Movie titles I love but wished they had waited for a better movie to hang them on:
What’s the Worst that could Happen
Reindeer Games
What movie names do you wish you could salvage?
Stone Cold
I don’t really know if this movie is good or bad, but I keep seeing it in video stores and love the title:
Four Dogs Playing Poker
The lame [url=http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0092226/]Wise Guys forced the much better movie, based on the book Wise Guy, to end up being called Goodfellas.
my Pavlovian response to the OP…
The Avengers
which would also have been my response to “Worst waste of a stellar cast” and “Worst movie remake of beloved TV show”
Half Past Dead. Great title; apparently a truly crappy movie.
Mercury Rising is a cool title. How bad was the film? Well, at one point, they wavered between Mercury Rising and Mercury Falling for the title — never a good sign that your film has a coherent message when titles meaning exactly the opposite can be considered.
a life less ordinary
Mutant on the Bounty never fails to crack me up, though the movie was awful.
“Sliver.” Cool, non-cliched single word title. Awful movie.
Battlefield Earth
::cringe::
Against A Crooked Sky
Poetic title for a hackneyed “Indians kidnapped my sister!!!” movie.
The Long Kiss Good Night. Truly awful film.
Was “The Butterfly Effect” a bad movie? If it was, I’d say it was a waste of a perfectly good title.
Life is Cheap, but Toilet Paper is Expensive
I’ve never seen the film, but there’s no way it could ever live up to a title like that.
Hey, it was silly even by action movie standards, but I’d say any movie that has this speech by Samuel L.:
“And another thing, do you always curse this much? I mean, when we first met, you were all, like, ‘Oh, phooey. I burned the darn muffins.’ Now you walk into a bar, ten minutes later, sailors come running out. What up with that?”
… deserves at least minimal praise.