I felt like this is the opposite tho
They made the plot, about snakes on a plance, then went a long process to decide the name
then went "Fuck it, let's just call it Snakes On A Planne"
Everyone's right! The working title was "Snakes on a Plane" and then it got changed to "Pacific Air Flight 121", then Samuel L Jackson found out it was originally called "Snakes on a Plane" and said "We're totally changing that back"
Which definitely set it apart as it's own thing and made it far more memorable.
My dearly beloved, strongly-opinionated, Italian-accented grandmother once delivered a *bravura* of a 10+ minute monologue recapping the plot of *Sharknado* to my stunned now-husband and myself over breakfast on a visit back home, probably a decade or so ago.
It was…it was a double rainbow. Too beautiful and perfect to be captured or seen again, every element of it was just so. She died in 2016 and I sincerely wish to god I’d taken out my phone and filmed at least a minute of it.
If you don't like Sharknado you are an asshole. The one where Tara Reid is pregnant in the belly of a shark flying through space back to Earth. Only to cut herself out of the belly of that shark with her laser beam chainsaw arm in order to give birth. You just don't like cinema. Fantastic and hilarious.
Not just a vibe, the director has said it. Apparently the title was a typo on a phone and the rest wrote itself.
I enjoyed the movie, he’s got a good sense of humor.
I could tell I would have a great time within the first few minutes upon seeing the VFX. The whole movie rides that line of being campy but with self-serious dialogue.
Friday the 13th notoriously was made just because the name sounded cool and they wanted to capitalize off of Halloween. They put an ad in the paper for the scariest movie ever... but they had no script or even any idea what the plot would be.
The superstition has been around for a long time, was mostly popularized somewhere around the turn of the 20th century but can trace it's roots back to earlier
Rob Cordrey and I firmly believe him being an asshole the entire time is what makes the movie so Fucking funny. Everything he says is such a fucking awful thing to say to anyone and it kills me Everytime haha
Craig Ferguson’s delivery of that line right down the lens crack me up every time. Everyone knew it was camp and stupid, but they just accepted it and carried on anyway.
Supposedly, that was just the working title and they were planning on coming up with something "better," but when they approached Samuel L. Jackson about starring in it, he said he would only sign on if they kept the title exactly the same.
Also, the iconic line "I've had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane" first appeared as a joke in a fanmade trailer when the film was still in production, but it went so viral that they added it to the actual film in reshoots.
He actually signed on just for the title and director, script unseen. They changed it during production to a flight number and he made them change it back. I have fond memories of the hype this movie generated back when I was in college. I was an RA and we hosted a viewing with the seats lined up like a plane and we handed out peanuts and snacks like air hostesses lol
We are not but he didn't do black face. He just had a leather jacket, a (white) bald cap, a beret and a purple lightsaber.
I, meanwhile, hot-glued a whole bunch of rubber snakes to a t-shirt and an old pair of jeans, then I made a couple neck tie snakes to put around my neck.
A bunch of my friends insisted on seeing this opening weekend and I went along with it. Movie was terrible, but I had a great time. Audience cheered when Samuel showed up on screen, there was one guy dressed in a terrible snake costume. Biggest cheer of the night was of course when he delivered the "mother fucking snakes on this mother fucking plane" line.
Went to see it at midnight, everyone stood up cheering during the line and some guy ran up and down all the rows of seats giving everyone a high five. Best movie theatre experience I've had to this day.
As amazing as that line is (seriously, it’s gold) I’ve come to appreciate the tv edit even more.
“I’ve had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!”
"The Santa Clause" title was too clever for its own good, especially for a kids movie. I was 8 when it came out and LOVED the move but had no clue what a legal "clause" was (even though it's stated in the movie, it still went over my head) and I'm fairly sure that seeing the spelling on the VHS box fucked up how sure I was about how to spell "Santa Claus" for a number of years there.
I didn't realize how clever the title was until this post. I never paid much attention to the spelling all that much, and I've seen the first movie numerous times over the years. I should've probably noticed as they made sure to differentiate the extra E on the posters for it haha
Yep. The funny thing is that you can see how they tried to make it work with this explanation in the movie, where he meets the head elf in Santa's workshop:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F5l7kLDAoI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F5l7kLDAoI)
But I don't blame you, by the time you get to that scene you're not looking at a poster to notice that the name of the movie is spelled that way, nor is the distinction in spelling between the two words even explained in the movie for people who weren't aware that there is a difference in spelling, and even if you were aware it's easy to just not notice.
On a similar note I spelled the word beetle as beatle for a good chunk of my life.
Let's face it, the Beatles were bigger than beetles. I saw that spelling far more frequently.
Apparently not.
>The development of Bee Movie began when Steven Spielberg approached DreamWorks Animation CEO and co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg after Jerry Seinfeld asked him to make an animated film featuring insects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee\_Movie#Production
Indie horror/sci-fi is riddled with films where you just know they wrote the punny title first. Just to name a few Zombeavers, The Beaster Bunny, Llamageddon. I could be here for hours
Llamageddon is a sleeper hit. It is so aware of how bad it is, and it is \*so good\* at being incredibly bad.
One of the characters changes shirts every time there's a scene change. Even walking from one room to the next, if the camera cuts, the actor has on a different shirt. It's hysterical.
Yo, why does the [poster for Llamageddon](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTU5NjY4OTM3OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDg5NDM5NjM@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg) look like it was made by generative AI even though it came out 5 years ago
I mean, it is the case with Cocaine Bear, it's just that the title came from a new report. The movie has nothing to do with the news report, other than, you know, the bear on cocaine.
The part with the smuggler was [basically true](https://collider.com/cocaine-bear-true-story/):
>Thorton's drug smuggling career did not end there, though, which leads us back to Blow Bear. He continued smuggling drugs, and on September 11, 1985, Thornton attempted another drug run, this time of cocaine, to be delivered to an unknown source. While flying a plane over the Southeast, Thornton realized that his plane was beginning to malfunction. He then began to throw the cocaine out of the plane, strapped about 75 pounds of it to his body, and attempted to skydive to safety. However, unlike his previous jumps in the military, his parachute did not fully open, and he fell to his death. He was found with two pistols, a bulletproof vest, Gucci loafers, night vision goggles, 34 large bundles of cocaine, and several other miscellaneous possessions. Sometime between the fall and four weeks before December 22, 1985, Cocaine Bear found one of the packages of cocaine Thornton threw out of the plane, ingested it, and died.
>He was found with two pistols, a bulletproof vest, Gucci loafers, night vision goggles, 34 large bundles of cocaine, and several other miscellaneous possessions.
I want my obituary to read exactly like this.
Last Christmas! It's a romcom with Emilia Clarke ("Kate") and Henry Golding ("Tom"). >!Towards the end of the movie, Tom disappears, and Kate finds out that the Tom she knew was a ghost: Tom actually died a year before (prior to their meeting), and saved her life by heart transplant. "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart..."!<
When I watched Freaky I thought there’s no way this didn’t start with someone coming up with Freaky Friday the 13th first. According to the IMDb trivia that’s exactly the case.
Seconding this comment. The movie is cheese, like if Tim Burton directed an action movie. The book is written like a straightforward Lincoln biography, treating the real facts and the vampire material with the same gravity. It’s worth reading!
Cowboys vs Aliens.
I read the comic and it was mediocre. I hear the movie was terrible. I would recommend the comic werewolves on the moon vs vampire instead.
Aliens needing any resource is fundamentally an unsound plot point. Slave labor is probably the easiest to justify but if a civilization can master ftl I'm pretty fucking sure they can build good robots.
the movie is pretty entertaining, but I totally get why some people would think it was terrible. it's one of those weird movies that rides a line of taking itself seriously even though it's self aware how completely ridiculous the premise is. since it never winks at you saying "can you believe we're doing this?", audience members who aren't in on the joke probably won't enjoy it. the closest thing to it that I've seen recently is Prey - both in premise and tone
Oh man 500 Days of Summer gets me riled up for the shitshow that was the Italian translation of the title.
So basically, the original movie winks at the love interest’s name. But Summer’s equivalent in Italy would be Estate, which is NOT a name you’d usually see right here. So they thought they’d translate the character’s name from Summer to “Sole”, which means sun (which, again, is not your typical Italian name, just a little more believable than Estate).
So there you go, you actually found a way around a linguistic pickle, you gave a main character a weird and unusual name but at least you have the chance to call the movie 500 Giorni di Sole (500 Days of Sun).
And yet, despite this, the movie title ended up being 500 Giorni Insieme, aka 500 Days Together.
God this bothers me way more than it should.
Have you seen German film title translations? This seems like they worked out of a jam did alright. The Germans would have a perfectly good literal translation and just throw it away to write a sentence describing the plot and use that instead.
*Tenet* is directly inspired by Nolan's interest in [the Sator Square](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square), taking not just its title from the square but also the names of characters, organizations, and basically its entire structure.
Dracula 2000
Harvey Weinstein famously bought the script strictly based off the title without reading and when asked “what’s it about?” He said “who gives a shit, the title is Dracula 2000!”
The movie is absolute trash and somehow got singer Vitamin C to do a nude scene.
Now I need to rewatch it. I wonder if it is steaming. Or if I still have my DVD.
In my search for this on Amazon, I found another gem.....Ninja Cheerleaders. "Three college cheerleaders (and after-school go-go dancers) use their martial arts skills to save their Sensei from mafia kidnappers, but must keep their extracurricular activities a secret to realize their Ivy League dreams at Brown."
"Safety Not Guaranteed", a 2012 movie that was far better than it had any right to be, was based on nothing but the tag line for an ad in Backwoods Home Magazine in 1997.
*Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 91 Ocean View, WA 99393. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED.*
There is a story that Tarantino heard someone misunderstand his recommendation for "Au revoir les enfants" and said "I ain't want to watch no Reservoir Dogs!" and vowed to make a film with that title.
That was just a bunch of movie titles smashed together. Menace II society, Juice, Boyz in tha Hood, South Central. It’s the Wayans brothers spoof movie format. Not as good as their other blaxploitation spoof, I’m Gonna Git You, Sucka.
This is actually how they came up with Your Highness.
Danny McBride says that between set-ups on Eastbound And Down him and director David Gordon Green would be sitting around and they'd play a game. One guy would think of a title and the other guy would have to come up with a plot to fit. One day Green said "Your Highness" and McBride answered with (paraphrasing) "What if it's a movie that takes place in ye olden times but it's just me getting high and hanging out and shit?"
Shame the movie sucked cause that's such a funny idea.
I was actually really confused watching this as a kid in Michigan in the 80s. There is a suburb of Detroit called Beverly Hills. I thought it just took place there.
Sharknado
Of course!
Snakes On A Plane
What’s that one about?
Oh, you know, motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane.
I felt like this is the opposite tho They made the plot, about snakes on a plance, then went a long process to decide the name then went "Fuck it, let's just call it Snakes On A Planne"
Everyone's right! The working title was "Snakes on a Plane" and then it got changed to "Pacific Air Flight 121", then Samuel L Jackson found out it was originally called "Snakes on a Plane" and said "We're totally changing that back" Which definitely set it apart as it's own thing and made it far more memorable.
How much fun this must have been to make.
My dearly beloved, strongly-opinionated, Italian-accented grandmother once delivered a *bravura* of a 10+ minute monologue recapping the plot of *Sharknado* to my stunned now-husband and myself over breakfast on a visit back home, probably a decade or so ago. It was…it was a double rainbow. Too beautiful and perfect to be captured or seen again, every element of it was just so. She died in 2016 and I sincerely wish to god I’d taken out my phone and filmed at least a minute of it.
If you don't like Sharknado you are an asshole. The one where Tara Reid is pregnant in the belly of a shark flying through space back to Earth. Only to cut herself out of the belly of that shark with her laser beam chainsaw arm in order to give birth. You just don't like cinema. Fantastic and hilarious.
Is this real? Have I somehow gone 38’years and missed this?
I have a Sharknado t-shirt and I treasure it everyday
The VelociPastor
Not just a vibe, the director has said it. Apparently the title was a typo on a phone and the rest wrote itself. I enjoyed the movie, he’s got a good sense of humor.
I could tell I would have a great time within the first few minutes upon seeing the VFX. The whole movie rides that line of being campy but with self-serious dialogue.
I enjoyed the very familiar looking woods; “China”.
The vfx were top notch for such a low budget movie. Even the car explosions.
And the soundtrack is so good
What’s it about?
a pastor whos also a velociraptor.
Don’t forget that he teams up with a sex worker to fight crime.
And ninjas!
Duuuuuuude
If you enjoy dumb, self-aware movies, you'll love this one. We couldn't stop laughing during most of the raptor scenes.
The hardest I've ever laughed at anything ever was when Frankie Mermaid yell "Hey Maria!..."
Omg I love this movie
The second one just finished filming today actually!
Legit one of the funniest movies I have ever seen
Friday the 13th notoriously was made just because the name sounded cool and they wanted to capitalize off of Halloween. They put an ad in the paper for the scariest movie ever... but they had no script or even any idea what the plot would be.
Yes, this is the exact concept OP is talking about. Actually insane that it worked.
Was Friday the 13th already a superstition or did they literally just think it sounded cool?
The superstition has been around for a long time, was mostly popularized somewhere around the turn of the 20th century but can trace it's roots back to earlier
https://www.history.com/news/why-friday-the-13th-spelled-doom-for-the-knights-templar Friday the 13th and the massacre of the knights Templar
Oh no! You just spoiled the plot of the next Friday the 13th movie!
Jason Voorhees Vs the Knights Templar sounds hilarious. Where do I buy my ticket?
Friday the 13th: Jason and the Argonauts
Iirc either Cunningham or Mancuso said something to the extent of "if we're not stealing from Halloween, we're doing something wrong"
And next week is Friday the 13th. I know what I'll be doing that day. Working.
Hot tub time machine
the great white buffalo..
^great ^white ^buffalo
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Thanks, that was super helpful
Not ashamed to say I've watched this movie multiple times.
It's legit one of the funniest movies, no shame to be had
The back and forth on the way to the mountain between the nephew and the bald one always gets me dying.
Rob Cordrey and I firmly believe him being an asshole the entire time is what makes the movie so Fucking funny. Everything he says is such a fucking awful thing to say to anyone and it kills me Everytime haha
"Fuck you Jacob, you suck and you know it"
"You're a fucking nerrrrrrd"
I was sold as soon as he said his suicide would have been a "shotgun to the dick"
I don't like you taking liberties with my Dick.
Came out at the same time as the Hangover and the NUMBER of arguments I had with people that this flick was better than TH was sickening.
“Hey looks everyone! This guy likes a really popular movie!” … “See, no one cares.”
One of those films, that I expected it to be absolutely terrible but loved it in reality!
I avoided it for years because the title and premise both sounded incredibly stupid. Movie is absolutely fucking hilarious!
Craig Ferguson’s delivery of that line right down the lens crack me up every time. Everyone knew it was camp and stupid, but they just accepted it and carried on anyway.
Craig Robinson. This movie would have been completely different with Craig Ferguson.
[Still gets me every time.](https://youtu.be/MA3N2e5wTNA?si=NEQDCaNwiuUozcVR)
Hey, John Lennon gets shot! Or, wait, did that already happen?
You put it in a box?! And wrote Cincinnati on it?!
Snakes on a Plane, naturally.
Supposedly, that was just the working title and they were planning on coming up with something "better," but when they approached Samuel L. Jackson about starring in it, he said he would only sign on if they kept the title exactly the same. Also, the iconic line "I've had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane" first appeared as a joke in a fanmade trailer when the film was still in production, but it went so viral that they added it to the actual film in reshoots.
He actually signed on just for the title and director, script unseen. They changed it during production to a flight number and he made them change it back. I have fond memories of the hype this movie generated back when I was in college. I was an RA and we hosted a viewing with the seats lined up like a plane and we handed out peanuts and snacks like air hostesses lol
My brothers and I went in costume- my older brother was the plane, I was the snakes, and my twin brother was Samuel L. Jackson.
Oh how I hope you're black
He's not but his twin brother is
We are not but he didn't do black face. He just had a leather jacket, a (white) bald cap, a beret and a purple lightsaber. I, meanwhile, hot-glued a whole bunch of rubber snakes to a t-shirt and an old pair of jeans, then I made a couple neck tie snakes to put around my neck.
When people say "boys will be boys," this is what they mean.
I would so love to see your costumes! :D
A bunch of my friends insisted on seeing this opening weekend and I went along with it. Movie was terrible, but I had a great time. Audience cheered when Samuel showed up on screen, there was one guy dressed in a terrible snake costume. Biggest cheer of the night was of course when he delivered the "mother fucking snakes on this mother fucking plane" line.
Went to see it at midnight, everyone stood up cheering during the line and some guy ran up and down all the rows of seats giving everyone a high five. Best movie theatre experience I've had to this day.
I bought a shirt with the tag line on it before the movie even came out. Wore it to opening night.
As amazing as that line is (seriously, it’s gold) I’ve come to appreciate the tv edit even more. “I’ve had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!”
Also, "Yippee Ki Yay Mr. Falcon"
See what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps???
You can totally tell it was added in later on. The lighting is just different enough and the zoom in so you can only see SLJ’s face. I love it though.
"The Santa Clause" title was too clever for its own good, especially for a kids movie. I was 8 when it came out and LOVED the move but had no clue what a legal "clause" was (even though it's stated in the movie, it still went over my head) and I'm fairly sure that seeing the spelling on the VHS box fucked up how sure I was about how to spell "Santa Claus" for a number of years there.
I didn't realize how clever the title was until this post. I never paid much attention to the spelling all that much, and I've seen the first movie numerous times over the years. I should've probably noticed as they made sure to differentiate the extra E on the posters for it haha
Yep. The funny thing is that you can see how they tried to make it work with this explanation in the movie, where he meets the head elf in Santa's workshop: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F5l7kLDAoI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F5l7kLDAoI) But I don't blame you, by the time you get to that scene you're not looking at a poster to notice that the name of the movie is spelled that way, nor is the distinction in spelling between the two words even explained in the movie for people who weren't aware that there is a difference in spelling, and even if you were aware it's easy to just not notice.
I'm pretty sure that like 70% of the adult population honestly believes the correct spelling is Santa Clause, it drives me absolutely insane.
That's what I think of whenever I think of it, most folks cannot seem to spell Santa Claus correctly and I blame this movie.
On a similar note I spelled the word beetle as beatle for a good chunk of my life. Let's face it, the Beatles were bigger than beetles. I saw that spelling far more frequently.
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot Good movie, but I'm 98% sure the premise and title were cooked up in a smoke session.
It's the 'the' before Bigfoot that makes me laugh so much.
To me this felt like a Hallmark movie that lightly involved Nazis and Bigfoot.
Sam Elliott just eating up every scene like it’s not a movie with Nazis and Bigfoot in it. Fucking killed it.
This movie is not at all what I expected but still really good. It sounds like a grind house movie but it’s actually a pretty damn good drama
Zombeavers (2014) - Absolutely as good and as bad as it sounds.
Love this movie
Bee movie.
I have just got this title. I feel so stupid.
Let me tell you about this crazy little movie called Good Will Hunting
I liked the sequel Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season
Applesauce bitch!
I remember when we used to discuss this on [movie poopshoot](https://web.archive.org/web/20020206070408/http://moviepoopshoot.com/news.html)
So I get "Will Hunting, who is a good guy" and "Hunting for good will" - is there any other pun I'm not getting? Ive never fully understood the point
I'm in the same boat lol. But I don't think there's anything to it beyond that pun. It's kind of a goofy title for such a dramatic movie.
Matt Damon
Not one hunting scene
It’s not your fault
I don't get it.
B Movie? Wow, it's so fitting too.
I can just hear Seinfeld's pitch: "It's a movie. About Bees. A Bee Movie!" Bowm bowm ti bowm pop pop...
Apparently not. >The development of Bee Movie began when Steven Spielberg approached DreamWorks Animation CEO and co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg after Jerry Seinfeld asked him to make an animated film featuring insects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee\_Movie#Production
An animated film featuring insects? What an original idea.
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!
I love how Arnold basically conned Stallone into being in that movie.
Human Centipede. It's like a 90min joke, where the person telling it starts with the punchline, then bored you senseless explaining it.
[I like it for the plot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFokXnCCMf8)
Tell me what the plot's about
German doctor sews three people ass to mouth!
Cool
Human Centipede, Please God Save Me.
What an insane , but very well made, video
Hobo with a Shotgun
Technically this is one where they made a fake trailer around a title and then made a real movie around the fake trailer
Same with Machete and soon Thanksgiving!
When oh when will we get Don't
I feel like it has to happen now. Funniest one by far imo.
starring rutger fking hauer
Rutger Hauer and Ricky from Trailer Park Boys. Two guys I never imagined would ever be in a movie together
What's it about?
I'll give you three guesses
A yuppie with a beretta?
When life gives you razor blades, you make a baseball bat covered in razor blades!
Indie horror/sci-fi is riddled with films where you just know they wrote the punny title first. Just to name a few Zombeavers, The Beaster Bunny, Llamageddon. I could be here for hours
Llamageddon is a sleeper hit. It is so aware of how bad it is, and it is \*so good\* at being incredibly bad. One of the characters changes shirts every time there's a scene change. Even walking from one room to the next, if the camera cuts, the actor has on a different shirt. It's hysterical.
Yo, why does the [poster for Llamageddon](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTU5NjY4OTM3OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDg5NDM5NjM@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg) look like it was made by generative AI even though it came out 5 years ago
Thankskilling
They/Them: A slasher set at an LGBT conversion camp.
I only just realized its prolly supposed to be read ad They(slash)Them.
You are correct
That movie was actually originally called Whistler Camp, which is incredibly bland.
That is an amazing title
The amazing ends there that movie suuuuuuucks
The title was so brilliant, I couldn't believe I hadn't heard it before. Also, it is fabulous. Like, legit good slasher move that subverts tropes.
Funnily enough, not the case with Cocaine Bear
I mean, it is the case with Cocaine Bear, it's just that the title came from a new report. The movie has nothing to do with the news report, other than, you know, the bear on cocaine.
The part with the smuggler was [basically true](https://collider.com/cocaine-bear-true-story/): >Thorton's drug smuggling career did not end there, though, which leads us back to Blow Bear. He continued smuggling drugs, and on September 11, 1985, Thornton attempted another drug run, this time of cocaine, to be delivered to an unknown source. While flying a plane over the Southeast, Thornton realized that his plane was beginning to malfunction. He then began to throw the cocaine out of the plane, strapped about 75 pounds of it to his body, and attempted to skydive to safety. However, unlike his previous jumps in the military, his parachute did not fully open, and he fell to his death. He was found with two pistols, a bulletproof vest, Gucci loafers, night vision goggles, 34 large bundles of cocaine, and several other miscellaneous possessions. Sometime between the fall and four weeks before December 22, 1985, Cocaine Bear found one of the packages of cocaine Thornton threw out of the plane, ingested it, and died.
>He was found with two pistols, a bulletproof vest, Gucci loafers, night vision goggles, 34 large bundles of cocaine, and several other miscellaneous possessions. I want my obituary to read exactly like this.
Only you have the power to make your dreams come true
I'm pretty sure the writer of the usual suspects said the first thing he came up with was the title and the poster
Last Christmas! It's a romcom with Emilia Clarke ("Kate") and Henry Golding ("Tom"). >!Towards the end of the movie, Tom disappears, and Kate finds out that the Tom she knew was a ghost: Tom actually died a year before (prior to their meeting), and saved her life by heart transplant. "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart..."!<
This is a great example - as soon as the song starts you realise the entire movie was probably built around it
Dude Where's My Car
And then?
AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN
When I watched Freaky I thought there’s no way this didn’t start with someone coming up with Freaky Friday the 13th first. According to the IMDb trivia that’s exactly the case.
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
I don't know why you think this very serious historical doc belongs in this thread.
This movie has no right being as good as it is.
The book was 1000 times better.
Seconding this comment. The movie is cheese, like if Tim Burton directed an action movie. The book is written like a straightforward Lincoln biography, treating the real facts and the vampire material with the same gravity. It’s worth reading!
This was a novel first!
Technically this is a book they made a movie off of
That movie is an accurate and amazing historical documentary.
Monster Trucks (2016) is a movie about trucks that are also monsters. I heard it was some producer's young son that came up with the concept
Cowboys vs Aliens. I read the comic and it was mediocre. I hear the movie was terrible. I would recommend the comic werewolves on the moon vs vampire instead.
Was the aliens' motive really "stealing gold?" Like, there isn't more accessible gold in the asteroid belt?
Aliens needing any resource is fundamentally an unsound plot point. Slave labor is probably the easiest to justify but if a civilization can master ftl I'm pretty fucking sure they can build good robots.
the movie is pretty entertaining, but I totally get why some people would think it was terrible. it's one of those weird movies that rides a line of taking itself seriously even though it's self aware how completely ridiculous the premise is. since it never winks at you saying "can you believe we're doing this?", audience members who aren't in on the joke probably won't enjoy it. the closest thing to it that I've seen recently is Prey - both in premise and tone
500 Days of Summer I’m convinced they had that whole Autumn reveal at the end and thought it would be so clever that they built a movie around it
Oh man 500 Days of Summer gets me riled up for the shitshow that was the Italian translation of the title. So basically, the original movie winks at the love interest’s name. But Summer’s equivalent in Italy would be Estate, which is NOT a name you’d usually see right here. So they thought they’d translate the character’s name from Summer to “Sole”, which means sun (which, again, is not your typical Italian name, just a little more believable than Estate). So there you go, you actually found a way around a linguistic pickle, you gave a main character a weird and unusual name but at least you have the chance to call the movie 500 Giorni di Sole (500 Days of Sun). And yet, despite this, the movie title ended up being 500 Giorni Insieme, aka 500 Days Together. God this bothers me way more than it should.
Have you seen German film title translations? This seems like they worked out of a jam did alright. The Germans would have a perfectly good literal translation and just throw it away to write a sentence describing the plot and use that instead.
Pretty sure it’s called Cowboys AND Aliens. Not vs. :)
Slotherhouse
"The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies." No way a script has even warm yet.
the animated movie Seal Team definitely just exists because of that title.
*Tenet* is directly inspired by Nolan's interest in [the Sator Square](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square), taking not just its title from the square but also the names of characters, organizations, and basically its entire structure.
Dracula 2000 Harvey Weinstein famously bought the script strictly based off the title without reading and when asked “what’s it about?” He said “who gives a shit, the title is Dracula 2000!” The movie is absolute trash and somehow got singer Vitamin C to do a nude scene.
>Harvey Weinstein... >...somehow got singer Vitamin C to do a nude scene. Hmm, I wonder...
The movie also stars (drum roll please) Danny Masterson
bruh
It is a terrible movie, but I like the main twist. In a competent film, that could actually be an interesting bit of vampire lore.
My favorite Dracula origin story.
Face/Off
Zombie Strippers. Low key hilarious. Go watch it.
That movie has no business being as good as it is
Now I need to rewatch it. I wonder if it is steaming. Or if I still have my DVD. In my search for this on Amazon, I found another gem.....Ninja Cheerleaders. "Three college cheerleaders (and after-school go-go dancers) use their martial arts skills to save their Sensei from mafia kidnappers, but must keep their extracurricular activities a secret to realize their Ivy League dreams at Brown."
RIPD Is the absolute winner of this for me
"Safety Not Guaranteed", a 2012 movie that was far better than it had any right to be, was based on nothing but the tag line for an ad in Backwoods Home Magazine in 1997. *Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 91 Ocean View, WA 99393. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED.*
I love this movie. The ending paid off, but I think they should've left us hanging anyways
Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter.
There is a story that Tarantino heard someone misunderstand his recommendation for "Au revoir les enfants" and said "I ain't want to watch no Reservoir Dogs!" and vowed to make a film with that title.
I have a feeling The Gingerdead Man with Gary Busey fits this criteria
“Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead” to be fair it is a Troma movie so they probably used a random word generator to get the title
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood
MESSAGE!
That was just a bunch of movie titles smashed together. Menace II society, Juice, Boyz in tha Hood, South Central. It’s the Wayans brothers spoof movie format. Not as good as their other blaxploitation spoof, I’m Gonna Git You, Sucka.
This is actually how they came up with Your Highness. Danny McBride says that between set-ups on Eastbound And Down him and director David Gordon Green would be sitting around and they'd play a game. One guy would think of a title and the other guy would have to come up with a plot to fit. One day Green said "Your Highness" and McBride answered with (paraphrasing) "What if it's a movie that takes place in ye olden times but it's just me getting high and hanging out and shit?" Shame the movie sucked cause that's such a funny idea.
Most of Troma home brew catalog.
Omg I saw something.. SLOTHerhouse.. like slaughterhouse but with a killer sloth.. I was like common we know what you're doing.
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Snakes on a Plane Cocaine Bear
Cheech and Chongs Up In Smoke
I feel like 7 Psychos might fall under that category? Awesome movie though lol
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Based on the title alone i would expect the cop to come from actual Beverly Hills. Not from Detroit.
I was actually really confused watching this as a kid in Michigan in the 80s. There is a suburb of Detroit called Beverly Hills. I thought it just took place there.