These titles are all balm for my soul, wounded from such titles as Gladiator, Titanic, Hoffa, Chaplin, Selena. (Yes yes, some of these are biographies, but we can have interesting biography titles! See Man in the Moon, The Aviator, Coal Miner’s Daughter, etc.)
Exceptions: Fargo (it’s not ABOUT Fargo), Amedeus (did we know it was his middle name BEFORE this movie?), Rocky (it wasn’t an annoying trend in 1976; see me later on sequels with numbers)
Titles I love:
Dangerous Liaisons
Married to the Mob
Gods and Monsters
Smilla’s Sense of Snow (originally a book title)
A Clockwork Orange
I’d like to disagree on this. The film itself might not be one of the greatest works of art ever, and the idea of having killer tomatoes as the weapon of choice for your movie villain is somewaht strange, but the film actually is about killer tomatoes attacking, so I’d say the title is pretty descriptive, not just for laughs.
My first was just a joke, so now I will entertain you with some actual good titles, for me atleast. It’s a short list as I don’t really feel like thinking hard or searching at the moment.
Ichi the Killer
Happiness of the Katakuris
Meet the Feebles
Pulp Fiction
Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Brazil
Naked Lunch
Love and Death
Pi
Blazing Saddles
Koyanisqatsi (Bite me, I love the overly pretenious title AND movie.)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Delicatessan
12 Monkeys
Falling Down
Raising Arizona
Harold and Maude
Hamburger Hill
Lolita
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Does this even count?)
Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns
This is Spinal Tap!
These Kids are Alright
The Filth and the Fury
Pink Flamingos
How to Draw a Bunny
The Brave Little Toaster
Tideland
Waking Life
Requiem for a Dream
The Big Leboski
Army of Darkness
Next Stop Wonderland
Buffalo '66
The Ice Storm
Trainspotting
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
I’ll have to really think about it later I suppose. That’s such an insanely small list compared to the really great titles (IMHO) that are out there.
Killer Clowns Form Outer Space. They came down in Circus Tent UFO’s. They shot people with cottoncandy cacoon guns. They drank your blood with Krazy Straws. To kill them you had to break their noses. They are evil alien clowns. I mean come on here. This has to be the best movie EVAR!