EW.com readers and our staff have spoken.
The name of the movie?Better Nate Than Ever.
(Two subversions of an idiom in the same title!)
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Maybe we should whip up a poll and ask both our staff and readers what they think!
“A brilliantly silly title for a brilliantly silly movie,” raved staff writer Devan Coggan.
“Something likeJohn of the Deadjust doesn’t have the same ring to it.”
“But there’s no arguing with the cold, calculated perfection of the title.
He’s Santa, because of a clause.
With puns, as with contract law, the devil is in the details.”
There also was a fair amount of justice forPoetic Justice.
“Look at me: her name is Justice.
And she’s a poet,” says staff writer Lester Brathwaite.
“Maya Angelou, who actually wrote Justice’s verses in the movie, could actually never.”
In fourth place, only four percent of ushad to go see about1997 Matt Damon-Robin Williams dramaGood Will Hunting.
I never thought ofGood Will Huntingas a pun," stammered executive editor Patrick Gomez.
“It was always justGood Will Hunting.
How have I lived this long with that being the case?”
*Just Wright, in which Queen Latifah stars as just the character of Wright and no other character.
*You Don’t Know Jack, the Emmy-winning HBO biopic starring Al Pacino as death-supplying Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
*Hot Rod, featuring Andy Samberg as death-defying stuntman Rod Kimble.
*Gnomeo and Juliet, an animated film starring James McAvoy and Emily Blunt.
(Still waiting for the Halloween installment:Gnomeo and Ghouliet.)
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