# And the award for clunkiest movie title goes to.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930 "2010-09-16T02:36:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/1 "2010-09-16T02:36:38Z")
…[http://equestriansexualresponse.com/](http://equestriansexualresponse.com/) It’s clunky all right. It’s awkward and sounds like a bad translation. Except it isn’t. Actually, the concept isn’t all that bad for a coming-of-age tale, but I don’t think there was a marketing genius behind this one. Just saying. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/2 "2010-09-16T03:08:21Z")
Okay, you had me confused for a second. I thought the title was an URL. In comparison, _Equestrian Sexual Response_ seems mainstream. For short but clunky, I’ll offer _$_ - a 1971 heist film starring Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn. It’s confusing because you’re not sure what the title is: Dollar? Dollars? Dollar Sign? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/3 "2010-09-16T03:22:18Z")
Hard to beat _To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar_ for clunkiness. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/4 "2010-09-16T03:27:22Z")
With everybody in the movie industry on drugs in the 60s and 70s, titles got, um, stupid. There is a Venn diagram in which those overlap clunky. [Ffft](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1679575/). [Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064123/) [Eegah](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055946/) [The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057181/) and [Rat Pfink a Boo Boo](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059637/), a Ray Dennis Steckler must-see double feature. There have been four movies in the last ten years titled F: - [F](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486669/), [F](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486670/), [F](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132942/). and [F.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995819/). And that doesn’t include [‘F’](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124514/) from the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/5 "2010-09-16T03:29:01Z")
Is this the sequel to Zoo? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/6 "2010-09-16T03:44:15Z")
I’m kind of partial to [Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic:_Ecks_vs._Sever) … . ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/7 "2010-09-16T03:51:56Z")
I’ve always thought Bad Lieutenant was a terrible name for a movie. It sounds like they’re reprimanding a dog. “Bad Lieutenant! Bad, bad boy! You give up your badge now.” The Bad Lieutenant would have been marginally better, though it would still have sounded like a children’s picture book. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/8 "2010-09-16T04:41:00Z")
_Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire_ ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/9 "2010-09-16T04:56:49Z")
A couple more which come to mind: “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds.” and “For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.” ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/10 "2010-09-16T05:01:16Z")
Apparently for the film version of "“For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,” they’re shortening it to “For Colored Girls.” ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/11 "2010-09-16T05:02:55Z")
[_Sssssss_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070622/) is, if not clunky, just sadistic. Great, you made a movie title you can’t pronounce, can’t spell right (with “spell” as in “get the right number of letters from memory”), and it’s stupid. You feel like a big man now? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/12 "2010-09-16T05:07:10Z")
I was actually thinking of Ssssss! I came across it on the SciFi channel years ago and remember thinking it was bizarre but hilarious, right down to the title. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/13 "2010-09-16T05:32:45Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > [_Sssssss_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070622/) is, if not clunky, just sadistic. Great, you made a movie title you can’t pronounce, can’t spell right (with “spell” as in “get the right number of letters from memory”), and it’s stupid. You feel like a big man now? But on the plus side it had a Heather Menzies skinny dipping scene. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/14 "2010-09-16T05:33:53Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > I don’t think there was a marketing genius behind this one. From the synopsis, I assume that the title is supposed to be _Equine Sexual Response_… Isn’t the titular equestrian around eleven years old? (I am not so naive, aged, and forgetful as to think that eleven-year-olds don’t have sexual feelings, but I’m not sure I want to see a movie about the little girl from _Dexter_ getting damp panties.) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/15 "2010-09-16T06:21:34Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > _Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire_ Win. I understand why they changed the title, because another recent movie was called push. Nevertheless, we don’t have “Die Hard: Based on the Novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp.” Also, Sapphire is an incredibly stupid name to give yourself. “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood” is an odd title. I’m sure any clunkiness is intentional, here, though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/16 "2010-09-16T06:34:27Z")
And for a movie that you’ve heard of there is this full title: Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Originally planned by Kubrick to be a serious movie, the absurdity of the subject kept insisting on itself so he went with it. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/17 "2010-09-16T11:42:35Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > A couple more which come to mind: > > “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds.” > > and > > “For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.” [nitpick]Both plays, not movies[/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/18 "2010-09-16T11:53:28Z")
And then, of course, there’s the film of the play **The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade** by Peter Weiss. The newspapers (and marquees (Marquis?) ) inevitably made this **Marat/Sade** In the originial German, it was **Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade** And it wasn’t pronounced “Shah-day” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/19 "2010-09-16T12:58:42Z")
**Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace** Too damned many colons. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/20 "2010-09-16T13:37:29Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > **Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace** > > Too damned many colons. Well that would explain all the crap. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930.md?page=2)