Rewrite : If a movie is given a strange or even ridiculous title,would that make you more or less inclined to see it?
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March 6th, 2010
What’s in a name right? Well when it comes to movies there are some pretty weird examples over the years.I won’t indulge myself, better to leave it to you & you’re recollections.The wackier the better.
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“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Rarely have I ever seen a more unimaginative and trite movie title.
Killer Clowns From Outer Space
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead (Part 2: In Shocking 2-D)
- Don’t Worry, We’ll Think of a Title
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
- I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney
- Bubba Ho-Tep
@gggritso It’s just one fucking thing after another with some people.
“garbage picking, field goal kicking, Philadelphia phenomenon”
“Gummo”
“The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies – MST3K”
Well, when I found out Head was a Monkees movie, I had to see it. And that Jack Nicholson was involved? Hell, yeah, I had to see it!
Anything with “2” in the title.
Unusual movie titles listed by Patrick Robertson in Film Facts (2001):
* Telephone Girl, Typist Girl or Why I Became a Christian (Indian, 1925)
* In My Time Boys Didn’t Use Hair Cream (Argentine, 1937)
* The Film That Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter (U.S., 1968)
* How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (Canadian/French, 1988)
* No Thanks, Coffee Makes Me Nervous (Italian, c. 1981)
* Recharge Grandmothers Exactly! (Czech, 1984)
* Beautiful Lady Without Neck (South Korea, 1966)
* Don’t Worry, We’ll Think of a Title (U.S., 1965)
For “most preposterous movie title ever conceived,” David McGillivray in Films and Filming nominates Betta, Betta in the Wall, Who’s the Fattest Fish of All (U.S., 1969) and She Ee Clit Soak (U.S., 1971).
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