Anagrammed Movie Posters (2003)

added Nov 03, 2009 at 02:38AM UTC

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Anagrammed Movie Posters is a meme that involves anagramming and photoshopping skills. Basically, after a shooper creates an anagram of their desired movie’s title, they get on their way to alter said movie’s poster in such a way that it states their new anagrammed title using the original title’s font. They also usually have something related to the new title shooped into the poster to reflect the anagram better.

Something Awful

The meme first saw the light of day on the popular memetic hub, Something Awful, on April 10, 2003 as another one of the site’s photoshop contests for their weekly Photoshop Phriday.

The site did the same thing again on July 8, 2004 and July 4, 2008 but the meme didn’t spread elsewhere just yet.

Worth1000.com

On November 16, 2008, Worth1000, an image manipulation and contest website, held a photoshop contest with the same concept of anagramming movie posters though they did not get the idea from Something Awful. As stated on the contest’s rules, the idea came from a suggestion made on the popular news and culture blog Boing Boing, 3 days before the contest came to an end.

Boing Boing buddy Ape Lad points out that simple anagrams yield 18,258 better possible titles for the new Bond movie Quantum of Solace (which I can’t wait to see). Anagrams yield better plot points, too. Here are my favorites. A photoshopping contest for these movie posters would be fun:

This poster was the result of one of Boing Boing’s anagrams for the Quantum of Solace movie:

It was at that time that the meme gained some coverage on several sites including Buzzfeed, OldMovies.net, and Cinematical.

Anagrammed Video Games

Something Awful had also made anagrams for video game titles on December 15, 2006 and November 9, 2007.

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14 Comments

Chris Menning
Nov 03, 2009 at 02:45AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Just made a couple of minor tweaks to the phrasing.

I think this one is ready to be confirmed. But we’ll need a 2nd admin to turn his key.

Frketson
Nov 03, 2009 at 02:45AM UTC , Frketson wrote:

Excellent as usual Jostin.

PS. FIRST!!

Tomberry
Nov 03, 2009 at 03:37AM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

Ahem, more than anagrams, there are also tons and tons of parodied movies posters with everything in it.
I showed you a French generator on the topic that talked about it but there must be way more English ones…

Anagrammed movie posters has to be separated from that other kind of “global” parodies ?

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 03, 2009 at 03:50AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

@ Tomberry

I’m pretty sure people started parodying movie posters IRL way before they did on the internet. Movie Poster Parodies is no internet meme. In the case of Anagrammed Movie Posters, nobody had thought of the idea until 2003 on Something Awful forums, so it propagated on the internet and is thus an internet meme.

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 03, 2009 at 03:51AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

@ Frketson

Excellent derivative uploading, my friend!

Captain Blubber
Nov 03, 2009 at 10:56AM UTC , Captain Blubber wrote:

“turn his key”

heh heh heh.

Confirmed.

ILuVKDyEr
Nov 03, 2009 at 07:04PM UTC , ILuVKDyEr wrote:

This should have been submited eons ago. Nice job.

Jake Harman
Nov 03, 2009 at 08:08PM UTC , Jake Harman wrote:

It was insanely hard to keep from laughing out loud in class.

Hector Hessy
Nov 03, 2009 at 09:16PM UTC , Hector Hessy wrote:

that was a quick one..
niiiice

ninjaGnome92
Nov 06, 2009 at 02:44AM UTC , ninjaGnome92 wrote:

mama mia has an extra m in it.

Horseeater
Nov 07, 2009 at 01:23AM UTC , Horseeater wrote:

Actually, ninjaGnome92, the movie’s title is spelled “Mamma Mia!” So it does not contain an extra m.

Emperor Ethan
Nov 11, 2009 at 01:18AM UTC , Emperor Ethan wrote:

I just about died some of these were so funny.

Chi The Cat
Nov 14, 2009 at 02:56AM UTC , Chi The Cat wrote:

The trouble with this is I doubt it originated from the internet. MAD magazine has been doing these for years.

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 14, 2009 at 03:01AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

@ Jane

Nope. MAD Mag does make movie parodies, but they have never made movie anagrams. That’s what this article is all about. I’m pretty sure parodying movie posters has been done IRL far before MAD Mag was even made, so movie poster parodies are no internet meme. Thanks for your thoughts anyways.

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