Terrible title!


Anybody else think this is a terrible title? It's horrible! (though the movie is ok)

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(That unexpressive English language!)

Translation of the name of the film in Russian sounds very well:

'MALISH i TOLSTYAK'.

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The real title (until a couple of years ago) was "The Shadowmakers" - like the guy who was turned into a shadow at Hiroshima? Then PC tossers had their way...........

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Wow! it's a great title - sinister, but good.

cheers for the info!

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No actually, this film was released to the theatres with the current title AS IS. Shadowmakers was apparently a UK release name... so if anything bitch at your local film distributors for not calling it by its correct name all along.

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Back in 1989 I went to Germany for a joint German-American-Soviet (er, 9 Ukrainians and one Czech). One of the Americans was nicknamed "Malish". And yes, he was.

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Fat Man and Little Boy were what the bombs were named that were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki..

Little boy was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945

Life is not tried, it is merely survived If you're standing outside the fire : Garth Brooks

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We know that already.The point is that the Political Correctness jerkoffs couldn"t handle its real title so they changed it 2 years ago after everyone knew it as "The Shadowmakers". They need a good slap.

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No, you need a good slap for pulling this out your ASS so completely and totally.

I saw this film way back in high school (soon after it came out on video) in a science class, and it most surely was called Fat Man and Little Boy back then.

How DARE you try to pull such a bold faced lie out of thin air.

What you are incorrectly construing as "PC revisionism" is merely calling the film by the same thing internationally as it has been known as ALL ALONG in the US.

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You"re living in a dreamworld.It was shown in the UK as "The Shadowmakers" and it had its slot here under the same name.I can"t prove it , because they"ve obviously changed all the headings on the IMDb.Your childish tone suggests it isn"t too long since you left high school where they didn"t teach you manners.Did they tell you what Revisionism is?

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dude... once again... this film _may_ have been called Shadowmakers in the UK but it sure as *beep* has always been called Fat Man and Little Boy in the USA.

As I said before... get a fricking clue. Don't whine and try to say it's revisionist when they're referring to the film by its REAL TITLE in the UK finally... bitch at your local distributors if you want, but don't come crying here acting as if they _changed_ the name of the film, which they DID NOT DO!

Manners have nothing to do with some "the sky is falling" schmuck who bitches before bothering to research what they're bitching about. If you had bothered to do even ONE google search you would have known what the real title was all along.

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And if you had bothered to be on the IMDb for more than a year you would know I am right "dude". You need to calm down. Putting your words in upper case letters and flinging abusive terms about doesn"t make you right.It simply exposes your childish mentality for everyone here to see.

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OK, now you're seriously asking for a spanking you little chav brat.

I've been using this fricking web site for _more than a DECADE_, something you certainly can't claim. Don't even begin to try and tell me about this site!

If you had ANY clue you'd realize that this film has ALWAYS been listed as Fat Man and Little Boy on the MAIN imdb site... if you were still using the UK mirror, well then of course titles on _that server_ reflect what local distributors sometimes choose to distribute films as in that given region.

However, you still would have seen that it had ALWAYS been listed under the alternate titles what the film has ALWAYS been known as in the US - you know, where the film was produced and first released. Which is why despite however many times you try and say "but it said this" you're not understanding the fact that you are CONFUSED and the official title for this film has __always__ been Fat Man and Little Boy.

There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. The only reason you're whiny at this point is because you made such a horribly innacurate statement, and when somebody who actually can read and has a working memory bothered to explain that your "revisionism theory" is no more than your local film distributor having used a different name for marketing reasons is finally using the ACTUAL name for the film, you went boo hoo.

It's not revisionist, it's simply a marketing schmuck in the UK who felt it needed to be called something else there _when it first came out_ why you think of it as "Shadowmakers" and apparently didn't know the real name. However to whine and whine and whine bitching like a little girl because you thought it was some sort of "conspiracy" when it was nothing of the sort just proves how little you read before posting.

Deal with it chav. Kiss my ring.

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"Yawn" .You bore me...

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Guess I"ll have to press the "Ignore" button again.Its been real.

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For what it's worth, I saw this movie back in 1989 in the US and it was indeed titled "Fat Man and Little Boy." I've always assumed it was given an alternate title in the UK because the names FM and LB wouldn't be as familiar to movie goers over there as they are to Americans. Not that they're household names, in the US either; but I'd guess that most Americans who have studied WW II history (a major target audience for this film) would get the reference.

I'm not sure what's so "un-PC" about Shadowmakers, anyway. I figured it was a rerefence to the atomic bomb casting a shadow over mankind . . .

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The term "The Shadowmakers" was a reference to the Hiroshima bomb which turned at least one man into a "shadow" by incinerating him in front of a wall and leaving a shadow of Carbon particles in the stonework,It also left the shadow of the metal handrail of a bridge etched into the concrete road.Probably the reason why you never hear the Bob Dylan song "Hard Rain" anymore,Its seen as glorifying war...

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In 1989 the film in the UK was trailered as The Shadowmaker. It release was delayed and then it crept out as Fat Man and Little boy.

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The problem with the film title is that many people would not know what it was about. I had this problem with the title Slaughterhouse Five. When I first saw it, I thought it was about a Rock and Roll group.

Actually I wish the bombs had been named Fat Man and Thin Man. The original uranium bomb was called Thin Man but they changed it to Little Boy for the final design even though Thin Man still was appropriate based on its shape vs the Plutonium bomb. I think they abandoned the Fat Thin name because it would have looked like a parody of Groves and Oppenheimer. Look at the picture of them standing together. The analogy is unavoidable.

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Thin Man was a different bomb design that was canceled. Little Boy was a gun type uranium bomb, Fat Man was an implosion type plutonium bomb. Thin Man was a gun type plutonium bomb design that was found to not be a workable design. This was alluded to in the movie, although the name isn't mentioned, there is a discussion why a plutonium gun design wouldn't work.

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Agreed terrible name for a movie...Makes it sound gimeckey.




I`d buy that for a dollar

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Same here. I can't believe the studio released it with such an awful title.

Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite...

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