# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/21 "2010-09-16T13:49:01Z")
\*\*The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover \*\* ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/22 "2010-09-16T13:50:58Z")
Not a real movie but I like the **“The Rural Juror”** from “30 Rock”. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/23 "2010-09-16T17:07:34Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > A couple more which come to mind: > > “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds.” What? I thought that one was pure genius! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/24 "2010-09-16T17:17:55Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > **Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace** > > Too damned many colons. You should work in public television. We recently aired _The Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: A Surprise in Texas_. Try working with that thing in your schedule and promotional information. And of course, if there’s no colon, it ain’t PBS. I’ve always thought _Romancing the Stone_ was a completely dumbass title. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/25 "2010-09-16T17:34:26Z")
[Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814255/) I’d still kind of like to see this movie. ---
**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, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/26 "2010-09-16T17:37:15Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Is this the sequel to Zoo? You’d think, since Zoo is a documentary and ESR sure as heck sounds like one. But no. ---
**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, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/27 "2010-09-16T17:40:29Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > **Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace** > > Too damned many colons. **Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters** and the home release: **Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters for DVD** and the soundtrack: **Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Colon the Soundtrack** ---
**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, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/28 "2010-09-16T17:42:04Z")
Actually, I think this one’s a winner. It’s another play turned into a movie from the 1960s, in this case 1967: **Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad** > **[Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1967)...](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062067/)** > > 1h 26m | Not Rated Although it’s short, I find this one incredibly clunky and uninformative: **Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever** ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/29 "2010-09-16T17:45:27Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I’ve always thought _Romancing the Stone_ was a completely dumbass title. Ditto _Gleaming the Cube_. What the hell does that even _mean_? ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/30 "2010-09-16T17:58:13Z")
“The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/31 "2010-09-16T18:00:00Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > \*\*The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover \*\* Hey! The title was the best part about that movie! I thought **Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans** was an overly clunky title. If it had not been directed by Herzog, I would have dismissed it for that reason alone (okay that and Nicolas Cage). To me it sounds like the title for a bad video game. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/32 "2010-09-16T18:37:42Z")
I came in to offer the _Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds_ one, but since that’s taken, I’ll throw out _Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon_, with Liza Minelli; and _Electra-Glide in Blue_, with Robert Blake. And forget colons; let’s try parentheses: _I Am Curious (Yellow)_ and _I Am Curious (Blue)_. Both were controversial Swedish films of the late-1960s. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/33 "2010-09-16T20:14:25Z")
For a relatively short title, I always thought [Lolly-Madonna XXX](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070332/) was a clunky one, and lends credence to **Exapno Mapcase** ’s assertion that the folks titling movies in the 60s and 70s were high. Its alternate title “The Lolly Madonna War” makes a bit more sense given the feuding-families plot. [The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112966/) is another clunker, though at least the title is a cute play on words that fits the plot. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/34 "2010-09-16T20:21:47Z")
I thought _Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen_ was just a horrible title. It’s not verbose like many of the titles in this thread, but I thought it was clunky, very pretentious, and nonsensical. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > **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** > > […] > > 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** The amazing thing about this title is that it’s shorter in German. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/35 "2010-09-16T20:30:21Z")
How about “The Man Who Fell from Grace with the Sea”? Never did figure out what that one was about, either. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/36 "2010-09-16T20:57:57Z")
Sh! I’m waiting for the verb. Anyway, there’s always _Chairman Mao Reviews the Mighty Contingent of the Cultural Revolution for the Fifth and Sixth Times_ (China, 1967) Communists can’t write for shit. ---
**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, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/37 "2010-09-16T21:04:11Z")
**Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn** Thoroughly uninformative, and seems to assume you know what the hell Jared-Syn is. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/38 "2010-09-16T21:11:40Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Anyway, there’s always _Chairman Mao Reviews the Mighty Contingent of the Cultural Revolution for the Fifth and Sixth Times_ (China, 1967) > > Communists can’t write for shit. True, but films made by communists always get great reviews. If the reviewers know what’s good for them, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/39 "2010-09-16T23:21:59Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > 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. And it definitely belongs on a marquee with Roger Corman’s _Gas-s-s-s_. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930/40 "2010-09-16T23:39:21Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > > [@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] Well, [one](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068528/) was made into a movie in 1972, and the [other](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788110/) will be released next month. I saw a college production of “Gamma Rays”. It was really good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-award-for-clunkiest-movie-title-goes-to/553930.md?page=3)