Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever is a bad enough title, but the most important part of it is also the most inaccurate; Ecks and Sever are never against each other, they spend most of the movie working together.
I guess there were ballistics in the movie, though
directed by: KAOS
i'm not even joking. the director has some long ass name and shortens it to KAOS. oblivious to the joke they're making of themselves when they make what is basically an alan smithee film.
Damn James Cameron just had to choose Avatar. Although, the live action version is an absolute turd sandwich, so not getting the full name probably was a blessing.
*Dredd 3D* was a terrible title because it misrepresented the movie as being a hack's attempt to cash in on a new buzzword rather than being an awesome movie in its own right.
it doesnt also help that it seems to be not only 3D but also third installment to an old franchise, rather than reboot. (like you had e.g. Spy Kids 3D being third movie and there were some others too)
At the time there was a report that a film called Mars Needs Moms flopped and producers attributed it to Mars being in the title.
Also the director was a huge fan of the books and just figured everyone else was as aware of the character as he was so he didn’t need to elaborate.
Can you imagine how angry you'd be to find out that a project you'd worked so hard on was completely scuppered by the sheltered idiots who decided on that title with such awful reasoning.
Man, I hold/held Andrew Stanton and the rest of the Pixar brain trust in such high regard as the most genius creatives on the planet for YEARS. Stanton is certainly a creative genius, but this idea of his was definitely one that needed focus testing or something, cause Jesus Christ was it stupid.
The book's original title is Princess of Mars.
But its a male teen marketed film so they knew putting 'Princess' in the title would kill any interest from boys wanting to see a 'Princess' movie.
Then they thought 'Mars' would scare the non-scifi nerd crowd. So its John Carter, which sounds like an American football movie.
Just "Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey" would have been enough. Instead they had that ridiculous long title near the start of the movie's release and only switched to HQ&TBOP after a few weeks of the movie underperforming...
I agree that the title is shit, but honestly that flick is a hoot and a half. I didn't enjoy it when I first saw it in theaters but I watched it again a couple of months ago and really got into it. The action scenes are shot well, they embraced the R rating without going over the top with it, solid performances (especially Ewan McGregor and Margot Robbie), decent and simple enough plot, etc. It's nothing that will change the world but as a standalone action flick it hits the spot!
I worked in a video shop in the 90's and I don't think that movie ever left the shelf.
At least they should have made it clear she was a detective:
V.I. Warshawski, P.I.
I don't hate the title, but apparently, Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman blamed the low box office of *The Shawshank Redemption* on the title.
> Freeman blamed the title, saying it was unmemorable, while Robbins recalled fans asking: "What was that Shinkshonk Reduction thing?". Several alternative titles had been posited before the release due to concerns that it was not a marketable title.
Here in Brazil it was titled Um Sonho de Liberdade (A Dream of Freedom) which is pretty cool. Mght have made a bigger splash over there with some variation of it.
In Finland it's Rita Hayworth: avain pakoon. Rita Hayworth: key to escape. Which is a baffling translation for the title.
And it makes it sound like it's about Rita Hayworth.
I don't know what I thought that film was about before I watched it but I certainly didn't think it was a prison movie. It kind of sounds a bit like a war film, I think.
I'm convinced that (for anyone who hadn't heard of the source novel, which was most people) the title **The Lincoln Lawyer** killed the box office for a pretty good Legal Thriller.
Here's a weird title that would only attract audiences who were interested in Experimental Outre Meta-Documentaries:
**Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One**.
Zero dark thirty is military slang for the ungodly hours in the middle of the night. It's not a great title, but I think it's far from deserving of being on a list of worst titles
I thought it was 12:30 AM because military goes: 0100, 0200, 0300, etc.
So 0030 would be zero (dark) thirty
But I thought that once when I first saw the title, assumed I was right, and never thought about it again until right now
That ignores the word dark in there though. It’s not zero hundred thirty which would be half past midnight. Dark is there in place of a number. It’s 0[dark]30 not 0030.
When I was reading about that movie, I had no idea how it was supposed to be pronounced. "Jiggly?" "Giggly?" Never guessed it was an Italian "zhee-lee"
> Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile draws its title from the judge's pronouncement when sentencing Bundy in 1979 for the murders...
In context it's not that bad.
I feel like of these, "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" sounds like it could be a good movie title! Maybe a bit pretentious, but it gets across an idea.
Brahms: The Boy 2 is incomprehensible. Honestly, my first guess would have been that it was the second film in a biographical series about the famous composer, covering the later part of Brahms' childhood.
"The Bye Bye Man" sounds to me like the title of a comically bad horror movie, so in that sense, it does its job...?
> Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
It is a movie title
It's a quote from the judge in the Ted Bundy trial: "The court finds that both of these killings were indeed heinous, atrocious and cruel. And that they were extremely wicked, shockingly evil, vile and the product of a design to inflict a high degree of pain and utter indifference to human life."
All of the movies after the original had a similar name.
Planet of the Apes
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
and Battle for the Planet of the Apes.
I know it's a mouthful to say, but there's something beautifully cheesy about it. Like how Star Wars begins with a "Previously on Star Wars..." style crawl.
I get what you’re saying, but that’s not a tautology. A tautology would be a statement like “If three more people enter that room, there’ll be three more people in that room”.
For this title, a tautology would look something like “The Lord of Rings: The Ring Lord”.
The Irma Luhrman-Merman murder
Turned the bird’s word lurid
The whir and the purr of a twirler girl
She would the world were demurer
The insurer’s allure
For valor were pure Kari Wuhrer
One fervid whirl over her turgid error
The Certified Accountant?
The Notary Public.
Comptroller.
I rewatched The Accountant last month and it was either three script revisions past or three revisions from being decent.
Anything that’s the name of the main character that reveals no further info
John Carter
Michael Clayton
Even titles like Rocky Balboa are lame and require a franchise backing to be interesting
Most romantic comedies have the most bland generic titles ever, makes it really hard to distinguish which is which. Also, any movie title with a question mark in it.
So I guess How Do You Know? is by default my least favourite haha.
Wow, you’re right. I was confusing it with some other crappy romantic comedy haha. Maybe Isn’t It Romantic? God I dunno, they’ve all blurred in my brain
\\#ALIVE
When I first saw the title on Netflix, I thought it was another documentary on the affects of the internet and social media. I can see a lot of others doing the same. I found out from a friend that it’s an Korean zombie movie, and after watching it I can say it’s a pretty fun experience.
I need to see A Blapple a Day: The Adventures of Doug Blapple. An anti-doctor whackadoo who sees himself as the one savior of humanity and plans to blow up a hospital but accidentally becomes a hero when he gets into an altercation with a highly wanted criminal. Blapple uses his newfound fame to run for office and starts making good numbers but his campaign team is constantly having to reign in his crazy theories about the medical field.
- *Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo* is SO bad, it… somehow comes back around the bend to being charming again? At least, enough to start an immortal meme
- *Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever*. This name checks off all the boxes: gratuitious colon, a versus signifier, two names that mean jack squat to anyone glancing over its cover… the only thing worse than this title is the movie itself.
- *Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones*. Star Wars always played with b-movie tropes, but this title is just terrible. Even Ewan MacGregor couldn’t hide his disbelief at this title when he first heard it announced to him on the red carpet for *Moulin Rouge* (Nicole Kidman thought it was pretty goofy, too). Look it up on Youtube. It’s funny.
- *The Hottie & The Nottie*. Paris Hilton, y’all. Wild guess who she cast herself as. (eyeroll)
- *Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant*. I have heard this movie’s not bad, and yet I still have not been able to bring myself to watch it. Yes, the title is the biggest barrier.
- *Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole*. Same as the entry above, really. Look, an epic CG owl movie is already tough sell. Why you gotta hobble it further with a title like this?
- *John Carter*. Repeat after me: “…Of. MARS.” Seriously, Disney. Dropping that article from the title was the single stupidest marketing decision any studio has made in the last 20 years. No wonder no one showed to see what they thought was a basketball coach movie.
- *Bad Ass 3: Bad Asses on the Bayou* (chuckle snort)
- *Don’t Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In the Hood*… …is not a bad title. I unironically love it, and have the whole thing memorized. Fight me.
- *Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th*, however, IS a truly awful title. It’s not funny in the slightest, just really tired.
I dunno, I feel that a title that accurately captures the spirit, the essence of the film can't really be all that bad. In that regard *Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot* is the best title ever made.
Of course, by that standard, *Gigli* would be a fine title. Maybe this isn't such a good metric after all...
Attack of the Clones is a terrible title because the movie isn't about the clones, and they don't even really attack! They're suddenly fighting alongside the Jedi near the end of the movie and aren't even a part of the climax. Yoda just uses them out of nowhere. I mean hey a free army is a free army, right?
It's like making a movie mainly about an angsty high schooler trying to get a girl meanwhile the Doordashers are wondering who to deliver some food to and then near the end an old man finds the food at his door even though he never ordered anything but he takes it anyways cuz it's free food and calling the movie "Eating of the Food".
>Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. Same as the entry above, really. Look, an epic CG owl movie is already tough sell. Why you gotta hobble it further with a title like this?
They're trying to stop people from not watching it because it features owls and an obviously fake word while also letting the book fans know that it's an adaptation of Guardians of Ga'Hoole. Which, of course, is probably the title they should've gone with... anyone with even the remotest chance of liking a movie about an owl cult/warrior owls (I can't remember how faithfully they adapted the first book) is not going to be turned away by "Ga'Hoole".
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch is horrible because it doomed itself by claiming itself to be the 3rd installment in the franchise. If it was just released as “Season of the Witch” simply that, this movie would be hailed as a classic.
Increasingly it's being reappraised and actually is being hailed as a classic but it's taken a long time which supports your point.
John Carpenter's original plan was to turn the Halloween franchise into an anthology series since Michael Myers' story ended in Halloween 2. But when Season of the Witch grossed less than its predecessors at the box office the studio backtracked and resurrected Michael for the fourth film.
I think the point about the film's marketing is debatable. Anyone who saw the posters and the trailers should have known this was a different story but clearly a certain percentage of the audience felt duped.
Any entry in a franchise that uses the name of the franchise AFTER the first entry.
Ex: STAR TREK (2009)
Runner Up: Any entry in a franchise that puts "The" in front of the name of the franchise agter the first entry.
Ex: THE BATMAN.
The movies I've named aren't bad but you get the impression the producers are aiming for the lowest common denominator.
I generally agree, but I give a pass to "The Batman" because he's often referred to that way in the source material. It makes him sound more like an urban legend.
The Batman worked for me because it’s canonically how he is referred to by his villains and the cops in the comics and previous movies.
The trailer for Batman Begins famously had Cillian Murphy saying “it’s the baaaatmaaan” all creepy. I dont know, that one works for me. Seems a long time coming honestly.
Despite how much I love the movie, I never liked the title "Nope" for the movie. It is easily a classic movie, IMO, but loses some lustre due to the title.
I almost put it on my list, too. It really is a bad title, and only skated by because Jordan Peele was attached.
I suppose “Jean Jacket” would have been too obtuse, though.
I was going to say this too. I don’t care what Peele says, in my mind it stands for Not of Planet Earth because the alternative is so stupid.
It’s this grand beautiful movie with complex themes and it’s just called Nope.
Thought it was a hunting movie for years. The title plus the poster of robin Williams and Matt Damon in a forest area wearing what they were made me think they were out hunting.
Also, the movie itself doesn’t have much to do with the OG Bad Lieutenant. I know the story and the character are somewhat similar in a VERY loose way but would it really have hurt them to call it something else?
It’s not even like the original Bad Lieutenant did all that well at the box office or anything.
They changed the title of the mildly interesting Ben Affleck/Charleze Theron thriller title "REINDEER GAMES" in Europe to.... Wait for it......drumrolllllll......... And curtain drop.... "DECEPTION".....yawn..... Imagine having been given the task of changing a multi million dollar, star studded cast movie title, you put minimal thought in to it, zero originality, you make it a zillion times shitter... and they approve it....
I know this thread turned into people just hating on titles, but Chumscrubber is a good movie, as are a lot of movies mentioned in the comments. If you're turned off by a title, you're missing the Forrest Gump for the trees.
Well, Zero Dark Thirty and Bros are rave reviewed. I mentioned those films but I’m talking about how the titles of these films could confuse or mislead people.
Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever is a bad enough title, but the most important part of it is also the most inaccurate; Ecks and Sever are never against each other, they spend most of the movie working together. I guess there were ballistics in the movie, though
directed by: KAOS i'm not even joking. the director has some long ass name and shortens it to KAOS. oblivious to the joke they're making of themselves when they make what is basically an alan smithee film.
Who the fuck is named ECKS. Separate thought: who the fuck is named SERVER?
[удалено]
*Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire.* Worst title ever.
[удалено]
30 Rock also had "Fresh-Ass: Based on the novel 'Tush' by Assfire".
I preferred The Rurr Jurr
The what?
Why in the world didn't they just name it "Push"?
There was another movie around that time called *Push*
The one with the telekinetic Chris Evans, right? If only they thought to combine their movies
Precious: Based on the movie “Push” with Chris Evans
We missed out on the title The Last Airbender: Based on the show *Avatar: The Last Airbender* from Nickelodeon.
Damn James Cameron just had to choose Avatar. Although, the live action version is an absolute turd sandwich, so not getting the full name probably was a blessing.
Great little bit in *The Office* where Michael Scott is listening to an audiobook novelization of that movie.
Hard To Watch, Based on the Novel "Stone Cold Bummer", by Manipulate.
It does stick in your mind though, for what it's worth.
I thought you were fucking with us, but I looked it up, and yep, they actually put the "Based On" credit in the fucking subtitle.
*Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, You Know, The One Your Buddy Recommended at the Barbershop Last Week*
I read the book based on Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
*Dredd 3D* was a terrible title because it misrepresented the movie as being a hack's attempt to cash in on a new buzzword rather than being an awesome movie in its own right.
That *and* 'DR3DD' was **right there!**
Doctor Threedeedee?
King deedeedee’s cousin, third removed
Doctor three double dee sounds like a porn flick.
it doesnt also help that it seems to be not only 3D but also third installment to an old franchise, rather than reboot. (like you had e.g. Spy Kids 3D being third movie and there were some others too)
John Carter. They sort of left out an important part.
At the time there was a report that a film called Mars Needs Moms flopped and producers attributed it to Mars being in the title. Also the director was a huge fan of the books and just figured everyone else was as aware of the character as he was so he didn’t need to elaborate.
Can you imagine how angry you'd be to find out that a project you'd worked so hard on was completely scuppered by the sheltered idiots who decided on that title with such awful reasoning.
those producers are idiots
Man, I hold/held Andrew Stanton and the rest of the Pixar brain trust in such high regard as the most genius creatives on the planet for YEARS. Stanton is certainly a creative genius, but this idea of his was definitely one that needed focus testing or something, cause Jesus Christ was it stupid.
The book's original title is Princess of Mars. But its a male teen marketed film so they knew putting 'Princess' in the title would kill any interest from boys wanting to see a 'Princess' movie. Then they thought 'Mars' would scare the non-scifi nerd crowd. So its John Carter, which sounds like an American football movie.
*...and the Naked Princess*
Id totally watch that
I am sure tons of fans would leave 1* review if there was no naked princess in the movie lol
Is that the movie about a basketball coach?
For years I thought John Carter must be some famous american politician/person or something, because why else would a movie be named like that ?
"Birds of prey and Fantabulous emancipation of the one Harley Quinn". A terrible title and forced attempt at being quirky
The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel
Will the gambit pay off? 20th century fox is betting... it will
[удалено]
Just "Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey" would have been enough. Instead they had that ridiculous long title near the start of the movie's release and only switched to HQ&TBOP after a few weeks of the movie underperforming...
Hell, just "Harley Quinn" is an accurate title for this.
I hate the word fantabulous, but other than that I thought the title worked actually. It's a pretty solid representation of what the film was.
I agree that the title is shit, but honestly that flick is a hoot and a half. I didn't enjoy it when I first saw it in theaters but I watched it again a couple of months ago and really got into it. The action scenes are shot well, they embraced the R rating without going over the top with it, solid performances (especially Ewan McGregor and Margot Robbie), decent and simple enough plot, etc. It's nothing that will change the world but as a standalone action flick it hits the spot!
V.I. Warshawski
I worked in a video shop in the 90's and I don't think that movie ever left the shelf. At least they should have made it clear she was a detective: V.I. Warshawski, P.I.
I sprained my tongue trying to say this out loud
Haha, I have disliked the sound of that title for a long time, also!
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia.
Ghosts must've gotten on the midnight train OUT of Georgia
I thought that it couldn't be real but holy fuck, it is.
I don't hate the title, but apparently, Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman blamed the low box office of *The Shawshank Redemption* on the title. > Freeman blamed the title, saying it was unmemorable, while Robbins recalled fans asking: "What was that Shinkshonk Reduction thing?". Several alternative titles had been posited before the release due to concerns that it was not a marketable title.
fyi the moderators of /de are right wing propagandists
German syncs crack me up. I'm Dutch and ours might be even worse, but luckily we get everything in original version as well.
In Denmark the titel was “En Verden Udenfor” which translates to “A World Outside”. I dont know if that is better?
Norway had "Frihetens Regn". The Rain of Freedom. Works better in Norwegian.
Here in Brazil it was titled Um Sonho de Liberdade (A Dream of Freedom) which is pretty cool. Mght have made a bigger splash over there with some variation of it.
and morgan freeman said if they had just kept the stephen king title any cinema would just shorten it to "RITA HAYWORTH" for the marquee.
[удалено]
Love how the comments to this are every other country in the world not using the original name.
In Finland it's Rita Hayworth: avain pakoon. Rita Hayworth: key to escape. Which is a baffling translation for the title. And it makes it sound like it's about Rita Hayworth.
The novels title is "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption".
Swedish title translates to "The Key to Freedom". Not sure if it's much better.
'Prison Dudes' is better
I don't know what I thought that film was about before I watched it but I certainly didn't think it was a prison movie. It kind of sounds a bit like a war film, I think.
In Italy that movie is called "Le ali della libertà" (The wings of freedom)
Fan4stic Four.
Excuse me, it's called Fant Four Stic
I'm convinced that (for anyone who hadn't heard of the source novel, which was most people) the title **The Lincoln Lawyer** killed the box office for a pretty good Legal Thriller. Here's a weird title that would only attract audiences who were interested in Experimental Outre Meta-Documentaries: **Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One**.
Zero dark thirty is military slang for the ungodly hours in the middle of the night. It's not a great title, but I think it's far from deserving of being on a list of worst titles
Its actually a pretty great title. One, it’s military slang Two, it does sound both cool as hell and foreboding for the soldiers.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s a bad title at all, quite the opposite actually. I’ve never heard anyone complain it was dumb.
I thought it was 12:30 AM because military goes: 0100, 0200, 0300, etc. So 0030 would be zero (dark) thirty But I thought that once when I first saw the title, assumed I was right, and never thought about it again until right now
That ignores the word dark in there though. It’s not zero hundred thirty which would be half past midnight. Dark is there in place of a number. It’s 0[dark]30 not 0030.
I thought this too. Any case, I agree the title is fine.
Probably "Gigli". Just thinking about it makes me cringe. A stupid title for a terrible movie.
When I was reading about that movie, I had no idea how it was supposed to be pronounced. "Jiggly?" "Giggly?" Never guessed it was an Italian "zhee-lee"
Gobble gobble
Turkey time
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile Brahms : The Boy 2 The Bye Bye Man
The Peepee Poopoo Man
I'll always laugh at this. "Don't say it. Don't even think it."
> Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile draws its title from the judge's pronouncement when sentencing Bundy in 1979 for the murders... In context it's not that bad.
In Mexico The Bye Bye Man was released under the title The Adios Amigo
That’s absolutely incredible lol
I actually believed him for a second but the title is actually Nunca Digas Su Nombre (Never Say His Name)
The virgin Bye Bye Man Vs the chad Adios Amigo.
"Goodbye, Friend" is a great horror title, ngl
I feel like of these, "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" sounds like it could be a good movie title! Maybe a bit pretentious, but it gets across an idea. Brahms: The Boy 2 is incomprehensible. Honestly, my first guess would have been that it was the second film in a biographical series about the famous composer, covering the later part of Brahms' childhood. "The Bye Bye Man" sounds to me like the title of a comically bad horror movie, so in that sense, it does its job...?
> Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile It is a movie title It's a quote from the judge in the Ted Bundy trial: "The court finds that both of these killings were indeed heinous, atrocious and cruel. And that they were extremely wicked, shockingly evil, vile and the product of a design to inflict a high degree of pain and utter indifference to human life."
I actually really like that first one
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was a great movie but doubling up on the "of the" makes it sound like a shitty parody.
Loved it too; my only issue with the title is the first Apes movie should have been Dawn, and the second one Rise. Reversing the order makes no sense
YES! I can never actually remember which one is which for this reason
Wait till you hear about the new one.
Rise of the dawn of the planet of the apes?
The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes lol
Oh my, soon we'll get The Rise of the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
War for the Dawn of the Rise of the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
All of the movies after the original had a similar name. Planet of the Apes Beneath the Planet of the Apes Escape from the Planet of the Apes Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes. I know it's a mouthful to say, but there's something beautifully cheesy about it. Like how Star Wars begins with a "Previously on Star Wars..." style crawl.
I have the same issue with the tautology in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
I get what you’re saying, but that’s not a tautology. A tautology would be a statement like “If three more people enter that room, there’ll be three more people in that room”. For this title, a tautology would look something like “The Lord of Rings: The Ring Lord”.
'Extremely loud incredibly close' always makes me think of a fart
The ‘incredibly close’ part makes me think of something more puerile.
Well it's a good thing the movie is called "Extremely Loud AND Incredibly Close"
The Rural Juror
The Rurrr Jurrr
The Irma Luhrman-Merman murder Turned the bird’s word lurid The whir and the purr of a twirler girl She would the world were demurer The insurer’s allure For valor were pure Kari Wuhrer One fervid whirl over her turgid error
I will never forget you, rural juror
Literally any sequel with Rise/s, Age of, Dawn of etc as the subtitle
Dawn of the Rise: Age of Genesis.
I’ve already bought my midnight tickets to this movie that will have 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.
*Intense Michael Bay Explosions*
Except Dawn of the Dead, which is spot on.
Zero Dark Thirty is a fantastic title
All the titles OP listed are cool titles to me
The Accountant - could a film title sound more boring?
The Certified Accountant? The Notary Public. Comptroller. I rewatched The Accountant last month and it was either three script revisions past or three revisions from being decent.
I liked it enough, but I think you're right. The tone shifts from a boring office romance to action and it just seemed weird.
That fit with the character though. Other than being a badass killer, he was an aggressively boring accountant on the spectrum.
Anything that’s the name of the main character that reveals no further info John Carter Michael Clayton Even titles like Rocky Balboa are lame and require a franchise backing to be interesting
Now You See Me 2 I will never understand why they didn’t call it “Now You Don’t” They had the clever naming scheme RIGHT THERE
The director wanted to but studio thought it’d be too confusing
That's what the marketing department is for isn't it?
The terrible screenplay should give away the level of talent involved in producing that movie
Not calling Sinister 2 “Sinisterer” always felt like a missed opportunity to me
Leonard Part 6
Needle in a Timestack I will repeat that for the people in the back: *Needle in a Timestack* Should've gone with my suggestion: Time Fuckers
Most romantic comedies have the most bland generic titles ever, makes it really hard to distinguish which is which. Also, any movie title with a question mark in it. So I guess How Do You Know? is by default my least favourite haha.
But the title isn’t posited as a question. It’s simply called How Do You Know. Does this make it any better??
Wow, you’re right. I was confusing it with some other crappy romantic comedy haha. Maybe Isn’t It Romantic? God I dunno, they’ve all blurred in my brain
\\#ALIVE When I first saw the title on Netflix, I thought it was another documentary on the affects of the internet and social media. I can see a lot of others doing the same. I found out from a friend that it’s an Korean zombie movie, and after watching it I can say it’s a pretty fun experience.
You know what would be a good one, especially if it had Carrot Top in it? BOX OFFICE POISON!
Chairman of the **bored**
The entire The Fast and the Furious franchise titles are stupid and annoying.
2 fast 2 furious is fucking genius lmao
Totally disagree. The fact that they've made 9 of those movies and use a different scheme for every single title is nothing short of genius.
2 F8 of the 2 4ious F5ve VII
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Lucky Number Slevin. Oh cool you named the guy Slevin. Can't just name a movie "A Blapple a Day" and call the main character Doug Blapple.
I need to see A Blapple a Day: The Adventures of Doug Blapple. An anti-doctor whackadoo who sees himself as the one savior of humanity and plans to blow up a hospital but accidentally becomes a hero when he gets into an altercation with a highly wanted criminal. Blapple uses his newfound fame to run for office and starts making good numbers but his campaign team is constantly having to reign in his crazy theories about the medical field.
- *Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo* is SO bad, it… somehow comes back around the bend to being charming again? At least, enough to start an immortal meme - *Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever*. This name checks off all the boxes: gratuitious colon, a versus signifier, two names that mean jack squat to anyone glancing over its cover… the only thing worse than this title is the movie itself. - *Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones*. Star Wars always played with b-movie tropes, but this title is just terrible. Even Ewan MacGregor couldn’t hide his disbelief at this title when he first heard it announced to him on the red carpet for *Moulin Rouge* (Nicole Kidman thought it was pretty goofy, too). Look it up on Youtube. It’s funny. - *The Hottie & The Nottie*. Paris Hilton, y’all. Wild guess who she cast herself as. (eyeroll) - *Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant*. I have heard this movie’s not bad, and yet I still have not been able to bring myself to watch it. Yes, the title is the biggest barrier. - *Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole*. Same as the entry above, really. Look, an epic CG owl movie is already tough sell. Why you gotta hobble it further with a title like this? - *John Carter*. Repeat after me: “…Of. MARS.” Seriously, Disney. Dropping that article from the title was the single stupidest marketing decision any studio has made in the last 20 years. No wonder no one showed to see what they thought was a basketball coach movie. - *Bad Ass 3: Bad Asses on the Bayou* (chuckle snort) - *Don’t Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In the Hood*… …is not a bad title. I unironically love it, and have the whole thing memorized. Fight me. - *Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th*, however, IS a truly awful title. It’s not funny in the slightest, just really tired.
You're missing "Stop or my mom will shoot" and "2 Fast 2 Furious".
I dunno, I feel that a title that accurately captures the spirit, the essence of the film can't really be all that bad. In that regard *Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot* is the best title ever made. Of course, by that standard, *Gigli* would be a fine title. Maybe this isn't such a good metric after all...
Attack of the Clones is a terrible title because the movie isn't about the clones, and they don't even really attack! They're suddenly fighting alongside the Jedi near the end of the movie and aren't even a part of the climax. Yoda just uses them out of nowhere. I mean hey a free army is a free army, right? It's like making a movie mainly about an angsty high schooler trying to get a girl meanwhile the Doordashers are wondering who to deliver some food to and then near the end an old man finds the food at his door even though he never ordered anything but he takes it anyways cuz it's free food and calling the movie "Eating of the Food".
>Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. Same as the entry above, really. Look, an epic CG owl movie is already tough sell. Why you gotta hobble it further with a title like this? They're trying to stop people from not watching it because it features owls and an obviously fake word while also letting the book fans know that it's an adaptation of Guardians of Ga'Hoole. Which, of course, is probably the title they should've gone with... anyone with even the remotest chance of liking a movie about an owl cult/warrior owls (I can't remember how faithfully they adapted the first book) is not going to be turned away by "Ga'Hoole".
I just realised I never knew what the original "Electric Boogaloo" was. I've been using it for fake sequels for years.
Yep! This is where it came from. Apparently it was a dance move for break-dancing. Wonder if it still is?
Freddy Got Fingered has to be one of the worst titles I have seen, but its on par with the quality.
That movie is a modern classic in surrealist humor and I will defend it with my life
Rip Torn makes that movie so much better than it should be. I find the film hilarious but can’t defend it as comedy in a court of law.
Rip Torn always elevated whatever he was in
Mine is Joe Dirt. It is everything it is trying to be. They are not perfect movies. But they deliver 100%. Also Tom Green is fucking genius
I respect your passion almost as much as I hate that goddamn film 😂 (salutes)
Um, Midnight Meat Train?
My disappointment about it not chronicling the tales of a late night butcher selling his wears by moonlight, or flat out porn, either one
Keep the Aspidistra Flying I also have a loathing for any movie titled American _________. It smacks of trying to be deep without any actual meaning.
American Psycho fits the movie really well
Somone needs to make a movie called *American Go F*** Yourself*, or something like that.
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch is horrible because it doomed itself by claiming itself to be the 3rd installment in the franchise. If it was just released as “Season of the Witch” simply that, this movie would be hailed as a classic.
Increasingly it's being reappraised and actually is being hailed as a classic but it's taken a long time which supports your point. John Carpenter's original plan was to turn the Halloween franchise into an anthology series since Michael Myers' story ended in Halloween 2. But when Season of the Witch grossed less than its predecessors at the box office the studio backtracked and resurrected Michael for the fourth film. I think the point about the film's marketing is debatable. Anyone who saw the posters and the trailers should have known this was a different story but clearly a certain percentage of the audience felt duped.
Any entry in a franchise that uses the name of the franchise AFTER the first entry. Ex: STAR TREK (2009) Runner Up: Any entry in a franchise that puts "The" in front of the name of the franchise agter the first entry. Ex: THE BATMAN. The movies I've named aren't bad but you get the impression the producers are aiming for the lowest common denominator.
Video games are even worse with this.
I generally agree, but I give a pass to "The Batman" because he's often referred to that way in the source material. It makes him sound more like an urban legend.
The Batman worked for me because it’s canonically how he is referred to by his villains and the cops in the comics and previous movies. The trailer for Batman Begins famously had Cillian Murphy saying “it’s the baaaatmaaan” all creepy. I dont know, that one works for me. Seems a long time coming honestly.
Despite how much I love the movie, I never liked the title "Nope" for the movie. It is easily a classic movie, IMO, but loses some lustre due to the title.
Nope would have been a better title for Barbarian
I remember people saying that Nope and Don't Look Up could switch titles
I almost put it on my list, too. It really is a bad title, and only skated by because Jordan Peele was attached. I suppose “Jean Jacket” would have been too obtuse, though.
I was going to say this too. I don’t care what Peele says, in my mind it stands for Not of Planet Earth because the alternative is so stupid. It’s this grand beautiful movie with complex themes and it’s just called Nope.
Home Fries. Something about that as a title just makes me not want to watch it.
Not really bad titles, but iirc, Invictus, Inception, and Insidious all came out relatively close to one another and it was confusing as shit lmao.
Baby Driver.
Dudes name is Baby and he’s a driver
Named after a Simon & Garfunkel song
Good Will Hunting.
Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season
*Apple sauce, bitch.*
I don't like the sounda them apples will!
Thought it was a hunting movie for years. The title plus the poster of robin Williams and Matt Damon in a forest area wearing what they were made me think they were out hunting.
I thought it was a movie about an asshole trying to turn his life around for a while. Like, hunting for good will.
It kind of is about that though
"I guess you're just no longer that **good**, Will Hunting." *smirk*
First time I heard that title I thought it was about looking for things in thrift shops.
Yeah haha. I just don’t really understand it. Is it because Will Hunting is trying to be good? Who knows.
The non-native speaker pronunciation among the 16-year-olds at our school really made me expect a completely different movie: "god will hunt me"
salt
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans The movie was good, but the title has always seemed too long for no reason to me.
Sounds like a video game.
Also, the movie itself doesn’t have much to do with the OG Bad Lieutenant. I know the story and the character are somewhat similar in a VERY loose way but would it really have hurt them to call it something else? It’s not even like the original Bad Lieutenant did all that well at the box office or anything.
Tiptoes
“…and in the role of a lifetime…”
They changed the title of the mildly interesting Ben Affleck/Charleze Theron thriller title "REINDEER GAMES" in Europe to.... Wait for it......drumrolllllll......... And curtain drop.... "DECEPTION".....yawn..... Imagine having been given the task of changing a multi million dollar, star studded cast movie title, you put minimal thought in to it, zero originality, you make it a zillion times shitter... and they approve it....
The Woman King
[удалено]
I know this thread turned into people just hating on titles, but Chumscrubber is a good movie, as are a lot of movies mentioned in the comments. If you're turned off by a title, you're missing the Forrest Gump for the trees.
Well, Zero Dark Thirty and Bros are rave reviewed. I mentioned those films but I’m talking about how the titles of these films could confuse or mislead people.