"Cinderella Man" and"A Beautiful Mind," one of the worst movie titles in history, to say nothing of the movie.
― antexit (antexit), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― j c (j c), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― robster (robster), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)
i vote for The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, White Men Can't Jump and Two Fast Too Furious (or whatever it was)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― ENRG, Friday, 6 August 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)
Anything with [person's name]'s before the proper title.
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huck, Friday, 6 August 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huck, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)
example:
Regarding HenryBoxing HelenaEating Raoul (ok, that's one's pretty funny)
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huck, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)
But also yes, I think so. You could probably construct Eliot's entire oeuvre out of film titles. And Shakespeare's.
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huck, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)
K, you must have missed this thread: Movie titles that begin with present participles
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)
The movie thankfully omits those last five words.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huck, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)
(No, it's not Ironic, it's meaningless. And the film doesn't radically improve on the title.)
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― sexyDancer, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.moviequotequiz.com/reviews/FriedGreenTomatoesBig.gif
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huck, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― mike a, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huck, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)
ooh, we have a new competitor for my vote.
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― mike a, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)
That one's called Batman Begins, right? Equally horrific, but the old one sounds like the name of a Harlequin novel.
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)
Die Hard With A VengeanceAnalyse That
― antexit (antexit), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)
Jon Cryer was in it, and it's The Pompatus Of Love. I haven't seen it but I think they actually discuss the phrase in the ad. ugh.
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)
(because you play for THE love of the game)
Any Given Sunday
(because any team can win ON any given sunday)
(sorry, these have always bugged me)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)
Note the lack of hyphen: not a bunch of freaks, each with eight legs, but eight freaks who happen to have legs.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)
(hahahaha, just kidding)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
is awesome or awful.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)
Two Gentlemen Sharing
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)
*Barbara Harris for Best Supporting Actress
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)
You don't really have to ask, do you?
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)
after all, no one shows up in the middle of it to say (via intertitle), "i know what 'it' is: the slight upturn of clara bow's left eyebrow! you can all go home now folks."
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)
It's the parentheses that put me off.
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huck, Friday, 6 August 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)
Pay It Forward As Good As It Gets Raising Helen About Adam Forces Of Nature Two Weeks Notice Hope Floats Something To Talk About Full Frontal Ella Enchanted Hope Springs Owning Mahowney Return To Me Slow Burn Uncorked What Women Want Hanging Up Look Who's Talking Now Something's Gotta Give
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chris Marx, Friday, 6 August 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)
The Remains of the Day
...I think every Merchant-Ivory film should be regarded as part of a series of films, much like the Young and Dangerous triad pics from Hong Kong, which in the end started to really drift around in terms of character but retained the Y&D title, but then affixed the appropriate number to the end of the title. Therefore, all Merchant-Ivory films should be called Repressed Limeys Finally Give It Up Sweet-Like. I think TROTD would be number 9 in the series.
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)
keep waiting. i'll tell you when.
― Anthony (Plato Guy), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)
nickalicious you crazy
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)
a home at the end of the worlda map of the worldthe myth of fingerprints
and all that garbage
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)
the velocity of gary
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)
Ignoring the fact that Mystic is the name of a town, it's the ineffable and the everyday hamfistedly collided together to create an undeserved allure.
Savannah Smiles
Icky 80's-90's girl name, alliteration, and you can't tell if "smiles" is a noun or verb.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)
"Strangers in good company" has always bugged me but I think it's because I think the movie looks dumb.
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nemo (JND), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)
Chasing Liberty and/or Chasing Amy
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)
Who is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Thingsabout Me?
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
P'Tang Yang Kipperbang
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
The Incredibly Strange Creatures who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)
Most of those went there, too.
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)
Black and White Like Day and Night
Brazil
anything beginning with B, basically.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 7 August 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 7 August 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 7 August 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 August 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)
also, this is a great title and a great movie to boot!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 August 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)
Anyway. SOmeone said there was a sequel called "Seriously Dude, where is my Car?" - if thats true then I vote that one.
― Chreiysy (trayce), Saturday, 7 August 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064123/
but yeah RANDOM HEARTS is way worse.
― piscesboy, Saturday, 7 August 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)
Huh?!
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)
David Bowie and Rosanna Arquette - it should have been good.
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)
Elite Squad?
Bangkok Dangerous?
fucking RIGHTEOUS KILL?
― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Friday, 19 September 2008 12:32 (sixteen years ago)
i have something on my dvr saved called CRIMINAL LAW (taped it cuz gary oldman is in it)
― johnny crunch, Friday, 19 September 2008 12:35 (sixteen years ago)
I think thriller movie titles in particular are reaching a nadir.
― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Friday, 19 September 2008 12:43 (sixteen years ago)
"Bend it Like Beckham" like a mofo
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 19 September 2008 12:45 (sixteen years ago)
Any of those "Bourne" movies (which I love).
'righteous kill' is next-level.
― broken_britan (special guest stars mark bronson), Friday, 19 September 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago)
Rancid Aluminium
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Friday, 19 September 2008 12:50 (sixteen years ago)
(IMDB reviews of this movie are v v entertaining BTW)
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Friday, 19 September 2008 12:52 (sixteen years ago)
korean movies rule this thread
but QUANTUM OF SOLACE people
― Edward III, Friday, 19 September 2008 13:49 (sixteen years ago)
Stop or My Mom Will Shoot!The Sisterhood of the Travelling PantsK-PaxYou've Got MailLucky Number Slevin
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 19 September 2008 13:50 (sixteen years ago)
> but QUANTUM OF SOLACE people
Nice one! And def. supports my theory.
― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Friday, 19 September 2008 13:51 (sixteen years ago)
rejected bond movie titles:
quark of solitudequeue of salaciousnessquiznos of solipsism
― Edward III, Friday, 19 September 2008 13:53 (sixteen years ago)
so, yeah, korean movies. some of these embody the greatest gulfs in history between title quality and actual movie quality, so I guess they belong in the thread scott started but that would mean actually running a search.
a good lawyer's wifesave the green planetonce upon a time in high schoolbarking dogs never bite...ingattack the gas stationI'm a cyborg but that's okaythe day a pig fell into the welldie badtake care of my catharmonium in my memorysympathy for mr vengeancespring, summer, fall, winter... and springmarriage is a crazy thingmy boss, my heromy right to ravage myselfon the occasion of remembering the turning gateplease teach me englishpublic toiletthe romantic presidentthe power of kangwon provinceunborn but forgotten
but the award goes to
BUNGEE JUMPING OF THEIR OWN
YES THERE IS ACTUALLY A MOVIE NAMED THIS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungee_Jumping_of_Their_Own
― Edward III, Friday, 19 September 2008 14:27 (sixteen years ago)
my favorite sequel title ever:
when a stranger calls back
― Edward III, Friday, 19 September 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago)
sequel runner ups:
sometimes they come back... againsometimes they come back... for more
― Edward III, Friday, 19 September 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago)
"I Know What You Did, Oh, What Is It, About Eight Summers Ago Now?"
― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Friday, 19 September 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago)
Say It Isn't So urrrgh
― rent, Friday, 19 September 2008 14:45 (sixteen years ago)
That list of Korean titles is killing me.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 19 September 2008 14:52 (sixteen years ago)
I agree that many of those Korean movies are better than their titles... But Attack the Gas Staion was exactly what the title promised, in the good and bad sense. It's about a bunch of crazy dudes attacking a gas station, and that's it.
― Tuomas, Friday, 19 September 2008 15:53 (sixteen years ago)
I haven't seen any of 'em, but I def. like these titles:
spring, summer, fall, winter... and springonce upon a time in high schoolmarriage is a crazy thing
― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Friday, 19 September 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago)
More Stupid Title/Sequel nonsense:
Stop It...Or You'll Go Blind"
Can I Do It Until I Need Glasses?
― henry s, Friday, 19 September 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago)
none of those korean titles are particularly weird or bad, i find.
― s1ocki, Friday, 19 September 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago)
you are a cyborg but that's okay.
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 19 September 2008 17:10 (sixteen years ago)
english as a s1ockand language
― Edward III, Friday, 19 September 2008 17:14 (sixteen years ago)
"Everything you always wanted to know about sex* (*but were afraid to ask)"
― Chelvis, Friday, 19 September 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago)
"What Do You Say To A Naked Lady?"
― henry s, Friday, 19 September 2008 18:50 (sixteen years ago)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (always makes me think of smoked salmon/lox)
Mad Money
The Wackness
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Friday, 19 September 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago)
"blanking blank"
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, August 6, 2004 10:02 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark
Also:
Saving SilvermanSaving Private RyanWhat's Eating Gilbert Grape? (double offender for also having a *wacky character name* in the title)
I'll make an exception for Being John Malkovich
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Friday, 19 September 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago)
Lucky Number Slevin
― Granny Dainger, Friday, September 19, 2008 9:50 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is the only one of these i really hate
― and what, Friday, 19 September 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago)
not that bad.. but hate it anyway (as a title)
'Breaker' Morant
especially the ' ' bugs me.
― Ludo, Friday, 19 September 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago)
"Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging". WTF, that just sounds so awkward and cringeworthy.
― Trayce, Saturday, 20 September 2008 06:06 (sixteen years ago)
Those Korean movie titles are light years ahead of everything else.
― Eazy, Saturday, 20 September 2008 06:22 (sixteen years ago)
http://orion.math.iastate.edu/burkardt/movieplay/movie_gerund.html
― the bridge to erewhon (velko), Saturday, 20 September 2008 06:41 (sixteen years ago)
"Lucky Number Slevin" is a throwback to the Iambic era of thriller titles - Lethal Weapon, Basic Instinct, Action Jackson, Fecal Matter, etc.. Only they've upped the ante to 3 iambs! What rebels.
― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Saturday, 20 September 2008 15:38 (sixteen years ago)
quiznos of solipsism
man, the manager there is a dick
― the sir weeze, Saturday, 20 September 2008 15:44 (sixteen years ago)
Those are NOT iambic!
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago)
In fact they're trochees.
I have been misinformed! Consider me duly shamed.
― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago)
Or perhaps "Duly shaméd."
― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago)
'A Very Long Engagement' insofar as the title alone led me to think, probably wrongly, that the movie would be long and tedious.
― moley, Saturday, 20 September 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago)
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
― clotpoll, Sunday, 21 September 2008 00:23 (sixteen years ago)
Raped by an Angel 3: Sexual Fantasy of the Chief Executive
― clotpoll, Sunday, 21 September 2008 00:27 (sixteen years ago)
Ladies in LavenderLars and the Real GirlI Want Someone To Eat Cheese With
― Tape Store, Sunday, 21 September 2008 00:31 (sixteen years ago)
that new "playlist" shit with george michael in it
― ○◙genital grinder◙○ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 21 September 2008 00:36 (sixteen years ago)
^totally. shit makes me nauseous.
the worst to me are those vague romantic comedy titles like "Til there was you"
― I want to be your Dairy Queen (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 September 2008 00:42 (sixteen years ago)
lol
― ○◙genital grinder◙○ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 21 September 2008 00:43 (sixteen years ago)
they should title horror movies like that instead
Se7en
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 21 September 2008 01:53 (sixteen years ago)
"One Hour Photo" (movie itself not so bad tho, btw)
― Pillbox, Sunday, 21 September 2008 03:58 (sixteen years ago)
"The Eternal fart Of The Fuck ME in the FACE I'M SO GOD DAMN FUCKING RETARDED"
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 21 September 2008 07:09 (sixteen years ago)
yeah I dunno how they expected that one to get a mainstream release.
― clotpoll, Sunday, 21 September 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago)
― Pillbox, Sunday, September 21, 2008 3:58 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
what's wrong with that title? it's about a guy that works at a one hour photo place!
― I want to be your Dairy Queen (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 September 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago)
i mean, if it was called "Dry Cleaners" i'd understand the irritation.
― I want to be your Dairy Queen (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 September 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago)
Carson's Furniture Outlet, the chilling tale of a one hour photo employee's unhealthy obsession with his customers...
― I want to be your Dairy Queen (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 September 2008 15:52 (sixteen years ago)
Flashbacks of a Fool
― DavidM, Sunday, 21 September 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago)
Freddy Got Fingered
― ○◙genital grinder◙○ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 21 September 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago)
Up and Cummers 11
― Dirty Sanchez (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Sunday, 21 September 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago)
Clearly Roman numerals should have been used
i mean, if it was called "Dry Cleaners" i'd understand the irritation. - i think you just answered your own question. Yes, the dude literally works at a photolab, but simply basing the film's title on that mundane plot point does not exactly sell it as an eerie psychological thriller to the passing observer.
― Pillbox, Sunday, 21 September 2008 17:54 (sixteen years ago)
"Sex Lives Of The Potato Men"
(and yeah Trayce, "Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging" practically made me retch)
― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Sunday, 21 September 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago)
"Poop Dreams". apparently a porn takeoff on Hoop Dreams. wish I was making this up.
― Dirty Sanchez (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Sunday, 21 September 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago)
lakeview terrace is probably the least intriguing movie title of the year
― hmmmm, Sunday, 21 September 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago)
This reminds me of a great movie theater game. Before the movie, if a trailer has a title so egregiously bad that it makes you unwilling to see the movie it's advertising, you can yell "title killed it!" or at least turn to your friends and all say it at the same time.
― mh, Sunday, 21 September 2008 23:40 (sixteen years ago)
― Ludo, Saturday, 20 September 2008 06:00 (2 days ago) Bookmark
what??yeah they should have called it Lieutenant Harry Morant instead.
― sharmuta (wilter), Sunday, 21 September 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago)
OTMFM
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 06:26 (sixteen years ago)
The Breaker would've been better as well.
― Ludo, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:41 (sixteen years ago)
An American Werewolf in Paris
band names that make that style of unfunny joke are bad enough, but I expect Hollywood to have more class
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:07 (sixteen years ago)
"American (ANYTHING)"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:45 (sixteen years ago)
"Life is a Miracle" - one of the best movies ever made, and no one will see it because its name both totally unmemorable and sounds like a Roberto Benigni vehicle
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago)
Body of Lies makes American Gangster sound like a great title.
― abanana, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago)
People v. the State of Illusion
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Friday, 17 February 2012 02:05 (thirteen years ago)
no titles are worse than that one, it's truly the nadir
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Friday, 17 February 2012 02:08 (thirteen years ago)
Angel, Angel, Down We Go
― tanuki, Friday, 17 February 2012 02:25 (thirteen years ago)
2 Fast 2 Furious
― dave cool, Friday, 17 February 2012 02:45 (thirteen years ago)
Two Can Play That Game
― tanuki, Friday, 17 February 2012 02:48 (thirteen years ago)
Running Scared
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:44 (thirteen years ago)
Scent of a Woman
― tanuki, Friday, 17 February 2012 04:48 (thirteen years ago)
What the (BLEEP) Do We Know?
go big with the cussing or go home imo
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:48 (thirteen years ago)
― tanuki, Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― tanuki, Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is this an argument
― Evan, Friday, 17 February 2012 05:28 (thirteen years ago)
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― tanuki, Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
burn
― Evan, Friday, 17 February 2012 05:29 (thirteen years ago)
The Pursuit of Happyness
― tanuki, Friday, 17 February 2012 05:35 (thirteen years ago)
B.A.P.S.Joe DirtCowboys And Aliens
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 17 February 2012 06:00 (thirteen years ago)
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 17 February 2012 06:10 (thirteen years ago)
Girl, Interrupted
― tanuki, Friday, 17 February 2012 06:11 (thirteen years ago)
"Made of honor" deserves a mention tho'
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 17 February 2012 06:12 (thirteen years ago)
Composed of Honor
― tanuki, Friday, 17 February 2012 06:14 (thirteen years ago)
Good Luck Chuck
― tanuki, Friday, 17 February 2012 06:15 (thirteen years ago)
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTk2NjU4MDYwNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDQ5ODg3MQ@@._V1._SY317_.jpg
― Chris S, Friday, 17 February 2012 06:18 (thirteen years ago)
Had forgotten that Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever was directed by Kaos.
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:35 (thirteen years ago)
gotta be Swimfan
― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Saturday, 18 February 2012 06:57 (thirteen years ago)
the worst titles are the disgustingly vague and noncommittal ones like "the devil inside" or "how do you know" or "chronicle" or "a dangerous method". they're a million times worse than, like, "eight heads in a duffel bag" which is at least going for something
also, fuck every 90s movie that just randomly took a title from a 10+ year old song as its own regardless of relevance
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Saturday, 18 February 2012 09:00 (thirteen years ago)
awful thread
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 February 2012 09:23 (thirteen years ago)
I think you forgot to turn your bot off again, Morbs.
Wilder NapalmFred ClausMeet Wally Sparks
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 18 February 2012 12:04 (thirteen years ago)
Yes, very bad, but not as bad as People v. The State Of Illusion (though I suspect in content they are the same stupid movie).
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:42 (thirteen years ago)
Sol Goode
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:33 (thirteen years ago)
Who is Sol Goode? Sol Goode (pronounced "good") is the man! Sol and his boys live in the lap of luxury. They have everything going for them except real jobs, steady relationships and money! Their charm, good looks and fast-talking have carried Sol and his friends through life, but his luck may have just run out. After a string of bad luck leaves him facing eviction, a wrecked car and the threat of actually having to get off his butt to work for a living, Sol finally figures out what the meaning of life is. He is in love with his best friend Chloe. She's beautiful, smart and is the only one who doesn't fall for his "game"! Now he's on a quest to win her heart. Whether you're crude, lewd or just a slacker dude it's... SOL GOODE!
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:34 (thirteen years ago)
I've never seen Sol Goode but saw an ad for it on a VHS copy of The Rules of Attraction and couldn't believe it was real
― tanuki, Monday, 20 February 2012 00:35 (thirteen years ago)
it's Sol Goode that nobody saw it
― Cruller, Cobbler, Poffert, Pie (latebloomer), Monday, 20 February 2012 00:37 (thirteen years ago)
how is goode pronounced
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 00:55 (thirteen years ago)
same as "good"
― tanuki, Monday, 20 February 2012 01:09 (thirteen years ago)
I never saw it either, but it was out back when I worked at a video store and it really pissed me off.
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Monday, 20 February 2012 01:28 (thirteen years ago)
has no one said "john carter"
― johnny crunch, Monday, 20 February 2012 01:37 (thirteen years ago)
No shitter than any other eponymous title - though you might guess it's about a down on his luck lawyer or ballsy single father rather than a Martian warrior.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 20 February 2012 01:39 (thirteen years ago)
word i still stan 4 this as worst anyway. altho i think it's watchable iirc
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― johnny crunch, Monday, 20 February 2012 01:44 (thirteen years ago)
I will pretty much watch anything with gary oldman in it.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 20 February 2012 01:47 (thirteen years ago)
will u watch The Scarlet Letter starring Demi Moore?
― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Monday, 20 February 2012 10:19 (thirteen years ago)
Wasn't "The China Syndrome" voted the Best film/worst title combo, ever, once?
― Mark G, Monday, 20 February 2012 10:27 (thirteen years ago)
Sol Goode features
Jared Leto as Rock Star Wannabe (uncredited)
― owenf, Monday, 20 February 2012 10:43 (thirteen years ago)
Mark on that score I still stand by this post:
"Life is a Miracle" - one of the best movies ever made, and no one will see it because its name both totally unmemorable and sounds like a Roberto Benigni vehicle― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:48 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:48 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 February 2012 11:42 (thirteen years ago)
ah, my 'once' clearly before that film was made.
― Mark G, Monday, 20 February 2012 12:14 (thirteen years ago)
Bodies Rest And Motion
― President Keyes, Monday, 20 February 2012 14:46 (thirteen years ago)
G.O.R.P.
― pplains, Monday, 20 February 2012 14:52 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.rankopedia.com/CandidatePix/33035.gif
i've never been fond of "On the Waterfront".
― Johnny True Cache (beachville), Monday, 20 February 2012 14:57 (thirteen years ago)
Also "Rear Window". You'd think it would be about cars.
― Johnny True Cache (beachville), Monday, 20 February 2012 14:58 (thirteen years ago)
"North by Northwest"? Could have just called it "Northwest"!
― Johnny True Cache (beachville), Monday, 20 February 2012 15:00 (thirteen years ago)
It Happened One Night
Not really a bad title in itself but it has almost nothing to do with the movie.
― tanuki, Monday, 20 February 2012 15:01 (thirteen years ago)
Wasn't ICHATY originally called Cop Gives Waitress Two Million Dollar Tip or something like that?
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Monday, 20 February 2012 15:13 (thirteen years ago)
*ICHTY
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Monday, 20 February 2012 15:14 (thirteen years ago)
What Dreams May Come
^^ I was mentioning this to my mom and she kept mishearing it as "wet dreams" and when she finally understood what I was saying she was like "oh, that makes more sense, it seemed a little obvious the way I heard it"
o_O
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 20 February 2012 15:15 (thirteen years ago)
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Monday, February 20, 2012 9:13 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It was. Seems like there could have been something in the middle they could've gone with.
― pplains, Monday, 20 February 2012 16:23 (thirteen years ago)
"You gave a waitress WHAT??"
― Mark G, Monday, 20 February 2012 16:29 (thirteen years ago)
Hav PlentyThe Tao of SteveThe Pope Must Diet (yes, I know...)
Also, any non-sequel with a colon in the title.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 20 February 2012 16:46 (thirteen years ago)
Jesus Christ: Serial Rapist
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Monday, 20 February 2012 16:55 (thirteen years ago)
i was thinking about how bad a title "almost famous" was, because was anyone in that film primarily concerned with their level of fame?
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Friday, 24 February 2012 04:53 (thirteen years ago)
you're talking about the movie with a rock band getting profiled by Rolling Stone, right? seems like fame plays a slight role there.
― President Keyes, Friday, 24 February 2012 12:02 (thirteen years ago)
yeah but the movie was all about the kid who just wanted to be a dumb music critic and kate hudson who just wanted to move to france or some shit.
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Friday, 24 February 2012 19:56 (thirteen years ago)
well, both Kate Hudson and the kid were hangers-on swept up in the rise to fame of a shitty rock band--it's not a great title, but in no way is it unrelated to the story.
― President Keyes, Friday, 24 February 2012 20:23 (thirteen years ago)
not unrelated but p unimportant in a movie about two dumb kids having a bunch of dumb feelings about things unrelated to it (i really hate this movie)
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Saturday, 25 February 2012 09:26 (thirteen years ago)
Think you saw a different movie than I did
― President Keyes, Saturday, 25 February 2012 16:24 (thirteen years ago)
well they were both probably dumb
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Saturday, 25 February 2012 16:45 (thirteen years ago)
i think the deal w/ the title is that it implies the band in question never quite makes the transition to megastar status, therefore the story of the band pretty much ends with the movie. this sorta allows the movie to be about the kids and how their connection to the band is just a chapter in their lives instead of the reverse.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 25 February 2012 17:11 (thirteen years ago)
Stillwater was also a terrible name for a band.
― beachville, Saturday, 25 February 2012 18:00 (thirteen years ago)
Regarding Henry still wins this.
― Fonz Hour (Eazy), Saturday, 25 February 2012 18:02 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.disturbia.com/images/disturbia_splash.jpg
― tanuki, Sunday, 26 February 2012 21:14 (thirteen years ago)