I’ve always been partial to Microscopic Liquid Highway to Oblivion myself. The film seems to have been released nowhere (judging by this thread) and yet I must have read about it at one point, otherwise I wouldn’t have known to look it up, would I? Hmm?
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy may be so well-known that it’s overlooked.
Incident on 57th Street is pretty nice…
Well, considering that **The Great Gatsby **was nearly named Trimalchio in West Egg, let’s go with Scott Fitzgerald’s editor’s better judgment.
I like well-used Shakespeare lines, such as Brave New World, The Undiscovered Country, etc.
There was an old, maybe '60’s or 70’s novel I remember reading and not finding all that good, but I picked it up because of the title:
An Armful of Warm Girl.
O. Henry had some good ones:
“Hostages to Momus”
“Mammon and the Archer”
“The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss”
“The Cop and the Anthem”
I know what you’re saying, but the latter is hardly well used, as they completely misconstrue what “the undiscovered country” is.
Fair. That’s just me digging how Shakespeare described the future as an undiscovered country. There are countless better uses of Shakespeare lines as book and movie titles that are truer to the Bard’s original intent…
There Will Be Blood
Yes. Yes there will.
Fair enough, but Shakespeare didn’t describe the future as an undiscovered country. That was my point.
Of course you’re right - it is the unknown after death; a specific type of future scenario…
One which Kirk doesn’t accept. 
Titles, not titties!
My votes: The World According to Garp and I, The Jury
Christopher Moore has some good ones, such as Island of the Secret Love Nun, Lust Lizard of Melancholoy Cove, and Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings.
My favorite Babylon 5 title is And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place which is from a gospel song.
My all time favorite title is Aron Ralston’s book Between a Rock and a Hard Place. I thought it was perfect. I’m still upset that they went with 127 Hours for the movie.
When it was published, I remember thinking that ‘Even Cowgirls Get the Blues’ was one title that would be hard to forget.
You call those long titles? – This is a long title:
[QUOTE=Daniel Defoe]
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu’d Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv’d Honest, and died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums.
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After that, you hardly need to read the book.
18th century novels have long titles, too, but you won’t find movie titles that long (barring the occasional outlier done for outragheous sake). Gulliver’s Travels’ real title is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships Jonathan Swift’s name didn’t even appear in the first edition.
Jude the Obscure
Lust in the Dust
Carcinoma Angels
Naked Lunch
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Never Mind the Bollocks
So Much for the Afterglow
While I agree with this as a great title, I am just realizing: what exactly does that phrase mean? Don’t worry about being bullshitted or something?
All this time I have just accepted it as “offensive punk phrase used to intro the Sex Pistols” but never tried to “translate” it…
From the Wiki page on the Sex Pistols:
The Throme of the Erril of Sherill: With the Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath, by Patricia McKillip.
More from Shakespeare: Something Wicked This Way Comes.
There is, of course, Spinal Tap’s seminal work Break Like the Wind.