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please explain the title....


can some one please enlighten me about the title of this movie. thankx.

Why couldn't you put the bunny back in the box?

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it's a play on the phrase catch 22.

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This movie is trying so hard to be something (as re-iterated throughout the forum by multiple other disgruntled viewers who lost 90mn of their lives and will have to work hard in reclaiming them through karmic balance) that it's bad even down to the title.

The title is based on Heller's book "Catch-22" which symbolically became the expression for stating a "no-win" situation. In the book, pilots could opt out flying bombing missions if they were battle-worn and unstable (therefore crazy). But if they asked to be grounded because of being crazy, it meant they were sane enough to really that they were crazy so they therefore had to fly their bombing missions. This was the original Catch-22.

The 12-yr old who wrote/directed this movie and the fool who produced it tried to be smart by making a stupid play on words with the Catch-22 phrase and doubling the 22 to match the .44 caliber of Magnum revolvers. Lame.

I never disrespect people who try to create, no matter the means, but this is just so obviously a case of some spoilt brat and friends who had enough cash to pay Oscar-winning actors to play in their movie and wasted the opportunity to just bite other talented directors' work and turn their virtuosity in films into cheap clichés.

I'm so mad, I can't believe I was such an idiot by not checking the reviews on this movie and assuming that Whitaker, Willis and Dourif would be enough of a guarantee of a quality flick...

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thankx for the explanation. really, i just watched it due to the big name attached to it !!!

Why couldn't you put the bunny back in the box?

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A little over the top, it certainly isn't as bad as your making out to be and there are far worse titles, keep things in perspective the world is still under your feet and turning. You had full choice to watch or to not watch this movie but if you feel robbed blame yourself.

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Good explanation bouquet, thanks.

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so true... just that i thought the 22 44 might be trying to symbolize the twice effect...

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