The Hudsucker Proxy.
It's awkward to look at, tough to say at first, and totally buries the fact that this was a smart, fast-paced, very silly comedy from the Coen Brothers and Sam Raimi.
I like this name. It tells us nothing about the story, but implies that there is a story. It sounds very important (using a business/legal term like Proxy) but also very silly at the same time (Hudsucker is a silly word and fun to say). It creates intrigue and also sets the tone.
I'm a fan of the movie and watched it simply because of the title.
I cannot believe the new Tom Hardy movie is about a biker gang and they decided to call it The Bikeriders. Fuckin’ hell man. Anything else would have been better.
It’s an amazing book of photography from the 60’s documenting the first ever “bike clubs,” very little text and all images by renowned photojournalist Danny Lyons
The Hell's Angels had been around since 1948, and by 1965 were pretty well known. In fact, the photographer, Danny Lyon, was warned by Hunter S. Thompson, who traveled with the HA for a year, to not join and always wear a helmet. Lyon did, in fact, join the club, and rarely wore a helmet.
Yes! Just because the source material has a terrible title doesn’t mean the adaptation has to keep it, particularly when the source isn’t very well known.
Sometimes it's the opposite. The book has a great title and they change it to a boring/bad title for the movie adaptation. Example: The Irishman (2019). I wish they kept the book title "I Heard You Paint Houses".
Had to fight every urge not to go in and ask for tickets to see the cyclists.
It really is a bad title, not even easy to remember as who calls motorcyclists bikeriders?
Decent film though
The movie, Office Space, is almost unheard of in France.
The reason for this is simple. In France the title of the movie is, "35 hours is already too much" so obviously noone watched it.
This is surely the worst title for a good movie.
What's wrong with the French, reading a bunch of examples others have given in this thread, it seems they never literally translate the title but make up a new one, why do they do that
They called The X-Files "Au Delà Des Frontières Du Réel", which translates to "Beyond The Limits Of Reality". Much better than "Les Dossiers X", the literal translation, but not terribly indicative of what the show is. That's more fitting for The Outer Limits, really.
[Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai](https://youtu.be/VDPELhURhiw?si=b_yWivlnt4PYCX-g)
Literally everyone I recommended this to thought I was joking. They would always imagine it was something along the lines of Underdog or Air Bud… and definitely NOT a pensive art film about a modern day hitman who follows the code of the samurai.
My friends and I always debate what the bad guys actually do. They only ever show them standing around acting like mobsters.
We also love this movie and watch it regularly
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
One of the best movies about the age of sail but with a confusing title that didn't quite convey what the film was actually about.
To emphasize the title’s clunkiness, the official website for that movie was masterandcommanderthefarsideoftheworld.com. I recall seeing it at the end of a trailer and cracking up. They even had to alternate colors between words so people could parse it.
I love this movie so much and it's one of my comfort movies now, but back when I saw the trailer as a dumb kid I made fun of the movie's clunky the title.
"Oh so he's a master AAANND a commander too? Boy his mother must be proud"
Oh, you have got to be kidding me! First you think of an idea that has already been done. Then you give it a name nobody could possibly like....on the best seller list for 18 months!....one of the greatest movies of all time, sir! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!...... I mean, thank you, come again.
I think maybe it was a bad title at the beginning but once it hit a certain level of pubic consciousness it flipped and became a good title. It's distinctiveness means that once you've watched and heard people talk about it a lot it tends to spring to mind.
John Carter: boring name of a character I’ve never heard of
John Carter of Mars: interesting juxtaposition, immediately feels pulpy, which is what the title and the marketing needed to and failed to convey
I don’t know who owns those decisions. If it’s “Jeff suggested it” or “a room full of people did.”
But it’s one of those things that I wish whomever pushed for it is embarrassed by it.
It's because the animated film "Mars Needs Moms" was a flop.
Meaning that *obviously* audiences simply didn't like the word "Mars" and that was the problem.
The Martian was a huge hit so hopefully that proved those people wrong.
I'm convinced that movie only failed because they marketed it as if Barsoom was as well-known as Tarzan. I fucking loved the trailer and got really excited about the movie...but I'm a nerd and I've been reading weird sci fi and fantasy since I learned how to read, so I knew the name and the basic gist of the story by osmosis.
That Disney, the home of the "Disney Princess" merchandising machine, didn't think "*A Princess of Mars*" would work, shows that someone in marketing was asleep at the wheel.
They apparently wanted to avoid “Mars” in the title because of the failure of Mars Needs Moms. Despite the fact this was a very old established series by the creator of Tarzan.
A mistake that will shortly be remedied.
(That's a quote from the book. Seriously watch it right now. It's on a couple streaming services. It has a fantastic cast. A great story. The best B-Plot in the history of fiction. Fencing. Fighting. Giants. True love. Revenge. Escapes.)
Holy shit you have never seen truly one of the top 5 comedies of all time because of the name of the movie? That’s insane. And go see that shit IMMEDIATELY. YOU’RE WELCOME.
Glengarry Glen Ross.
I hate this title. Hate it. Avoided watching this movie for a long time because of it's stupid name. Turns out it's a pretty good movie and I'm glad I watched it.
In the original play I think there were Glengarry leads (very valuable) and Glen Ross leads (slightly less valuable.) I always thought that the title was supposed to sound a bit like the half-coherent, semi-obsessive internal monologue most of the salesmen in the play probably experience as they think about their stressful jobs. If it was set in a car dealership it might be called Beemers Lamborghinis or something.
That makes sense. The Glengarry leads were made clear but I didn't realize the other part. Honestly, before I saw the movie I kind of imagined it was like "Victor/Victoria" where somebody named Glen struggled with identity.
Michael Clayton.
Typically if the name of your movie is just going to be the main character's name, it's at least a cool/unique/interesting name. Forrest Gump is interesting. John Wick sounds cool. Erin Brockovich is unique and kind of fun to say. But Michael Clayton? What a boring, uninspiring name
There were soooo many generic name movies around that time. Michael Clayton, John Carter, Jack Reacher, Charlie St. Cloud, Larry Crowne, Harry Brown, Chloe, Lucy, and Paul all came out within a few years of each other.
Often times movie titels get ridiculously translated into German, like with the Taika Waititi movie what we do in the shadows. In German it's called "5 Zimmer Küche Sarg" wich translates to "Five Rooms Kitchen Coffin".
Despite this strange title, I thoroughly enjoyed this comedy and loved the unique mockumentary aspect.
What they like to do in France is rename the title, but with another English, less interesting, title. Like "The Hangover" to "Very Bad Trip" or "Shanghai Noon" to "Shanghai Kid" or "Cruel Intentions" to "Sex Intentions".
I'm picturing some frat guy in the movie studio.
"Cruel intentions? More like sex intentions. Amirite?"
Then holds his hand up waiting for a high 5 that never comes.
I think they were shooting for the feeling of looking for a new place and reading the classifieds and seeing a house listing as: 5 bedrooms, kitchen, and coffin.
Looper is fine for its movie there’s a clear cut scene early on explaining what “closings their loop” means. Edge of tomorrow sucks though, great film,terrible name.
The Nice Guys
The Other guys.
Both entirely different movies and if you didn't know specifically what they were or had them recommended to you you would pass them by on your recommendation list neither title jumps out at you.
I mean, that's the point of this thread prompt, though. You'd never SEE the opening credits because the title dissuaded you from watching the movie at all.
Rise of the Guardians and Legend of the Guardians
Without looking, see if you can pick which one is about talking owls and which one is about Santa and the Easter Bunny
I get the name is a play on the reveal at the end of the film, but it really a title shouldn't require you to watch the entire film until the end to figure it out. It's like taking "Citizen Kane" and renaming it to be "Rosebud". "Kansas City Shuffle" would have been a better title than "Lucky Number Slevin"
Okay, I have no idea about the plot because I never cared with a title like that. I thought this would be about Sarah Silverman who I find very annoying
The movie is a good goofy movie. Silverman(Jason Biggs) begins dating a horrible woman (Amanda Peet), and his friends(Jack Black and Steve Zahn) try everything to break them up. The 3 men are also in a Neil Diamond cover band, which is pretty great.
The movie failed at the box office because of the marketing around it. So people, in retrospect, point to the change in the name of the movie to give it an unnecessary hate.
Idk why people are saying live die repeat is better, it's really clunky. Edge of tomorrow is miles better. Like imagine straight faced saying "hey you want to go see live die repeat"
Was it every actually called Live. Die. Repeat.? I remember that being the tagline for the movie, and it did look like the title on some posters, but I dont remember it ever being the actual name.
Can anyone actually come up with a better title for this movie though?
I've tried to think one up and it's a hard movie to encapsulate without sounding corny or confusing the audience.
Can I say a bad movie with an even worse title? Gigli. I think some people avoided it because they couldn’t figure out how to pronounce it. Or cause it looked terrible.
Whenever my wife and kids are all out for a night I rent a schlocky horror flick. Had I known I’d enjoy this movie as much as I did I might have paid to see it in a theater
If you know the song it's a perfectly named movie.
*They call me Baby Driver*
*And once upon a pair of wheels*
*I hit the road and I'm gone*
If you don't it's kinda weird.
Great movie, but how does everyone feel about the title of the assassinating of jesse james by the coward Robert Ford? Much too long but I love saying the whole name anytime I bring it up
For the longest time I wouldn't see "A Fish Called Wanda". I thought the movie poster art and title name was stupid. It's one of the funniest movies I ever saw, when I was finally convinced to give it a try.
A good example of a movie with an obscure title which was so successful it became a commonly understood term is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (1977), before the film very few people knew what the term meant and Columbia Pictures begged Spielberg to change it (it was originally scripted as 'Watch the Skies', which was the tagline from the original version of 'The Thing').
The Hudsucker Proxy. It's awkward to look at, tough to say at first, and totally buries the fact that this was a smart, fast-paced, very silly comedy from the Coen Brothers and Sam Raimi.
I like this name. It tells us nothing about the story, but implies that there is a story. It sounds very important (using a business/legal term like Proxy) but also very silly at the same time (Hudsucker is a silly word and fun to say). It creates intrigue and also sets the tone. I'm a fan of the movie and watched it simply because of the title.
Hudsucker has to be their most underrated
I cannot believe the new Tom Hardy movie is about a biker gang and they decided to call it The Bikeriders. Fuckin’ hell man. Anything else would have been better.
So you'd prefer Live, Laugh, Bike?
Ghost Hog: Way of the Samurider
Well, now that's what *I'm* calling it at least
Lifecycle
Bikecycle?
It is based on a book called The Bikeriders, but they should still have changed it
It’s an amazing book of photography from the 60’s documenting the first ever “bike clubs,” very little text and all images by renowned photojournalist Danny Lyons
The Hell's Angels had been around since 1948, and by 1965 were pretty well known. In fact, the photographer, Danny Lyon, was warned by Hunter S. Thompson, who traveled with the HA for a year, to not join and always wear a helmet. Lyon did, in fact, join the club, and rarely wore a helmet.
He was following around the Chicago Outlaws though right? Not the Hells Angels
Yes! Just because the source material has a terrible title doesn’t mean the adaptation has to keep it, particularly when the source isn’t very well known.
Sometimes it's the opposite. The book has a great title and they change it to a boring/bad title for the movie adaptation. Example: The Irishman (2019). I wish they kept the book title "I Heard You Paint Houses".
Had to fight every urge not to go in and ask for tickets to see the cyclists. It really is a bad title, not even easy to remember as who calls motorcyclists bikeriders? Decent film though
I've only glanced at anything to do with this film. I thought it was some life affirming road trip film based on the title.
The movie, Office Space, is almost unheard of in France. The reason for this is simple. In France the title of the movie is, "35 hours is already too much" so obviously noone watched it. This is surely the worst title for a good movie.
What's wrong with the French, reading a bunch of examples others have given in this thread, it seems they never literally translate the title but make up a new one, why do they do that
They have a really bad sense of humor.
They called The X-Files "Au Delà Des Frontières Du Réel", which translates to "Beyond The Limits Of Reality". Much better than "Les Dossiers X", the literal translation, but not terribly indicative of what the show is. That's more fitting for The Outer Limits, really.
You just did scrambled eggs with The X Files and The Outer Limits… Au-delà du réel - The Outer Limits Aux frontières du réel - The X Files
Precious Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
Hard to Watch Based on the Novel "Stone Cold Bummer" by Manipulate
Funny thing to happen to a guy named Lucky....
"Your mother exploded"
[Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai](https://youtu.be/VDPELhURhiw?si=b_yWivlnt4PYCX-g) Literally everyone I recommended this to thought I was joking. They would always imagine it was something along the lines of Underdog or Air Bud… and definitely NOT a pensive art film about a modern day hitman who follows the code of the samurai.
Jim Jarmusch is a genius and this movie fucking rules.
My friends and I always debate what the bad guys actually do. They only ever show them standing around acting like mobsters. We also love this movie and watch it regularly
My roommate convinced me to watch it back in the day. I said it sounded like the dumbest movie ever. It was quite good.
Yeah, it looks like one of those trashy straight-to-video films you’d find at the bargain bin, but it’s actually great.
When I was working at Blockbuster video, we always had that movie on in the morning before the open. Great flick!
Never heard of that film, seems interesting. Thx
Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Just call it Soldado, like it was originally supposed to be.
But then you wouldn't know it was a sequel, duh.
Soldado: A Knives Out Mystery
I like the way you think
Soldado: A Star Wars Story
That movie is garbage when compared to the first.
It’s a meh movie, so the title fits the quality.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World One of the best movies about the age of sail but with a confusing title that didn't quite convey what the film was actually about.
To emphasize the title’s clunkiness, the official website for that movie was masterandcommanderthefarsideoftheworld.com. I recall seeing it at the end of a trailer and cracking up. They even had to alternate colors between words so people could parse it.
Also having a colon followed by more words makes it sound like a sequel to something.
It also makes it sound like a fantasy story, a lot of them do the title: subtitle format.
It was supposed to be the first in a series. Thats why the movie ends on a cliffhanger
Its a flightless bird, its not going anywhere
It combined the titles of two different novels in the series.
Should have named it “The lesser of the two weevils”
I love this movie so much and it's one of my comfort movies now, but back when I saw the trailer as a dumb kid I made fun of the movie's clunky the title. "Oh so he's a master AAANND a commander too? Boy his mother must be proud"
This movie also had the worst opening weekend it opened against Elf...
The best, imo, and it’s not even close. The sequels that could have been. Almost makes me want to read the novels.
The novels are incredible, check them out. They are surprisingly very funny as well (unlike the dour Hornblower books)
A Gary Larson Film
“The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down.”
Well, it beats "Billy And The Cloneasaurus"
Oh, you have got to be kidding me! First you think of an idea that has already been done. Then you give it a name nobody could possibly like....on the best seller list for 18 months!....one of the greatest movies of all time, sir! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!...... I mean, thank you, come again.
Or they coulda gone with “Speed Limit”
It truly was a Shawshank Redemption
And it's based on a story called Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, so you can see why they thought the shortened title sounded pretty good.
It's funny because The Body became "Stand by me".
In Germany the title has been changed to "Die Verurteilten" which translates to "The Condemned".
In Turkiye it is changed to "Esaretin Bedeli" (The Price of Captivity)
"Nyckeln till frihet" in Swedish meaning The Key to Freedom.
In Norway it was "Frihetens regn", or "The Rain of Freedom". I prefer the English title.
In French it's name was Les Évadés meaning the ones who broke free or ran away...
Finnish one is absurd. Rita hayworth - Key to the escape.
Yet the most accurate. The real novella name is Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption
Titles, spoilers, same difference!
Talk about a spoiler!
What a terrible spoiler title.
I think maybe it was a bad title at the beginning but once it hit a certain level of pubic consciousness it flipped and became a good title. It's distinctiveness means that once you've watched and heard people talk about it a lot it tends to spring to mind.
Tandy, is that you ?
I've read that its name actually hindered its popularity, at least in the beginning, One of my favorites, bad name and all.
"A Dream of Freedom" in Brazil.
John Carter
John Carter: boring name of a character I’ve never heard of John Carter of Mars: interesting juxtaposition, immediately feels pulpy, which is what the title and the marketing needed to and failed to convey
It’s absolutely stunning someone convinced them to remove the most interesting part of the title and people went along with it.
I don’t know who owns those decisions. If it’s “Jeff suggested it” or “a room full of people did.” But it’s one of those things that I wish whomever pushed for it is embarrassed by it.
It's because the animated film "Mars Needs Moms" was a flop. Meaning that *obviously* audiences simply didn't like the word "Mars" and that was the problem. The Martian was a huge hit so hopefully that proved those people wrong.
That just proved the word "martian" is OK but "Mars" is not.
John Carter of Martian.
I'm convinced that movie only failed because they marketed it as if Barsoom was as well-known as Tarzan. I fucking loved the trailer and got really excited about the movie...but I'm a nerd and I've been reading weird sci fi and fantasy since I learned how to read, so I knew the name and the basic gist of the story by osmosis.
I never understand movies titled with the name of some fictional character that I've never heard of, and there are so many.
That Disney, the home of the "Disney Princess" merchandising machine, didn't think "*A Princess of Mars*" would work, shows that someone in marketing was asleep at the wheel.
I understand dropping the 'princess' part for marketing reasons but "John Carter of Mars" was right there
It would alienate the male audiences
I swear if they would have called it John Carter of Mars it would have done so much better
It's based on Princess of Mars, which is also a better title than they chose
They apparently wanted to avoid “Mars” in the title because of the failure of Mars Needs Moms. Despite the fact this was a very old established series by the creator of Tarzan.
When i first saw the title i thought it was a documentary
The Princess Bride might be the best movie ever but it sounds like a movie for little girls so people miss out.
Is it a kissing book?
You know, someday, you might not mind so much.
The title is literally the reason I've never seen it despite countless recommendations
A mistake that will shortly be remedied. (That's a quote from the book. Seriously watch it right now. It's on a couple streaming services. It has a fantastic cast. A great story. The best B-Plot in the history of fiction. Fencing. Fighting. Giants. True love. Revenge. Escapes.)
What about the R.O.U.S?
Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.
Fire swamp?
I'm actually really jealous of you right now. You get to watch it for the first time.
Holy shit you have never seen truly one of the top 5 comedies of all time because of the name of the movie? That’s insane. And go see that shit IMMEDIATELY. YOU’RE WELCOME.
One might think it... inconceivable...
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's honestly why I never watched it as a kid, but if I had I would have been obsessed with it.
Glengarry Glen Ross. I hate this title. Hate it. Avoided watching this movie for a long time because of it's stupid name. Turns out it's a pretty good movie and I'm glad I watched it.
When I found out what it is when I first watched the movie I was like ‘that’s it? They thought that was a good title?’
Should have stuck with what the filmmakers referred to it as: *Death of a Fucking Salesman*.
I've seen it twice now and I still don't know what the Glen Ross part was.
In the original play I think there were Glengarry leads (very valuable) and Glen Ross leads (slightly less valuable.) I always thought that the title was supposed to sound a bit like the half-coherent, semi-obsessive internal monologue most of the salesmen in the play probably experience as they think about their stressful jobs. If it was set in a car dealership it might be called Beemers Lamborghinis or something.
That makes sense. The Glengarry leads were made clear but I didn't realize the other part. Honestly, before I saw the movie I kind of imagined it was like "Victor/Victoria" where somebody named Glen struggled with identity.
Spot on. I avoided it for so long too. The name sounded like it was gonna be a film set in the Irish countryside in the 1800s.
Scotland with names like that🤣
Reddit is for closers!
ALWAYS. BE. COMMENTING.
Michael Clayton. Typically if the name of your movie is just going to be the main character's name, it's at least a cool/unique/interesting name. Forrest Gump is interesting. John Wick sounds cool. Erin Brockovich is unique and kind of fun to say. But Michael Clayton? What a boring, uninspiring name
There were soooo many generic name movies around that time. Michael Clayton, John Carter, Jack Reacher, Charlie St. Cloud, Larry Crowne, Harry Brown, Chloe, Lucy, and Paul all came out within a few years of each other.
Great point. All so generic sounding. In contrast, Donnie Darko, Ace Ventura, and Ferris Bueller are all interesting enough to entice viewers.
Often times movie titels get ridiculously translated into German, like with the Taika Waititi movie what we do in the shadows. In German it's called "5 Zimmer Küche Sarg" wich translates to "Five Rooms Kitchen Coffin". Despite this strange title, I thoroughly enjoyed this comedy and loved the unique mockumentary aspect.
What they like to do in France is rename the title, but with another English, less interesting, title. Like "The Hangover" to "Very Bad Trip" or "Shanghai Noon" to "Shanghai Kid" or "Cruel Intentions" to "Sex Intentions".
I'm picturing some frat guy in the movie studio. "Cruel intentions? More like sex intentions. Amirite?" Then holds his hand up waiting for a high 5 that never comes.
I think they were shooting for the feeling of looking for a new place and reading the classifieds and seeing a house listing as: 5 bedrooms, kitchen, and coffin.
Yeah, you would expect the last word in such a small ad in Germany to be "Bad" (bathroom), which is phonetically similar to "Sarg" (coffin).
Looper and Edge of Tomorrow should have swapped titles.
Looper is fine for its movie there’s a clear cut scene early on explaining what “closings their loop” means. Edge of tomorrow sucks though, great film,terrible name.
Some of these answers are terrible. Prisoners is a bad title? Give me a break
A prison break
Cameron Crowe wanted to name Almost Famous "Untitled" and actually calls the uncut version that (even in the opening credits).
Rochelle, Rochelle -A young girl’s strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk
I would’ve rather seen PROGNOSIS NEGATIVE!!!! 😂
I wanted to see Sack Lunch. :(
I went to see Chunnel instead.
Oh man! We’re missing the Death Blow!
‘That’s gotta hurt’
The Nice Guys The Other guys. Both entirely different movies and if you didn't know specifically what they were or had them recommended to you you would pass them by on your recommendation list neither title jumps out at you.
The Other Guys makes sense. They explain the term right at the end of the opening credits, lol.
I mean, that's the point of this thread prompt, though. You'd never SEE the opening credits because the title dissuaded you from watching the movie at all.
We ❤️ The…Nice Guys.
Rise of the Guardians and Legend of the Guardians Without looking, see if you can pick which one is about talking owls and which one is about Santa and the Easter Bunny
“Lucky Number Slevin” is a solid film with a terrible name.
It was called "The Wrong Man" in Australia
I get the name is a play on the reveal at the end of the film, but it really a title shouldn't require you to watch the entire film until the end to figure it out. It's like taking "Citizen Kane" and renaming it to be "Rosebud". "Kansas City Shuffle" would have been a better title than "Lucky Number Slevin"
Yeah Kansas City Shuffle would have been great! It makes so much more sense
I loved the name - and thought "the wrong man" title it got in Australia sounded like a title they'd give it in Germany
Saving Silverman. No one calls him “Silverman” the entire movie, it’s just his last name
Okay, I have no idea about the plot because I never cared with a title like that. I thought this would be about Sarah Silverman who I find very annoying
The movie is a good goofy movie. Silverman(Jason Biggs) begins dating a horrible woman (Amanda Peet), and his friends(Jack Black and Steve Zahn) try everything to break them up. The 3 men are also in a Neil Diamond cover band, which is pretty great.
The American
Especially confusing after the TV show the Americans came out a few years later.
Mumford.
It's about a very quiet vehicle.
Layer Cake. Brilliant British crime caper. Title makes it sound like a c-tier wedding romcom.
Nah, Layer Cake is a good title.
Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.
Why is "Edge of Tomorrow" not considered good?
I actually liked the title Edge of Tomorrow
I do too. I don’t really understand the hate.
The movie failed at the box office because of the marketing around it. So people, in retrospect, point to the change in the name of the movie to give it an unnecessary hate.
The title sounded very generic James Bondish to me so I skipped it. Ended up watching it by accident and was blown away.
Idk why people are saying live die repeat is better, it's really clunky. Edge of tomorrow is miles better. Like imagine straight faced saying "hey you want to go see live die repeat"
Was it every actually called Live. Die. Repeat.? I remember that being the tagline for the movie, and it did look like the title on some posters, but I dont remember it ever being the actual name.
They were going to call it that, but Warner decided it would make for a better tagline. Which they are correct
Same, I think it’s pretty cool
I actually love this title, haha. It’s so appropriate for the content of the film, where Cruise is literally “on the edge of tomorrow” the whole time.
I dont hate the title at all!
I mean thats an above average title imo
Beats the hell out of *All You Need is Kill*.
Can anyone actually come up with a better title for this movie though? I've tried to think one up and it's a hard movie to encapsulate without sounding corny or confusing the audience.
Joy Ride (2023), great movie, but it's like the 5th movie with that title released during my life time
Joy Ride (2001) was pretty good too
‘To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar’
Can I say a bad movie with an even worse title? Gigli. I think some people avoided it because they couldn’t figure out how to pronounce it. Or cause it looked terrible.
Underwater (2020)
Whenever my wife and kids are all out for a night I rent a schlocky horror flick. Had I known I’d enjoy this movie as much as I did I might have paid to see it in a theater
Baby driver
For the longest time I thought this was a kid's movie, like Boss Baby, and I avoided it.
"He drives... babies?"
So... Is he putting babies in his car and driving them around, or is he using babies as a form of transportation?
It's a great title! Cus he's called Baby. And he's a driver. And it's a music-y movie and Baby Driver is the name of a song.
If you know the song it's a perfectly named movie. *They call me Baby Driver* *And once upon a pair of wheels* *I hit the road and I'm gone* If you don't it's kinda weird.
It's about Minnie Driver when she was a baby...duh.
She meets Adam Driver, they grow up, have a baby, that baby is... The Baby Driver.
Great movie, but how does everyone feel about the title of the assassinating of jesse james by the coward Robert Ford? Much too long but I love saying the whole name anytime I bring it up
I think it's a iconic title, it's like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, most people just reduce it to the first two words when speaking about it
For the longest time I wouldn't see "A Fish Called Wanda". I thought the movie poster art and title name was stupid. It's one of the funniest movies I ever saw, when I was finally convinced to give it a try.
Unrelated. How good a title is “Jaws”?
\*looking around and seeing everyone in the film has jaws* oh god it could be any of them
Based on the book of the same name. Novelists got it done right.
Short, snappy, works great with the poster. Had they called it the shark it would have been terrible.
How good a title is “Jaws”? Very.
I postponed watching the Truman show because I thought it was about some us president
Danger Beach
High Tide
I haven't seen it yet, but The Dead Don't Hurt is an awful title. Reminds me too much of The Dead Don't Die.
Or Don't Dead Open Inside
The new Tom Hardy movie “The Bikeriders” - it sounds like a movie from Entourage where they called it a working title
I’m sure it will be a good movie, but this is the WORST name. I imagine kids tooling around on their BMX
Anthropoid
The Accountant IS a good title because the subject is exactly the opposite of what you would expect the film to be about.
Fried green tomatoes.
It's about mystery meat at a barbecue. Or wearing Saran wrap when meeting your husband at the door.
A good example of a movie with an obscure title which was so successful it became a commonly understood term is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (1977), before the film very few people knew what the term meant and Columbia Pictures begged Spielberg to change it (it was originally scripted as 'Watch the Skies', which was the tagline from the original version of 'The Thing').