This title format that drives me bonkers - Big Little Lies etc.

Big Little Lies
Little Fires Everywhere
Tiny Pretty Things
Giant Little Ones (this film is actually pretty good, it's on Prime)

There's something so annoyingly precious/faux mysterious about it. How did it start?

when a daddy twee loves a mummy twee very much

the king of the format:

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haha

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Oh God yes I can't stand this formulation nor differentiate them

Little Big Women is an interesting one though as it works in a way that predates the current craze. Like, it could be both a pun on both Little Women and Little Big Man.

Did DIRTY PRETTY THINGS (2002) kick it off more recently?

Yeah thats what i thought of immediately

Pretty Little Liars

P.Y.T.

Pretty Little Thing is an online clothes retailer

Dirty Sexy Money

pretty tiny little fire things

Those are called matches, iirc.

yes it's a remake of the Little Match Girl

I suppose the blame might plausibly lie with Fleetwood Mac and their sweet little lies

P.Y.T.

― Vinnie, Monday, 11 January 2021 23:42 (yesterday)

Of course!

why are little and big so essential to this weird phenomenon?

Curb Your Enthusiasm Apathy

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

Big little lies is the worst of these, maybe the worst title for anything

does Very Bad Things (1998) count as one of these?

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

Never Maybe Sometimes Always Things

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?

Like in force on the case, there was an ep called like “sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of murder”

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

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.

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

Fine Young Cannibals?

LittleBigPlanet

Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy

Little Big League

I just remembered that's both a movie and a band.

littleBIGMAN

That hasn’t been posted yet?

Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy

John Crowley, Little, Big
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Little Big Town (band)
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Oh great, HBO has a show coming just called "The Little Things". I'm going to boycott it.

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

Before I saw that movie I assumed the title referred to survey options.

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

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

thanks Zing

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A Million Little Pieces