# Make Movie Titles Less Impressive

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452>\
**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:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/121 "2023-03-05T11:09:33Z")

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Dial N for Non-Compliance

A History of Violation

Around the Town in 80 Minutes

Carlito’s Waist

What’s Gilbert Grape Eating?

The Receptionist of Dr. Moreau

Things to Do in Denver When Your Flight’s Delayed

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**Author:** ![Lurking\_Quahog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lurking_quahog/32/21274_2.png) [@Lurking\_Quahog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lurking_Quahog)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/122 "2023-03-05T12:04:20Z")

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Forrest Trump

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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 5, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/123 "2023-03-05T12:11:53Z")

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Nothing Much Happened on the Way to the 7-11

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/124 "2023-03-05T13:31:59Z")

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The Three Accountants  
Saving Private Holdings  
Battle of The Bulging Waistline

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/125 "2023-03-05T13:35:04Z")

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X-Men: Days of Past Past

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/126 "2023-03-05T15:03:32Z")

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> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > Travelodge
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> > (not Holiday Inn)
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> That wouldn’t be the movie based on a book by Arthur Hailey and set in a lodging facility in New Orleans, would it?

I can’t speak for the Professor, but I think “not Holiday Inn” means he _does_ mean the movie in which Bing Crosby first sang _White Christmas._

The Poseidon Frolic  
The Mediocre Gatsby  
See You Later, Mr. Chips

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/127 "2023-03-05T15:58:24Z")

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> [@Bayaker](#):
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> See You Later, Mr. Chips

And the sequel: Mr. Chips Goes to Bed

The failed Hope/Crosby movie: Road to the Mall

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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 5, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/128 "2023-03-05T19:41:20Z")

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_Monty Python and the Holy Shit What a Weak-Ass Way to End a Movie_

and the blockbuster musicals

_Duluth! Duluth!_

_Just Leave Your Wagon Plain_

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/129 "2023-03-05T19:43:47Z")

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> [@eschereal](#):
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> Monty Python and the Holy Shit What a Weak-Ass Way to End a Movie

Or, _Monty Python and the DM Has Had It And Is Ending Things Right Now_

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/130 "2023-03-06T00:20:05Z")

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The Way the West Was Ruined

The Good, The Bad and The Not So Good

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**Author:** ![fordgt100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fordgt100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fordgt100)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/131 "2023-03-06T05:02:12Z")

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Sister Theresa Does Dallas

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/132 "2023-03-06T12:58:36Z")

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The Maltese Tchotchke

I Am a Runaway from a Court Ordered Clean-up Gang  
(think Paul Muni)

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/133 "2023-03-06T13:05:52Z")

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Rock Species of the Sierra Madre

11:59

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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 6, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/134 "2023-03-06T13:38:25Z")

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The Other Side of the Lawn

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/135 "2023-03-06T13:47:34Z")

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_Mutiny on the Staten Island Ferry_.

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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 6, 2023, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/136 "2023-03-06T14:00:44Z")

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The Passion of Christy Canyon

Joan of Newark

The Greatest Obfuscatory Ever Told

The Ten Disbandments

Jacob’s Bladder

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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 6, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/137 "2023-03-06T14:25:03Z")

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Screed III: Manifest of Drudgery

The Exhumables

Ten Cent Baby

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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 6, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/138 "2023-03-06T17:50:35Z")

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Jesus Christ Understudy

The Allentown Story

Adam’s Tibia

Rosemary’s Toddler

Smugness of the Yankees

The Muppets Take New Jersey

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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 6, 2023, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/139 "2023-03-06T17:59:02Z")

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Jesús of Nuevo Laredo

Interplanetary

Something Can Just Stay As It Is

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-movie-titles-less-impressive/980452/140 "2023-03-06T18:08:37Z")

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1.5x Indemnity

Len Hur

So I Married An Ant Murderer

SunOS

As Meh as it Gets

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