Inspired by the Best opening sequence thread.
What movie has the best title? Taking into consideration the movie it’s attached to, etc.
I vote for Alien
It’s just…spooky. Especially considering the pace of the movie…creepy.
I mean, if “Howard the Duck” had been titled “Alien” it wouldn’t work, even though the name might fit.
But as it is…
…shiver…
I always thought Blade Runner was the all-time coolest title.
Witness. It’s simple but deep, and reflects both the criminal and religious aspects of the movie.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind begs the question, “What are the first and third kind, and what’s so special about the third?”
And I always liked the title, Go Tell the Spartans, about a doomed unit fighting a futile war.
How about Full Metal Jacket, or Basic Instinct? Cool yet vaguely sinister…
Well, there are a few that come to mind.
Six-String Samurai is just a very cool name.
The Blood of Heroes is another great name.
Boondock Saints sounds pretty hip.
Trainspotting; what can I say? I’m a fan of slang words, and one being used for a title is pretty cool.
A Clockwork Orange is a great name; all of the references that can be made from it makes it cooler still.
Psycho is just so apt and hauntingly eerie.
Reservoir Dogs is a pretty good name (even though it coming from Tarantino’s inability to pronounce Au revoir les enfants)
I gotta agree that Full Metal Jacket and Blade Runner are great names too.
I second Alien and Blade Runner. I also like ‘Alien Resurrection’…nice that they didn’t just call it Alien 4.
Z
According to a TV interview I saw, the Grade B movie studio that gave Ron Howard his first chance as a director (I forget its name) test marketed titles first, and then wrote scripts for whatever came out the highest.
Ron Howard agreed to star in Eat My Dust, which was the title that tested first at that time. In exchange, the studio then wrote a script for the second place title, Grand Theft Auto, which they let Howard direct.
Saving Ryan’s Privates gets my vote.
** Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)
Anthony Newley … Hieronymous Merkin
Joan Collins … Polyester Poontang
Sasha Newley … Thaxted
Tara Newley … Thumbelina
Milton Berle … Goodtime Eddie Filth
Connie Kreski … Mercy Humppe
George Jessel … The Presence
Bruce Forsyth … Uncle Limelight
Patricia Hayes (I) … Grandma
Stubby Kaye … Fat Writer
I guess it’s only a matter of time before someone
mentions Ray Dennis Steckler’s “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and became Mixed-Up Zombies”
featuring Steckler himself as the star, Cash Flagg.
The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb.
cheers,
Hodge
“A Clockwork Orange” - already mentioned
“My Own Private Idaho”- with Keanu Reeves. Anyone whose ever been to Idaho will tell you that if you want one all to yourself, you’ll be very private indeed.
“A Streetcar Named Desire” -one of the all-time great titles for anything, in my opinion.
I always liked The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain, but then I wasn’t in charge of doing the marquee. 
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
I Spit on Your Grave
Another vote for Blade Runnner and Full Metal Jacket, but i’d also like to add ** Blue Velvet **…erotic and cryptic, just like the film.
Another vote for Ferris B.
I always thought What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? was a good title. I mean, haven’t seen it, read it, but cool name.
The Exorcist- any word with an “x” in it sounds cool. Plus the fact that probably no one knew what an exorcist was until after the movie became popular. Little hidden meaning there.
The Silence of the Lambs. Oh so provocative…
Pulp Fiction. I just love saying it.
My favorite title is The Last of Sheila. The movie is my favorite all-time mystery, he illegitimate brother of Sleuth, written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins. It gives you all the clues, and plays fair with you, but there are so many twists that I guarantee you won’t guess the ending.
And even the title is a clue.
I’ve recently read that someone or other is in the process of making a movie that spoofs the recent football movies, tentatively entitled “On Any Given Saturday Remembering the Titans Gives Me the Varsity Blues”. True or not it made me laugh 
Other than that, I’d have to go with “Behind You All the Way”. You know what you’re in for the second you pick up the box.
[Pulp Fiction
That is a great movie with a great title
Don’t be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Soulmurk - It HAS to be the Wayans Brothers involved in that football movie you mentioned.
Other good titles:
*Enemy Mine
The Last Temptation of Christ
CB4*