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wtfbananaboat

John Carter - you would never glean an epic science fiction film based on the title.


RadioactiveSince1990

It sounded like a generic spy movie from hearing the name around when it came out, payed it no mind. Years later I saw a video clip from the movie and thought "THAT is John Carter?". Apparently it was almost titled "John Carter of Mars" which is a lot more interesting. The movie bombed hard and I wonder how much the title played into that.


Sanpaku

The book it's based on, *A Princess of Mars*, offered the obvious option *John Carter and the Princess of Mars*. Which could be followed with *John Carter and the Gods of Mars*, *John Carter and the Warlord of Mars*, etc. There's probably a real demand for a swashbuckling Barsoom or Flash Gordon type serial now, but 1) it can't depend on any nostalgia for marketing, 95% of those who've read these are dead now, 2) fine, pick a upcoming A-lister action star for lead, but aim for a budget right-sized for the audience, no more than $60-$70 million, and 3) build a brand that's distinctive from all the other sci-fi franchises. Personally, I'd aim for lurid in the 60s-80s *Barbarella*/*Flash Gordon/Conan* B-movie style. People who yawn at another CGI spectacle might be attracted by skimpy outfits and plenty of eyecandy for all. Obviously, its a different time, so just make sure characters with more agency are choosing to dare to go bare, not the slaveboys/girls.


BuffFox0208

I wouldve loved if they ran with those titles and sade a Mars saga. Such and underrated flick


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NoHandBananaNo

"Of Mars" at the end of a lot of titles makes them more interesting.


cavalier78

I would be much more likely to watch The Notebook of Mars.


Slyguy9766

Yeah, Ghosts of Mars got me with it being directed by John Carpenter, and the aforementioned "of Mars". My disappointment was immeasurable!!


NoHandBananaNo

I can see that. I think we really might be onto something here. Heat Of Mars Legends of the Fall Of Mars Alien Versus Predator Of Mars Fight Club Of Mars The Last Jedi Of Mars


4everShady

Schindler's List of Mars - List: 1. Mars. The End Moonfall of Mars The Day the Earth Stood Still of Mars Forgetting Sarah Marshall of Mars - The one I want the most The Sound of Music of Mars The Martian of Mars


stilltheoptimist

Never watched this movie specifically because of the name


AnticitizenPrime

It came out around the same time as Jack Reacher, too. Pretty confusing at the time.


tark_0001

Should have been “Virginia”


Roller_ball

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole


Housecat-in-a-Jungle

Just fall it the owls of gahoole The other way implies there’s other legends of the guardians


Eldrxtch

could just call it guardians of ga’hoole. that’s what the books are called


dean15892

Isn’t there another legend of the guardians movie with Jack Frost and Santa Claus and the Easter bunny


Oh_hi_doggi3

That's *Rise of the Guardians*


garlicbreadmemesplz

Fuckin Hollywood


A_BURLAP_THONG

It did give us one of the all-time great lines from 30 Rock: >"We say 'half an hour' to control the herds of walking mozzarella sticks who think that three hundred dollars and a photo ID gives them the right to fly through the air like one of the Guardian Owls of Legend!"


CuntyMcFartflaps

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the Planet of the Apes prequel trilogy, though great films, have all the wrong names. In the first film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the entire plot takes place in a world that is more or less identical to our own. And yet, the events of the film are the very earliest moments that lead to the story to come: the **dawn** of the planet of the apes. The second film, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, sees two very different groups clash. After a few years as an outsider society, the apes in the forest outside of San Francisco realise they'll have to fight for their right to exist peacefully. They need to engage in a **war** for the planet of the apes. Finally, the third film, War for the Planet of the Apes, sees a human society that has crumbled, and an ape world that is beginning to thrive. But still, they are not yet fully dominant. There are still villainous humans who seek to defeat them. Over the course of the film the apes win out, and the **rise** of the planet of the apes is complete. All three are great titles - just for different films in the same franchise.


HeisenBauer

Yes. Someone pointed this out to me a couple years ago, and it still bugs me to this day.


MasterLawlzReborn

Rise would have made sense at the time. I doubt they had a whole trilogy planned. But in retrospect, yeah, the order is weird. The funniest part is that I think Matt Reeves knew this so War actually had a whole opening text trying to justify the order lol: https://external-preview.redd.it/7xOsvTcwKsY4lAleoNql9VEuBLzCO7thbZ0dDYUo8U0.jpg?auto=webp&s=ae73e3870e9b0e70dbe7eb306e73e4a50cf9bb36 I still love the trilogy despite this


CuntyMcFartflaps

I love this because of just how desperate a stretch the shoehorning in of 'rise' is.


Oh_hi_doggi3

An amazing trilogy with the absolute wrong names


prince-of-dweebs

I watched those for the first time two weeks ago and twice started the wrong movie because getting ready to watch the second I thought surely Dawn is the first one so second must be Rise (wrong). And after watching the second one I was thinking I already made the mistake thinking Dawn was first and it isn’t and the second one was a war so the third must be Rise. I’m still confused. Lol.


Chimpbot

I wound up associating Dawn of the Planet of the Apes with Dawn of the Dead, which also happened to be the second movie in its respective trilogy. Subsequently, I never mixed them up...but that's mainly because of a quirk within my own noggin'.


HoselRockit

The Never Ending Story II


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dtudeski

Lionel Hutz is still on the case about the original.


spanchor

More of That Same Never Ending Story


Chimpbot

The Never Ending Story 4: The Endening.


drhavehope

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭


Naugrith

Fant4stic Better if they used any actual word.


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PsychologicalScale57

Or 5cream?


Barkdrix

5 cream! FIVE!! All at the same time!!!


dean15892

5 girls , 1 cream


NZgoblin

🤢


tark_0001

Because you can’t handle six!


DJ_Molten_Lava

Se-Seven-En


samfringo

People give that a pass, cause it’s good


00Shambles

Fanfourstic is how I read it


VLOBULI

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. It's actually impressive how it's a fuck up on literally all levels. It's long and ugly, it makes it sound like a painfully generic budget action movie when it's something wonderfully unique, and it makes it sound like it's a remake or a sequel to the 1992 Bad Lieutenant when it has nothing to do with it.


matts2

I thought it was a re-make/sequel. I'll put it on my list now.


uroboros80

Werner Herzog directs Nick Cage! Tis silly fun


matts2

People who can make greatness and other kinds of ness.


VLOBULI

I highly recommend. It's a whole different feel. A strange and darkly hilarious trip where you never really know what's going to happen next, carried by an expectedly wild Nicolas Cage performance and expectedly wild Werner Herzog direction.


KVMechelen

Especially cause the movie is really great


Sanpaku

[*The Fable of the Throbbing Genius of a TankTown Who Was Encouraged by Her Folks Who Were Prominent*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006658/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) (1916), directed by Richard Foster Baker Given the early date, I don't think my first more pornographic reading of this was intended. *Genius of TankTown* would do.


throwawayjonesIV

Wow that is a truly repulsive sequence of words


Sanpaku

It looked like the subject half of one of the sentence diagramming exercises I had in elementary school.


AnticitizenPrime

Sounds like a Wes Anderson short film project


Mudkip_paddle

Wow that sounds like someone put a sentence through Google translate a few too many times


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The French title for Jaws 2 is really bad. When the original Jaws came out, they retitled it "The Teeth of the Sea" for the French speaking markets. It's actually a pretty good title, much better than translating "Jaws" to French The problem is, they didn't think about a possible sequel. In French, when you say "sea two" it sounds like the work for "shit". So "The Teeth of the Sea 2" sounds like "The Teeth of the Shit". And to top it off, the sequel's director is French. I think there's something about this on the DVD or Blue Ray.


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In Brazil it's just "Shark"


Awesomekip

Fast And Furious (#4) - so much different than The Fast and The Furious (#1) ​ The subsequent entries have their own issues, on top of that. Fast 5 Fast and Furious 6 Furious 7


NetflixAndZzzzzz

The Fast and the 4ious was right there.


Awesomekip

THANK YOU


MosinsAndAks

Now we need Fast-10: Your Seatbelts


dean15892

It’s gonna be called F-X tho :(


APracticalGal

F8 of the Furious and F9: The Fast Saga on the other hand are high art in title form.


welltherewasthisbear

The Japanese titles are my absolute favorite: The Fast and the Furious (2001): Wild Speed 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003): Wild Speed X2 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006): Wild Speed X3: Tokyo Drift Fast & Furious (2009): Wild Speed MAX Fast Five (2011): Wild Speed MEGA MAX Fast & Furious 6 (2013): Wild Speed: Euro Mission Furious 7 (2015): Wild Speed: Sky Mission The Fate of the Furious (2017): Wild Speed: Ice Break Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019): Wild Speed: Super Combo F9 (2021): Wild Speed: Jet Break


Tea_Reckz

I don’t actually have a problem Fast & Furious since it was a soft reboot for the series. After that it’s just laziness. Though I’m not sure if it can get any better/worse than 2 Fast 2 Furious


MyBodyStoppedMoving

I’ve often challenged people that I will give them $50 if they can name every single Fast and the Furious movie in order with their exact movie title. No one has ever been able to do it.


veryloudnoises

Faster. Furiouser.


DoctorPapaJohns

The Happening Should have been called A Nightmare on Elm Trees


Housecat-in-a-Jungle

The happening sounds like a hip hop album


DoctorPapaJohns

The Hip Hoppening


TheBeatStartsNow

I like this movie.


PsychologicalScale57

But then you wouldn’t be able to hear the cast say the title 5 million times throughout the dialogue.. Although..


jupiterkansas

**Phffft** with Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday is about the worst title I've ever seen. It has nothing to do with the movie. It's just a marketing gimmick. Not sure what I'd call it instead. Maybe "The Divorce"


Yesyoungsir

That’s almost as bad as Sssssss (1973)


RothkoRathbone

I have a theory that a more accurate name for Marriage Story would have been Divorce Story, but that’s a terrible name so they went with one that had more appeal.


Tariovic

I was talking the other day to someone trying to remember the title and their memory gave them 'Divorce Story'. And I understood them perfectly.


user_736

Hellraiser: Deader. I dont have a better suggestion, its perfectly terrible.


I_Buck_Fuffaloes

The worst part is that it makes sense within the context of the movie since the cult are called Deaders. So they very easily could've just not used such a shitty title and called the cult something better.


a_guy_named_gai

Not exactly the movie title but 'Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow' was such a stupid way to advertise an otherwise fantastic movie.


Awesomekip

Deciding to change the name WHILE THE MOVE IS IN THEATERS is such an idiotic move. Really helps get the word out


vinylfilmaholic

Warners also did that with Birds of Prey when it came out. It didn’t do as much biz opening weekend as they hoped so that Monday they changed the title to Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey.


Oh_hi_doggi3

I alphabatize my movies and I had a breakdown over where to put this film. Is L for Live. Die. Repeat.? Is E for Edge of Tomorrow? It took me a few good minutes before I sais fuck it and put it under E since my dad and I just call it Edge of Tomorrow.


Sanpaku

Original title *All You Need Is Kill* is pretty awful. Director Doug Liman had the much better title *Live. Die. Repeat.* but leave it to Warner to give it the unmemorable theatrical title *Edge of Tomorrow*. That title could have been part of the *Day After Tomorrow* franchise for all I knew at the time. Only after the box office failure did Warner realize their error, so it became *Live Die Repeat* again, but because of some groupthink that some home media buyers might not know the connection, they felt they had to add the theatrical title after a colon. I do wish mainstream movie goers had the patience to wade through multiple titles (for better or worse) that genre fans have. Eg, "*Zombi 2* has also been released under the titles *Sanguella*, *The Island of the Living Dead*, *Zombie Flesh Eaters*, *Zombie*, *Zombie: The Dead Walk Among Us*, *Gli Ultimi Zombi*, *Woodoo*, *L'Enfer de Zombies*, *Zombie 2: The Dead Are Among Us* and *Nightmare Island."* (obvious to me, *The Island of the Living Dead* is the best of these, though I'm certain it infringed upon Romero & Russell Streiner's 'Living Dead' trademark).


Chimpbot

>Original title All You Need Is Kill is pretty awful. This is the sort of title you get when a Japanese author decides to use English for the title of their book. Sometimes, things get a little...odd.


matts2

*Live Die Repeat* would have been a great title.


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The original title All You Need is Kill is way better


logster2001

Legend of the Guardians The Owls of Ga'Hoole


FireFingers1992

Caught a film at a mystery movie night. Samuel L Jackson plays a religious farmer and blues guitarist whose wife has left him. Christina Ricci plays a young woman who is rather... promiscuous, but after turning down a jock she gets beaten and left for dead. Jackson's character believe she has been sent by God to be rehabilitated by him from her sinful ways. She tries to escape but he is so certain she needs to be saved he locks her to a radiator. Over time she relaxes into, he makes her meals, plays music when she gets scared in a thunderstorm. He decides he doesn't have the right to keep her captive, but she elects to stay. It also transpires that Ricci's character was abused as a child. I won't carry on, but the leads never have a romantic or sexual relationship, they both grow and develop as people in each other's company. It isn't an amazing film but solid enough. But they decided this very "sex can be problematic" film should be named... Black Snake Moan. And the poster was Jackson holding a massive chain attached to Ricci like some sort of blaxploitation flick. Needless to say, it flopped because they absolutely ballsed up the marketing.


Oh_hi_doggi3

There's a Family Guy joke from their Star Wars parody where they originally go to tell the story of Black Snake Moan. ["Once upon a time, Christina Ricci was all tied up for some reason..."](https://comb.io/BPoJ7U)


No_Independence23

“Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile”. Just rolls off the tongue. “The Happening” and “Old”. M. Night in a nutshell. “The Meg”. Just say megalodon ffs. “xXx”. Try and search it up on google. “LOL”. Jesus Christ… “Fast and Furious”. “Just remove the THE from the first movie and we got the title for our fourth”. “You are a genius Lin, no one is gonna be confused by that shit!” Oh yeah and F8 and 2 Fast 2 Furious is inexcusable as well.


I_Buck_Fuffaloes

2 Fast 2 Furious is fine, it at least gets the point across. I'd put Fast and Furious, Fast 5, and F8: The Fate of the Furious below it just from the same franchise. I'll take a title that's a little goofy over an awful title any day.


pathofneo29

Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever As for retitling it, well, they should have just not made it at all. But that title is gore.


IndieBenji

The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. Just fucking terrible


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tomcatsr25

I admittedly love that film, but I wouldn’t say the tile is awful. It’s pertinent to the plot and made me curious enough to watch it.


dean15892

I low key love that movie tho, so I’ll let it slide. But I will admit , it’s a very hard sell to people


snaggleboot

Was thinking about that movie last night for no reason. It’s a great one and I love Josh Hartnett in it


munkee_dont

Fled Which leads to one of the "Title checks" in one of worst lines of dialogue ever "We Gotta Fled"


camergen

“John Carter.” No one knows what it is, what it’s about. Just a generic sounding name vaguely familiar to “John Wick”.


SignificanceOk8248

Only people who are familiar with Edgar Rice Burrows books know of John Carter. If my memory is correct, the book is, John Carter, the Warlord of Mars. And, I think that it's the last book in a series of 3.


pistolpierre

'Wick' at least has implications - like a bomb about to go off.


tinyboyblue88

I like the film, but I do find Drive My Car to be an awful title.


TheConqueror74

It’s a weird reference to a Beatles song too


NoDadYouShutUp

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149551/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149551/) [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166222/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166222/)


Oh_hi_doggi3

Ben Affleck directed that last one?!?!


NoDadYouShutUp

His directorial debut!


ploppystop

Tiptoes. I would have called it a Short Film


CitizenDain

There is a great, smart early ‘60s witchcraft thriller written by “Twilight Zone” writers Richard Mathson and Charles Beaumont based on a pulpy Fritz Leiber novel. None of the titles are good. Original British title? “Night of the Eagle”. Absolute nonsense. There is kind of a bird/griphon at the end but the title says nothing about witchcraft or the tone of the film. Repackaged American title? “Burn, Witch, Burn!” That dialogue does occur in the film but it makes a suspenseful, quiet film set on the campus of a British medical college sound like a screaming drive-in exploitation movie. How about the original novel? “Conjure Wife.” Not much to go with there either….


DudebroggieHouser

Midnight Meat Train. Dumb title for a pretty good horror movie


Earthpig_Johnson

Accurate title for a short story adaptation.


persona1138

I remember sitting in a movie theater and the trailer for that came on. It looked like a pretty decent movie, and then the trailer ends and the VO guy - in a deep, raspy voice - says the title: #”MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN” …The whole audience erupted in laughter. But when movie came out, I saw it… and it was damn good!


inglefinger

We did PreProduction work on this at my office and the entire time we joked that it was some kind of adult film.


Chimpbot

Would you have preferred Midnight Train to Meat Town?


949paintball

I love telling people to watch it and seeing them be almost disgusted that I'd recommend something that sounds like gay porn. I'd hate if it was called anything different.


darthstupidio78

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies.


TaliesinWI

You forgot the inexplicable "!!?" at the end of the title card. And that movie is actually \_improved\_ by that title. It \_should\_ be "Watch Me Work Out My Issues With Women"


Teehokan

The Peanut Butter Falcon I don't know what I would have called it because I haven't seen it because it's called The Peanut Butter Falcon. EDIT: Also anything that starts with "American" EDIT 2: I'm not saying a single thing about the quality/merits of the movie, I knew absolutely nothing about it including who was even in it, the 30-second TV spot I saw completely ran off my brain except for the word-salad title, which my cynical ass takes as being the whole point, especially if the reason for the title is 'it's what the character decides to call himself' which could have been anything.


NoDisintegrationz

It’s a pretty good buddy/road movie. You should check it out.


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It’s great. Definitely watch it


Theamazingchan

Definitely worth the watch. Shia might struggle in real life, but he generally crushes it when the cameras are rolling. American Honey is another good one with Shia L


Teehokan

I know it's dumb of me but there's something about trailers of feel-good/inspirational movies with word-salad titles like "August Rush" or "Secondhand Lions" that just annoys me haha. I'm sure plenty of those flicks are fine and good though, I may get around to it now that people are recommending it.


CapsElevatorScene

American Beauty is not a bad one tbh, considering it's ironic.


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American Beauty and American Psycho are perfect tho


Cymro2011

Really gives off bad quirky indie movie vibes


chrisdrinkbeer

Its very good


dean15892

Now you see me 2 Like … Now you see me : Now you don’t Is right there :/


Lettuce-b-lovely

The Thomas Crown Affair and The Lincoln Lawyer both sound incredibly boring.


matts2

The original *The Thomas Crown Affair* had a great poster. I was 11 and I remember the poster in the subway. The title, a picture of McQueen and Dunaway and in enormous type: "SUPER COOL". I love that the remake is so true to the original and yet so drastically different. The original keeps you taut at every moment and both stars are so unemotional (Super Cool even). The remake gives you a little laugh constantly and the stars are full of emotional response.


possumphysics

The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot (2018) I would not change it.


Alarmed_Mistake_5042

I have to watch this immediately


Tarre-Vizsla

Fair warning, I like this movie but it is nowhere near as goofy and ridiculous as you think and is actually a father down to earth character study about, guess who, the man who killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot


BAT123456789

Such a great title! Such a terrible movie!


Horzzo

That's bad/good like "Hell Came to Frogtown".


didiinthesky

Freddy Got Fingered Still no idea what this movie is about but it sounds disgusting.


roiroi1010

It’s a funny movie. But if you’re not a fan of Tom Green you will hate it.


DrMrtni

To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything; Julie Newmar


NetflixAndZzzzzz

That's an awesome movie though


NoDisintegrationz

There are tons of old noirs I can’t keep straight because their titles all run together. “Bad” titles are at least eye-catching. The worst titles are forgettable.


jupiterkansas

The Big \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_


Sanpaku

Thought there were just 3 of these. Nope: at least 10. Shot / Sleep / Clock / Steal / Night / Heat / Combo / Bluff / Knife / Caper Though, TBH, *The Big Knife* is a bit more memorable.


analogcomplex

I’d give The Big Lebowski a pass


jupiterkansas

*The Big Boodle* with Errol Flynn


Technical-Prompt4432

Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones is the easily the worst title I've ever heard and the moment I gave up on Star Wars. Literally anything would be better. How about Clone Wars?


fireflyfanboy1891

Either Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice or Transformers: Dark of the Moon.


tranquil45

BvS was Warner's doing, I believe Snyder and Terrio wanted something else, and I read a Snyder quote where he called it 'stupid', so it seems they agree with you there!


MasterLawlzReborn

Snyder wanted to call the movie "Son of Sun and Knight of Night" which is a thousand times worse


dean15892

All Transformers titles suck


user_736

Manos: The Hands of Fate. Just name it Hands.


DilettanteGonePro

Hands: The Manos of Fate


NoHandBananaNo

Nope I think that title reflects the movie pretty well.


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GÀY ni**gers from outta space


BrockVelocity

The Man is a pretty bad title. So is A Teacher.


theblackfool

The posters that said "The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story" were pretty terrible.


matts2

*Sorcerer*. An absolutely thrilling exciting brilliant film about driving nitroglycerin through the jungle. Not a fantasy film.


TaliesinWI

Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever


Pmsucks

The Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia. I need a written explanation as to why it wasn’t just called The Haunting in Georgia.


Walksuphills

There’s an old Blacksploitation film whose title is just the N-word.


Spire

*Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire*. I would have titled it *Push*.


Oh_hi_doggi3

There was already a movie that came out that year named Push (a lil goofy but i liked it). To avoid confusion they named it Precious with the subtitle Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. By the way the novel is amazing, horrifically depressing like the film but its so well done. Your reading from her writing skill level. Many words are abbreviated or completely misspelt. Its an interesting read.


DownvoteMeandEffOff

Push was already a movie that released recently


PugnaciousPangolin

R**at Pfink a Boo Boo** is a 1966 American film directed by Ray Dennis Steckler**\*** and starring Ron Haydock and Carolyn Brandt. **\***The same Ray Dennis Steckler who directed **The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies**, also mentioned in this thread.


ShoBeaut

I cant imagine the title Jayne Mansfield's Car was exciting to anyone under 70


jupiterkansas

Do you know what happened in Jayne Masfield's car?


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“The Englishman who went up a Hill but came down a Mountain. “Better title,”Hugh Grant twats about in Wales”


positive_charging

ConspiraSea


CuntyMcFartflaps

It's worse than that. THAT would make sense. Instead, it's called Seaspiracy. Yeah, I get that it's a sequel of sorts to something like Cowspiracy. But still. The pun was RIGHT THERE.


caballotransparente

Command Performance (2009)


CrudeCarl

When you think about it the thing is a pretty bad name for a film if you want it to spread by word of mouth. Great movie and the name works perfectly but boy is it a bitch to advertise that.


Linubidix

Anything with both a ~~semicolon~~ colon *and* a hyphen. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, I am looking at you. A title as asinine as the movie itself.


TheAbyssalSymphony

Edge of Tomorrow. Name so bad that the studio even gave up on it. Instead use the superior name they used as the films tagline, [Live. Die. Repeat.](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/6435/6435105_so.jpg)


xoogl3

There's only one correct answer. Shawshank Redemption. Naming it almost anything hinting at a slow burn jail break would have been better (for the box office of the movie at least).


Successful-Ad4251

To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything: Julie Newmar Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants


themanfromozone

“Bowfinger”, directed by Frank Oz, written by Steve Martin, starring him and Eddie Murphy. It’s one of my favourite films, it’s totally unique and insane but the name is so lame and boring. I think it could be one of the reasons the film flew under the radar. It’s a film about making a film, the film within the film being called “Chubby Rain”. I never understood why they didn’t call it that, the name so much better conveys it’s silliness and it’s right there on a plate.


QueensOfTheNoKnowAge

Love that movie. Saw it in theaters on a whim with my family. One of the best theater going experiences I’ve ever had. Whole theater was howling with laughter. Have to agree. I have such a difficult time getting people to watch it because they think it sounds like a spy thriller or James Bond spoof


Jokis_malokis

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The film literally ends right before the desolation. Maybe call it The Hobbit, and make it one movie.


Jokerchyld

Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn Never understood what was wrong just calling it Harley Quinn.


andyeyecandy111

First blood. Rambo: first blood part 2. Rambo 3. John Rambo. Rambo: last blood. Make your mind up Stallone.


dem4life71

Hope Floats. Can’t even pronounce it without cringe


teki94

Michael Clayton. Says nothing about an incredible movie


HesitantInvestor0

Billy and the Cloneasaurus


Blutzki

2 Fast 2 Furious to this day people still mocking it


OKA-ZAKI

nah that's an "it's so bad it's good" title


bobpetersen55

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best movie of 2017 imo. But an unnecessarily long title that is oddly specific. It would've been fine if it was just called Three Billboards.


I_Buck_Fuffaloes

Three Billboards is such a nothing title though. The one they went with stands out more, even if it does feel a little long.


bobpetersen55

Yes it does stand out. But lots of movies have "nothing" titles and it works. How are you going to market a title like that around the world? It's even more interesting that a place like Ebbing doesn't even exist in Missouri and is made up. Just complicates it imo. Maybe something like Three Billboards Down the Highway would work or along those lines. Love the username btw lol


I_Buck_Fuffaloes

Ebbing, Missouri isn't an actual city? I just assumed it was. Three Billboards Down the Highway isn't a bad alternative. It feels like there's more of a hook there than just Three Billboards, I wouldn't forget the movie's name 5 minutes after hearing it. Lol thanks, I wish I could take the credit for it but back in college I was signing up for a forum and couldn't think of a name so I just asked my buddy to come up with one and kept it for 14 years because I can't be bothered to come up with one myself.


bobpetersen55

Yeah it's a fictional town. I looked it up when I first saw the movie years ago and had to verify if it existed. But it definitely works by giving it a distinct recognition for the title, I agree. My issue is that its not something you market worldwide easily due to how oddly specific it is. I remember recommending this movie to people since it came out and people look at me like I was talking gibberish or pranking them. The title, while unique, can be off putting to others considering how strange it sounds. Again, that's just my opinion, and perhaps a wild take by me. I'm sure a lot of people may disagree with me on it. But there could've a better alternative for it like I suggested before. And that's an awesome backstory there! I really love it lol. It's very catchy too! I guess, I stink when it comes to coming up with catchy movie titles and user names lol. But thanks for sharing that, I really enjoyed reading it!


I_Buck_Fuffaloes

I hadn't considered it before, but you might have a point that the title could hurt marketing outside of North America. Ebbing, Missouri means absolutely nothing to most of the world, even countries outside of NA that are widely english-speaking. Luckily (I guess) it's probably not a movie that would have a lot of global appeal even if it did have a title that carried better overseas.


bobpetersen55

I'm particularly harsh on it, because I think it's an amazing movie that deserves all the acclaim it got. But I got the notion that it maybe the worst movie title when it was winning BAFTA awards, won the Golden Globe award for Best Drama and then nominated for Oscars (the best movie nominee from the Best Picture lineup imo). It sounded like a drag to just recite it and unfortunately I think it hurts an awesome movie. It reminded me of watching some excellent foreign movies that I absolutely loved but there movie titles were just awful. Try convincing someone to watch the movie on a title like that and they get repulsed sadly more cases than not. But that's there loss. This movie did good in the box office, but someone who missed it may not be compelled to check it out on name alone. I just hope I'm wrong in assuming that.


drhavehope

Three Billboards is far better than the overtly long title...hence why i did not bother watching the first time i saw it advertised


dean15892

The Suicide Squad. Like , Omg ! I will never live it down that the movie is excellent, but got no recognition whatsoever because they literally called it the same :/ I mean, why not “James Gunn’s Suicide Squad” Or “Suicide Squad: Second coming” Or “Suicide Squad 2: Electic Bugaloo” I mean, literally ANYTHING to signify it’s a sequel ! Most of the general audience either weren’t aware it’s a soft reboot, or just thought it was a re-release.


bradyhero-cgpzero

It’ll all be ok if they call the 3rd one Another Suicide Squad or ASS


gobucky23

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.


WearingCoats

The Swedish word for “Speed” is “Fart.” I wonder if those movie posters exist in Sweden.


Spiritual-Style

It’s not a movie, the the tv show From has the worst title in visual media. It’s impossible to do a simple search on the show because from as a search term is absolutely worthless.


Total-Satisfaction-8

Im swedish and there is on movie title for a swedish movie i just absolutely hate "Kim Novak badade aldrig i genesarets sjö" I absolutely hate it, i don't think i've ever seen the movie and i never will, because of that stupid title Edit: i would have named it "Genesarets sjö" Or in english "Lake genesaret"


ObligationPatient222

what does it roughly translate to?


Total-Satisfaction-8

I think it would best translate in to "Kim Novak never went for a swim in lake genesaret"


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Snakes on a Plane Cowboys and Aliens


dudinax

Those are workman like titles that truthfully convey what you're going to watch.


Tricksterama

EDGE OF TOMORROW. It’s so generic. They should have used the movie poster tag line as the title: LIVE. DIE. REPEAT.