess Bond titles like 'Live And Let Die' and 'You Only Live Twice' are the precursor to 70s detective show episode titles like 'Eat, Drink and Be Buried' (from the first series of Ironside) which have a similar precious/sinister thing as the 'pretty little X' stuff?
― soref, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 08:18 (three years ago) link
Like in force on the case, there was an ep called like “sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of murder”
― Yelp for gyros (wins), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 08:23 (three years ago) link
wins is mainly thinking, I infer, about the post-Fleming Bond word salad titles imo: Tomorrow Never Dies*, The World Is Not Enough, Quantum Of Solace, No Time To Die
* even more Oasis-like because it came from someone misreading a fax: the unused Pulp theme was still released as Tomorrow Never Lies
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 09:05 (three years ago) link
btw we tried to watch Tiny Pretty Things last night and it was so poorly written and acted we turned it off after 15 minutes, and we never stop watching anything no matter how dumb it is.
― akm, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
when i was a little kid watching all those bond movies on cable i often wasnt familiar with the idioms and familiar phrases those titles were tweaking and just internalized them at face value - it wasnt until years later that really dawned on me how many of them are complete nonsense
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
Fine Young Cannibals?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
LittleBigPlanet
― jmm, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
Little Big League
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
I just remembered that's both a movie and a band.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
littleBIGMAN
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
That hasn’t been posted yet?
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
John Crowley, Little, BigArundhati Roy, The God of Small ThingsLittle Big Town (band)Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
Oh great, HBO has a show coming just called "The Little Things". I'm going to boycott it.
― akm, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
Never Rarely Sometimes Always seems like a questionable title, but the scene where you find out what it refers to is the emotional high point of the film
― Dan S, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:52 (three years ago) link
Before I saw that movie I assumed the title referred to survey options.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 17 January 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link
I just came to post about my ambivalence to the second season of Big Little Lies and then I realized I’d forgotten the thread theme, so anyway.
Grateful Dead - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 18 January 2021 05:25 (three years ago) link
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 18 January 2021 06:00 (three years ago) link
thanks Zing
https://offtheshelf.com/app/uploads/2016/09/A-Million-Little-Pieces.jpg
A Million Little Pieces
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 January 2021 11:56 (three years ago) link
https://i.watch.cbc.ca/p/categoryThumbnails/8ff393e7-610d-4d42-b078-ff1049045e2d.jpg?impolicy=poster3x&imwidth=412
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:45 (three years ago) link
fuck sake.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:08 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCs1rkAXZ9o
― CumuloNIMBY (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link
Working title was apparently "Lady Dicks," so this may be for the better.
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:45 (three years ago) link
http://celebmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/kathryn-newton-the-map-of-tiny-perfect-things-poster-2021-0.jpg
― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Saturday, 13 March 2021 09:59 (three years ago) link
LMAO!
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Saturday, 13 March 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link
Wait what?
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 March 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-million-big-pretty-tiny-little-lies-everywhere
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 16 May 2021 07:30 (three years ago) link
watched this a few months back, it was not my choice, some interesting ideas in there i guesshttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjQ1MjM0OTE2Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzgwMDY4NzM@._V1_.jpg
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 16 May 2021 08:21 (three years ago) link
Bigby, The Littlest Big Dog in the World
― calzino, Sunday, 16 May 2021 08:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.reeloneent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/47736-_1_PRETTY_LITTLE_VICTIM_KEY_ART_V4-scaled.jpg
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Saturday, 28 January 2023 20:08 (one year ago) link
I saw an article about the upcoming TV series Tiny Beautiful Things and was like, didn't they make a show called that a few years ago? No, that was Tiny Pretty Things
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
This trend started with Little Bighorn
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.applewoodbooks.com/Assets/ProductImages/9781557095916.jpg
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
See also--
The God of Small Things (perhaps the book that kicked this off?)Small Great ThingsScrappy Little NobodyLittle EarthquakesTen Tiny BreathsShiny Broken PiecesTiny Dark SeedsEach Tiny SparkThis Tiny Perfect WorldThe Association of Small BombsThe Ministry of Utmost HappinessThe Dazzling TruthA Teeny Bit of TroubleA Teeny Taste of Scandal
Big Lies in a Small TownBright Shiny MorningThe Queen of Bright and Shiny ThingsEvery Shiny ThingNine Shiny ObjectsTiny Ladies in Shiny Pants
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
haha i was just thinking about this but i couldn't really articulate it, of course there's an ilx thread.
it is annoying.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Map_of_Tiny_Perfect_Things?wprov=sfla1
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:03 (one year ago) link
How many books have titles like this and the front cover is just large type white font with a background of interlaced CGI flowers
― omar little, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
All the Light We Cannot SeeAll the Bright PlacesAll the Dangerous ThingsAll the Stars and TeethAll the Birds in the SkyAll the Lovers in the NightAll the Little RaindropsAll the Broken PlacesAll the Breaking WavesAll the Pretty Horses, Young Dudes, President's Men, King's Men etc.
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 20:56 (three months ago) link
If Wayne Coyne ever wrote a novel (assuming he hasn't) it would most likely have Everything in the title, also some reference to wildlife - possibly, if not probably, birds.
― I saw three hippies saving a whale (Matt #2), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:04 (three months ago) link
I'm trying to put my finger on what it is that's so bad about these titles, it's like they have this profound genericness and forced ambiguity. The Thing of Objects. Everyone Watches When Nothing Happens. Sort of Raymond Carverish but with no emotion.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:44 (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I think it's annoying because it's attempting to make a connection between the small/specific/everyday and the infinite/cosmic/transcendent in a way that supposed to be profound, but it just ends up sounding banal most of the time? A bit like the 'dancing plastic bag' stuff from American Beauty
― soref, Monday, 25 March 2024 21:08 (three months ago) link
otm
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:28 (three months ago) link
they are exactly the opposite of a title as great as the ipcress file, they do nothing and intrigue the least interesting ppl
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:30 (three months ago) link
It’s an instant no from me, when I think about someone presumably labouring for a long time to produce a work of art & then having to come up with a title for it that will make anyone ever at all in the big little world want to read it, & then what they come up with is essential “idk little everywheres all around or whatever”, I just think whoever makes that choice simply cannot have possibly written a good book
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:42 (three months ago) link
agreed
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:57 (three months ago) link
Nothing About It Is Interesting
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:59 (three months ago) link
Every Book I Never Read
― H.P, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:10 (three months ago) link
Soref otm
― H.P, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:12 (three months ago) link
I think they work by being vague but also familiar, so that you have the feeling that you've heard enough good things already to warrant the purchase. "Oh yeah, Pretty Liars Everywhere, I think I've heard of that."
― jmm, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:31 (three months ago) link
All Things Are Too Small serves as comment on the whole phenomenon
― Alba, Monday, 25 March 2024 bookmarkflaglink
Hilarious that Rothfeld, who made her name writing about modernist masterworks, allowed her book to fall into this format lol
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:52 (three months ago) link
Small Lights Lie Everywhere
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 00:04 (three months ago) link
All the Little Live Things a really good, devastating 1960's novel by Wallace Stegner
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 00:09 (three months ago) link
pic.twitter.com/1QlU1wrhbd— John Levenstein (@johnlevenstein) March 26, 2024
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 02:03 (three months ago) link
How did we make it this far without anyone mentioning Eat, Pray, Love
We should combine themEat all the big little lies I never told you, pray everywhere in the house of ivy and sorrow, love all at once
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 08:48 (three months ago) link
overly long ones are next, lets say fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe as an exemplar
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 09:21 (three months ago) link
They combined the titles that’s crazy https://t.co/XhyCrw75qZ pic.twitter.com/tvvm7Px09o— Nick Stellini (@StelliniTweets) March 26, 2024
― Alba, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 10:04 (three months ago) link
All thesmall wives
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 10:22 (three months ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1435452849i/90619.jpg
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:31 (three months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Vf2vo2IqL._SL1200_.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:39 (three months ago) link
Remember all the book covers that were just, like, shoes?
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/817iFfLhJ+L._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg
https://books.google.com/books/content?id=M86PhpoehBAC&pg=PP1&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2B9KEeH3mVPMWU7HGtr5DdvQ0e8Q&w=1280
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link
if James Herriot were writing today, his book would be called Little Big Animals
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:51 (three months ago) link
All Creatures are Small
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:43 (three months ago) link
Dirty Sexy Money (2007)
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:48 (three months ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1387741079i/18079552.jpg
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:53 (three months ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1311978825i/8789529.jpg
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:56 (three months ago) link
xp The ad for Dirty Sexy Money started with a bunch of random words on the screen, and they disappear one by one until only "dirty" "sexy" and "money" remain. Probably exactly the way creators and execs come up with these half-assed titles
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:17 (three months ago) link
I wonder if the title for Dirty Sexy Money was inspired by this British TV movie?
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTY5MjIxODk2MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTgwOTgyMQ@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:24 (three months ago) link
Tell me lies, tell me Sweet Little Filthy Sexy Tiny Big Lies
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:53 (three months ago) link
Lionsgate has acquired the rights to ‘SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE’ starring Cillian Murphy.The film takes place over Christmas in 1985, when a devoted father (Murphy) discovers the startling secrets being kept by the convent in his town, and shocking truths about his own life too. pic.twitter.com/0SqxR3FW2T— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) June 5, 2024
― jaymc, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 20:13 (three weeks ago) link
startling secrets AND shocking truths? I'm in.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 20:16 (three weeks ago) link