Ya'll know I'm a dork for numbers, almost as much as I'm a dork for words and hearing the sound of my own voice.
The movie "21" ads on TV got me thinking. How far can you go, sequentially, with movie titles that have numbers in them, before you find a number that isn't included in a movie title? (No fair counting numbers in sequels, like Rocky III. And only fairly mainstream films ... no short films, or obscure foreign flicks, or horrible indy films that only the director, cast and families of those involved have ever seen.)
Well, using the power of the internet - namely IMDB, Allmovie, and Amazon's DVD Marketplace - I think I found the answer:
One Armed Boxer
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Three O’Clock High
Four Rooms
Five Easy Pieces
Girl 6
Seven
Eight Men Out
The Whole Nine Yards
10 Things I Hate About You
Ocean’s Eleven
Twelve Angry Men
Friday the 13th
Fourteen Hours
15 Minutes
Sixteen Candles
Number 17
18 Again!
K-19: The Widowmaker
Twenty Bucks
21
Catch-22
The Number 23
The Twenty-Four Hour Woman
The 25th Hour
... and there is no 26!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Number movies
2 comments:
Didn't they make a movie version of that old Fox show 21 Jumpstreet but set it five years in the future? I thought it was 26 Jumpstreet?
Heh. No. And I can't believe I had to look that up for myself before I said that. You know, I hear that they took "gullible" out of the dictionary, too.
But, once you get past 26, you wanna know what the next number is that doesn't appear in a movie title?
27 Dresses
28 Days Later
Track 29
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
... and there is no thirty-one!
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