Movie Tagline Quiz: Match the Tagline to the Film

Alien (1979)

Fun fact: This tagline was written by Barbara Gips at the advertising agency Frankfurter, Gips & Balkind. It's been voted the greatest movie tagline of all time in multiple polls. The line is also scientifically accurate — sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space because there are no air molecules to vibrate.

Jaws 2 (1978)

Fun fact: This tagline is so famous that many people think it belongs to the original Jaws (1975). The original film's tagline was actually "Don't go in the water" — much simpler but less memorable. The sequel's tagline has been parodied thousands of times in marketing for everything from horror films to cleaning products.

The Fly (1986)

Fun fact: This phrase has become so embedded in the English language that most people don't know it originated as a movie tagline. Geena Davis actually says the line in the film. David Cronenberg's remake of the 1958 original starred Jeff Goldblum in what many consider the greatest body horror performance in cinema history.

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Fun fact: Frank Abagnale Jr., the real con man played by Leonardo DiCaprio, successfully impersonated an airline pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer — all before turning 21. He passed $2.5 million in forged checks across 26 countries. After serving prison time, the FBI hired him as a fraud consultant, where he worked for over 30 years.

Ghostbusters (1984)

Fun fact: Ray Parker Jr.'s theme song, built around this tagline, was so catchy that Huey Lewis sued for plagiarism, claiming it sounded like his song "I Want a New Drug." The case was settled out of court. The Ghostbusters phone number (555-2368) received so many real calls that it was eventually disconnected.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Fun fact: Steven Spielberg didn't use a storyboard for the 27-minute D-Day opening sequence — he wanted it to feel chaotic and unrehearsed. Veterans of the actual D-Day invasion said it was the most realistic depiction of combat they had ever seen. The Department of Veterans Affairs set up a special hotline for veterans traumatized by the film's realism.

Fight Club (1999)

Fun fact: The soap motif is central to the plot — Tyler Durden makes soap from human fat stolen from liposuction clinics. Brad Pitt and Edward Norton actually took soap-making classes for the film. The three-word tagline perfectly captures the film's escalating chaos while the word "soap" adds an absurd twist that matches the film's dark humor.

Armageddon (1998)

Fun fact: NASA uses this film in its management training program — not as an inspiration, but as a cautionary example. They reportedly identified 168 scientific impossibilities in the film's 150-minute runtime. Ben Affleck asked Michael Bay why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than to train astronauts to drill. Bay told him to shut up.

Fargo (1996)

Fun fact: Despite being set in Fargo, North Dakota, most of the film takes place in Minnesota. The Coen Brothers chose the title "Fargo" simply because they thought it sounded better. The wood chipper scene was inspired by a real 1986 murder case in Connecticut where a man disposed of his wife's body in a wood chipper.

Titanic (1997)

Fun fact: This was one of several taglines used for the film. Another was "Nothing on Earth could come between them" — a clever double meaning referencing both the love story and the iceberg. The film held the record for highest-grossing movie of all time for 12 years until James Cameron broke his own record with Avatar in 2009.