# Make Movie Titles Less Impressive

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**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [February 27, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452 "2023-02-27T21:08:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/101 "2023-03-02T04:32:58Z")

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Schindler’s Grocery List

It’s a Lackluster Life

Ruminating Bull

Gone with the Breeze

The Lizard of Oz

One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock

Larry of Arabia

The Sound of Muzak

12 Slightly Miffed Men

2001: A Space Oddity

Hummin’ in the Rain

Some Like It Tepid

Apocalypse Soon

From Here to Sometime in the Future

Ricky

The Newark New Jersey Story

To Shoo Away a Mockingbird

The Boring Years of Our Lives

Gums

The Good, the Nice and the Homely

Dances with Bunnies

All Quiet at the Best Western Hotel

Mr. Smith Goes to Poughkeepsie

Mumbling on the Bounty

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/102 "2023-03-02T04:33:42Z")

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Going My Way? Can I Get a Lift?

When Harry Met Sally and They Never Saw Each Other Again

The Guy Who Came In From the Cold (Because He Was, Like, Cold)

Olympia Dukakis Has Fallen and Can’t Get Up

Two Dollar and Fifty Cent Baby

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**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/103 "2023-03-02T10:24:21Z")

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From Rochdale With Love  
Iron Pyrites Finger  
On Prince Andrew’s Secret Service  
Cubic Zirconias Are Forever  
The Man With The Golden Peashooter  
The Spy Who Quite Liked Me  
Septopussy

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/104 "2023-03-02T12:30:30Z")

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A Dozen Guys Arguing  
You’ve Got Spam!  
Real Carborundum  
Shriek (this could easily apply to at least two titles… one’s a cartoon, and the other is a horror franchise)  
A Night in Modesto

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/105 "2023-03-02T14:32:13Z")

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About Last Night: What Was It?

American Graphic Interface

Missed It By That Much Encounters of the Worst Kind

The Gawd-Awful Father

The Kinda Depressed Squad

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**Author:** ![Moonrise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonrise/32/14764_2.png) [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/106 "2023-03-02T18:00:34Z")

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_Dude, Where’s My Cap ?_

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**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/107 "2023-03-02T18:09:36Z")

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Casablanca, North Carolina\*

\*apparently a real place

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/108 "2023-03-02T18:12:15Z")

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Ivan’s Ho’

Haircream

Oz the Boring and Predictable

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**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/109 "2023-03-02T18:43:09Z")

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Look Who’s Pooing Now

Hairy Movie V

The Last Paperclipbender

Immaterial Girls

Mortal Kumquat

Hatliners

Return to the Blue Loogie

Documentary & Book: A Brief History of Timeshares

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/110 "2023-03-02T19:55:27Z")

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_Incessant String Music Struggling to Hide a Thinning Plot_

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**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/111 "2023-03-02T22:41:32Z")

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Fisticuffs on the Orient Express

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**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/112 "2023-03-02T22:54:29Z")

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The Deer Petter

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/113 "2023-03-03T03:35:47Z")

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Always Quiet on the Western Front  
How the West Was Eventually Settled  
First Year Resident Zhivago  
The Man Who Knew Just Enough  
Throw Momma a Kiss from the Train  
It’s a Pleasant Life  
The Grapes of Wine  
Romanian Holiday

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/114 "2023-03-03T08:37:40Z")

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Fibber Fibber

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/115 "2023-03-03T16:42:42Z")

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The Seven Second Itch

Shaving Private Ryan’s Back

The Lamest Joke Ever Told

The Ten Suggestions

A Yom Kippur Story

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/116 "2023-03-03T18:58:55Z")

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> [@knoodler](#):
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> Shaving Private Ryan’s Back

The common retitle, back in the day, was _Shaving Ryan’s Privates_ – which was, indeed, just about

> [@](#):
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> The Lamest Joke Ever Told

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/117 "2023-03-04T21:55:07Z")

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The Princess Bridegroom

How The Democrats Stole Christmas

North Pacific

Lullaby on Elm Street

Travelodge

(not Holiday Inn)

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/118 "2023-03-05T02:54:58Z")

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Die limp

The viceroy of the rings

The green kilometer

The dim glowing

Humancop

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/119 "2023-03-05T09:29:37Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Travelodge
> 
> (not Holiday Inn)

That wouldn’t be the movie based on a book by Arthur Hailey and set in a lodging facility in New Orleans, would it?

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/120 "2023-03-05T09:58:58Z")

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To Live and Retire in L.A.

No Sodium for Old Men

Dead Man Decomposing

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