**The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover **
Not a real movie but I like the “The Rural Juror” from “30 Rock”.
What? I thought that one was pure genius!
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.
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief. I’d still kind of like to see this movie.
You’d think, since Zoo is a documentary and ESR sure as heck sounds like one.
But no.
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
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
Although it’s short, I find this one incredibly clunky and uninformative:
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Ditto Gleaming the Cube.
What the hell does that even mean?
“The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension”
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.
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.
For a relatively short title, I always thought Lolly-Madonna XXX 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 is another clunker, though at least the title is a cute play on words that fits the plot.
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.
The amazing thing about this title is that it’s shorter in German.
How about “The Man Who Fell from Grace with the Sea”? Never did figure out what that one was about, either.
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.
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
Thoroughly uninformative, and seems to assume you know what the hell Jared-Syn is.
True, but films made by communists always get great reviews.
If the reviewers know what’s good for them, that is.
And it definitely belongs on a marquee with Roger Corman’s Gas-s-s-s.