With a title this good, who cares what the movie is like?

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2006)

Lucky Number Slevin - or should I say Lucky Number S(upside-down 7 instead of an L)evin! That title is a triple threat work of unbelievable genius!
1) Slevin is the name of Josh Hairnett's character in the movie, so instead of SEVEN they have said SLEVIN!
2) 'Lucky number seven' is a well known gambling term, or something!
3) The icing on the cake! Instead of the L in Slevin, they have put an upside-down 7, a bit like what they done in that film Se7en, where they made the V a 7 instead of a V. Brilliant!
Wow, wow and thrice wow! Lucky Number S7evin (sorry, I can't do an upside-down 7)- it's so seamless that it almost seems like someone thought of the title first and then based the movie's plot around that. Someday all movies will be made that way!
Inspired by the wonderful artists who named Lucky Number S7evin, I've tried to come up with some more movie ideas that are based on putting the main character's name into a well known gambling phrase, and then changing one or more of the letters to numbers. Enjoy!
5nake'5 Eye5
Down on his luck Jack Snake bets $555,000,000 on a single gambling bet hoping to make a big win. When he loses the bet and doesn't have the money to pay he finds that he has 48 hours to raise it before the other gamblers that he bet against decide to take Snake's Eyes as payment! He needs those eyes to look at stuff!
Bet Your Bottom Do11ar
Frank Dollar has the best hand of poker cards that he's ever seen in his life - 10 kings! Out of cash, but sure that he can't lose, Frank decides to bet the one thing that his opponent wants more than money - one night of wild, uninhibited passion with Frank's ass. Unfortunately for Frank he's playing against Jimmy 'The Intruder' Jones, a man who likes to win! Jimmy reveals that he has a better hand (11 kings!) and Frank has just 24 hours to prepare his bottom and deliver it to its eager recipient.
Thehouse Always Win5
Life is pretty sweet for Dan Thehouse, he literally ALWAYS wins! But when Thehouse wins $5,000,000 at a gamblering casino he finds himself attracting some unwelcome attention from the local moblords! The mafia want their money back, they need it to buy the Don a birthday present, and they despatch the world's most ruthless hit-man to kill Dan and retrieve the loot. Will our hero be gruesomely murdered? Our will Thehouse's trademark luck hold out? The clue is in the title!
A Mi1lion To Oneshot
Dave Oneshot thinks that he has it made when he wins $1,000,000 in a high stakes scrabble match against notorious Irish gangster Tommy 'Triple Word Score' O'Flanaganerry. Dave takes his booty and runs, living a life of luxury on a yacht, but it doesn't take O'Flanaganerry long to work out that Dave was cheating! He was swapping his letters from the velvet scrabble-sack every time O'Flanaganerry stepped outside for a quick pint o' Guinness! Blinded by hatred, the word-game loving Irishman begins to plot his brutal revenge
Straight Flus4
Gary Straight is up to his neck in crap. Quite literally! Gary accidentally flushed his wallet down the toilet! Annoying in itself but as if that wasn't bad enough the wallet had $4,000,000 in it that he won at the greyhounds track! Gary hopped on the first bus down to the sewage works, and now he's wading around in excrement trying to find his dough! "Why did I have to go for the brown leather!" Gary is in a race against time to find his cash before some dishonest sewer-guy finds it and blows his wad with excitement!
Place Y0ur Bets Please!
Meet a gambler with a big problem - Simon Please is too shy to place any gambles! He has placed 0 bets! It's unclear why he even considers himself to be a gambler! One day Simon makes a wish upon a shooting star - a wish to overcome his shyness and finally be able to nurture his healthy obsession with gambling. When he wakes the next morning, Simon is shocked to find himself confronted with a sassy talking dog! Simon is reluctant to heed the dog's advice at first, but Mr Bow-Wow Woofington the third isn't the kind of pooch that takes 'no' for an answer, and soon he is barking an order at Simon that he simply can't ignore - "Place your bets Please!"
Okay, that's enough of that. Lucky Number S7evin! What a title! What a movie!
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