Caprese beat me to it. It wasn’t until years later that I learned why the movie even had that title (apparently it’s the name on one of the trucks. Visionquest – sounds like it ought to be a Tolkien wannabe.
Chinatown – Forget it Jake, it’s a misleading title. But nobody’d want to see California Water Rights Intrigues.
George Washington was about some troubled kids in a decaying Southern town, not about the Father of his Country.
Star Trek: Insurrection was mistitled. It was more of a mutiny than an insurrection.
All the President’s Men was much more about Woodward and Bernstein than it was about Nixon’s flunkies, most of whom never even appeared in the movie.
Triumph of the Will was supposedly about the German people’s triumph, but was more about their utter surrender - happily, in most cases - to the leadership of a single, profoundly evil man.
Star Wars was about several battles, and the interludes, in just one war… it shouldn’t be plural. OK, so I’m nitpicking.
Although the life of Christ may have been The Greatest Story Ever Told at its time, it fails to appear on numerous lists of great books. However, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time, so it may still be the greatest in terms of volume.
The Neverending Story actually ends at some point.
Duck Soup contains neither ducks nor soup.
In How The Grinch Stole Christmas- both the 1966 Chuck Jones television program and the later Ron Howard film- although the Grinch takes a large number of Christmas presents, he actually fails in stealing the holiday of Christmas itself.
And, of course, there’s the all-time great error whose IMDb entry is used as someone’s sig line here on the Dope: Krakatoa is west, not east, of Java.
