Funniest Best Picture Titles From the #OneLetterOffMovies Meme

If you've been following twitter recently, you've no doubt been bombarded with the latest meme to come down the virtual road: #OneLetterOffMovies.

This simple but catchy word game involves changing one letter for a movie title in order to give it an altogether different meaning; 'Gone With the Wine', for example, is one of the most popular and common entries from the thousands of participants, as is 'The Lizard of Oz'.

Of course, slogging through a half billion tweets to find the funny ones is probably a little more work than you'd like to do, so we went ahead and did it for you, with one change: we're focusing only on those films that were at least nominated for a Best Picture in either the Academy Award or the Golden Globes. Because making fun of bad movies is easy, but making fun of classic films is priceless.

Three years ago, Martin Scorcese finally won his first directing Oscar for 'The Departed'. @TQ182, among others, argued that had the authorities known of the impending gang violence that would follow, the Irish-American community depicted in the film might instead have become ... 'The Deported.'

'Citizen Kane' is considered perhaps the greatest film of all time. The fact that it centers on a complete egomaniac makes its new title perfectly fitting: 'Citizen Kanye.' @deadharvest was among the dozens of people who contributed this gem.

When 'Apocalypse Now' came out, director Francis Ford Coppola famously said that his film "is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam." Perhaps Coppola would have brought that same gritty realism to the barnyard had his movie instead been titled 'Apocalypse Cow.' [Via @johnwohn]

'Saving Private Ryan' was the moving story of a group of soldiers sent into enemy territory to rescue one random soldier. How much simpler would their task have been if instead they had been charged with 'Shaving Private Ryan'? [Via @andypsilon]

Twitter user @Alconcalcia is one of many who was likely scandalized and tittilated by the X rated classic 'Last Tango in Paris'. We have a feeling that even if the name had, in fact, been 'Last Mango in Paris,' the film probably would have been just as controversial. In fact, we think they may actually have used mango in one of those scenes ...

'The Deer Hunter' is a lengthy, moody contemplation of the effects of war on one average, working class town and the regular joes who live there. 'The Beer Hunter,' however, is something totally different. @brianmmattson is among the many who apparently participate in this daily American ritual.

Neil Simon's 'The Odd Couple' follows the lives of mismatched roommates who are obsessed with sports (Oscar) and cleanliness (Felix). Credit @Sprezzatura with the perfect new title for this pair: 'The OCD Couple.'

Generally speaking, there's nothing funny about moving Holocaust epics like Steven Speilberg's classic 'Schindler's List'. We're thinking that it's a good idea, then, that Spielberg didn't take @EricELawrence's suggestion to call it 'Schindler's Lisp.' That probably would have ruined the mood.

Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon lent their talents to the cross-dressing epic 'Some Like It Hot', consdiered one of the great comedies of all time. @AndrewStivers might be among those who were disenchanted when Jack threw off his wig at the end and shouted 'I'm a man!", because he suggested a new title: 'Some Like it Not.' Well, nobody's perfect.

Unfortunately, one of our favorites -- 'Couch of Evil' -- didn't make the list since it wasn't nominated for Best Picture. But it's not the only appliance in film; @Donwa2 has a suggestion for a new, more domesticized take on one Clint Eastwood / Meryl Streepclassic romance: 'The Fridges of Madison County.'


Read more about the #oneletteroffmovies meme at Urlesque